Useful properties and application of stellate medium
Botanical characteristics of chickweed
Star sprocket (the second well-known name is “wood louse”) is a perennial, rarely annual plant. It belongs to the flowering genus of the clove family.
Starfish are characterized by creeping shoots, however, there are species without them. The stems of the grass are bare, sometimes hairy, tetrahedral. Their length is from 10 to 30 cm. In the dominant majority of species, the leaves are sessile, linear-lanceolate or ovoid.
The flowers are regular in shape, bisexual, small, reaching about 20 mm in diameter. Depending on the type, there are 4-5 sepals lanceolate or lanceolate-ovate. Bracts foliate or membranous. Petals are white.
The ovary of the starfish is single-celled. The fruit is a multi-seeded cylindrical capsule. Seeds rounded, tuberculate.
The flowering of the plant occurs from late spring to autumn.
Chickweed is widely distributed throughout the Northern Hemisphere. In Russia, it can be found everywhere as an annoyingly growing weed.
Useful properties of asterisk
Despite the fact that chickweed is a generally recognized weed that all farmers, gardeners and floriculture lovers are trying to fight, it has benefits for humans.
The following useful substances were found in the aerial part of the plant: carotene, synapic acid, essential oil (in small quantities). The grass (fresh) contains vitamins C and E. A large amount of chlorine and potassium salts was found in the ashes of the starfish.
Due to this composition, the aerial part of the starch is effectively used by traditional healers to treat diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, rheumatism, liver, internal bleeding, gout, pulmonary diseases, as well as to normalize the body’s cardiac activity, to strengthen the nervous system and treat the thyroid gland.
The use of stellate
Chickweed is not yet fully studied medicinal plant. However, it is widely used in homeopathy and traditional medicine.
In homeopathy, essences are prepared on the basis of fresh chickweed, and in folk medicine – infusions and decoctions for the treatment of diseases of the heart and blood vessels, thyroid gland, kidneys, edema, diarrhea, lungs, rheumatism, as well as rashes of various kinds.
Recipes for the preparation of medicines
Recipe number 1.1 tablespoon of fresh raw materials must be poured into a container and pour 1 glass of boiling water. Infuse the composition should be for four hours, then carefully strain. Reception schedule: 1/4 cup 4 times a day before meals.
This infusion is intended for the treatment of purulent wounds, ulcers, and is also useful for joint pain for external use (baths). It is recommended to apply compresses from the infusion to the tumors.
Hot compresses are prescribed for the treatment of diseased joints, with sciatica, rheumatism, polyarthritis, and also with sprains.
Recipe number 2.You should measure 1 tablespoon of grass and pour it into a container, pour raw materials with 200 ml of boiling water and insist for 1 hour, then strain. Reception schedule: 50 ml 4 times a day.
The infusion is prescribed as an antiseptic for bacterial diseases of the kidneys, lungs, gastrointestinal tract and oral cavity.
Recipe No. 3. To prepare the broth, you need to measure 4 tablespoons of raw materials, pour it with 1 liter of water and boil for 5 minutes, then turn off the heat and leave to infuse for 2 hours, then strain. The drug is prescribed as a lotion in the treatment of skin diseases.
Recipe No. 4. To prepare the tincture, you need to measure 1 tablespoon of raw materials, pour into a container and add 300 ml of vodka. The composition should be insisted for 2 weeks. Don’t forget to strain it. Reception schedule: 20 drops 1 time per day. Tincture is prescribed for pain in the stomach and in the intestines.
As an effective wound healing agent, fresh starflower juice is used. Reception schedule: 1 teaspoon before meals 3 times a day (adding honey is possible)
In diseases of the thyroid gland and liver, fresh stellate juice is also prescribed, which is recommended to be taken for 10-15 days in a similar way: 1 teaspoon 20-30 minutes before meals 3 times a day.
Asterisk medium
Chickweed average is a one-sometimes biennial herbaceous plant, the height of which is about 30 cm. The stem of the plant is very thin and, as a rule, lying or rising. It is branched, evenly and sparsely leafy. The shape of the leaves is ovoid, their ends are pointed. The upper leaves are sessile, the lower ones are petiolate.
The flowers are small in size, they are terminal or axillary. Petals are white, bifid, on long stalks. A characteristic feature are the buds that do not die off in winter. The fruit of the plant is an oblong box with kidney-shaped or rounded seeds.
Flowering of starflower medium occurs from May to September, and fruit ripening from July to October.
The plant’s herb is used as a medicinal raw material. Infusions and decoctions prepared on its basis have analgesic, anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, wound healing, tonic, stimulating and choleretic effects. They help to establish the body’s metabolic processes, have a positive effect on the central nervous system, and stimulate cardiac activity.
The plant acts in various directions. Preparations prepared on its basis act as an effective choleretic, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, expectorant, wound healing, hemostatic and tonic agent. Zvezdchatka average stimulates work of heart, a metabolism, favorably influences the central nervous system.
This type of plant is recommended by traditional healers for the treatment of diseases of the kidneys, liver, heart, lungs, and is also prescribed as an effective laxative and antihistamine.
With the help of herbal infusions in folk medicine, they fight radiculitis, rheumatism, sprains. It is an effective external remedy for the treatment of open wounds, scrofula, skin rashes, ulcers, inflammation of the eyes.
Internally, tincture of chickweed herb is also taken to treat hemorrhoids, dry cough, hepatitis, and pulmonary tuberculosis.
Grass juice is prescribed for weight loss and general weakness as a tonic, as well as for hepatitis, cholecystitis.
Recipes for tinctures and decoctions
Recipe number 1.It is necessary to take 1 nightingal spoon of medium starch raw materials and pour a glass of boiling water. Infuse the resulting mixture for 4 hours, then strain. Scheme of reception: 4 times a day (3 can be) 50 grams. It is recommended to take the remedy for arthritis.
Recipe number 2. You will need to take 500 g of raw materials, pour into a container and pour boiling water (1 liter) with boiling water. Next, you need to put the container in a water bath for 10 minutes, then strain. The decoction is intended for external use, it is added to the bath. The duration of the bath is no more than 20 minutes.
chickweed oakwood
Starry oak (another name is “owl’s potion”) is a perennial herbaceous plant, the height of which reaches 60 cm. The stem of the plant is decumbent, ascending, it is covered with glandular hairs on top. The leaves of the stellate oak are thin, ovoid, sessile. The flowers are located on long pedicels, in apical and axillary forks. The color of the petals is white. The fruit of the plant is a box.
Flowering occurs from May to mid-July. A characteristic feature of the oak stellate is the ability to change, it has several subspecies. This species grows in forests, chooses wet habitats.
chickweed hard-leaved
Starry hardleaf is a perennial herbaceous plant, the height of which reaches 10–40 cm. It has a thin, creeping and branched rhizome. The stem of the plant is tetrahedral, weak, brittle, ascending or erect. Non-fruiting stems are shorter and especially fragile.
Leaves are sessile, opposite, linear or linear-lanceolate. The leaves are pointed along the edge. Their length is about 70 mm, and their width is about 7 mm. Unlike the stems, starburst leaves are very strong.
The flowers are small, they reach 3 cm in diameter, are located on long pedicels, bifid, collected in dichasium. The color of the petals is white. Sepals ovate-acuminate, sharp at the edges. The corolla is large: it is almost twice the length of the calyx. Peduncles rather long and thin.
The flowering of the plant begins in April and continues until June. It bears fruit from June to July.
This species actively grows in coniferous, deciduous and coniferous-broad-leaved forests, preferring fertile soil, found on forest edges and among shrubs. Its habitats are the European part of Russia, Siberia (western part), Asia Minor, the Caucasus, Iran and northern Africa.
Starry hardleaf is considered a melliferous and fodder plant. There is speculation that the plant can cause poisoning in horses.
Chickweed forest
Starry forest (other names are “yaskirka”, “chaveda”) is a perennial herbaceous plant, the height of which reaches 60 cm. The stem of the plant, as a rule, is lying, sometimes rising. It is smooth and only fluffy at the top.
The lower leaves are heart-shaped, pointed, the upper ones are oblong-ovate, sessile. The flowers are white, solitary in the corners of the branching of the stem, at the ends of the branches – semi-umbrellas. Pedicels are horizontal. Starflower flowers have five sepals, five bifid petals, ten stamens and three columns.
The fruit of the plant is a box of oblong or spherical shape. Flowering of this species occurs from May to August.
This type of chickweed is widely distributed in the European part of Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Arctic and the Caucasus. The plant prefers moist shady forests, places near forest streams and shrubs.
Starweed forest is a medicinal plant. Infusions prepared on its basis are used to treat fungal skin diseases. In Mexico, it is believed that the use of the plant gives a positive trend in the treatment of tumors.
It is worth remembering that the plant is poisonous.
Chickweed Bunge
Bunge chickweed is a perennial herbaceous plant, whose height is from 20 to 50 cm. This species has a thin, creeping rhizome.
The stems of the plant are simple, ascending or branched, they are very weak and fragile, covered with glandular hairs.
The length of the lower leaves is from three to eight cm, the width is from two to four cm, they are ovate or ovate-oblong in shape. The upper leaves are much smaller, they are smooth, sessile.
Flowers are in axillary and terminal dichasia. Pedicels are pubescent, their length is 1–5 cm. Sepals are oblong, with blunt tips and a narrow border, their length is short, only 4–6 mm. The petals are longer than the sepals.
The fruit of the plant is an egg-shaped box, its dimensions are almost identical to the calyx.
Starflower Bunge blooms from May to August. The plant is used in folk medicine for the treatment of edema of the legs, ringworm. For the preparation of decoctions, the aerial part of the plant is harvested.
Contraindications to the use of starch
Chickweed should be used with extreme caution in people prone to allergic reactions. Stop using if you are hypersensitive to the herb.