Cleavers (also known as the lipuchnik, tsarapnitsa or tseplyanka) used in folk medicine to treat many ailments.Though he is a weed, healers have long been harvested it during flowering to prepare their potions.We used internally as a decoction for treatment of diseases of the liver, kidneys, gastrointestinal tract.Infusions and ointments based on it was used in various skin diseases, and the powder sprinkled sores and wounds.
Feature
Cleavers (Galium aparine L.) - is an annual plant herbaceous type of family Rubiaceae.Taproot.Stem adult plants tetrahedral.If you have a number of support bedstraw during intensive growth clings to her rising up.In an open area lying stalk.Leaves wedge-shaped, with a special lancet.They gathered in whorls of 6-8 pieces.On top of the leaves and stem are covered with spines on the edges with curved edges and down stiff bristles.These features make the entire plant is very clingy.
bedstraw blooms from May until the end of June.It bears fruit from mid-summer to early September.Flowers small fruit stems on a spike.The petals of the corolla are white.It forms a small (1.5-3 mm), oblong fruit-nut.They are on the same plant can be up to 500 pcs.Bristly surface of the fruit, the color - gray-brown.The seed resembles a flattened nut.It remains viable in the soil up to 5 years.It may germinate from a depth of 6 cm.
Distribution
Cleavers is found everywhere.You can find it in forests, plantations, meadows, roadsides and railway embankments.It grows in the midst of the bush and in the open.Weed orchards and gardens.It prefers fertile soils with good moisture.On this basis is growing rapidly, branches and ecological plasticity exhibits a high level.
plant is an aggressive, clinging to the bristles and hooks on the leaves of neighboring species, their branches and often inhibits their growth.Sowing of winter crops and spring cereals crops lodge under its weight, which complicates their cleaning.
first seedlings under favorable conditions, may appear by the end of September.They overwinter well, and with the onset of heat to actively grow.The seeds have lain in the snow, sprout according to the region in March or April.
Cleavers: control measures
propagated by seed.Therefore, the best protection against infection site - cleaning of seed at the stage of harvest or during storage.The seed is separated from the seeds bedstraw pretty good.Autumn shoots of this weed, overwintering and early spring have appeared in cultural crops, destroyed during harrowing.
March and April growth in most cases destroyed by treating the soil before sowing of the main crops.In tilled crops basic measures to deal with it - is agricultural machinery.Seen high weed herbicide resistance groups 2,4-D and 2M-4X, used in the processing of grain crops.There is a positive experience of combating soil bedstraw drugs such as "Simazine", "prometryn" "Dial," as well as treatment with a mixture of herbicides based on propionic acid.
Properties
chemical composition is not well studied, since the plant is not used in the official medicine.There is evidence that it consists of saponins, as well as gallic, citric acid and rubihlorovaya, monotropein, flavonoids, vitamin C, hydrocarbons, and other active compounds.Of the trace elements present zinc, copper, iron, barium, strontium, and others.
Cleavers has a strong astringent properties due to the presence of tannin in its grass.It was also noted its diuretic and choleretic effect.Can softening infiltrates, showing weak analgesic, antispasmodic, hemostatic properties and antifebrile.Noting its positive activity in wound healing, as well as to facilitate the conditions for snake bites.There is information about its effectiveness in the treatment of ulcers, rashes, tinea.
Cleavers: application
used aboveground part of the plant.The preform is carried out during flowering.Podvyalivayut grass in the sun, and then finally dried in the shade.The finished raw materials must be stored in a tightly sealed container.The yield of dry grass - up to 25%.
Properties bedstraw tenacious used in the treatment of diseases of the kidneys, liver, gall bladder and Muzyrya, skin diseases, in the healing of wounds and ulcers.In folk medicine, it is used in malignant tumors, hardening of the glands in the craw.
used in the form of broth, water or an alcohol infusion is prepared from the juice and oil ointment and wound sprinkle dry powder.External application is recommended for skin diseases compresses, washing and bathing.Rubbing tincture helps with arthritis and rheumatism.Inside a tea and consumed as part of fees in catarrh of the gastrointestinal tract.Tincture is used for cystitis, urinary retention and insomnia.Fresh juice healers used to treat epilepsy and cancer.
Cleavers conventionally considered a poisonous plant, so be careful when dosage, especially when taking his drugs inside.
