The brassberry is fragrant or the bedstraw fragrant - This is a perennial herb that is widely used in informal medicine. It has a number of useful medicinal properties and at the same time quite serious contraindications.
In this article we will talk about how to properly and safely use this plant for treatment.
Description
Fragrant ashberry belongs to the madder family. It has a tetrahedral bare stem with a winding rhizome at the base. The leaves are elongated in length, arranged in a ring around the stem in several tiers, have spikes, hooks along the edges. Usually, a small colony grows, which, due to the curly structure of the roots, forms a carpet that covers the soil. The flowers smell a very spicy tang. Distributed mainly in the Mediterranean regions and in Eurasia.
Did you know? In ancient China, it was believed that if you set on fire branches and compressed sticks from shredded medicinal plants, it would help expel evil spirits.
Composition
Arbor combines a number of useful elements:
- acid (oxalic, catechinic, tartaric, silicic, malic);
- coumarin;
- flavonoids;
- asperulozide lactone;
- ascorbic acid (vitamin C);
- tannic and bitter substances;
- fatty oil;
- essential oil.
The closest relatives of the sweet-wood are the following: a soft pad, a real pad, a northern pad.
Useful and pharmacological properties
- Tannins in the composition of herbs have a wound-healing effect and help stop bleeding. Thanks to this component, wood is used to treat a variety of skin diseases.
- Lactone has anti-inflammatory properties, and together with coumarin, these components have an antispasmodic effect on smooth muscle. Therefore, the plant is used for pain syndromes and for neurological diseases.
- The infusion of woodruff on water can expand the capillaries and improve blood circulation without affecting viscosity.
- The plant is rich in essential oils and is widely used in herbal medicine, helps soothe cough and strengthen expectoration.
- In addition to the antiseptic properties of this herb - a good diuretic, therefore, great for treating diseases of the kidneys and bladder.
Medical applications
This medicinal plant is not used in official medicine, and on its basis there is not a single official drug. But in alternative medicine, wood palms have internal and external use, and can be combined with other medicinal herbs.
From arrhythmia, heart palpitations
For disorders of the heart muscle, use an infusion of dry wood of the wood. In an airtight container (thermos, thermomug) pour 10-15 g of dry grass and pour 1 liter of boiling water. Insist 3-4 hours and drink 100 ml for 20 minutes before meals 3-4 times a day. The duration of treatment may vary depending on the characteristics of the body from 2 weeks to a month.
Tincture can be on vodka, because alcohol improves absorption. Vodka should be diluted with water in proportions of 1: 2, pour 15 g of grass per half-liter and leave for 2 days. Take up to 5 days for 10-15 minutes before meals, one tablespoon three times a day. Then make a 10 day break and repeat the reception for 10 days.
Important! Before using folk recipes with woodruff, you should definitely consult a doctor!
Ashberry fragrant from metabolic pathologies
With a variety of metabolic disorders, it is necessary to make a decoction of dry grass of the wood from the water, just as for heart rhythm disorders. The course of treatment may be 2-3 weeks. 
Psoriasis
For psoriasis, it is recommended to mix this plant with other herbs that are suitable for the indications, for example with linden and hazel leaves. On a pinch of each plant (15 g) is thrown into a container and poured boiling water (350 ml), then insist 3-4 hours. In the filtered and cooled solution dipped bandages or bandages and applied to the affected areas. The course of treatment - until the improvement of state.
Inside, you can take a solution in parallel, diluted with water 1 to 1 in one glass before breakfast, the course of treatment is 2 weeks.
In the treatment of psoriasis, folk remedies use safflower, yucca, lovage, padubal mahonia, aconite, ivy-shaped bud, burdock leaves, bergamot, fir, cashew, celandine, zhivokost.
From dropsy
Take 30 g of ashberry wood, pour two cups of cold water (400 g) and insist on the day in a cold place, then add 50 ml of vodka and leave for another day. Then strain and take orally 50 ml 4 times a day for a week.
From dropsy apply the healing properties of beans, wolfberry, mallow, soapstone, medicinal, bathing suit, small basilus, common rape, meadow cornflower, Syriac vatochnik.
Ashberry scented from epilepsy
It is recommended to mix woodwood with several other herbs with similar properties to enhance the effect: hop cones, elecampane roots, mint leaves, lemon balm leaves. Mix the mixture with hot water at the rate of 200 g per 15-20 g of collection, take 400 g per day. The course depends on the frequency of seizures, but from a week.
Woodberry from dysmenorrhea
It is necessary to lower 10 g of grass in 200 ml of cold water and let it stand for a day. Strain and drink the entire glass in small doses throughout the day. Repeat for 4-5 days at the beginning of the menstrual cycle.
For breast tumors
Green stalks and leaves must be rubbed so that they let the juice. Then apply this gruel to the chest and press it with a bandage, keep it for 2 hours. The course is approximately 10 days.
Cooking Application
Because of its fragrant smell, it is used in cooking as a seasoning for aroma, but, like bay leaf, is not consumed inside. To prepare fruit dishes and lemonades, leaves of grass are placed during cooking and then removed. In Germany and France on the leaves of woodruff insist brandy and wine. It also combines well with meat and dried snacks; it can be added in the manner of bay leaf when smoking and stewing meat.
Did you know? In France, this herb is made into vinegar, which is seasoned with lettuce and dandelion leaves; it is believed that it helps to reveal the unusual bitter taste.
Harm and contraindications
Fragrant ashberry is a poisonous plant and, due to its medicinal properties, can cause great harm to the body if used incorrectly. Coumarin in the composition of this herb is the main substance, which in small quantities soothes the nervous system and muscles, but in large doses can lead to nausea, vomiting, dizziness or even death.
Strongly contraindicated in pregnant women, women in the period of lactation and young children up to 6 years. During the period of treatment you cannot eat meat, fish and completely eliminate salt and any salty products from the diet.
Collecting and harvesting
It is necessary to collect fragrant grass when it is about to bloom or has already bloomed. As a rule, the peak of this period is in August. The plant is common on mountain slopes, it grows abundantly in meadows and in forests.
Important! The carp is especially toxic in wet weather, it should only be collected when it is dry!The top at a height of about 3-5 centimeters cut and lay out the grass in the shade to dry (you can use a drying oven at 50 ° C). Properly dried weed should turn black. You can store blanks up to two years, no more.
Fragrant ashberry is a grass of the genus, which has 200 species, and it is sometimes very easy to confuse it with other brethren. If you follow all the instructions, the benefits of this medicinal plant can be felt in full, the main thing is to be careful.
