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Burachok

Useful properties and applications of burachok


Botanical characteristics of burachok

Burachok – annual or perennial herbaceous plant, rarely a shrub, belongs to the cabbage family. Reaches a height of 15-30 cm, has fibrous roots and compact the root system. Stems are much branched and almost lie on the ground. The leaves are small, oblong, gray-green, pubescent. Flowers burachok small, strongly fragrant, yellowish-white, collected in inflorescence carpal.

Blossoms from April to June, fruiting from June to August. The fruit – pod with small flat seeds. Burachok distributed in southern and Central Russia, in Central and Eastern Europe, the black sea and the Mediterranean, in Asia Minor. Grows on dry, sandy, chalk and limestone soils.


The beneficial properties of burachok

That burachok – is a medicinal plant known since ancient times, although until now the chemical composition of this plant is little studied. It is known that the seeds contain up to 25 % of fatty oil, which includes organic acids: stearic, oleic, begenova, arachidic, palmitic, and others. In the grass of the plant contains alkaloids and flavonoids. For medicinal purposes use the leaves, stems and flowers of plants.


The use of burachok

In modern medicine the plant is not applied. In folk medicine, the aerial part used as diuretic and laxative. It helps with colds and as a painkiller. Infusion of burachok effective for removing kidney stones. In the old days said that Alyson (another name for plants) is useful when the bite of a mad dog that it helps to get rid of freckles.

The shoots of burachok the taste of the radish, so it can be used as an additive to salads. This plant is an excellent honey plant. Grass burachok, mixed with cucumber herb, taken internally to calm the nervous system.

Infusion: 3 tablespoons of herb infused for five hours in 500 ml of boiling water. Strain through a strainer and drink 3-4 times a day before meals half a Cup. For taste you can add honey. Used remedy for colds and kidney stones.

Decoction: one tablespoon of raw material is diluted in 250 ml of boiling water, bring to the boil on a slow fire, preferably within 5-7 min. of Liquid is allowed to cool and strain the mixture through cheesecloth. Take 50 ml 3-4 times a day. Decoction used for colds.


Flowers burachok

For decorative purposes grow two groups of plants is clubbie Burachki and Burachki for the rock garden. They differ in the color of flowers and length of growth. Have of flowerbed plants the flowers are white, pinkish or bright red, the other kind is a bright yellow. All of them are cold-resistant low-growing shrubs with a pleasant honey aroma. Plants love Sunny places, soil may be sandy, but not wet, as the flowers are resistant to drought. They are unpretentious and do not require special care. Plant them on a rocky roller coaster and for landscaping retaining walls.

Burachki well to combine with low-growing creeping plants such as rezucha and Phlox. To plant better in the warmer time of the year. At the initial stage of growth it is better to cover the plants from direct sunlight, as the flowers can droop. Burachki propagated by seeds, cuttings and division of the Bush.


Burachok mountain

It is a perennial plant with gray-green color is almost a shrub. Stems numerous, procumbent, with a height of 20-40 cm, with small long leaves. Small Golden-yellow flowers clustered in elongated racemes. Fruits are small oblong pods with slightly convex valves and weak reticulate veining. Each fruit yields no more than four seeds. Blossoms from April to July, fragrant yellow flowers. Grows on sandy, calcareous and stony soils.

Burachok mountain – early bee plant. It is common in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Siberia. For therapeutic purposes, the use of the aerial plant part are harvested in April-June. The plant has a diuretic and laxative effect. Fresh grass with honey is used as a cosmetic remedy for freckles and spots on the face. The chemical composition of burachok the mountain is practically not studied.

Alyssum alyssum

Alyssum is an annual or perennial low-growing plant with small, tapering to the stem leaves. They are dense pubescence, why seem PPE. Small yellow flowers clustered in racemes. In the period of full ripening of flowers cover the entire plant. Perennial species of alyssum hardy, unlike annuals, however, it is inferior to the annuals for flowering duration.

The plant will flower from July to the frosts. It easily tolerates temperatures down to -10 degrees. Some species overwinter, not even dropping leaves. Alyssum is widely distributed in southern Siberia and in the Crimea. Grows well in any but wet soils. It is propagated by seed. It is used in ornamental horticulture.


Burachok desert

This kind of refers to the annual burachokplants. He branched, grey with stellate hairs stem height of 10-20 cm Leaves narrowed to the base. Flowers clustered in elongated raceme, pale yellow. When the plant fades, the flowers become almost white. Blossoms in April-June. Grows on sandy soils, on rocks, on mountain slopes and hills. Found on the Altai and in Siberia. It is believed that burachok has a laxative and diuretic properties. Internally it is used in hernias, colds and kidney stones.


Contraindications of burachok

Contraindications to the use of burachok not detected due to its small level of scrutiny. In this regard, it is not recommended treatment with drugs from this plant for pregnant women and children. Also required strict adherence to dosages and treatment courses with a break between them.