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Chihota grass

Useful properties and applications ciotoi grass


Description ciotoi grass

Chihota grass is a perennial herbaceous plant in the family Asteraceae, with a creeping rhizome, with stems straight, smooth, pubescent at the apex, leaves linear-lanceolate, serrate, sessile. On the ends of the stems are thyroid inflorescence consists of many flower heads. The flowers are white and yellow, flowering starts from June and continues until mid-August.

Plant height 30-70 cm is chihota grass Grows almost everywhere in the CIS. She selects riparian forests, river banks, moist areas in the shade, ditches, and peat bogs. The grass is collected during flowering, dried in the shade. October is the time of harvesting the root.


The beneficial properties of herbs ciotoi

As a medicinal raw materials used aboveground part of the plant. Although the chemical composition it has been insufficiently studied, it is known that it has detected chillin alkaloids, essential oil, organic acids, bitter substance. In the roots found tannins with a very noticeable astringent properties and gives the grass bitterness.

The rhizomes contain inulin is a plant polysaccharide that is a polymer of glucose, similar to starch and cellulose. The plant has anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antiseptic and wound-healing effect.

Application ciotoi grass

Use plants popular only in folk medicine. Funds, prepared on the basis ciotoi herbs improve functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. Herbal teas assist in the treatment in the form of lotions with hernia, hemorrhoids. The use of decoction orally is useful in tuberculosis of the lungs, to improve appetite, enterocolitis, diarrhea, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.

This means rinse the oral cavity with dental pain, colds (sore throat). Take the herb to stop uterine bleeding and bloody urine. The name of the plant chosen by the people not by chance: the crushed powder of leaves and flower baskets causes sneezing. It is prescribed for various respiratory diseases. Fresh ground in a meat grinder chihota grass is applied for healing of purulent wounds and ulcers.

The infusion of ciotoi grass: 5-6 ggrass must insist in a thermos for two hours with 1 Cup of boiling water. To drink means you need 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day 15-20 minutes before eating. Particularly, infusion in pulmonary tuberculosis.

The contents in the grass of inulin in the treatment has a positive effect on improving the metabolism and cleanses the body, reduces blood sugar, reduces appetite. The use of herbal raw materials in the form of decoctions helps to normalize digestion of food, eliminates the violations of the flora of the intestine, indicated for obesity and constipation.


Contraindications to the use of ciotoi grass

Contraindications to the use of this plant have not been identified.