Aruda

Useful properties and applications of thlaspi field

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Description thlaspi

Aruda – an annual herbaceous plant with a height of 20-80 cm Stems it straight or branched, leaves oblong, at base swept-toothed, sessile. The flowers are white, four-lobed, clustered in racemes. Fruit plants – a large oblong pods. The fruits ripen small striated seeds.

Aruda blooms from mid-spring to early autumn. The grass is widely distributed in the European part of Russia, Western and Eastern Siberia, Middle Asia, the far East, in the Caucasus. As a weed it is found in fields, meadows, along roads, in gardens, in forest and forest-steppe zone.

Useful properties of thlaspi

Young leaves of the plant are rich in vitamin C. they also discovered flavonoids, saponins, alkaloids. The seeds contain fat and mustard oil, thioglycoside sinigrin. For medicinal purposes harvested the fruits and the grass plants. The fruit is harvested in August and September, the grass – during flowering.

Before drying in well-ventilated areas raw materials are laid out on fabric in a thin layer and thus dried. Store the finished product not more than one year in a tightly closed container.

The use of thlaspi

Drugs of thlaspi possess broad spectrum of activity and different diuretic, diaphoretic, expectorant, antibacterial, hemostatic and wound-healing effect. Therefore, this medicinal plant is actively used in folk medicine. Preparations of the herb are prescribed in the complex treatment of cancer of the uterus, inflammation of ovaries, jaundice, scarlet fever, angina. Decoctions of the seeds of thlaspi help with atherosclerosis, diabetes, eye inflammation, constipation.

In addition, fresh juice of the plant good displays warts and healing wounds, drugs from the aerial part contribute to withdrawal from the body of toxic substances. And before decoctions and infusions thlaspi treated gonorrhea and syphilis, they activated the menstrual cycle and restore potency.

Infusion: 15 g of dried aerial parts of the plant should pour 250 ml of boiling water, to insist 4 hours in a sealed container, then strain. It is recommended to take an infusion of 10-20 ml 5-6 times a day, every 2-2. 5 hours.

Yarutka field

It is an annual herbaceous plant with a straight stem low. Leavesoblong, sessile, small white flowers are in racemose inflorescences. The fruit is a round flattened pods. Common yarutka field in the temperate zone of the Northern hemisphere. This species is found almost everywhere: in fields, along roadsides, in gardens. In medicinal and food purposes is used the whole aboveground part of the plant.

Collection of medicinal raw materials is carried out from may to August, dried in the usual way, expanding the air in the shade or in a well ventilated area. From the seeds of thlaspi field to produce oil, which is used as food. Currently, conventional medicine conducts research plants for the purpose of obtaining drugs for the treatment of atherosclerosis, inflammation of the eyes and constipation.

In folk medicine the herb is used mainly for the prevention and treatment of problems related to male and female sex organs. With domestic consumption of aqueous solutions of thlaspi they act as protivomigrenoznoe, disinfectant, diuretic, expectorant.

Contraindications to the use of thlaspi

It is not recommended to use arudou with low blood pressure, a contraindication is hypersensitivity and idiosyncrasy are included in plants of active substances.

It is strictly forbidden to take drugs thlaspi in any form to pregnant women, since they are abortive.