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Properties Hogweed – a poisonous plant, burns from Hogweed


Botanical characteristics Hogweed

Cow parsnip is a perennial plant with a powerful hollow, ribbed stem, growing up to 150 cm, and in Latvia, the height can reach 3 meters in height. The stem is covered with rigid hairs, the branches are located in its upper part. Has a pleasant, slightly spicy scent captured. The plant has a strong root system, has large leaves, growing about two feet in length. Petioles amplexicaul and ,like the stem, covered with scales. Upper surface of leaves smooth, volosistoj noted along midrib.

Blossoms in June-July. White flowers clustered in a large umbrella. The fruits of Hogweed (dbusername) appear in August. Cow parsnip grows in middle zone of Russia, Siberia, the Urals, the Caucasus, Udmurt Republic, the Altai. There are about 70 species of Hogweed. This plant is able to reproduce by self-seeding


Hogweed – a poisonous plant

Some types of cow parsnip are poisonous plants that can damage even the human respiratory tract. They can be found in fields, in backyards, on the banks of ponds and wasteland. The greatest danger is in the Hogweed during the summer. Severe allergies can be caused by a smell, pollen and juice of poisonous plants, there are cases when people get toxic poisoning. Contained in the plant coumarin and essential oils contribute to the formation of injury. Subsequently, may experience a painful condition accompanied with nausea, vomiting, headache, dizziness.

During flowering Hogweed is especially dangerous. The juice of the plant, when applied to exposed skin, increases its susceptibility to sunlight, under their influence appear burns, and then blisters. A huge threat this species poses to people prone to allergic diseases, the reaction can be very unpredictable. You need to be careful not to touch this incredibly beautiful plant, it is necessary to warn adults and children.

Read more: How to distinguish poisonous species from edible?


Hogweed Siberian

Siberian Hogweed is not secreted exuberant growth, it is harmless, it can be seen in many areas of our country. Flowers yellowish-green, collected in large cymes. It has a small egg-shaped fruits. This kind Hogweed is a no-brainerfor human health, because of the coumarins and essential oils it contains are very few and they are sensitizing effect.

Until the cabbage Hogweed roots boiled, salted and consumed in pickled form, this plant tastes like cabbage. The roots and fruits of Hogweed Siberian contain essential oils, carotene, vitamin C, tannins. The seeds include octyl alcohol. Siberian cow parsnip – an excellent medicinal plant, on the basis of which you can prepare all sorts of healthy for the body means acting sedative in various nervous disorders, convulsions, epilepsy.


Cow parsnip common

Grass ordinary Hogweed is a large perennial plant that grows in Europe and Asia. Precious are the seeds of the plant containing oil with a pleasant aroma. Oil discovered octyl ether acetic acid. The oil composition of leaves and flowers are aldehydes, which when Mature seeds form the alcohol.

The oil of the Hogweed is readily soluble in strong alcohol, the liquid used to produce octyl alcohol. Soothing and anti-inflammatory effects have seeds of Hogweed.

The infusion is prepared from the calculation 1 teaspoon of seeds of cow parsnip in 250 ml of boiling water. Vehicle was infused for 1 hour. It is recommended to drink 1/4 Cup 4 times a day at spasms of the stomach and feminine ailments.

In diarrhoea, dysentery, gastritis, enteritis, edema is recommended to take an extract of Heracleum 20 drops. For its preparation you need 100 g of fresh crushed plant Hogweed insist 7 days in 200 ml 96% alcohol. Spasms in muscles, cough, skin problems should take 10 drops 2 times a day.


Properties Hogweed

Since ancient times, the cow parsnip was famous for its healing properties. Due to the presence of furocoumarins, the plant has a bactericidal action, so it is used for treatment of animals against helminths. As raw material cow parsnip is used to obtain psoralens is an effective substances that are suitable for the treatment of psoriasis.

In the flowers of Hogweed is a lot of pollen and nectar, this plant is honey. The juice of the plant used in the treatment of ulcers and purulent wounds, with asthma and epilepsy. The roots were used for the preparation of drugs used against pain in the liver and the recovery from jaundice. ForHogweed typical feed properties. In the plant contain carbohydrates, proteins, vitamins and minerals. Zinc, copper, manganese, iron, and calcium, to allow it a great plant for combining with other crops in the production of silage for cattle. The leaves of Hogweed are rich in chlorophyll, carotene, tannins and essential oils. Cooked food using Hogweed has a nice vegetable taste and smell.

Burns from Hogweed (toxic)

Cow parsnip Sosnowski - refers to the poisonous medicinal plants, can cause skin inflammation, similar to sunburn. The defeat of the juice and pollen of plants can occur not only through contact of unprotected skin with it, but over the clothes. Leaving on nature, you should protect yourself from possible unpleasant meetings with useful and at the same time, a dangerous plant.

To distinguish the Siberian Hogweed (harmless) from Sosnowski (poisonous) by flowers: Hogweed Siberian flowers greenish-yellowish, the leaves are thin and sharp, and Sosnovsky white flowers. Additionally, the Sosnowski's Hogweed is much larger in size (may be even taller than a man), the edges of the leaves are not smooth, as it were, slightly bitten, and the stem has hairs with purple dots.

Watch the video how to identify a Siberian Hogweed (harmless) from Sosnowski (poisonous):

If contact has occurred and it became clear what the plant is before you, need a few days to cover the affected areas from the sun after washing them with soap and water, processed with alcohol or a weak solution of potassium permanganate. Also effective is the use of solution furatsilina and drug "Panthenol". If the burn has affected mucous of any bodies, then you need to contact the clinic.


The use of Hogweed

Cow parsnip is used to treat various nervous and skin diseases. The plant is extremely useful in the form of a sedative in convulsions and epileptic manifestations, cholelithiasis and inflammation of the kidneys. Medicinal extracts of herbs are used in case of violation of the gastrointestinal tract, they remove indigestion, cure dysentery and increase the appetite. In the form of baths used drugs fresh leavesHogweed for rheumatic pains, and scabies.

From the roots of Hogweed prepare herbal teas, is an excellent remedy for lymphadenitis and gynecological tumors. Cow parsnip is the first assistant to cure jaundice, and bronchial asthma.

Fast recovery occurs in patients suffering from diseases of the liver and gallbladder after applying the following tools: 1chajnuu spoon crushed roots of Hogweed Siberian, you need to pour one Cup of boiling water of water, boil 10 minutes, insist to cool and drink the strained decoction 3 times a day a tablespoon.


Contraindications to the use of Hogweed

Before proceeding to the treatment of serious diseases with the help of decoctions prepared with the use of Hogweed, need to know how the body reacts to plants and allergens, whether there is sensitivity to substances which cause an allergic reaction. Contraindications to the use of Hogweed is the idiosyncrasy.