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Boudreau hederacea

Properties and applications Boudreau, Boudreau variegated


Botanical characteristics of Boudreau hederacea

Boudreau hederacea is a perennial herbaceous plant. Its aboveground shoots with located on them the flowers grow up to a length of 50 cm the Plant has a vegetative, creeping shoots lying on the ground, from which grow roots, becoming stronger in the soil. The stems are quadrangular in form, slightly pubescent. The leaves are opposite, attached with petioles dotted with short hairs.

Flowers with blue-violet Corolla are arranged in axillary rings, adorn the plant from April to the end of the summer. After flowering appear the fruits are oval-elongated in the form of a brown nut. Boudreau plusiinae grows in fields, along roads, in gardens, in gardens, on vacant lots, likes fertile soil with high humidity. Plant widespread in Europe and Asia, have adapted to life in North America. It can be found in all regions of Russia.


Useful properties Boudreau

Boudreau hederacea is known for its beneficial properties. In folk medicine for the preparation of various tools used aboveground part of the plant. Boudreau is a real storehouse of natural substances such as saponins, tannins and bitter substances, resins, organic acids, triterpenoids, steroids, fatty acids, iridoids, alkaloids, vitamins, phenol carbonic acids, flavonoids.

In medicine due to the presence of essential oils Boudreau used to improve the taste and aroma of the drugs.

Medicinal plant has expectorant, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. The components of the plant have anti-sclerotic, choleretic, wound healing and anti-catarrhal action. Some of them improve the appetite and normalize digestion.


Application Boudreau

Boudreau hederacea has a wide range of use in folk medicine. The plant is perfectly relieves inflammation in the bladder and improves the condition of patients with liver cancer, and relieves dropsy. Helps Boudreau in acute pneumonia, with tonsillitis. The use of prepared raw materials of this grass allows funds to be cured from diseases of the thyroid gland. Due to antiseptic and wound-healing features of essential oil is effective for healing wounds, abrasionsand ulcers.

Decoctions and infusions Boudreau hederacea exhibit antitumor, choleretic properties, is recommended to increase lactation, have antibacterial and hypotensive action. Their use in acute bronchitis, bronchial asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis. Diseases of the stomach, liver, spleen, convulsive state are faster and easier tolerated by patients if the treatment process is additionally used grass Boudreau hederacea. It removes stones from the kidneys and bladder, is used against burns, it expels worms from the intestines.

In the form of lotions plant is used to eliminate dental pain, relieving itching while getting rid of scabies. The antiseptic properties of Boudreau can be useful in case of hemorrhoids, complications of pregnancy, with a strong, incessant coughing and diseases of the upper respiratory tract. The perfect cure is fresh juice, Boudreau hederacea, it can be instilled into the nose with headache for 1-2 drops.

There are excellent recipes that can be used for baths and compresses for inflammation of the joints, sprains and bone fractures, to treat the skin from various rashes and scrofula:

  • 1 tablespoon of herbs, taken in 1 Cup of water, cook on slow fire for 15-20 min.
  • You can mix crushed to a powder the leaves with vegetable oil or water.

These funds should be gently rubbed into the affected area.

Tincture of Boudreau hederacea

Alcohol tincture: a Tincture is prepared in a concentration (1:10) to 40% alcohol, insisting the contents are in a dark place at room temperature for 8-10 days, occasionally shaking the contents, then carefully filtered and stored in dark place at room temperature. Take 15-20 drops 3 times a day before meals with diseases of the kidneys and bladder.

Alcoholate in bronchial asthma: 25 g of leaves pour 100 ml of alcohol or vodka glass. Insist in a dark place at room temperature for 10 days, occasionally shaking the contents, then carefully filtered and stored in dark place at room temperature. Take 15 drops 3 times a day for bronchial asthma.

Infusion of a grass budry on vinegar: 15-20 g of dry powdered herb Boudreau 100 ml table 9% vinegar. Insist 7 days in a warm dark place, shaking daily. Apply for rubbing into the skin twice a day scabies.

Therapeutic lotion: Mix 30 ml of the decoction with 30 mlvodka, shake the bottle. Used for skin treatment for acne.


A decoction Boudreau hederacea

  • Tablespoon chopped dry grass pour 1 Cup boiling water, infuse on a water bath 30 minutes, cool for 10 minutes, drain. Take 1/3 Cup 3 times a day before meals for gonorrhea, pain from childbirth.
  • Five tablespoons of dried raw material is boiled for 3-5 minutes on low heat in 1 liter of water, after cooling, filtered. Use to wash, baths and compresses.
  • A table spoon of a grass budry on 250 ml of water, boil for 10 minutes. Apply for baths, washes and poultices for gout, fractures, rashes, ulcers, ulcers, wounds and tumors.
  • Inhalation of the decoction of the herb has antiseptic and anti-inflammatory action in catarrh of the upper respiratory tract and a chronic rhinitis.

Med Boudreau

Boudreau hederacea is a plants-honey plants, bees actively visit the flowers of Boudreau from may to June. From the plot of one hectare, where the plant grows thickly, turns 14-19 kg of honey. Fragrant, incredibly useful med – light, with a Golden hue, contains trace minerals, organic acids, minerals and vitamins.

This is a very valuable product that can restore metabolism, to remedy the lack of elements necessary for normal functioning of various organs.


Boudreau variegated

Boudreau variegated perennial groundcover plant, which is of great interest to gardeners. This is an amazingly beautiful plant adorns the front gardens and gives a rich look to the rocky garden and songs from the roots of trees, snags and ornamental plants.

Flowering plants – may in the fall leaves budry become variegated pinkish green. Boudreau quickly grows, it sprouts roots at each nodule. It is propagated by cuttings, division of clumps and cuttings.


Contraindications Boudreau

Boudreau hederacea is considered a poisonous plant, employment of infusions and decoctions should not be allowed to overdose. Not being careful while using it, it is possible to obtain toxic effect that can lead to sweating, heart rhythm disturbances, severe salivation, and pulmonary edema.