Encyclopedia "Medicinal Herbs"

Lepidium ruderale L.

Family Cruciferae

Description.

1. An annual herbaceous plant 15-30 cm high, with a branched stem and a strong unpleasant odor. The lower leaves are double-pinnately dissected; the upper ones are sessile, solid, linear. Sepals narrow oval, yellow. The fruits are pods, small, round-oval, notched, with a very short style, collected in loose clusters. The seeds are small and yellow. Blooms in May - August. The plant is poisonous!

2. Grows near roads, on pastures and waste places almost everywhere in Russia.

3. Grass is harvested during flowering; fruits - after they ripen.

4. Contains thioglycosides, which, during enzymatic breakdown, separate volatile substances containing sulfur.

5. Has anti-fever, diuretic, wound-healing and insecticidal effects.

Application.

Decoction: 1) 1 tsp. Boil herbs and bug seeds in 250 ml of water for 10 minutes, leave for 2 hours. Take 2 tbsp. l. 4-6 times a day 30 minutes before meals for diabetes, fever and as a diuretic; 2) 2 tbsp. l. Boil herbs and bug seeds in 500 ml of water for 20 minutes, leave for 1 hour. Used for baths for rashes, small wounds, warts, etc.

Did you know that almost all plants have healing properties? Those who have this information, know how to distinguish herbs, know how to use them, rarely go to the pharmacy. One of the medicinal plants that is widely used in alternative medicine is bedbug or broom.

Despite its inconspicuous name and unprepossessing appearance, the grass is a storehouse of a huge amount of useful substances. How is the plant useful, what ailments does it help with? Let's talk about all this, as well as methods of application.

Bedbug has a fairly wide use in alternative medicine. Its therapeutic activity is due to its rich composition. The herbaceous annual is endowed with the following substances:

• fatty oils;
• isothiocyanate;
• quercetin;
• kaempferol;
• ascorbic acid;
• alkaloids;
• steroids;
• organic acids;
• coumarins;
• saponins;
• flavonoids.

The following properties are known: insecticidal, wound-healing, anti-fever, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, tonic.

The use of bug-based products promotes:

• increasing the protective properties of the body;
• minimizing inflammatory processes;
• relief of pain syndrome;
• increased appetite;
• accelerating the wound healing process.

Plant preparations are effective in the fight against: purulent rash, fever, prostatitis, sexual impotence, uterine bleeding, prostate adenoma, dropsy, vitamin deficiencies, rheumatism, scurvy.

Bedbug in traditional medicine recipes

Over the centuries-old history, the treasury of alternative medicine has accumulated many recipes for effective, time-tested medicines. The compositions are effective, they will contribute to the speedy relief from a certain pathological condition or disease. The main thing is to use them wisely.

You should not take traditional medicine instead of medications prescribed by doctors, especially if you suffer from a serious illness. To completely get rid of the disease you will need an integrated approach.

Attention! Before taking this or that composition, do not forget to make sure that there are no contraindications, and also consult your doctor regarding the advisability of using the herbal medicine.

In order to achieve the maximum therapeutic effect, as well as eliminate adverse effects, adhere to the proportions and dosages.

1. If you can't get rid of warts, try this remedy. Grind the fresh herb, then pour boiling water (30 g) - half a liter over it. Wait for it to boil, reduce the heat, and then simmer for a quarter of an hour. Moisten a gauze pad in the cooled, filtered liquid and apply it to the problem area. Carry out the procedure every day. The same remedy can be used to treat acne.
2. Bed bugs are useful for vitamin deficiency. Extract the juice from a fresh plant. Take 10 ml of the drug three times a day.
3. , paralysis is recommended to use broom powder. Grind the plant seeds to a powdery consistency. Take two grams three times a day.
4. A decoction can be used to treat sexual impotence, fever, and gynecological ailments. Pour dried crushed herb - 20 g with boiling water - 200 ml. Boil the mixture over low heat for a quarter of an hour. Take 20 ml of filtered medicine three times a day, half an hour before meals.
5. In the fight against prostate pathologies, hypertrophy, inflammation, the use of infusion is indicated. Brew 30 g of dry herb with boiling water - half a liter. Place the container in a warm place for three hours. Drink half a glass of filtered medicine three times a day.
6. You can make it from a broom. Brew dried seeds - 20 g with boiled water. Boil the mixture for five minutes. Cool, filter, take two teaspoons three times a day.

Botanical description

The genus Klopovnik (lat. Lepidium) includes more than 150 species. Only a few have healing properties: bug bug, field bug, and broadleaf bug. The most valuable is the trash bug (Lepidium ruderale).

In the photo, Garbage bug

Bedbug is an annual herbaceous plant reaching a height of thirty centimeters. Endowed with erect, splayed-branched stems at the base, pubescent with short hairs, broad-linear pinnate dissected lower leaves, solid linear upper leaves, flowers collected in racemes.

The fruits are small, round-oval. The plant blooms at the end of the summer period, and the ripening of the fruits occurs at the end of summer. Weedy places, roadsides, vegetable gardens, sandy soils, wastelands, steppes, pastures, arid soils are places of growth. Moldova, Belarus, Ukraine, Caucasus, Siberia, Asia, Russia - habitat.

Collection, preparation, storage of raw materials

The entire plant – above-ground and underground parts – is used for medicinal and preventive purposes. It is recommended to collect rhizomes in late autumn. They are dug up, cleared of soil, washed, and then crushed. Next, the roots are dried in a dryer at a temperature not exceeding 50 degrees.

It is recommended to collect ground parts - grass, during the period of intensive flowering, and seeds - during the fruiting period. The collected raw materials are laid out in a thin layer on paper and dried outside in a shaded place. You can dry the broom in the attic or any other room with good ventilation. To speed up the process, you can use a dryer (temperature 50 degrees). Next, the blanks are poured into glass containers or paper bags and stored in a dry place.

Contraindications

You should not be treated with drugs during pregnancy, breastfeeding, or treat small children with formulations. Before you start taking any drug, be sure to consult your doctor.

Abuse of drugs, exceeding dosages, proportions, frequency of administration is fraught with nausea, vomiting, severe headache, painful sensations in the abdomen, and malaise. If such manifestations appear, you should refrain from further use of medications, rinse your stomach, take a sorbent, and then see a doctor. In case of overdose, symptomatic therapy is carried out.

Bedbug weed(crown) – Smetzeva valve – Lepidium ruderale

Cruciferous – Cruciferae

Any city dweller or villager can easily find a bedbug, just by looking a little closer at what is growing under his feet not far from his home. The habitats of this short, dry grass are well described by a specific epithet - these are cleared-out spaces near roads, fences, housing, wasteland, asphalt crevices and other inconveniences. Shows a stunning disregard for soil quality - often grows in lands whose consistency and fertility are already approaching stone. Koschey is immortal in the plant world. A very common species, whose general range is all of Europe and Siberia (with a thinning of population density to the north), the Caucasus, Asia Minor and Central Asia.

A plant with a one- to two-year development cycle. The root is thin but long. The stem is 10 - 40 cm in height, straight, strongly branching from the base with splayed shoots, which makes it look like a miniature compact broom (hence broom, broom in Dahl, as well as in white. brooms). Basal rosette leaves on long petioles, bipinnate. Their life is even shorter than the already fleeting life of the entire bug plant: by the time they begin to bloom, they are already dying off. The upper leaves are sessile, linear, they are also not long-lived - by the period of active fruiting they are practically gone. Bedbug blooms all summer with inconspicuous petalless flowers in short racemes that crown each shoot. At the beginning of flowering, the shoots are short, but they get longer and longer, and when the first flowers have long turned into fruits and even dropped seeds, more and more appear at the top. The entire plant has an unpleasant odor and is pollinated by flies. The bug plant acquires its greatest expressiveness not in its flowers, but in its fruit-pods on spaced stalks. These fruits are small, bare, round-oval, with a small notch at the top, also smelling unpleasant - well, pure bugs. The pods contain round-oval, flattened, dark yellow seeds.

The plant is known to folk medicine and has brought household benefits. Fresh bedbug juice is an antiscorbutic, rich in vitamin C. Before the invention of aspirin, a decoction of the herb was used as an antipyretic, and bedbug had names febrile(Dahl), lichamanka grass(white sources). Hands covered with warts are floating in a hot decoction of the bug herb. Green grass is food for rabbits. The juice and decoction of the plant is an insecticide, incl. against bedbugs. They were used to lubricate cracks and other potential places for uninvited pets to gather. In earlier, pre-industrial times, brooms were knitted from bedbugs en masse, which were used for sweeping small rooms, as clothes brooms, and for hanging in rooms to repel insects.

Actually in the title bedbugs with a high probability, it is not the “bug-likeness” of the fruits that is reflected, but their acoustic characteristics - the dry pods crackle. The name is associated by etymologists with Russian. rivet or Old Slavic klopot "noise". In Dahl's dictionary the plant also has names stink, wild watercress and colorful dog belongings. At Annenkov's stinky potion, dog droppings, dog marks and the indication: “Dahl mistakenly has dog belongings.” In the Belarusian environment, in addition to those mentioned above, - bugs.

The generic Latin name reflects the shape of the bug fruit, from the Greek. λεριδιον (lepidion) "scale". Species ruderalis from lat. rudus, ruderis "garbage", by habitat.

is one of the plants of the family called cabbage or cruciferous, in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Lepidium ruderale L. As for the name of the bug bug family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Brassicaceae Burnett.

Description of the garbage bug

Garbage bug is also known by the following popular names: fever grass and brooms. Garbage bug is an annual or biennial herbaceous plant, the height of which will vary between five and thirty centimeters. It is noteworthy that this plant will be endowed with a very strong and extremely unpleasant odor. The stem of the bug bug is splayed and branched; the lower leaves of this plant will be pinnate and doubly pinnately dissected. Moreover, the upper leaves of this plant are linear, sessile and entire. The sepals of the calyx will be narrowly oval. The fruits of this plant are small, round-oval, notched pods endowed with a very short style. The pods will gather into loose clusters. The seeds of this plant are quite small in size, and they are painted in dark colors.
The flowering of the bug bug occurs during the period from May to August. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in Ukraine, Western Siberia, Moldova, Central Asia, the Caucasus, Belarus and the European part of Russia. It should be noted that the bug bug is a low-toxic plant.

Description of the medicinal properties of bedbugs

Garbage bug is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the seeds, grass juice and grass of this plant. The concept of grass includes the flowers, stems and leaves of this plant. The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the plant’s content of alkaloids, organic acids, steroids, vitamin C, cardenolides, as well as the following flavonoids: glycosides of saponaretin, quercetin and kaempferol. The seeds of this plant contain fatty oil, glucotropeolin and isothiocyanate.
An infusion prepared on the basis of the herb bedbugs is recommended for use for impetigo or purulent rash. The juice or decoctions of the herb of this plant are used for fever, and freshly used for various female diseases, impotence, bleeding, scurvy, warts and gout. A decoction of bedbug seeds is used for ascites and paralysis, which will be accompanied by loss of speech.
For fever, it is recommended to use the juice of the herb of this plant once or twice a day, one teaspoon.
For impotence, you should use the following remedy based on bedbugs: to prepare such a remedy, you will need to take two tablespoons of crushed dry grass of this plant per three hundred milliliters of water. The resulting mixture should be boiled for three to four minutes over fairly low heat, then left to steep for two hours, after which this mixture should be filtered very carefully. Take the resulting remedy two to three times a day, one-third or one-fourth of a glass.
For ascites and as a diuretic, it is recommended to use the following remedy: to prepare it, take one tablespoon of seeds per two hundred milliliters of water. The resulting mixture is boiled for five to six minutes, then infused for one hour and filtered very carefully. Take this remedy based on bedbugs three times a day, one tablespoon.

Sometimes used as a remedy for bedbugs - hence the name.

The Latin name of the genus comes from the Greek word lepis - scales, after the shape of the fruits of some species.

The genus contains about 150 species.

Other plant names:

Brief description of the garbage bug:

Garbage bug (broom) is a one- or biennial plant 10–30 cm high with a pungent unpleasant odor when rubbed. The stem is erect, splayed and branched from the base, pubescent with short hairs.

The lower leaves are doubly pinnately dissected, the leaflets are cut into broadly linear or almost spatulate segments. The upper leaves are sessile, entire, linear. The flowers are collected in racemes, lengthening as they bear fruit. Sepals with white border. There are no petals. Pedicels are bare. The petals are very small, yellowish. Stamens 2–4. The fruits are small, round-oval (3 mm long and up to 2.5 mm wide), at the top there are notched two-seeded bare pods with a very short style, sitting on deflected stalks. Collected in loose brushes. The seeds are small and yellow. Blooms from May to August.

Places of growth:

Distributed mainly in the south of the European part of Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It grows mainly in dry places near roads, on pastures, weedy places, near housing, as well as in the steppes, on saline and sandy soils.

The most common are the trash bug and the broadleaf bug, or horseradish (L. latifolium), used as a salad and spice.

Harvesting bugs:

For medicinal purposes, the entire aerial part during flowering and the seeds are collected.

Chemical composition of bedbugs:

Traces of alkaloids, saponins, coumarins, and flavonoids were found in the plant.

All these active substances form the basis of the chemical composition of the bedbug (broom).

Pharmacological properties of bedbugs:

The pharmacological properties of bedbugs are determined by its chemical composition.

The plant has a diuretic, anti-fever, wound-healing and insecticidal effect.

Use of bedbugs in medicine, treatment with bedbugs:

For prostate hypertrophy, impotence, female diseases (leucorrhoea, bleeding), fever, dropsy and paralysis with loss of speech, preparations from bedbugs are used.

For gout, it is used externally as a poultice to destroy warts.

Dosage forms, method of administration and dosage of bed bug preparations:

Effective medicines and forms used in the treatment of many diseases are made from the grass and seeds of the bug. Let's look at the main ones.

Infusion of bug herb:

Brew 0.7 liters of boiling water 2 tbsp. l. dry crushed herbs, leave, wrapped, 2 hours, strain. Drink 1/2 glass 3 times a day, 20 minutes before meals for prostate hypertrophy.

Bedbug herb decoction:

Brew 1 cup boiling water 1 tbsp. l. chopped dry herbs, place in a water bath for 15 minutes, leave for 30 minutes, strain. Take 1 tbsp orally. l. 3 times a day, 30 minutes before meals for female diseases (leucorrhoea, bleeding), fever, impotence.

Bedbug seed powder:

Bedbug seed powder, 2–3 g, is taken orally 2–3 times a day for ascites and paralysis with loss of speech.

Bedbug herb:

Fresh bug grass is used externally as a poultice for gout, to destroy warts.

Contraindications for bedbugs:

Excessive ingestion of bedbug preparations may result in poisoning. Symptoms: headache, nausea, vomiting, abdominal pain. In case of poisoning, it is necessary to lavage the stomach with an aqueous suspension of activated carbon, give a saline laxative and mucous decoctions. Apply high enemas. Subsequent treatment is symptomatic.

Use of bugs on the farm:

Some species (watercress, horseradish) are eaten. Bedbug bug is sometimes used as a remedy for bedbugs.