The succession of Trifid

The succession is an annual plant with a fairly high stalk. Tripartite leaves, opposite, Flowers small, yellow, gathered at the ends of stems and shoots. Blooms for a long time - from late June until September. In just begun to blossom inflorescences are no seeds would otherwise have to bypass the thicket a succession of party, since cuneate, flattened achenes alternate blunt end are two jagged spine, they are tenaciously dig in animals and humans. These teeth served as the defining attribute for the name of a "bidens, from the Latin" bis "- twice, and" Deus "- a tooth, and the species' tripartita" describes the shape of the leaf blade and means - Trifid. Achenes are so tenacious that the nation is not in vain they are called "dogs" and grass "prichepoy. He likes to settle a series of near rivers and streams, on moist meadows, through the swamps, ditches and abandoned farm. Distributed throughout the territory of our country, except the Far North. Trifid succession - a very popular plant, especially in traditional medicine. Use its leaves and shoots olistvennye tops.

The people tripartite series called scrofulous grass, goat horns, Chernobrivetsy marsh arrow, dog Repyakh, etc. The popularity of the plant was so large that its procurement was conducted in 29 provinces Tsarist Russia. Used only inside the country in the West, its therapeutic effect was not recognized, but used extensively in Chinese and Tibetan medicine, who recommended her for dysentery, eczema, and joint diseases. Is among the oldest medicines.

Cheredu used and is now used in the treatment of skin dermatitis of various etiologies, it is part of the protivozolotushnogo collection, the so-called "Averina tea." Grass succession contains a significant amount of carotene, ascorbic acid, as well as flavonoids, coumarins, tannins, goo, bitterness, essential oil. Due to the presence of various biologically active substances, a succession of grass, collected during budding and early flowering, used for skin diseases, with various forms of diathesis, accompanied by scrofula, seborrhea head and cradle cap, with itching dermatoses, especially in children with inflammation of the skin after shaving. Apply as inside as a tincture and externally: as a steam bath, compresses, wash, rinse. Healing herbal baths - a source of health and beauty, a great tool to enhance the body's defenses, its resistance to adverse influences. Bath with a succession, birch, nettle, five-finger thick, burdock, oats, dandelion, marjoram (all equal) has a wonderful restorative effect, while regulating and stimulating the body's metabolism, gives skin a healthy color.

Gather grass early flowering; dried in the usual way under the eaves. If anyone has a desire to dilute series of tripartite in their beds, grow it quite easily. Soils under cultivation withdrawn lungs moist. Propagation sequence of seeds, which do not lose their germination within 5-7 years, but fresh seeds have the highest germination (90 percent). Sow a winter, for 2 weeks before the persistent cooling or early spring. Depth of seeding 1 centimeter. In the early spring months a series of growing slowly. To sow not clogged with weeds, weed shoots constantly. In mid-July, the plant enters into force: developing a strong stem, branches and begins to bloom.