Cuff Common
Ordinary cuff - is a perennial herb called round, puckered leaves, resembles the shape of cuff.summer heat, with the dew of herbs have long gone, and in the middle of each leaf of the cuff, as if in a green cup, still silvery drop of cool water. Reflected her grass, trees, sun and sky, and the slope below - and a make out. Tronesh sheet - a drop on it rolls, is not spreading like mercury. This water alchemists in the Middle Ages was used as a "heavenly dew", with her trying to seek "the Sorcerer's Stone" - hence the Latin name of plants "Alchemilla. In Western Europe during the Middle Ages cuff was reputed to be magical grass.
Since ancient times it was thought if the face wash in the morning dew collected from leaves of lady's mantle, then returned to the person of his bygone beauty! Until now, in some countries, especially in Switzerland, the women rub the person leaves covered with dew, for the information of freckles and acne removal.
mantle grows in dry meadows, forest glades, in the furrows, near the houses across the country. Blooms from May to September. The people called her calabash, kamchuzhnoy and rib grass. Common names say nothing of the fact that the people used this herb to treat many diseases. Aqueous extract of leaves treated with gout (kamchug "- the ancient name of this disease), respiratory diseases, tuberculosis.
Outer infusion of herbs used in the form of baths, lotions, wash and compresses, ulcers, to eliminate acne, accelerate healing of wounds and boils. Fresh crushed leaves was applied to cuts and wounds to stop bleeding and rapid healing.
In our country is not used, but is widely used for the preparation of certain herbal medicines in Bulgaria and other countries.
Collect and leaves cuff, which contains tannic bitter substances, glycosides, flavonoids, vitamins, during the flowering period.