Coltsfoot

Mother-grass, grass-rannik king-potion kamchuzhnaya grass dvulichnik - this is not a complete list of the names of this plant, which flowers - the first joyful sunny yellow harbingers of spring - come out of the ground immediately, as soon Protan snow ... Bright yellow spots, they glow in the ravines, slopes, rivers and streams, delighting us after a long and harsh winter. As the evening or in wet weather the flowers close and droop, preserving their pollen, which, like gunpowder, must always be dry. The first bee plant - the bees also present after winter! Finishes flowering, and unanimously raised the characteristic rounded-cordate, toothed leaves are soft, warm-tomentose below (the "mother") and the smooth, cold, early blooming covered with a fake, like a lower pubescence, a film on top ("Stepmother"). Botanical Latin name "tussilyago" comes from two words: "chasing" and "cough." The very name speaks of a medical mission coltsfoot. The generic definition of "Pharpar" (translated means "as if sprinkled with flour) characterizes the appearance of leaves.

Pioneer plants first colonizes bare empty space. Grows almost throughout the country except the northern regions and the Far East. Rod "tussilyago" represented only one species inhabiting the temperate zone of Eurasia and recorded in America.

Drug to the leaves and flowers of the peoples of all countries. It was known it and the doctors of ancient Greece, where it was used, it turns out, not only for therapeutic but also with cosmetic purposes. In old Russia coltsfoot "used in chronic cough, standing breathing, ulcers in the chest; knew that the" leaf and flower and resolves open sores and boils speeds up the healing of wounds, used in stomatitis and for various procedures in inflammatory processes in mixtures with other plants.

Respects the gourd and scientific medicine: the leaves are part of the breast (expectorants) fees and sweatshops teas. Anti-inflammatory effects of drugs due to the polysaccharide content in the feed complex combined with vitamins, organic acids, flavonoids and other substances.

In domestic and foreign cosmetics are widely used anti-inflammatory and wound-healing properties of leaves and fresh juice. Fresh leaves applied to wounds, ulcers, abscesses, with the same purpose, use and dry leaves, chopped - to speed up the healing process, pulp of the leaves put on the corn, extracts from the leaves of stinging nettles in a 1:1 ratio - a great tool to strengthen your hair (rub into the scalp three times a week), more robust broth rinse and wash the head with profuse dandruff and itching. Abroad: In Bulgaria, Poland and Germany in the form of compresses of decoction of leaves treated burns, purulent skin disease, inflammation of the veins and tumor is used topically for skin diseases in France and other countries.

For medicinal and cosmetic purposes leaves manually collected in the first half of the summer tearing, with a small part of the stem (not longer than 5 centimeters). Dried in the usual way. With artificial heating temperature should not exceed 50 - 60 S.

Stocks of raw materials in our country is sufficient, but sometimes convenient to have this plant is on hand in their own beds. Coltsfoot perfectly reproduces by seeds that are barely maturation and ended up in favorable conditions, germinate in just a few hours ... In the future it will take a territory with the help of their powerful roots. In agriculture, coltsfoot is one of the worst weeds, it is difficult eradicable. But here is surprising: it is necessary only to leave her alone, and not plowed annually, as it is in 2-3 years "will press the" other competitors.