Round-leaved Sundew - Useful Properties, Reproduction And Care Of Sundew. Applying Sundew Recipes

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Round-leaved sundew

Reproduction, useful properties and recipes for the use of sundew

Botanical characteristics of sundew

Round-leaved sundew is a perennial insectivorous plant from the sundew family. The plant has a short stem, consisting of 2-3 flower arrows and a rosette of leaves, which is pressed to the ground. On the upper side of the leaves are reddish glands with stringy mucus. Small insects that settle on a plant leaf are enveloped in this mucus, and the flower is eaten by the insect. The flower of the plant is small, white. Sundew flowers are collected in a brush with one side. The flowering of the plant begins in early summer and lasts until the end of summer.

In the place where the flowers were located, the fruits of the plant appear (August-September). The fruit opens into 3 flaps. Each fruit contains small, spindle-shaped seeds. Sundew can reproduce by self-seeding. They can crumble into sphagnum and immediately find themselves inside the soil, and will germinate after a year.

Rosyanka prefers to grow in peat and sphagnum bogs, on wet sands. Dewdrop can be seen in Asia, North America, Ukraine, Russia and the Far East.

Sundew breeding

The sundew reproduces by leafy cuttings, which take root with ease and speed. The sundew also reproduces by seed. The seeds are sown on a damp substrate, leaving them uncovered with soil. To prevent the seeds from being blown away by the wind, they can be covered with glass. For good germination, the seeds must be constantly moistened. When the seeds grow, the glass is slightly raised with sticks. Over time, the glass needs to be removed altogether. With the growth of seedlings, their dive is made. Already dived seedlings are transplanted into separate pots.

Dewdrop can be propagated by dividing the root. To do this, you need to take a clean blade and a container with a lid. We cut off a part of the root from the plant, which can be divided into a couple more parts. The cut site must be treated with activated carbon. Part of the root must be placed in a container with soil and closed with a lid. After 15 days, an escape will appear on the root, which can already be planted in a permanent place in the ground.

The sundew should always be in moist soil; it should not be allowed to dry out the soil. Only soft water is needed for watering. Dewdrop loves sunny places. The sundew must be repotted every spring.

Useful properties of sundew

Sundew leaves contain ascorbic acid, tannins, calcium, potassium and fluoroquinols. Dewdrop has expectorant properties, so it is used for coughs and colds. And also sundew is used for the preparation of drugs that provide diuretic, bactericidal and antipyretic properties.

Sundew medications help in the treatment of respiratory diseases such as whooping cough, bronchitis, laryngitis or tracheitis. Sundew tincture is used for many diseases and ailments.

Rosyanka is used in the treatment of various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Dewdrop helps relieve asthma attacks.

Sundew application

Dewdrop has been used in folk medicine since the Middle Ages. Traditional medicine uses sundew widely and quite successfully. Dewdrop is used for bronchitis, colds, tuberculosis and atherosclerosis. Dewdrop can be used to treat epilepsy, headaches, candidiasis.

Sundew tincture. Take 10 grams of dry sundew grass and fill them with half a glass of 40% alcohol. We leave for 10 days at room temperature. The finished tincture is filtered and taken in the following dosages:

-children 10 drops;

- adults 15 drops.

Children take no more than 4 times a day, and adults can drink the tincture 5 times. Before use, the tincture must be dissolved in 50 grams of water.

Infusion of sundew. To prepare the infusion, you need to take a teaspoon of dry sundew herb, grind it. Pour 200 ml of boiling water over the grass. Leave the infusion to infuse for 1 hour. Squeezing the infusion and straining, take a tablespoon three times a day. Preferably taken after meals. Fever can also be treated with this infusion.

Infusion of sundew roots in bronchial asthma. Take 1 teaspoon of the sundew root and sundew herb mixture. Pour a glass of boiling water and leave to infuse for 1 hour. After straining the infusion, take a tablespoon three times a day before meals.

Sundew tea. To prepare it, you need to take 1 teaspoon of sundew herb and pour a glass of boiling water over it. We leave for 10 minutes. We filter the tea and take 2 cups a day in small sips.

Sundew contraindications

Dewdrop must be used in the correct dosages, since if taking a large dose will lead to an aggravation of the patient's condition. If the leaves of the sundew are chewed, then the mucous membrane of the mouth will be irritated, which will cause vomiting and diarrhea.

The author of the article: Sokolova Nina Vladimirovna | Phytotherapist

Education: Diploma in "General Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the Pirogov University (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow (2008).