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Osokor
Useful properties and use of pickles
Description of sedge
Osokor is a large deciduous tree up to 35 m high from the willow family. Its life span is about 300 years. The sedge has a powerful root system, which provides the tree with high stability during floods and in strong winds. Its crown is spreading, wide. Leaves are rhombic or triangular in shape, large, hard, with long petioles. The flowers are small, gathered in hanging inflorescences-earrings. The wild carp blooms before the leaves open. Men's purplish red earrings. The fruits are small capsules with many seeds.
The flowering period of the plant is April-May, the ripening of the fruits is May-June. It is distributed in Eastern and Western Siberia, Central Asia, Eastern Kazakhstan, Belarus, Ukraine and other CIS countries. It can be found in floodplain deciduous forests, in gardens, alley plantings and parks. During the growing season, wild boar clears the atmosphere from 20–30 kg of soot and dust. One tree emits 7 times more oxygen than spruce, 4 times more than pine, and 3 times more than linden.
Useful properties of pickle
The wild boar has analgesic, antipyretic, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, astringent, wound healing and antiulcer properties. This is due to the fact that the bark, buds and leaves of the plant contain many biologically active substances. Thus, flavonoids, alkaloids, higher carbohydrates, tannins, phenol glucosides were found in the bark of a tree. The leaves contain organic and phenol carboxylic acids, lignans, isoprenoids and carotenoids, and the kidneys contain chalcones, leukoanthocyanins, essential and fatty oils.
For the most part, swollen, but not yet opened buds are used as medicinal raw materials, harvesting them in early spring, as soon as the black poplar blooms. Collect buds only from the lower branches. They are picked by hand and dried in a cool room or in special ovens at a temperature of 30–35 ° C. If the raw materials are dried at higher temperatures, the kidneys open and some of the essential oil evaporates. The finished product tastes bitter, its color is greenish-yellow.
The use of sedge
For medicinal purposes, wild carp has been used since ancient times. Avicenna also wrote that the fruits of the plant help against epilepsy and urinary incontinence, in the form of an ointment with honey, they strengthen the eyes. Tibetan medicine considers the buds, leaves, and bark of the bark to be useful in treating smallpox, lung disease, fever, and hemorrhoids. In Mongolia, the leaves of the plant are used for pulmonary tuberculosis, malignant neoplasms, diarrhea, colds, problems with blood vessels and excessive sexual arousal.
Traditional medicine recommends preparations from the bark of sedge for sciatica, dysmenorrhea, gynecological diseases, and also as an anthelmintic. Infusions and decoctions from the kidneys help with urolithiasis, inflammation of the bladder, bronchitis, neuroses, radiculitis, acute gastritis, intestinal atony, gout. Very good infusion of kidney sodor for strengthening and growth of hair.
Charcoal from the wood of the plant is used for nausea, heartburn, pain in the intestines, fresh juice - for toothache and ringing in the ears.
Infusion of the kidneys of the sedge: 2 teaspoons of the buds of the plant insist for about 4 hours in a glass of boiling water in a sealed and wrapped container (you can in a thermos). After straining, the medicine is drunk in a tablespoon 3-4 times a day. The infusion is used as an antipyretic and sedative.
A decoction from the leaves of the blackberry: to prepare the drug, you need to pour 2 tablespoons of raw materials with a glass of water and boil for no more than 5 minutes over low heat, then insist the broth for 1 hour, strain and take with meals 1-2 tablespoons of the drug 3-4 times in a day.
Kidney ointment: to prepare it, you need to grind 3 tablespoons of unopened kidney buds well and then mix them with three tablespoons of unsalted butter, adding it gradually. The ointment is suitable for use within 5 days if stored in the refrigerator.
Contraindications to the use of sedge
There are no special contraindications to the use of drugs. However, it is undesirable to use them during pregnancy and chronic diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Individual plant intolerance and hypersensitivity are also possible. With the moderate use of drugs based on sedge, no side effects can be feared.
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).
