When to cook burdock root. Collecting and drying burdock root at home. Therapeutic use
Lopushnik. Describing a plant is not necessary, it grows everywhere, like weed. However, its useful properties are difficult to overestimate. In some countries, burdock is even grown specifically as a vegetable. For consumer and medicinal purposes, the leaves are used and the application of the plant helps with many diseases. All its parts are used in food in the form of salads and vegetable soups. But especially rich in vitamins (groups A and B, C, E, P) and trace elements (calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, zinc, selenium) are famous for burdock roots.
Burdock spread
One use for nettle root, which I have yet to study, is its use as an antivirus. While Michael Moore speaks of his weakness in this arena, he points out that some claim to use it internally to treat herpes. Maud Greve says it is characteristic of chickenpox, a virus in the same family.
Yellow dock root: Taste: acrid, warming bitter, slightly sour and earthy; Energy: alternative, astringent, laxative, dry, antidiarrheal, anti-inflammatory. It stands out for its lanticular leaves and beautifully folded, curly edges.
Therapeutic use
Burdock can, without exaggeration, be called "first aid". For headaches, for example, it is enough to pour a boiling water over a fresh leaf and put it on the back of the head. If the pain is caused by cervical osteochondrosis, a hot compress with burdock needs to be fixed on the neck-collar area, covered with a film and a warm scarf. If you do these simple procedures regularly, the pain will visibly weaken. The same compresses are made on sore joints and lower back with rheumatism, radiculitis, arthritis and arthrosis. Burdock root treatment is effective for stomach ailments - gastritis and ulcers. Excellent results are also observed after taking infusions and tinctures of this plant with urolithiasis and gallstone disease, with gout, with diseases of the endocrine system, in particular diabetes. A decoction of burdock root is traditionally prepared in the following way: four tablespoons of shredded and dried roots pour two cups of boiling water and leave for 12 hours to infuse. Then the infusion should be drained and boiled, cooled and kept in the refrigerator. 
Take three times a day for a tablespoon. The tincture is prepared even easier: the raw material is placed in a dark glass dish and poured with alcohol or vodka. Filter out is not necessary. This remedy perfectly cures skin diseases - eczema, boils and other inflammations. skin integument. Juice from the stems and roots of burdock is recommended to take for allergies. A healing effect on the condition of the hair of any decoctions, tinctures and oils based on this amazing healing plant has been known to people for several centuries.
This is reflected in the Latin name of the plant. The tribes used the root in the same way as today. They used fresh rootch puree locally for rheumatic pains, swelling and ulcers. Iroquois also applied this mash to hemorrhoids and as a poultice in yellow fever. Root decoctions were taken from the inside for constipation and inspired the body to purify the blood. Their specific indications for use were jaundice, chronic skin diseases, intestinal colds and pain, and kidney problems. While the root was gagging, seeds for taking diarrhea.
As a product
Eat fresh annual leaves and plants as a vegetable, seasoning, greens for salads is very popular in many countries. Young roots are added to vitamin soups instead of potatoes or with it, as well as with carrots, cabbage, and greens. Slightly bitter leaves spice up any salad. Many of them even pickle and marinate for the winter. The roots are eaten raw or stewed, baked or seasoned.
Navajo believed that the yellow pier is a cure for life, and considered it a panacea or a cure for what worries you. The target strength of the yellow dock is characteristic of the direction of the east, a direction that supports life, light and growth. And the Navajo used the whole plant as an emetic before the ceremony to cleanse and clean the system to prepare the body for healing and spiritual ritual.
Marinated Burdock Roots
It supports life as a digestive tonic, acting specifically on the liver, and gallbladderto inspire function and balance. It relieves constipation, inflammation in the colon and jaundice, when these symptoms are directly dependent on assimilation and digestive problems. Skin conditions are synonymous with digestive and lymphatic functions. If digestive function is depleted, the lymphatic system also shifts. Blood and excess cellular fluid cannot be cleaned properly, leading to acne or chronic skin diseases such as eczema and psoriasis.
How to harvest burdock roots
The use of plant roots for one purpose or another dictates the features of the workpiece. So, for use in food deserve young Fresh, juicy root, as already mentioned above, goes to all sorts of fresh salads, added to soups. But for medicinal purposes are perfectly hardened biennial burdock roots. Beneficial features they are intensified towards the end of summer and the beginning of autumn, when the plant has already faded and matured, gained strength and invaluable vitamins and trace elements. Burdock need to dig, cut off the roots and let them dry. It is not recommended to wash them. The dried up dirt is easily brushed off. Then the roots need to wipe thoroughly with a damp cloth. Next, the raw materials should be dried in the open air in the shade, and even better - just put them in the oven and let them reach in a draft. In order for the roots to dry faster and not ferment, they need to be cut or grated on a coarse grater. The burdock leaves are harvested a little earlier, in July-August, and dried in the usual way in the shade.
The cases that found success with the yellow root of the docks were hepatitis, drug and alcohol abuse, autoimmune conditions and clients undergoing cancer treatment. In these cases, the ability of the yellow docks to finely refine the intestinal tract and liver, increase the absorption of nutrients and improve the ability of the liver to destroy toxins and properly eliminate them, is an extremely favorable therapy.
Root drugs are fairly easy to do. Peel, slice as little as possible, and weigh the root - yes, always weigh, so your medicine will have a measurable effect. Therapy is sometimes lost if the dilution of the medicine is unknown. Put your shredded root in a stone jar and pour the alcohol over it. Keep it in a cool dry place and shake it every day.
Burdock - Arctium lappa L.
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Other names: Bullocker, Burdock.
Diseases and effects:gout, urolithiasis, diabetes, stomatitis, acne vulgaris, eczema, burns, rheumatism, dropsy, gastritis, hair loss.
After 8 weeks, squeeze the tincture. Be sure to mark your medications, specify the date, place, collected, plant and part, and what kind of dilution of your tincture. For example, if you used 1 part of a plant for two parts of alcohol, your tincture is 1.
For further study of specific roots and ways of their tincture, please refer to the book “Making medicinal plants". To make tea with roots, drying is required. And to make a root of tea, you need to use 1-2 tablespoons of dried root for 8 ounces. water. Bring water and root to a low boil, turn the heat to boil and release for 30 minutes before turning it off and straining.
Active substances:inulin polysaccharide, stigmasterol and sitosterol sterols, tanning and bitter substances, ascorbic and caffeic acids, resins, mineral salts, sesquiterpene arktypkrin lactone.
Harvest time and harvesting plants: March - April, September - October.
Botanical description of burdock
A biennial, large, herbaceous plant, 60–180 cm high, with a thick stem, slightly branched root. In the first year, several large stalked leaves develop. In the second year, an erect, longitudinally striated, reddish stem strongly branching in the upper part. Branches bulged, pubescent. Stem leaves are petiolate, cordate-ovate, large-toothed, green above, with sparse hairs, grayish-felt below. Flowers in spherical baskets, reaching 3-3.5 cm and diameter and forming corymbodic racemes on tops of stems and its branches in the form of corymbose inflorescence. Fruit - oblong, ribbed achene with a tuft. It blooms in July - August, bears fruit in September - October.
As a product
They come in many tastes and shapes and serve many purposes: from sweet and spicy licorice root, which is a powerful antiviral, anti-inflammatory and adrenal adaptogen, in a maze such as a root black kohshi root. Now for the heart of medicinal herbs! Knowing how to properly collect your herbs will increase the effectiveness and efficiency of your preparations.
Let's understand the terminology used to describe parts of herbs (plant parts) during harvesting. Berries and seeds: these are the fruits of the plant that are harvested when they fully ripen (usually when they have turned into a rich, deep color and softened and matured). Flower: Remove the flowers, removing the entire flowering head, with a small or missing stem. The ideal time to harvest is just like the flowers open, but you can pick the flowers completely open. However, when they succeeded to such an extent that their petals are omitted, their medicine is not so strong. Do not wash flowers if they are not soiled. Flowering tops: This term refers to the entire flowering part of the grass, still attached to a few inches of the stem of the plant and leaves. Vertices are best suited for medicine when at the beginning to a full flower, and even in a late flower, in several cases (for example, in the Hypericum). The grass is most effective when it is in the early flower through the entire flowering stage. After he started collecting seeds, the potential of the plant has already begun to decrease. Do not wash herbs if they are not contaminated. These air parts are usually crushed or ground for the manufacture of medicines, and the thickest part of the stem is often discarded after drying. Leaf: Take a leaf and a scape (tender stem holding a leaf), and in some cases a very minimal amount of vegetable stem, if it is fleshy. Leaves that have some insect damage are suitable for use, but discard those that are browned or yellowed. Dust from the leaves and lightly wash them, if they are dirty, soak them before you make your medicine. Leave them whole to dry. You will mainly gather roots from perennial, not annual, herbs. Dig them in the fall, winter, or early spring, when the plant is completely dead, and all of its energy has returned to the root during the winter months. If the plant is two years old (for example, angelica, burdock and mulfin), the harvest will begin in the fall after the first year of growth in the spring of the second year before the flowering stem begins to grow. If the plant is a perennial, the best year to harvest depends on each herb. Wash and clean the roots after you dig them, cut the crown (the point where the rod joins the roots), and either make your medicine or cut the roots into small, uniform pieces for drying. Clean them when they ripen from green to tan. Whole plant: when you collect an entire plant, you take roots or rhizomes and roots (still attached to the crown), stems, leaves, flowers and buds are everything. The best time to harvest a whole plant usually occurs when the plant is at the beginning of a flower. Wash the root and remove the brown or decaying aerial parts of the plant. Then separate the above-ground and root parts for drying, as the roots take much longer to complete dehydration.
- Buds: This means only a flower in its unopened state.
- Clean it without any stalks.
Burdock spread
It is found in the southern steppe regions quite rarely, only along the beams and river valleys. It grows in weedy places, under the fences, walls of buildings, but the periphery of gardens, in parks, as well as in wet forests. Sometimes it forms small thickets, more often it grows in small groups and single specimens. Stocks of raw materials are large, but every year they decrease.
Therapeutic use
In general, the best time of the day is to collect any of the terrestrial parts of the grass - in the morning or early evening. Start your harvest after the dew has dried, but while the herbs are still cool, as excessive moisture can cause mold and blackened leaves. Herbs collected in very hot weather or under the noon sun can bluish or fade, causing them to lose their healing ingredients (especially their content in the mass). Keep them in the shade while you collect, and do not pile them too thick.
Roots can be harvested at ant times when the land can be processed, but not when there is wet soil: you compact the soil and destroy all the aeration that solid corpses blow so hard for the tunnel to be. Remember that the soil is home to useful earthworms and many other allies.
Rules for making a burdock
Raw materials are the roots of plants of the first year. They are harvested in the fall, in September — October or early in the spring before the start of growth in March — April. Dig out with shovels, shake off the ground, cut off the aerial parts and thin roots, washed in cold iodine, and then cleaned of bark.
The collected roots are dried in the open air, on cuttings under an iron roof or under sheds with good ventilation, spreading a thin layer (3-5 cm) on paper or cloth.
Burdock in nature
Plan ahead: harvest just before you make your medicines, or immediately prepare and dry them. Herbs will start losing potency soon after they are harvested. Keep them in the shade while you work, and if you need to keep them for a while, do not forget to cool them immediately. The faster they cool down, the fresher they will remain.
Wash as little as possible after cleaning. Do not drink your herbs if they are not smeared with dirt or extremely dusty. You can fill the sink or bucket with water and, firmly holding it, quickly swing the peaks. Gently shake out excess water and blot dry or place on paper or cloth towels to dry.
The raw material consists of fleshy, non-lignified pieces of roots 10-25 cm long, peeled from the bark, grayish-brown on the outside, and pale-gray in color. The smell is weak, peculiar. Taste is sweetish with a sensation of mucus. Humidity is not higher than 13%. In the raw material, the content of roots with a length of stems remains is not more than 1%, brownish root pieces less than 2 cm long is not more than 5%, organic impurities (parts of other plants) are not more than 0.5%, mineral impurities are not more than 1% .
The right tools to collect your herbs.
It is important to use the right tool for the job. Use the scissors that you have dedicated to your herbs to collect very fragile flowers, stems and leaves. Invest in a quality pair of clippers for stronger plant parts; This will be your most frequently used tool, so buy the best. The manual trowel is universal, especially if it has a thinner profile for maneuvering in small places. If you sit outside, use a digging fork and not a shovel for most root crops.
Packed in bags or bales. Store in a dry, well ventilated area.
In Ukraine, there are several types of burdock, which can also be used along with the burdock, the most common of which are burdock, cobweb.
Medical significance of burdock
Burdock roots contain polysaccharide inulin (up to 45%), essential (up to 0.18%) and fatty (up to 0.8%) oils, sterols (stigmasterol, sitosterol), tannic and bitter substances, ascorbic and caffeic acids, resins and mineral salts. In the leaves, the presence of tannins, mucus, sesquiterpene lactone arktypikrina and a small amount of essential oil.
The fork is softer on the roots, lifts them more efficiently and least of all violates the surrounding area. Always use clean tools when digging and cutting plants. It is often recommended that the clippers be immersed in a weak bleach solution and periodically washed to disinfect them, especially before cutting cuttings or after cutting a diseased plant.
Drying, preserving and storing your herbs. Since you cannot get fresh herbs all year round, and because you don’t always use everything you have, drying at home is the key to preserving your bounty and creating your home. There are three elements necessary for the effective drying of herbs and the protection of their healing power.
Burdock roots have a diuretic, choleretic, anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic and antimicrobial action, stimulate mineral metabolism, contribute to the deposition of glycogen in the liver, improve the insulin-forming function of the pancreas.
It is used internally for gout, urolithiasis, a mild form of diabetes mellitus, externally - for stomatitis, acne, eczema, burns.
AT traditional medicine decoctions and infusions are used even with rheumatism, dropsy, gastritis with the usual constipation, diabetes. For skin diseases, an infusion or decoction of the roots is taken orally as a blood-purifying agent, for skin itching, rashes, acne, eczema, boils, and also used externally in the form of washing.
Infusion of the roots (or leaves) is used to rinse with inflammatory diseases of the mucous membranes of the mouth and nasopharynx. Sometimes fresh or wet dried burdock leaves are used as a wound healing agent. They are applied directly to burns, ulcers, non-healing wounds.
Especially popular are preparations from burdock roots as a means to strengthen the hair when they fall out. Infusion or decoction of the roots wash and rub through the day the scalp.
Infusion of burdock root on almond or olive oil (it can also be on sunflower) is a well-known “burdock” oil used to strengthen the hair.
Prepare drugs as follows. The crushed raw material (10 g) is poured with 200 ml of water, heated in a boiling water bath for 30 minutes, cooled for 10 minutes, filtered and boiled water is added to the original volume.
Take 1/2 cup 2-3 times a day.
A teaspoon of crushed roots is poured with a glass of boiling water, infused overnight and filtered. Used for rinsing the mouth (with stomatitis).
To strengthen the hair and prevent their loss, it is also recommended to use a decoction of 20 g burdock roots, 10 g of calendula inflorescences and 1 l of water. Boil 10-15 minutes. and after cooling (with room temperature) filter. Warm broth is rubbed into the scalp 1 time in three days.
Infusion of burdock leaves protects cabbage from caterpillars, destroys other pests. It is necessary to finely chop the whole plant of burdock, pour water over it so that it covers the whole mass and insist for three days. Then half a bucket of infusion is poured with the same amount of water, 40 g of soap are added and the cabbage is sprayed during the flight of cabbage butterflies. Repeat treatment after a week.
The use of burdock in ceremonies
Burdock (burdock) in the rite "Blinding trouble" to protect against adversity
You will need burdock root (necessarily the first year of life, thick, juicy, at least 30 cm long), a wax candle (purchased with overpayment), a needle with red thread threaded into its ear, a piece of natural fabric (better than linen), a wooden knife pen. Manipulations are carried out on the waning moon before noon. Dig up the root, touch it, thrust out your thrice with the cross with the sign of the cross and say quietly: “Glory to Dazhbog, our Lord, the same God! Come to me, sweet back. Already sew you a bag, a bundle for a knot, a stitch for a stitch. What I do - to know, to attack the evil, witch blind. Sewing, weaning, driving away. Forces Light to call for help. For it is so commanded! ”Bring the root imperceptibly home, avoiding outsiders (neighbors) eyes, and it is desirable that a woman should not meet you on the way back. If this happened, then, passing by her, say to yourself: “This woman is not my misfortune, although it seems that she is. The Lord says: “Get away! Slave (y) (your name obtained at baptism, consecration or a magical name) pass, do not cling: do not shake your eyes, do not tear your heart. Exactly".
Returning to the house (apartment), sit comfortably at the table and place the root on the cloth. Light a candle and set it to the left. At the root with a knife, make three shallow cuts (with an interval of 10 cm one from the other). At the same time for each three times say: “I cut, cut, cut. I do not allow anyone to attack the house. I cut, cut, forever blind. She will not walk more, she will dance, I, (name), life will persecute. My word is strong. ” Fold the fabric in half (wrapping the root with it) and how it will start to sew the bag. But so that the fabric fits tightly to the root. Needle must be in the left hand. With the first stitches, read the plot: “With your left hand, not with your right! Whoever comes to trouble will leave without eyes. And the attack itself, from me, (name), forever shast! Do not live it, do not cleave to it, do not let the roots. And to me, (name), be with the Lord. From now on and finishing. Ordered by.
When the thread starts to end (at the beginning of the sewing operations, its length should be at least 30 cm), tie the ends with three knots. At the same time on the exhale, say: “I am knitting, I am knitting already blind. This, as ordered! ”Candle (not blowing out) extinguish and at midnight the new day of the candle end (along with the bag) take it and bury it (to a depth of at least 30 cm) in a place where people seldom are. Level the ground thoroughly with your feet, repeating the conspiracy three times: “Live, but blind. It is here to perpetuate, to perish here, to me, the slave (e) of God (s) (name), the road to not know. Commanded by the word true, proven, consecrated. " Leave silently, without looking back. If on the way back there is a meeting with a female, it means that this technique does not suit you and you need to look for another ritual. Crossing the threshold of the apartment, wash your hands under running water and go to bed. In the morning, put a candle at home, setting the table with a white tablecloth in memory of your Ancestors. Three days from the house do not carry anything into the house do not take, do not mark the floor. If there were problems in the family, then they will leave.
Rite description provided Warlock Mstislav.
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It is used for hepatitis, cirrhosis of the liver. According to the method of preparation and use - infusion.