The wolf's verbum, hell's grass, recruit, grandfather's beard, lake linnet, maiden beauty - these and a dozen more names for this plant gave rumor.
The useful properties of the lozenge are known in modern medicine, but in the pharmacological industry the plant does not apply. Let's talk about the features of this plant in more detail.
Description
Gum grass is widespread in the Altai Mountains, in Ukraine and Russia. This perennial with burgundy two-meter handle and pink panicles - inflorescences. The leaves of the maiden beauty of green, with the onset of September, the leaves gradually turn purple.
The inflorescences consist of many small flowers, the leaves of the cravum are elongated, lanceolate. The most famous popular name is plakun-grass. Excess moisture drains on the outside of the leaves, the plant seems to be crying - this explains the name of the perennial. Derbennik likes open sunny places, with fairly wet soils, for example, marshland or rice fields. Occasional landings of the dwarf can be seen in coastal areas.
The grass blooms in the middle of summer, the flowers of the plant are always covered with buzzing insects. Perennial is a good honey plant, honey collected from the flowers of the cravat is transparent and fragrant, looks like molten amber.
At the end of summer, blooming, perennial at the site of fading flowers forms seed boxes. The oblong testicles contain small seeds of the clay stalk, in late autumn, the testes are destroyed and the seeds fly away near the mother plant.
Chemical composition
The grass has a rather extensive set of chemical components: phenolcarboxylic, chlorogenic, n-coumaric, ellagic, gallic acids, anthocyanins, flavonoids.
As well as tar, essential oil, vitamin C, carotene, choline, pectin. In the roots there are substances such as saponans. The seeds of the plant contain alkaloids and glycoside Liturin.
Did you know? All the components of perennial: roots, stem, flowers - at the same time they are collected once, on a summer day on Ivan Kupala.
Beneficial properties from seed to leaf
There are many nutrients and vitamins, essential oils in plakun-herb.
Tannins and saponins are found in the perennial roots; harvesting of medicinal herbs begins in the fall. Flower panicles are rich in anthocyanins, make preparations at the time when the flower stalks blossom.
The wolfberry clew is known to herbalists for its healing properties such as:
- antiseptic;
- hemostatic;
- tonic;
- wound healing;
- anti-inflammatory;
- soothing.
Antiseptic properties have: virgin, mountain ryabinolistny, verbeynik, creeping tenacious, momordika, savory garden, physalis, sarratsenia, pear.
Important! It is noticed that if you make a pillow full of fresh hay from the leaves and flowers of the cravat for sleep, the person will sleep peacefully and relaxed.
The use of therapeutic properties
Herbalists recommend vervien (grandfather's beard) with:
- dysentery and diarrhea;
- fever and chronic diseases of the stomach;
- bowel and gastralgia disorders;
- catarrhal diseases and gastroptosis;
- depletion of the body and migraines;
- toxicosis and venereal diseases.
It is used as an effective emergency aid for bites of rabid animals, encephalitic ticks or snake bites.
Plakun-herb is used in various formulations of herbal teas with general depressions or chronic hysterical manifestations. The healing properties of fresh leaves of perennial - an effective means of stopping blood.
Attached to the wound or cut sheet after some time stops the bleeding. If the damage to the skin is rather deep and extensive, it can be healed with the best result, if the leaves of the dough are crushed in a mush over the open wound.
Did you know? This perennial is good, as an addition of decoction into the water when taking a bath, with the help of water procedures with grass, convulsions are removed in babies, seizures in patients suffering from nervous diseases.
The main recipe for cooking infusion of idiot: One tablespoon of dried and chopped herbs fall asleep in a saucepan and pour a glass of freshly boiled water, tightly covered with a lid. Wrap the pot warmly.Infusion is continued for 4-5 hours. Before taking the tincture, it is desirable to strain. This amount of medication is taken during the day, one third of the total amount of liquid in one dose. Treatment infusion derbennik continue for 5 days.
Recipe number 1 We prepare a decoction, which can treat skin ulcers or open wounds. One teaspoonful of the dry, crushed roots of the cravat is mixed with a glass of boiling water, the mixture is brought to a boil and cooked over low heat for 10 minutes.
The saucepan with the broth is left to cool for one hour. After complete cooling, the swollen perennial roots are removed from the broth. You can strain the drug through gauze folded in several layers.
Prepared medicinal decoction is used to treat wounds (washing) several times a day. 
Recipe number 2 Infusion of migraine. The infusion is prepared in the following way: one part of a dry, crushed stalk of the cradle is poured with 10 parts of medicinal alcohol, mixed thoroughly, tightly covered with a lid and put in a dark place to insist.
Time to insist this infusion varies from 5 to 6 weeks. Twice a week, a tin of tincture is well shaken.
The use of the finished brew: half an hour before meals take 30 milliliters of infusion. Since the tincture is based on alcohol, the finished medicine can be diluted with water in a ratio of one to three.
Important! An alcohol tincture not diluted with water may cause severe burns of the esophageal mucosa.
Recipe number 3 Tincture used for diarrhea (diarrhea). Three tablespoons of dried, chopped stems and leaves of weeping grass are poured into a deep metal container, 200 ml of boiling water is added to it, mixed.
Further preparation of the tincture takes place in a water bath for 20 minutes. The finished tincture is removed from the heat, covered with a lid and wrapped for a couple of hours for a greater concentration of the medicinal drink.
How to use tincture: daily dose of the drug - 250 ml. This amount is divided into three approximately equal parts and taken 3 times a day. 
When using a herbal medicinal infusion do not take into account the meal schedule, that is, you can drink the infusion before meals, after meals or during meals.
Bilberry, enoter, prince, willow, oxalis, black chokeberry, skoumpia are also effective for diarrhea.
Recipe number 4 When inflammation of the upper respiratory tract is prepared such an infusion: 1 tablespoon of dry, crushed flowers of willow-leaf cracker is poured with one cup of boiling water.
A cup of infusion is covered with a saucer on top and left for an hour. Ready infusion filter through a sieve or gauze, and take three times before meals. At one reception, one tablespoon of medicine is used.
Healing infusion taken during the week. If the improvement of the patient’s condition comes earlier, the infusion can be stopped.
Contraindications
The healing properties of derbum are not fully understood. Of course, this perennial has a lot of the above advantages, but it has some contraindications. Not all people can be used for herbal treatment of weeping grass.
Let's take a closer look at the risk group. The plant is contraindicated for people prone to:
- fast blood clotting;
- atherosclerosis;
- propensity to form blood clots;
- patients with chronic constipation (atonic or senile).
Important! Persons suffering from persistent high blood pressure can only be treated with the cravat after detailed consultation with the attending physician. The grass can increase the already high pressure (it contributes to the narrowing of the arterial vessels) and raise it to a critical one.
Harvesting and storing grass
Since the stems, flowers and roots have healing powers of derbensa, tinctures and infusions are made from all these parts. The best time for the preparation of medicinal plants - a period in which the plakun-grass blooms in the first half of summer.
There are some requirements for collected medicinal raw materials from herbs and roots. For use in medicinal purposes is suitable only in time collected and properly dried grass.
In no case are healing herbs dried in the sun. They are laid out and hung out for slow drying only in the shade and in a draft.
If the herbs are supposed to be dried, hanging, then they are pre-bound in small brooms and hung under a canopy, which will not allow the rain to wet vegetable raw materials. Drying herbal raw materials continues for 2 weeks, after which the grass is placed in storage. 
There are two ways to store grass:
- pre-cut with garden shears into 1-2 cm pieces, put up in small portions and fold into paper bags;
- Put the whisks of dry grass in a large cardboard box with a lid, pulling out as necessary for use.
Dry herbal harvest does not lose its beneficial qualities for two to three years. Perennial roots are gaining full healing power in the fall, but then herbalists dig them out.
Dug out rhizomes shake off the ground, washed in clean water and laid out to dry in windy, not hot places.
It takes 2-3 weeks to completely dry the roots. Then they are cut with garden shears into small pieces (up to 1 cm) and stored in thick paper bags that do not let the sunlight through. Use the dry roots of the cradle can be for 3 years.
People's experience in herbal medicine has been accumulated over the centuries, you need to listen to it and respect the wisdom of your ancestors, but you cannot treat herbal medicine as a panacea for all diseases. 
It is best to consult a homeopathic physician before starting treatment with herbal infusions.
