Knotweed (Polygonum aviculare) is a herbaceous annual plant reaching a height of eighty centimeters. People also call it bird buckwheat, knotweed, ant grass, and goose grass.

This is a medicinal plant and is used as fodder for poultry. Young ones can be successfully eaten in soups, salads, and in the form of purees. In Dagestan, knotweed is used for filling pies.

If the soil is well fertilized, the knotweed grows so wildly that a continuous carpet is formed - a real grass-ant. At the same time, other plants are completely suppressed. Dyes can be obtained from the grass of the plant, for example, blue is made from the roots.

Knotweed grows everywhere. on rural streets, in courtyards, in parks, gardens, on playgrounds, in young plantings, along roadsides, along river banks.

For medicinal use, the grass is harvested during the flowering period, which should be cut with a knife. The raw materials are dried, spread in a thin layer in the shade, on attics and racks. Store in paper and canvas bags for no more than three years.

Knotweed can be used either independently or as part of a collection.

Plant preparations exhibit blood purifying, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, diaphoretic, analgesic, tonic, antipyretic and wound-healing properties.

Knotweed preparations can dissolve and remove stones from the kidneys and gall bladder, expel sand, and normalize metabolic processes in the body. When taking them, care should be taken, increasing the dose progressively, and the course of treatment itself should begin with very small doses.

An infusion of the plant also shows good therapeutic results for jaundice due to cholelithiasis. Knotweed is used internally for diseases of the bladder, kidneys and edema of renal origin.

Highlander is also used for swelling of the legs, while compresses are made from fresh crushed herbs or a decoction at night.

An infusion of the plant is effectively used for gout, salt metabolism disorders, polyarthritis and obesity. It is prescribed as an antipyretic for bronchitis, pneumonia, pleurisy, bronchial asthma, cough, fever, pulmonary tuberculosis and whooping cough.

The product is also used for rinsing in cases of inflammation of the oral mucosa and hoarseness. It is also consumed orally warm.

Knotweed has long been known as an effective hemostatic agent that can be successfully used for external, internal, uterine bleeding in the postpartum period, heavy menstruation, and bleeding after an abortion.

Alcohol tincture of knotweed is also actively used. The plant improves appetite for gastritis, has an astringent effect for diarrhea, gastrointestinal disorders and dysentery. Knotweed also helps with diabetes, diseases of the pancreas and liver, stomach and duodenal ulcers.

The decoction can be used internally and used for douching for leucorrhoea, and externally it is effective for ulcers that do not heal for a long time, and also for bruises, wounds, abscesses, tumors, burns and boils.

Both infusion and decoction of this plant are suitable for making lotions and washes. Fresh herbs are crushed and placed on the affected areas, and the decoction is good for baths and applications for skin diseases.

The plant tones the nervous system, therefore it has found use as a tonic after a serious illness, with nervous exhaustion, weakness, loss of strength, in old age, with neurasthenia, and also as an antispasmodic for headaches and rheumatic pains. The drug is also used to lower blood pressure.

A decoction of the herb is a good remedy for dandruff, and it also strengthens the hair. People believe that knotweed has great power, which it gives to people, which is why, since ancient times, it has been recommended to jog barefoot through the dewy grass on a summer morning.

Classification

The plant has the following taxometric classification:

• department: Flowers;
• class: Dicotyledons;
• order: Cloves;
• family: Buckwheat;
• genus: Persicaria;
• species: Pepper knotweed.

The genus Persicaria includes 66 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants. The most common types of knotweed:

• capitate;
• Chinese;
• multileaf;
• sorrel-leaved;
• multi-spike;
• Virginia;
• dyeing;
• Senegalese;
• point;
• Pennsylvanian;
• Oriental;
• small;
• long-chaete.

Amphibious knotweed and kidneyweed are also used for medicinal purposes. They have healing properties similar to water pepper.

Medicinal properties of peppermint

Even the ancient Greeks and Romans noticed healing properties
herbs of this plant and used them as an astringent, antimalarial and hemostatic agent.

In modern medicine, water pepper is used - in the form of infusion and liquid extract - also as a hemostatic agent for hemorrhoids and uterine bleeding, for uterine fibroids, chronic endometritis and heavy menstruation.

In folk medicine and homeopathy, the range of uses of the herb of this plant is much wider. It is used for diseases of the thyroid gland, as an astringent hemostatic, analgesic, wound healing agent, as well as for skin diseases and liver diseases, urolithiasis, edema, gastric ulcers, eczema, bronchial asthma.

These medicinal properties are explained by the rich chemical composition of the plant. Peppermint grass contains flavonoids (biologically active substances) - hyperoside, quercitrin, quercetin, kaempferol, rutin, rhamnazin, isorhamnetin, as well as tannins, vitamins A, D, E, K, ascorbic acid, organic acids - formic, acetic, and also the glycoside polytopinerine.

Galenic preparations (medicines obtained from plant materials by extraction) are tinctures (alcoholic or aqueous-alcoholic extracts) or extracts) of peppermint have hemostatic properties.

The volatile essential oil of water pepper slightly lowers blood pressure. Herbal preparations of this plant also have some cardiotonic and diuretic properties and to some extent increase the tone of peripheral vessels.

Based on these properties, herbal preparations of peppermint are actively used in obstetric and gynecological practice.

Also, infusions and extracts of the plant are prescribed for bleeding from small vessels and capillaries of the stomach, intestines, as well as for light hemorrhoidal bleeding.

Peppermint herb is sometimes used for diarrhea and enterocolitis in combination with other medicinal plants. In complex preparations, this herb is prescribed to patients with chronic colitis, accompanied by erosive and ulcerative lesions of the mucous membrane, as well as in the treatment of hemorrhoids.

In official medicine, several medicinal forms of water pepper are used. This is a liquid water pepper extract, an infusion of water pepper herb, and Anestezol anti-hemorrhoid suppositories.

It is a transparent green-brown aromatic liquid with a bitter-astringent taste. This extract is prescribed as a hemostatic agent - 30-40 drops three times a day.

To obtain it, two tablespoons of raw materials (20 g) are placed in an enamel bowl, poured with a glass of hot boiled water (200 ml) and placed in a water bath for 15 minutes. Then cool at room temperature for 45 minutes, filter, and squeeze out the remaining raw materials.

Use the infusion as a hemostatic agent, one third of a glass three times a day before meals.

Peppermint herb is sold dried in pharmacies, packaged in 50 g packs.

In those places where water pepper grows in environmentally friendly conditions - far from noisy roads and industrial enterprises - you can harvest it yourself. This is done at the beginning of flowering. It is advisable to dry the stored grass quickly so that it does not darken.

Anestezol suppositories perform analgesic (pain-relieving), antiseptic (disinfecting), astringent (protective), drying, and antihemorrhoidal functions.

To prepare it, one tablespoon of dry raw material is poured with two glasses of boiling water. Leave for 6-7 hours, then filter the liquid. Take one tablespoon three times a day.

In folk medicine, this infusion is taken half a glass three times a day for various bleeding, diarrhea, stomach ulcers, dropsy, flatulence, and malaria.

Contraindications

Like many other herbal preparations, water pepper is not recommended during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

E. Valentinov

Peppermint, or water pepper (Polygonum hydropiper L.)

(gorchak, female frog grass)

Buckwheat family - Polygonaceae.

The plant's herbs are used for medicinal purposes.

It grows in wet, marshy meadows, near the banks of rivers, ponds and ditches, often in continuous thickets. Widely distributed throughout almost the entire territory of Russia (except Crimea), as well as in Europe, North Africa and America.

Peppermint knotweed is found everywhere in Ukraine, in steppe regions - mainly along river valleys. There are large reserves of raw materials. Industrial blanks are produced in Vinnytsia, Volyn, Ivano-Frankivsk, Odessa, Chernihiv, Kherson, Khmelnytsky regions.

It grows everywhere, with the exception of the Far North, along the marshy banks of rivers, lakes, ponds, in wetlands, in damp meadows and groves. Often found as a weed in populated areas, in damp ditches.

Peppermint is an annual herbaceous plant. Its stem is erect, branched, often, especially in autumn, reddish, up to 70 cm high. The leaves are shiny, often with glandular dots or black, as if tar, spots, oblong-lanceolate in shape, narrowed at both edges, sharp or blunt, 3-6 cm long, wavy along the edges, the bells are almost bare, along the edge with short cilia.

Freshly picked leaves always taste bitter and hot, like pepper (hence the name: water pepper, pepper knotweed); After drying, this pungency disappears. The flowers are small, pinkish or greenish-pink, collected at the top of the stem and branches in long, pendulous, interrupted spike-shaped inflorescences.

The fruits are brown nuts, matte, triangular in shape, point-rough, strongly convex on one side. Blooms from late June to September. The grass of the plant (flowering branches, at a height of 10-15 cm from the ground) is collected during flowering (June - July).

Peppermint grass is collected at the end of summer during flowering, the entire plant is cut at a height of 10 cm or mowed with a scythe. Dry outdoors under a canopy or in dryers at a temperature of 30-40°C. Air-drying is done quickly, spreading it in a thin layer and turning it over often, since with slow drying the grass begins to turn black.

Ready-to-use raw materials are green, leafy stems with flowers and fruits of varying degrees of development, up to 45 cm long, without rough lower parts. Polygonum rhizomes are harvested immediately after flowering, before the first cutting of the grass.

The healing properties of peppermint have been known since ancient times. Traditional healers treated skin diseases with preparations from peppermint. It was believed that poultices had a softening effect, cleansed purulent wounds and relieved pain.

Sitz baths from a decoction of peppermint were prescribed for those suffering from hemorrhoids. Baths stopped bleeding and eliminated the itching associated with hemorrhoids.

As a hemostatic and analgesic, preparations from peppermint were taken orally for hemorrhoidal bleeding, and also as a sedative for nervous diseases.

Description and habitats of peppermint

Peppermint (water pepper) - Polygonum hydropiper L. Buckwheat family - Polygonaceae

Belongs to the buckwheat family. An annual herbaceous plant with a knotty, erect stem up to 60 cm high. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, alternate, entire, long-pointed at the apex.

Small greenish-pink flowers are collected in long spike-shaped racemes. The whole plant has a characteristic bitter-pepper taste. Blooms in June–August. The fruit is a triangular grain, ripens in August–September.

Spreading

Widespread plant. It grows throughout our country in wet meadows, along the banks of rivers and lakes, like a weed.

The above-ground part of the plant.

The aerial part of the plant contains flavonoids, polygopiperine glycoside, essential oil, etc.

In folk medicine as a means to cleanse wounds and resolve hardenings. In the Middle Ages, Paracelsus used water pepper herb externally as an analgesic and irritant, replacing mustard plasters. In folk medicine it is considered an antitumor plant.

Water pepper herb has a strong hemostatic effect and is used internally for uterine and hemorrhoidal bleeding. It is also used as an external remedy in the form of baths, irrigations and ointments.

Peppermint is a good remedy for destroying pests of garden crops. It is prepared as follows: 1 kg of herb is poured into 2–3 liters of water, brought to a boil and left for several hours, covered with something warm. Then filter, add water to 10 liters, mix and use for spraying plants.

Contraindications

The plant is slightly poisonous.

Preparation

For oral administration, 1 tablespoon of the herb is infused with 0.5 liters of boiling water - the daily dose.

Tags: herbalist, buckwheat, Highlander, water pepper

Knotweed or water pepper (Polygonum hydropiper L.) is an annual herbaceous plant of the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae), with an erect, usually reddish, branched stem 40-70 cm high.

Leaves with reddish bells tightly covering the stem, alternate, lanceolate, pointed, with a narrow wedge-shaped base, short, rigidly ciliated and slightly wavy along the edge, the lower ones are short-petiolate, the upper ones are almost sessile.

The flowers are small, white, greenish or pink, sessile, collected 1-3 in the axils of the bracts at the ends of the stems and form sparse, intermittent racemes up to 10 cm long with a drooping tip. The fruits are dihedral, or almost trihedral, black or dark brown, and are described as nuts 2-3 mm long.

The habitat of peppermint is predominantly forest zone, but along river valleys it enters steppe and semi-desert zones. It grows in floodplains, wetlands, wet meadows, urems, marshy banks of rivers, oxbow lakes, lakes, ponds, as well as along damp roads.

Description of cucumber (Cucumis sativus L.): belongs to the Pumpkin family (Cucurbitaceae), is a herbaceous plant with a long (up to 2 m) weak, creeping stem.

The leaves are large, alternate, rough, heart-shaped, with 5 sharp, unequally toothed lobes. A plant with tendrils, with the help of which it can grow along a support. The flowers are yellow, heterosexual.

The fruit is a multi-seeded, juicy, oblong, emerald green, pimply pumpkin. The cucumber shares a common ancestor with the melon. Blooms from May to August. Fruits from June to September.

Distribution: The homeland of cucumbers is East Asia. Currently, it is one of the most common vegetables and one of the main crops grown in fields, greenhouses and greenhouses.

The peppercorn plant got its name from the spicy taste of pepper. The first experiments on the use of this herb were undertaken at the beginning of the last century. One of the discoverers of the beneficial properties of peppermint was the Russian pharmacist Semyon Piotrovsky, his research was continued by pharmacologist Nikolai Kravkov - it was through his efforts that this plant began to be used in traditional medicine.

In medicine, the aerial part is used, which is collected during flowering. The collected raw materials are dried in a dry, ventilated area, turning over frequently. When drying slowly, the grass turns black. It is better to dry it in dryers at a temperature of 40-50 ° C.

Peppermint or water pepper is an annual herbaceous plant with branched reddish stems, 30-60 cm tall, of the buckwheat family. The leaves are alternate oblong-lanceolate with reddish bells at the base, often with a black spot.

The roots of peppermint are thick, twisted twice in the shape of the Latin letter S, reddish at the break, and thin adventitious roots extend from it. The flowers are small, inconspicuous, pale pink, with a purple tint, collected at the top of the stems in a thin, spike-shaped, intermittent, drooping inflorescence 4-6 cm long.

There are indications in the literature that water pepper is a poisonous plant. In folk practice this is not noted.

Peppermint grows everywhere, with the exception of the Far North, along the marshy banks of rivers, lakes, ponds, in wetlands, in damp meadows and groves. Often found as a weed in populated areas, in damp ditches.

Peppermint grass is collected at the end of summer during flowering, the entire plant is cut at a height of 10 cm or mowed with a scythe. Dry outdoors under a canopy or in dryers at a temperature of 30-40°C. Air-drying is done quickly, spreading it in a thin layer and turning it over often, since with slow drying the grass begins to turn black.

Ready-to-use knotweed grass is green, leafy, with flowers and fruits, stems of varying degrees of development, up to 45 cm long, without rough lower parts. Polygonum rhizomes are harvested immediately after flowering, before the first cutting of the grass.

They are dug out with shovels, shaken off soil and silt, washed in cold water, cleaned of small roots and leaf scales, cut into 10 cm pieces, and laid out in one layer on bedding. Dry in a warm, well-ventilated room, in attics with an iron roof, in ovens, or in the air in good weather.

The shelf life of dried rhizomes is up to 3 years. They have an astringent, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, analgesic, hemostatic, wound-healing, soothing effect, and improve the functions of the stomach and intestines.

Peppermint is an annual plant. The stem is branched from the base, erect, the height is twenty to seventy centimeters.

The flowers of the plant are small, collected in intermittent, long, spike-shaped inflorescences of two or three in bunches at the tops of the branches and stem. The perianth is greenish-pink or pink in color, densely covered with dotted glands, 4 - 5 - separate. The fruit is a nut.

Flowering period - July - October. Forest mustard can be found in ditches, in damp forests, in meadows, and along river banks.

In a mixture with other medicinal plants, peppermint is used for diarrhea and enterocolitis. External use in the form of local baths for nodular goiter, eczema, hemorrhoids, for the treatment of gangrenous and purulent wounds.

For malaria, infusion of peppermint: one tablespoon, two glasses of boiling water - the daily norm.

In case of rectal prolapse: plant herb (without norm), add water, boil. Leave until cool. Take baths in a warm infusion for fifteen to twenty minutes. Improvement occurs after two to three procedures.

** For stomach ulcers, gastritis: fifteen grams of chopped herbs, one glass of vodka or 40% alcohol. Leave in a dark place for two weeks. Take ten drops three to four times a day.

** For hemorrhoidal and gastrointestinal bleeding, infusion of the herb: one tablespoon of raw material, two glasses of boiling water. For hemorrhoids, boil turnip in a large amount of water and apply the decoction in the form of sitz baths.

Description, chemical composition, medicinal properties

Application and medicinal recipes

Plant composition

Pepper grass (or water pepper as it is also called) is an annual plant that is widely used in both traditional and folk medicine. It is harvested during the flowering period.

Peppermint contains flavonoids, including isorhamnetin, quercetin, and kaempferol. They have antispasmodic, hemostatic and anti-inflammatory effects. The plant also contains vitamins of groups K, C, in small quantities - D, E, A, macro- and microelements - bromine, lead, strontium, selenium, potassium, copper, manganese, magnesium, chromium, boron, iodine, silver, nickel , vanadium, iron, calcium, zinc, cobalt, aluminum.

Researchers have found that the plant is a source of acetic, valeric and formic acids, paracoumaric and chlorogenic phenolic acids, aldehydes, sugars, tannins and astringents.

Due to its composition, the herb is used not only as a hemostatic agent. As one of the components, it is used in the treatment of peptic ulcers, hemorrhoids, pancreatitis, migraines, and chronic diarrhea.

Pepper Knotweed is found in many temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. A photo of it, viewed in advance, will allow you to distinguish this plant from others without errors. This grass can reach 80 cm in height, it has a branched stem, often having a reddish tint.

The leaves of the plant are elongated, smooth, and have transparent dots visible on them. Forest mustard flowers are inconspicuous and small, only a few millimeters in length. They are framed by a green or reddish corolla.

Procurement rules

The above-ground parts of the plant can be collected from the end of June to September. It is during this period that it blooms. Both stems and flowers need to be dried. To do this, the collected plants are laid out in a thin layer in the shade and often turned over. For industrial workpieces, it is best to use special units.

To prepare raw materials at home, you can use attics and sheds for drying. It is spread in a small layer, the thickness of which should not exceed 5 cm, on paper or fabric. If you dry the grass in the sun, it will turn black.

Action of the plant

Peppermint (water pepper is one of the names of this herb) is used as a hemostatic agent. The tincture of this plant has an astringent and anti-inflammatory effect, it is also a diuretic.

In addition, it is known that water pepper is also an analgesic, sedative, and antimicrobial agent. In addition to the listed properties, it is also capable of increasing the secretion of the stomach and gonads.

Peppermint also stimulates uterine contractions. True, this ability is much weaker than that of ergot. With heavy painful menstruation, it significantly alleviates the woman’s condition, its effect occurs quite quickly.

Scope of use

Not everyone knows that the use of water pepper is not limited to the need to reduce uterine bleeding. The spectrum of its action is much wider. The herb is used for various bleeding, including stomach, intestinal, and menstrual bleeding.

If we talk about the decoction of this plant, it has a bacteriostatic effect (stops the growth of microorganisms). It is used for various rashes, scrofula, malaria, and difficulty urinating. Its analgesic properties are also widely used; all you have to do is make a tea out of it.

Peppermint is also used in combination with other plants. The description of the composition of the mixture makes it possible to see what concentration of this herb is necessary to improve the patient’s condition. Thus, in combination it is used to treat diarrhea and enterocolitis.

Water pepper is often prescribed by doctors. As a rule, they recommend using ready-made pharmaceutical preparations. So, on sale you can find liquid extract in bottles and dried water pepper in packs of 100 grams.

Water pepper extract looks like a brown-green liquid with a strong odor. It tastes quite bitter, with an astringent effect. The extract is prescribed, as a rule, as a hemostatic agent, 30 (sometimes 40) drops, it must be taken three times a day.

There are also “Anastezol” suppositories for hemorrhoids on sale, which contain peppermint. The use of this herb in such a preparation is due to its hemostatic effect.

If you wish, you can prepare an infusion of this herb yourself. It also has a hemostatic effect. It is made from two tablespoons of raw materials and 200 ml of boiled hot water. The resulting mixture must be infused for 15 minutes in a boiling water bath.

After this, the liquid is cooled for 45 minutes and filtered. The resulting grounds must be squeezed out. After all these procedures, the volume of the infusion must be increased to 200 ml by adding boiled water. Take 1/3 cup of water pepper prepared in this way three times a day.

In most cases, it is the above-ground part of the plant that is used. But to treat impotence and low stomach acidity, traditional medicine advises using the roots.

Contraindications

Like many herbal remedies, knotweed herb may not be used by everyone. Thus, it is contraindicated in patients with thrombophlebitis due to its blood-clotting effect. Also, those who have inflammation of the bladder or kidneys should not drink products based on it. Pregnancy, by the way, is also a contraindication.

It is worth considering that fresh grass can have a strong irritating effect on mucous membranes and skin. When dried, these properties are lost, so you can only use a pre-prepared plant.

When using it, it is important to strictly adhere to the dosage, because failure to do so can lead to poisoning. Their first symptoms will be a decrease in temperature, diarrhea, general weakness, and deterioration of cardiac activity.

Cosmetology

Forest mustard can be used not only as a therapeutic hemostatic agent. If you are experiencing hair loss, water pepper can help. The tincture, the instructions for which speak of its stimulating properties, can improve vascular tone. To reduce hair loss, you don't have to drink it. It must be applied as a mask.

To do this, you need to mix the ready-made pharmaceutical extract of peppermint and an oil solution of vitamin E in equal quantities. The resulting mixture must be thoroughly rubbed into the scalp and left for 20 minutes.

If you do not want to use a store-bought pharmacy extract, you can prepare your own alcohol tincture. To do this, 25 g of dry grass is poured with 100 grams of alcohol or vodka. The mixture is infused in a dark place for two weeks. Don't forget to shake it periodically.

ethnoscience

In most cases, doctors prescribe peppermint only as a hemostatic agent. It is usually recommended by gynecologists for painful menstruation and the need to reduce uterine bleeding. And traditional medicine suggests using all the capabilities of this herb.

People mostly adhere to traditional methods of treatment - taking an infusion or extract of this plant internally. But it can also be used to resolve tumors. For this purpose, compresses are made from the herb.

The plant also helps with hemorrhoidal itching. To alleviate the condition, you need to take sitz baths with this herb. They are prepared as follows. 400 g of herbs are boiled for 15 minutes in two liters of water.

Separately, boil 400 g of milk, add the same amount of bread cut into small pieces. Infusions of herbs and milk are mixed, the mixture is poured into a container in which you can sit. This procedure should last 15 minutes.

The opinions of folk and traditional medicine on the advisability of using an extract or tincture of water pepper internally coincide. Both doctors and healers recognize the excellent hemostatic properties of this plant.

You can prepare infusions of peppermint herb decoctions according to the following recipes:

• Herbal infusion.
• 1 table, spoon of crushed raw materials, pour 1 glass of water, heat over low heat or water bath for 15 minutes, leave until cool, strain. Take 1/3 cup 3-4 times a day before meals. Store in a cool place for no more than 2 days. Cold infusion of herbs.
• 1 table spoon of chopped herbs per 1 glass of cold boiled water. Infuse for 4 hours, take 1/3-1/2 cup 2-3 times a day before meals.

Herbal decoction.

10 g of herb per 1 glass of boiling water. Prepare in the usual way. Take similarly to cold infusion.

Parts of the plant used: fruits, shoots, seeds.

It surpasses all other vegetables in terms of the amount of accumulated liquid (97%).

The medicinal properties of cucumbers are due to the presence of biologically active substances in the plant.

Contraindications for use

Highlander has medicinal properties and is used in folk medicine as a hemostatic and wound-healing agent. Harvest the herb when it blooms in mid-summer. Dry the plant in a stove or electric oven. In the sun, the leaves and stems darken and lose their beneficial properties.

• Tinctures from the plant relieve inflammation, stop attacks of hemorrhoids, and increase hemoglobin. The grass serves as a filler for pillows, strengthens sleep, and restores the nervous system.
• Peppermint is prescribed for:
• low blood clotting;
• thinning of the walls of capillaries, vessels, veins;

Powdered leaves treat purulent ulcers, eczema, and psoriasis. The rhizomes of the herb are taken for disorders of the digestive system, diarrhea, and intestinal colic.

Dried knotweed is used in cooking to prepare hot sauces, gravy for meat, salad dressings and side dishes. Peduncles and seeds are used for canning vegetables. The leaves add a piquant taste to marinades and soups. The stems are added to teas, compotes, and jelly as a tonic and sedative.

Highlander is a productive honey plant, planted near apiaries. Green, yellow, gold, and gray paints are made from grass.

The medicinal properties of the plant allow it to be used for medicinal purposes. However, it is worth remembering that the herb is poisonous and should be used with caution.

We also didn’t know what this herb was called: peppermint
, or water pepper
(Persicaria hydropiper)
and belongs to the Buckwheat family. In some publications you can find the Latin name for peppermint as (Polygonum hydropiper)
, i.e.

This is an annual herbaceous plant with a height of 30 to 70 cm. It has an erect, branched stem, green at the beginning of the growing season and gradually turning red at the time of flowering. At the ends of the shoots, greenish-pink flowers are formed, collected in spike-shaped racemes.

The leaves are lanceolate, from 0.5 to 3 cm wide and from 3 to 10 cm long. Water knotweed can be found throughout our country - both in the European part and in the Far East. This plant likes to grow in damp places.

The leaves, stems and seeds of peppermint have a pungent, peppery taste.

The aerial part of the peppermint plant and crushed seeds are used as a spicy seasoning for salads, soups, and sauces. The aerial part (before the fruiting phase) and seeds are of interest to the canning industry.

As a medicinal plant, peppermint was known to the ancient Greeks and Romans as an astringent, antimalarial, and hemostatic agent. In modern medicine it is used for hemorrhoids and uterine bleeding, uterine fibroids, chronic endometritis and heavy menstruation. Peppermint extract is included in the Anestezol anti-hemorrhoidal suppositories.

Uses of peppermint

In folk medicine, an aqueous decoction of peppermint is used as a hemostatic, for liver disease, for wound healing, rinsing (Nikolaeva, 1964); juice of fresh grass is poured onto wounds (Cholovsky, 1882). Peppermint is used during menstruation to stop heavy bleeding.

In medical practice, preparations of peppermint (extract) are used as a hemostatic agent for hemorrhoids and uterine bleeding (menorrhagia, dysmenorrhea).

The admixture may be other types of knotweed, similar to the knotweed, which when fresh are easily distinguished by the absence of a pungent peppery taste, characteristic only of the peppercorn, and by the inflorescence, which in the peppermint is thin, intermittent and drooping, while in other species one of these signs absent.

1. A plant with a thin thread-like inflorescence…..2

A plant with a dense cylindrical inflorescence. . . 3

2. The perianth bears yellow shiny glands (lupa). The bell along the edge is ciliated, bare - Peppered knotweed - Polygonum hydropiper L.

Perianth without glands, the bell along the edge is long-ciliated and covered with long hairs - Lesser knotweed - Polygonum minus Huds.

3. Perianth without glands, a bell with short, hard, appressed hairs, along the edge with long cilia. The flowers are most often pink. There is usually a black-brown spot on the leaves - Polygonum persicaria L.

The perianth bears yellow glands. The bell is naked with short cilia along the edge. The leaves are pubescent or bare below, with clearly visible yellow-brown shiny glands. The flowers are most often white - Polygonum scabrum Moench.

Application.

In folk medicine, peppermint has long been used in the form of freshly squeezed juice for various diseases, suppuration, diarrhea, etc. In Bulgaria, it is also used for diarrhea, dysentery and kidney stones.

The pharmaceutical industry produces a liquid extract of water pepper, which is taken 30-40 drops 3-4 times a day. Water pepper is included in the anti-hemorrhoid suppositories - anestezol.

At home, you can prepare an infusion or tea from water pepper herb 1:10 and take a tablespoon 3-4 times a day for uterine and hemorrhoidal bleeding (Sklyarevsky, 1970).

Water pepper extract enhances contractions of the uterine muscles; it is used during heavy and painful menstruation, after abortion, after childbirth, for gastric and intestinal bleeding (Turova, 1974), pulmonary bleeding, fibroids and chronic inflammatory processes in the uterus.

Sesquiterpene aldehyde was isolated from the leaves of water pepper, which showed cytotoxic and antibiotic activity in animal experiments, which indicates the prospects for further study of this plant as a source of antitumor drugs.

In folk medicine, the plant is popular as a remedy for hemorrhoids. It is used as a diuretic, an analgesic, for bloody diarrhea, dropsy, urolithiasis, and to strengthen the gums. The decoction is used for stomach cancer. For hemorrhoids, do sitz baths. For tumors and eczema, poultices are used (Minaeva, 1991).

The juice of fresh grass is used to moisten wounds (Ges, 1976).

In Ukraine, peppermint is used as a remedy to cleanse wounds and soften abscesses. It is taken internally for nervous diseases as a sedative. Fresh leaves are applied to the back of the head for headaches and runny nose. Fresh juice is used to rinse the mouth for toothache (Popov, 1967).

Peppermint has a dicongestive effect on the pelvic organs and is therefore used as an adjuvant for prostate hypertrophy. The juice is used to rinse the mouth for periodontal disease (Petkov, 1988).

In Karelia, a decoction of peppermint is taken as a wound-healing agent, as well as for skin diseases, liver diseases, kidney stones, stomach ulcers, tumors and bruises. A decoction of the roots is used for impotence, gynacid gastritis, and other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (Schreter, 1975).

Peppermint is used for bloody urine, difficulty urinating, malaria, rashes, scrofula, and rheumatism (“Plant Resources,” 1985).

Powder from the grass of peppermint and bedstraw grass in a ratio of 2:1 is used to cover old wounds and ulcers (Nosal, 1960).

The herb infusion has an antiseptic and antibacterial effect (Altymyshev, 1976).

Preparations prepared from fresh herbs give better therapeutic results than from dry herbs prepared in advance (Kulikov, 1975).

Fresh crushed water pepper cleanses the face of scars, destroys freckles and bruises, and resolves hard tumors (Avicenna).

In Khakassia, peppermint is used for uterine fibroids and chronic endometritis (Plennik, 1989).

In folk medicine, peppermint was used for diseases of the thyroid gland, as an astringent, hemostatic, analgesic, wound healing, for skin diseases, liver diseases, urolithiasis, edema, gastric ulcers, eczema, bronchial asthma.

From peppermint you can get yellow, golden, golden-green, gray and khaki paints.

Care should be taken not to overdose, as the plant has toxic properties.

Fresh leaves of peppermint (crushed) replace mustard plasters in folk medicine; they are applied, for example, to the back of the head for a runny nose or headache as a distraction; For the same purpose, they are used for toothache in the form of a rinse, diluting the juice from them in a ratio of 1: 10.

In 1912-1913, pharmacist Petrovsky, professor Krakovsky and other researchers drew attention to the strong hemostatic property of this herb. So the pepper mountaineer was recognized by scientific medicine.

Now the plant has been included in the State Pharmacopoeia of Russia and the release of a drug from it, the so-called liquid extract of peppermint, is permitted; in addition, the drug from this plant, anestezol, is included in anti-hemorrhoid suppositories.

Methods of application. Decoction: 12.0 – 200.0; one tablespoon three times a day.

Tincture: 25.0; for alcohol - 10 - 20 drops, for vodka - 30 - 40 drops, three to four times a day.

Extract: decoction, thickened to half; take one teaspoon three times a day.

Water pepper is used in folk medicine for uterine bleeding, during heavy and painful menstruation, after abortion, after childbirth. Water pepper extract enhances contractions of the uterine muscles, but is inferior in activity to ergot.

It is also used for internal bleeding in patients with hemoptysis, bleeding from the bladder, gastric and hemorrhoidal bleeding (for hemorrhoids it is used internally and for sitz baths).

Used as an external irritant. For headaches, freshly crushed grass is applied to the back of the head instead of mustard plaster. Knotweed, crushed together with its seeds, cleanses the face of scars, destroys freckles and old bruises, and knotweed bandages dissolve hard tumors.

It surpasses all other vegetables in terms of the amount of accumulated liquid (97%).

Dried leaves of the plant are used in the treatment of gastritis, stomach and intestinal ulcers, Crohn's disease, and inflammation of mucous tissues. Decoctions of fresh herbs treat diseases of the lymphatic system, stop attacks of asthma and epilepsy.

Peppermint has the following contraindications for use:

• individual intolerance;
• kidney inflammation;
• arterial hypertension;
• tendency to thrombosis;
• chronic constipation;
• age up to 10 years.

In rare cases, nausea, dizziness, headache, hives, itching and swelling may occur when treated with water pepper.

During pregnancy, taking medicines based on water pepper is also contraindicated. The plant stimulates the contraction of the muscles of the uterus and increases its tone. This can lead to miscarriage and premature birth.

When breastfeeding, the use of water pepper is allowed, but only under the supervision of a doctor. Only a doctor can give competent instructions for taking the drug during lactation.

Plant preparations are used for uterine postpartum bleeding, after abortion, during heavy and painful menstruation, for bleeding due to uterine fibroids, inflammatory processes and hormonal dysfunctions, as well as for hemoptysis, bleeding from small vessels of the bladder, stomach, intestines, and hemorrhoidal bleeding .

In folk medicine, an infusion of peppermint herb has been used since ancient times as a hemostatic agent for various internal bleeding, diarrhea, dropsy, kidney stones and bladder stones.

Externally, an infusion of the herb is used as an analgesic. Treatment of hemorrhoids with water pepper is especially popular. With this disease, along with taking an infusion or decoction orally, sitz baths are made from the latter.

Peppermint grass has not only healing properties, but also contraindications. It is contraindicated to use preparations of this plant for glomerulonephritis, as well as for inflammation of the kidneys and bladder.

Attention: salted and pickled cucumbers do not have medicinal properties.

• To avoid dyspeptic symptoms, after eating cucumbers, you should not drink cold, carbonated water and drinks, and people with a weak stomach should not drink milk.
• They are not recommended for use in case of hypertension, atherosclerosis, impaired water-salt metabolism, diseases of the liver, kidneys, cardiovascular system, gastrointestinal tract, decreased thyroid function, as well as during pregnancy.
• Nursing mothers are advised to be careful when handling cucumbers, as many biologically active substances from their composition pass into breast milk and can cause diarrhea, rumbling and cramping abdominal pain in the baby. In these cases, it is necessary to give the child dill water.
• Cucumbers are contraindicated for acute and chronic nephritis, chronic renal failure, and kidney stones.
• Salted and pickled cucumbers are not recommended for obesity.
• Also contraindications to the use of cucumbers are hepatitis, cholecystitis and biliary dyskinesia.
• Cucumbers should be avoided in case of gastrointestinal disorders, exacerbation of gastric ulcer, severe gastritis, enteritis and acute colitis.
• Nutritionists do not recommend adding tomatoes to salads with cucumbers, as this sharply reduces the value of cucumbers.
• There are contraindications to the use of fresh cucumbers for nephritis with an alkaline urine reaction, and for salted cucumbers - for nephritis and pyelonephritis.

kidney grass. It is also used to treat other diseases. A decoction of the herb is used for baths for allergic dermatoses, including eczema and psoriasis. Poultices are used for swelling of the legs, as well as for flux and rheumatism. Herb powder or fresh juice heal purulent wounds.

When using water pepper, you must always remember that it increases blood clotting.

Water pepper is contraindicated for kidney diseases such as nephritis, glomerulonephritis. You should not use it if you have a bladder infection.

Water pepper increases the tone of the uterus and is contraindicated during pregnancy. It should be remembered that it constricts blood vessels and is not recommended for long-term use for hypertension and coronary heart disease.

The water pepper plant is considered poisonous, although I have never observed cases of poisoning with it. You just need to carefully follow the rules for its use and remember the contraindications.

Knotweed (or bird knotweed) is an extremely unpretentious herb. You've probably met her, even if you're very rarely in nature. Knotweed grows on trampled paths, unkempt football fields and other less fertile places.

Bird knotweed can creep along the ground or grow as a low shrub. You can walk and even run on it - the stems of the plant are permeated with elastic fibers that prevent the branches from breaking.

In folk medicine, the beneficial properties of knotweed are most widely used to treat urolithiasis. Its infusion helps to crush large stones and is also a good means of prevention.

3 tbsp. Place spoons of herbs in an enamel bowl and pour a glass of boiling water, cover and heat in a water bath for 15 minutes. Then let the infusion cool for 45 minutes, strain and squeeze out the remainder. Bring the resulting volume to 200 ml with boiled water.

Take a third of a glass 3 times a day before meals for 3 weeks.

Keep in mind that knotweed has contraindications (read below)!

Knotweed can also be used to improve the digestive system. It is able to protect the mucous membrane from gastric juice, therefore it is used for ulcers and gastritis.

It is necessary to mix knotweed juice with honey and beet juice, add oatmeal to this mixture and apply the resulting dough to the cleaned ulcer for two days.

Knotweed improves blood clotting, so it is used for bleeding. And to treat anemia, people use remedies made from infusions of knotweed and beetroot juice.

Mix bird's knotweed powder, crushed dried black radish skin and buckwheat honey in equal proportions. The mixture is infused for 4 days, then consumed a teaspoon every 6 hours along with goat milk.

You should not hope that such a serious illness will go away only thanks to this recipe, but you can try it as an auxiliary remedy.

Here is another interesting property of knotweed. It turns out that it was used for bites from snakes and rabid animals. For this, the simplest decoction was used: 2 tbsp. spoons per glass of water.

In addition to all the listed properties, bird knotweed grass is also simply rich in vitamins. In terms of vitamin C content, knotweed is compared in some sources to rose hips. It also contains large quantities of vitamins E and K, provitamin A (carotene).

Firstly, some people have increased sensitivity to infusions and decoctions based on bird knotweed. If you are on this list, then you are guaranteed approximately the following consequences - skin rashes, suffocation, itching.

The next group of people who have contraindications to the use of knotweed are pregnant and lactating women.

If stones larger than 6 mm in size are found in your urinary tract, then knotweed should also not be used.

Since the herb has the property of increasing blood clotting, increased platelet aggregation is also a contraindication.

Some heart diseases also require caution: angina pectoris, stroke or heart attack.

Official medicine also includes age under 12 years in the list of contraindications.

Best regards, Pavel Bataev

September 7th, 2014 ZdravAdmin

Today we will add another useful medicinal herb to the collection of the “Healing Plants” section - knotweed (Another popular name for it is bird knotweed). And we’ll tell you about its beneficial properties and contraindications for use as part of traditional treatment.

In nature, there are several types of knotweed: grass that fits tightly to the ground and those whose stems grow upward. The flowers are similar in shape to funnels of a greenish or pinkish-red tone. Flowering lasts from May to June and ends with the formation of fruits.

Knotweed grass grows on various soils and reproduces by seeds, which is why it can be seen throughout the CIS (found near houses, roads, in vacant lots and pastures). It is possible to harvest knotweed for treatment using traditional methods without changing the place of collection, because the more it is mowed, the better it grows. Mow the grass with a sickle and dry it in a dark, warm and dry place.

This grass, which many consider a weed due to its almost ubiquitous distribution, is very fond of animals, apparently intuitively understanding that it will be useful for them.

An annual plant with a long lifespan, knotweed contains a lot of substances that are useful for people. Preparations containing knotweed can normalize the condition of the entire body.

The grass contains a lot of vitamin C, easily digestible carotene and youth vitamins (K, E), flavonoids, coumarins (several types). It contains essential oils, tannins, phenolcarboxylic acids. There are resins and silicic acid, and anthraquinones are present in the roots of the plant.

Peppermint (Pepper) herb
Instructions for medical use - RU No. P N003828/01

Last modified date: 29.10.2015

Dosage form

Chopped grass

Compound

Polygonum pepper (water pepper) herb

Description of the dosage form

Pieces of leaves, stems and inflorescences. Color green or reddish green. There is no smell. The taste of the water extract is slightly pungent.

Characteristic

Peppermint grass (water pepper) contains flavonoids, tannins, organic acids, etc.

Pharmacological group

Hemostatic agent of plant origin.

pharmachologic effect

An infusion of the knotweed herb (water pepper) has a hemostatic effect.

Indications

As a hemostatic agent for physiological heavy menstrual bleeding, light bleeding in the post-coagulation period of treatment of cervical erosion.

Contraindications

Hypersensitivity to the drug. Pregnancy, children under 12 years of age.

Use during pregnancy and breastfeeding

Use during lactation is possible if the expected benefit to the mother outweighs the potential risk to the child. You should consult your doctor.

Directions for use and doses

About 8 g (2 tablespoons) of the herb are placed in an enamel bowl, pour 200 ml (1 glass) of hot boiled water, cover with a lid and heat in a boiling water bath for 15 minutes, cool at room temperature for 45 minutes, filter, and squeeze out the remaining raw materials. The volume of the resulting infusion is adjusted to 200 ml with boiled water.

Take 1-2 tablespoons orally 3-4 times a day 30 minutes before meals. It is recommended to shake the infusion before use.

Peppermint is a medicinal plant used in medicine for stomach, uterine, tuberculosis and other types of bleeding. Herbal extracts and root tincture are effectively used as a wound healing and sedative. The portal site offers useful material about how this weed plant has healing powers - the roots and leaves of the knotweed.
Grass is collected (along the banks of reservoirs, in forest belts) during the flowering period. Rhizomes are dug up immediately after flowering. Unlike its similar analogues, all parts of the mountaineer have a bitterness and a pungent aftertaste, similar to the taste of hot pepper, so it is used not only in medicine.

Botanical description

Peppermint is an annual herbaceous plant, identified by its erect, branched, hollow stem and creeping root. The height of the grass reaches 60 cm. The leaves are narrow and long, arranged alternately, along the edge there are stem-encompassing brown trumpets with fringe.

The lower leaves have short petioles, the upper ones are almost sessile. Small, inconspicuous flowers of predominantly green and pink shades are collected in a long, heterogeneous, spike-shaped inflorescence. In the peppermint flowering calendar, the active time is from June to September. The fruit is in the form of a brown nut, the size of hazel fruits, with a convexity on one side.

A distinctive feature of this medicinal herb is its bright flavor, reminiscent of the usual pepper. By this characteristic, peppery knotweed can be distinguished from other varieties of knotweed. During the drying process of the raw material, the pungency disappears.

Peppermint is an annual herbaceous plant belonging to the buckwheat family, which has a pronounced hot pepper taste.

Chemical composition

Peppermint grass is rich in:

• Flavonoids;
• Essential oils;
• Sesquiterpene compounds;
• Organic acids;
• Phenolcarboxylic acids;
• Glycoside polygopiperine;
• Tannins;
• Vitamin complex (D, C, K, E);
• Natural sugars;
• Sitosterol;
• Macro- and microelements.

Thanks to this unique composition, water pepper can be considered a universal medicine.

Classification and types

Peppermint (also called water pepper) belongs to the Buckwheat family. This genus unites more than 300 species of close analogues, distributed in different regions of the planet - from America to the Far East.

Freshly squeezed herb juice is used to lubricate animal wounds to repel insects. For the same purpose, freshly salted lard is spread with grass.

Recipes

Poultices made from fresh or dry steamed herbs soften and cleanse ulcers and relieve pain. Sitz baths with a decoction are indicated for hemorrhoids and nervous diseases. They eliminate bleeding, relieve itching, and soothe. Crushed leaves can be applied to the back of the head as a mustard plaster if you have a runny nose or headache. For toothache, rinse juice is diluted in a ratio of 1:10.

Polygonum hydropiper L.
Buckwheat family - Polygonaceae.
Common name:pepper buckwheat, frog grass, frog grass, wild mustard, forest mustard, turnip.

Description

An annual herbaceous plant 30-70 cm high with a creeping rhizome. The stem is erect, branched from the base, green, hollow, knotty, with trumpets (membranous tubes covering the stem). At the beginning of autumn the stems turn reddish. The leaves are oblong-lanceolate, narrowed towards the apex, glabrous, slightly pubescent below, 3-10 cm long at the base and form a stem-encompassing brownish glabrous bell. On the upper side of the leaf you can usually see translucent dots of essential oil glands. The flowers are small, greenish or whitish-pink, collected in narrow intermittent drooping racemes (spike-shaped inflorescence). The fruit is a black ovoid nut, flat on one side and convex on the other. A characteristic feature of the plant is its burning, bitter-pepper taste, which distinguishes it from other similar species of mountaineers. Propagated by seeds.

The plant is poisonous!

Spreading

It is found throughout the European part of the country, in Western and Eastern Siberia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and the Far East, with the exception of the Far North. Grows as a weed.

Habitat

This plant grows on damp fertile soils in alder forests, bushes, in swampy depressions, ditches, shallows, along the marshy banks of rivers, lakes, and damp meadows.

Flowering time

It blooms from late June to September, the fruits ripen from July to October.

Collection time

July August.

Harvesting method

For medicinal purposes, the grass of peppermint is used, which is harvested during the flowering period of the plant, cutting at a height of 10-15 cm from the soil. Dry in the shade in the air, laying out in a thin layer and turning over often, since with slow drying the grass quickly turns black. It is best to dry in dryers at a temperature of 40-50°C. Drying is considered complete if the raw material breaks when bent. Dried raw materials do not have a peppery taste. The shelf life of raw materials is 2 years. When harvesting, several plants are left for reproduction for every 10 square meters. When collecting water pepper, it should be distinguished from other types of knotweed, which often grow together: amphibian knotweed (Polygonum amphibium L.) and rough knotweed (Polygonum scabrum Moen), which differ from water pepper by thick spike-shaped inflorescences, pink, white or light green flowers . The main difference between water pepper and other types of knotweed is the hot (pepper) taste of the leaves.

Chemical composition

The herb contains a glycoside that accelerates blood clotting, a lot of tannins (up to 3%), essential oil (0.005%) which determines the bactericidal effect of water pepper, organic acids (formic, acetic, malic, valeric, polygonic), ramnazin, isorhamnetin, quercitrin , quercetin, hyeroside, kaempferol, flavone glycoside rutin, which helps reduce the permeability and fragility of blood capillaries, polygopiperine glycoside, vitamin C (0.75 mg%), a significant amount of vitamin K, which determines the hemostatic effect of the plant, and vitamins A, PP, D , E, mineral salts, catechin. The plant is poisonous!

Applicable part

Grass (stems, leaves, flowers), less often roots.

Application

Widely used in official medicine. In scientific medicine, a liquid extract of the herb is used as a hemostatic agent in gynecological practice and for hemorrhoids. Clinical studies have confirmed the outstanding hemostatic properties of water pepper for hemorrhoids, painful menstrual and other uterine bleeding and have also shown its analgesic effect and beneficial effect on the nervous system. The medical industry produces liquid water pepper extract and water pepper herb infusion. The extract is included in the anti-hemorrhoid suppositories "Anestezol". Water and alcohol extracts are a hemostatic agent for many types of bleeding (uterine, menstrual, gastric, bladder). The drug “Hydropiperine”, purified from ballast substances, was obtained from the water pepper herb. "Hydropiperine" increases blood clotting, reduces bleeding time, and increases uterine contractions. Used for uterine bleeding of various origins. Prescribed orally 0.05 g 3 times a day.

Used in homeopathy.

In folk medicine, infusion, tincture, powder and decoction of peppermint are used:

• As a pain reliever;
• As an astringent and strong hemostatic;
• As anti-inflammatory and antiseptic;
• As sedatives;
• For ulcers and stomach cancer;
• With excessively heavy menstruation;
• For uterine, hemorrhoidal and gastrointestinal bleeding;
• For various skin diseases (rashes, abscesses, “wild meat”), wounds, tumors;
• In the form of tea - for headaches;
• For malaria;
• If there is difficulty urinating;
• In collections - for the treatment of chronic colitis, accompanied by erosive and ulcerative lesions of the mucous membrane, for diarrhea and enterocolitis, against rheumatism;
• For the treatment of hemorrhoids.

Contraindications

Since the plant has a strong blood-clotting effect, patients with thrombophlebitis should not take it. Contraindicated for inflammation of the kidneys and bladder. It is not advisable to use water pepper without the advice of your doctor.

Horses have been poisoned by peppermintweed. Symptoms: general weakness, diarrhea, ataxia, decreased temperature, heart weakness. First aid consists of prescribing laxatives, enveloping agents, and for diarrhea - astringents. For general depression, caffeine, camphor and other drugs are administered.

Other uses

• In food it is used as a spicy seasoning. The book by A. N. Ipatiev “Species Diversity of Vegetable Plants” says that water pepper is used as a vegetable.
• Peppermint is used in veterinary medicine.
• It is used for dyeing fabrics depending on the mordant in colors: yellow, golden, black, khaki.
• Used as a spicy food seasoning (especially in China).
• The plant produces yellow paint, and with the use of mordants - golden, steel and green.
• Ready-made water pepper raw materials replace the imported root of Hydrastis canadensis.

Mode of application

Water pepper extract liquid (Extractum Polygoni hydropiperis fluidum)- a transparent green-brown liquid with an aromatic odor and bitter-astringent taste. Prescribe 30-40 drops 3-4 times a day as a hemostatic agent.

Water pepper herb (Herba Polygoni hydropiperis) is available in packs of 100 g. Store in a cool, dry place.

Powder

1. Powder from the grass is sprinkled on old ulcers.
2. Instead of infusion, you can use powder from crushed herbs (the dose is on the tip of a knife), washed down with a small amount of water at room temperature.
3. Powder from water pepper grass - 2 parts, powder from bedstraw flowers - 1 part. Mix everything thoroughly and cover old ulcers.
4. Mix 1:1 by weight peppermint herb powder and honey. Take 1 tablespoon with water 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals for hemorrhoids. Store in a cool, dark place.

Infusion

An infusion of fresh herbs is more powerful than an infusion of dry herbs. The infusion has a strong hemostatic, analgesic, astringent, sedative, anti-inflammatory and antiseptic effect. It is used for excessively heavy menstruation, uterine, hemorrhoidal and gastrointestinal bleeding, stomach ulcers, and malaria. Externally, a decoction of the herb is used for various skin diseases (rashes, abscesses, “wild meat”), wounds, tumors, goiter and as a painkiller.

1. Two tablespoons of raw materials are placed in an enamel bowl, poured with 200 ml of hot boiled water and heated in boiling water (in a water bath) for 15 minutes, cooled at room temperature for 45 minutes, filtered, and the remaining raw materials are squeezed out. The volume of the resulting infusion is brought to 200 ml with boiled water. Take 1/3 cup 3-4 times a day before meals as a hemostatic agent.
2. A tablespoon per 2 cups of boiling water, leave for 6-7 hours, take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for various bleeding, stomach ulcers, diarrhea, flatulence, dropsy, malaria, bladder diseases.
3. Two tablespoons of the raw material are placed in an enamel bowl, poured with 200 ml of water at room temperature, heated in a water bath for 15 minutes, cooled for 45 minutes, filtered, and the rest of the herb is squeezed out. The volume of the resulting infusion is brought to 200 ml with boiled water. Take 1 tablespoon 2-4 times a day before meals.
4. Infuse a tablespoon of water pepper herb for 1 hour in a closed container in 1 cup of boiling water, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day before meals.
5. Pour two tablespoons of peppermint herb into a thermos and pour 250 ml of boiling water, leave for 30 minutes, strain. Take 1/3 cup orally 3 times a day, 30 minutes before meals, warm, course of treatment is 1-2 months.
6. A tablespoon of herb per 200 ml of water is taken 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for uterine and hemorrhoidal bleeding, and also as a painkiller for excessively heavy menstruation.
7. Herbal tea: 20.0 g of water pepper herb per 1 liter of water. Brew and infuse like tea. Drink 1 cup 3 times a day for various bleeding, including uterine bleeding.

Tincture

1. Pour 25 g of herb into 100 ml of alcohol or vodka, leave for 2 weeks in a dark place, shaking occasionally. Take the tincture: with alcohol - 10-20 drops, with vodka - 30-40 drops 3-4 times a day.
2. Pour 15 g of crushed knotweed herb into 200 ml of vodka and leave for 2 weeks in a dark place. Take 10 drops 3-4 times a day. Used for irregular menstruation, to treat uterine bleeding.
3. To prepare an alcoholic extract, dry water pepper herb, harvested in July-August, is used. The extract - a transparent liquid of dark brown color with a bitter-astringent taste - is obtained by infusing crushed raw materials in 70% alcohol at a ratio of dry raw materials to alcohol of 1:1. Used as a hemostatic agent for uterine postpartum hemorrhage, hemoptysis, bleeding from small vessels of the bladder, intestines, and small hemorrhoidal bleeding. Take 30-40 drops orally 3-4 times a day half an hour before meals.

Decoction

A decoction of the aerial part has bactericidal properties; it is taken for malaria, rashes, tumors, bruises, etc. A decoction of the roots was used for low acidity and other gastrointestinal diseases, and for impotence.

Root decoction: Pour 1 tablespoon of dry crushed roots of peppermint into 1.5 cups of boiling water. Leave in a sealed container in a boiling water bath for 30 minutes, cool at room temperature for 10 minutes, strain. Take a decoction of the roots of peppermint, one tablespoon three times a day before meals. The roots of the knotweed (water pepper) are used as a means to strengthen and improve male sexual function.

Aqueous extract: decoction, thickened to half, use 1 teaspoon 3 times a day.

Decoction of roots or herbs (externally): 2 tablespoons of raw material per 1 glass of water or milk, boil for 1 minute, leave for 30 minutes, strain. Use for lotions, compresses for long-term ulcers and hemorrhoidal cones. Enemas are also made from this decoction for 10-15 minutes after cleansing. It is recommended to use a decoction of pepper to wash yourself and make baths for itching in the anus.

Baths

Boil 400 g of water pepper herb for 15-20 minutes in a closed vessel in 2 liters of water, leave for 1 hour, strain. Boil 400 g of sliced ​​bread (good white bread) in 2 glasses of milk, strain. Pour the milk and herb decoction into a basin. Use very warm, almost hot liquid for local baths, sitting in the basin for 10-15 minutes, with highly developed hemorrhoidal cones. After the bath, wash with warm water (M. Nosal).

Baths from a decoction of peppermint are tonic and are often taken in the morning.

Ointment

A handful of knotweed flowers and leaves are ground into a homogeneous mass and mixed with unsalted rendered lard. Used for hemorrhoids. It is recommended to prepare the ointment in small portions and it is best to use freshly prepared ointment.

Fresh herbs

Fresh water pepper grass is applied to the back of the head instead of mustard plasters.

Traditional medicine uses water pepper herb for bleeding from the uterus, for hemorrhoidal bleeding and for sitz baths for hemorrhoidal itching in the anus.

Consumed internally in a water infusion (napar),

externally - in the form of hot irrigations and ointments.

When treating hemorrhoids, the following method is used:

400.0 g of fresh water pepper herb, boil for 15 minutes in 2 liters of water, leave for 20 minutes, filter.

To the broth add 2 glasses of very hot milk, in which approximately 400 g of bread, cut into small pieces, was boiled.

All this and the herbal decoction and rolls are poured into a basin and sat in it, trying to keep the hemorrhoidal bumps on the outside.

They sit in such a hot bath for 15 minutes, then wash off with warm water.

This technique is performed after bowel movement.

Such baths are repeated daily for a month.

Powder from water pepper grass (2 parts), mixed with powder from bedstraw flowers (1 part), fall asleep old ulcers even with wild meat.

Drink water pepper herb tea 20.0 g per 1 liter of water for various bleedings.

It is less often prescribed for peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum.

Infusion, prepared at the rate of 20 g of dried crushed herb per glass of water, take a tablespoon 3 times a day.

In folk medicine, peppermint preparations are also known as antidiarrheal.

They are used externally as painkillers for wounds, abscesses, painful rashes.

Herb photo useful properties

Latin name Polygonum hydropiper

Buckwheat family

Pepper knotweed photo Description

an annual plant reaching a height of 30-80 cm and having a branched, often reddening stem.

The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate, smooth, with transparent dots.

The flowers are small (only a few millimeters), inconspicuous, most often with a reddish, but often with a greenish corolla, collected in spike-shaped racemes

The fruit is a black elliptical nut with a fine-grained surface.

Blooms from June to autumn.

Spreading

Pepper Knotweed or Water Knotweed It is usually found in damp places in the forest, along ditches and streams.

Chemical composition

Active ingredients

Aboveground organs contain rutin, quercetin, glycosides, tannins, acetylcholine, essential oil, ascorbic acid.

Application

Peppermint Knotweed Medicinal Uses

It has a diuretic, hemostatic, astringent and anti-inflammatory effect. In contrast to scientific medicine, folk medicine uses it very widely: for diseases of the bladder, to stop bleeding, as well as for poorly healing wounds. It is also used for heavy and painful menstruation.

Fresh knotweed herb is very irritating to the skin and mucous membranes, so it is not recommended to use it. Dry raw materials largely lose their irritating properties.

Collection and processing of medicinal raw materials

The herb is collected during flowering and dried in the shade.

Application in official and folk medicine

Peppermint knotweed beneficial properties

The extract of the aerial part of the plant is used to stop bleeding, most often uterine. It is used for pulmonary tuberculosis, pneumonia, bronchitis, and acute respiratory diseases. It has socogonal, salivary and choleretic properties. Helps in the treatment of reproductive gland dysfunction and decreased potency. The plant has antibacterial activity.

Recipes for various diseases

GASTRITIS, STOMACH ULCER
Pour 15 g of crushed peppermint herb into 1 glass of 40 percent alcohol or vodka and leave for two weeks in a dark place. Take 10 drops 3-4 times a day.

Contraindications

Fresh knotweed herb list. It is very irritating to the skin and mucous membranes, so its use is not recommended.

By Medicinal plants. Encyclopedia

Polygonum hydropiper L.

Russian names: water pepper, pepper buckwheat, frog grass, wild mustard, forest mustard, turnip.

Belarusian: drasen pertsava, vadzyanaya garchytsa, drost, garchak.

Ukrainian: pepper prchak, water pepper, bab"yachy prchak.

An annual herbaceous plant of the buckwheat family (Polygonaceae), with a pungent, hot, peppery taste. The stem is erect, reddish, branched from the base, up to 90 cm in height. The leaves are alternate, oblong-lanceolate, green, with reddish bare bells at the base. On the upper side of the leaf you can usually see translucent dots of essential oil glands. The flowers are pink or red, small, collected in long, thin, often drooping spike-shaped racemes. The fruit is an ovoid nut, flat on one side and convex on the other. It blooms from late June to September, the fruits ripen from July to October. Propagated by seeds. It grows as a weed throughout the CIS, with the exception of the Far North. Grows on damp fertile soils in alder forests, shrubs, in swampy depressions, meadows, near ditches, along damp banks of rivers and lakes, garbage areas, along roads. Often found as a weed.

The plant is poisonous!

Peppermint has been used in medicine since ancient times. It was used as a medicinal plant by the ancient Greeks and Romans. Alchemists used it for medicinal purposes, attributing magical properties to it.

Collection and drying of raw materials.For medicinal purposes, the grass of peppermint is used, which is harvested during the flowering period of the plant, cutting at a height of 10-15 cm from the soil. Dry in the shade in the air, laying out in a thin layer and turning over often, since with slow drying the grass quickly turns black. It is best to dry in dryers at a temperature of 40 - 50 °C. Drying is considered complete if the raw material breaks when bent. When harvesting, several plants are left for reproduction for every 10 m2. The shelf life of raw materials is 2 years. Dried raw materials do not have a peppery taste. The main procurement areas are in Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and the Voronezh region of Russia.

Chemical composition.Peppermint grass contains flavonoids (quercetin, kaempferol, isorhamnetin and their glycosides), tannins (3.8%), vitamins A, D, E, especially a lot of vitamin K, ascorbic acid, organic acids (formic, acetic, valeric), choline, phenolic acids (paracoumaric, chlorogenic, etc.), essential oil (0.005%), phytosterols, sesquiterpene aldehyde isolated. Plant roots contain anthraglycosides.

The above-ground part contains: ash - 9.71%; macroelements (mg/g): K - 30.40, Ca - 22.70, Md - 3.70, Fe - 0.30; trace elements (CBN): Mn - 0.13, Cu - 1.11, Zn - 1.37, Co - 0.07, Cr - 0.07, A1 - 0.19, V - 0.15, Se - 1 .94, Ni - 0.14, Sr - 0.94, Pb - 0.05, I - 0.09, Br - 7.20. B - 17.20 µg/g. Mo, Cd, Li, Au, Ad, Ba were not detected. Concentrates Cu, Zn, Sr, Se, Br. Can accumulate MP, Si.

Pharmacological properties.Galenic preparations of peppermint have hemostatic properties. The volatile essential oil slightly lowers blood pressure. Flavonoid compounds reduce the permeability of the vascular wall of arterioles and capillaries. The hemostatic effect of the plant is combined with the ability to stimulate contractions of the muscles of the uterus, similar to ergot, but these properties in peppermint are much weaker. Herbal preparations also have some cardiotonic and diuretic effects and somewhat increase the tone of peripheral vessels.

Application in medicine.Roots. With low acidity and other gastrointestinal diseases, with impotence.

Aboveground part. Widely used in scientific and folk medicine. The medical industry produces liquid water pepper extract and water pepper herb infusion. The extract is included in the anti-hemorrhoid suppositories "Anestezol". Water and alcohol extracts are a hemostatic agent for many types of bleeding (uterine, menstrual, gastric, bladder). The decoction has bacteriostatic properties; taken for malaria, difficulty urinating, rashes and scrofula, tumors and bruises, and also as an astringent and analgesic; fresh externally - as a substitute for mustard plasters; inside - for ulcers and stomach cancer. In the form of tea - for headaches. In Georgia it is included in the collection against rheumatism. However, peppermint preparations are rarely used on their own at present. They are usually used as an adjuvant in complex therapy for uterine and internal bleeding. Sometimes - for diarrhea and enterocolitis in combination with various medicinal plants. In complex preparations it is prescribed to patients with chronic colitis, accompanied by erosive and ulcerative lesions of the mucous membrane, as well as for the treatment of hemorrhoids. As part of a collection of medicinal plants, it is used to prepare baths for the external treatment of hemorrhoids.

Dosage forms, method of administrationand doses. Liquid water pepper extract (Extractum Polygoni hydropiperis fluidum) is a transparent green-brown liquid with an aromatic odor and bitter-astringent taste. Prescribe 30-40 drops 3-4 times a day as a hemostatic agent.

Infusion of water pepper herb (Infusum herbae Polygoni hydropiperis): 20 g (2 tablespoons) of the raw material is placed in an enamel bowl, poured with 200 ml of hot boiled water and heated in boiling water (in a water bath) for 15 minutes, cooled at room temperature for 45 min, filter, squeeze out the remaining raw materials. The volume of the resulting infusion is adjusted to 200 ml with boiled water. Take 1/3 cup 3-4 times a day before meals as a hemostatic agent.

Water pepper herb (Herba Polygoni hydropiperis) is available in packs of 100 g. Store in a cool, dry place.

CONTRAINDICATIONS AND POSSIBLE SIDE EFFECTS: since the plant has a strong blood clotting effect, patients with thrombophlebitis should not take it. Contraindicated for inflammation of the kidneys and bladder. It is not advisable to use water pepper without the advice of your doctor.

Horses have been poisoned by peppermintweed. Symptoms: general weakness, diarrhea, ataxia, decreased temperature, heart weakness. First aid consists of prescribing laxatives, enveloping agents, and for diarrhea - astringents. For general depression, caffeine, camphor and other drugs are administered.

Application in other areas.Peppermint is used in veterinary medicine. Used for dyeing fabrics depending on the mordant in colors: yellow, golden, black, khaki. Used as a spicy food seasoning (especially in China).