Common lumbago can be grown from seeds
In fact, any plant is extraordinary, and even more so as for the dream-grass. There are legends about this herbaceous perennial among the people, and the attitude towards it has long been special, more than respectful.
Content:
- Properties are magical
- Healing properties
- Several recipes for traditional medicine
- The main mistake of gardeners
- Sleep Grass Seeds
- Growing lumbago
Properties are magical
The lumbago was always considered a magical, magical flower, touched it only after uttering special incantations, and was plucked during the ceremonies in the morning dawn, with dewdrops on the fluffy hairs of the twigs.
In the cold water, the dream-grass lay until the full moon. At this time, it was carefully taken out of the water, dried, in a special way placed under the pillow. A deep prophetic dream awaited the one who was on that bed. Dream interpreters made predictions.
Healing properties
Lumbago is officially called Pulsatilla from the buttercup family, and in Europe it is known as the Easter bell. Among all types of snowdrops, this is the most poisonous flower. Its fresh juice is so toxic that when it gets on the skin, it causes burns with redness and blisters, which gradually turn into deep ulcers. Poisoning is accompanied by vomiting and diarrhea with blood, convulsions with paralysis.
Taking precautions, they collect flowers, leaves and roots of sleep-herbs as medicinal raw materials. It should be remembered that the smell of a drying plant is also toxic, but soon the poisonous substances evaporate, and what is dangerous for the body turns into a very healing one. For medical purposes, dry grass is mainly used.
Several recipes for traditional medicine
Freshly crushed plant, preserved with alcohol, is used for rubbing into painful places in case of "lumbago", which translated into medical terminology will be called radiculitis, osteochondrosis, neuralgia, polyarthritis, rheumatism. They also rub numb parts of the body, treat inflamed veins, burns and scabies.
Safe and healing will be stripped off in the oven or Russian stove, the chamber, which is placed in a ceramic, tight-fitting dish. The infused drug, filtered and strained, is used to heal the skin from fungal and purulent lesions, as well as in the fight against staphylococcus.
A decoction of dry sleep-grass was drunk by women in labor to intensify labor pains, relieve pain, and speed up the process of giving birth. And children were saved from infantile convulsions with spasmophilia with a decoction of lumbago, which consists of a teaspoon of dry grass, filled with a glass of boiling water. The infusion is made in the same proportion, but the water should be cooled to room temperature. You need to insist not for half an hour, as for preparing a decoction, but from two to three hours to seven days.
This excellent sedative, hypnotic and expectorant agent is used for diseases of pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchial asthma, whooping cough, as well as for some sexually transmitted diseases.
The main mistake of gardeners
Of the several dozen species of pulsatilla, there are not so many left in the world. Today this amazing plant, which is called sleep-grass or common lumbago in nature, is difficult to meet in nature, the plant is listed in the Red Book.It is not often that dream-grass can be seen even in the areas of amateur flower growers, insofar as growing a flower seems to be a rather difficult task.
The first difficulty lies in the fact that gardeners are trying to breed a plant using division rhizomes. This is an extremely wrong action - you can propagate a crop only with the help of seeds. The rhizome itself is fragile, the roots are rather thin and diverge to the sides, damage to the roots leads, as a rule, to the death of plants.
Sleep Grass Seeds
Common lumbago develops quite unusually, one rhizome can give many buds for flowering. They are laid in the fall. Transplant an adult plant should not be done - it is very difficult to do successfully. It is much easier to grow a new sleepy grass bush from seeds.
Collect the seeds common lumbago in the period when they were already ripe, but did not have time to scatter - the seeds of the dream-grass are similar to the seeds of a dandelion, the same light and volatile. Seed ripening is not simultaneous; it occurs around mid-April.
Sowing of the collected seeds is carried out immediately after collection; the soil in the box must be prepared with sandy loam, light. To obtain seedlings, it is necessary to keep it moist.
Growing lumbago
Seedlings do not appear together, small plants grow extremely slowly. In winter, with the onset of frost, the leaves freeze, and new ones appear in the spring. It is necessary to plant plants in a permanent place in early spring, while they are still small and the root system has not yet had time to grow.
An adult plant does not require additional leaving - in nature, it is very well adapted to difficult living conditions. The plant is steppe in origin, but it can also be found on the edges and glades of a pine forest with poor sandy or sandy loam soil. The flowering of a plant begins depending on the conditions and timing of planting and growing.
Common lumbago in nature is found only in a pale blue color, in culture there are reddish-purple, golden and light pink, purple and blue flowers. Closely planted plants are pollinated and can give unpredictable results. A plant is considered an adult by the third year of life, it throws out a couple of dozen flowers at the same time, it can live for about ten years, surprising and delighting the world.