Tincture of creeping wheatgrass. The use of wheatgrass rhizomes and leaves in folk medicine

Creeping wheatgrass is very useful plant. This is a weed. Its survival rate is amazing; it grows in the most inconvenient places. When cut with a shovel, the plant does not die, but produces a new one, and the more you chop it, the better it grows. Why does a weed need such vitality? Yes, because in the roots of wheatgrass unique healing powers. You can collect roots at any time, in late April - early May when digging garden plots. The collected raw materials must be cleaned, washed, dried in a draft, crushed and then dried.
Use like this: 1 tbsp. spoon of crushed roots in 1 glass of water, boil for 5 minutes, leave for 2 hours, drink 0.5 glass 30 minutes before meals.
Why should I take this infusion? The ability to purify blood is the first and valuable quality of wheatgrass. This is very important for diseases of the kidneys, liver, intestines, skin diseases and diseases of the spleen. In addition, the rhizome has emollient, enveloping and laxative properties. Wheatgrass works well as a diaphoretic and expectorant for diseases of the bronchi and lungs, especially in combination with coltsfoot flowers and linden flowers in equal proportions. It reduces increased prothrombin and cholesterol, eliminates excess nitrogen in the blood, i.e. prevents blood clots, normalizes metabolism, and removes toxins from the body.
Patients experienced the properties of wheatgrass literally dissolve gall and liver stones combined with its diuretic effect.
This weed is a surefire remedy for restoring metabolism in cases of rheumatism, gout, arthritis, and while taking the decoction, such a rapid movement of deposited salts begins that the joints begin to ache and burn to the point of impossibility. It’s worth being patient or drinking not 0.5 glasses, but 1/3 or ¼. However, this aching of the joints does not begin immediately, but after a month regular intake decoction
Another valuable property of wheatgrass – antitumor. This weed was tested by Zozhevites after repeated irradiation. You need to take equal parts of wheatgrass root, burdock root, chicory root, dandelion root, licorice root. Grind each root in a coffee grinder, mix everything thoroughly and take tbsp. spoon the mixture into 3 cups of boiling water, simmer over low heat for 10 minutes. This amount should be drunk in 3 doses. If blood pressure increases, then exclude licorice root from the mixture.
And here for skin diseases A decoction of wheatgrass roots should be added to the bath, at least 3 liters per bath; for chronic constipation, enemas are good: 2 glasses of decoction per Esmarch mug.
For tuberculosis Wheatgrass root is simply beyond competition. Take 1 tbsp. spoon of fresh roots, boil for 5 minutes in a glass of milk and drink hot in one serving. Per day - up to 3 glasses.
For treatment colds helps a lot wheatgrass root decoction, infused on honey: Boil 50 g of wheatgrass roots in 0.5 liters of water, strain, add 250 ml of honey and boil. Take 2 tbsp daily. spoons on an empty stomach.
Those who are very busy and cannot boil and infuse, let them eat root alive or boil in salted water, roll in flour and fry lightly in vegetable oil . It will turn out like asparagus.
The boiled root can be put in any salad, soup, the main thing is to be attentive in your garden to these annoying, but such healing roots. Treat them with love and they will repay you with healing.
Fresh crushed wheatgrass roots are added to salads, decoctions are prepared from them for first courses, and boiled roots are added to side dishes.
For cooking wheatgrass Pour 60 g of roots into a thermos with 1 liter of boiling water, leave for several hours, strain. Drink 2-3 glasses a day. The course of treatment is 3 weeks.
Wheatgrass root tea creeping stimulates recovery processes in organism with loss of strength and fatigue, cleanses the blood, relieves fatigue and stress. The drink is useful for gout and rheumatism due to high content it contains silicic acid.
Pour 2 teaspoons of wheatgrass roots into a glass of cold water, bring to a boil and strain immediately.
Wheatgrass root flour. Collect the roots at the end of April - beginning of May, wash, dry, cut off the brown scales from them. The roots are then crushed and dried. Next, grind in a coffee grinder to the consistency of flour, from which coffee drinks and decoctions for first courses are prepared. Treatment and prophylaxis daily dose powder is 15 g.
Sweaty feet with odor and suppuration. Rinse your feet thoroughly warm water with soap, rinse cold water. Take straw from barley, oats or wheat or wheatgrass and weave it between your fingers, like weaving baskets. Put on clean socks and sleep through the night. In the morning, throw away the straw, wash your feet, and put on clean socks. Repeat this daily at night. Popularly considered one of the the best means. It is enough to do this for a week and the disease goes away long years. The smell, sweating of the feet, and suppuration disappear.
Fatigue. Pour 4 tbsp. tablespoons of crushed wheatgrass rhizomes with 5 cups of boiling water and boil until about a quarter of the volume evaporates. Take 2 tbsp. spoons 4-5 times a day before meals for 2-3 weeks.
Male diseases (infertility). Pour two cups of boiling water over 2 tablespoons of creeping wheatgrass rhizome. Prepare a decoction. Take half a glass 4 times a day before meals.
The rhizome of creeping wheatgrass is useful. Pour 1 tablespoon of wheatgrass into a glass of boiling water, let it brew for 30 minutes, strain and drink 1 tablespoon at a time. 3 times a day before meals.
Joint pain. Often the cause of joint pain is general slagging in the body. How to cleanse yourself? Collect wheatgrass rhizomes from the garden and rinse thoroughly. Infuse one glass of rhizomes in a liter for 12 hours boiled water, add honey to taste and drink half a glass 3-5 times a day.
To improve vision: 4 tablespoons of dry crushed wheatgrass rhizomes per 5 cups of boiling water, boil until the volume is reduced by ¼, strain. Take 4-5 times a day, 1 tablespoon.
The juice and decoction of the fresh plant can be taken during the summer; it helps well with partial loss of vision.
When purifying the blood, when, with increased outflow of water, toxins are removed from the body, which affects, first of all, a decrease in skin rashes. They mainly use tea, which they drink regularly for several weeks, 1 cup 2 times a day. Wheatgrass tea: 2-3 teaspoons with wheatgrass topping, pour ¼ l hot water and let stand for 10 minutes. They also recommend juice from fresh rhizomes, which is prepared using a juicer and taken 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
Infusion and decoction of rhizomes are used for dropsy, swelling of various origins, cystitis, urinary incontinence, kidney and gallstones, all diseases of the lungs, kidneys, chronic bronchitis, intestinal diseases, diabetes, hypertension.
Wheatgrass roots are used as a pain reliever for gout, rheumatism, lumbago, and various arthritis.
Wheatgrass root treats osteochondrosis, ovarian dysfunction in women, pulmonary tuberculosis, exudative diathesis, furunculosis.
There are no contraindications to taking it.

Creeping wheatgrass- Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski is a perennial herbaceous plant from the family Poaceae or Gramineae with long rhizomes. The rhizomes are located horizontally in the soil, they branch, and the tops of such branches bend upward and reach the surface of the soil, giving rise to a new wheatgrass individual. total length The rhizomes of one plant can reach 15 m, and the area penetrated by them can be several square meters. Stems are erect or ascending, from 30 to 150 cm high. Leaves have a flat linear blade, rough on top, and a long sheath.
The flowers are inconspicuous, collected 4 - 10 in inflorescences-spikelets, which together form a common inflorescence at the tops of the stems - a two-row spike 7 - 15 cm long. In each flower, the perianth is formed by two floral scales, 3 stamens, 1 pistil. The fruit is a grain long 5 -10 mm, enclosed in flower scales fused with it. It blooms in May - June, the fruits ripen in July - September. The flowers are pollinated by the wind.
Creeping wheatgrass is an almost cosmopolitan plant. In Russia it is found almost everywhere. Grows in gardens, vegetable gardens, vacant lots, under fences in populated areas, in meadows, edges, fields, fallow lands. A difficult to eradicate weed of fields and vegetable gardens, regenerated by seeds and cuttings of rhizomes. Even a very small fragment of rhizome, if it has at least one living bud, will give rise to a new plant.

Medicinal value of wheatgrass and methods of medicinal use of wheatgrass

Medical use have rhizomes of creeping wheatgrass. The rhizomes contain the phenolic compound aveline, 5% fructanatriticin, 1.5% fatty oil, malic acid, 3-4% levulose, about 3% fructose, 3% mannitol, mucus, vitamin C, carotene and other substances. The grass contains 150 mg of ascorbic acid, 50 mg of carotene and a-alanine.
The rhizomes of creeping wheatgrass were quite widely used for medicinal purposes back in Ancient Greece And Ancient Rome, in medieval folk medicine, and are also widely used in modern folk medicine European countries and in homeopathy.
As a diuretic, an infusion of wheatgrass rhizomes is used for dropsy, edema of various origins, inflammatory diseases urinary tract and urinary organs: cystitis, nephritis and urolithiasis. An infusion of rhizomes is used internally as an analgesic for gout, rheumatism, lumbago, various arthritis, urolithiasis and cholelithiasis.
As an anti-inflammatory, emollient and expectorant, infusion of rhizomes is often prescribed for profuse sputum, cough, chronic bronchitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, as well as gastritis, enteritis, liver and gall bladder diseases. Taking an infusion of rhizomes normalizes intestinal function and is good remedy for constipation.
In folk medicine, an infusion of rhizomes is often used as a diaphoretic for colds and fevers. Due to the presence of sugars and vitamins, wheatgrass is considered a nutritious, tonic, restorative, sleep and appetite-improving remedy. It is used for colds, to improve vision, in the treatment hypertension, malignant tumors and diabetes.
For hemorrhoids, chronic constipation, chronic colitis, proctitis, proctosigmoiditis, the decoction is prescribed at night in the form of warm enemas of 30 - 60 ml.

A decoction (1:10) of wheatgrass rhizomes is prescribed 2 - 3 tablespoons 3 times a day before meals as a mild laxative and diuretic.
Decoction: 2 teaspoons of rhizome per 1 cup of boiling water. Boil for 5-7 minutes. over very low heat. Infuse, wrapped, for 1 hour, strain. Take 1 - 2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day.

Four teaspoons of wheatgrass rhizome per 1 glass of cold boiled water. Leave for 12 hours, strain. Pour the rest of the rhizome with 1 cup of boiling water. Infuse, wrapped, for 1 hour, strain. Mix both infusions. Take 1/3 cup 2-4 times a day for rheumatism and aching joints, for gout.

For gout, osteochondrosis, and arthritis, take the infusion. Ш Infusion: 2 tablespoons of crushed root, pour 0.5 liters of boiling water in the evening, leave overnight in a tightly sealed container. The next day, take 1/2 cup of Zraz daily before meals.

For arthritis, pour 4 tablespoons of dry finely crushed rhizomes of wheatgrass into 1 liter of water and boil until the volume is reduced by 1/4. Take 1 tablespoon 4-5 times a day.

For skin diseases (the body's predisposition to skin diseases is indicated by dry, rough skin), boil 15 g of rhizomes with roots of wheatgrass for 10 minutes. in a sealed container, leave for 4 hours, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day for 2-4 weeks.

Juice fresh leaves Creeping wheatgrass is taken for cholelithiasis, 1 glass 3 times a day for 15 - 20 days.

For illnesses gastrointestinal tract, cholelithiasis and urolithiasis, make a decoction of 60 g of crushed rhizomes per 1 liter of water. Boil for 5 minutes, leave for 1 hour. Take 1/2-1 glass 3 times a day for 3-4 weeks.

For abdominal dropsy, boil 15 g of rhizomes with roots of wheatgrass for 10 minutes. in a sealed container, leave for 4 hours, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day.

For constipation, use the juice of the grass wheatgrass (1:20) in the form of enemas.

For cold aches, take 2 - 2 times a day for 3-4 weeks, 200 - 600 ml of creeping wheatgrass juice, squeezed from rhizomes (April - early May, autumn) and grass. To do this, the rhizomes, washed in running water, are scalded with boiling water and passed through a meat grinder, diluted with water 1:1, squeezed through a thick cloth and boiled for 3 minutes.

At radiation sickness Infuse 2 tablespoons of crushed roots in 500 ml of boiling water (in a thermos) for 8 hours, strain, squeeze out the remaining raw materials. Take during the day in 3 doses per 100 min. warm before meals.

Drink 1/2 cup of wheatgrass juice 3-4 times a day before meals. uterine bleeding and heavy menstruation.

In folk medicine, a decoction of wheatgrass rhizomes is used as a diuretic, expectorant, laxative, “blood purifying” and regulating. salt metabolism means. The decoction is prepared at a rate of 1:10, take 1 tablespoon 3 - 4 times a day.

For furunculosis, it is recommended to drink strong decoction from the rhizomes of creeping wheatgrass (1:5) 1 glass 3 times a day. You can also drink 2-3 times a day for 3-4 weeks, 200 ml of juice squeezed from rhizomes (April - early May, autumn) and grass. The juice can be added to baths.

30 g of rhizomes are boiled in 1 liter of water until half remains. Take 100 ml Zraza per day for osteochondrosis.
For children's eczema, take 50 ml of wheatgrass juice, squeezed from rhizomes and grass, 2-3 times a day for 3 - 4 weeks, and bathe children in it.

For eczema, make a decoction of wheatgrass root (collected in May): for 20 g of roots - 1 cup of boiling water. Drink 200 ml 3 times a day before meals. Make lotions from the decoction externally.

For various skin diseases, take a bath once a week. To do this, place 100 g of wheatgrass and burdock rhizomes in an enamel bucket, fill half the container hot water and boil for 10 minutes. The duration of the procedure is 30 min. at a water temperature of 36 - 37°C.
It is recommended to combine baths with taking the decoction orally, 1 glass 3-4 times a day before meals. Ш To prepare it, pour 1 tablespoon of raw material into 1 glass of hot water, boil for 10 minutes, cool and filter.

A decoction of the rhizomes of creeping wheatgrass: 2 tablespoons of dry crushed raw materials per 1 glass of hot water, boil for 10 minutes, cool, strain, squeeze, bring the volume to the original volume. Take 1/3 cup of Zraz a day before meals for cholelithiasis, chronic pancreatitis, inflammation of the upper respiratory tract.

Cold infusion of creeping wheatgrass: 15g of dry crushed rhizome in 2 cups of cold water, leave for 12 hours, strain. Take 1/2 cup of Zraz per day for coughs associated with colds and inflammation of the upper respiratory tract.

For urate and oxalate stones, take 1 tablespoon 4-5 times a day of a decoction of wheatgrass rhizomes: 4 tablespoons of dry crushed raw material per 5 glasses of water, boil until the volume is reduced by 1/4, strain.

When the type of stones has not been established, use a cold infusion of wheatgrass rhizomes: 15g of crushed dry raw material in 2 cups of cold water, leave for 12 hours, strain. Drink 1/2 glass 3 times a day.

To improve vision, take a decoction of the rhizomes of creeping wheatgrass (4 tablespoons of dry crushed raw materials per 5 cups of boiling water, boil until the volume is reduced by 1/4, strain) 1 tablespoon 4-5 times a day.

Cold infusion of creeping wheatgrass rhizomes: 15 g of dry crushed raw material in 2 cups of cold water, leave for 12 hours, strain. Take 2 tablespoons 3 times a day for rickets, scrofula, diathesis.

Wheatgrass decoction: 2 tablespoons of crushed dry rhizomes per 0.5 liter of boiling water, simmer for 12-15 minutes, leave for 2-3 hours. and drink 1/3 glass 3-4 times a day for ZOmin. before meals for 3 - 4 weeks for cancer.

Features of harvesting creeping wheatgrass

Rhizomes serve as the medicinal raw material for wheatgrass. Harvested in autumn or early spring, or in summer. After digging, they are shaken off the ground, washed in cold water, wither in the sun in windy weather and dry in the shade or in a dryer at a temperature of 60 - 70 ° C. Store in bags or wooden containers for no more than 2 years.
According to Raphael, wheatgrass is ruled by Venus, the ruling planet in Taurus and Libra.

We are all accustomed to thinking that weeds do not have any benefit and can only clog the beds and displace cultivated plants. From an agronomic point of view, this may be true. But since ancient times, traditional healers have used certain types of weeds to treat many diseases. One such plant is wheatgrass.

You probably won’t find a vegetable garden or summer cottage, wherever such a tenacious and difficult to eradicate weed as wheatgrass would settle.

Wheatgrass consists of underground and above-ground parts. Its root system is powerful. Like a spider's web, it grows underground along the surface of the soil. Weeding it does not bring results; you need to get rid of wheatgrass by sampling, removing all the roots by hand. If even the slightest piece of them remains in the soil, the plant will begin to grow and reproduce in the area again.

A young weed has white roots, while an adult has yellow roots. After flowering, in July, when wheatgrass begins to prepare for the coming winter, small tubers appear on them.

The ground part consists of a stem on which the leaves are alternately located. They are green, flat, linear, 3-8 mm wide. Wheatgrass blooms with small pale green flowers, which are collected in a complex spike of 4-7 pieces. The plant reaches a height of 40 to 130 cm.

Flowering occurs in June-July. If the plant does not have enough water, then it may not bloom, reproducing exclusively by its roots.

Where does wheatgrass grow?

The growing area of creeping wheatgrass is extensive: Europe, Asia, North Africa, America. The plant prefers flat or mountainous terrain with to varying degrees soil moisture, avoids dry or dark areas. Wheatgrass can be found in meadows and sunny forest edges. In Russia it is widespread. We can see it along roads, in ravines, in gardens and orchards.

Wheatgrass medicinal properties

Creeping wheatgrass gives summer residents and gardeners a lot of trouble. We are used to destroying it, but our ancestors also used this weed in medicinal purposes, calling him affectionately the whinny. Many recipes for healing with it are still alive in folk medicine to this day.

Wheatgrass has a number of medicinal properties:

anti-inflammatory and antiseptic - destroys bacteria and prevents their growth;
diuretic and diaphoretic - removes excess fluid from the body;
choleretic - promotes the removal of stones in cholelithiasis;
mild hypotensive - promotes normalization blood pressure in hypertensive patients;
mild laxative, etc.

The main function, of course, is blood purification. Thanks to increased fluid outflow, toxins are removed from the body, which has a positive effect on the condition of the skin and overall well-being.

Wheatgrass root medicinal properties

Wheatgrass root has gained the greatest popularity among traditional healers. It is used for treatment both fresh and dried.

Decoctions, infusions, and juice are made from the rhizomes, which are subsequently used to treat the patient.

Surprisingly, this plant helps with almost any disease, in particular it:

improves metabolism in diabetes mellitus;
will give vigor and vitality people who experience chronic fatigue;
relieve pain from gout and arthritis;
will help remove mucus during bronchitis;
will make the skin clean and beautiful.

Often, wheatgrass rhizomes are used to treat tumors, including malignant ones.

Wheatgrass root contraindications

Wheatgrass, in addition to their own healing properties, is also unique in that it has virtually no contraindications. It can be used both internally and externally by almost everyone.

The exceptions are:

pregnant and lactating women;
children under two years of age;
people experiencing intolerance individual substances contained in the plant.

To treat wounds and boils, as well as for eczema, you can make lotions from a decoction of the roots for children under two years of age.

Wheatgrass medicinal properties and contraindications

Wheatgrass leaves are used less often in folk medicine than rhizomes, but they have also been used.

The ground part is used mainly for treatment skin diseases and joint diseases, although sometimes the juice of the herb is used to prepare a diuretic, choleretic or expectorant.

It is noteworthy that our smaller brothers have long chosen wheatgrass. Animals lacking substances in the body or sick animals eat its leaves for healing. Thanks to this, wheatgrass received another name - “dog grass”.

Wheatgrass in folk medicine. What treats wheatgrass and how to treat it

As we wrote above, the scope of use of wheatgrass for medicinal purposes is very extensive. This may be due to the high vitality of the plant.

Wheatgrass roots are usually used dried. They are collected in May or August (before or after flowering), cleaned of small shoots and soil, washed and on a fabric basis left to dry (preferably in well-ventilated places). If, when bent, the branch of the root breaks and does not bend, then the root is ready. Raw materials are stored for no more than two years in glass containers.

Quite often the roots are affected poisonous mushroom ergot, so blackened shoots must be separated and not used in preparations.

Tea from dried roots will give strength and vigor during chronic fatigue and anemia, improve metabolism and remove toxins from the body.

Root decoctions used as an expectorant and diuretic laxative.

This decoction will help with:

rheumatism,
arthritis,
gout,
cystitis
for those suffering from hemorrhoids, the decoction is prescribed as a microenema, 30-60 ml;
Pulmonary tuberculosis is treated with a decoction of the roots, prepared in milk.

Method for preparing the decoction:

pour 2-4 tbsp. dried roots 1 cup hot water;
cook for 10 minutes over low heat;
cool and strain it.

Use 1/3 cup 30 minutes before meals.

For wounds and juvenile acne Apply lotions from the decoction to the affected areas of the skin.

Infusion of rhizomes Prepared for problems with the gastrointestinal tract, gastritis, pancreatitis.

It is prepared as follows:

2 tbsp. dried roots are poured with cooled boiled water and left for 4 hours.
then the infusion is filtered.

Take 2 tbsp. 3-4 times a day (for furunculosis, 1 tablespoon 2 times a day).

Wheatgrass will ease eczema and also cure boils if taken baths from rhizomes or leaves and at the same time drink it internally as a decoction of the roots. Baths are also useful for hemorrhoids.

Method of preparing a bath:

pour 100-150 g of fresh or dried raw materials into 4-5 liters. water;
boil for 0.5 hours;
Strain the resulting broth, cool and dilute in a bath with warm water.

You need to take such baths 1-2 times a week for 0.5 hours.

What cures wheatgrass, burdock and dandelion, recipes and applications

We remember burdock, dandelions and wheatgrass from childhood. But not everyone knows that medicines for any disease grow literally under our feet.

Wheatgrass is a very powerful healer for almost all diseases. A decoction of its roots is taken for dropsy, arthritis, gout, kidney and gallstones, cystitis, urinary incontinence, eye diseases and even oncology.

Dandelion decorates lawns and fields in spring. However, gardeners weed it out along with other weeds on their plots, considering it a pest. Although since ancient times, dandelion leaves have been used as food, and healing potions have been prepared from the root.

This small plant helps fight serious diseases such as:

stomach and liver cancer,
diathesis,
arthritis,
inflammation of the lymph nodes.

For medicinal purposes, dandelion root that has not bloomed is suitable. It needs to be dug up in the fall.

Another weed that we have seen, but do not know its full medicinal power, is burdock. It has a powerful root that goes deep into the ground.

It is from this that the decoction helps to cope with:

with any skin diseases,
diabetes mellitus,
bronchitis,
oncology,
hepatitis,
liver cirrhosis
and even paralysis.

But only suitable for treatment annual plant without burrs and dry leaves, the roots of which were dug up in spring or autumn.

The dug up roots of the listed weeds must be washed and dried (the burdock root must also be cut).

Use the finished raw materials as follows:

pour one tablespoon of dry roots with 2 cups of boiling water;
boil for 10 minutes;
leave for 2 hours;

Take 0.5 cups of decoction three times a day 15-20 minutes before meals.

You can be treated with one type of plant or a collection of all three. It is also allowed to alternate the intake of herbs as follows: take a decoction of wheatgrass for a week, then a week of burdock, then a week of dandelion roots.

What does wheatgrass root treat, recipes and uses?

It is believed that there is no disease that creeping wheatgrass cannot cure.

Indeed, the list of diseases that can be treated with this weed is impressive:

gout;
male and female diseases;
joint disease;
acute respiratory infections, bronchitis;
tuberculosis;
gallstones and kidney stones;
skin diseases;
constipation;
oncology, etc.

To treat most of them, decoctions, infusions and juice made from the roots of the plant are used.

Recipe for cholecystitis

take 20 grams of wheatgrass root;
pour 1.5 cups of boiling water;
let it brew for 4 hours;
strain.

Take 1 glass 3 times a day for a month.

Treatment recipe juvenile acne

take a collection of two parts of wheatgrass and one part each of tricolor violet, horsetail and nettle;
pour two teaspoons of the mixture into 250 ml. boiling water;
let it brew and then strain.

Drink the resulting tea one cup three times a day.

Recipe from colds of the upper respiratory tract

take 15 g of raw materials;
pour two glasses of cold boiled water;
leave for 12 hours;
strain.

Drink an infusion of wheatgrass roots three times a day, half a glass.

Recipe for treating osteochondrosis decoction obtained by evaporation:

Pour 30 g of dry roots into 1 liter. water;
simmer until half of the liquid remains.

Take 100 ml 3 times a day.

Recipe for tuberculosis decoction of wheatgrass roots in milk:

pour two tablespoons of roots into 250 ml. hot milk;
cook for 5 minutes;
strain the resulting broth.

The entire mass is drunk in one dose; in general, up to 3 glasses of decoction are taken per day.

Recipe for treating diabetes

Pour two tablespoons into two glasses of water;
boil for 10 minutes;
then strain and cool.

Take half a glass of decoction 4 times a day before meals.

What does wheatgrass treat, recipes and uses?

Wheatgrass leaves begin to grow immediately after the snow melts. However, by mid-July the plant begins to prepare for winter, and the above-ground part withers and turns yellow. In folk medicine, wheatgrass leaves are used externally or taken in the form of juice.

Recipe from increased sweating legs

cut off the wheatgrass leaves;
stretch them between your fingers, like weaving a basket;
put on socks and leave the product on overnight.
In the morning, remove the leaves, wash your feet and change your socks.

According to traditional healers, after a week-long course of procedures, bad smell won't bother you for several years.

Bath recipe for eczema

If you or your baby are concerned about eczema, follow these steps:

Leaves of creeping wheatgrass (100-150 g, you can add rhizomes) pour several liters of water;
boil for half an hour;
Pour the cooled broth into a bath filled with warm water.

Take such baths once a week for half an hour, and they will ease your condition. Also, such procedures are very good for joint problems.

Wheatgrass Leaf Juice Recipe from cholelithiasis and pulmonary diseases

rinse the required amount of leaves and pass through a meat grinder;
add water in a 1:1 ratio;
strain through a fine sieve and boil the resulting liquid for 2-5 minutes.

Take 0.5 cups half an hour before meals 2-3 times a day.

At heavy menstruation or uterine bleeding, take 0.5 cups of juice 3-4 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

Only freshly prepared juice is used. The period of admission ranges from 15-20 days (for cholelithiasis) to 2-3 months (for pulmonary diseases).
There are many amazing things in the world. And what at first glance seems harmful and unnecessary can actually turn out to be life-saving.

Creeping wheatgrass is an unpretentious weed that grows along roadsides, in fields and meadows. It can settle both in the mountains and on flat terrain. Able to survive, making its way through cracks in asphalt, stones and in the most seemingly uninhabitable corners of nature.

And who among us has not fought against this malicious “invader” of gardens, vegetable gardens and personal plots? This wheatgrass causes us a lot of trouble, mercilessly braiding the weak sprouts of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants and other crops.

It noticeably depletes the soil, extracting three times as much from it. nutrients and water than their cultural relatives. It is almost impossible to get rid of it if after weeding a few fragments of the rhizome remain. In this place the grass grows twice as strong and lush.

Wheatgrass, benefits and harm

However, the wheat grass weed turns out to be very useful for humans and is successfully used in folk medicine. It is not for nothing that our smaller, non-herbivorous brothers are treated with it, removing toxins from the body and normalizing the functioning of their intestines. You have often seen your favorite cat or shaggy poodle happily chewing this grass on the lawn.

Behind appearance, unpretentiousness and direct kinship with cereal crops, it is popularly called worm-grass, dandur, wolf's tooth, root-grass, grain grass, dog grass, plover. What is this simple plant and what does it look like? Why do we know it only as a “horror” for vegetable gardens and practically nothing as a home doctor? Let's figure it out.

The Latin name of the plant is Elytrígia répens, Agropyron repens. The last name clearly reflects the attitude of business executives towards it, which translated means “fire of the fields”. It is a perennial herbaceous plant of the Monocot class from the most widespread genus Wheatgrass, the progenitor of modern crops of the cereal family.

It has more than 50 species, 20 of which grow in Russia. Some of them are listed in the Red Book.

Wheatgrass is distributed throughout the world, but comes from northern Africa, Europe and Asia. It is incredibly hardy, prolific and tenacious. Able to tolerate drought and heat, resistant to getting wet and rotting. He is not afraid of winter cold and repeated digging of the soil. Only when complete absence soil, the plant dies.

Wheatgrass owes its excellent winter hardiness to the agroperine contained in its rhizomes. Thanks to the presence of this substance, methods genetic engineering Scientists at the USSR Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry managed to create frost-resistant wheat varieties.

Due to the rapid growth of above-ground mass, wheatgrass is successfully used for economic purposes. Animals love this grass; it is actively harvested as hay for the winter. Some birds like to feast on wheatgrass seeds.

Botanical characteristics

Wheatgrass is a herbaceous perennial. With the first rays spring sun its root system begins to actively grow, and the first bright green shoots appear from under the barely melted snow. Under the influence of the sun and heat, they can acquire a greenish-gray tint. The height of wheatgrass can reach from 40 to 130 cm.

The plant has rigid, straight stems and narrow, linear, rough leaves arranged alternately. The leaf width usually does not exceed 4-8 millimeters; it is attached to the stem by a long vaginal plate.

It blooms in mid-May - August, the fruits ripen in July - September. An inflorescence is formed in the form of a complex two-row spikelet with small salad flowers. These scale-like spike inflorescences, collected in 6-7 pieces each, in turn form a larger spike, reaching a length of 15 centimeters. The fruit of the plant has the appearance of a grain, reminiscent of a miniature wheat grain.

The root system is branched, in the form of a rhizome growing horizontally. At the slightest damage, endogenous growth stimulants are activated, and the root “switches on” to growth, giving rise to more and more new branches. Thus, the plant reproduces both by seeds and vegetatively by rhizomes.

In the second half of June, wheatgrass begins to prepare for wintering. During this period, its rhizomes begin to go into deeper layers of the soil, and small tuberous growths form on them.

The drier and hotter the summer, the faster the wheatgrass will bloom. In such conditions, when the soil is dry and dense, the rhizomes do not develop to their full potential. It will not grow tall, but will bear fruit as early as possible. On the contrary, if the soil is moist, loose and fertile, the plant will not bother flowering, quickly growing its root system and producing powerful ground shoots.

The plant goes more than 30 centimeters deep, and during the “wintering” period it can be found at a depth of up to 70 centimeters. The length of one rhizome can exceed 15 meters. Wheatgrass can grow so much that in one summer the area it occupies can reach several meters. Thus, up to 250 million buds can easily form on one hectare of soil.

Chemical composition

The whole plant contains useful substances, but the rhizomes are richest in them. Thus, all parts of the plant are used for medicinal purposes.

The rhizomes, shoots and stems include:

Proteins and organic mucus;
carbohydrates, including inulin and starch;
fructose, levulose;
flavonoids;
organic acids;
essential oils;
mannitol, avenin, saponins;
malic acid;
agropyrene, gum;
mineral salts, among which the most are potassium salts;
phenols;
vitamins, especially ascorbic acid and carotene.

The plant contains one of necessary for the body amino acids - alpha-alanine. This component is involved in glucose metabolism and serves as a powerful source of energy for the body. It helps maintain the activity of processes in the brain at the proper level, muscle tissue, increases resistance to infections. Resists stress factors, takes part in the creation hormonal levels, improves the condition of the skin and its derivatives (nails, hair).

Rhizome

This part of the plant contains about 11% useful proteins, up to 40% flavonoids. This is a whole storehouse of vitamins E, A, C, P, PP, micro- and macroelements. It is often used in the preparation of vitamin and mineral cocktails and teas.

Prepared for future use during the winter cold, this herbal medicine will perfectly replace standard types of tea. It can be consumed as a stand-alone drink or in combination with other herbs. Another very important property: it does not have a stimulating effect on nervous system. This means it does not cause insomnia. Therefore, you can drink tea with wheatgrass in the evening.

Grass

Appreciated medicinal properties and the surface part of the plant. Wheatgrass leaves and stems also have anti-inflammatory, antiseptic and immunostimulating effects. Can be used internally and externally, in the form of lotions and baths for diseases internal organs, furunculosis and various types eczema

In these specific cases, wheatgrass seeds can be used. They are most often used for digestive problems. Take ½ or 1 glass of liquid as freshly brewed tea 30 minutes before meals.

Picked from the garden in early spring and finely chopped into a salad, it will be a wonderful addition to diet both adults and children. Its complex of vitamins and microelements will help strengthen the immune system, normalize the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract and painlessly overcome the state of winter vitamin deficiency.

A number of shops selling dietary products sells wheatgrass juice in finished form. However, it usually already contains some preservatives. And then, you can easily prepare such a product for yourself. Fresh, healthy, and note – without any additives!

How to make juice?

Option #1. First, grind the wheatgrass rhizomes. Next, you need to extract juice from them. The simplest device will do for this. Place the washed and chopped raw materials of the fresh plant in a mortar and pound. Squeeze the resulting juice through cheesecloth.

For cooking healing drink you can use a blender or juicer. However, in the blender version, it should be ensured that a small part of the chlorophyll and useful substances can be oxidized under the influence of the rotating metal blades of the device. Consequently, the value of the resulting product will decrease slightly.

You can get juice from finely chopped leaves and stems in a similar way. Helps in the treatment of diseases of the liver, kidneys, urinary organs and biliary tract, edema, neuroses and other diseases, including inflammatory in nature. It is indicated as an additional remedy for uterine bleeding and heavy menstruation. The method of administration is standard: half a glass three times a day before meals.

Option #2. Making a drink with wheatgrass and lemon.

Take 200 grams of freshly washed rhizomes, chop them and squeeze

Add 0.5 liters of chilled boiled water.
Squeeze out the juice ½ average size lemon, pour into the prepared drink.
Sugar - to taste. Mix everything. You should get 2-3 servings.

Application. Excellent remedy in the treatment of colds, coughs and runny nose. Cleanses the blood, relieves swelling and inflammation. The drink is effective for hypovitaminosis and to eliminate symptoms of chronic fatigue.

Option #3. For the treatment of colds. Wash the rhizomes and pour boiling water over them. Pass through a meat grinder, then mix with water at a ratio of 1:1. Let stand for a while, then squeeze through cheesecloth. Take half a glass 3-4 times a day until symptoms disappear.

Wheatgrass decoction

A decoction from rhizomes and other parts of the plant is slightly inferior in value to juice, since it contains less concentration of valuable substances. Also, its components are subjected to heat treatment during preparation, and some vitamins and enzymes are inactivated.

But, despite this, wheatgrass decoctions are used both for oral administration and as compresses and other means for external use for diseases of the skin and joints.

The decoction is prepared in the following way. 30 grams of dried wheatgrass rhizomes are poured into one liter of boiling water for oral administration, and 0.5 liters for use in compresses and baths. The dishes with the contents are simmered over low heat for 15-20 minutes. Then infuse, cool, filter.

Take half a glass three times a day to improve vision with the syndrome visual fatigue, when coughing, inflammatory processes in the liver, kidneys, bladder and other diseases. In addition, they make baths with a decoction of wheatgrass for children with diathesis, eczematous lesions, acne. Make compresses for joint inflammation and osteochondrosis.

Napar from rhizomes

It is more concentrated than the previous version, which means it contains more healing substances.

It is prepared as follows. Take 100 grams of dry rhizomes and pour 1 liter of boiling water. It is evaporated over very low heat so that half of the liquid remains. The remaining part is cooled and filtered.

Application. One glass three times a day cardiovascular pathologies, jaundice, liver diseases, pancreas diseases, diabetes mellitus.

Wheatgrass for cystitis

For treatment acute cystitis and stones Bladder. For cooking you will need six tablespoons of raw materials. Fill them with one liter of boiling water and keep them in a water bath for half an hour. Then we insist for another ten minutes. That's it, the broth is ready. All that remains is to strain and take half a glass three times before meals.

For treatment chronic form Cystitis decoction is prepared in the same way, only the ingredients are taken at the rate of 2 tablespoons of wheatgrass per 0.5 liters of water. Take 1/3 cup four times a day.

For nighttime urinary incontinence (enuresis), it is prepared in the same way as for chronic cystitis, that is, take 2 tablespoons of the mixture per half liter of water. The resulting medicine is filtered and consumed within 24 hours. Treatment – no more than one month.

Infusion

This cooking method is different from the previous one. It is gentler in terms of heat treatment, so many of the ingredients in the composition remain virtually unchanged.

The first option (in particular, the first part of cooking) practically does not involve heating. This is done as follows:

Four teaspoons of finely chopped fresh wheatgrass rhizome are poured into one glass of cold boiled water.
The mixture is infused for 12 hours in a dark, cool place.
The liquid is filtered, and the sediment is poured with 250 ml of boiling water for ten minutes. After this time it is filtered.
Both infused liquids are mixed.

Every day we pass by many plants, simply not paying any attention to them. Meanwhile, under our feet there is often a real natural pharmacy. Even common and constantly annoying weeds can be a real storehouse of useful and unique qualities. And one of these amazing natural gifts is wheatgrass, which can be found in different parts of our country in meadows and fields. For therapeutic purposes, wheatgrass root is usually used, the medicinal properties of which we will consider today, as well as contraindications to its consumption, and the use of such plant raw materials.

Medicinal properties of wheatgrass roots

Unique qualities of rhizomes creeping wheatgrass are determined by the surprisingly rich and balanced composition of this plant. Such plant raw materials are a source of significant amounts essential oil, it contains a lot of hydroquinone and isonite. Also, wheatgrass roots contain a certain amount of carbohydrates and inulin, they contain saponin and carotene, as well as ascorbic acid and some other highly beneficial components.

Infusions and decoctions obtained from wheatgrass rhizomes have a good diuretic and mild laxative effect. They can be taken as choleretic compounds. In addition, such products have expectorant and emollient properties. Wheatgrass roots are a good anti-inflammatory medicine; taking drugs based on them has an analgesic and enveloping effect. Decoctions and infusions from this plant can stop bleeding and cleanse the blood; they have excellent wound healing properties. Among other things, such compositions remarkably optimize metabolic processes in organism.

Traditional medicine specialists advise using preparations from the rhizomes of creeping wheatgrass to correct various colds, as well as bronchitis and pneumonia. Such remedies will help quickly cure rheumatism and heart disease. Taking them has a positive effect on liver health, helping to eliminate hepatitis and cirrhosis. Among other things, medicines from the rhizomes of creeping wheatgrass are good for treating ailments of the biliary tract, kidneys and urethra. They are recommended to be taken in the treatment of cystitis, gastritis, colitis and increased swelling. Also, such remedies will help cope with fever, bladder neurosis and jaundice.

Preparations obtained from the rhizomes of creeping wheatgrass can be used in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. And their external use effectively eliminates a variety of skin ailments, including diathesis in young children.

Sitz baths with the addition of a decoction of wheatgrass rhizomes, as well as enemas with it, will help cope with chronic constipation. At the same time, it is recommended to consume this medicine and inside.

How to use wheatgrass root? Health Applications

To prepare baths designed to cope with skin ailments, hemorrhoids, etc., you should brew fifty grams of medicinal raw materials with five liters of boiling water. Boil this product over low heat for a quarter of an hour to twenty minutes. Then remove the container from the stove and let the product brew until it cools completely. The strained broth should be poured into the prepared bath. Treatment of hemorrhoids is carried out using undiluted medicine at a warm temperature.

To treat polyarthritis and rheumatism, it is worth combining thirty grams of crushed rhizomes of creeping wheatgrass with half a liter of boiling water. Boil this product over low heat for ten minutes, then set aside to steep for another half hour. The resulting decoction should be filtered and consumed one glass twice a day. The duration of treatment should be one month. At the same time, it is worth taking baths according to the recipe described above.

Wheatgrass decoction can also be used to wash wounds and boils.

To cope with heart ailments, liver problems and gallbladder, as well as cystitis and diabetes, it is worth consuming a steam based on wheatgrass rhizomes. To prepare such a medicine, you need to combine one hundred grams of plant material with a liter of water and evaporate exactly by half. Take this composition fifteen to thirty milliliters four to five times a day.

To achieve a diaphoretic, expectorant, diuretic and laxative effect, it is worth preparing an infusion from the roots of such a plant. Brew a couple of tablespoons of rhizomes with half a liter of just boiled water and leave for eight hours, well wrapped, or better yet, in a thermos. The prepared medicine should be drunk warm in three doses approximately thirty to forty minutes before meals.

Who is dangerous from wheatgrass root? Contraindications for use

Even such a seemingly harmless plant as creeping wheatgrass has its contraindications for use. In some cases, it can cause the development allergic reactions, which indicate individual intolerance to a given culture, which is a ban on further treatment with its use. In addition, such a remedy should not be consumed in excessive quantities, as this can provoke the development of painful sensations in the kidney area. Before using preparations based on creeping wheatgrass, pregnant and lactating women, as well as small children, should mandatory consult a doctor.