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Camel thorn - food for a camel, honey for a bee and medicine for a person

The well-known Middle Asian deserts Karakum, Muyunkum or the African Sahara desert are associated with sand dunes, monsters, snakes, scorpions, phalanges and, of course, camels. A camel, a proven vehicle in the deserts, eats a camel thorn. This is the main pasture plant of deserts, semi-deserts and arid steppes.

The camel, this powerful and wayward animal, surprises with its ability to extract small leaves of the plant with the tongue, deftly bypassing the big strong spines, and at the same time gorging itself on the fill, and even putting the fat in reserve in the humps. And all thanks to these plain-looking at first glance half-naked shrubs.

Camel-thorn It surprises with its ability to exist in a desert climate on a chipped or sandy soil that is not covered by soil. It is especially surprising where the plant takes water from. At the same time it manages to still blossom blossom and give fruit in the form of pods. It turns out that the roots of camel thorns can penetrate deep into the earth (more than three meters) and feed the unpretentious plant with underground water. And this water, extracted with such difficulty, the camel thorn spends not only on the formation of a bush 1 meter high, covered with small leaves and large thorns, but also on a cheerful bloom under the scorching sun from May to September.

Her flowers, like moths, "sit down" right on the thorns - at once 3-5-8 pinkish scarlet flowers, similar in shape to the flowers of peas or beans. And this is understandable: a camel thorn is a relative of all legumes, she is from their family. By the autumn of the pods, the plant yields a crop of seeds. And still the thorn can treat sweet "manna" - the sugary juice, which stands out from the leaves, freezes with grains similar to semolina. With one bush, if desired, you can collect up to 2-4 g of such a treat.

Chemical analyzes have shown that camel thorn, the use of which was found in folk medicine, contains such useful substances as saponins, carotene, flavonoids, sugars, vitamins C, K and group B, dyes and tannins, ursolic acid, essential oils, alkaloids in Insignificant quantities.

Tasteful and aromatic therapeutic honey from flowers of camel thorn. It is good not only for the bees and camel of the camel thorn, the photo of which is placed in the article. People have also applied the plant: for the treatment of many diseases, leaves with a prickly stem, flowers, fruits and even a tree stalk together with the root are used. Infusion and decoction of crushed stems and leaves of thorn are used as a bile and diuretic. The substances contained in the decoction of the plant are destructive for such dangerous microbes and bacteria as streptococci and staphylococci, the stick is a desinteric. Antiseptic properties of desert plants are used in the treatment of cutaneous pustular lesions, eczema, festering wounds and ulcers in the form of washings, compresses. Rinse it with a decoction of the throat with tonsillitis, with stomatitis rinse the mouth. Healing can be baths and washing with hemorrhoids. They help the broths of the prickles of camel in colitis, stomach ulcer, various diseases of the liver, and dysentery. "Manna" is given with uncontrolled dry cough and as an antipyretic, diaphoretic remedy in cases of colds. For children, the "manna" is given as a mild laxative.

Here in brief and all about this modest, but such a generous plant of the desert - a camel thorn.

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