Medicinal herbs: "Cat's feet"

"Cat's feet" is a perennial of the family of Compositae, has a straight A stalk with creeping shoots. In height from 10 to 20 cm. This grass with leaves naked at the top and felt from below. Flowers are collected in baskets, in appearance resemble cat's feet, hence the name. The color can be white and pink. The flower has five stamens and a fruit (used in medicine part). The flowering period is from May to June. "Cat's feet" is a grass that grows in the temperate zones of Asia, North America and Europe, and also practically throughout Russia, especially in the Urals, Siberia and the Caucasus. It settles on dry soils, mainly on sandy meadows, in mixed and pine forests, on dry lawns and glades.

"Cat's feet": collection and harvesting, cultivation

Grass in the flowering period or a flower in a basket is collected throughout the summer from June to September. It is desirable to collect the flowers until they have opened. Dry it in the open space under a canopy. The dried grass should be stored in a dark and dry place for no more than a year. An unpretentious plant that survives with drought, in poor soil. The only condition for its growth is an open sunny place. Seeds should be sown in a greenhouse in the spring, pushing them into the soil is shallow.

Flower "Cat's feet": composition and application

Since the plant has in its composition tannins and resin, vitamins B, C, K, as well as saponin and phytosterols, it is actively used in medicine. The plant is not poisonous, so an overdose is excluded. Basically, it is used for blood loss as a hemostatic. Due to its properties it helps the blood to coagulate better than adrenaline and calcium chloride. Blood vomiting, postpartum bleeding, hypertension, pulmonary tuberculosis, female diseases and many other ailments successfully cure "Cat's feet" in the form of a powder or decoction in folk medicine. When convulsions use a flower broth and infusion of leaves as a soothing agent. When jaundice they wash themselves. With children's skin diseases (diathesis, eczema, skin tuberculosis), children are either bathed in a decoction of flowers, or they are given water. Moreover, it is used for hepatitis and cholecystitis. But the tinctures from the leaves of the plant cope with high blood pressure. The plant acts as a sedative, helps with sleep disorders, is used as a sleeping pill. But for healing wounds and with furunculosis, an ointment made on the basis of a thick decoction of leaves and flowers will be cured.

"Cat's feet": recipes

Gastrointestinal bleeding

At 1-2 tbsp. L. Dried flowers used 200 ml of water. You need to boil for five minutes and let it brew for half an hour. To consume 1 tbsp. L. For every 10-20 minutes before stopping bleeding. Also, prepare and consume as a cholagogue.

Infusion

Take 10-20 grams of dried grass and flowers, pour 200 ml of boiling water. Then we insist about five hours and filter.

Contraindications for use

Use with caution in thrombophlebitis, since "Cat's feet" contain substances that can coagulate blood. In addition, with increased blood pressure exclude long-term use.