On the meadow and in the meadows, in the pine forests and birch groves you can see this amazing plant, the healing properties of which are sometimes remembered, but the culinary use is almost forgotten.
For centuries, people used it instead of soap, applied leaves to wounds, drank dried leaf powder for pains in the stomach and joints.
In early spring, young shoots and leaves were eaten, and in summer seeds were added to soups and porridges. Here he is so amazing stonefeller femur.
Description
Bedourant is a perennial plant, varieties of which are found almost everywhere.
Among them there are decorative, which are grown at home or in the garden plots.
They have very beautiful feathery leaves, which form a rosette at the base, on the stem they are smaller, dissected into strip or solid.
The stem itself is straight, in height it can reach 1 meter. The flowers are small, pyatilepestkovye, white or pinkish hue, collected in umbrellas,
It is easily rooted in the soil, which is not suitable for most other plants. It is believed that the will to live makes this plant slowly but surely break even stones to germinate through them.
Basal rosettes appear in early April, as soon as the snow melts. Blossom starts in May, flowering period can last 3 months. Over the summer, the plant produces many young shoots that will bloom next year. Seeds ripen in July, they are suitable for collection in August - September.
Other types of saxifrage include Sausage Squab and Arechms Sausage.
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Home care
After the purchase
Seeds are sown in containers or on a bed with prepared loose soil. But before planting they need hold for 1 month in a dark cold place to recreate the familiar natural conditions of a cold winter. This will improve the germination and resistance to diseases and pests.
If you grow the bedrock at home, after stratification, they can be sown in a permanent place in the container. In the garden and in the country, a shaded area or lawn on the sunny side, an alpine slide near a decorative pond will be an excellent place for sowing seeds or outlets.
Pruning
In the second year of life, when the females of stonebreaker begin to bloom, during the summer, pruning of drying flower stalks is carried out, to have new buds.
In the fall, collect the seeds, carefully cutting them off. Fully matured, they are easily showered, so that to prepare raw materials for sowing or the use of labor will not be.
Store seeds in a dark cool place. It is advisable to remove and a long stem.
Watering
It should be watered as the soil dries. Abundant watering is required in the first year of life, but excess moisture can cause root collar rot.
This herb does not like stagnant water, so no need to pour it.
In dry summers it is advisable to spray the leaves.
Landing
If you grow a plant in containers, sow seeds in shallow grooves. Sprinkled with earth and watered abundantly. It is better to take the soil peat mixed with leaf humus and sand 1: 1.
Sown in late February - early March, seeds germinate within 2 to 3 weeks. In May, seedlings can be planted in open ground, at a distance of 30 - 50 cm from each other. In the first year of life the bedourant does not bloom, with proper care, you can only see its closet rosette.
Transfer
If you decide to transplant the plant to a new place, it is best to do it in late autumn after collecting the seeds or in early spring when the plant has only begun to grow. After shedding the soil, carefully dig up the saxifrage, trying not to damage the many-headed root with numerous processes.
In a prepared place, put a drainage layer in a hole with a diameter of up to 50 cm, then black soil or turf mixed with peat. Carefully place the hip in the groove, straighten the roots, sprinkle with earth.
Water the plant and feed it with any organic fertilizer to help overcome stress.
Temperature
Stonebreaker Bedramer undemanding to temperature. It tolerates heat well, but it develops better at average air temperature. The plant is thermophilic, not afraid of frost, does not require additional shelter.
Lighting
The plant prefers sunny areas, but can grow in the shade of trees, shrubs, along fences. Feels great on rocky areas, decorative rocks, alpine slides.
Breeding
Rhizome division
If you decide to repot the plant, it is best to use root division.
In the spring or in the autumn at change on 2 - 3 parts, on each of which has to remain not less than 6 buds (shoots).
Each part is placed in prepared wells to a depth of no more than 10 centimeters. fed with organic matter.
Seeds
Basically, the bedouren is grown from seeds collected in natural conditions or purchased in specialized stores. Can be sown as late autumn and early spring. If possible, it is desirable to sow slice in open ground. But you can germinate seeds at home, and in May plant on the ridge.
Beneficial features
Decorative saxifrage serve as a wonderful decoration when vertically landscaping in residential areas. Many hybrid varieties are used to decorate the garden.
Listed in the Red Book bog kamnelomku, on the bare stems of which grow rosettes, rooting when in contact with the ground, and its hybrid varieties are grown both in gardens and indoors.
A lot of rosettes hanging on thin stalks, beautiful leaves with a brown tint look elegant and unusual. In open ground, mossy, turfy saxifrage form, using their rooted rosettes, lush carpets with flowers of different shades, completely covering the soil.
But Especially valuable is the stone-hemmed femur. This medicinal plant, which due to its unpretentiousness very easy to grow, has many useful properties. In the people he was nicknamed "tooth root": a small piece of the root of the hip reminds a strong toothache.
Broths and tinctures of saxifrage are used as expectorant with colds anti-inflammatory and analgesic - with angina, oral cavity diseases. Known about the use of femoral as a diuretic.
It is even believed that decoctions contribute to the removal of stones from the body. Juice of the root is used to remove pigment spots.
In cooking, the young leaves of the plant use for cooking salads. Seeds give a spicy taste to soups, vegetable and meat dishes. The smell of saxifrage seeds, slightly resembling anise, is more vividly revealed by heat treatment.
One of the recipes for use in traditional medicine on video:
Among the properties that can harm people, only one thing is known - allergic people with individual intolerance may be exacerbated contact dermatitis.
Application
In medicine
- Infusion of dried roots. It is prepared this way: one teaspoon of crushed femur root is poured with a glass of boiling water and infused for 8-10 hours. Drink this infusion should be 4 times a day, before meals. In the infusion, you can add a teaspoon of honey - this will improve the taste of the drink. The scope of such infusion - colds, accompanied by difficulty in sputum discharge. Bedourer will reduce the inflammatory process and reduce body temperature. It is also used for kidney disease and gastritis. External use of the solution prescribed for diseases of the throat - sore throat and laryngitis.
- Infusion of flowers and seeds. In a glass of boiling water insist a teaspoon of flowers and a teaspoon of feminine seeds. This recipe helps to reduce the intensity of pigmentation in vitiligo. To achieve the desired result, it is necessary to wipe the problem areas 6 times a day with a clean cloth moistened with the infusion.
- Broth roots. One tablespoon of the roots for 30 minutes, boiled in 0.5 liters of water. Then the broth is cooled and filtered. Used in inflammatory processes of the respiratory tract and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Take it should be 120 ml 3 times a day, at least 20 minutes before meals.
- Tincture of the roots on alcohol. Pimpinellin, one of the active substances contained in the root is not water soluble, so alcohol tincture will allow you to extract the maximum benefit. Used as alcohol-free infusion. To prepare the tincture you need 50 grams of crushed roots, pour 250 ml of vodka and insist for 10 days in a dark place. Take it to 25 drops 3 times a day.
- Fresh Juice. Apply to lighten pigment spots. Also, the juice is used as a sedative and antiseptic. To lighten the spots use juice squeezed from fresh plants. In the morning and evening with a napkin dipped in juice, it is necessary to wipe the skin. After wiping, it is advisable not to wash immediately, but after 15-20 minutes, this will increase the effect. At a cold, fresh juice of the femur is instilled with 3-4 drops in each nostril 1 time in 6 hours.
- Powder from crushed roots. It is an excellent additional ingredient in toothpaste. It has an antiseptic and anti-inflammatory effect. To get the original paste, you need to add powdered powder from the roots of the femur to your usual paste at the rate of 1 teaspoon per 100 ml.
- In cooking. Widely used in Spanish and Italian cuisine. Use, as a rule, leaves that have a pleasant aroma and sweetish-spicy taste. Very often the bedrush is added to fresh vegetable salads, as well as soups, sauces, etc.
- Dried and ground into dust the roots of the femur are used as a spice for meat and fish.
IMPORTANT! The aroma of crushed femur will intensify when interacting with 1 drop of lemon juice.
- The inflorescences are used in pickling cucumbers and tomatoes, and the seeds are added to the dough when baking bread.
- The stems and leaves are used to give the drinks a golden color and a pleasant aroma.
Other uses
- Agriculture. When mixing the femur into feed for cattle, an increase in yield and normalization of appetite are observed.
- Bedouren - honey plant, attractive to bees. However, the amount of nectar the plant contains is small.
- Essential oils extracted from saxifrage femur are used in the manufacture of toothpastes, creams and powders.
Contraindications and side effects
The variety of healing properties of plants make it, of course, beneficial to the human body. However, there are side effects and contraindications that you should pay attention to:
- The use of thighs excluded during pregnancy, individual intolerance to the plant and children under 2 years.
- Thrombosis and bradycardia.
- Allergic reactions.
- In rare cases, dermatitis may occur.
ATTENTION! Before use, consult with your doctor, and if you receive recommendations on the use of plants - carefully follow them.
In general, the femoral well tolerated, and side effects are extremely rare.
Harvesting: how to collect grass and properly stored
The right choice, timely procurement and storage of the femur - a guarantee of the greatest efficiency of the plant during use.
All parts of the plant are used, but the raw material must be harvested separately.
First of all, at the very beginning of the summer, leaves are collected. This is done immediately before the start of flowering, at this moment the leaves are maximally saturated with useful substances.
They must be collected in the early morning, immediately after the dew dries.. Dry the leaves, hanging them in bunches in well-ventilated, darkened rooms or salt them.
Then comes the turn of the seed collection. It is impossible to clearly determine the time of collection, it is necessary to focus on the color - ripened seeds acquire a light brown shade. Seed ripening period - from late July to mid-September. They are dried, poured into a glass jar with a tight lid and stored in dark rooms.
The last, in October, harvest the roots of the plant. They are cleaned from the ground, washed under running water and dried. Cutting the roots is not recommended so as not to lose flavor and beneficial properties. Store the obtained raw materials in a cool place in glass jars.
Conclusion
Unpretentious, widespread throughout the country, the plant seems too simple to give him a special place in the apartment or on the site.
But it is worth taking a closer look more closely, to learn more about it, so that the stone saber will become one of your favorites.