Marsh cinquefoil is a branchy, lying, rooted plant. Leaves consist of 5-7 lanceolate leaves, similar to strawberries. The lower ones are bluish in color and densely pubescent, the upper ones are dark green and bare. Dekop (also called this plant) grows up to a meter in height. Another name for Cinquefoil is grass-fireflower, due to the purple color of the calyx. Cinquefoil grows in marshy places, on the shores of lakes, in mountainous areas where there is a lot of moisture.
Story
Scientists believe that the saber was given its name from eighteenth-century healers, who believed that this grass could “cut off any disease like a saber”. And the plant itself was used as a medicinal one much earlier. In Lapland, the saber was generally considered a sacred plant, from which amulets resembling braided pigtails were made. In China, the saberfish is widely used, the tincture of which is used in official medicine. In the old days, Russian doctors used dekop to treat the most terrible diseases: plague, cholera, leprosy.
Healing properties
Marsh cinquefoil is a mild biostimulant, so people have long been adding grass to tea to replenish their strength. Leaves and stems contain many trace elements and vitamin C. In the rhizomes - flavonoids, essential oil, carotene, tannins. Cinquefoil promotes the renewal of diseased cells, replacing them with healthy ones.
Application
Swamp saber, whose tincture is known as one of the best remedies for diseases of the musculoskeletal system, treats diseases such as osteochondrosis, osteoporosis, arthrosis, arthritis, and polyarthritis. The treatment of these ailments includes lotion or balm. The treatment of such diseases usually takes a long time, and the use of tincture of saber is not addictive. The most effective drugs from the root of the plant.
The All-Union Oncology Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences is engaged in the development of antitumor drugs based on saberfish. In combination with decoctions of this plant, tuberculosis, jaundice, neuralgic pain, hypotension, cholecystitis are treated. The list of diseases that are treated with saber is striking in its diversity: metabolic disorders, uterine bleeding, bites of rabid dogs. For the treatment of purulent wounds, preparations from the plant are applied externally.
But, given how much a swamp saber has a strong effect on the body, its tincture is contraindicated in pregnant and lactating mothers
Traditional medicine recipes
Tincture of the marsh cinquefoil cures almost all diseases, it is bred with water (a tablespoon in 50 ml of water) and drunk before meals, in 30 minutes. Accepted courses of 20 days with breaks of three days. Only four such courses.
Saberfish, the tincture of which is also used externally, relieves inflammation of the cartilage tissue. This tincture is rubbed into sore joints, or used as a compress. In this way, pain is relieved, normal joint function is restored.
With gastric colic, take a decoction (a tablespoon of grass in a glass of boiling water for 2 hours to insist in a thermos) saber grass 1/3 cup an hour before meals 3-4 times a day.
For the treatment of joint and muscle pain, a miraculous ointment with saber is known, which was previously prepared on goose fat. Now it’s easier to prepare such an ointment on a lanolin cream. To a tube of cream add: tincture of saberfish (tbsp. Spoon), tincture of red pepper (teaspoon), vitamin E (3 drops), honey (tablespoon). After thorough mixing, the mixture is stored in the refrigerator and, as necessary, rubbed into sore spots with a light massage. Cinquefoil together with pepper makes an “explosive” mixture, which, penetrating deep into the tissue, heats the joint well and for a long time and relieves the inflammatory process.
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