Creeping Gorchak

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Creeping gorchak is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Compositae. In Latin, the name of this plant will sound like this: Acroptilon repens (L.). As for the name of the family of creeping mustard, in Latin it will be as follows: Asteraceae Dumort.

Description of creeping bitter

Creeping mustard is a herbaceous perennial plant, the height of which can fluctuate between fifteen and seventy-five centimeters. The root of this plant is pivotal and also very long: its length can even reach six meters. The length of the lateral suckers will be about one meter, the stem can be either single or in the number of two or three pieces. The stem of the creeping bitter cap is erect and ribbed, and also highly branched. In color, such a stem will be grayish. The leaves are tough, ranging from oblong to nearly linear, with a very small tip at the top. Baskets are located at the tops of the stem and its lateral branches, such baskets will be single. Baskets of creeping bitter are collected in a sprawling racemose-corymbose or paniculate inflorescence. The flowers of this plant are painted in pink tones, the length of the achene will be about three to four millimeters, and the width will be about two millimeters, the length of the tuft will be about eight to eleven millimeters.

The flowering of creeping bittersweet falls on the period from May to August. Under natural conditions, this plant can be found on the territory of the European part of Russia, Central Asia, Western Siberia, as well as the Black Sea region of Ukraine. For growth, this plant prefers salt marshes, alkaline meadows, steppes, rocky shores of lakes and rivers, as well as fallows, crops, clay slopes and places along roads from lowlands to an altitude of about three thousand meters above sea level. It should be noted that creeping mustard is a quarantine weed.

Description of the medicinal properties of creeping gorchak

For medicinal purposes, it is recommended to use the fruits and herbs of this plant. The concept of grass includes leaves, flowers and stems of creeping mustard. The presence of such valuable healing properties is explained by the content of rubber in the plant, while the leaves and inflorescences of this plant contain the following sesquiterpenoids: acroptyline and repin.

A decoction based on the herb of this plant is recommended for epilepsy and malaria, and the chopped herb is used externally for scabies.

For coughs and pulmonary tuberculosis, it is recommended to use the following rather effective remedy based on creeping mustard: to prepare it, you will need to take one tablespoon of crushed herb of this plant for about half a liter of water. The resulting mixture should be boiled over very low heat for about three to four minutes, and then left to infuse for two hours. After that, such a mixture based on creeping mustard should be very carefully filtered. It should be noted that in order to achieve a greater degree of effectiveness when using such a remedy, it is recommended not only to comply with all the conditions for the preparation of this remedy, but also all the rules for its reception. It is recommended to take such a remedy either half a glass or one third of a glass three times a day after a meal has been taken.

It is important to remember that other healing properties are also attributed to creeping bitterness, but they have not yet received official use. Perhaps new ways of using this medicinal plant will appear very soon.