Sowing Buckwheat

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Sowing buckwheat is one of the plants of the family called buckwheat, in Latin the name of this plant will sound like this: Fagopyrum sagittatun Gilib. As for the very name of the buckwheat family, in Latin it will be: Polygonaceae Juss.

Description of buckwheat

Sowing buckwheat is an annual herb, the height of which will fluctuate between fifteen and seventy centimeters. The stem of this plant is straight, while in the upper part it will be naked and branched, and such a stem can be painted in both green and reddish tones. The leaves are yellow, alternate and heart-shaped, they are endowed with an arrow-shaped base, as well as a checkered bell, which is located at the very base of the petioles of the lower leaves. The top leaves of this plant will be sessile. The flowers are small and fairly fragrant, odorous and endowed with a simple perianth. In color, such flowers will be white-pink, such flowers are collected in a brush. The fruits are triangular achenes.

The flowering of buckwheat is in the period from June to July. It should be noted that buckwheat is cultivated as a cereal and melliferous plant in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Description of the medicinal properties of buckwheat

Sowing buckwheat is endowed with quite valuable medicinal properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to harvest the tops of flowering deciduous stems: seeds and grass. Such raw materials should be collected during the flowering of the plant and as the seeds ripen. Such raw buckwheat should be dried in the fresh air in the shade or in dryers, where the temperature will be about thirty to forty degrees Celsius, and it is also permissible to dry it in attics, where very good ventilation is noted.

The presence of such valuable healing properties is explained by the fact that the herb of this plant contains the glycoside rutin, as well as caffeic, gallic, chlorogenic and protocatechuic acids. Buckwheat grains contain protein, sugar, starch, fat, fiber, vitamins of groups B, P, PP, as well as malic and citric organic acids, and in addition, the following minerals: iron, zinc, calcium salts, phosphorus, boron, nickel, iodine and cobalt.

The leaves and flowers of this plant are used similarly to vitamin P for the treatment of beriberi, for the prevention and treatment of cerebral hemorrhages, as well as for the treatment of the retina with a tendency to bleeding into the skin, with hypertension, rheumatism, measles, scarlet fever, typhus. In addition, such agents are also used for the prevention and treatment of vascular lesions, radiation sickness, salicylates, arsenic compounds, and radiotherapy.

As for traditional medicine, buckwheat leaves, flowers and flour sifted through a fine sieve are widespread here. As an expectorant, it is recommended to prepare the following infusion from the flowers of this plant: at the rate of forty grams per one liter of water. Such a remedy is used for dry cough, and an aqueous infusion of buckwheat flowers is used for leukemia and sclerosis. Fresh leaves of this plant can be applied to abscesses and festering wounds. In the form of baby powder, you can use dry flour, which is pre-sieved through a sieve.

With a tendency to hemorrhage, it is recommended to use the following remedy: for its preparation, take fifteen grams of flowers of this plant in half a liter of boiling water. Then the resulting mixture is infused for two hours in a sealed container, after which the mixture is thoroughly filtered. It is recommended to take such a remedy one third of a glass three to four times a day before the start of a meal.