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Oak groats is one of the plants of the family called cabbage or cruciferous, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Draba nemorosa L. As for the name of the family of oak groats itself, in Latin it will be like this: Brassicaceae Burnett.
Description of oak groats
Krupka oak is also known under the following popular names: purist and celandine for children. Oak groats is an annual pubescent herb, the height of which will fluctuate between five and twenty centimeters. This plant will be endowed with a small branched stem and a rosette of basal oblong leaves. Stem leaves of oak groats will be oblong-ovate and whole-edged in shape. The flowers of this plant are rather small in shape, they will gather in long loose brushes and are painted in pale yellow tones. There are only four sepals and corolla petals of oak groats, while there will be six stamens, and the pistil will be endowed with an upper ovary. The fruits of this plant are oblong-oval pods, which will be located on deflected pedicels. Seeds of oak groats are small in shape and brown in color.
The flowering of this plant occurs in the period from April to June. under natural conditions, oak groats are found on the territory of the European part of Russia, the Far East, Central Asia, Ukraine, Belarus, the Caucasus, Western and Eastern Siberia. For growth, this plant prefers edges, forest glades, meadows, open grassy slopes, pebbles, places among shrubs, river banks, gravelly places, arable land, fallow lands. As a weed, oak groats can be found in the fields.
Description of the medicinal properties of oak groats
Oak groats are endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the seeds and herbs of this plant. Grass includes the pods, leaves and stems of this plant. The presence of such valuable healing properties should be explained by the content of saponins, alkaloids, flavonoids, glycosides of kaempferol and quercetin in the aerial part of this plant, while the seeds contain a nitrogen-containing compound and saponin.
As for traditional medicine, an aqueous infusion of the herb of this plant is quite widespread here. Such an aqueous infusion of oak groats herb should be used internally as a diuretic, hemostatic and blood-purifying agent for various skin diseases, especially for children. Also, such a remedy is used for bone fractures and leukemia. A decoction prepared on the basis of the seeds of this plant is used as a diuretic, and in addition, it is also used for pleurisy, whooping cough, ascites, chronic bronchitis, cardiac and renal edema.
For whooping cough, it is recommended to use the following remedy based on oak groats: to prepare such a remedy, you will need to take one tablespoon of dry crushed stems of this plant for two hundred milliliters of boiling water. The resulting healing mixture should be infused for about two hours, after which such a mixture should be very thoroughly filtered. The obtained healing agent is taken on the basis of oak groats three times a day with one third of the glass.
With diathesis in children, you should take one teaspoon of seeds in a glass of water, then boil for five minutes, leave for an hour and strain. Such a healing agent is taken three times a day, one or two tablespoons.
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