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Floating walnut is one of the plants of the family called water nuts, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Trapa natans L. As for the name of the family of the water walnut itself, in Latin it will be: Trapaceae Dumort. (Hydrocaryaceae Raimann).
Description of floating walnut
The water walnut is an annual aquatic plant. The length of the petioles of floating leaves of this plant will be about ten centimeters, such petioles will be either naked or pubescent, and they are also endowed with oblong-elliptical floating bubbles. The length of the leaf blade of the floating water walnut will be about one to three centimeters, such a plate will be uneven. The nut is endowed with a conical base and four opposite powerful horns in pairs. The height of the neck will be about five millimeters, the diameter of the crown is six to ten millimeters, while sometimes the crown may be almost absent. At the base of the fruit, the inner diameter of the floating walnut ring will be about two to two and a half millimeters.
Under natural conditions, this plant is found in Eastern Siberia, Belarus, in the Dnieper region of Ukraine and in the Volga-Don region of the European part of Russia. As for the general distribution, this plant is found in Asia Minor, the Mediterranean, Central and Atlantic Europe, as well as in Macedonia and Montenegro in the Balkans. For growth, the floating water walnut prefers oxbow lakes, river backwaters, as well as calm waters of lakes and rivers.
Description of the medicinal properties of floating water walnut
Water walnut floating is endowed with very valuable medicinal properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the seeds of this plant. The presence of such valuable healing properties is recommended to be explained by the content of starch and carbohydrates in the seeds of this plant.
It is noteworthy that floating water nuts will play a very effective health role in the fight against malaria mosquitoes. As for traditional medicine, here this plant is very widespread. Traditional medicine uses a decoction, prepared on the basis of the seeds of a floating nut, for rabies, diarrhea, dysentery and poisonous snake bites. It has been proven that an alcoholic infusion based on seeds has the ability to inhibit the growth of Ehrlich's ascites tumor.
The seeds of this plant can be eaten both baked, boiled, raw, and fried. In addition, water floating nut milk seeds can be used as a flour substitute for making porridge, while toasted milk seeds are used as a coffee substitute. In addition, the seeds of this plant are used as feed for beavers, wild boars, pigs, waterfowl, nutria, and dairy cattle. For such use, the seeds of the water floating walnut should be used in the form of briquettes, granules and flour.
In case of dysentery, it is recommended to use the following very valuable remedy based on this plant: to prepare such a healing remedy, you will need to take twenty grams of crushed seeds of water floating walnut in one glass of water. It is recommended to boil the resulting healing mixture for about five to six minutes, then this mixture is left to infuse for two hours, after which this mixture is filtered very thoroughly. Take the resulting healing agent based on floating walnut three to four times a day, one third of a glass before the start of a meal. When used correctly, such a healing agent will be very effective.
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