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Swamp bedstraw is one of the plants of the family called rotational, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Galium uliginosum L. As for the name of the bedstraw family itself, in Latin it will be: Menyanthaceae Dumort.
Description of the bedstraw
The swamp bedstraw is a perennial herb, the height of which will fluctuate between ten and seventy centimeters. The stems of this plant are branched, weak and extending, and along the ribs such stems will be tenacious from the thorns. The leaves of the bedstraw are six in a whorl, they can be either lanceolate or inverse lanceolate, their length is about three to ten millimeters, and the width will be equal to one to five millimeters.
The bract leaves of the bedstraw are paired, while the uppermost leaves will be single, they are very small in size, their length is about one or two millimeters, and their width will not exceed half a millimeter. The half-umbrellas of this plant will be loose, they are six to nine-flowered and there are such half-umbrellas at the very ends of branches and stems. At the same time, the semi-umbrellas will form a paniculate-spreading inflorescence. The swamp bedstraw rim is painted in white tones, it will be about three to three and a half millimeters in diameter, such a rim will be endowed with a short and wide tube and ovoid blades. The length of the fruits of the bedstraw will be one millimeter, and the width is one and a half to two millimeters, such fruits will be double, sometimes they can be endowed with one mericarp, and the other will be underdeveloped.
The flowering of the swamp bedstraw occurs in the period from July to August. Under natural conditions, this plant is found on the territory of Belarus, Ukraine, the European and Siberian Arctic, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Western and Eastern Siberia, as well as the European part of Russia, with the exception of only the Zavolzhsky, Nizhne-Volzhsky and Nizhne-Don regions. For growth, this plant prefers the shores of lakes and rivers, swampy meadows, ditch edges, crops, damp rocky slopes, low-lying swamps, forest edges, bushes, fallow fields and swampy forests.
Description of the medicinal properties of the bedstraw
The swamp bedstraw is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use the roots and grass of this plant for medicinal purposes. Grass includes leaves, flowers, and stems. The presence of such valuable medicinal properties is recommended to be explained by the content of anthraquinones in the composition of the roots of this plant, while rutin, flavonoids, isorutin, hyperoside and astragalin will be present in the composition of the herb of this plant.
As for traditional medicine, here this plant is quite widespread. Here it is recommended to use an infusion prepared on the basis of grass bedstraw grass for algodisminorrhea.
For epilepsy, it is recommended to use the following very effective remedy based on this plant: to prepare such a healing remedy, you will need to take one tablespoon of dry crushed herb of this plant in one glass of water. It is recommended to boil the resulting healing mixture for about two to three minutes, after which this mixture should be left to infuse for at least one hour, and then it is very important to strain such a healing agent thoroughly. The obtained healing agent is taken on the basis of the swamp bedstraw three to four times a day, two tablespoons.
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