Pig Finger

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Fingered pig is one of the plants of the family called cereals, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Cynodon dactylon (L.) Pers. As for the name of the finger-pigeon family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Gramineae Juss.

Description of finger pig

Pig finger is a perennial plant, the height of which will fluctuate between ten and fifty centimeters. The rhizome of this plant is rather long, branched and creeping. The stems of such a plant will be ascending, and at the very base they are branched. The leaves of the finger pork will be bluish in color, linear-lanceolate, hard or soft, and the tongue itself is ciliated. The branches of the inflorescence of this plant are only about three to eight pieces, and the spikelets will be ovoid.

The flowering of the finger pork occurs in the period from July to August. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in the Crimea, Central Asia, the Sredneprovsky and Prichernomorsky regions of Ukraine, the Irtysh and Verkhnetobolsky regions of Western Siberia, as well as the following regions of the European part of Russia: Lower Volga, Prichernomorsky and Lower Don. As for the general distribution, this plant is found in the Balkan Peninsula, Northwest China, Mongolia, Central Europe, Asia Minor, the Mediterranean, Afghanistan, Armenia, Irina and Kurdistan. For the growth of the finger pig, it prefers mountains, plains, sandy and cattle-knocked out places. It is noteworthy that this plant can quite often become a malicious weed.

Description of the medicinal properties of the finger pig

Pig finger is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for therapeutic purposes it is recommended to use the entire aerial part of this plant and its root shoots.

In China, this plant is quite widespread. A decoction, prepared on the basis of about fifteen to thirty grams of grass and thirty to sixty grams of pork finger roots, is recommended to drink for dysentery, nosebleeds, rheumatic bone pain, upper respiratory tract infection, edema of the lower extremities, liver inflammation, hemiplegia, bloody vomiting, infectious infection of the urinary tract, nosebleeds, hemoptysis, urticaria, blood in the feces, rheumatic bone pain, various kinds of injuries, paralysis of the arms and legs.

With regard to the external use of this plant, then fresh leaves of the pork finger, crushed to a mushy mass, should be used in the form of a plaster for small sores on the legs, broken bones, small cut wounds and carbuncles.

It should be noted that the finger pork is a drought-resistant and salt-resistant plant. It is noteworthy that this plant is used as a forage plant in semi-desert and desert zones, in particular, this will concern the sheep breeding zone.

In the folk medicine of different countries, the pork finger has become quite widespread. Such a plant will be endowed with a weak hypotensive effect, laxative and diuretic effects. Nevertheless, it is important to note the fact that scientific studies of this medicinal plant are rather few and even the chemical composition of the finger pork has not yet been fully studied. For this reason, the emergence of new ways of using this medicinal plant is quite possible, because it is endowed with a rather large medicinal potential.