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Gryzhnik shaggy, or hairy (lat. Herniaria hirsuta) - a herbaceous annual plant, a representative of the genus Herniaria (lat. Herniaria), ranked in the family Clove (lat. Caryophyllaceae). A kind of fluffy miniature creation of nature, which, despite its small size, manages to be a very useful plant, both for nature and for humans. In one summer season, the plant manages to accumulate active chemicals in its miniature parts, which traditional healers use in the fight against a number of ailments that afflict humans. There is experimental scientific evidence that extracts from the herb Hernica shaggy help prevent the settling and accumulation of kidney stones by getting them out in a timely manner.
What's in your name
Although this species of the genus Herniaria is used by folk healers for slightly different purposes than to combat a pernicious disease called "hernia", which gave birth to the Latin name of the genus "Herniaria", it is a legal representative of this community of related plants, which, if necessary, can cope with hernia. But so far, extracts from the plant are used to treat arthritis, gout, and also for kidney stones.
The specific Latin epithet “hirsuta” is associated by the Google translator with the Russian word “bristly”. Botanists somewhat softened the harsh and prickly word, translating the specific epithet into Russian with the words "hairy" or "hairy", which is quite consistent with the appearance of the plant, which resembles a green fairy-tale monster.
Description
For Gryzhnik shaggy, the lands of Eurasia and North Africa are native, although the plant is also found on other continents, as an introduced species, including in the American open spaces. The plant chooses stony-gravelly mountain slopes for its place of residence, which at the same time somewhat strengthens with its thin roots, and also grows on floodplain river soils.
Since the roots of Gryzhnik shaggy do not need to maintain a perennial plant for which one summer season is sufficient for its life, nature has endowed it with a thin root.
A rising stem appears from the root to the surface of the earth, the length of which ranges from three to twenty centimeters. From the very base, the stems begin to branch out, forming a fluffy rug, since the stems are covered with protruding short bristle hairs.
The stems are covered with fleecy small leaves of a pale green color up to one centimeter long. Inflorescences of miniature flowers are born in the axils of the leaves. Each flower has three to eight green bristly sepals, but no petals.
Pollinated flowers give way to single-seeded tiny achenes.
Usage
The content in plant tissues of such active substances as saponins, coumarins and other difficult to pronounce natural formations allow traditional healers and official medicine to use extracts from the plant to treat skin diseases, kidney diseases, gout and arthritis.
For example, in Morocco, Hernia hairy is used to treat the kidneys by preventing the formation of kidney stones. Kidney stones are triggered by calcium oxalate, the crystals of which are deposited on the renal epithelial cells. Hernia hair extracts coat the crystals, preventing them from sticking to the kidneys. This ability of the plant has been proven in tests on rats.
The funny appearance of a shaggy plant will be quite appropriate in such types of flower beds as an alpine slide, rocky gardens or rocky walls, diversifying the usual set of plants for such flower beds.
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