2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
If there is an insufficient amount of iodine in the body, you can use the pantry of the plant world, in the "bins" of which there is a plant called by a man "Common cocklebur". An unpretentious plant can be found everywhere, where the hand of a caring gardener has not yet reached. If necessary, you can plant Durnishnik ordinary on the medicinal bed of your own garden, so as not to waste time and energy on walking through wastelands and ravines
Cocklebur - a representative of the Astrov family
Cocklebur (lat. Xanthium) is a genus of herbaceous plants, the number of species of which is not precisely determined by botanists. At least the genus is represented on the planet by two or three species of plants, and all other species, the number of which reaches a little more than two hundred names, are considered by botanists as synonyms of an extremely variable species with the Latin name "Xanthium strumarium", which sounds in Russian as "Goiter goiter "Or" Common cocklebur.
An enviable unpretentiousness to the type and texture of the soil has turned the Cocklebur into an ubiquitous plant. It is not found only in mountainous areas, as well as in shaded areas. Cocklebur prefers the openness of road shoulders, railway embankments, waste sites and wastelands, ravine slopes and watercourses, coastal dunes and strips along the beaches … It often happens that a plant invades man-made fields, turning into an annoying weed for many cultivated plants.
Simple beauty
For all its simplicity, the appearance of the Common Dummy is quite picturesque. The surface of its rigid, erect, branching stems is decorated with dark stripes or spots and is covered with short hairs, which give the stems a rough structure. Petiole leaves often have a heart-shaped base and three to five lobes with jagged edges, giving the leaves an attractive appearance. The leaf plate is coarsely pubescent on both sides.
The inflorescences-baskets are formed by inconspicuous male and greenish female flowers, surrounded by a strong wrapper. The oval fruit, when fully ripe, becomes brown, and its surface is equipped with hooked thorns, two to four millimeters long, with which the fruit clings to the clothing of people or animal hair in order to spread the seeds throughout the territory to prolong the presence of the Cocklebur on Earth. After all, the plant is an annual and its reproduction completely depends on the viability of seeds, which are able to remain viable, being in the soil, for five years.
Cocklebur is sometimes confused with Burdock. However, Cocklebur lives only one season, having time to go through a full growing cycle, and Burdock in the first year forms only large leaves, and hooked seeds appear only in the second year of life. And the size of Burdock's leaves is much more impressive.
Healing abilities
The use of the healing abilities of the Common cocklebur requires mandatory dosing, since the plant contains at least five toxins that can harm the body. A particularly high concentration of toxins is observed in seeds and young seedlings.
However, mature plants in small quantities are actively used by traditional healers in many countries, including ours. For example, in India, with the help of Dumbler vulgaris, they fight malaria. Natives of America heal wounds by applying warm gruel from the seeds of the plant, and also use the crushed seeds mixed with cornmeal to bake cakes for food.
The presence of iodine in the leaves of Durnishnik is used by Russian healers for thyroid disease, called the short word "goiter". This is even associated with the name of the plant - "Goiter goiter", which, for me personally, raises doubts. Most likely, the species epithet "goiter" and the disease "goiter" have a common "prototype" - this is an enlarged part of the esophagus in insects, birds and molluscs, where the pretreatment of the incoming food takes place, which is also called the word "goiter".
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