Lucerne

However it is worth paying attention to a lucerne. Lucerne – Medicago sativa – a sowing or wild-growing grassy perennial plant of family bean. At a sowing campaign lucerne the numerous upright, naked or trimmed stalks branching in the top part from 40 to 90 cm high.

Stalks are densely covered with the oblong or having the ellipsis form leaflets. Florets small, papilionaceous, blue-violet, are collected in a brush. The lucerne in June blossoms and the whole summer can blossom. Fruits are the mnogosemyanny spiral twirled beans, ripen in August - September.

The homeland of a lucerne call Central Asia. Presently in a wild look a lucerne the sowing campaign grows in Asia Minor and in the Balkans. As the cultural plant is grown up worldwide. Especially a lot of lucerne is grown up in the USA, Argentina, India and in countries of Western Europe.

In the territory of Russia the run wild lucerne can be met on dry meadows, taluses, edges, on coast of the rivers, in bushes, on pastures. Lucerne on fields is specially put for enrichment of soils - in its root klubenka bacteria successfully detain and accumulate atmospheric nitrogen which at plowing up of plantings of a lucerne passes into the soil.

Lucerne for health
In the medicinal purposes an elevated part of a lucerne which is cut off during blossoming is used and dry in the fresh air under canopies, displaying a thin layer. The grass of a lucerne of a sowing campaign contains: B1, B2, B12, E, C, K, D vitamins, carotene, ketones, carbohydrates, essential oil, organic acids, steroids, alkaloids, glitsida, chlorophyll, pantothenic acid, flavonoids, the highest fatty acids, antotsiana, mineral substances: calcium, potassium, phosphorus, manganese, iron, zinc, copper, magnesium, sodium, silicon, chlorine …

- Medicines from a grass a plant possess the anti-inflammatory, wound healing, bactericidal, all-strengthening, diuretic, antidiabetic action.

- Traditional medicine uses a lucerne at diseases of intestines, stomach, thyroid gland, improve a metabolism, strengthens a lactation, normalize a condition of a blood system, lower cholesterol level, reduce sugar in blood, increase hemoglobin level in blood.

- Lucerne is recommended to add to food for prevention of an anemia, oncology, atherosclerosis, for strengthening of bones, at diabetes, exhaustion, arthritises, allergies, cardiac pains, bladder pains, at diseases of a liver, kidneys, spleens, an eye, at physical weakness and the increased fatigue.

- Young sprouts of a lucerne are eaten fresh, added to salads. They taste like green peas.

- Especially they are useful to pregnant women and the feeding women and children as in them there are a lot of limy substances which are "construction material" for bone tissues of an organism.

- Powder from leaves of a lucerne is used outwardly as wound healing and styptic means at cuts.

- Infusion. To fill in 2 tablespoons of the crushed grass of a lucerne with 2 glasses of boiled water. To insist 4 hours, having wrapped up. To filter, accept 1/3 glasses 3-4 times a day to food.

- At diabetes and dysfunction of pancreatic and thyroid glands. To fill in 1 tablespoon of the crushed dry grass of a lucerne 1 incomplete (to a border) a glass of boiled water, to insist 30-40 minutes, to filter, accept ¼ glasses 3 times a day. At diabetes accept the lucerne juice divorced boiled water 1:1.

- As the all-strengthening and bactericidal means. 1 tablespoon of a dry grass to fill in ½ glasses of vodka, to insist 2 weeks in the warm place. To take 10 drops for half an hour to food.

Medicines from a lucerne cannot be applied at system red a wolf cub!

Lucerne for appearance. In industrial cosmetics the lucerne is added to creams and lotions for care of skin.

- National cosmetics recommends to wipe the tired, exposed to the wind or faded skin with broths from a lucerne. 1 teaspoon of the crushed grass to fill in 1_2 glasses of boiled water, to draw half an hour, to filter, moisten with broth face skin, necks, a decollete. It is not obligatory to wash, but if there is desire to wash away, then boiled water in half an hour.

- Compresses from a lucerne for rejuvenescence. To fill in 1 tablespoon of the crushed lucerne grass with 1.5 glasses of water, to insist 20-30 minutes, to filter. To moisten the gauze put in 3-4 layers in warm broth and to put on a face. In 5 minutes to wipe a face with a cube of ice or to wash cold water. Again to impose a warm compress from lucerne broth. So 3-4 times. To finish with cold washing and to impose moisturizing cream. After that it is impossible to come to a frost.

- Broth from a lucerne is mixed with honey, impregnate with structure a gauze and imposed on skin as nutritious means for any skin. Or put with a brush in several layers. Wash away water of room temperature in 15 minutes. This compress well removes hypostases.

- Consumption in the winter of germinated grains of a lucerne considerably helps growth of hair.