Bogorodsk grass

– astragat the scientific name of the Bogorodsk grass. The Bogorodsk grass – Astragalus dasyanthus Pall – a perennial grassy plant from family bean.

The Bogorodsk grass can have both lying stalks, and ascending – raised above the ground on the 35-40th. Length of the stalk is from 60 to 120 cm. Leaves are difficult, neparnoperisty, usually consist of several couples of leaflets, them there can be from 10 to 15 couples. All leaflets are densely covered with reddish hairs. Yellow flowers of papilionaceous type with woolly bracts, are collected in a dense ovoid inflorescence. The Bogorodsk grass in July – August blossoms. Fruits are the beans of an ovoid form which are sticking out up.

The Bogorodsk grass in all European territory of Russia grows. It is a lot of it in Ukraine. Grows most often on slopes of water meadows, in steps and forest-steppe sites.

The Bogorodsk grass – a valuable herb. Use it and in the cosmetic purposes. Prepare a grass during mass blossoming, cutting off a knife at the level of 5-6 cm from the soil.

Contain in a grass: vitamin C, sugar, starch, polysaccharides, tannins, organic acids, dyes, gum, nitrogenous connections, micro and macrocells: magnesium, sodium, manganese, calcium, iron, aluminum, phosphorus, barium, silicon, strontium, molybdenum, vanadium …

Traditional medicine uses medicines from the Bogorodsk grass at cold, cough, bronchitis, pneumonia, flu, sharp viral and infectious diseases, an allergy, asthma, a scrofula, female diseases, venereal, at gastritis, diseases of kidneys, nephrite, rheumatism, gout, dermatitis, oncology, Alzheimer's disease, a sciatica, violation of blood circulation, heart failure, hypertension, stenocardia, a sclerosis. The Bogorodsk grass decoction is drunk at chronic fatigue and for an immunity raising.

- For pressure decrease and at insomnia
Infusion: To fill in 2 tablespoons of the dry crushed grass with 1 glass hot (but not boiled water) boiled water and to heat on a water bath of 15 minutes, to cool, filter, accept ¼ glasses 4 times a day to food.

Masks from the Bogorodsk grass very well influence face skin, they strengthen processes of cell renewal, do skin gentle and shining.

- Broth for any skin
To fill in 1 tablespoon of the dry crushed grass with 1 glass of boiled water, to draw half an hour, to filter. To wash in the morning and in the evening.

- The mask rejuvenating
Fresh grass to crush, add so much olive oil that gruel turned out. If skin is inclined to freckles – to add 4 drops of lemon juice. To put on a face for 15 minutes and to lie down quietly blindly in the shaded room. On eyes it is good to put the wadded tampons moistened in tea leaves of green tea at this time. To wash at first warm water, then cool.

- A mask from the Bogorodsk grass nutritious
To crush a grass, to take 2 tablespoons, to add 1 tablespoon of sour cream and 1 teaspoon of honey. Carefully to grind everything to homogeneous mass, to put on a face for 15 minutes. To wash away broth of parsley or warm water, to wash cool.

- Broth for hair strengthening
To make 3 tablespoons of a dry grass in 1 liter of boiled water, to insist 40 minutes, to filter, rinse hair after washing. Dandruff will disappear, hair will begin to grow quicker. Also will gain softness, silkiness, the concerning aroma.

Magicians recommend to fill a pinch of the Bogorodsk grass in a pocket or in a ladanka that who very much wants to marry. And to married ladies recommend to store a small knot from a gauze with the Bogorodsk grass among the husband's things for his fidelity. The husband can tell that it from a moth.