Goutweed

It is known that long time Saint Seraphim of Sarov in the years of the solitary life ate a goutweed.

In old times the goutweed was reserved for the winter, it was cut and salted as cabbage or was wiped in puree and stored for months in a cellar.

In the people it was called: shnit, snytka, a yaglitsa, a dedyolnik.

Goutweed plants usually blossom at the same time, and the whole white clearing is evident. As the goutweed is a high-quality melliferous herb, earlier near it placed beehives. Bees collect from goutweed flowers to 240 kg of honey from 1 hectare.

Goutweed ordinary – Aegopodium podagraria L - a perennial grassy plant from family umbrella. In straight line height, hollow, above a little branchy stalk of a goutweed grows from 50 cm to 1 meter. Leaves at a goutweed of two types – lower large oblong and ovoid, twice ternate. The top leaves small are less cut also on short scapes. From below trimmed.

Flowers small, white are collected in an inflorescence an umbrella till 12-20 of flowers. The largest umbrella top in it can be up to 25 florets on rays. The goutweed in May - June blossoms. Fruits ripen in August. Fruit dry oblong slightly flattened dvusemyanka of brownish-brown color.

The goutweed in all European territory of Russia, in Siberia, in the Far East, in the Caucasus grows. It is possible to meet her on forest glades, edges, waste grounds, cuttings and at own dacha. Some summer residents fight against a goutweed as with a malicious weed, and others with its help strengthen health and cherish the beauty. Therefore as the goutweed is just natural storeroom of various useful substances.

Contain in its greens: vitamins – And, With, proteins, sugar - glucose, fructose, cellulose, essential oil, coumarins, flavonoids, apple and lemon organic acids, micro and macrocells – magnesium, potassium, manganese, iron, a pine forest, copper, titanium. Fruits of a goutweed contain: glycosides, flavonoids, essential oil.

Traditional medicine carries a goutweed to the most useful and valuable wild plants.
- Medicines from a goutweed have soothing, emollient, wound healing, diuretic properties.
- The goutweed improves work of heart, brain, digestive tract, increases immunity.
- The goutweed is appointed at anemia, a disease of kidneys, a liver, joints, weakness, dizziness, headaches.
- Treatment by a goutweed is effective at neurosises.
- In the medical purposes leaves and sprouts of a goutweed are used. Collect them in April-May – before emergence of buds.
- Some summer residents regularly mow a goutweed and the growing escapes use all summer.
- Folk healers say that the goutweed growing in a shadow is more useful, than growing in the sun.
- The goutweed brings harmful substances out of an organism.
- From a grass of a goutweed wring out juice and accept it on ¼ glasses with a honey teaspoon.

In house cosmetics use, both goutweed leaves, and juice.

- For rejuvenation
Considerably accept to look younger juice of a goutweed with boiled water 1:1. The first week on 1 tablespoons once a day, the 2nd week on 1 tablespoons 2 times a day. For the 3 and 4 week on 1 tablespoon 3 times a day. All organism becomes younger from such course, forces, cheerfulness increase, skin solodet.

- A mask for oily skin
To crush goutweed leaves, to pound, take 2 tablespoons of weight, to add 1 tablespoon of the flakes crushed on the coffee grinder and it is so much warm milk that gruel turned out, to put on a face for 15 minutes. To wash away warmish water. To wash cool.

- A mask for dry skin
To take 2 tablespoons of the crushed goutweed, to add 1 chicken yolk and 1 teaspoon of olive oil, it is good to mix, put on a face for 15 minutes, to wash away water of room temperature, to wash cool.

- The mask rejuvenating
To wring out juice from a syta, to take 2 tablespoons, to add 1 teaspoon of honey and 2 tablespoons of the grated cucumber, to mix, put between layers of a gauze and to put on a face for 20 minutes. To wash away water of room temperature.

- For rejuvenation and softness of skin of hands and legs
To make a goutweed grass handful in 1 liter of boiled water, to draw half an hour, to filter, make trays. Rinse with the same broth hair after washing for disposal of dandruff, silkiness and the best growth.