Duckweed has long used as a food plant. It serves salads, soups, seasonings to meat and fish dishes. It contains salt of iodine and bromine as well as Silicon and almost does not contain Ascorbic acid. Lemna allocates so much oxygen in the water, which increases the drinking water quality.
Medicinal properties of duckweed. Infused with vodka, Lemna acts as antipyretic, analgesic, an antihelmintic, jelchegonnoe. This infusion treats allergic diseases: hives, swelling. Famous researcher of medicinal plants A. Schroeter cited numerous literary figures, claiming that the duckweed is used for treatment of erysipelatous inflammations, Vitiligo, Carbuncles, tumors, as well as in case of asthma, diseases of the eye (for the treatment of glaucoma), polyps, rhinitis, inflammation of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract.
Lemna minor found in substances which have anti carcinogenic action. In the form of tinctures used drops for catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, chronic rhinitis, rheumatism, hepatitis.
Lemna is effective for allergies, it reduces the sensitivity of the organism to the effects of various substances present, the swelling of nerve origin.
Fresh leaves of Lemna put to snake bites and wraps made from the leaves of tumors impose on inflammation. Extract of Lemna drink with indigestion, as styptic and generally strengthening, and as an astringent. It has a strong diuretic and anti-inflammatory effect, so it can be used to treat pyelonephritis. Pain relief in the form of poultices are used when an ache, rheumatism, gout, and hemorrhoids. Extracts of the herb have malaria activity.
As a powder it is 1-2, before eating 2 — 3 times a day.
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Lemna minor is a perennial plant, unique and paradoxical. It is found in swamps, floodplains, quiet Lakes, creating a continuous green carpet. Lemna is a listeca no more than 3-4 mm, to which is attached a hanging down the spine. Listets, Burgas province is like a plate of sheet, but in reality is a flattened stem. In the winter of Lemna never vmerzaet in the ice, and swims beneath it, in the free water. As soon as the ice melts, it pops up to the surface. Duckweed grows actively from the parent plants child. A couple of weeks would be enough for duckweed to cover a continuous layer of the globe, if it were completely habitable surface of duckweed.
Lemna is among the most valuable fodder, food and medicinal plants. She gladly eats fish. On the content of protein duckweed is approaching the pulses, and by nourishing characteristics comparable with grain cultures of cereals. It is a highly calorific food for many game animals. It is eaten by waterfowl, muskrats, nutria. You can feed and pet.
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