The most malicious and eternal enemy of any gardener is weeds. No matter how much you take care of your garden, weeds come from somewhere. One of the annoying, difficult to remove weeds is wheatgrass. From year to year, more and more new ways of dealing with it are invented, but it has an amazing vitality that many cultivated plants will envy.
To get rid of the pest and free the area from the grass covered with solid grass, you need to make a lot of effort. Therefore, only a comprehensive, targeted strategy can save the garden from the occupying plant.
photo of wheatgrass
plant description
This herb belongs to the grass family. It is a perennial plant with long knotty creeping roots, deepening into the soil along its entire perimeter by 2 meters. The height of the plant reaches 1.2 m. The leaf is narrow-linear, flat, with roughness, gray or greenish in color. The flowers are long, narrow, like spikelets.
The plant usually blooms in late spring or early summer. The fruits appear from mid-July, and ripen in early September. A healthy plant produces about 10,000 seeds, which retain their properties and germinate for 12 years. Grass wheat grass grows on any soil - cultivated or not. Being an aggressor, it easily makes its way in solid ground, taking away moisture and nutrients from plants that get in its way.
Crops are dying from this pest, as it needs elements and minerals much more than they do. Moreover, the weed exudes toxic secretions that fall on the ground, as well as poisoning everything around. Grass wheatgrass has found wide distribution in countries with a temperate climate. It is favorably affected by moisture, humus, nitrogen-containing soils.
The weed propagates in the traditional vegetative way - roots. Good conditions give them the opportunity to germinate several buds per internode. The root consists of many such nodes at a distance of two centimeters from each other. From this it follows that a square meter of rhizome is about 14 thousand buds. The buds on the root are always active. When the root divides, they become active, grow, giving life to a young shoot.
Also wheatgrass is effectively propagated by seeds. An adult pest produces about 300 grains that are viable for 5 years. Seeds actively grow at positive temperatures, lying 6-11 cm in the soil. Unfavorable weather slows down the maturation of seeds, which leads to their death.
Medicinal properties
Wheatgrass is endowed with amazing medicinal properties used by our ancestors since ancient times. Its roots contained a high content of polysaccharyl triticin, saponin, essential oils, organic acids, carotene, vitamin C and ascorbic acid.
Wheatgrass is used as:
- anti-inflammatory
- painkiller
- enveloping
- diuretic
- expectorant
- diaphoretic
- blood-purifying
- laxative
Used for such diseases:
- gout
- rickets
- rheumatism
- scrofula
- chronic eczema
- furunculosis
- arthritis
- anemia
- liver disease
As a rule, the herb is used to cleanse the blood vessels, removing toxins from the blood. This has a good effect on the general condition of the body, which leads to the removal of fatigue and stress.
In many European countries ah, wheatgrass is actively used in treatment. For these purposes, the whole plant (roots, leaves) goes. As an additive, it is recommended to be used for catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, as a diuretic, in case of metabolic disorders.
Wheatgrass tea minimizes acne, beneficial effect on the skin.
They also eat weeds. For these purposes, use the roots, ground into flour. Various products are made from flour in the form of bread, cakes, gingerbread. Young rhizomes go to soup, salad, side dish.
Pets also do not disdain to eat this grass. As soon as the young shoots of this plant sprout, they replenish their body with pleasure. useful vitamins and substances by eating wheatgrass stalks.
The weed is also known for its good cleansing action from radioactive radiation. Thanks to the tannins in its composition, it expels strontium from the body.
photo of wheatgrass root
How to remove wheatgrass from the garden forever
To get rid of an annoying plant, you need to carry out a whole range of measures. The effectiveness of actions depends on the timely measures taken. The fight against weeds includes the use of mechanical, chemical, folk remedies.
To mechanical way relate:
- Soil treatment in autumn. After harvesting, you should dig up the garden a couple of times.
- Select roots. To do this, use a pitchfork that can pick up the whole bush. The bush taken out in this way is carried away from the garden and disposed of.
- Spring harrow. Use of a cultivator before sowing cultivated plants partially eliminates the roots of couch grass, which are underground by cutting them.
- Juvenile pruning. Cutting under the very root or weeding makes it vulnerable. Subsequently, the pest dies.
- Shading. A plastic film is laid out on the site, pressing something heavy on top. The lack of light reduces the growth, as well as the reproduction of the plant, and it dies.
The chemical method allows you to quickly get rid of wheatgrass.
To choose the right tool, you should consider some factors:
- herbicide action. Solid and selective. The first is designed to remove all vegetation, the second cleans a "certain" plantation.
- Penetration of funds. The reagent (systemic) gets inside, covering the entire plant as a whole. Reagent (contact) destroy the place of application.
- type of agricultural crop. Vegetables react differently to each herbicide. Therefore, when buying a potent drug, you should make sure that it is compatible with this type of culture.
You can take wheatgrass out of the garden and folk remedies:
- A strong baking soda solution poured on the weed will weaken it.
- Salt, sprinkled on the plant and poured with water, after penetrating into the soil, blocks the growth of the pest.
- Blowtorch, which is used to burn out the creeping wheatgrass weed.
- Make a solution of citric acid (60 ml) and water (1000 ml). Leaves are sprayed with the composition.
- A solution of vinegar and salt. Vinegar (2 l), salt (50 g), detergent(10 g) mix thoroughly with each other, spray weed in the morning.
Pest control takes a long time. Using various methods of resistance and influencing its vulnerable sides, you can destroy the weed, freeing your site from the aggressor.
Growing vegetables, berries and fruits, gardeners have to deal with weeds. One of them is the creeping wheatgrass. This perennial is able to "crawl through" almost all areas in the garden.
In addition, wheatgrass is distinguished by its endurance and unpretentiousness, so getting rid of it is not so easy. In my article I will tell you how to get rid of couch grass weed in the most effective and reliable ways.
Creeping wheatgrass is a perennial. The weed belongs to the grass family. The height of an adult plant can reach 1.5 m. Having spread in the garden, wheatgrass obscures crops and depletes the soil, sucking out all the nutrients important for plants from it.
root system weed is very powerful. The length of the roots often reaches 20 m. This is what complicates weed control, since by removing the surface of a harmful plant, it is not easy to completely pull the roots out of the soil.
The wheatgrass weed reproduces vegetatively. At the same time, reproduction occurs so quickly that if appropriate measures are not taken to eliminate the weed, it will “capture” the entire territory of the garden.
A feature of the weed is its unpretentiousness: it is not afraid of frost, sudden changes in weather conditions and prolonged drought. Seeds that fall on the soil germinate even at a temperature of +3 degrees. These features of creeping couch grass should be taken into account by gardeners in the process of dealing with the plant.
The harm from the spread of wheatgrass in the garden is colossal:
- The greatest danger of wheatgrass is for strawberries and potatoes, because with its powerful thickets it obscures agricultural crops from the sun's rays, which accordingly affects their productivity;
- thickets of wheatgrass are a favorable environment for the development of fungal infections, mold and rot;
- in the process of development, wheatgrass grows throughout the site, sucking out the nutrients necessary for the full development of vegetable and berry crops from the soil;
- wheatgrass, growing in a larger area of the garden, can completely destroy the crop of vegetables, berries and fruits.
Ways to fight
To destroy the thickets of wheatgrass, gardeners will have to make a lot of effort. The weed belongs to unpretentious and ubiquitous plants, therefore, measures to combat it must be taken the most radical.
Folk methods
- Mowing weed thickets. During the summer period, gardeners will have to mow the couch grass several times. It is important to note that this method is not able to completely destroy the weed, since only the upper part of the plant is destroyed during mowing, and its root system remains intact.
- Digging. When digging the soil, it is required to collect all the roots of the weed. To obtain the result, repeated digging should be carried out. If the thickets of couch grass are numerous, then it is recommended to dig up the soil in the garden at least 3-4 times. This method of weed control is not welcomed by all gardeners, since its implementation requires time and a colossal expenditure of physical strength.
- Mulching. Mulch helps to fight not only wheatgrass, but also other weeds, preventing them from germinating. As mulch, you can use sawdust, dense fabric, straw, black film, expanded clay, etc.
- Crushing the roots of the weed. In the spring, the soil in the garden is cultivated with a cultivator. During processing, the roots are crushed into small particles, which leads to the death of the weed.
- Cutting young. As soon as wheatgrass sprouts begin to sprout from the ground, they are cut off with a slight depression in the soil. Such an action must be carried out regularly - as soon as young weed sprouts reappear on the surface of the earth. Gradually, all this will lead to the fact that the wheatgrass will “get tired”, its root system will weaken, and this will lead to the death of the entire plant.
Use of chemicals
If wheatgrass thickets "captured" most of the garden, then chemicals are used to destroy the weed. Compositions based on chemical compounds are enough to use once to get rid of an annoying plant.
Chemical compounds in the process of processing enter the soil, destroying the root of the wheatgrass. As a result of chemical treatment, wheatgrass dies.
What drugs are effective for the destruction of wheatgrass?
- "Roundup";
- "Ground";
- "Tornado";
- "Glyphos";
- "Hurricane Forte";
- Flusidal Forte.
Weed killers effectively kill weeds. If you strictly follow the recommendations in the instructions for use, then the drugs will not have a negative impact on crops, other plantings and the environment.
During the treatment of the garden with herbicides, the gardener must take care of his own safety - work in rubber gloves, a special suit, a respirator or a mask.
Prevention
It is very difficult to get the wheatgrass out. It is much easier to prevent the spread of weeds in the garden. As preventive measures use:
- Shading. The weed does not like shady places, so the construction of shady places in the garden will help prevent the spread of wheatgrass.
- Sowing of legumes. The "enemies" of wheatgrass are all types of legumes. If you plant beans, peas or lentils in the garden, then you can get rid of the weed attack easily and simply. Also, wheatgrass does not like if its “neighbor” is sunflower, beans, radishes or corn.
- Sowing oats. Planting oat seeds after mowing wheatgrass is an excellent prevention of the spread of the weed. Experienced gardeners assure that if you plant 3 oats on the site, you can get rid of wheatgrass forever.
Conclusion
- Thickets of wheatgrass can destroy the crop. Timely destruction of the weed will help prevent its spread throughout the garden.
- To combat wheatgrass, folk methods and chemicals are used. Gentle methols are effective in killing young couch grass, chemicals are used to get rid of weed thickets.
- To avoid the spread of wheatgrass in the garden, you should carefully consider preventive measures.
Creeping wheatgrass is the most famous and widespread weed in our gardens. All weeds have incredible vitality and fertility, but wheatgrass is perhaps one of the champions, and all because it reproduces both by seeds and rhizomes. In addition, wheatgrass is a real natural pantry of useful substances! This plant has a number of medicinal properties.
Science knows several dozen species of wheatgrass. Only in Asia, 53 species are distinguished. Creeping couch grass is especially common. Elytrigia repens (L.) Nevski Family: Bluegrass Roaseae (Grasses, Gramineae). Class: Monocots Type: Rhizome perennial.
Folk names: inhabitant, rye, rye diver, dandur, root-grass, dog-grass, worm-grass.
Botanical description
Perennial herbaceous plant 40-130 cm high with long creeping rhizomes, not forming turfs. Stems erect. Leaves are alternate, flat, linear, glabrous, vaginal. Leaf blades are green or bluish-green, usually 3-8 mm wide.
The inflorescence is a complex spike. The flowers are small, pale green, inconspicuous, collected in spikelets of 4-7 pieces. Spikelets, in turn, form long apical spikelets, up to 15 cm long. Blooms in June - August. The fruit is a grain, similar to wheat, up to 0.5 cm long. The rhizome is horizontal, cord-like. Grows in fields, meadows, grassy slopes, forest clearings.
The Latin name for this plant, a malicious weed, is Agropyron repens translated means - fire fields creeping, for the farmer and gardener creeping wheatgrass (Elitrigia repens) turns into a constant nightmare. The appearance of wheatgrass on the field can be compared with a fire. It is rare that a gardener can boast that there is not a single bush of couch grass on his beds.
Its rhizomes do not have a dormant period and start growing at the slightest damage. They are located in the soil horizontally, and branch. The tops of such branches are bent upward and come to the surface of the soil, giving rise to a new individual of wheatgrass.
After June 22, the rhizomes begin to grow down, thicken, forming nodules for overwintering. good conditions, on loose, fertile soils, wheat grass reproduces only by rhizomes, without bothering to bloom. Seeds are formed during compaction and drying up of the soil, in dry years, and with difficult development of rhizomes. Rhizomes of couch grass in the soil can reach several hundred kilometers per hectare in length, then they have about 250 million buds, each of which is able to sprout and form an independent plant. The bulk of the rhizomes on arable land lies at a depth of 10-12 cm. On dense soils - at a depth of 3 - 5 cm. In an undisturbed rhizome on virgin lands, from 2 to 54 percent of the buds germinate. Young rhizomes of wheatgrass are white, old rhizomes are yellowish-brown. The harvest of rhizomes can reach 2.5 kilograms / meter 2.
In the spring, literally from under the snow, they immediately start growing. At the same time, the strength of the growth of rhizomes is so great that they freely penetrate old boards 2-3 cm thick. and whole potato tubers. When the apical bud of the shoot is removed or damaged, the next bud starts to grow. Grow, any segment of the rhizome that has at least one kidney is capable of growing. The root system of underground stems that penetrate the soil in the first year of life by 75 cm, in the second - by 195, in the third - 250 cm (the bulk - no deeper than 20 cm, on compacted soils - by 8 ... 10 cm). Weeding in the fight against wheatgrass does nothing, the only remedy is to select rhizomes when digging. The couch grass thicket left to itself is quite durable - it exists for 6-7 years, then it gradually thins out and dies.
All weeds have an enviable vitality and endurance. And especially from them creeping couch grass stands out. But, despite its harmfulness, wheatgrass can bring great benefits. Probably its "aggressive" survivability and due to its healing properties. Thanks to the agropyrene contained in wheatgrass, it does not freeze in winter under any frost. Working at the Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, I managed to isolate this substance and "force" spring wheat sown in autumn to overwinter. 
When crossing wheat and couch grass, wheat-couch grass hybrids were obtained, which gave a high yield, were resistant to stress, frost, wetting, freezing and were perennials. Propagated by rhizomes. In winter, we had to hollow out the rhizomes of wheatgrass from the ice in winter to isolate the phytohormone Abscisic acid from the rhizomes. He is so alive.
The rhizomes of couch grass were widely used for medicinal purposes as far back as Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome, in medieval traditional medicine, and are also widely used in modern folk medicine in European countries and in homeopathy.
Avicenna in the "Canon of Medicine" wrote about couch grass:
“It is useful in fresh wounds when applied to them, especially its root, which has the property of healing.
It prevents the occurrence of any catarrhs.
Its squeezed juice, boiled with honey or wine - both of which are taken in equal amounts by weight - is an excellent medicine for the eye. This medicine is composed (as follows): they take the squeezed juice of sil, half of its amount of myrrh, a third of pepper and a third of frankincense and mix. This is an excellent medicine that should be kept in a copper box.”
And in our country, before the revolution, wheatgrass was specially harvested for pharmacy needs. Only in the Poltava province annually collected more than 200 pounds of root. It is used in medicine and in many countries is considered a pharmacopoeial raw material. Poland, for example, exports wheatgrass rhizomes to Western Europe. Once upon a time, Russia also carried out such exports. Up to several hundred pounds of raw materials were exported from the Voronezh province to Europe annually
The word - wheatgrass, comes from a very ancient Proto-Slavic root - pyro - bread, rye, and, indeed, under certain conditions, it is able to justify this name. The rhizome of wheatgrass contains in dry form 5 - 6 percent protein, 30 - 40% sugars. Wheatgrass also contains triticin instead of starch, a white, tasteless and odorless powder, which, when its aqueous solution is heated with hydrochloric acid turns into fruit sugar - fructose. There is a little essential oil in wheatgrass and a lot of mucus - up to 10%.
In folk medicine, wheatgrass is used for coughs, and as a diuretic, it removes uric acid from the body and is recommended for gout and rheumatism. Abroad, in some countries, wheatgrass is also included in the arsenal of official herbal medicine. Wheatgrass is sometimes called dog grass. It is often eaten by dogs and cats, especially those that live in an apartment and lack vitamins. Such animals, having reached the thickets of wheatgrass, literally graze in them. This is quite a normal phenomenon, but sick animals are especially diligent in looking for wheatgrass and it is not surprising, because in folk medicine it is used in collections that purify the blood.
Chemical composition
50 mg% carotene and alanine.
In the rhizomes found:
phenolic compound avenin,
polysaccharide triticin C 12 H 22 O 11, (10%),
150 mg% ascorbic acid.
5% fructan,
1.5% fatty oil
Apple acid,
3-4% levulose,
about 3% fructose,
mannitol (2.5 - 3%) and other carbohydrates, as well as
glucovanillin,
levulose (3-4%),
agropyrene C 12 H 12 (1-phenylhexene-2-in-4),
silicic acid,
amino acids,
little-studied glycosides,
protein substances (about 9.2%),
fatty oil, essential oil (up to 0.006%), about 6 mg% carotene,
other substances.
Healing and therapeutic properties of couch grass
Medicines from the rhizomes of couch grass have diuretic, blood-purifying, enveloping, expectorant, diaphoretic and mild laxative properties. Wheatgrass extract is used to make pills. Rhizomes are part of the children's soothing tea, diuretic tea No. 3.
It is unlikely that there will be such an ailment with which they would not try, one way or another, to fight with it. The most important indications for the use of couch grass rhizomes in folk medicine are anemia, rickets, lung diseases, urinary retention, liver and gallbladder diseases, inflammation of the stomach and intestines, rheumatism and gout, skin rashes and complaints associated with menstruation.
In diseases of the bronchi, due to the presence of silicic acid, its action is similar to that of horsetail and can be used for metabolic disorders, rheumatism and gout.
The main field of application of wheatgrass is the so-called blood purification, when toxins are removed from the body with an increase in the outflow of water, which affects, first of all, in the reduction of skin rashes.
Fatigue and a state of weakness are removed. At the same time, all components act together, both vitamins and minerals, saponins and related compounds. They mainly use tea, which is regularly drunk for several weeks, 1 cup 2 times a day.
The German National Health Service indicates the following areas of application for couch grass rhizomes: to increase urination in inflammatory processes in the urinary tract; as an additive in the treatment of catarrh of the upper respiratory tract. Healing baths with an infusion of wheat grass are useful for diathesis (scrofula), hemorrhoids and rickets.
In scientific medicine, wheatgrass rhizomes are used as a salt metabolism regulator, enveloping, expectorant, diaphoretic, laxative, diuretic and blood purifier, and also as the basis of pills.
Wheatgrass is eaten by cats and dogs. It has an antihelminthic effect.
Wheatgrass is also used for diseases of the liver (hepatitis, lipodystrophy, cirrhosis), gallbladder and bile ducts, cholelithiasis, usually together with other herbs. In addition, the systematic use of the plant helps to reduce blood cholesterol levels. It is believed that silicic acid, which is found in wheatgrass, promotes accelerated tissue regeneration, strengthens capillary walls, and reduces inflammation.
Couch grass is effective for acne vulgaris and other skin diseases. In Bulgarian therapy, it is used in the complex treatment of eczema, neurodermatitis, pruritus, urticaria, collagenosis, baldness, graying of hair.
Due to the presence of sugars and vitamins, wheatgrass is a nutritious, tonic, rejuvenating agent that improves sleep and appetite. It is used in the treatment of hypertension, malignant tumors.
APPLICATION OF Wheatgrass creeping in folk medicine |
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Skin diseases |
15 g of rhizomes with couch grass roots boil for 10 minutes. in a sealed container, leave for 4 hours, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day for 2-4 weeks. |
Diabetes |
Couch grass works as a metabolic regulator. Traditional medicine recommends this recipe: take 4 tbsp. l. dry crushed wheatgrass rhizomes in 5 cups of water, put on low heat and boil until the volume is reduced by one quarter. Then strain and take 1 tbsp. l. 4-5 times a day. |
Haemorrhoids |
Chronic inflammation of the colon, inflammation of the bladder and urinary tract decoction of wheatgrass is prescribed for the night in the form of microclysters with a volume of 30-60g. To prepare a decoction, 2 tablespoons of raw materials are poured into 1 glass hot water, boil for 5-10 minutes, cool, filter and squeeze. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day before meals. Instead of a decoction, you can use the fresh juice of the aerial part of the plant. To do this, the stems are washed in running water, scalded with boiling water, passed through a meat grinder, diluted with water in a ratio of 1: 1, squeezed through a dense cloth and boiled for 3 minutes. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day before meals. Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 days. |
Sweaty feet |
Sweaty feet with odor and suppuration. Rinse your feet well warm water with soap, rinse with cold water. Take straw from barley or oats or wheat or weave couch grass between your fingers, as weave baskets. Put on clean socks, sleep through the night. In the morning, throw away the straw, wash your feet, put on clean socks. So repeat daily at night. People are considered one of the best means. It is enough to do this for a week and the disease goes away for many years. Disappears smell, sweating of the feet, suppuration. |
Fatigue |
Pour 4 tbsp. spoons of crushed rhizomes of couch grass with 5 cups of boiling water and boil until about a quarter of the volume has evaporated. Take 2 tbsp. spoons 4-5 times a day before meals for 2-3 weeks. |
Men's diseases (infertility) |
Pour two cups of boiling water over 2 tablespoons of couch grass rhizomes. Prepare a decoction. Take half a glass 4 times a day before meals. Useful rhizome of couch grass. Pour 1 tablespoon of couch grass with a glass of boiling water, let it brew for 30 minutes, strain and drink it 1 tablespoon at a time. 3 times a day before meals. |
Arthritis |
Pour 4 tablespoons of dry, finely chopped couch grass rhizomes with 5 cups of water, boil until the volume is reduced by a quarter. Take 1 tablespoon 4-5 times a day. |
Gastritis, colitis, enteritis, metabolic disorders |
Take 5 teaspoons of chopped couch grass rhizome and pour 1 cup of cold boiled water. Infuse for 12 hours, strain, pour the remaining mass of rhizomes with 1 cup of boiling water, insist in a warm place for 1 hour, strain, mix both infusions. Take 1/2 cup 4 times a day before meals. |
Diathesis exudative |
Pour 1 tablespoon of dry chopped rhizomes of couch grass 0.5 liters of boiling water. Boil for 15 minutes, insist, wrapped, 2 hours, strain. Take 1/2 cup 3-4 times daily before meals. |
Constipation |
Pour 5 tablespoons of chopped wheatgrass root with 0.5 liters of boiling water, simmer for 15 minutes. Cool, strain and make enemas for chronic constipation. |
Decoction for the treatment of tuberculosis |
Required: 250 ml milk, 2 tbsp. l. dried wheatgrass roots (or 1 tablespoon fresh). Cooking method. Dry the wheatgrass roots, pour hot milk over it, boil for 5 minutes. Strain. Mode of application. Cool the product a little and drink in 1 dose. Take up to 3 glasses a day for tuberculosis. |
Pulmonary tuberculosis |
Boil in 1 glass of milk for 5 minutes 2 tablespoons of dried wheatgrass roots (fresh - 1 tablespoon), cool slightly and drink in 1 meal. Take up to 3 glasses per day. The same decoction helps with other intractable diseases. |
Cholecystitis |
Take 20 g of wheatgrass rhizomes, pour 1.5 cups of boiling water. Infuse for several hours, strain. Take 1 glass 3 times a day. The course of treatment is 1 month. |
Cystitis, urolithiasis, articular rheumatism, gout |
Pour 2 tablespoons of chopped wheat grass rhizome with 1 glass of water, boil for 10 minutes in a sealed container, leave for 4 hours, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day. |
Tea mix for acne vulgaris |
Couch grass 20.0 Tricolor violet 10.0 Horsetail 10.0 Nettle 10.0. Two teaspoons with the top of the mixture pour 1/4 liter of boiling water, let it brew for 10 minutes and then strain. Drink regularly 1 cup of tea 3 times a day. |
Salts in the joints |
Often the cause of pain in the joints is the general slagging of the body. How to cleanse. Collect the rhizomes of couch grass in the garden, rinse thoroughly. Infuse one glass of rhizomes for 12 hours in a liter of boiled water, add honey to taste and drink half a glass 3-5 times a day. |
RECIPES OF FOLK MEDICINE |
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With gout, osteochondrosis, arthritis |
Take an infusion: 2 tablespoons of crushed couch grass root pour 1/2 liter of boiling water in the evening, insist all night in a tightly closed container. The next day, take 1/2 cup 3 times a day before meals. |
In diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, cholelithiasis, urolithiasis |
Make a decoction of 60 grams of crushed wheatgrass rhizomes per 1 liter of water. Boil 5 minutes, insist 1 hour. Take 3 times a day for 1/2-1 glass for 3-4 weeks |
With osteochondrosis |
30g of wheatgrass rhizomes are boiled in 1 liter of water until half remains. Take 3 times a day, 100 ml. |
In chronic pancreatitis, inflammation of the upper respiratory tract |
Assign a decoction of the rhizomes of couch grass: pour 2 tablespoons of dry chopped raw materials with 1 cup of hot water, boil for 10 minutes, cool, strain, squeeze, bring the volume to the original. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day before meals. |
For cough associated with colds, inflammation of the upper respiratory tract |
Pour 15 g of dried wheatgrass rhizome with 2 cups of cold water, leave for 12 hours, strain. Take 3 times a day for 1/2 cup. |
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To enhance expectorant actions to the rhizome of wheatgrass add 1 teaspoon of coltsfoot flowers, mullein and elderberry leaves. |
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To improve vision |
4 tablespoons of dry crushed rhizomes of couch grass in 5 cups of boiling water, boil until the volume is reduced by 1/4, strain. Take 4-5 times a day, 1 tablespoon. |
With oncological diseases |
2 tablespoons of crushed dry rhizomes of couch grass, pour 1/2 liter of boiling water, simmer for 12-15 minutes, leave for 2-3 hours. Drink 3-4 times a day 30 minutes before meals, 1/3 cup for 3-4 weeks. |
As a mild laxative and diuretic |
A decoction (1:10) of rhizomes of couch grass is prescribed 2-3 tablespoons 3 times a day before meals. Decoction: 2 teaspoons of rhizome to 1 cup of boiling water. Boil 5-7 min. on very low heat. Insist, wrapped, 1 hour, strain. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day. |
For rheumatism and joint pain |
4 teaspoons of wheatgrass rhizomes per 1 cup of cold boiled water. Infuse for 12 hours, strain. Pour the rest of the rhizome with 1 cup boiling water. Insist, wrapped, 1 hour, strain. Mix both infusions. Take 1/3 cup 2-4 times a day. |
With abdominal dropsy |
15 g of rhizomes with couch grass roots boil for 10 minutes. in a sealed container, leave for 4 hours, strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day. For constipation apply in the form of enemas the juice of the herb couch grass (1:20). |
With a cold sore |
Take 2 - Zraza per day for 3-4 weeks, 200 - 600 ml of couch grass juice, squeezed from rhizomes (April - early May, autumn) and grass. To do this, the rhizomes washed in running water are scalded with boiling water and passed through a meat grinder, diluted with water 1: 1, squeezed through a dense cloth and boiled for 3 minutes. |
With radiation sickness |
Infuse 2 tablespoons of crushed roots in 500 ml of boiling water (in a thermos) for 8 hours, strain, squeeze out the remaining raw materials. Take during the day in 3 doses for 30 min. warm before meals. |
With furunculosis |
To prepare it, 4 tablespoons of crushed rhizome are poured into 1 cup of hot water, boiled for 5 minutes and filtered. Take 1 glass 3 times a day before meals. The course of treatment is 3-4 weeks. |
For eczema |
Make a decoction of wheatgrass root (collect in May): for 20 g of roots - 1 cup of boiling water. Drink 200 ml 3 times a day before meals. Outwardly, make lotions from the decoction. For various skin diseases, take a bath once a week. To do this, 100 g of wheatgrass and burdock rhizomes are placed in an enameled bucket, half the container is poured with hot water and boiled for 10 minutes. Duration of the procedure - 30 min. at a water temperature of 36 - 37°C. |
For childhood eczema |
Take for 3 - 4 weeks 2 - 3 times a day 50 ml of couch grass juice, squeezed from rhizomes and grass, and bathe children in it. |
For urate and oxalate stones |
Take 1 tablespoon 4-5 times a day decoction of the rhizomes of couch grass: 4 tablespoons of dry chopped raw materials in 5 glasses of water, boil until the volume decreases by 1/4, strain. When the type of stones is not established, a cold infusion of couch grass rhizomes is used: 15 g of crushed dry raw materials in 2 cups of cold water, leave for 12 hours, strain. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times a day. |
With rickets, scrofula, diathesis |
Cold infusion of rhizomes of couch grass: 15 g of dry crushed raw materials in 2 cups of cold water, leave for 12 hours, strain. Take 2 tablespoons 3 times a day. |
With gallstone disease |
A very useful infusion of wheatgrass rhizomes, which is prepared in a rather original way. 4 teaspoons of crushed wheatgrass rhizomes, pour 1 glass of cold boiled water and infuse for 12 hours. Then the infusion is drained, and the raw material is poured with 1 glass of boiling water and infused for 10 minutes. The resulting infusion is poured into the previously prepared one. The drink is drunk in completely equal portions throughout the day. |
| When purifying the blood, when, with an increase in the outflow of water, toxins are removed from the body, which affects, first of all, in a decrease in skin rashes | They mainly use tea, which is regularly drunk for several weeks, 1 cup 2 times a day. Tea from wheatgrass: 2-3 teaspoons with the top of wheatgrass pour 1/4 liter of hot water and let stand for 10 minutes. They also recommend juice from fresh rhizomes, which is prepared using a juicer; take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day . |
Juicing
Wheatgrass stalks are thoroughly washed, scalded with boiling water, passed through a meat grinder. The resulting mass is diluted with water in a ratio of 1:1, squeezed and boiled for 3-5 minutes over low heat. If the juice needs to be stored for a long time, it is poured with vodka in a ratio of 1: 1 and put in a cold place, tightly closed.
Freshly prepared wheatgrass juice is drunk for 2-3 months daily, 1/2 cup 3 times a day, half an hour before meals.
Wheatgrass juice is taken 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day before meals for uterine bleeding and heavy menstruation.
Juice from fresh leaves is taken for cholelithiasis, 1 glass 3 times a day for 15-20 days.
The juice of fresh wheatgrass leaves in folk medicine is used for urine - and cholelithiasis, osteochondrosis, furunculosis. (Take 0.5 cup 1-2 times a day).
Freshly prepared juice is used for colds of the upper respiratory tract, bronchitis, pneumonia. It is drunk for 3-4 months, 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day, 30-40 minutes before meals.
Napar
From the rhizomes of wheatgrass (60 g per 1 liter of boiling water) is taken for gastrointestinal diseases, for gall and kidney stones and for all skin diseases, with furunculosis, and also as an expectorant. In the latter case, a mixture of couch grass, linden blossom, black elderberry flowers, podbel leaves and mullein flowers is used. All components in the mixture are taken in equal parts. Take daily 3 cups of such a mixture - 1 tablespoon of the mixture per cup of boiling water. This napar is taken for many chest diseases. A decoction of wheatgrass is used for enemas with chronic constipation, Napar - for baths with skin diseases and scrofula.
Decoction
2 tbsp. spoons of raw materials are poured with 1 glass of hot water, boiled for 5-10 minutes, cooled, filtered and squeezed. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day before meals with bile - and urolithiasis and inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. A decoction of the same concentration is used to treat gout, rheumatism and inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract. To enhance the expectorant effect, 1 teaspoon of coltsfoot flowers, mullein and elderberry leaves are added to the wheatgrass rhizome. With hemorrhoids, chronic inflammation of the large intestine, inflammation of the bladder and urinary tract, a decoction of wheatgrass is prescribed at night in the form of microclysters with a volume of 30-60 ml.
Instead of a decoction, you can use fresh the juice from the aerial part of the plant. The stems are washed in running water, scalded, passed through a meat grinder, diluted with water in a ratio of 1:1, squeezed through a dense cloth and boiled for 3 minutes. Take 1-2 tbsp. spoons 3 times a day before meals. Store in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
Strong decoction
For its preparation 4 tbsp. spoons of chopped rhizome are poured with 1 cup of hot water, boiled for 5 minutes and filtered. Take 1 glass 3 times a day before meals 20 minutes before meals with furunculosis. The course of treatment is 3-4 weeks. The broth is prepared only for one day, as it quickly deteriorates. The same decoction is used to prepare baths in which children with diathesis are bathed.
Bath
100 g of wheatgrass and burdock rhizomes are placed in a large enameled pot or bucket, pour 5 liters of hot water and boil for 10 minutes. It is recommended to take such a bath for various skin diseases at least once a week. The duration of the procedure is 30 minutes, the water temperature is 36-37 0 C. It is recommended to combine such baths with the ingestion of the decoction. For its preparation 1 tbsp. pour a spoonful of raw materials with 1 glass of hot water, boil for 10 minutes, cool and filter. Take 1 glass 3-4 times a day before meals.
The broth is prepared only for one day, as it quickly deteriorates.
fresh rhizomes
wheatgrass is used to prepare soups, salads, side dishes for fatty meat, fish, and vegetable dishes. Dried rhizomes are ground into flour, from which porridge and jelly are cooked, it is added to wheat and rye flour when baking bread, cakes and pancakes. From the roasted rhizomes, a good surrogate coffee is obtained.
Infusion from the rhizomes of couch grass
Required: 2 tbsp, l. rhizomes of wheatgrass, 500 ml of water.
Cooking method. Pour boiling water over wheatgrass rhizomes in the evening, insist in a tightly closed container until morning, strain. Mode of application. Drink during the day in 3 divided doses in a warm form 20-40 minutes before meals with cystitis.
COLLECTION AND DRYING OF RAW MATERIALS
Medicinal raw materials are the rhizomes of the plant, which are advisable to harvest during the period of tillage (harrowing) on agricultural fields (in autumn - at the end of August - September, less often in spring). When harvesting rhizomes, they are cleaned of stems, leaf sheaths and roots, washed in water and dried in air or in dryers at a temperature of 60-70 ° C, often turning over and stirring.
Can be dried, laying out a thin layer, directly in the sun. After drying, the rhizomes are put in a pile and carefully rubbed by hand in the same way as kneading dough, or washing clothes. At the same time, small roots break off, the remnants of soil and leaves crumble. After grinding, the garbage is sifted out, or some rhizomes are simply selected from a pile, leaving the garbage on paper or a table. Drying is considered complete when the rhizomes do not bend, but fold at an acute angle when bent. The shelf life of raw materials is 2-3 years. The smell of raw materials is absent, the taste is sweetish. Store rhizomes like any carbohydrate raw material in well-closed jars.
CONTRAINDICATIONS
Treatment of children under two years of age with any herbal remedies is a potential hazard.
In the presence of good health and short-term use of the drug within doses, and other precautions, it is possible to treat children of two years of age. The exception is pregnant women.
Couch grass is often contaminated with a poisonous fungus containing ergot. Discard plants with black bloom!
APPLICATIONS IN OTHER FIELDS
Salads, side dishes for meat, fish and vegetable dishes are prepared from fresh rhizomes, soups are cooked. Dried are suitable for flour; they cook porridge, kissels, beer, bake bread. Surrogate coffee. Good fodder plant. In culture, it can produce a hay yield of up to 50-60 q/ha.
RECIPES 
Flour and wheatgrass
Dig underground branching white wheatgrass rhizomes in early spring, rinse with cold water, and air dry. Grind to remove brown scales, grind into flour or groats.
Bread from wheatgrass rhizomes
Wash the rhizomes of wheatgrass, dry and grind into flour. Prepare the dough and ferment it with soaked bread or wheat flour. Once the dough has risen, cut it into loaves and bake in the oven. Moisten the finished bread with cold water and refrigerate.
Soup with wheatgrass rhizomes
Season meat broth (300 ml) with potatoes (50g), carrots (20g), finely chopped onions (20g), herbs (5g), wheatgrass rhizomes (70g). Salt - to taste.
Salad from rhizomes of wheatgrass
Wash fresh rhizomes (120g), pass through a meat grinder or finely chop. Add onion (20g), carrot (30g), sorrel (5g), dill (3-5g). Refuel vegetable oil or mayonnaise (10g). Add salt (to taste).
Wheatgrass rhizomes salad with other plants
Mix boiled rhizomes (100g) with blanched chopped nettle leaves (50g), dandelion, goutweed, plantain (30g each), salt, mix thoroughly. Season with mayonnaise (sour cream, tomato sauce, vegetable oil) (100g). Sprinkle with dill, parsley and green onions (15g).
Porridge with wheatgrass
To prepare porridge, mix wheatgrass with other cereals (barley, buckwheat, millet, etc.) in a ratio of 1:2, 1:1. Cook over low heat or water bath until tender. Salt at the end of cooking, keep in a warm place for 1-2 hours. Before serving, add milk or butter.
Wheatgrass Casserole
Thoroughly wash wheatgrass rhizomes (150g), boil in salted water, cut into pieces, pass through a meat grinder. Put the mass into a pan, pour the egg-milk mixture (1 egg, 50 ml of milk, 25 g of butter), you can add sausages and bake in the oven.
Wheatgrass Puree
Rhizomes of wheatgrass (250g) thoroughly rinse with cold water, boil in salted water until softened, drain the water. Pass the rhizomes through a meat grinder, add browned onion (50g), ground pepper (2g), salt. Fill with butter or sour cream (15g).
One of the most common and difficult to remove in the garden is wheatgrass. Many gardeners have been fighting him for years and no longer know how to get wheatgrass out of the garden. In this article, we will look at various ways to deal with wheatgrass.
What does creeping wheatgrass weed look like?
Couch grass is a perennial herbaceous plant of the cereal family, can reach a height of 50 to 120 cm, has a very long creeping and knotty rhizome that penetrates the soil to a depth of 1 m. It can be recognized by its erect, smooth, hairless, with small flat leaves of green or bluish-green color to the stem, at the end of which there is an ear containing up to ten thousand seeds that remain viable for 12 years. Its flowering begins in early - mid-summer, after which the fruits ripen. Propagated by seeds and rhizome, shoots can even give root pieces 5 cm long, so the problem of how to get rid of wheatgrass is always relevant. It loves moisture very much and grows well during the rainy season, and during the drought period it gives weak vegetation or completely dies out.
Ways to deal with wheatgrass in the garden
These methods refer to agrotechnical measures of extermination.
- When digging the soil, it is good to choose the roots, not leaving even small pieces; for greater efficiency, it is necessary to clear the earth in parts. To protect already cleaned areas, the edges of the wheatgrass garden can be sprinkled with vinegar.
- After cleaning the soil, to reduce the viability of the rhizomes remaining in the ground, corn, zucchini, alfalfa, oats, winter rye, vetch with oats, peas with oats, buckwheat should be planted, increasing the sowing rate by 10-15%. The roots of oats perfectly kill the roots of the weed, so you can dig up the ground with unselected wheatgrass for half a shovel and, making a groove across, plant oats. Everyone knows the same way, planting several bushes of dahlias at random and part of the site to be cleared without your intervention.
- Use cardboard: without digging, in the spring we cover part of the area with wheatgrass, pour a small layer of earth on top and sow plants with a small root system there, for example, greens. Due to the lack of light, the roots of the wheatgrass themselves will rot in the ground.
- Cut the green mass of the weed with a Fokin flat cutter or any other weeder at a depth of no more than 2 cm, without damaging the rhizomes. This should be done every 5-6 days, then the roots do not receive nutrition and die off.
- Use soil compaction (do not dig it up), in this case there is not enough air for the roots and the wheatgrass disappears on its own.
Herbicides against couch grass
In the fight against this weed, you should still first apply all of the listed methods on how to get rid of wheatgrass, and only if they do not help prevent it from appearing in your garden, then you can start using continuous herbicides. Glyphosate-containing preparations have the best effect on couch grass: Glyphosate, Glyphos, Roundup, Glisol, Hurricane Forte, Tornado, etc. The most favorable period for the effective use of herbicides is the time from the beginning of tillering to earing of the weed, when it has intensive growth. But, according to scientists, such drugs should be used no more than once every 3 years. 
