Burnet plant grows wild in Europe, Siberia, Kazakhstan, Asia and the Far East. This herbaceous perennial plant up to one and a half meters tall is found everywhere in clearings and the banks of reservoirs.
Its spectacular appearance makes it decorative, especially varieties bred not so long ago, while the burnet rhizome is endowed with a number of useful medicinal properties.
Grows in the steppes of the Russian Federation and Western Europe. At first glance, it is not easy to distinguish it as a member of the Rosaceae family, since its dark purple small flowers, forming dense spike-shaped inflorescences, are very different from those of roses and apple trees.
Not tall (up to 50 cm in height) magnificent burnet - a species growing in the Ussuri region. Its unusually decorative qualities are manifested in the hanging long, thick, shaggy pink inflorescences that stand out against the background of bluish foliage.
Another type - dull burnet (blunt-leaved , obtuz ) - grows in the mountainous areas of Japan. This cute representative of the genus is characterized by a height of 1 meter and drooping fluffy bright pink inflorescences.
Originally from North America, it grows in meadows in conditions of high humidity, reaching as much as 2 meters in height. Its grace and majesty is expressed by powerful upright shoots, on which white inflorescences flaunt.
It has powerful branched stems, stretching 1.8 meters in height, with numerous oblong (up to 7 cm) narrow drooping inflorescences of white or purple color. According to the name, the leaves of this species differ from those described above by their small width - 5-10 mm.
The burnet is not characterized by carelessness. This plant requires very little for normal development, so it thrives in both well-lit and semi-shaded areas.
Of the things that will clearly benefit the burnet in growth and flowering, the looseness and fertility of the soil should be highlighted. The latter is ensured by the use of ash, superphosphate or humus, forming an auxiliary layer at the bottom of the planting pit.
It is recommended to apply fertilizers in the spring, in the first days of summer, or at the end of autumn. The plant should not be replanted until it reaches 5 years of age. It should also be noted that burnet is characterized by self-seeding, which, if necessary, can be prevented by cutting off faded flowers at the right time.
Burnet is among the cold-tolerant plants that do not need to be dug up before the onset of frost. Moreover, it tolerates winter well without shelter and is almost not exposed to pests. Thanks to such impressive advantages, she can live up to 40 years with proper care (the average lifespan is 10 years).
To propagate burnet, you can use its thick multi-headed rhizomes, first carefully tearing them out and dividing them in the spring or in the last days of summer.
The resulting cuttings, although not numerous, have a high survival rate.
The process of propagation by seeds is also quite easy. Sowing procedures should be carried out before the start of winter, and in the spring the result will appear in numerous shoots that will bloom in 2-3 years.
Both in natural conditions and in the garden, the burnet is prone to hybridization, which leads to the emergence of its most diverse flower forms. Unaltered species material can be obtained by isolating inflorescences in buds and subsequent hand pollination.
The medicinal properties of burnet include hemostatic, astringent, antimicrobial, strengthening and others. The main healing potential of the plant is concentrated in the root. Burnet root includes tannins, of which it and its rhizomes contain approximately 13-20% in terms of the total chemical composition.
There are medications based on burnet root for oral and external use. In the first case, for example, the decoction is used in a teaspoon no more than 5 times a day in order to strengthen the immune system, get rid of diarrhea, and reduce intestinal motility. External use involves lubricating the inflamed areas of the skin with a decoction. At the same time, the roots, leaves, and flowers of the plant are among the components of various medicinal teas, such as:
Gastric , which contains rhizome with burnet roots (3 parts by weight), rhizome with valerian roots (2), marshmallow roots (3), oak bark (4), calendula flowers (2), coltsfoot leaves (2), leaves walnut (2), knotweed (3), bird cherry berries (3) and eucalyptus leaves (1).
Tea should be brewed by pouring 1 tablespoon of the collection with 1 glass of boiling water, leaving it in a thermos for 6 hours, then straining. Take half a glass three times a day to eliminate problems with diarrhea (for enterocolitis);
Female , consisting of rhizomes with burnet roots (2 parts by weight), chamomile (1), sage leaves (2), peppermint leaves (2), wildflower (2), white steppe (1), motherwort (2) , rowan berries (4).
Brew tea by pouring 3 tablespoons of the collection into 1 liter of boiling water, and take it in equal portions 6 times a day for menstrual irregularities with severe pain and neurasthenia;
Chest , including rhizome with burnet roots (2 parts by weight), calendula flowers (3), thyme (1), Crimean rose petals (3), spring primrose (2), white steppe (1).
You need to brew tea with 2 liters of boiling water per 6 tablespoons of the mixture. It is consumed in equal portions 7 times a day for the treatment of lobar pneumonia with pleurisy.
You can also prepare a healing alcohol tincture from the roots of burnet. To do this, you need to pour 3 tablespoons of raw material with a glass of vodka, then place it in a dark place to infuse for 21 days.
The resulting medicine should be taken orally in drops. Several drops per day will reduce bleeding during the menstrual cycle and will help in the treatment of hypertensive crisis, thrombosis, and hemorrhoids.
The healing properties of this medicinal herb were known many centuries ago. Its name - burnet - only sounds scary in appearance, in fact it denotes one of the main properties of the plant - to stop any internal bleeding. This plant has many names: button grass, hernia grass, black grass, common redhead.
Burnet is a perennial medicinal herb from the Rosaceae family. The smell of this perennial and taste are reminiscent of cucumbers. The shoots of this perennial are small in thickness, elongated, and can grow up to 1.2 - 1.5 m in height. The flowers are not large, red with a dark tint. The shoots are solitary, erect, begin to branch only in the upper half of the plant, bare, slightly ribbed, empty inside. The foliage is not wide, similar to feathers, with 7 to 20 leaves connected together. The upper side of the leaves is shiny, dark emerald in color, the lower part is green with a bluish tint, dull. The leaves are oval, oblong, with sharply serrated edges. The root system is powerful. This plant begins to bloom in the fourth or fifth season., flowers appear from the first ten days of June to the third ten days of August. The fruits appear from late August to September. The fruits of this herb look like small brown nuts.
Burnet is a perennial medicinal herb from the Rosaceae family.
Burnet loves moist soil very much, therefore, you can find it along the banks of bodies of water (rivers, streams, lakes, ponds), on lawns and clearings. Prefers the following climatic zones: steppes and forest-steppes, but is sometimes found even in the steppes.
Burnet is especially actively used to treat various diseases in the Siberian regions and the Far East, so the population of this medicinal plant there is rapidly declining. Unfortunately, in many areas of our country, the burnet is even listed in the Red Book as an endangered plant.
One of the main substances that determine the medicinal properties of this herb are tannins. Depending on where the plant grows, the amount of these substances ranges from 11% to 16.5%. Other active compounds that have an astringent effect are also synthesized in the roots.(catechins, ellagic acid, etc.). The scope of application for preparations based on burnet is significantly expanded, because the roots contain flavonoids.
The main medicinal qualities of this herb are an astringent, enveloping effect; it also transfers blood protein from one state to another, thereby stopping bleeding.
Medicines based on burnet have anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects. It was found that the active substances that make up this medicinal plant successfully fight pathogenic bacteria of the gastrointestinal tract (in particular E. coli). The bacilli that cause diseases such as typhoid, paratyphoid, and dysentery are quite resistant to decoctions and alcohol tinctures from this medicinal plant. However, in combination with other medicines, burnet can also be used to treat such diseases. Children with diarrhea are also prescribed decoctions from the rhizomes of this herb (though in combination with other medications).
One of the main substances that determine the medicinal properties of burnet is tannins.
This herb successfully fights some fungal diseases caused by lower fungi, and also successfully copes with Giardia and Trichomonas. Using drugs based on this medicinal plant, enterocolitis and diarrhea (gastrogenic and intoxicating) are quite successfully treated.
Possessing astringent and anti-inflammatory properties, burnet is used in the treatment of stomatitis and gingivitis, inflammation of the tonsils, and treatment of sore throats of various types. Externally, preparations from this herb are used to treat purulent wounds, ulcers (trophic), rinses in the treatment of erosions, hemorrhoids, etc. The rhizomes are charred to a black state, ground and sprinkled on burns.
No side effects or obvious contraindications for the use of preparations based on burnet have been identified.. There is no overdose when taking such medications, unless the stomach is slightly upset. But we must remember that any internal bleeding, which this herb is used to stop, begins due to some serious disease, which often cannot be cured only with burnet. Therefore, in the initial stage of such bleeding, it is imperative to seek medical help.
Burnet roots synthesize active compounds that have an astringent effect.
For medicinal purposes, the roots of this perennial are most often used, and less often the flowers. The rhizomes are harvested during the fruiting period, when the inflorescences become darker.
Parts of the plant should be collected and dried correctly, otherwise some of the medicinal properties may simply disappear. Basic rules for collecting and drying:
Determine whether the medicinal roots have dried out by whether they break or not. If the roots just bend, this indicates that they have not dried out. Completely dried raw materials break down. Completely dried roots have a brown color on the outside (and the inside at the break is light yellow), their taste is astringent, and there is no smell at all.
Dried medicinal raw materials are stored in canvas bags for no longer than 5 years.
Burnet rhizomes are harvested during the fruiting period, when the inflorescences become darker
People have long used preparations based on this herb for:
The main medicinal preparations made from the rhizome of burnet are a decoction and an alcohol tincture. But you shouldn’t just brew the roots of this herb with boiling water and just let it sit. Such an infusion simply does not receive beneficial active substances from the rhizome.
Holland is the birthplace of the most popular designer of the 21st century, postmodernist Piet Oudolf. It was thanks to him that the trend in creating flower beds, which began in Germany and was called the “new wave” there, became a leader in landscaping urban landscapes among advanced gardeners. Herbs, cereals and simple perennial flowers, which two decades ago no one would have considered as an object of garden design, began to enter into garden fashion. And I would like to introduce you to one of these plants, let’s call it conventionally “simple” but charming. Burnet (Sanguisorba) quickly and rapidly entered the natural style flower beds and became in demand by landscape designers more than ever before.
Burnet is not distinguished by its large bright flowers and dense foliage; its beauty lies in its lightness, airiness and elegance. If you plant it in the foreground, then with its openwork foliage it will create a translucent screen through which the flower garden will be visible. Thanks to the long and thin, almost invisible peduncle, the inflorescences seem to float in the air, creating an additional frame for the plantings.
Thanks to the long and thin, almost invisible peduncle, the inflorescences seem to float in the air, creating an additional frame for the plantings.
Burnet meets all the basic requirements set by designers for “Dutch” or “new wave” flower beds:
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beautiful foliage and modest, dim, but original flowers - dense small inflorescences have a variety of shapes, from small cones to long spikelets or drooping earrings;
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flowers of beautiful color - white, pink, red, depending on the type;
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The flowering period is long, up to two months;
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does not lose its attractiveness throughout the year - in autumn the foliage turns yellow and orange, and dried inflorescences on high peduncles do not fall off even in winter and look very beautiful;
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holds its shape well; some types, however, fall apart, but still look good, you just need to choose the right place for them;
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It reproduces well by self-sowing and rhizomes, but is not aggressive, so you don’t have to control the planting.
burnet with perennials
This perennial is unpretentious: a lot of sun, moist, fertile soil, weeding and loosening - that’s all it needs. If the soil is very poor, standard fertilizing with mineral fertilizers and organic matter can be carried out in early spring and a couple of times during the season. Apply fertilizers carefully - the powerful rhizome is located shallow, it is easy to damage when mixing the fertilizer with the soil. Weeding and loosening can be replaced by mulching with any organic material, such as grass clippings. It is very winter-hardy, not affected by pests, and does not get sick.
Burnet is easily pollinated, resulting in very interesting hybrids. If you need to propagate a varietal burnet or a plant of the original species, propagate in divisions, and cut off the inflorescences immediately after flowering.
Propagation by seeds. Seeds are sown in autumn. The sowing depth is about 1 cm. The seeds are evenly distributed and sprinkled with a layer of peat. Until next autumn, the seedlings grow, then they are planted in a permanent place at a distance of 0.5 m. In the 2nd–3rd year, the plant begins to bloom.
Reproduction by rhizome. To obtain divisions, a plant at least 5 years old is carefully dug up, pieces of rhizome with growth points are cut off, the sections are sprinkled with ash and planted in a new place in May or August.
The genus Sanguisorba is not numerous - only about 20 species. They differ mainly in size, foliage color, as well as the shape and color of the inflorescences.
The tallest burnets common among gardeners are (S. officinalis) and (S. canadensis). Plants grow up to 1.5 m and higher, differ in the color of the inflorescences - in the burnet, they have the form of small dark red cones, in the Canadian burnet, they have white spikelets.
(S. obtusa) and Menzies burnet(S.menziessii) are more compact, about 1 m tall. Both plants are loved by designers for the elegance and beauty of their large, up to 7 cm, pubescent inflorescences of bright pink color; those of the obtuse ones are drooping, similar to alder catkins; those of Menzies are erect. Menzies burnet is the only one that blooms early, blooming already in May, the rest - in August-September.
Menzies burnet is the only one that blooms early, blooming already in May, the rest - in August-September.
Gorgeous burnet(S. magnifica) is very similar to the obtuse burnet in the color and shape of the inflorescences - pink, pubescent, drooping catkins, but the bush is low, up to 0.5 m in height.
Very attractive breeding variegated burnet. The Little Angel variety is especially good - a small plant, up to 0.4 m tall, with beautiful bluish leaves with a white border along the edges and oval cones of dark red inflorescences.
Varieties of burnet: tall powerful Red Thunder with small, almost round burgundy inflorescences, low compact Tanna with small red balls of inflorescences and Pink Tanna with pink drooping earrings.
Varieties of blunt burnet: variegated Lemon Splach with uneven yellow spots on green leaves, Alba with white earrings - the most unpretentious, grows on any soil, and Lilac Squirrel with drooping, heavily pubescent pink inflorescences up to 10 cm long, unusually large for a burnet.
Of course, creating a flower garden in the “new wave” style on your site is not easy. But a small plot in a natural style is a task that an enthusiastic gardener can handle. Plant the area with small groups of burnet, or any of them, and you will get an unusual flower garden reminiscent of a natural meadow. Moreover, it is absolutely okay if all the plants do not stand in height, as is usually customary in classic flower beds.
To treat some diseases, people prefer to use traditional medicine recipes. Burnet has enormous benefits for the body, which has been used since ancient times as an aid to get rid of a number of diseases.
In folk recipes you can find another name - hernia grass. For treatment, roots, castings, flowers and other parts of the plant are used, which are rich in tannins, starch, essential oil, beneficial acids, saponins and sterols. Burnet grass contains carotene and. The plant is rich in mineral elements; the roots contain potassium, copper, magnesium, iron and other macro- and microelements.
The presented plant has a large list of useful properties, for example, it stops bleeding well, fights viruses and microbes, promotes wound healing, and has an analgesic, anti-inflammatory and enveloping effect. This is just a small list of the benefits that can be obtained by consuming decoctions and infusions. The rhizomes and roots of burnet are used in the treatment of various diseases, using the remedies externally and internally.
In the presence of a peptic ulcer, an infusion prepared from burnet is effective due to a number of its properties: it reduces the inflammatory process, promotes the production of enzymes, fights bacteria and coats the walls of the stomach. The burnet plant promotes healing of the mucous membrane. To achieve good results, long-term treatment is necessary.
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A huge number of people confirm the fixing effect of the roots of burnet, so the infusion can be used as a first aid for diarrhea. In addition, the plant destroys bacteria, removes toxins and stabilizes the digestive system. Burnet for diarrhea in adults has been used since ancient times due to its enveloping and protective effect.
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Decoctions and infusions are effective in the treatment of female diseases, and this is due to the plant’s ability to stop bleeding, reduce inflammation and pain, and also fight microbes. In addition, burnet is an excellent general tonic. It is used in the treatment of erosions and uterine bleeding, problematic menstruation and uterine fibroids. Burnet in gynecology is used as follows:
For diseases of the respiratory system, it is recommended to use traditional recipes with burnet. Thanks to this treatment, you can reduce swelling, relieve spasms, and also destroy germs and bacteria. Burnet is widely used in the treatment of bronchitis and lung diseases, as it cleanses the respiratory system and has a softening effect. It is also worth noting the presence of a general strengthening effect.
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Folk remedies in the treatment of this disease are effective and safe, with the exception of existing contraindications. Burnet is useful for hemorrhoids due to its ability to stop bleeding and relieve inflammation. In addition, the plant relieves swelling and has a bactericidal and wound-healing effect. After several procedures, you can notice how they have decreased in size. Microenemas give good results in treatment.
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In most cases, vomiting occurs as a result of poisoning, and many doctors recommend the use of traditional medicine. Burnet removes toxins and prevents bacterial growth. It helps normalize the digestive system and relieves inflammation. Burnet in folk medicine is used in the form of a decoction.
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Problems with intestinal microflora are observed in both children and adults. Dysbacteriosis disrupts the balance of beneficial and harmful bacteria. In such cases, an affordable and effective remedy will be burnet, which helps restore the intestinal microflora and has a positive effect on the functions of the digestive system as a whole. It is also worth noting that the plant has an antimicrobial effect. For treatment it is necessary to prepare a decoction.
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In some cases, a medicinal plant is prohibited because it can cause harm to the body. There are a number of contraindications that should be taken into account:
