This plant has many names: runner, biting, lovebird, crabgrass, heart grass. Botanists call it starworm, the villagers called it bird salad for the love of this herb of domestic birds, while the most common and familiar name came from the people - wood lice.
Instructions
Step 1
Woodlice is an annual plant of the clove family. She has tender recumbent branchy stems, small pointed leaves and a rather thin root. It blooms for a long time, from May to September. By the way, this herb received one of its names (asterisk) because of the shape of the flowers, they resemble miniature stars.
Step 2
Woodlouse feels good and grows actively on soils with high humidity: vegetable gardens, river banks, ditches, ravines, forest edges. This is a very unpretentious plant, any frosts, blizzards, droughts are not terrible for him. No matter how harsh the winter is, after the spring waters recede, woodlice come to life and easily make their way to the light, easily adapting to any weather conditions. A very tenacious grass, it grows wherever possible and multiplies at an incredible speed, for a season at least 10,000 seeds per plant.
Step 3
During active growth, the stems of the plant take root in the nodes, quickly take root and give new plants. So almost in a race, generation after generation, the grass grows and creates a thick carpet. This amazing ability to quickly create a continuous flowering canopy attracts many designers specializing in park areas. Wood lice are used to decorate lawns and decorate spots among trees. Beautiful leaves of a dark green hue quickly fill the space and attract numerous glances from passers-by.
Step 4
The beneficial properties of woodlice, its healing abilities have been known for a long time. This is not an easy tenacious weed, the composition of this herb is saturated with a huge amount of various vitamins. For example, woodlice contains more vitamin C than lemon, so it is indispensable for scurvy and anemia. There is also vitamin E in woodlice, there is a lot of it, and in most plants it is absent at all, so it is understandable why the ancestors actively used woodlice for making salads.
Step 5
Steamed woodlice is very helpful with sprains, radiculitis, joint problems. With the juice of this herb, blood is stopped, eyes are buried, hemorrhoids, stomach and heart diseases, and the thyroid gland are treated. Infusions and decoctions of dried or fresh woodlice relieve swelling, treat diathesis and purulent ulcers. It is added to tea, soups and salads, eaten raw. And woodlice has a phenomenal ability to predict the weather, if the flower does not open before 9 in the morning, it will rain.
