Latin name: Herniaria Glabra
Plant description: Inconspicuous plant that lies close to the ground. Bald stems with small, lancet-like leaves. Small, greenish and ball-shaped flowers. Flowering time: June to September
Origin: Spread throughout Central Europe. But hardly noticed because of its inconspicuousness.
Medicinally used plant parts
The flowering herb (without roots), gently dried in the shade.
Ingredients
Essential oil, herniarin and umbelliferone (both related to coumarin), saponins and tannins.
Curative effects and use of herbicides
Metabolically stimulating, diuretic, weak antispasmodic. Used to support chronic cystitis, urethritis, painful urge to urinate. Fracture herb is found as a component of many bladder and kidney teas.
Preparation: 2 teaspoons of drug are poured over 1 cup of boiling water. Leave for 10 minutes and drink 1 cup twice a day. Medicines prescribed by the doctor are not dispensable by the tea.
Combination with other medicinal plants
Crack weed is often found in bladder and kidney teas. The effect alone is only slight. Combined with bearberry leaves as a classic disinfectant of the urinary tract, however, one obtains a tea that also helps with cramping pain. Preparation: Tea mixture from bear grape leaves 20.0 g / Broom weed 25.0 g Two teaspoons of this mixture are prepared cold with 1⁄4 l water and strained after 12 hours. Warm the tea and drink a cup two or three times a day.
Side effect
No side effects are to be expected at the stated dosages. Extreme overdose may cause paralysis.
