Healing properties
Calendula flowers are widely used in folk medicine, thanks to a wide range of beneficial properties that they possess. From them prepare various tinctures and broths which help in treatment of set of diseases.
- Drugs from this plant are used to normalize the work of the autonomic nervous system and regulate the hormonal background during menopause.
- To treat disorders of the digestive tract, folk remedies based on calendula are also used. They can be used to fight diseases of the liver and spleen. This flower also helps to influence gastritis and colitis.
- Calendula can effectively help complex treatment of diathesis and rickets.
- Among other things, this beautiful flower normalizes the work of the cardiovascular system and quickly removes swelling.
- Decoctions from medicinal plants are used as antibacterial agents and are used to heal wounds, ulcers in the mouth, and inflammation of the eyes.
- Calendula is a fairly democratic plant and perfectly "friends" with other herbs. So, the decoction of her flowers along with yarrow is actively used for the treatment of spleen tumors and disorders in the digestive tract (gastritis, colitis).
- If you add chamomile to this collection, then the remedy can help regulate the liver and prevent stagnation of bile.
Contraindications
In fact, there are not so many of them. To refrain from taking such drugs is people with low blood pressure, as well as patients prone to allergies.
Recipes of folk remedies
From diseases of the digestive tract, skin inflammation and rickets
From these diseases, tincture from the flowers of the plant is prepared. You only need to take two tablespoons of dried petals and pour two glasses of hot water and let stand for fifteen minutes. Then the medicine is filtered and taken for one hundred grams four times a day.
To strengthen and tonify
It is quite a delicious drink that you need to use to give the body strength and saturate it with vitamins.
For three liters of water, take 50 grams of dried flowers. Add to them two glasses of soda juice and a glass of honey. The mixture should be stirred and boiled for thirty minutes, and then insist for another twelve hours in a closed container. Further strain, add two cups of soda juice and a glass of honey. The liquid should be mixed thoroughly, bottled and stored in a refrigerator.
Ointment
It is used to heal burns, open wounds and ulcers, as well as to repair joints and bones after injuries. For the preparation of the product, melt four hundred grams of pork lard and pour two large handfuls of dried flowers into it. The mixture should cool down and stand for 24 hours. Then it should be heated again and filtered.
Sore Throat
This medicine effectively helps to fight with sore throat if you regularly rinse them with a sore throat. Flowers need to insist on boiling water, and then pour out a tablespoon of the agent to add water to the glass when rinsing. By the way, the same broth is suitable for fighting inflammation of the gums.
If you have a cottage or a private plot, be sure to plant there calendula. She will please you not only with her bright colors, but also will help to fight with illnesses.