What a wonder-grass?
Chernogolovka vulgaris is a perennial herbaceous plant of the family of labial flowers 8-60 cm high. Simple, petiolate leaves are located one opposite the other. Blooms violet-blue or blue flowers, which form an egg-like oblong head. You can meet a black-head in almost the whole territory of the former Union. It is full of fields, meadows, roadsides, gardens, forest glades and fringes in summer. And thanks to the beauty and decorativity, this plant is grown on flowerbeds. It is very convenient to use the blackhead for medicinal purposes, if it "settled" on your site.
The scientific name of Chernogolovka - Prunella is translated as a plum (prune - plum, plus a diminutive suffix). Folk names - blue-head, a mink, a black hump. The last two names indicate the high efficiency of this plant for various diseases of the throat: tonsillitis, tonsillitis.
What is the use?
Harvest the grass of the black head when flowering, since it is at this time that it contains the maximum amount of active substances. The chemical composition of the blackhead contains alkaloids, soluble inorganic salts (in particular, calcium chloride), vitamins (C, K, provitamin A, rutin), essential oil, tannic, bitter and resinous substances, anthocyanins, coumarins and a number of other valuable substances .
Chernogolovka has antiallergic, diuretic, antitumor, antipyretic, hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antispasmodic action. In addition, experts note the antiseptic, normalizing metabolism, wound healing, stimulating appetite, laxative, expectorant, anticonvulsant, anti-oxidant and tonic properties of the preparations of the black head.
Possessing such a wide range of medicinal properties, this plant is used in the treatment of many diseases - both alone and in combinations with other medicinal plants.
The main application in medicine
The properties and application of the blackhead are associated with the treatment of hyperthyroidism as well as thyroid cancer. It is also shown to patients with a diagnosis of diffuse toxic goiter, in which the function of the thyroid gland is increased and the secretion of its hormone - thyroxine is increased. This disease is more likely to affect women, especially during the menopause. Often this is due to neuropsychic stress, repeated stress. Symptoms of this disease are widely known: eyelashes, an increase in the thyroid gland, tachycardia (heart palpitations) and other changes in the cardiovascular system.
Experienced herbalists appoint under such conditions the grass of the common black head. Apparently, tannins, organic acids, glycosides, flavonoids, carotene, as well as microelements (manganese, iron, zinc) somehow bring the thyroid gland back to normal.
The infusion of the blackheads rinse the throat with hyperthyroidism, and compresses are made from steamed grass. For ingestion with hyperthyroidism a teaspoon of grass, blackheads are poured a glass of boiling water, insist for an hour. Take a third cup of infusion 3 times a day, and this drug should be drunk in small sips.
What else is useful for the blackhead
In folk medicine, common blackhead is used for diseases of the upper respiratory tract, hypertension, diarrhea, edema, exudative diathesis, thyrotoxic goiter. It is known that even in ancient times, some healers used the grass of the black head for the treatment of angina and achieved persistent positive results. The presence of calcium chloride in the plant promotes its use in various allergic conditions. For children, the infusion of the blackhead is given to drink from a hernia. Blackheads help with diphtheria, throat tuberculosis, stomach pains, bloody diarrhea, diabetes, epilepsy, dizziness, eye diseases. In addition, blackheads are used for a number of female diseases: mastitis, colpitis, metritis.
Ways of reception
To prepare the medicine from the grass of the black head, you need to take a tablespoon of large chopped dry grass, pour 200 ml of boiling water, let it brew for 2-3 hours, then drain. Inside take a tablespoon infusion 3-4 times a day for half an hour before meals. The course of treatment is 2 weeks. After a ten-day break, the course of treatment is repeated.
With exudative diathesis, rheumatism and polyarthritis recommend 2 tbsp. Spoon the herb blackheads with 300 ml of boiling water, insist for 2 hours, strain and take 100 ml 3 times a day.
Antineoplastic properties of the black head
Healers use blackheads to treat almost all types of cancer. Chernogolovka has an antitumor effect and can be used for cancer of any location. There is such a recipe: a teaspoon of black-headed grass fill with a glass of steep boiling water, insist for two hours, strain. Take a tablespoon 3-4 times a day for the treatment of malignant tumors of different locations.
About external application
This plant is effective for gargling, and also it is used for stomatitis, gingivitis and other inflammatory diseases of the oral cavity. At various inflammatory diseases of a skin do lotions, baths, обмывания an infusion or broth of a black head. Decoction of herb blackheads used for washing and lotion for suppurating wounds, ulcers, scrofula, abscesses, skin tuberculosis, dermatitis, skin rash, with bedsores. In addition, the blackhead in the form of poultices is used for dislocations.
With furuncles and dermatomycosis, the blackhead is useful to use externally and in parallel to take inside. When dandruff 2-3 times a week, wash the head with a decoction of the black head. To prepare this decoction 3 tbsp. Spoons of dry herbs pour 1 liter of boiling water and heat on low heat for 30 minutes.