The effect of mother-and-stepmother
This first-born of the spring flora keeps to the frosts, densely covering the bottom of ravines and the slopes of river banks. Mother-and-stepmother helps with catarrhal diseases, severe coughing and choking, relieves spasms, has an expectorant, diaphoretic, mild choleretic and antiseptic effect, lowers cholesterol in the blood and heals wounds. If you attach fresh leaves of mother-and-stepmother to the forehead (smooth and cool side), you can relieve a headache.
Home preparations. Make them in June, when the leaves are still relatively small. Peel off the leaves with a small petiole - no more than 5 cm thick, juicy petioles practically do not contain useful substances and slow down the drying of raw materials. Do not collect very young shoots, pubescent on both sides, as well as old ones - affected by "rust" and beginners to turn yellow. Dry the medicinal plant of the mother-and-stepmother indoors or in the shade outdoors. In this case, they need to be spread on sackcloth or plywood with a thin layer of 1-2 sheets of the lower (fluffy) surface down. Often turn, watch that they do not turn black. Attention: in well-dried plants stems do not bend, but break. After drying, go through the raw materials, removing everything that changed the color - it turned brown or yellowed. Keep mother-and-stepmother in paper bags or cardboard boxes in a dry place for no more than 3 years.
Ways of using mother-and-stepmother in the people:
- Infusion of a strong cough and temperature: pour a tablespoon of herbs with a glass of boiling water, insist 20-30 minutes in a thermos, strain and take in a warm form for half or a third of the glass an hour before meals 2-3 times a day.
- A mask made of leaves of mother-and-stepmother, will give the skin a smooth well-groomed appearance, narrow the enlarged pores, relieve acne. Pour hot milk 2 tablespoons of crushed fresh leaves. Allow the infusion to cool slightly and apply a warm gruel for 15-20 minutes on the face. Rinse with boiled warm water.
- If you apply regularly to the blistered calluses on a regular basis gruel from fresh or pre-poured dry leaves of this plant, soon the skin on your legs will become tender, like in infants!
Contraindications. Infusion from mother-and-stepmother can not be taken with acute and chronic liver diseases, gastritis and gastric ulcer with high acidity. And also for pregnant women and children under 2 years.
Birch Drink
Birch leaves are also an effective medicinal plant. They normalize the metabolism, have a diuretic, choleretic and restorative effect, purify the body. And if you add to the bath infusion of them, give the skin elasticity and elasticity.
Home preparations. Collect only young leaves of birch (better in early June) - small, emerald green, untouched by yellowness. Spread them in a thin layer and dry in the shade, often turning over. Keep in paper bags for a year.
Methods of applying birch leaves in the people. Pour 2 tablespoons of dry leaves with half a glass of boiling water, heat 45 minutes in a water bath, cool, add soda at the tip of the knife and press for 6 more hours. Drink 2 times a day for 30 minutes before meals for half a cup for 2 weeks to clear the body of toxins, improve immunity, as well as inflammation of the urinary and gall bladder.
Contraindications. Prolonged use of infusion can cause kidney irritation, so be limited to a two-week course of treatment!
Tea with oregano
This perennial medicinal plant with a reddish branched stalk blossoms closer to July and until the autumn pleases us with beauty and sweet aroma. In meadows, glades, oak forests, pine forests and birch forests you can easily recognize the oregano by its characteristic smell and a small pale purple or purple-pink flowers collected in a fragrant, flat panic overhead. Leaves, always shallow at the top, become larger and larger. Egglike or elliptical, with a very small petiole, they are arranged in pairs against each other. By the way, they can be used when pickling cucumbers, flavoring kvass and tinctures.
Home preparations. Collect the tops of flowering shoots, dry under a canopy, spreading a thin layer. Often turn and mix well. Keep dry collection in paper bags for a year.
Ways of using oregano in the people:
- Oregano will help you in the winter - in the midst of flu and colds. It reduces temperature, has a diaphoretic and expectorant effect, eliminates sore throat and runny nose.
- Pour 2 tablespoons of the fragrance with a glass of boiling water, heat 45 minutes in a water bath, cool, strain. Take in warm form for half a glass 2 times a day for 15-20 minutes before eating. If you cook infusion of oregano in milk, you will get an excellent remedy for hoarseness!
- If the oregano is brewed like tea, it will calm the nervous system, improve sleep, relieve toothache, leg cramps in varicose veins, help with increased gas production in the intestine (flatulence), with constipation, cholecystitis and dyskinesia of bile ducts.
Contraindications. Do not drink tea with oregano liters: 1-2 cups a day is enough! When an overdose of a curative drink, interest in sex may disappear and future mothers may be contraindicated.
Aroma of tansy
In the middle of summer the air is full of herbal odors. But the most dramatic is the camphor aroma of tansy, emanating from the yellow baskets-pugovichek. This unpretentious medicinal plant mainly grows along ditches and roads, as well as by the river.
Home preparations. Inflorescences and young leaves of tansy are collected at the beginning of flowering. The entire branch of no more than 4 cm is cut with the peduncle. Dilute with a thin layer and dry under a canopy, often turning over and mixing well. Keep in a glass jar with a tightly screwed lid or paper bags for not more than a year.
Methods of applying tansy to the people:
- Infusion tansy, prepared from the calculation: for 2 cups of boiling water 1 teaspoon of herbs and for an hour aged under the lid, increases the production of gastric juice and appetite, regulates the work of the intestines. Take it on a tablespoon 1 -2 times a day before eating.
- If you brew a stronger drink (1 tablespoon of dry baskets in a glass of boiling water), get an effective choleretic and disinfectant. It helps with stomach upset, abdominal pain, gallbladder inflammation (cholecystitis), dyskinesia of the biliary tract, liver diseases (primarily hepatitis) and worms. To drink it it is necessary on a table spoon 3 times a day for 20 minutes before a meal.
- Infusion of tansy, poured into the bath, relieve fatigue and swelling of the feet. And if you regularly rinse them hair, get rid of dandruff.
Contraindications. Pregnant women and small children infusion of tansy can not be taken.
Useful burdock
Strictly speaking, this biennial plant in the form of a burdock appears only in the first year of life with leafy leaves. And in the second year grows tenacious burdock. The most valuable thing in Burdock Burdock is the roots. Their broth has a diuretic, diaphoretic, antibacterial, immunostimulating, antitumor effect.
Home preparations. The thick and succulent roots of the first-year burdock (60 cm long and 5 cm thick) are collected in August and early autumn. Shake them off the ground, cut off the above-ground part with a knife, rinse with water. Then carefully clean from the dark gray cork, cut into pieces, spread in the shade layer about 3 cm and often ted. For blanks, you can use an oven or a special dryer (temperature - 50-60 °). Correctly dried roots do not bend, but break with a characteristic crack.
Ways to use burdock in the people:
- Tablespoon dried powdered roots pour 2 cups of boiling water, insist 2 hours under the lid. Take half a cup of warm infusion 4 times a day after meals at elevated temperature, gastritis, stomach ulcer, hemorrhoids, constipation, diabetes, kidney stones.
- Fresh burdock leaves - an excellent local remedy for stretching ligaments and joint pain. Grayish-felt underside of freshly cut sheet oil with vegetable oil, attach to a sore spot and pribintuyte warm scarf. Hold on all night. To get rid of the headache, apply fresh crushed burdock leaves to the forehead, temples and the back of the head.
Contraindications. No contraindications have been found. An exception is only individual intolerance.
Thanks to the healing power of medicinal plants and ways of using them in the people, it is possible to effectively combat many diseases.