Collect herbs in safe areas: in fields and forests that have not been treated with chemicals from mites and other pests, not only away from industrial centers, but also at a distance of 5 km from motorways and 50 km from airfields - spent aviation fuel is very toxic! Before you go to the meadow for the right plant, check with the calendar. Recommendations from ancient medical institutions "to gather at midnight on the eve of Ivan Kupala" or "by dew on Petrov day" is not a relic of the past, but the most important indication! Over the summer, the grass has time to change its composition several times. As a rule, the youngest parts of plants that were picked before the beginning of flowering (for example, a leaf of a currant or cowberry) or during it (lime blossom, calendula flowers or chamomile) are the most active medicinally. Note that the leaves and bark of the same oak collected in different months can serve for completely different therapeutic purposes. Not only month and day, but even the hour of collection is of great importance! Flowers, pollinated by daytime insects, accumulate a kind of odorous "bouquet" of useful substances to the UVA, so it's best to go for them on the morning dew. Night violet tear along the evening dew - the plant increases its healing potential closer to night. Well, behind the camomile, go for a dry and sunny day, and take the flower baskets only with the petals located strictly horizontally, otherwise there will not be much use from them.
Aromatherapy
This is perhaps the safest, most pleasant, and most importantly, multi-purpose therapy. One essential oil can be used for the prevention and treatment of many diseases at once, because it contains from 150 to 500 aromatic components - a whole pharmacy in a vial! For example, the list of problems, which relieves rosewood oil, which includes 200 ethereal compounds, consists of 30 items. And the number of disorders that are eliminated by the "ethereal giants" - lemon, rosemary, rose, eucalyptus and lavender - is approaching a hundred. The simplest procedure is aromatic inhalation based on one oil. Pour water on the bottom of the aromatic incense, add a few drops of essential oil, light a candle and inhale the healing aroma. Well, then you can expand your aromatherapy arsenal!
Safety precautions
1. Acquire herbs in the pharmacy - there are sold plants that have been tested for quality. In grandparents, you can buy healing "bouquets" only if you are sure that they were collected in a protected meadow and, in general, these are the plants that you need.
2. Do not exceed the dose indicated on the herb pack or collection. The standard recipe is a tablespoon of vegetable raw materials for a glass of boiling water. Busting even a completely harmless at first glance valerian, which we soothe the nerves, can lead to a disorder of the stomach or, on the contrary, so "calm" the intestines, that constipation will develop.
3. Be careful with phytotherapy, if you suffer from an individual intolerance to a medicinal plant or an allergy to pollen pollen, then avoid celery and do not brew complicated herbs (eg cornflowers, marigolds, sunflowers).
■ Massage with aromatic formulations. It will help "melt" the fat in the problem areas, will have lymphatic drainage and anti-inflammatory effect, for example, with sprains, bruises and joint pain. Mix 5-7 drops of essential oil with 10 ml of base, which can be any vegetable oil (olive, sea-buckthorn, dog-rose). It stabilizes the ethereal components, preventing them from escaping, prematurely or oxidized when in contact with air, water and skin.
■ For acupuncture (including the simplest version of grinding the temples from a headache) into 3 parts of essential oil, take 1 part of the transport and apply to the corresponding points.
■ Aromatize tea (black or green) - then it will acquire even more healing properties. In a metal or glass jar (200-250 ml), drip 7-10 drops of essential oil of your choice, pour in the dry tea brew, tightly cover, shake gently. After 3-5 days, the welding will be ready for use.
Mushroom Healing
Many peoples have beliefs about the medicinal properties of fungi. Modern scientists confirm: fungotherapy has a completely scientific justification. In Japan, for example, 1/3 of the antitumor drugs are made from mushrooms, and shiitake, or edible lentinus, is included in the state program "Health of the Nation"! The belief in its medicinal properties is so great that locals eat a mushroom a day, fresh or dried. The latter option is preferable: when drying in the sun in shiitake, vitamin D is formed. Well, how much to use shiitake during illness, depends on the diagnosis. With headache, migraine and general weakness - 2-3 boiled mushrooms per day.
With atherosclerosis, hypertension, any cardiovascular disease - 9 grams of dried or 90 g fresh shiitake, grinded in a mortar. With a cold, 6-8 g of fruit bodies: they made tea. Experiments conducted by modern scientists have shown that the extract made from shiitake suppresses the activity of influenza, herpes and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) viruses, because it contains substances that interfere with the production of interferon in the body. To prevent ailments, bring pressure and cholesterol back to normal, daily include in the diet 1 -2 fresh or dried mushrooms for 2 weeks. Champignons and shiitake can be eaten raw (if you are sure of their origin) or after minimal heat treatment-so useful substances are better preserved.
To the oak tree - by appointment!
The priests of the ancient Celts-the Druids-believed that each person has his own tree, which fills him with energy and optimism, prolongs life, helps to preserve health and heals from illnesses. Modern doctors do not consider these prescriptions as empty prejudices. Dutch scientists surveyed 10,000 compatriots and found that those who live near parks and forests are 15-20% sicker than residents of areas where there is little greenery. With prolonged illnesses, loss of strength, increased fatigue, depression, the body needs energy feeding. It is provided by donor trees: oak, birch, pine, maple, mountain ash, apple, chestnut, ash, linden. And those who suffer from insomnia, acute inflammatory diseases and infections, are prone to aggressive reactions, are overly irritable and irritable, prone to hypertensive crises, vampire trees with negative energy will help: aspen, spruce, fir, willow, alder. To recharge, stand about a foot from the trunk, turn your back to it, relax and imagine how a warm wave slowly follows the body from top to bottom.
■ Inhale, counting slowly to 6, hold your breath to account 7-12, exhale into account 13-20. To reset negative energy, do the same, but just stand facing the tree a little more than the palm of your hand, and exhale faster (at the expense of 13-18).
■ Choose the right tree for your recovery. Oak and beech remove stress, improve blood circulation, increase the body's overall resistance and accelerate recovery. Pine and spruce soothe, normalize the metabolism, protect against colds. Larch and linden fight viruses, inflammations, inspire optimism. Birch charges with energy, relieves many of the female diseases. Chestnut - the best natural remedy for insomnia, neuroses, depressions. Poplar relieves negative energy, but with prolonged contact may cause headache.
Safety precautions
1. Fungotherapy is not suitable for everyone! Do not deal with it, if there is gastritis, peptic ulcer, liver and kidney function.
2. Children in any form of fungi can not be given - in their liver, there are still no enzymatic systems responsible for processing mushroom organics: it can be toxic to the body. The child is capable of poisoning even with a curative edible fungus. With hypertension and heart disease, forget about walks in the pine forest due to the high risk of dizziness and unwanted vascular reactions. Session of dendrotherapy spend 2-3 minutes in summer 5-7 minutes. Do dendrotherapy in the early morning or from 16 to 18 hours.