Where it grows and how does the milk thistle look.
Being one of the largest and most beautiful thistles. It grows in the south of Europe, Middle and Lesser Asia, the Caucasus, and North Africa. Easily recognizable by its large green leaves, with a pattern of white marble and spines on the teeth. On the tip of the stem are large spherical solitary inflorescences-baskets of red-purple color. Blossoms in the period July - August. In some countries, it is specially grown in gardens and plantations. It also has properties for wildlife and it can be found on dry and warm places, such as wastelands or railway embankments.
Seed ripening is for the period August-September. After collecting them thoroughly air dried.
Milk thistle has a whole complex of silymarin (a mixture of three flavonolignanes), has medicinal properties for the human liver. Also there are ethereal resins and oils and bitterness.
Milk thistle application.
Judging by its composition, it is clearly visible that it contributes to the restoration of the functions of the human liver. Since people have liver diseases very often. Often, inflammation of the liver "Acute hepatitis", in most cases manifested with jaundice. Often after the illness, severe complications remain for a long period of time. You need to eat right and try to avoid alcohol during the period until the blood normalizes and shows the normal state of a healthy liver.
Excessive overeating in most of the cases leads to hepatic obesity, destroying it, and destroys most of the cells. In this case, the milk thistle has isolated itself as a harmless, liver-specific agent with a phytotherapeutic effect. The substance that is the basis of the flower called "silymarin", even in large doses, is freely and well absorbed and restores the liver.
Recently shown experiments have shown that the treatment of thistle suppresses the action of damaging and irritating substances. Some even experimented with one of the most dangerous hepatic poisons - the poison of green mushroom, and the result of the experiment was successful. After such experiments, there is no doubt that the milk thistle has a regenerating and protective effect on the human liver.
Most people prefer ready-made drugs, and people who have sensitive or sick liver, are simply obliged to drink tea from milk thistle. Misfortunes and pains soon stop, and well-being is restored. If you have suffered acute hepatitis, additional treatment for you will be regular intake of tea from milk thistle.
When buying ready-made standard packages, manufacturers recommend to use only for hepatic diseases.
We make tea from milk thistle.
Take one teaspoon of seed (if you use grass, then take as much as it), pour on ΒΌ liter of boiling water, give insist for about 10-20 minutes, then filter.
Take tea yourself with hot, small sips, one cup in the morning for 30 minutes before dinner and one in the evening for an hour before going to bed.
Tea made from milk thistle can be mixed with tea from mint, this you add flavor and strengthen the action.
Milk thistle is used in homeopathy .
Homeopathic Milk Thistle is a drug intended to fight against diseases that is accompanied by pain in the gallbladder or liver. And also if the gallbladder becomes inflamed, you feel headaches in the frontal region, with sciatica, ulcers of the lower leg muscle rheumatism. Such funds are used in pure form of the initial tincture with small dilution (D1, D2).
The use of thistle spotted in folk medicine
In folk medicine of the thymus spotted, in addition to the diseases described above, the ulcers of the lower leg are also treated with special cases that are difficult to treat or open fractures. If a patient has varicose veins, tea from milk thistle is often given inside. Open fractures are treated with seeds of milk thistle powder or applying moist compresses from her decoction.
Milk Thistle is officially used in folk medicine for: cirrhosis, diseases of the gastric ducts, chronic and acute hepatitis, constipation and hemorrhoids, colic, jaundice, wounds and burns (oil), pharyngitis, periodontitis, duodenal ulcers and stomach ulcers.