Plants - a good replacement for tablets

At high arterial pressure, migraine or menstrual pain does not necessarily rummage in the home medicine chest. Instead, just walk slowly along the city park, through the garden or the vegetable garden in the country house and take a closer look at the plants growing there. Much can be found in our flowerbed or bed such that it will help from infirmities. Flowers, plants, vegetables, fruits will successfully replace some medicines. For the removal of migraines, doctors prescribe antispasmodic, sedative and analgesic drugs, but a modest feverfew girl, who is still called common maiden chamomile (its flowers are very similar to a small chamomile), is also able to relieve spasms, has a soothing and analgesic effect. This plant from the family of sunflowers has long been used to treat female ailments and associated migraines. It contains chemicals known as parthenolides (by the way, parthenos in Greek means "girl"), preventing the formation of the hormone serotonin. This hormone is the main culprit in the narrowing of the arteries that occurs with migraine. For prevention of migraine it is recommended to eat one or three small leaves of pyrethrum daily, they should be freshly picked. An experiment was conducted in which 270 people with migraines were given pyrethrum daily. Within two or three days more than seventy percent of the subjects felt much better. Their healing properties are preserved even after drying. Often, sublimated capsules are preferred, since fresh leaves have a bitter taste. For effectiveness, it is sufficient to consume 250 mg per day.

Cress salad can be used to reduce the cough reflex, and in particular, to treat upper respiratory catarrh. In addition to the high content of vitamin C and the mass of other useful elements (potassium, iodine, iron), its tasty leaves are rich in a unique substance - phenylethyl isothiocyanate, which blocks the activity of cancer cells. A standard daily serving of 80 grams of fresh leaves in salads will be enough to effectively combat the cancer cell changes. Even two teaspoons of chopped fresh watercress leaves on a glass of boiling water can actively participate in this fight for health.

Everyone knows a radish, both wild and cultured, perfectly lowers the pressure. She succeeds due to the presence in her leaves of potassium, which dilates the blood vessels and raises the level of nitric oxide. Korean researchers, working with rats, already in the third week of experiments using radish reduced systolic blood pressure from 214 to 166 mm Hg. The study used powdered dry leaves, but the leaves can be eaten raw, as well as the roots themselves. A handful of radishes provides the body with 135 mg of potassium. In total, an adult needs 3500 mg of potassium per day. To achieve the effect of lowering blood pressure, it is recommended to use leaf extract at a rate of 90 mg per 1 kg of body weight per day for five weeks.

Melissa or lemon balm is a plant with small white flowers and leaves that have a pleasant smell of lemon. Leaves are used in salads or added to tea leaves. Melissa has an antispasmodic effect on the muscles in the digestive system. Therefore, with stomach disorders, digestion, including irritable bowel syndrome, lemon balm works as an antispasmodic drug. Scientists from the University of Maryland recommend drinking tea with melissa four times a day, and if the melissa in the tincture, you can up to 60 drops daily. This is good for digestion.

Tea with melissa, of course, delicious and healthy. But it's unlikely that anyone will like to burn themselves with nettle to ease the pain in the joints. Studies show that the effect of nettle burns is achieved through stimulation of the sensory nerves, resulting in a moderate pain that facilitates more severe pain. The feeling of a burn is caused by the action of formic acid, which is contained in the nettle hairs. Nettle can alleviate the pain of osteoarthritis, if every day nettles touch the base of the thumb and hand and suffer only 30 seconds. Scientists from the universities of Exeter and Plymouth for a week could reduce the suffering of patients with arthritis, putting on their hands fresh or dry leaves and stems of nettle. But the result was the best from fresh leaves.