Interest in the use of herbs is increasing, due to the constant contamination of the biosphere, the frequent use of antibiotics and synthetic drugs, leading to a decrease in immunity. In addition, drugs sold in the pharmacy, are more expensive than herbs, and if there is a possibility and desire, then medicinal plants can be collected in nature or independently grown in homes.
But in addition to the beneficial properties of medicinal herbs, there are contraindications. When applying herbal medicine, you must strictly follow the dosage and recommendations of your doctor. In general, medicinal plants are contraindicated to people prone to food allergies, with caution to take children and pregnant women. Also there are poisonous plants, improper treatment and overdose by which, can bring you harm.
NETTLE
Everyone knows a weed, to which many simply do not pay attention. However, this plant contains a large number of beneficial substances, beneficial to the body.
It grows on fertile, moist soil, in forests, near shelter and on glades. There are 2 types of nettle: a perennial and an annual. Healing properties have a multi-year dioecious. They can be distinguished by the height and length of the roots: The annual nettle grows only to the knees and has small leaves, and the height of the dioecious nettle reaches human growth. Also, unlike a one-year-old, long-term nettle is difficult to pull out, because she has long roots.
Nettle is a storehouse of vitamins. Especially useful properties are young shoots. The content of ascorbic acid in it is several times greater than in lemon or black currant, and the amount of carotene is higher than in carrots and sea-buckthorn. The daily norm of vitamin A is provided by only 20 leaves of nettle.
This medicinal plant contains a large number of vitamins K, C and B vitamins, as well as chlorophyll, sulfur, proteins, pantothenic acid, iron, calcium, sugar and potassium. Nettle is very useful in diseases of the liver, kidneys, bladder, anemia, tuberculosis, hemorrhoids, atherosclerosis, improves heart function and is used as a general restorative. It also helps with wound healing and bleeding, increases blood coagulability. Increases the amount of hemoglobin, erythrocytes and platelets, reduces blood sugar, has a diuretic effect. It is recommended to use nettle for chronic diseases. it stimulates protein and carbohydrate metabolism with low body resistance.
To improve the work of the heart, blood composition and general condition, try to prepare this nettle tincture:
A bottle of vodka or 70% of alcohol is taken 200g of nettle. To maintain the tincture you need the first day on the window, then put in a dark place for 8 days. Filtered, wrung out and filtered tincture should be stored in a dark glass container. Take in for half an hour before eating one teaspoon in the morning and at night. You can also apply externally, as a compress.
Nettle is used not only to treat diseases, but also in cosmetology. It is an indispensable remedy for the skin of the face, hands, feet and head. From the juice of a fresh plant, you can easily prepare a lotion for oily skin:
100 ml of vodka should be mixed with a tablespoon of juice and rubbed face lotion 2 times a day. As a result, fresh, matt, healthy skin.
For a skin devoid of tonus, you can make a mask:
to 1 tbsp. l. dried and chopped herbs add milk at room temperature, leave for 10 minutes, then add a spoonful of yolk (with oily skin it is better to add protein). After 20 minutes after applying the mask, wash with boiled water.
With all the beneficial properties, this plant also has contraindications.
Apply nettle on the advice of a doctor, tk. it is forbidden to people suffering from hypertension, atherosclerosis and thrombophlebitis, as well as during pregnancy and bleeding associated with tumors of the appendages and uterus. Use with caution in people with kidney disease.
RADIO ROSE (golden root)
Radiola rosea was known in the people even more than 400 years ago and was of great value. It grows in the Altai, the Urals, in the alpine and polar - arctic regions, can be found on wet meadows, stony valleys.
For medicinal purposes, rhizomes containing essential oil, tannins, citric, succinic, malic, gallic and oxalic acids, flavonoids, anthraglycosides, sugars and salidrazides, vitamins PP and C.
It is used as a tonic, anti-inflammatory, increasing mental and physical performance, with neuroses, impotence, low blood pressure, vegetative-vascular dystonia, improves the thyroid gland. It is also used for bleeding, heart weakness and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.
At home, you can prepare infusions.
1st. l raw material pour a glass of boiling water and insist in a thermos for 5 hours. Take 3 times a day for 1 tbsp. l.
For 500 ml of vodka is taken 50 gr. golden root and insists in a warm dark place for 2 weeks. Take 20 - 30 cap. 30 minutes before meals 3 times a day.
Radiola rosea has contraindications for hypertension, hypotension, atherosclerosis, nervous diseases, brain cell depletion. If you experience such side effects as insomnia, headaches, palpitation and overexcitation, taking the drug should be discarded. Treatment takes place under the supervision of the doctor and accurate compliance with the dosage.
DONNIC OF DRUG
The clover grows in the fields, near roads, on slopes, among clover and grain crops. It reaches a height of up to 1 meter and is considered a weed.
The dried clover has the smell of dry hay. It includes essential oil, carotene, coumaric acid, vitamins E and C, flavones, tannins and resins.
It is used in folk medicine as wound healing, analgesic, expectorant, antiseptic, emollient, soothing and anticonvulsant, increases the number of leukocytes. With furunculosis, purulent wounds and abscesses, a mixture of mallow, chamomile and sweet clover is used in the same parts: pour several spoons of the mixture with so much boiling water to make a gruel. Poultices are made from the prepared product.
For compresses, you can prepare an infusion: for half a liter of boiling water take 2 tbsp. l. herbs and insist 20 minutes in a thermos bottle. The infusion is used in a cooled form.
Local baths from the infusion of sweet clover (hot) are used for swelling of the joints (for 1 liter of boiling water 20g of the plant).
When you collect and prepare the clover yourself, you need to be very careful. Improper drying of the sweet clover (the appearance of even a small mold on it) leads to the fact that the medicinal plant becomes poisonous and becomes dangerous for the organism. In this case, renal bleeding is discovered, the liver is affected, blood coagulability decreases.
Treatment should be conducted on the recommendation of a phyto physician. Contraindicated in pregnancy, kidney disease, hypotension, low blood coagulability. Overdose can cause headache, insomnia, vomiting, liver damage and paralysis.
WINE PROTEIN WAITING
Healing properties of St. John's wort have been known since ancient times. It grows in the European part of Russia, the Caucasus, Ukraine, Central Asia and Siberia. It occurs on roadsides, on the fringes of forests, in shrubs, on dry meadows. The plant has the scent of balm, the taste is astringent and bitter.
St. John's wort contains vitamins C, PP and E, caffeine, ascorbic, chlorogenic and nicotinic acids, as well as tannins, macro and microelements, flavonoids, essential oil, anthroquinones, saponins and carotene.
It is used in the form of oil, infusion, tea, decoction in diabetes, gastrointestinal tract diseases, heart, gallbladder and bladder, bronchial asthma, pyelonephritis, inflammatory processes. The concentrate of the medicinal plant has an antidepressant effect, positively affects the nervous system. External is used for the treatment of rheumatism, burns, abscesses, cutaneous tuberculosis and other skin diseases, as well as as an anesthetic for dislocations, bruises and sprains.
When thrush is used douching with infusion:
in 2 liters of water add 4 tbsp. l. St. John's wort, boil for 20 minutes, then strain and cool.
With inflammation, including purulent oil is used, which is prepared as follows:
20pcs. colors (fresh) mixed with 200 grams. vegetable oil (sunflower, olive or linseed) and insist in a dark place 2 weeks from time to time shaking. The finished oil is red, used externally for skin diseases, bruises, etc.
Also St. John's wort is eaten as a seasoning, tea.
This plant is considered to be slightly toxic, so do not abuse it and accurately observe the dosage. When an overdose occurs a feeling of discomfort in the liver, bitterness in the mouth, temporary impotence in men, narrowing of blood vessels. It is also contraindicated in breastfeeding mothers, pregnant women and people suffering from hypertension. Enhances or reduces the effects of antibiotics, antidepressants and contraceptives.
Before you start treatment with medicinal herbs, you need to study in detail their medicinal properties and contraindications. If you decide to collect plants on your own, be sure to find out the rules for collecting, storing and storing raw materials. If basic rules are not respected, instead of good, grasses can harm your body. Now you know about some medicinal properties and contraindications to herbs.