In total, about fifty species of plants are found in nature. They grow in the Mediterranean, the Caucasus and the temperate zone. And in the last century it was brought to North America and immediately began to grow to prepare medicines and additives to food.
Beneficial features
Oregano is literally soaked with essential oils, tannins and ascorbic acid. To prepare a decoction or tincture, you can use dry or fresh leaves, upper parts of shoots and flowers.
Widely popular was a product from steamed grass for the treatment of skin diseases, as well as alcohol tincture and vegetable oil from oregano.
To harvest, you need to go to dry and bright terrain. The thickets of the motherboard can be found on the edge or on light areas among trees, on open glades and meadows.
Therapeutic application
- Our ancestors used tinctures of oregano as a soothing agent for children and drank like a sleeping pill.
- Decoctions from the plant have a beneficial effect on the digestive tract. It not only stimulates the appetite, but also stimulates the production of gastric juice and bile.
- Oregano can help cope with colds, due to its ability to relieve inflammation, improve the expectoration process, relieve fever and make sweating more intense.
- Substances that are contained in the plant may have a diuretic and hemostatic effect.
- The properties of grass are such that sedatives on its basis are very effective, can regulate the work of the nervous system, relieve headaches, and eliminate insomnia.
Several recipes of folk medicine
Like other similar products, tinctures and broths from oregano are cooked quite easily, you just need to collect the grass in an ecologically clean place and dry it in a dry dark place, periodically turning over.
For smokers
Everyone knows that getting rid of this bad habit is not easy. But the tincture of the motherboard can alleviate the suffering of a person who decided to stop smoking. To prepare the product, you must take in equal proportions the dried mother and stepmother and marshmallows. Add to them half as much oregano. For three tablespoons of the collection take 500 grams of boiling water and fill it all in a thermos. The agent should be infused for about two hours. After decoction, the tincture can be added to teas or simply to drink a third of the glass several times a day. This tool will help reduce the desire to smoke again, cleanse the lungs and calm the nerves.
Standard infusion
This medicine effectively helps to relieve the headache, but is also used as a sedative and will help to normalize the functioning of the intestine.
A tablespoon of the dried plant is poured into 0.5 liters of boiling water and covered with a lid. After thirty minutes, the liquid can be filtered through gauze and drink one glass a day.
No matter how miraculous this grass is, it is strictly forbidden to use it for pregnant women. This is due to the fact that the extracts of oregano are used for the normalization of the menstrual cycle and the termination of pregnancy in the early stages.
In the list of contraindications were people who suffer from disorders of the cardiovascular system and high blood pressure.