Now we use bay leaf in the property of spice, but not many understand that thanks to medicinal and healing properties, the bay leaf is used as a medicine.
Bay leaves are abundant with phytoncides, they include a lot of necessary trace elements, tannins, so required by our body, as they help to remove slags from the body, increase immunity. In particular, it is precious that laurel leaves completely save their own medicinal properties in the dried form.
The aroma of bay leaves is known to us from an early age, almost all the housewives put it in the first and second dishes, in cold dishes, sauces and so on. Almost always laurel leaf is used for canning. However, as it turned out, the laurel leaf is valued not only as a seasoning, it also has useful properties, for example, with its help it's time to lower blood sugar.
Bay leaf - an excellent medicine for stomatitis . If the gum has become inflamed, it is recommended to chew the leaf.
In diabetes , laurel extract is used. To do this, 30-40 leaves of laurel should be filled with 0.5 liters of hot water. Drink in the morning before breakfast and during the day before eating 2 tablespoons. 3-4 times a day.
With sinusitis comes to the rescue of laurel oil. The oil can be made at home. It is necessary: grind 30 g of laurel leaves, pour one glass of vegetable oil and insist 5 days, then filter. This oil is also used as a cure for pressure sores.
Useful and medicinal features of the laurel leaf are used to heal tuberculosis: the laurel leaves makes the organism more resistant to microbes, increases the body's immunity, and the unstable aromatic qualities of the bay leaf stops the formation of the tubercle bacillus.
With scrofula , acute inflammation of the ears and scalp, you need to wash your head with a laurel infusion. With the hanged sweating of the feet, it is recommended to take the trays from the laurel. Before going to bed, throw 30-40 laurel leaves into a basin with warm water and steam your feet in infusion.
Broth of laurel leaf is used and for preventive purposes to strengthen immunity . About 5 g of laurel leaves (somewhere 15 units) to throw in 300 g of water and boil in a liquid for 5 minutes, then insist in a thermos for 3-4 hours, filter and drink all this amount for 1 tablespoon during the day. Take this broth - 3 days, after 2 weeks allowed to do again.
As it turned out, laurel leaves have all the chances to take a nanny place for a child: if the baby chooses or can not fall asleep, put a couple of leaves in the baby's bed, as a rule, the children soon die down and fall asleep, that's how they affect the small properties of the leaf.
If you hurt your ears , you need to pour a glass of water in an enamel pot, drop 5 laurel leaves there, boil and let it brew for 2 hours, wrapped up well. To drip in an unhealthy ear for 3-4 drops of the acquired broth and to swallow it on 3 table spoons. The operation is repeated 3 times a day.
And a bay leaf can help to get rid of a cough , and the air of the living space is cleaned: it is enough to pour 1-2 leaves with boiling water, take a deep breathe, and the prevention of lungs and the whole apartment is guaranteed.
In dermatological diseases, instead of string and chamomile, it is allowed to use a decoction of laurel leaf: 10 leaves pour in the morning with a liter of boiling water. In the evening, pour the broth into a deep bath. Do this every 9-10 in 2-3 days.
Lava oil: 30 g of laurel leaves should be crushed to make, fill with 1 glass of sunflower oil, let it sit for a week at room temperature. Filter and pour into a bottle of black glass. Keep in the fridge. They are used externally in the treatment of joints, abscesses and dermatological rashes. For colds, sore throats and coughs - for inhalations (enough drops in boiling water and breathe over steam for a couple of minutes). Still used bay oil in cholelithiasis. Oil is used 10 drops together with milk or kefir 2-3 times a day.
Bay oil is a good and easily accessible recipe for the treatment and prevention of almost all diseases and must necessarily be in the family medicine cabinet in any family.
If your hair grows slowly, then a decoction from a laurel will help you. It is recommended 2-3 times a week with massing movements to rub laurel oil into the roots of hair. Also, the bay leaf helps to fight the moth and cockroaches. They are afraid of this smell. It is enough to put a couple of leaves in the closet and put a small bouquet in the kitchen and you will forget about moths and cockroaches
When barley is recommended to take three large laurel leaves and pour a cup of boiling water. Something to cover, and when a little cool, you can gradually drink until the broth completely cools. It is necessary to repeat the procedures every hour, I do a new broth every time. In total for a day you should drink 6-7 cups of laurel broth. Overnight barley will form, by morning it will not.
For rheumatism, use ointment based on laurel oil. It can be made at home.
There are no special contraindications, however, the laurel leaf possesses astringent qualities and therefore constipations are likely. If a person is to them, then as long as he drinks the tincture from the bay leaf, you need to eat more beets and prunes, or slightly lower the dose of infusion.