Ledum palustre L.
Ledum palustre L.

Rhododendron tomentosum Ledum palustre L. *
Family Ericaceae - Ericaceae
Ledum palustre - a dense evergreen shrub 50-120 cm tall with a strong breath odor, which resembles the smell of camphor. Leaflets coriaceous, lineynoprodolgovatye with curved edges, sharp, regular, top green, shiny, wrinkled, with a bottom with a thick reddish-povstistim pubescence. Flowers collected in multifloral (15-25) clusters, white, rarely reddish, with long, thin stalks.

Blossoms in May - June. is growing in the north Ukrainian Polesie, Belarus, Russia - in the marshes, in damp pine forests on hummocky meadows, basically - the islands. Occasionally the Carpathians and the Carpathian Mountains.
Gather all the plant - during flowering, leaflets and young shoots - in August - September .
Apply with bronchial asthma , as expectorant (acute and chronic bronchitis in a mixture with nettle leaves small (Urtica urens L.), in a 2:1 ratio), also in pertussis , scrofula , gout , rheumatism in spastic enterokolitah , incontinence , influenza (as prophylactic during epidemics), with eczema . It acts as a diaphoretic and drug .
Use in tea as well. For 1 cup of boiling water give a 1-tablespoon of leaves or young shoots, and insist 10 minutes. Drink half a glass of 5-6 times a day. Children with strong attacks pertussis give 1 teaspoonful several times a day. How expectorant use broth from a mixture of herbs ledum marsh and butterbur root Althea in the ratio 1:2:2, 2 teaspoons of the mixture up in 1 glass of boiling water, cook 1 minute, insist 20 minutes, strain off and drink half a glass of 3-4 times a day. Externally, use broth from fresh flowers or sprouts in olive oil (1:9), who insist 12 hours in the oven, and let in the form of droplets in the nose with acute rhinitis, influenza.
When rheumatism , hunk , as in scabies , lice apply ointment, which is manufactured as follows: 1 part finely chopped flowering plants and 1 part of finely chopped root hellebore white mixed with 3 parts melted lard and insist on for 12 hours (not boiling) in a warm oven. Then filter into a jar, cover and with the needs of rubbing the skin. Powdered leaf Rhododendron tomentosum and its branches acting as insecticidal tool against moth and klopov5 (also in a mixture with oregano). Envelop with smoke him home to fight against flies.

Watch - Menyanthes trifoliata L.

WATCH three-sheeted (almond) Menyanthes trifoliata L.

Bobovnikovye - Menyanthaceae
Watch trifoliata - a perennial herbaceous plant 25-70 cm tall with creeping stem. Leaves all radical, long-petiolate with ternate plate obovate leaflets. Flowers whitish-pink, star-shaped, elongated clusters on a leafless flowering stem.
Blossoms in May - June.
growing across the middle belt, the low banks of rivers and lakes in the lowland peat bogs, ditches, often forming dense thickets. Collecting leaves in spring and summer, during flowering, usually in dry sunny weather.
Apply to excite the appetite, improve the allocation of gastric juice and peristalsis of the gastrointestinal tract, with the lack of acidity of gastric juice, as well as swelling , selezenochnika , malaria , for the excitation function of glands, calming nerves and anemia .
Use in the form of tea. In 1 cup boiling water 1 teaspoon take shredded leaves, insist 10 minutes. Drink 1 glass before each meal with edema , edema , anemia , rheumatism , scrofula . Whet tea prepared from a mixture of grass and leaves of wormwood watch (almond) (tie) - take 1 teaspoon to 1 cup of boiling water. To soothe the nerves of a mixture of almond leaves , mint leaves and cold valerian root in the ratio 4:3:3 prepare the infusion: take 1 tablespoon to 1 cup of boiled water, half an hour and drink during the day sips.
to excite appetite and improve digestion drink tea from a mixture of almond herb, centaury herb (centurion), mint leaves and cold calamus root in the ratio 4:3:2:1, take 1 tablespoon to 1 cup boiling water and insisted that half an hour. Is used in half a cup 2-3 times a day for half an hour before meals.
When nervous excitability take 1 tablespoon almond mixture of herbs, mint leaves cold, valerian root and angelica root in the ratio of drug 2:3:2,5:2,5 to I cup of boiling water and insist 20 minutes. Drink half a cup of twice a day.
For stimulation of the digestive glands and mucosal catarrh of the stomach and intestines 1 tablespoon of the mixture sheets almond three-sheeted, cold mint leaves , grass Yarrow , grass centaury -centurion and fennel seeds (tie) insist 2 hours in 1 cup boiling water. Drink half a cup three times in a day before meals.
When liver 1 tablespoon almond three-sheeted mixture of leaves, flowers, daisies, and a medical herb celandine (tie) 1 minute boil in 1 cup of water, draw for 1 hour and drain, drink half a cup of morning and evening hour after meal.
With malaria taking 1 tablespoon of the mixture of leaves almond , herb Artemisia bitter and color Sunflower in the ratio 10:3:5 for 1 cup of boiled water, 10 minutes and drink 3 cups of the day.
Externally, using broth from a mixture of almond leaves and chamomile flowers (tie). Use for enemas after bowel movements to cleanse your colon in diseases with metabolic disorders and chronic constipation, as well as for washing old wounds and ulcers.