Althaea officinalis - Althaea officinalis

Althaea officinalis - a perennial herb 60-150 cm tall. Root fleshy, white, strong; him grow from a few stems. Stems are round, stiff bottom, top, lush green, covered with gray fuzz, like the sheets. Leaflets sertsevidnye or ovate, the lower - five-lobed, upper - three-lobed. Flowers are crowded in the leaf axils on very short pedicels, pale or bright pink, sometimes almost entirely white, the Five, and odorless. The taste is sweet-tart.

Flowers in June - September.
There is growing - at Levada, the roads, in meadows, near ditches and banks of rivers, at least among the bushes and on edges. gather flowers and leaves in the summer , the fall dig two - three years of the roots, washed in cold water and dried. Apply with pneumonia , as well as diarrhea , acute gastritis , chronic gastritis with acidity, enterocolitis , with inflammation of the bladder - as a means to envelop the affected sites and calms the pain in inflammation of mucous membranes.
Use in the form of tea. For this purpose, 1 cup of boiling water take a teaspoon of flowers or leaflets Althea and insist 10 minutes. Drink warm with honey or sugar, 3 cups a day, gulps.
Stronger action takes broth crushed roots (with bark), infused over 10-15 minutes, in a very dose. Broth Althea in the milk consumed in the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis (in the roots of Althaea contains amino acids, mucus, starch, asparagine, batain, lecithin, and nearly 15% of mineral salts).
When cough , tracheobronchitis , chronic bronchitis , dry bronchitis insist 1 tablespoon of the mixture with the top of Althaea root, leaf butterbur Conventional, licorice root, flower and fruit divines skipetrovidnoy fennel in a ratio 4:2:1:5:1:1 in 1 cup of cold water for 2 hours, cook for 5 minutes, strain off the cold, drink warm sips 1 cup per day .
When pertussis insist 4 teaspoons of the mixture with the top of the root of Althaea and grass thyme normal (equal) in I cup water for 2 hours, then boil for 5 minutes and drink up to 3 times in the course of the day.
When gastritis use broth from the mixture root Althea , root Delphinium (tie) - 1 tablespoon of the mixture is boiled in 1 glass of water for 5 minutes. Drink 1 glass before each meal.
When stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer insist 1 tablespoon of the mixture root Althea , licorice root , root larkspur and grass celandine in the usual ratio of 2:2:2:1 in I cup of boiling water. Preparing and eating - as indicated above. Externally applied infusion of the root Althaea (also her decoction of flowers or flowers Kalachikov forest) - Eye wash for inflammation, festering with age, for gargling. Also used for enemas with diarrhea, etc., in mixtures with oak bark (tie) - For douching for pain in women.
For pharyngitis, laryngitis 1 rounded tablespoon of the mixture of fruits of fennel root Althaea medical, rhizomes erect cinquefoil (Kalgan), oak bark and leaves of sage in the ratio 1:3:3:3:3 insist on for 5 hours in 1 cup cold water cook 5 minutes and rinse with warm decoction of the throat.

MOUNTAIN ARNICA - Arnica montana L.

mountain arnica blossoms in June - August.
Grows mainly in mountainous and upland meadows Upper dneprrvya, Verhnednestrovya. Occurs in the glades of conifers and beech forests. Gather basket in June - August (therapeutic value are only the median and the extreme flowers), roots - in the spring.
Apply in cough , hoarseness , with swelling , intestinal disorders ( dysentery ). In obstetric practice as a haemostatic in uterine bleeding after childbirth in inflammation of the reproductive system ( inflammation of the ovaries , inflammatory disease after miscarriage ). When angina and cardiac weakness (dilates coronary vessels), with atherosclerosis , hypertension , nervous overexcitation < / b> (reduced reflex excitability of the medulla oblongata and the cerebral cortex, and therefore used in brain hemorrhage, to quickly normalize the functional state of the central nervous system), to reduce fever.
consumed as a tea , which is prepared as follows: take a glass of boiled water 1 teaspoon crushed flowers or roots, and insist 10 minutes. Drink 1 glass morning and evening. When stomach ulcer use of 1 glass of broth with 1 teaspoon of the mixture arnica root, dandelion root and herb celandine in the ratio 2:6:4 to three times daily before meals. When gastric and intestinal cramps, edema 20 drops of tincture of alcohol consumed inside with sugar or water 3 times a day.
When flatulence, intestinal disorders useful decoction of a mixture of arnica flowers, herbs almond three-sheeted, herbs Yarrow and bitter herbs Artemisia in the ratio 1:2:2:2. To do this, take 2 tablespoons of mixture into 1 cup water, boil for 5 minutes and drink morning and evening for 1 glass. Substances that are contained in the roots of mountain arnica, excite cardiovascular system, increase coronary blood flow , enhance coronary vessels in atherosclerosis, myocarditis and cardiac Angiospasm . 10 g of crushed roots boiled 10 minutes in 200 ml of water, broth, and drink three times a day, and 1 tablespoon of milk after a meal.
When atherosclerosis , hypertonic disease consume liquor from a mixture of arnica flowers, grasses, yarrow ( Achillea millefolium L. ) and Hypericum ordinary ( Hypericum perforatum L . ) in the ratio 1:5:4. One full tablespoon of the mixture insist in 1 cup of cold water for 3 hours, cook 5 minutes, insist 15 minutes and drink during the day.
Arnica reduces cholesterol in the blood, but in large doses can cause palpitations, stomach pain , vomiting , etc. When endocarditis , myocarditis , pericarditis , mitral valve insufficiency , mitral stenosis , < b> aortic valve insufficiency , aortic stenosis recommend the decoction of a mixture of flowers Arnica, flowers Elderberry black and leaflets rosemary in the ratio 2:2:3. One full tablespoon of the mixture take on 1 cup of boiled water, 10 minutes and drink sips during the day. When bladder ( cystitis , bacteriuria ) take 1 tablespoon of the mixture arnica flowers , yarrow flowers and grass tansy obyknovennoy4 in the ratio 3:3:7 for 1 cup of boiled water, and drink at night. Externally, use alcohol tincture of arnica flowers 100 g for 1 liter of 70% alcohol or tincture of white grape wine - for the lotion to the injured site, bruise , boils , abscesses , as hemostatic , absorbable and anti tool. Drink the infusion of 15 g leaf arnica and orange peel ZO.g to 200 ml of boiling water every 3 hours on glass (30 g). Insist on oil used in burns . With a large fatigue refreshing foot bath with the addition of the water a little alcohol tincture arnica flowers.