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.

Elecampane - Inula helenium L.
Elecampane - Inula helenium L.

Elecampane - Oman Vysokyi (devyasil) Inula helenium L.
Family Asteraceae - Asteraceae , or Slozhnotsvety - Compositae
Elecampane - a perennial herb 100-150 cm, sometimes up to 250 cm tall. Rhizome thick, fleshy, internally whitish with brown spots, its bitter taste (hot), a rather pleasant smell, strong. Stalk straight, branched above. Leaflets - radical, large, woolly top and bottom - serovoylochnye, unequally, oblong-elliptic, acute, narrowed to the stalk. Stem - regular, sertsevidno-ovate, amplexicaul. Baskets are rather large, up to 8 cm in diameter, isolated and in clusters, flowers yellow.
Blossoms in July - September.
growing is almost absent-mindedly throughout Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Cultivated in the gardens, in the wild growing on wet bushes, on the high banks of rivers, especially on soils of the chernozem zone, with the ditches, the edges of meadows, sometimes in forest clearings.
gather rhizome with roots in October, and dried in the shade. Apply as expectorant , diaphoretic and diuretic tool. Reducing motor and secretory action of the intestines, facilitates digestion and metabolism . Also operates anthelmintic . Effect of roots elecampane High expectorant , bactericidal , they assist digestion (sesquiterpene gelenin acts like eudesmolu eucalyptus oil).
Use in the form of tea. For 1 cup of water take 1 teaspoon of minced root (more than 1 teaspoon not take, because it may cause vomiting). Sweetened with honey or sugar liquor consumed in the absence of appetite, sluggish digestion , the bad and frequent belching , frequent swelling intestines. Also, when colic , gastritis , gastroenterite , diarrhea non-infectious origin and selezenochnika . When scanty menstruation , breast disease - together (tie) with the root Althea , - inflammation of the lungs, emphysema , TB lung, bronchitis , tracheitis , to reduce sputum production, as the most effective expectorant - every 2 hours for 1 full tablespoon. You can also use as a powder from the crushed roots of Elecampane, mixed with honey, 5 teaspoons a day.
Decoction of fresh crushed rhizomes and roots of Elecampane (2 tablespoons in a pint of port wine cook for 10 minutes, drink 50 grams twice daily after meals) is recommended if intestinal catarrh and a lack of stomach acidity, as in pulmonary tuberculosis (M. Nosal ). Water decoction of the roots elecampane in association with grass ostudnika naked helps with acute and chronic calculous pyelonephritis.
During a severe cold, when influenza , when the patient is breathing heavily and had a runny nose, coughing, after grinding with turpentine cans and give the drink instead of tea decoction prepared from the rhizomes and roots (tie) elecampane high and angelica medical (and 1 tablespoon each per 1 liter of cold water, boiled for 10 minutes).
When anemia , with pale weakness ( chlorosis ), give to drink 2 cups a day (spoons) broth mixture of roots and rhizomes Elecampane, Grass Gentian and Yarrow - take 1 teaspoonful every half-liter of water and boil 10 minutes.
When scabies , as recommended by M. Nosal, a handful of chopped roots and rhizomes Elecampane boil 15 minutes in 4 - 5 spoons of unsalted pork lard, add 2 tablespoons of pure birch tar, the same amount of sulfur powder . This ointment rubbed on the body for several days at night, washing it in the morning a strong broth (50 g per 1 liter of water) Elecampane. Every day, change clothes, bedding and garments, and thus get rid of even the most neglected skin disease (underwear must boil, and woolen things to iron a hot iron to kill all the scabies mites).
Baths of strong decoction of the root Elecampane take with itchy eruptions, pus - with scrofula - impetigo, herpes, neurodermatitis. Poultices of crushed boiled root is applied (for a few minutes, so as not to cause burns) for diseases of the joints. Powdered root thrown onto the hot charcoal to smoke kill flies, mosquitoes, fleas.