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.

Pimpinella saxifraga L
Pimpinella saxifraga L

Pimpinella saxifraga L.
Family Apiaceae - Apiaceae .
Bedrenets Saxifragaceae - a perennial. Many-headed rhizome, leafy, brown, thickness of 1-2 cm root-wrinkled, lumpy, up to 20 cm and a thickness of 1.5 cm, the outside is dirty-brown, internally yellowish-white with a yellow-brown dots. Stems erect, to 75 cm tall, hollow inside, outside naked, covered with short fuzz with threadlike grooves. Leaves imparipinnate; lower leaves rounded ovate, taut, jagged, three-bladed apical leaf. Flowers are white, gathered in an umbrella.
Flowering bedrenets from June to October .
There is growing everywhere in the meadows, between bushes, on the edges of forests along the roads.
Gather its rhizome and roots are usually in autumn or early spring. Dry bedrenets or its root can be identified by a sharp, irritating odor smell and bitter-spicy taste.
Root contains bedrentsa essential oil and pimpinellin - a special substance, insoluble in water, so the roots for medicinal purposes is better to use as a tincture.
Apply bedrenets in as expectorant , diuretic , with abdominal pain, regulate the functional activity of the gastrointestinal tract, cough , as well as a means calming the nervous system. This old folk remedy is very effective and well tested. In people it is used even when pertussis - as expectorant , painkiller and sedative, in edema - a diuretic , with constipation and poor digestion of food - as a normalizing function activity of the stomach . Very effective tool when it hoarseness : add 15 drops of tincture to sweatshop decoction of lime color.
Outwardly preparations from the root bedrentsa used to gargle in inflammation of the throat, fresh juice from the root stains on the face.
Use broth: 15 g per 200 ml, and 1 st. spoon three times a day or 30 g of root in 1 liter of water for 1 / 3 cup 4 - 5 times a day.
The infusion of vodka: 2 of the root into 5 parts vodka, take 30 drops 4-5 times a day with edema.
Tincture at fault: 1 part of the root of 6 parts of wine.

White Birch - Betula alba L.

BIRCH WHITE (furry) - Birch Bila (puhnasta) Betula alba L.

Family Betulaceae - Betulaceae
White Birch - slender tree to 20 m tall, with drooping branches and gladenkoy white bark. The old birches at the bottom of the trunk is dark gray with cracks. Leaflets rhombic-ovate or triangular-ovate, near the base shirokoklinovidnye, sometimes almost sertsevidnye. Flowers male, pubescent, gathered at the ends of branches in catkins 5-6 cm long (2-3 earrings), the fruit - nut with two wings, which are 2-3 times wider than the fruit. Blossoms in May, seeds ripen in July - August .
growing for almost the whole territory of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Usually forms the arrays in the forest and steppe zones, grows snowdrops, wet meadows.
gather buds in spring, when they have not disbanded and sticky from the resinous substances. Dried in the cold at a temperature no higher than 15-20 °. Later (in June - July) collect the sheets. Early spring collect birch sap (birch). Apply in avitaminosis Infusion of leaves. When gout , rheumatism , to cleanse the blood at eczema , deprives , eruptions on the body , with itching of the body . Also, when stomach ulcer , are hard to swallow it, when bronchitis and tracheitis , as expectorant and disinfectant . Used against small * roundworm ( pinworms and roundworm ); in postpartum (starting from 12 th day ) to accelerate the purification, with obesity , to increase metabolism ; with edema of renal origin and with stones ( diuretic and choleretic action ) - kidney , of which prepare tea or alcohol tincture. Use in the form of tea. In 1 cup boiling water 1 teaspoon taking kidneys, a little boiled and insist 2 hours. Drink 2 cups a day sips. Instead of tea you can drink alcohol tincture, 15-20 drops three times a day on the spoon of water (half a liter of 70% alcohol poured half a cup of kidney and insist on them for 14 days, then run off, filtered and poured into the bottle). Use when atherosclerosis , edema , are hard to swallow , even if cholera (against vomiting). Alcohol tincture of birch buds are very effective in the treatment of gastric ulcers. To do this an hour after meal drink a tablespoon of liqueur, Fiz 20-30 gr. pure butter. After this 4 hour will consume food and liquids.
Infusion from kidney sear mosquito bites, and then passes decreases itching and redness and swelling.
Infusion of young birch leaves drink at heart swelling as diuretic and diaphoretic means the allocation of protein in the urine, mochevokislom diathesis , as well as rheumatism . Fresh sheets washed with cold boiled water, the water is drained, flyers pour hot boiling water at a temperature of 40-50 °, and insist on for 3,5 hours. Leaflets squeeze, infusion give stand for 6 hours, separated from the sediment. Then there is the infusion of up to 155 mg% vitamin C . Use of 50, 100, 200 ml infusions three times a day, usually before a meal.
Birch juice drink to 3 or more cups a day for "recovery" of blood at skin diseases - deprives , eruptions on the body, with furunculosis , angina . Also, when anemia after the injury, with poorly healing wounds, ulcers , diseases that are accompanied by high temperature. When bronchitis , bronchiectasis , pulmonary tuberculosis, rheumatism , gout , arthritis , scurvy . It acts as an expectorant , diuretic , displays the body of harmful substances, helps with cardiac edema .
Externally use with eczema (compresses) and in cosmetics: in acne and pigmented spots face wash them.
Abraded in powder birch charcoal used in poisoning poisons and bacterial toxins, with flatulence , colitis , increased acidity of gastric juice - 1 teaspoon of powder three times a day, drinking water (or stirred with water).
The tar kills scabies mites in the skin - rub on the body at night for 3 days (before bedtime). At the 4 th day take a bath and change his clothes and linens.
alcohol tincture is used for rubbing and compresses when rheumatism , pains in the joints, at bedsores , scratches , wounds that do not heal. Externally use sheets for hot tubs in the treatment of acute and chronic eczema, herpes , with sweating feet, as well as rheumatism . A handful of leaflets cook 10 minutes in 4 liters of water, broth is used for baths. Steaming fresh leaves are used for compresses and poultices. In the first case imposes a deep tub of fresh birch leaves, cover it and when it is warmed by heat allocated, the patient buried in it for an hour or more (how many survive) on the neck or belt ( "dry" bath). In another case, the dried leaves, scalded with boiling water (or powdered raw) obkladyvayut affected sites of hands and feet ( hydrocephalus , rheumatism , gout , paralysis ), pulled on them stockings and tape up on the possibility of denser ( "sogrevatelnye stockings »).