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.

Valerian officinalis - Valeriana officinalis L.

Valerian DRUG - Valeriana officinalis L.
Family valerian - Valerianaceae
Valerian officinalis - a perennial herb 100-150 cm tall. The common name "Valerian officinalis» ( Valeriana officinalis L. S. 1.) Combines a number of Valerian, which are used in medicine. In the central zone of the group the most common drug valerian valerian brilliant (V. nitida Kreyer), high valerian (V. exaltata Mikan) and valerian pagononosnaya (V. stolonifera Czern). The best of them the one that grows in dry places. In the second year grows straight, grooved, hollow flower-bearing stalk. Leaves unpaired-peristoskladchatye, ovate-lanceolate, with whole or jagged edges. Inflorescence large, branched, some part in the form of complex shields. Flowers small, fragrant, bisexual, pink or white.

Flowers in June - August.

growing in the wild state in zaplavah rivers, the grass-sedge marshes, in wet bushes, among the willow is grown in farms. Gather biennial roots with rhizomes in early spring and late autumn (wash in cold water and dried in the shade).
Apply at disorders of the nervous system , bezsonnitse and digestive disorder in the nervous system, faint ; like. carminative , helminthic and a means to maintain power, with diarrhea (reduces spasms of smooth muscles and increases the inhibitory processes in the cerebral cortex) to enhance the action hypnotics and with mental fatigue .
When mental fatigue valerian eliminates disturbances in the cerebral cortex, increases its functional activity similar to tranquilizers. Valerian regulates the functioning of the heart, acting directly on the central nervous system, as well as heart muscle and the autonomous system of the heart, which creates and conducts impulses. Valerian improves coronary circulation and increases the production of the glands of the gastrointestinal tract and the secretion of bile. Use in tea as well. In 1 cup boiling water 1 teaspoon taken crushed roots and boiled for 10 minutes. Drink 1 glass in hyperthyroidism, nervous excitement, hysteria, epilepsy, bezsonnitse, cramps, spasms in the coronary vessels, with tachycardia, neuroses of the cardiovascular system. Babies with abdominal pain, give every hour to 1 teaspoon. Enema of valerian broth soothes intestinal colic.
With an empty feeling in the stomach, the tongue coated and a little headache, drink and 3 cups of tea a day: in 1 liter of water boiled for 10 minutes 6 tablespoons yarrow. Pour in hot broth and 1 tablespoon of herb wormwood, and valerian root, and 2 tablespoons herb mint cold, insist half an hour.
To make alcohol tincture, 1 part roots (preferably raw) pour 5 parts 46% alcohol, and insist in the warmth (25) for 7 days. Then merge, run off, defend, pass through the paper and the bandwidth consumed by 0,5 - 1 teaspoon, depending on the needs, but a short time, as valerian raises a function of the gastrointestinal tract. Ethereal tincture made with 1 part 90% alcohol, insist 4 days, then filled with 2 parts of ether and insist another 3 pores. Then do as in the preparation of an alcohol tincture.
Externally applied when nervous shock (fear) with convulsions in children with epilepsy. Bathe the child in a warm decoction of the roots of valerian (take 1 handful of roots in 1 liter of water, boil for 10 minutes and added to the bath). Make a bath every other day, and inside give 5 times a day, 7-10 drops of tincture alcohol in a teaspoon of water. Fifteen-minute bath in a day do before going to sleep.
Adults with functional diseases of the nervous system, the phenomena of fatigue , excessive irritability , as in some rheumatic ailments , radiculitis , < b> thrombophlebitis , hypertension and hypotension prepare a broth from a mixture of herbs thyme , sage , valerian root , calendula flowers ( marigolds ) and chamomile drug (tie). They take a handful of the mixture into 2 liters of water, boil 30 minutes and added to the full bath. Aromatic baths are doing twice a week.