Calamus

Family Araceae - Acorus calamus - perennial herb 60-120 cm tall. Rhizome thick, up to 50 cm long, knotty inside the white, soft, spongy, the top yellow or yellow-green, the taste of cucumber-pekuchy, the smell of it pleasant. Stem near base with a reddish purple hue, flowers are collected in a thick, fleshy inflorescence - the beginning, which is popularly known as "headed cabbages. Leaflets with expressive identified veins, sword-shaped, linear, acute, fleshy. Fruit - an oblong dry berry. In the middle belt does not ripen. Flowers in June.
Growing throughout Ukraine and Central Russia, except the Carpathians and wormwood steppes and standing waters around the shores of rivers, ponds, swamps, places large thickets. Gather roots, digging forks, autumn or early spring, they are washed in cold water, sorted, cut into small pieces and dried.
Applied calamus as a tonic for the oppression of the central nervous system in diseases gastrointestinal tract , sluggish digestion (increases the excitability of taste endings and salivation), diarrhea, as diuretic tool, with biliary tract diseases, kidney stones ; as anti-inflammatory tool for malaria. Also, when disruption of the menstrual cycle in women for its regulation, with nervous disorders with convulsions, chronic diseases of the spinal cord with loss of sensitivity, with tachycardia. Use in the form of tea. For this purpose, 1 cup cold water 1 teaspoon give minced calamus root, bring to a boil and boil 10 minutes. Drink (depending on needs) 1-3 cups a day with sips rheumatism , edema , pale weakness , violation of the menstrual cycle in women. For the regulation of the intestines brewed 2 tablespoons of mixture of calamus root, valerian root, buckthorn bark, peppermint leaf Cold and nettles (in the ratio 1:1:3:2:3) in 2 cups water for 10 minutes, filter through gauze and drink half a cup of morning and evening.
The juice of the root taken to improve vision, for improve memory and to get rid of the habit of smoking (causes vomiting). Instead of broth to drink alcohol tincture calamus root in the ratio 1:5 - 10-30 drops three times a day with water or a lump of sugar, the same infusion rinse their mouths with a toothache. When heartburn drink powder (0,3-0,5) from the rhizomes of calamus, three times a day for 2-3 g (reduces fermentation in the gut; anesthetic and analgesic mucous membranes). This powder may also be applied externally. Him asleep purulent wounds and ulcers. To gargle for laryngitis ( sore throat , hoarseness ) and glositi (inflammation of the tongue with swelling, fractures, fever and difficulty swallowing) using broth from the mixture calamus rhizome , leaf sage , oak and large nettle leaf (all equally). The broth is prepared to rinse well. They take 1 tablespoon of mixture into 1 cup of cold water, cook in a covert vessel for 10 minutes. This broth rinse the throat and mouth three times a day when scurvy and amphodontosis .
Decoction of a mixture of rhizomes calamus , burdock root (one handful) and hop cones normal (two handfuls) - 3-4 liters of water -- wash head with hair loss , dandruff twice a week.
Fresh sheets calamus act as a means of insecticidal against fleas and other insects.

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.