Ling - Calluna vulgaris
Ling - Calluna vulgaris
Ling - Calluna vulgaris
Ling - Calluna vulgaris
Ling - Calluna vulgaris

Ling Calluna vulgaris (L.) HILL.
Family Ericaceae - Ericaceae
Ling - a small branched evergreen shrub 15-70 cm tall. The stem is thin with raised branches, bark gray-brown. Leaflets are small, placed opposite, like the tiles, in four rows. Flowers mauve or lilac-pink, sometimes white or cream, on short stalks, placed in one-sided clusters. Taste of plant bitter, astringent. It smells of honey. Blooms from July to September. Grows in forest and forest-steppe regions in the north - not dry and moist, with a low content of lime, sand soil. Often in pine and mixed forests, lawns, dry hills, forest meadows, along the roads.
gather branch with leaves and flowers in summer.
Apply as a means diaphoretic and diuretic , anti - for inflammation of urinary tract. Recommend at gout , rheumatism , diseases of the urinary bladder, which are accompanied by inflammation predpuzyrevoy cancer , urolithiasis , diarrhea . Used in the nervous system, insomnia , skittishness , bezprichinnoy thoughtfulness .
Use as a tea. In 1 cup boiling water 1 teaspoon taken heather and insist 10 minutes. Drink 2 cups a day sips. Useful tea and catarrh of the stomach with acidity. As a means, which calms the nerves and treats bezsonnitsu, use a mixture of heather , grass and Obuchi nettles heart, dried flowers and marsh valerian in the root of the ratio of 4: 3:3:1 - take 1 tablespoon of the mixture to 2 cups of boiling water and zaparivayut night. Drink each hour for 4-5 gulps, 4 cups a day (with neurasthenia). When bezsonnitse take 2 full tablespoons of mixture of grass heather , leaflets Melissa and valerian root in the ratio 2:2:6 for 1 cup of boiled water, 15 minutes. Drink sips during the day.
In chronic inflammatory changes in the cardiac muscle, pericardium , heart valves and their condition after transfer (compensated and decompensated heart valve defects, endocarditis , myocarditis , pericarditis , insufficiency mitral valve, mitral stenosis, aortic valve insufficiency, aortic stenosis) 2 teaspoons of the mixture of flowers heather , terna9 flowers, flowers stinging, nettle herb dog of the heart, herbs yarrow , the root lyubistka (tie) boiled 20 min in a glass of water and drink gulps per day.
Diuretic chronic cystitis, pielitah, urolithiasis, renal colic operates a mixture of grass heather , grass ostudnika naked, bearberry leaf , broom grass, grass Hypericum usual, lavender flowers , rhizomes calamus cane and leaf sage (tie). They take 1 tablespoon of mixture into 1 cup of boiled water, 10 minutes, drink 2 cups of the day.
When painful menstruation in women zaparivayut 1 tablespoon of the mixture flourished branches heather , buckthorn bark brittle, leaf Birch , chamomile flowers, peppermint leaf Cold, rhizomes and roots of valerian in the ratio 10:7,5:7,5:25:25:25 in 0.25 liters of water and drink hot during the day.
For packs with difficult healing wounds, abscesses, use broth from the mixture of grass heath, grass and field horsetail grass zolotushnika10 usual in the ratio 3:3:4 - 2 full tablespoons pour 0.5 liters of boiling water and boil 15 minutes.

Gentiana - Gentiana lutea L., Gentiana cmciata L.
Gentiana - Gentiana lutea L., Gentiana cmciata L.

Gentiana lutea - Tirlich Zhovta Gentiana lutea L .

Gentiana cruciate (prekrestnovidnaya) - Tirlich hreschaty (Rozman-zshtya) Gentiana cmciata L.
Family Gentianaceae - Gentianaceae .
Gentian - perennial plants 50-150 cm tall with a strong many-headed rhizome, from which departs a few lateral roots. In the first year there is a hollow, simple, unbranched stem. Leaflets opposite, large, broad,, half, whole, glabrous, with 5-7 parallel veins. Flowers collected bundles of 3-10 in the axils of the upper leaf bracts. Corolla golden-yellow, rotate, with five petals linear ostrovatymi.
Flowers in July.
grow Gentian on calcareous clay and mountain valleys in the Carpathian Mountains. The rare plant of the Ukrainian Carpathians. feedstock is not . In the rare young pine forests in the steppe and forest zones - on dry slopes, among shrubs. In the mountains of Crimea found gentian cruciate 15-60 cm tall, with several flowering stems, densely covered with linear-lanceolate somewhat obtuse leaves with blue flowers in the axils of the upper sheets. It often Gentian in the European part of Russia, except the South-East and North, in western Siberia, northern Kazakhstan and Belarus.
Blossoms in July - August.
gather roots and rhizomes of yellow gentian and cross-fall. Cleaned from the ground and shallow roots, and split into halves, dried quickly to preserve the valuable substances (when dried slowly, with fermentation, the roots get the smell, you want to provide the taste and smell of beer and vodka).

Apply to proceed appetite and improve the performance of the digestive organs in Akhil , sluggish digestion, burp , swelling , colic , heartburn , constipation , lack appetite . Also, when the pale weakness in underdeveloped girls ( chlorosis ), after a debilitating disease and gout and arthritis , as choleretic and anthelmintic tool and prevents fermentation. Impressions hot in the stomach after eating infusions Gentian - is a consequence caused by the acts of its agents nasal mucosa. Therefore, large doses it can cause vomiting and the deterioration of the digestive organs.
use in the form of tea . At 2 cups cold water 1 teaspoon taking gentian root and boil 10 minutes. Drink, depending on the requirements, 1-2 glasses, sips (for gout - 3 cups a day with an appropriate diet). It operates on the strong tincture fault , who drink wine glasses, - 2-3 on the day for half an hour before meals.
When gastritis ( Qatar stomach) is rooted gentian, yarrow grass and grass centaury (for 1 tea lozhhe each) , pour all 3 cups of cold water and boil for 10 minutes. Whole broth drink during the day and in the absence of appetite, intestinal disorders (constipation) and with pale weakness in underdeveloped girls (MA Nosal).
When acidity of the stomach with swelling preparing a tincture. At 1 liter port to take 1 tablespoon lozhhe gentian root , grass dried flowers bog, orange skin, rhizomes calamus , herb hypericum , leaflets almond , flower tansy , valerian root and put in the window at the sunlight for 21 days. Then strain off and drink to 2 tablespoons in the morning (fasting) and evening (before bedtime). If you drink this infusion for 1 glass before dinner, will be the most persistent heartburn. You can also use gentian root powder, three times a day on the tip of a knife for half an hour before a meal, especially in the absence of appetite, sluggish digestion.
In the treatment of purulent wounds covered them with a powder of the roots of gentian, mixed evenly with powdered chamomile flowers drug. If sweating feet with a strong unpleasant odor make daily foot baths (before bedtime) in hot strong decoction of a mixture of oak and gentian root in the ratio of 3 : 1 instead of socks and leggings are from flax or hemp linen.

Oak - Quercus robur L.
Oak - Quercus robur L.

ORDINARY OAK Quercus robur L.
Family Fagaceae - Fagaceae .
Oak - chunky durable tree to 40 m tall. Crown dense, strong root system, dark gray bark with deep fissures. Leaves are oblong-obovate with 4.7 rounded lobes on each half, with the ears near the base, above the green, shiny, dull below, paler, glabrous, petiolate. On the sheets at the end of the summer sometimes appear spherical growths - "peanuts", or Gala. Flowers - male, collected in intermittent thin catkins 2-4 cm long, seeds - acorns, on 1,5-3,5 cm long, reddish-brown, with longitudinal stripes on 1-5 in the long peduncles, sit in small cups .

Blossoms in April - May.

Acorns ripen in September - October. Growing by almost the entire territory of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, often forming large area of oak groves, solitary - in fields, meadows.
gather bark (with one-side-branch) - late spring and summer, acorns - in autumn, when they ripen and fall Gala - late summer, the roots of an oak sapling - in the autumn. Apply with are hard to stomach, rickets, in this case, drink acorn coffee. Broth from dried leaves, colors and roots - the night-time urination and against bleeding in women. The bark contains flobafeny , galovu and elagovu acid, tannic Cervinia , bitterness and other substance.
Use in the form of tea with gastric bleeding, rickets , with excessive menstrual bleeding, with renal diseases , when there is blood in the urine, with frequent desires on urination in small doses, with gastritis , colitis , diarrhea (large doses may result in vomiting). In 1 cup boiling water 1 tablespoon take shredded bark, boil 1 minute, insist 10 minutes, drink 2 cups of the day ( poisoning with mushrooms , alkaloids, salts of copper and tin).
Eczema, the general weakening of the body preparing the bath, a handful of the cortex in 2 liters of water boiled for 10 minutes, strain off, and this broth is added to the full bath. Undiluted broth rinse their mouths with stomatitis , gingivitis , to strengthen the gums, with angina , rinse the throat with bad breath. When tooth flux (in a mixture with Napara this broth sheets sage ) warm broth rinse mouth several times a day. The same broth, mixed with a slurry of starch (soup) in a ratio of 1 part of the jelly into 3 parts, broth, used in diarrhea , dysentery , for enemas. For douching for pain in women (hot broth, twice a day) 1 handful of the mixture (equal) oak bark , branches of mistletoe , flowers white deaf nettle , chamomile flowers , rose petals , yarrow herb boiled in 2 liters of water for 10 minutes. For the treatment of rickets , scrofula added to the full bath decoction of a mixture (equal) oak bark , herbs oregano , rhizomes calamus , yarrow flowers , double the number of pine pagon with pine needles, grass succession , grass violets tricolor. 1 rounded handful of mixture and 1 kg of wheat siftings , sprouted grains and leaves of rye currant - black currants, boiled in a separate his knapsack 30 minutes in a bucket of water. The contents of the knapsacks after ottsezhivaniya broth discarded.
Broth gal (gal handful in 2 liters of water) boiled 10 minutes and used for lotions to scalded or burned parts of the body. For the lubrication of pressure ulcers in critically ill ointment is manufactured from 2 parts of fine roots of oak mixed with 1 part of the kidneys black poplar, insisting on 7 parts of butter in a warm oven (oven) during the night. In the morning boil on low heat for half an hour, squeeze and broth is poured into the jar. Ointment soothes pain, shows a cooling effect and promotes quick healing of bedsores.
You can also make an ointment from a mixture of kidney poplar black, flowers Hypericum , 95% alcohol and pork and melted unsalted fat in proportion 1:1,5:1,5:4 - taking 1 part black poplar buds and adding alcohol, triturated with flowers of St. John's wort. Leave it for 2 hours in a closed vessel, then add 4 pieces of pork lard and heated in a water bath until the alcohol evaporates. Then the fray through gauze, and ready to put the ointment on bed sores, boils, and is used for hair growth.