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.

Crataegus oxyacantha L.
Crataegus oxyacantha L.

HAWTHORN BARBED Crataegus oxyacantha L.
Family Pink - Rosaceae
Hawthorn - bush, rarely a tree to 5 m tall. At strong purple-brown shoots rare, thick, straight, 2,5-4 cm long spines. Leaflets 2-6 cm long, shirokorombicheskie, with bare cuttings from both sides shortly pubescent at the sides, pinnately three-pyatilopastevye. Flowers bisexual, white (or red) petals, collected in the thyroid inflorescences. Smell the flowers peculiar, pleasant .- The fruit red, rarely red-yellow, with a powdery pulp and 2-5 seeds.

Blossoms in May - June , fruits ripen in August. There is growing as ornamental shrubs - in the parks, hedges, and as wild - on the edges of deciduous forests, among shrubs.
gather flowers in May, fruit - in August, twigs - all year round.
Apply with functional disorders of cardiac activity with strong nervous shocks, in cardiac weakness after recovering from debilitating diseases. When angioneurosis climacteric period ( tides of blood to the head ), in the initial stage of hypertensive disease. Also, when bezsonnitse patients with cardiac abnormalities, with hyperthyroidism with tachycardia .
Hawthorn lowers excitability of the central nervous system, tones the heart muscle , increases blood circulation in the coronary vessels of the heart and vessels of the brain, eliminates tachycardia and arrhythmia , removes unpleasant sensation in the area of the heart, lowers blood pressure and improves the general condition of patients. (Stronger operates a small evergreen periwinkle - Vinca minor L., a rich routine and alkaloid vininom, lowers blood pressure).
Hawthorn helps with flashing arrhythmias. Atherosclerosis lowers cholesterol in the blood .
use as tea . In 1 cup boiling water 1 tablespoon of taking flowers and insist 10 minutes. Drink 1 glass three times a day. As the drops are preparing the case. Insist handful of fresh flowers or ripe fruit at 0,25 liter of spirits or strong vodka (1:2) for 14 days. After this draft and use of 40 drops three times a day on the spoon of water (just squeezed juice from fresh flowers, preserved in the ratio 4:1 90% alcohol). People are irritable, nervous, especially in hysterical fits, menopause in women, prepare tea from 1 tablespoon to the top of the mixture of grass dog nettles , of sweet woodruff , blackberry leaf, herbs dried flowers marsh and flowers of hawthorn in the ratio 2:2:2,5:1,5:1 made of 1 cup of boiled water, 10 minutes. Drink 3 cups a day. When high blood pressure ( hypertension ) 1 tablespoon of the mixture of hawthorn flowers , hawthorn fruit , bottlebrush grass field , grass mistletoe white , cloves garlic , mountain arnica flowers and grass Yarrow in the ratio of 3:3:3:3: 3:1:4 insist in 1 cup boiling water and drink 0.25 cups of 4 times a day.
When cardiac neurosis with indigestion , bezsonnitsey take 2 full teaspoons of the mixture of flowers hawthorn thorn , grass knotweed normal and bottlebrush grass field in the ratio 5:3:2, insisting half an hour in 1 cup boiling water. infusion of flowers and leaves Hawthorn by 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:10 (50 drops or - 1 teaspoon three times a day, a glass of water) or water-decoction is recommended as an excellent tonic, antispasmodic and sedative tool. In very high doses (4-5 times greater usually appointed), and because of the prolonged and systematic use of hawthorn not only suppresses, but often stops for a few years the emergence of seizures of angina. And with anginal states, myocardial infarction, decompensation of the hawthorn is superior to nitro compounds and other drugs, as well as prevents toxic side effects and does not exhibit inhibitory effects on gut function.
increasing the force of heart contractions , hawthorn sets ravnovesomost between it and the blood pressure. Increased pressure reduces, reduced - increases and thereby reduces excitability of the nervous system. When bezsonnitse , associated with the nervous excitement, provides a quiet, deep and prolonged sleep, without prejudice after waking mental oppression. Hawthorn gives good consequences for different allergic diseases . In some cases of acute articular rheumatism, severe pain, weakened after a few days after eating the hawthorn.
Hypertension of renal origin hawthorn does not give favorable consequences.
When cholelithiasis with selezenochnikom yield good results following the use of broth. A mixture of shredded dried bark of one-year shoots of hawthorn, 1 tablespoon, boiled for 20 minutes in 1 cup digested soft water, to which the (hot), add 1 teaspoon of herbs mint Cold and insisted that another half-hour (valid < b> glycoside esculin).
We can not say that even a simple tea made from young shoots of hawthorn acts as a sanitary means of raising the general tone of the body, helps eliminate anemia and avitaminosis, cleanses internal organs, primarily - kidneys.

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.