Yarrow. Useful properties of plants on guard of health

Yarrow is one of the many folk names of an ancient medicinal plant. From history it is known that the yarrow powder was in the backpacks of the soldiers of Macedonian and Suvorov.

There is a yarrow common andnoble. The latter has less pronounced therapeutic properties and therefore a yarrow flower noble with white flowers rather carries a load as an ornamental plant. He is not picky about the soil, it is a shrub plant, and the yarrow flower blooms during July.

Yarrow ordinary almostgrows throughout the former Soviet Union. It is a herbaceous perennial plant, very odorous, with a creeping yellowish thin and long rhizome. Numerous flowers of yarrow are collected in the inflorescence of white and pink, pink and golden yellow. They, along with the leaves and stems of the plant are used for treatment. The period of harvesting yarrow lasts from June to August. Proper collection and preparation of this miracle plant will preserve all its medicinal properties.

What is so good yarrow, useful propertieswhich is even difficult to enumerate? This plant has excellent sweating, diuretic, antispasmodic and astringent properties. He helps with such diseases as pulmonary tuberculosis, stomach ulcer and catarrh, nervous diseases, hypertension, bedwetting, liver disease, anemia and headaches, inflammatory processes in the uterus, malaria, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In this case, the need to use the usual medications prescribed by a doctor, of course, does not disappear. In any case, phytotherapy is used as an adjunct to the main therapeutic measures.

With such a variety of medicinal properties, notIt is surprising that the yarrow is so widely used. Useful properties of this plant also apply to hemostatic (with external and internal bleeding) and anti-inflammatory. Against the background of its use, blood coagulation is accelerated and wound healing takes place much more quickly. Its juice and broth are used for small scratches, abrasions, cuts, nosebleeds.

In cases where the hemorrhoidal nodes become inflamedand bleeding hemorrhoids, of course, helps yarrow. Treatment consists in applying wipes moistened in its cold broth. With ill-fated hemorrhoids, an enema of yarrow infusion is produced which is prepared by pouring 20 grams of grass with a quarter of a liter of water at room temperature, followed by heating for 15 minutes in a water bath and infusion for at least 45 minutes. Then filter. This infusion can be stored for 2 days in a cool place and used for washing wounds.

With the help of decoctions, juice and ointments preparedfrom a yarrow, treat burns, psoriasis, purulent wounds, eczema. Another yarrow, useful properties of which have been known for a long time, increases appetite, improves metabolism and cures female diseases.

Do not forget about warningsuse of the plant yarrow. Treatment with this multi-faceted phytopreparation has categorical contraindications for thrombophlebitis and with increased blood coagulability, as well as for use in pregnant women. Be careful when using it for food, as skin rashes may occur. At the same time, the use of his broths and infusions by nursing mothers increases the separation of milk from them.

The millennial is not only a healer. In Australia, the women of Aborigines as a secret of beauty is his extract, which moisturizing properties are used to get rid of stretch marks. For delicate and velvety facial skin and decollete area, wipe these body parts with a decoction of a glass of boiling water and 1 tbsp. spoons of grass.

Here is such an amazing yarrow, the beneficial properties of which endowed him with healing power. But, following the commandments - do no harm, always need to consult a doctor before starting treatment.