This is a perennial plant from the Rosaceae family. It has an erect stem reaching a length of up to 1 m and yellow-white fragrant flowers. Meadows in humid places, in ravines, fringes and on the banks of rivers meadowsweet grows. Application of the plant: traditional medicine, cosmetology, cooking. Another name for the culture is meadowsweet, borage, medunica, and white-headed.
Meadowsweet: application and composition
Lazaznik contains many useful components:
- essential oil;
- trace elements;
- glycosides;
- flavonoids;
- slime;
- vitamins;
- organic acids;
- catechins;
- chalcones;
- tannins.
In folk medicine, meadowsweet is used as natural aspirin. The properties of the plant in this case are aimed at removing heat from colds. Since a large number of salicylic acid derivatives allows the use of culture to lower the temperature.
Also, meadowsweet is used to treat the following ailments:
- gout
- rheumatism;
- diseases of the stomach and intestines;
- arthritis;
- bladder diseases;
- choking;
- kidney disease;
- dropsy;
- hypertension
- asthma
- uterine tumors;
- skin;
- Nervous
- cholecystitis.
This list is incomplete, it has long been believed that the meadowsweet is able to cure more than 40 diseases. Also, bunches of grass were hung in the house to repel mosquitoes and smeared her places of snake bites. Flowers used to make fragrant healing tea.
Meadowsweet: medicinal properties of the plant
For the treatment of various ailments, roots, flowers and leaves are used. The plant favorably affects the body and has the following effects:
- anti-inflammatory;
- painkiller;
- diuretic;
- anti-rheumatoid;
- sweatshops;
- anthelmintic;
- antiulcer;
- astringent;
- hemostatic;
- sedative;
- wound healing.
Decoction, infusions, ointments and tinctures are made from meadowsweet. For compresses and lotions it is used fresh.
Meadowsweet: application in cosmetology
Lubaznik is widely used for skin and hair care. To do this, you can make such recipes:
- To improve complexion. It is necessary to make tea from the flowers of the plant and drink it throughout the day.
- To combat rashes and acne. It is necessary to make an infusion of flowers of culture and boiling water. Then insist and strain the broth, dilute with alcohol. With this medicine, they wipe the face twice a day in places of damage with a rash.
- To give the skin a healthy appearance and smoothness. The broth is combined with honey and carrot juice. Apply to the face with a brush, then rinse with water.
- To give the skin a haze and narrow pores. Oatmeal is added to the broth and lightly sprinkled with lemon juice. Such a mask is applied overnight. After 15 minutes it must be washed off with water.
- To add volume to the hair and enhance their growth. Meadowsweet rinse the ringlets of the flowers after washing with shampoo.
Meadowsweet: use in cooking
For the preparation of salads, young shoots, roots and flowers of culture are used. To taste, they resemble fresh cucumbers. Aromatic and tasty tea is brewed from dried flowers and leaves. Also used as a seasoning in the preparation of soups and borscht. To do this, apply meadowsweet seeds, which are crushed into powder.
To give a unique aroma, the meadowsweet is added to jam and preserves, as well as to alcoholic beverages: beer and wine.