Each of us is familiar with lilac bushes. In our country, they indicate the arrival of a warm season, since the plant turns green early. Since May, the culture is covered with beautiful and fragrant flowers of white and purple colors. Pleasant and juicy greens remain until late autumn. The shrub is more resistant than other plants to frost and less sensitive to air pollution. The medicinal properties of lilac flowers are used in folk medicine to treat many diseases.
Healing qualities of culture
Alcohol tinctures, decoctions and ointments are made from the plant using stems, bark, buds and lilac flowers. The healing properties of the shrub have a number of beneficial effects. These include:
- sweatshops;
- antimalarial;
- painkiller;
- anti-inflammatory;
- diuretic;
- antimicrobial.
The plant is used to treat the following diseases:
- skin (abscesses, purulent wounds, ulcers);
- with whooping cough, colds, bronchial asthma;
- with kidney stones;
- epilepsy;
- tuberculosis
- neuralgia;
- rheumatism;
- malaria
- arthritis, osteochondrosis and other joint diseases.
How is the plant used?
The healing properties of lilac flowers are used to make the following recipes:
- With epilepsy. To do this, fill the flowers with boiling water, insist, filter and drink no more than 3 times a day.
- Against cough. From boiled water and flowers make a decoction and take it after filtering twice a day.
- With malaria. Pour lilacs with boiling water, then insist 4 hours and use inside up to 3 times a day.
- With rheumatism. Use the flowers and buds of the plant, which are combined with alcohol and insist for 4 days. Before use, it must be filtered. Use three times a day, diluting with water.
Before using the listed recipes, the doctor should clarify the dosage and frequency of drug use.
Contraindications
Despite the medicinal properties of lilac flowers, they should be taken orally with caution, since they are poisonous. To avoid an overdose, you should check with a specialist in how much it can be consumed.
Today, therapists prescribe lilac flowers to treat diseases. Useful properties and contraindications to the use of the plant are well studied by specialists. Do not use medicine:
- with individual intolerance;
- during pregnancy;
- for the treatment of children;
- with severe diseases of the kidneys and liver.
Symptoms of bush poisoning
When using it is always necessary to follow the dosage and do not drink the medicine for a long time. It is not recommended to leave a bouquet of flowers at night in the room where they sleep.
If a plant poisoning has occurred, you should know its symptoms:
- in the mouth there is a taste of bitterness;
- headache;
- nausea;
- skin and mucous membranes become saturated pink;
- cramps
- labored breathing.
With the listed symptoms, immediate medical attention is required, since cardiac activity may stop. The medicinal properties of lilac flowers will have a positive effect only if taken correctly.