Common tar is a perennial plant from the clove family. In the people it is also known as the adonis, swamp visor, nap, tar tar. Over the years, its medicinal properties are widely used in traditional medicine.
Description
Common tar grows most often up to 60–80 cm in height. The naked stalk of her erect, reddish color. On it there are small nodules with a sticky substance, for which the plant got its name. It is also popularly known as sticky tar. Dark green narrow leaves with a pointed tip are opposite. Their length is from 5 to 7 cm. Raspberry-colored flowers on short pedicels of 5-6 pieces are collected in a panicle.
The fruit of the common resin is an egg-shaped box located on the leg. The flowering period lasts from May to June.
Another species of this plant was created by breeders - ordinary terry tar. Characterized by larger and lush flowers (up to 4 cm in diameter) and used in landscape design.
Places of distribution
This plant is found almost throughout Russia, with the exception of its northern parts, as well as in Belarus and Ukraine, Moldova and the Caucasus, and the western regions of Siberia. The plant grows most often in meadows, a sandy slope or the fringe and pine forests, on meadow and sandy soils - light and breathable.
Useful properties of the plant
For medicinal purposes, most often used leaves, flowers, somewhat less often - the stem of the plant. The sticky resin is harvested during the period of its intensive growth and flowering - in May-June, when the plant gains its strength and useful properties. It contains a high content of valuable phenolcarboxylic acids, saponin, saporubin. In addition, flavonoid chemical compounds were found in large quantities in it.
In folk medicine, the plant is recognized as an excellent sleeping pill and anti-inflammatory agent, it has expectorant and wound healing properties. Common tar promotes rapid blood coagulation, therefore decoctions from it serve as an effective hemostatic agent, as well as a natural antiseptic. In addition, the plant has a mild analgesic effect and choleretic effect.
Infusion from ordinary tar is used for hepatitis, kidney problems and for the diagnosis of jaundice. For colds, decoctions from the plant are indicated as an expectorant, they are also used to stop uterine bleeding or with painful, heavy menstruation, bronchitis and gastric colic. In case of nervous overvoltages and failure in the normal rhythm of sleep, an infusion of ordinary tar is recommended as an effective sleeping pill and sedative.
Application in traditional medicine.
In pharmaceuticals, ordinary tar is very rarely used. The use in alternative medicine is found in the form of various infusions, decoctions and other forms. Herbalists and traditional healers use tar very often.
An infusion is prepared from the ground part of the plant, which has excellent medicinal characteristics. In particular, it is used as an effective expectorant - the plant has pronounced mucolytic properties. In addition, the infusion and decoction of ordinary tar are recommended for pathologies and malfunctions of the kidneys, as well as for the diagnosis of some diseases of the respiratory system.
Among other things, decoctions and infusions of the plant are shown not only for internal, but also for external use. In most cases, the decoction is used for skin problems, various dermatological pathologies - they are treated with purulent abscesses and boils, used for scabies, abscesses and ulcers. It is recommended to flush cuts and abrasions with the infusion and decoction of ordinary tar - its bactericidal effect has long been known to phytotherapists.
Cooking recipes
In folk medicine, ordinary tar is mainly used in the form of decoction and infusion.
The broth is prepared simply - in 0.5 liters of boiling water, steamer 3 tbsp. l raw materials and boil, not bringing to a boil, over low heat for 10 minutes. Then it is allowed to infuse for an hour and used as lotions - for washing wounds, especially purulent, nonhealing ulcers, for scabies and all kinds of rashes.
To prepare an infusion of 200 ml of boiling water take 2 tbsp. l plants brought to a boil. After this, the infusion is removed from the fire, insisted for several hours. Take such a pre-chilled and filtered infusion of 50 ml up to 4 times a day - with coughing attacks, as an effective expectorant, as an anesthetic decoction for colic - in the same dosage and with the same frequency of administration. To get sleeping pills and calming effects - 150 ml.
Contraindications
Like any other medicinal plant, ordinary tar has contraindications. In particular, decoctions and infusions are not recommended for colic accompanied by long constipation, gastritis, people with low acidity of gastric juice.