Of all the pharmacy plants used in folk medicine, the series is perhaps the most famous. However, few can list all the therapeutic properties of this plant.
Despite widespread
use, a series of useful properties and contraindications are shared equally.
Flowering period
Throughout the summer months, flowering occurs, and in autumn the plant bears fruit. Since it is an unpretentious plant, it grows in all climatic zones that are located in the territorial space of the CIS (except for the conditions of the Far North).
In meadows, near ponds, as well as in humid forests and, of course, just in the garden you can find such a plant as a succession. The great-grandfathers of our grandfathers knew its useful properties and contraindications. When working in the garden, when thinning out the bed, carefully look at the shoots. It is possible that you take a rather useful plant for a weed. Keep it for your own good. A decoction of the string is very effective in many cases. All the most useful that is in the plant has its place of concentration - the tops of the shoots.
Chemical composition
- Provitamin A.
- Tannins.
- Essential oil.
- Coumarin.
- Ascorbic acid.
- Calcium.
- Copper.
- Manganese.
- Iron.
- Chromium.
- Potassium.
- Boron.
The benefits of the series
Any self-respecting herbalist will tell you how useful the series is. Useful properties and contraindications of this plant to these people are fully known. Quite often, this gift of nature is used in the treatment of various childhood diseases, in particular, it is used for rashes on the skin of a child. To do this, they bathe him in a decoction of a series. It helps in the treatment of colds, effective as a means to lower blood pressure. For therapeutic purposes, a series is widely used both inside and out. Treatment with decoctions and tinctures is prescribed even by experts.
Inside, the series is used for diseases of the muscular and bone apparatus, diabetes, bronchitis, edema, oncological formations and cystitis. Also, decoction from the series has a positive effect on the liver, contributing to its cleansing. In the form of lotions, this plant is used externally in the treatment of furunculosis, seborrhea, ulcers and diathesis.
Decoction from the root of the string has a unique antitoxic effect. It is in this quality that it is used for scorpion sting in the countries of the East. When crushed leaves of a plant are added to a decoction, it can be used for bites of poisonous snakes. Fresh leaves are used to treat festering wounds.
Another great anti-allergic medicine is a series. Useful properties and contraindications of this plant allow it to be used even for the treatment of infants. This is one of the few natural remedies that, if properly prepared, does not cause side effects.
Broth recipe
The main thing in the preparation of infusions and decoctions is the observance of proportions: 1 tablespoon per glass of boiling water. Then insist for three hours, filter and apply as directed. In order for the treatment to be of high quality, it is necessary to use only fresh grass. If one is not available, remember that the shelf life of a natural product should not exceed two years.
To eliminate various ailments today you can find a lot of recipes. The series, due to the presence of tannins and essential oil in its composition, is the most widely used plant in medicine and cosmetology.