It is useful to know about the healing herbs with which the surrounding nature is rich. After all, sometimes you can find a cure for various diseases without resorting to medications. So, licorice (whose healing properties have been known since time immemorial) is often prescribed for colds. Let's talk more about this medicinal plant.
Healing remedy - licorice
This plant is a perennial culture with a straight trunk and a slightly sprawling stem. Licorice rhizome is thick and short, with many small branches. The zone of Eastern Europe, Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and the steppe regions of Central Asia are the places where licorice grows. Its medicinal properties in these areas are well known, and therefore the collection of plants is carried out everywhere.
As you know, there are four types of licorice: naked, stiff-haired, Korzhinsky and Ural, which have an almost identical composition and the same use in medicine. Their difference is only in the ratio of substances contained in the stems and roots.
Licorice: useful properties and contraindications
This medicinal plant is used to treat various diseases that can be represented in the following list:
- Diseases of the stomach and intestines - ulcers, gastritis, etc.
- Rheumatism, arthrosis and arthritis.
- Kidney disease.
- Bronchial asthma and other colds.
- Atherosclerosis.
- Bites of snakes and poisonous insects.
- Bladder disease
- Food poisoning and other problems.
It should be noted that there are cases when licorice, the healing properties of which are very effective, is not recommended. These are such diseases:
- chronic hepatitis;
- cirrhosis of the liver;
- arterial hypertension;
- renal failure;
- diabetes;
- heart rhythm disturbances and other ailments.
Also, it should not be used during pregnancy and individual intolerance to the components of a medicinal plant.
Healing recipes
As a rule, licorice root is used to prepare medicines . Its medicinal properties have long been known to residents of different countries, while each nation’s methods and methods of treatment with this plant were different. But we can distinguish the main methods that are effective for colds and other inflammatory diseases.
1. You can make a decoction of licorice root. To do this, you need to pour 10 g of medicinal raw materials, pour about 0.2 l of boiling water and warm in a water bath. Then let the broth infuse for about 2 hours and drink one large spoon several times a day.
2. You can also make an infusion of crushed roots. To do this, you need to fill in a tablespoon of licorice with half a liter of water. Boil for about 10 minutes, then remove from the stove and cool. Take a decoction (after filtering it) after eating half a glass up to 4 times a day.
3. It is good to take licorice syrup as an expectorant. To make it, you can take rhizome extract (4 g) and mix with sugar syrup (86 g) and alcohol (10 g).
A plant such as licorice (the medicinal properties of which we examined above) is a potent healing agent. Therefore, it should be taken after consulting with your doctor in advance.