Materinka or oregano ordinary is a perennial plant with a pleasant aroma reminiscent of thyme. The plant is found almost throughout Europe, in Siberia and not only. Origanum ordinary always grows in dense dense bushes. She has a creeping thick rhizome. In one place, the plant can grow for more than thirty years, reaching impressive dimensions in width. Harvested herbs can be harvested up to three times a year, depending on the weather.
Plant features
Oregano has a straight stem with four faces. Leaves are arranged in pairs, opposite on petioles. They have an oblong or oblong-ovate shape with rare glands. The flowers of the plant are small, collected in shields. Corollas are light purple or pink, sometimes white. During flowering, the plant looks decorative. Origanum ordinary is a good honey plant, bees from a hectare of a plant collect up to two hundred kilograms of honey.
After flowering, seeds are formed. They are small, brown or brown, with a diameter of up to a millimeter.
Composition
The beneficial properties of oregano are due to the chemical composition. This plant contains:
- essential oils;
- tannins;
- vitamin C.
The plant has free alcohols, sesquiterpenes, carvacrol, thymol, geranyl acetate, vitamins, trace elements, volatile, flavonoids, bitterness.
Application in traditional medicine
Origanum common has many useful properties, for which it is widely used in medicine. It has a calming, antibacterial, anti-inflammatory effect. Helps to cope with helminthic infestations, and also acts as an excellent diuretic.
Oregano is able to increase intestinal tone, enhancing peristalsis. It also stimulates the secretion of bile, digestive enzymes, improves appetite, tones the muscles of the uterus, and has a regulatory function on the menstrual cycle.
From oregano, infusions and decoctions are prepared for digestive disorders, poor appetite, for the treatment of enterocolitis. Medicines with her for flatulence, constipation help. Good results are shown in the treatment of DZhVP, with cholecystitis.
Oregano gives excellent results in the treatment of chronic and acute forms of bronchitis, with whooping cough, as it stimulates the secretion of the glands of the bronchial tree.
Oregano preparations help to cope with female pathologies. It is indicated for primary and secondary amenorrhea, algomenorrhea, with a depressed mood, insomnia, increased sexual excitability. Infusions are used for douching with whitening, vaginal itching, colpitis.
In otolaryngology, common oregano is widely used. The healing properties of the plant help to cope with many ailments. Infusions are recommended for rhinitis, with the herb inhalation from sinusitis and tonsillitis, pharyngitis and laryngitis.
In folk medicine, oregano is used to treat pulmonary tuberculosis, seizures, stroke, asthenia. The plant helps with ARVI well. Oregano herb is used in the treatment of bronchial asthma, with hepatitis, neuralgia, rheumatism.
Infusions well help with stomatitis, gingivitis. You can use the plant externally in the form of compresses for the treatment of dermatological pathologies, including with boils, edema, eczema, abscesses.
Infusions are added to the bathtub and taken for the treatment of itchy rashes, with neurodermatitis, vitiligo, rickets, scrofula in children.
Washing the head with infusion eliminates migraines, strengthens the hair, preventing hair loss, and also treats insomnia, helps fight dandruff.
In homeopathy and urology, a plant is used to treat hysteria, nymphomania, erotomania.
The grass helps well in everyday life: it is used from moths.
The healing properties of oregano work well not only as an independent drug, but also in fees. In this form, the plant is used to treat the following pathologies:
- Bronchitis.
- Cough of various etiologies.
- With nervous excitability.
- To improve the quality of sleep.
- With inflammatory ailments of the gastrointestinal tract.
- With insomnia.
How to harvest raw materials
Harvesting oregano is carried out at the beginning of flowering - from July to August. For medicinal purposes, use the aerial part of the plant, cutting flowers with leaves up to twenty centimeters long. Be sure to leave up to three pairs of leaves so that the plant can give new shoots.
If oregano is grown in the garden, then after the first harvest, the plant must be fed. If this is not done, then after three years the bush is transplanted to a new place.
Contraindications
Oregano has contraindications and side effects. Decoctions and other medicinal substances can not be used during pregnancy, since the constituents of the substance stimulate the contraction of the uterus, which can lead to miscarriage.
You can not use the plant with a stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer, with increased acidity of the stomach, as well as with high blood pressure, arrhythmias and other pathologies of the cardiovascular system.
Traditional medicine recipes
From oregano, infusions, decoctions are prepared, and juice is obtained. For the treatment of various ailments, various types of drugs are prepared.
To prepare the infusion of oregano, you need to pour two tablespoons of grass with boiling water and insist for three hours. The product is added to the bath, which is taken twenty minutes every other day. It helps get rid of skin ailments, soothes.
Oregano is used to prepare infusions for douching. To do this, take a spoonful of raw materials and pour a liter of boiling water. The tool is infused for about half an hour. Douching with the composition is carried out twice a day for two weeks.
For the treatment of headaches, the plant is pulverized and sniffed. Also, this tool helps to cope with rhinitis. The powder can be poured into socks and walk with it for about an hour. This method helps to cope with hyperhidrosis.
Juice is made from a freshly picked plant. It is mixed with honey in equal parts and taken in a spoon three times a day. This tool helps to cope with a variety of pathologies.
You can use the plant as tea. To brew it, take a spoonful of grass and pour a glass of boiling water. One hundred grams is taken no more than five times a day. This tool helps to strengthen the immune system, and also has a therapeutic effect with existing pathologies.
The use of oregano with other herbs
For the treatment of bronchitis, oregano can be used as an independent remedy, but it can also be used in collections. For example, the following composition helps to cope with the disease: for cooking, you will need two parts of coltsfoot, Althea, one part of oregano. Everything is mixed, and then a dessert spoon of herbs is poured into a glass of boiling water. The medicine is infused for thirty minutes. It is taken one hundred grams up to four times.
The following composition is prepared as a sedative: take one part of oregano, lemon balm, hop cones and two parts of hawthorn. Everything mixes up. Then a spoonful of the composition is poured with a glass of boiling water and infused for twenty minutes. It is taken one hundred grams twice a day.
To treat inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, a composition is prepared from oregano, woodruff, lemon balm, and fruits of wild strawberry. Everything is mixed and poured with a glass of boiling water. The composition is allowed to stand for half an hour. Then the product is filtered, it is necessary to take one hundred grams three times a day.
In pharmacies you can buy oregano essential oil. It perfectly helps with toothache: a cotton swab is moistened with oil and applied to a diseased tooth.
As an anthelmintic, as well as for the treatment of asthma, hypertension, flatulence, in case of menstrual irregularities, take a spoonful of grass and boil 300 ml of boiling water. The composition is infused for 30 minutes, after which it is filtered and taken 150 grams 4 times a day.
Growing Features
Oregano is often grown in garden plots. For her, you need to choose a sunny, spacious place. This plant has wide roots, although they are located on the surface of the earth. At a normal level of humidity, oregano bushes grow powerful, with a large number of branches.
In the first year after planting, the plant is not going, so as not to weaken it. Raw materials are collected from the second year of life.
You can get a plant on your site in two ways: by dividing the bush and by sowing seeds. In the latter case, crops are recommended to be transported under the winter. Seeds are sown in pre-prepared beds to a depth of half a centimeter. Above the beds are covered with humus. Two weeks later, shoots appear. As soon as the seedlings have two real leaves, they can be dived to a permanent place.
To obtain, as in the photo, the oregano, it is necessary to feed the plant twice a year.
Unique oregano
Oregano is a unique plant that is used in official medicine to treat a variety of ailments. Officially, for medicinal purposes, use the stems, flowers and leaves of the plant, which are sold in pharmacies. The procurement is stored for no more than a year, so it is important to pay attention to the collection date when buying raw materials in a pharmacy. Raw materials must be labeled before being sent for storage. Raw materials should be stored in a glass jar or in a paper bag, in a fabric bag with the obligatory marking of the type of grass and the period of its preparation. Subject to storage requirements, the plant will be able to lie for more than a year, almost completely retaining all its qualities.