Salt ordinary belongs to the clove family. Invisible in appearance, this plant is very popular in folk medicine due to its healing properties.
Botanical Description
The stalk of the pitch is erect, branched in the upper part. Its height usually ranges from 40 to 100 cm. Lanceolate opposite leaves have a dark green color. The flowering period begins in June and lasts until September. At this time, the plant is decorated with small white flowers having a vesicular-swollen shape. Corolla is 5 bifid petals. In place of the flower, a fruit is then formed in the form of a spherical capsule with small kidney-shaped seeds.
In the people, the plant was called the common clapper, or tar. His favorite habitats are steam fields, forest edges, roadsides, vacant lots, etc.
Beneficial features
The healing properties of the resin, unfortunately, have not found application in the field of traditional medicine. Scientists have not yet proven the usefulness of a cracker. But it is known for certain that the leaves and flowers of the plant contain useful substances - saponins. People have long known that the clapperboard has hemostatic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic qualities.
Common Salt favorably affects the human nervous system. Our ancestors also treated her with the tinctures of depression, depressed spirit and other similar disorders. Inflammation of the skin quickly passes after the external application of infusions of tar.
Indications for use
Due to its medicinal properties, Smolevka has found ordinary use in alternative medicine.
Traditional healers treat chronic bronchitis with the help of decoctions of this herb. For skin diseases, lotions and compresses soaked in her decoctions are used. This is a great sedative. In addition, decoctions from the flowers of the plant are used for inflammation of the female internal organs or muscle fibers of the vagina.
Infusions of tar are very useful during gastritis with increased acidity of the stomach. In folk medicine, they are also recommended to drink with diseases of the genitourinary system. The diuretic properties of plants have long been known. White tar juice is used during the inflammatory process of the mucous membranes of the eye. Most people use compresses for lichen or colon lesions.
Infusion Recipes
An ordinary smolevka, the description of which is given at the beginning of the article, is used both internally and externally. Herbalists have found many different recipes dating back more than one hundred years:
- In case of indigestion, it is necessary to brew a glass of boiling water with 15 g of dried grass crackers and wait 30 minutes. After this, the broth will certainly be filtered and cooled. Apply three times a day, 100 g before meals.
- For the treatment of inflammatory processes, 3 teaspoons of the dried plant are insisted, pouring boiling water over it. Apply compresses several times a day.
- Inflammation of the oral cavity is treated by rinsing the mouth with infusions of tar. To do this, pour dry grass over boiling water (300 g of raw material per 1 liter of water). After closing the container with a lid, wait 30 minutes and cool. Rinse the mouth with warm infusion 4 times a day.
- 20 grams of white tar should be poured with water and boiled for ten minutes. After this, the broth is left for forty minutes and filtered. Apply for ulcers, gastritis and heartburn in half a glass before meals.
- Fifty infusions are drunk at fifty grams daily for disorders of the nervous system, depression and apathy. The composition of the broth is very simple: thirty grams of white tar and five hundred grams of boiled water.
- When headaches appear, insist two tablespoons of dry raw materials in boiling water. After thirty minutes, filter and drink at a time.
- With deep depression, you need 50 g of tar and half a liter of vodka. All this is insisted for seven days. After that, the infusion is filtered and used on a teaspoon four times a day.
- During bronchitis, it is necessary to grind the flowers of Salt (up to six tablespoons). The resulting mixture is poured with a liter of water and boiled for 4 minutes over low heat. The broth is cooled and drunk 0.5 cups three times a day.
- 50 grams of chopped flowers, two glasses of boiling water are placed in a container and allowed to infuse for two hours. Apply a decoction with the appearance of edema, cystitis.
Contraindications
Salt ordinary - a plant that must be used for treatment with caution. It is strictly forbidden to use for constipation, colic, and diseases of the stomach with low acidity. You can not drink decoctions for women during pregnancy and lactation. Before using decoctions or infusions of tar, it is best to consult with people who have knowledge and experience in traditional medicine.
Common Salt is harvested during the flowering period. Drying is best done in a dark place, choosing a canopy for this. Dried plants must be stored in a tightly closed container.