The golden mustache plant got its name due to the characteristic structure of the jointed flexible stalk, twisted in a snobbish manner, in the manner of a mustache. For the same reason, the grass is also called "live hair" or "elegant callisia," but in folk medicine, it is a plant used for medicinal purposes since ancient times, it is more often called "home ginseng." The healing properties of the golden mustache and contraindications for its use are the topic of today's article.
The chemical composition of the plant
The first place in the healing properties of the golden mustache is occupied by powerful antioxidants, which are represented by flavonols as part of the substance. The uniqueness of these pigment-forming elements lies in their extreme “vitality”. Flavonols do not lose their ability to influence the cellular metabolism of the body even after drying, alcoholization or heat treatment of the green mass of the plant.
The actions of flavonols in the human body are mainly aimed at improving blood formation functions. Antioxidants regulate blood flow, preventing thrombosis, maintain vascular tone, and contribute to the formation of a sufficient number of red blood cells. The effectiveness of flavonols does not depend on the parallel presence of other biologically active elements in the body, but significantly affects their digestibility by the body, enhancing their effect several times.
Another important component of the chemical formula of the golden mustache is the phytohormones acting on the epidermis and subcutaneous muscle layer just like natural estrogen. Namely, constantly stimulating cell renewal and pushing spent biological material beyond the framework of the subcutaneous tissue.
The effect of antioxidants in the composition of the golden mustache on the human body would be inferior without the support of vitamins:
- ascorbic acid (vitamin C);
- B vitamins, namely: B2 (riboflavin), B5 (pantothenic acid), B12 (cyancobalamin);
- nicotinic acid (vitamin PP).
The most valuable macro- and microelements from the plant’s green mass include chromium, chlorine and copper ions.
Medicinal properties and contraindications
Proceeding only from how many different options for preparing a golden mustache exist in the national piggy bank, it can be concluded that the spectrum of application of the plant is wide. In fact, this is one of the rare herbal remedies that are prescribed by specialists in alternative medicine, not only as support for basic therapy, but also as an independent element of therapeutic tactics.
An example of this use of a golden mustache is the treatment of bronchial asthma. As a drug that affects the increased secretion of the bronchi, both fresh plant juice and alcohol tincture or decoction are used. After a short time of a continuous course, a patient suffering from a dry cough begins to sputum abundantly and attacks become much less likely until they completely disappear.
Another striking example of the full use of home ginseng is getting rid of dermatological problems - open skin damage due to injuries or damage to the epidermis by dermatitis of varying severity. Since disinfection is considered to be one of the main healing properties of callisia, treatment of skin diseases is achieved through the complete rehabilitation of the affected area. Having lost a comfortable nutrient medium, the bacteria that form the destructive process quickly die, and the skin is restored as a result.
Comments of phytotherapists regarding the use of extracts and tinctures on a golden mustache, call the following diseases in which the plant has a strong therapeutic effect:
- gallbladder inflammation;
- digestive disorders;
- respiratory dysfunction;
- weakened vascular tone;
- prevention of atherosclerosis;
- disorders of the heart muscle;
- irritability and sleep disturbances;
- tumor development;
- allergies
- chronic swelling associated with impaired renal function.
Contraindications to the golden mustache and medicinal properties of the plant are sometimes in close opposition. So, traditional healers often recommend drinking tincture of home ginseng to treat prostatitis, but with prostate adenoma, taking the drug is prohibited. Also, decoctions and tinctures are prescribed for patients with chronic diseases of the kidneys and gall bladder, however, in the acute course of the same pathologies, the course stops until the acute condition is completely relieved.
In addition to strict contraindications to the golden mustache, a number of relative ones are also called: pregnancy and lactation, the age of the child is up to 12 years.
Preparation of alcohol therapeutic tincture
The tincture of a golden mustache on vodka is widely used due to the versatility of use and the fact that once a bottle of the preparation is enough, it’s enough for a long time. In alcohol tincture, the spectrum of contraindications is slightly higher than in aqueous solutions - the drug can not be taken orally until the age of 18, it is drunk with great caution in case of cardiovascular pathologies and diseases of the digestive tract.
Recipes of a golden mustache on vodka:
- From the lashes of the plant, 15 articular phalanges are cut, finely chopped with a sharp knife and poured into a 700 ml bottle of dark glass. From above, green gruel is poured with 0.5 l of vodka or high-quality alcohol diluted with distilled water to 40% of the strength, and the closed bottle is removed in a shaded place for 14 days. Every two days, the vessel is shaken well. After 2 weeks, the alcohol liquid is filtered off and removed in the same bottle in the refrigerator door.
- Cut 25 joints with lashes of a golden mustache and take as many, by weight, intact leaves of the plant. All greens are crushed and laid out in a 1.5-liter jar, where then 2 bottles of vodka are poured. After 2 weeks of infusion in a shaded place (with occasional shaking), the liquid is filtered and poured into dark glass bottles (it is convenient to use vials from antitussive syrups).
The shelf life of hermetically sealed bottles with tinctures on a golden mustache for alcohol is practically unlimited, but since it is not easy to achieve true tightness at home, it is optimal to store the bottle for no more than five years. All this time, the medicine will retain the beneficial properties of the plant and meet its purpose.
The use of alcohol tinctures
Inside, a medicine from a golden mustache on vodka is used for diseases of the heart and blood vessels (in a non-acute form), worsening of blood coagulation, pulmonary and bronchial pathologies, sleep disorders and obsessive states. In the absence of obvious health problems, drink tincture to strengthen the body overall in the offseason.
Take the tool according to one of the following schemes:
- Short course. 30 drops of tincture are dissolved in half a glass of water and drink the solution in the morning and evening for 10 days. Then follows a break for the same period and the course resumes.
- Long course. Add 10 drops of the product to half a glass of water and drink the solution in the morning on an empty stomach. Every day adding a drop of tincture to the previous volume, bring their number to 30, and starting from the next day, begin to reduce the number of drops to the original 10. Thus, the entire course will take only 42 days. After a month, a repeat of the entire cycle is possible.
For the treatment of joint and dermatological diseases, the use of a golden mustache on vodka is not limited to taking the drug inside. Warming rubbing is performed with an undiluted alcohol extract or compresses of several layers of gauze soaked with liquid are applied to the problem area.
Ointment preparation
The scope of ointment on a golden mustache is slightly wider than that of tincture, because the substance softened by the basic fat composition is much softer and allows you to use the product even for external treatment of skin pathologies in children. The product is stored in the refrigerator for no more than one month, so large volumes of the product should not be harvested.
How to prepare ointment on home ginseng:
- from finely chopped lashes and deciduous mass of the plant produce 1 tbsp. a spoonful of juice;
- in a small clean glass jar (from under baby food or cosmetic cream) spread 2 tbsp. spoons of any fat base to choose from: white petrolatum or baby cream;
- there they pour a teaspoon of almond, grape, olive or sea buckthorn oil;
- at the end, the juice of a golden mustache is poured into the mixture and everything is fine, mix until smooth.
An ointment is used to treat skin with an allergic rash, eczema or psoriasis. It is used for better healing of cuts and abrasions, for resorption of bruises and surgical sutures, treatment of pressure sores and trophic ulcers.
Tumor blocking balm
A special balm for the treatment of progressive tumor formations is done on the finished vodka tincture with a golden mustache. The use of the drug is not limited to diagnosed oncological diseases and can be carried out as a prophylaxis in case of an alarming predisposition to cancer or to prevent relapse.
The balm is prepared in this way - 30 ml of vodka tincture is poured into a clean glass jar and 40 ml of cold-pressed natural sunflower oil is introduced there. The product is thoroughly shaken and drunk "in the same breath."
The above amount of medication is calculated per serving, taken three times a day, half an hour before the main meal. The entire course is 45 days and drunk according to a simple scheme - three ten-day approaches with a five-day break between them. Then a pause of 10-14 days is made, after which the entire course is repeated again. The number of cycles, according to reviews cured, can be unlimited. Therapy continues until the disease stops progressing and there is a positive trend towards cure.
Water infusions
For people poorly tolerating ethyl derivatives or having contraindications for the use of tinctures with a golden mustache on alcohol, it is recommended to prepare water infusions with a short (up to 48 hours) shelf life. For such infusions, only long lashes of plants are used, having from 10 knees or medium, intact leaves.
Methods of preparing aqueous solutions:
- Wash a large sheet of homemade ginseng (or 5-7 knees), tear with your hands and pour three cups of boiling water in an ordinary jar. After a day of insisting, the solution must be filtered and drunk as directed.
- Chop a leaf of a golden mustache with a knife, place in a thermos and brew 1 liter of boiling water. After 6 hours, the hot liquid is filtered into a bottle or jar and used.
Infusion is drunk to alleviate the condition of food or seasonal allergies, to reduce blood glucose in diabetes mellitus, and to prevent respiratory diseases. According to reviews of the golden mustache of folk healers, it can be concluded that a two-week course with drinking infusion in the fall and spring helps to maintain health in the cold season and prevent vitamin starvation with the onset of heat.
Decoctions
All parts of home ginseng are involved in the heat treatment process, except for the root system. The size of the leaves used in the recipe should reach 17 and more centimeters, and the optimal length of the lashes is oriented to the number of knees in the stem - there should be at least 12.
The healing properties of the golden mustache are best revealed by gradual heating, so one of the general principles for the preparation of medicinal decoctions is to soak the raw material in cold water and then boil it. Schemes for preparing decoctions with this plant are approximately the same. In all recipes, instead of ordinary water, you can take ionized, charged with silver particles:
- Wash a large sheet of golden mustache and dab the moisture with a paper towel. Finely chopped greens are put in a saucepan with intact enamel, 4 cups of cold boiled water are poured into it and brought to a boil over low heat. After 10 minutes of languishing under the lid, the boiling mixture is removed from the stove and slowly cooled for 4 hours. The finished medicine is filtered off, poured into a jar and used as intended.
- The middle leaf of the plant, together with 3-4 phalanges of the mustache, is crushed as finely as possible, poured with a liter of water and slowly bring the solution to boil, then immediately turn off the fire. After five hours of insisting in heat, the broth is poured through several layers of gauze into a glass jar.
- 25 phalanges of mustache of home ginseng are cut into small pieces, poured with two liters of cold water and slowly boiled for 15 minutes under the lid. The broth is insisted throughout the night, and in the morning it is filtered in a jar and cleaned in a cool place.
Warm broths of the golden mustache are drunk for diseases of the genitourinary system (not complicated by the formation of calculi) and pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract. Some nutritionists recommend drinking therapeutic decoctions of callisia before eating strict diets - this is done in order to remove excess wastes from the body and prevent the onset of gastritis and peptic ulcer disease, which often accompany weight loss processes.
The use of plants in face care
In order to cope with pigmentation on the skin, reduce inflammation in acne or reduce the sebum secretion rate, it is enough to use the ready-made vodka tincture on a golden mustache. With a cotton pad dipped in alcohol, the face is wiped 3-4 times a day, and as a preventative measure or after mechanical cleaning of the face - in the morning and evening.
It is very important not to dry the skin, so for a combined or normal type of epidermis, tincture of 40% alcohol is not suitable. If you use another form of the remedy with a golden mustache, it is not possible, then the tincture is diluted with distilled water 1: 1 or 1: 2.
Here are a few recipes for universal beauty products that will help you deal with common problems that many women know:
- Nutritious "mask of youth" - mix half the yolk of a chicken egg, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of fresh juice from the leaves of a golden mustache, 1 tbsp. tablespoon of liquid honey, and 1 teaspoon of sesame and grape oil. The mask is distributed with a brush in several stages, allowing each layer to dry for 5-7 minutes. In total, three to five layers are applied, then the mask is kept for another 7 minutes and washed off with a large volume of water.
- Moisturizing tonic for dry skin. Combine 2 teaspoons of strawberry juice and callisia juice and add the mixture to a bottle with 150 ml of mineral water without gas. Pour in 1 tsp. glycerin. Each time before wiping the face, the bottle is shaken, and after the procedure they are cleaned in the refrigerator door, where it can be stored for 10 to 14 days.
- Soothing cream. In a separate jar you need to mix 2 tbsp. tablespoons of inexpensive cream based on extract of sea buckthorn or tea tree and pour there a tablespoon of golden mustache juice. All mixed until smooth and used as a normal cream twice a day.
In relation to dry, hypersensitive or irritation-prone skin, water infusions or decoctions with homemade ginseng are better suited. It’s convenient to wash them, wipe your face or apply to the problem areas in the form of warm compresses.
Use for diabetes
Recommending using the power of the golden mustache to alleviate the condition of diabetes, herbalists for some reason insistently point to a certain stage of the plant's development - on the largest lashes of callisia there should be exactly nine knees of a saturated purple hue. It is difficult to verify how these tips correspond to the necessary conditions for curing a serious illness. However, the long-term experience of herbal medicine has so many positive examples of getting rid of complex pathologies that most patients, being held hostage to a sugar disease, without hesitation take into account all the nuances of the requirements of alternative medicine.
Here's how to prepare a decoction that helps regulate blood glucose levels in type 1 and type 2 diabetes:
- a full glass of finely chopped leaves and joints of the plant is placed in an enameled pan and poured with two liters of cool raw water;
- the solution is heated to boiling, then simmer on low heat for about 7 minutes and immediately removed for six-hour infusion;
- after the set period, the broth is filtered and poured into a container of dark glass.
You need to drink a healing drink in 30-day courses, repeated 3 times a year according to the following scheme: a third of a glass of broth 20 minutes before all main meals.