A tall perennial plant, the meadowsweet blossoms blossoms with white airy, like clouds, delicate inflorescences from late June to mid-August. And the aroma of flowers is honey. The taste and smell of honey is stored in tea brewed from inflorescences.
Since time immemorial, the common-leaved meadowsweet (meadowsweet meadowsweet) has been used to treat gout, rheumatism and respiratory organs. The sweat and diuretic properties of the plant were appreciated, it was used to treat dropsy, to relieve inflammation in the urinary tract. The meadowsweet meadowsweet was also used as part of the body cleansing course. Tea from the plant is drunk as an antipyretic for influenza, other infectious diseases and colds.
More recently, it became known that the meadowsweet meadowsweet is able to beneficially affect cerebral circulation, thin the blood and thereby prevent the formation of blood clots. That is why phytotherapists recommend the use of decoctions, infusions or tinctures for the consequences of a stroke, traumatic brain injury, in old age, especially with a decrease in memory. Microcirculation, peripheral blood supply with varicose veins, thrombophlebitis, hemorrhoids improves.
As a haemopoiesis, the meadowsweet is more effective as a tincture. It is necessary to fill in 30 g of dried flowers with vodka (0.5 l) and insist for 14 days, then strain, Drink the course - 3 weeks, 4 times a day before meals 2 tsp. Good in the same direction is the meadowsweet melliferous in combination with
medicinal sweet clover (with yellow flowers). Dry meadowsweet flowers and dried clover tops are taken, the raw materials are crushed, mixed. A teaspoon of the mixture, brewed with boiling water, is insisted for about 10 minutes. Drink a month, 3 times daily before meals - half a glass. Tea from the meadowsweet: for 2 tsp. dry inflorescences of boiling water 200 ml, infused for 15 minutes, drain. Tea to drink hot in the volume of half a cup 3 times a day. The meadowsweet meadowsweet is included in the formulation of many phyto-collections. A painful condition with hemorrhoids will relieve a decoction made by prescription: take 100 g of ordinary oak bark and horse chestnut bark, bird mountain grass, meadowsweet flowers, sage leaves - all 50 g each. Shredded raw materials are mixed. Take 2.5 liters of cold water and fill it with herbal collection (3 tbsp.), Heat to a boil and boil for 10 minutes. A glass of broth is cast for an enema, the rest is used for a cool
sitting bath.
What substances contains meadowsweet meadowsweet? The chemical composition of the plant includes the most effective flavonoid quercetin, salicylates (natural aspirin), ascorbic acid and other useful substances. The inventor of alternative medicine Rodimin proposes to include meadowsweet in the collections of medicinal plants for some diseases. These fees are in the form of balms. For this, a well-ground collection is poured into a pan and poured with boiling water in a volume of 1 liter. Boil for 10 minutes, no more, on the lowest heat. Immediately after that, high-quality vodka (0.5 l.) Is poured into the broth, the pan is closed tightly. The cooled broth is filtered, the wet raw material is squeezed out, poured into a glass dish. Drink constantly with those diseases that are listed below. Dosage - 1 tbsp., 3 times a day. Prepare a fresh balm every month.
Charges of medicinal plants for balms by EM Rodimin (raw materials in dry form)
1. Neurosis, insomnia - meadowsweet, black elderberry - all ingredients 50 g each.
2. Jade, cystitis - meadowsweet - 30 g, 50 g each of wild strawberries and black elderberries , ordinary caraway seeds - 20 g.
3. Gastritis, ulcer of the stomach and duodenum - meadowsweet and immortelle sand - 50 g each, licorice - 30 g, gray alder - 20 g.
4. Thrombophlebitis, ischemic stroke - horse chestnut, meadowsweet, wild strawberry - 50 g each.
5. Dystrophy - meadowsweet - 30 g, citrus (lemon) - 20 g, blueberries - 100 g.
6. Dermatitis (inside and out) - meadowsweet, arched clover, onion - 50 g.
Do not pass by such a medicinal plant as a meadowsweet. The photo will remind you how the plant looks: fluffy fragrant inflorescences, white as clouds. Dried flowers, as usual, in the shade and in a ventilated area.