Low immunity is the scourge of most of our contemporaries. The body does not have time to cope with the adverse effects of smog, stress, an accelerated pace of time. In order to strengthen their health, people have to resort to pills. But synthetic products, helping to get rid of diseases, can provoke the appearance of others.
How to get out of this circle? Take advantage of the "green pharmacy"! In nature, there are many medicinal plants that can strengthen the immune system, without having any side effects.
One of these plants is safflower levzea. The maral root, and this is how the plant is popularly called, got its name due to the fact that in spring, during the rutting season, maral eat it in large quantities. It was they who prompted people to explore the properties of this plant.
There is a legend. Once in the forest they found a dying child. It was clear from everything that he had only a few minutes to live. Only maral root grew around. The hunters brewed it, watered the broth of the baby. A few minutes later he jumped up, began to root out huge trees. With difficulty, the hunters reassured the boy. He grew up, became a giant, until his death he defended a village that sheltered him from enemies.
There is a lot of truth in the legend.
Maral root increases endurance and performance, supports cardiac activity, supplies the body with many essential substances. It preserves and enhances male power, heals wounds, and helps with cancer, diabetes, and alcoholism.
In Altai, where maral root grows, it is believed that the person who uses it will not die before a hundred years.
Scientists interested in this legend conducted a study of the effect of leuzea on the human body. The results were amazing. It turned out that leuzea does not just normalize blood pressure and circulation. It reduces the heart rate, while increasing its power. In the body of a person taking tincture from the root, the number of red blood cells, white blood cells, hemoglobin increases. Maral root enhances immunity, cleanses, dilates blood vessels, prevents fatigue.
The large head (this is another name for the root) is a plant with a long, straight stem, devoid of branches. The stems are covered with numerous leaves, and their top is crowned with one flower basket.
The maral root belongs to the family of aster, and looks very much like another plant - thistle. The leuzea have horizontal, well-developed main rhizomes covered with a large number of thin roots. The big head has fruits - small ribbed achenes with four faces.
Leuzea can multiply by seeds and roots.
It is the roots that have powerful healing power. The grass itself is also used, but much less frequently.
Rhizomes are harvested in late autumn, just before the frost. They are dug up, immediately washed, dried in the breeze. Ready dried rhizome should be brittle, covered with brown thin roots, with a crack to produce a light pleasant resinous aroma.
Leuzea leaves and flowers are harvested in July - August.
To raise the tone, treat depression, alcoholism, hypotension, heart disease or impotence, decoctions or tinctures of the root are used.
Where can I get a medicine based on safflower levzea? You can buy it in a regular or herbalist, order on the Internet.
When using herbs, you must be careful. You can not purchase raw materials on the market or be treated by a large head on their own. Grass can cause allergies, very rarely - overexcitation. Therefore, before taking the medicine, it is better to consult a doctor.