Lilac is a shrub from the Maslinov family, reaching a height of 2 to 7 meters, with many stems on the branches and a strong root system. From time immemorial, it is popularly considered a medicinal plant. Any part of the bush contains bitter syringin. The flowers are saturated with essential oils, coumarins, farnesol, flavonoids, resin, ascorbic acid.
Lilacs are widespread everywhere. It is rare to find a site without this beautiful shrub. It is cultivated as a fragrant, beautiful plant in gardens, in dachas, in parks, but often runs wild. It survives well in dusty and gassed air.
Lilac tincture for joints or for other medicinal purposes is made from buds, bark, leaves and flowers.
At the beginning of budding, the flower is cut together with branches, binds into a bunch and dried in a shady place.
Leaflets need to be collected in early summer in dry weather. They can also be dried in the shade or at a temperature of 40 to 60 degrees in the dryer, spreading a thin layer.
The bark should be collected from young stems, and stored in a wooden container or bag for no more than two years.
The benefits of lilac
Lilac is rich in beneficial substances. Therefore, in traditional medicine, teas, infusions, decoctions, ointments and compresses are made from it. For example, a medicine is made from the kidneys of a plant that lowers blood sugar levels. Lilac tincture is suitable for joints, for the treatment of malaria, diarrhea and rheumatism. Gastric ulcer, shortness of breath, whooping cough, diabetes mellitus are treated with tinctures from flowers. Effectively treating lilacs from bruises, pains, wounds and neuralgia.
Joint diseases. Lilac tincture
Joint pain can cause diseases such as gout, arthrosis, arthritis. Injuries, infections, improper metabolism, allergies, lack of vitamins or disturbances in the functioning of the nervous system can cause arthritis of various forms. Often, progressive arthritis makes a person disabled. People at any age are ill with them, but arthritis is more common in older women. To combat this disease, drugs such as taking medications, nutritional correction, physiotherapy, hirudotherapy, mud therapy and surgical operations are used. Of course, lilac tincture for joints can also help.
Recipes
- You can start treatment by cleaning the joints of salts. And the best option is hot water. The process is long but effective. Every morning, start with half a glass of hot water drunk in small sips.
- Two-month lingonberry course. The infusion of lingonberry leaves removes salt well. Together with such treatment, you need to drink potassium three times a day, one tablet before meals. Otherwise, cranberries will remove potassium from the body along with salts. The infusion is drunk twice a day. Half a glass in the morning and evening before meals.
- Lilac tincture for joints is made as follows: dried lilac flowers are poured with 40% alcohol (1 to 10), insist 10 days in a closed jar. Drink three times a day for 20 drops. Together with this, you can put compresses on sore areas or rub them. The arthritis method is especially effective.
- It’s good for joints to use this recipe: mix three large spoons of dried white lilac and the same amount of petroleum jelly or butter. Rub the ointment into the inflamed joints.
- Pour a couple of glasses of spring lilac buds with half a liter of vodka and store for 10 days in the dark. Sore spots are rubbed with this medicine, and lotions are made with bruises.
Treatment is work, we wish you success and patience in this!