A modest plant with small flowers, which can be found on roadside ruts, at the edges and in summer cottages. This is oregano, known to more than one generation of rural and urban residents. Despite its unpretentious appearance, oregano has a rich "inner beauty", not for nothing that it has been used for so many centuries in traditional and traditional medicine. Oregano, the beneficial properties and contraindications of which are well studied, can be used both in dried form and in freshly cut. Regardless of this, all its valuable elements will be present in it.
Oregano. Useful properties and contraindications
I would like to immediately note that there are much more
beneficial properties in it than harmful ones. And yet they are. Oregano has contraindications for use by pregnant women and persons with all forms of disorders in the functioning of the heart and blood vessels. Future mothers should be especially careful: oregano has been shown to reduce the muscles of the uterus, which can lead to miscarriages.
Healing oregano
Oregano is equally used both in official medicine and in folk medicine. Its medicinal value lies in the content of useful essential oils, bitterness and volatile, flavanoid, tannins. Thanks to these elements, oregano has a diuretic, choleretic and anti-inflammatory effect. Use oregano in the form of compresses, decoctions, ointments, infusions, teas from dried or fresh harvest. These drinks have long been drunk with bronchitis, whooping cough, with severe dry cough, when it was necessary to expectorate sputum. Oregano infusions have a calming effect, so they help a lot after stresses, fears and excitations. After a cup of tea from oregano, an appetite can wake up, aching pain can go away, earn an intestine and its work will improve - and all this, thanks to the plant's properties.
Useful qualities of oregano
Essential oil is extracted from oregano, which is widely used in everyday life and in the treatment of diseases and ailments. With its help get rid of insomnia,
saved from neurosis, fear and stress. It is very helpful in the treatment of viral and bacterial diseases such as herpes, flu and colds. Oil has a strong expectorant property, so it is used in case of inflammation of the respiratory tract. Oregano oil is also a natural “painkiller” - it helps even with toothaches. You can use it inside and out, and you can also add it to the bath when you are going to lie in it. Do not forget that oregano, whose beneficial properties and contraindications are well studied, is undesirable for pregnant women and people with heart problems and blood vessels. Oregano essential oil has a beneficial effect on peristalsis and intestinal function. Oregano has a strong
diuretic effect; decoctions of it have a positive effect on epilepsy, delayed menstruation.
Oregano: beneficial properties and contraindications
Oregano decoction (for general strengthening of the body)
One tablespoon of dried oregano powder pour 100 ml of water and prepare a water bath. Oregano close the lid and then simmer 20 minutes on fire. Then strain, cool. Consume 2 times 2 days before meals (100 ml each).
Oregano Cholagogue
Brew a tablespoon of grass collection with boiling water (500 ml), close the lid. Next, filter the drink, cool. Drink 3 times a day for 10-15 minutes before eating (2 tbsp.spoons). Once again - do not forget about contraindications of oregano!