Immortelle - medicinal properties and contraindications

Immortelle as a medicinal herb - a favorite and quite popular plant. Evidence of this is its different name, which gives people from different territorial zones where it grows. They call it differently, but the most resounding names are golden, frost-grass, dried sand or cmin.

Plant characteristic

In the botanical world, the plant has sonorous characteristics. Scientists describe it as a perennial, grassy, ​​felt-woolly, fingered. But, above all, the immortelle is visible among other wild-flowering herbs thanks to small flowers, gathered in a single panicle, only up to 6 mm. Flowers resemble a spherical basket. Usually it is multi-row, orange or lemon-lemon with a yellow tinge.The plant does not lose its bright color during flowering, that's why they called it an immortelle.

When flowering begins in June, the inflorescence feels quite dense to the touch, and then becomes softened. The property of this plant is interesting: always extreme flowers are feminine, they are thread-like. Those in the middle are considered bisexual and have a topknot. And the fruit is obtained with a tuft, but it is small and brown in color, it ripens in August. But it happens, if the weather favors, then the second flowering of the immortelle begins, then the baskets can be found in the axils of the upper leaves. The average flowering time of each basket is 15 days.

The rhizome of the immortelle is short and brown, the stem is straight, about 35 centimeters long. On the leaves, we can say that they have a sequence, oblong, narrowed in the stalks.

Collection and harvesting plants

Comfortable most immortelle on dry and sandy soils, in the steppe zones and sparse pine forests. First of all, inflorescences are used for medicinal purposes. They need to have time to break even before the side baskets are opened, otherwise there will be no effective therapeutic effect. There are also important conditions for procurement:

• it is necessary to collect this plant only in dry weather, not very early, so that there is no dew;
• cut with a scissors or a sharp knife;
• in one place the collection can be carried out no more than 4 times, while the plant in turn blooms;
• re-collection is not less than 5 days;
• if you pull out a plant completely, it is very easy to deplete its reserves.

The following harvesting can be done in this place only after a few years, and in order for large immortelle settlements to reappear, at least 10 plants must be preserved, but always with buds.

It is impossible to store the collected flowers for more than four hours, especially if the inflorescences are 1 cm long. They deteriorate very quickly and therefore require quick processing. It will be necessary to decompose the harvest in fabric or clean paper in a single layer. The place must be found away from the sun's rays.

The healing properties of the plant retains for three years.

Yellow treasury of useful substances

• flavonoid glycosides;
• organic acids;
• essential oil;
• various trace elements;
• mucus, tar and wax;
• some vitamins;
• carotenoids;
• substances that include tanning, coloring and bitter.

Beneficial features

Use the plant in medicine to help people with diseases of the liver and biliary tract - an acute or chronic course, if the pathology has affected the gastrointestinal tract.

Many preparations made on the basis of golden, are able to stimulate the secretion of bile. They also have many medicinal properties with a predominant effect:

• diuretic;
• soothing;
• antispasmodic, especially by acting on smooth muscles;
• stopping bleeding.

Recycled for medical needs, inflorescences can improve metabolism, help the metabolic function of the liver.

Due to the fact that with the help of the immortelle it is possible to increase the secretion of bile, it is included in medications, which, in addition, have antispasmodic properties. In this case, they are taken by patients who were diagnosed with "chronic calculous cholecystitis," sand or small stones, up to 2 mm, were found.

By helping to strengthen bile secretion, bile cannot stagnate, its viscosity and density decrease. Its chemical composition changes for the better, the content of dressing gowns increases. Their presence is required in order to retain cholesterol, which cannot be dissolved in water, in the dissolved state, in the form of a colloid. In fact, bathrobes are salts of bile acids.

During the examination, it turns out that thanks to the immortelle, the level of “bad” cholesterol is significantly reduced and the level of bilirubin is restored to its normal state. If the amount of cholesterol is too high, it will precipitate, and will cause stones.

Hemostatic properties are used if a woman has uterine bleeding caused by such a pathology as ovarian dysfunction or uterine fibroids, characterized by hemorrhagic syndrome.

ethnoscience

Traditional medicine does not lag behind official medicine, also applying immortelle for medicinal purposes. With the help of various recipes, herbalists expel such ailments as diseases of the liver and gallbladder, along with the bile ducts.They successfully treat colitis, gastritis and urolithiasis, acute diseases associated with the work of the bladder, especially if there are major problems with urination, remove edema, if they are provoked by renal failure.

At home, you can cook broths and infusions of immortelle. Various medicinal forms of the plant:

1. The simplest, self-made infusion as a choleretic agent, is prepared as follows: about 6 to 16 grams of flowers are taken and 360 ml of boiling water is poured. The resulting product is drunk 100 ml from 2 to 3 times per day.
2. Broth can be prepared a little differently. 10 grams, which is 3 tablespoons, crushed flowers put in a container. Pour 200 ml of water there too, it should be warm. Capacity close and set in a water bath. So the broth should languish for 30 minutes, you will have to stir periodically. Then it should cool in a warm room. After some time, it is filtered and brought to the desired volume to get 200 ml, pouring boiled water. Take the medication should be before eating, preferably for 15 minutes, 0.5 cups, from 2 to 3 times a day.In order not to deteriorate, the broth is stored in a cold place, but not more than two days.
3. If liver treatment is necessary, there is such a way to get rid of the disease. 1 tablespoon of herbs, this is 2.5 - 3 grams, pour boiling water - 250 ml. Insist immortelle should be in a thermos. It is necessary to drink as a medicine 50 minutes before the beginning of the meal, the drink must be warm. It is necessary to use the received infusion 3 times a day.
4. From cholecystitis and hepatitis, there is such a tool. Inflorescences with grass, you will need from 14 to 16 stems, which is 15 - 20 grams, first cut, and then boiled in a liter of water for 10 minutes. The tool is ready. You need to drink like this: add 0.5 of milk to the 0.5 cups of broth, it should be hot, and a few spoons of honey. The medicine is taken half an hour before the start of the meal. You need to take a certain way: 4 days to drink medicine, then 2 days the body rests. This should go on for two months. In order not to stray, it is desirable for convenience to make a schedule.
5. You can escape from uterine bleeding or hyperpolymenorrhea as follows: take three spoons of inflorescences and pour 200 ml of boiling water. Insist need for an hour in a tightly closed container. It will be necessary to take every hour, but only a tablespoon. The marginal rate is 10 spoons.
6. As a general tonic use a cold infusion. To do this, take 15 grams of inflorescences and pour boiled lukewarm water in the amount of 200 ml. Infused mixture for 8 hours. After it has been filtered, they drink half a glass 20 minutes before meals. Take 4 times a day.
7. To get rid of whiter, women use immortelle for douching. You can make a decoction and infusion, but apply only in the form of heat. This recipe is especially effective: 2 tablespoons of inflorescences are poured into containers with warm water - 500 ml. Set on fire. As soon as the mixture boils, the fire must be made completely weak. After 5 minutes, you can remove and strain after cooling. The procedure is carried out no more than 2-3 times a day.

There are extracts. Represent a powder in the granules. You need to take this type of medicine for 1 gr three times a day. Therapy is usually 2 to 3 weeks. If treatment is required to resume, only after five days. In this way, diseases such as biliary tract dyskinesia and cholecystitis are treated.

There is a special powder "flamin", which contains some flavonoids that have undergone special treatment.With its help, cholecystitis is treated in a chronic form, biliary tract pathology.

Application Restrictions

Before you begin treatment at home, you must notify your doctor. You can not use the immortelle without a break for more than three months, as it has toxic properties and may have an effect on congestion in the liver. It should not be used by pregnant women and people with high blood pressure.

Strongly contraindicated this plant to people suffering from obstructive jaundice.

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