Centaury - medicinal properties and contraindications

A perennial plant with a long single stem, elongated leaves, in length can reach half a meter. Pink small flowers, ranging in size from one and a half to two centimeters, with five petals and flowering leaves oblong near, are combined into small inflorescences. This plant is often used for health purposes in both folk and traditional medicine.

Still has a few variants of the name that can be found:

• umbrella;
• small;
• core;
• spool;
• centauria.

Flowering occurs from June to July, in the second or third year. It tends to spread by seeds that ripen from August to September. The habitat of the flowers of the centaury - the territory throughout the European partEurasia can be found in southern Russia, on the northern mainland of America, also in Western Siberia and Altai.

Legend of the flower - where does this name come from?

There is a superstition about the origin of the name of this plant. Once a rich man, having gotten ill, promised that he would give a hundred gold to the poor if he recovers. Then one night an angel came down to him and said. You will get better thanks to the grass that I will leave you, but do not forget about your promise and left. The next morning the rich man recovered and distributed the money, as he swore. After the doctors ciphered the medicine, writing it down in no other way than 100 coins, but one doctor accidentally wrote an extra zero and he became a thousandth.

Therapeutic actions of the flower

All the most useful substances appear during flowering in the second year of the flower. The collection of useful grass is produced at the time of flowering, cutting off with a knife or sickle not lower than the first leaves about 7 centimeters from the ground. Subsequently, drying, the main condition is protection from direct sunlight. To do this, put it under a canopy. For the best drying periodically it is important to mix.

Medicinal properties of the centaury is very widespread. Centaurium is endowed with the healing properties of gentianine alkaloid, whose content reaches one percent. Also includes:

• flavone glycosides;
• essential oils;
• ascorbic and organic acids.

Here is a list of properties that the spool has.

• anti worm;
• antiseptic;
• pain medication;
• anti-inflammatory;
• laxative;
• tonic;
• choleretic;
• hemostatic;
• hepatoprotective;
• tonic;
• antimicrobial;
• antispasmodic.

FACT! This flower due to its bitterness tends to whet the appetite. Therefore, in the correct doses of its infusion can be given to children before meals.

What drugs are included?

This herb is used as a raw material in many preparations of traditional medicine (ointments, tablets, medicines in liquid form).

Centaury is included in such a drug as Canephron H - Bean contains powder of rosemary and centauria.Accepted for diseases:

• kidney: glomerulonephritis and others.
• Bladder.
• to prevent nephrolithiasis.

Also found in the medicine Nefroton. It also has various extracts: water, rosehip, buckwheat, blackberry leaves.

IMPORTANT! Treatment with infusions, decoctions, compresses is used only in conjunction with the methods of traditional medicine. Independently, the centaury does not carry such a therapeutic action, it is rather an auxiliary substance.

Indications for use

Apply the flowers of this plant in the following cases:

• Overworked.
• Anorexia in the nervous system.
• Liver disease.
• Flatulence.
• Gastric pains.
• Diseases of the gallbladder.
• Pain in the intestines.
• Antritis.
• Anemia

Also used tinctures for:

• Catarrhal diseases.
• Swelling.
• Nervousness.
• Diabetes.
• Tuberculosis.
• Heart pains.

IMPORTANT! The core also helps with alcohol dependence. Restoring the internal balance and removing toxins, the plant helps the body to fight alcoholism. But taking the plant and tinctures from it is strictly under observation and only after consulting a doctor.

The centaury is useful for women with menstrual problems.Usually this occurs due to hormonal disruptions, stress. When you receive a flower infusion, hormones are restored and the cycle is improved. The spool also has a calming effect. It also helps with problems with the ovaries, cystitis and uterine bleeding.

For men, the inflorescence is beneficial for problems with erection. Most often, these problems are associated with diseases of the genitourinary system. Overwork and stress also play an important role in this intimate problem. Broths help to solve the problem radically, starting with the treatment of infections, soothing and acting beneficially to improve overall well-being.

CAUTION! You can not use tinctures, decoctions of this flower during pregnancy and lactation without the permission and observation of a doctor.

Contraindications

As with all drugs, centaurium is not only beneficial, but can be harmful. It is contraindicated in the reception of funds, which include this plant, to people with such diseases and problems:

• Diseases of the stomach, such as gastritis or increased acidity.
• Diseases of the intestine, duodenum.
• Frequent bouts of diarrhea.
• Tendency to obesity, as the intake of tincture of the plant increases the appetite.
• Personal intolerance to the body and allergies.
• Pregnancy and lactation.

IMPORTANT! Receiving a medicinal plant is effective only in tandem with traditional means. The main thing is to take decoctions and infusions only under the supervision of the attending physician and in the indicated dosages.

Recipes for the centaury

1. From cystitis. Mix the spool with birch leaves, hawthorn and St. John's wort. Ten grams of grass is taken in half a liter of water, heated before drinking, and drinking half an hour before meals. You can take this tea if you have bladder problems. But even such a huge list of useful medicinal effects does not exclude contraindications. Like any other medicine, the medicinal plant spool can cause harm. In cases where the dosage is not observed, the possible effects on certain chronic diseases are not taken into account.
2. Infusion to improve the appetite. Fifteen grams poured into the pan, pour a glass of boiling water. Then it is closed with a lid, and heated for 15 minutes.Cool, strain and pour water into the resulting infusion to make 200 ml. Store in a cool place for no longer than 2 days. Drink boiled infusion should be warm, for half a cup two times a day, half an hour before meals to excite the appetite.
3. To increase your appetite. A tablespoon of grass powder pour forty percent alcohol. Insist ten days and drink a teaspoon before meals.
4. Heartburn and bloating nausea. A teaspoon of core + half a glass of alcohol, insist three weeks, drink two teaspoons. It improves the appetite and helps to digest food. When you have heartburn attacks, take a couple of grams of powder with a large amount of water.
5. Tincture spool. Prepared in the ratio of 100 to 10. For one hundred grams of seventy percent alcohol is taken 10 grams of grass. Insist on three weeks and use ten drops once a day. Helps with diseases of the digestive system, colic and dysentery.
6. From worms. In half a glass of water, add five grams of grass, and insist a couple of weeks in a dark place. Take a teaspoon in the morning before meals. Recipe 2: Take a spoonful of wormwood and spool, pour a glass of water, boil for 20 minutes. Cool and strain.Drink on an empty stomach.
7. Gastric collection. Chamomile, zolotnik and thyme are prepared in the same proportions. Next, a teaspoon of the mixture is poured two hundred milliliters of water. Cook for half an hour. Take four times a day for a quarter cup. It is worth drinking in cases of digestive disorders.
8. To increase the amount of milk. Mix two teaspoons of dried herbs with 1.5 cups of water. Helps increase the amount of breast milk.

With diabetes
Twenty grams of grass pour a liter of water. Insist and strain. Broth drink warm for half a cup before eating.

Make a mixture of centaury, thyme and oregano. Four spoons of this collection pour water and insist ten minutes. Drink three four times a day for half a cup.

From gastritis
Mix twenty grams of Althea and the centaury. Pour a liter of boiling water. Insist five o'clock. Drink before a meal on the floor of the glass.

Two hundred milliliters of boiled water + ten grams of centaury mix and infuse for two hours. Drink one fourth cup three to four times a day.

Thus, it is clear how many influences the centaury has. It can rightly be considered golden grass.Medicinal properties apply to almost the entire body. It treats the digestive system, urinary system, a beneficial effect on the nervous system. It also improves the immune system, appetite. This flower is not in vain very common in traditional medicine.

From alcoholism
Collect one hundred grams of wormwood, 40 grams of spool, mix. Take five grams, and pour 200 ml of water, take half a table spoon.

Three spoons of the centaury, one spoon of wormwood - the prescribed amount of half a liter of water. Insist on half a day, drink four times during the day.

There is also such a recipe: you will need a spoonful of wormwood and a core. Four spoons of thyme pour 70% alcohol (0.5 liters). Insist two weeks, take half a tablespoon.

For half a glass of water, take five teaspoons of herbs. Boil for 10 minutes and insist one and a half hours. In this tea you can add honey to taste.

In its pure form, although it does not carry so much benefit, it is found in ointments, tinctures, herbal preparations, dragees, and tablets as raw materials. Improves the effects of drugs. But even the recipes of traditional medicine should not be used as the main treatment. All prescriptions are best used in conjunction with medical treatment with prescribed medications and pills.The centaury multiplies the therapeutic effect without interfering with the main course of treatment, and without excluding any beneficial effects of the other drugs.

I would also like to note that you should not make such an important decision on your own, like taking folk recipes from a centaury, as it has contraindications such as gastritis and obesity. And if these can be foreseen, the spool can also cause allergic reactions. Therefore, it is very important to first consult with your doctor, and reception should be made only under the supervision of the attending doctor.

Even if the doctor has allowed the use of medicinal plants, you should not drink and take it without measure. It is very important to observe the dosage in any recipe, and take strictly specified amount of tincture.

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