Flowers cornflowers - beautiful, useful and unpretentious

According to Pliny, the flowers of cornflower blue expel evil spirits. And healers believe that collecting this plant, reading spells over it, is a prerequisite. In their opinion, this enhances its magical properties.

We, modern people, will not argue with them, but we will take into account the fact that the flowers of cornflowers blue are related to the botanical family of centaurs, or Centaurea, than perpetuated the memory of the wise centaur Chironse, a mythical connoisseur of the healing powers of the plant world. In the people they are called blue eyes, synetsvetkami, volyashka.

Undemanding to the place of growth, almost everywhere in the European territory of our country grow cornflower flowers. Photos well convey their beauty. In fields among crops of grain and fodder crops, in gardens and even in containers on balconies it is possible to meet these flowers.

Cornflower has a root root. Their stem is erect, has many branches. It reaches a height of up to eighty centimeters. The decorative and medicinal value is in the colors. They are single baskets up to three centimeters in diameter, growing on long peduncles that do not have leaves. The marginal flowers of cornflowers blue form asexual, the averages have both stamens, anthers, and pestles. Seeds of it are formed in August, they are pubescent, oblong in shape.

For medicinal purposes, blue borderless flowers are collected. Cornflowers are torn off in the middle of summer. They are simply pulled out of the baskets by fingers, and then dried in shaded, well-ventilated areas. Raw materials, dried in the light, fade. It is unfit for consumption.

Preparations from the plant have a bitter astringent taste. They have an anti-inflammatory and diuretic effect, cause sweating, lower the temperature. They have choleretic and antimicrobial properties. With their help you can anesthetize and heal wounds, remove fever. Blue cornflowers help with spasms of smooth muscles of the pelvic organs. Applying them, you can improve the digestion process.

Assign medications from the flowers of cornflower for colds, coughs, swelling, resulting from heart or kidney ailment. They are effective for inflammation of the kidneys and bladder, stomach pains and palpitations. Cornflower destroys worms, helps with jaundice, gout.

With weakened eyesight, chicken blindness and conjunctivitis help the lotions applied to the eyes. To do this, you need one or two teaspoons of fresh or dried flowers cornflower blue brew one glass of boiling water and hold it under the lid for one hour. Then dunk the cotton swab into the infusion and apply to the eyes six to eight times a day. To enhance the effect, you need to drink it twenty minutes after eating to 50 milliliters.

In olden times, wounds were sprayed with powder from a dried cornflower leaf. And for the fastest jointing of bones in fractures during the week, two tablespoons of cornflower, mixed with thorn juice, were taken on an empty stomach in the morning.

Use drugs based on this plant should be used with caution, because they contain and toxic components. However, young greens and flowers in the Russian outback are still added to soups, as well as corn dye is extracted from cornflowers.