Kolganovy root: application in folk medicine

An imperceptible and unpretentious plant, finding shelter near ditches and swamps, does not attract the look of a passer-by, but in vain! Kolgan, which in botany is called a ram's ram's anus, was used to make medicines, probably back in those days when the magi and druids were acting as doctors. The most valuable part of this plant is its rhizome.

What kind of properties does the cobbler have? When ingested, the Kolgan root stops convulsions and bleeding, removes inflammation in the intestines and stomach, relieves pain. And if you insist on goat's milk, you can get a mild diuretic.

Kolganovy root, applied externally, treats many skin diseases, burns and frostbite, helps with hemorrhoids, heals wounds. Rinsing the throat with a decoction copes remarkably with sore throat and stomatitis, and the powder from the ground rhizome gently and quickly stops diarrhea.

Most often, a decoction is used in the treatment, for which a dried Kolgan root in the amount of 50 g is poured with boiling water (half a liter) and boiled for half an hour on a small fire. The evaporated water is filled up with boiled water to make up the original volume. Such broth is drunk with internal inflammations and bleeding of different origin.

To treat the throat or mouth in the case of angina, stomatitis and problems with the gums, the broth is prepared differently: 2 tablespoons of the sliced root is boiled for 20 minutes in half a liter of water, the hour is insisted and filtered. Rinses are done up to eight times a day.

Fresh kolganovy root is used to prepare the ointment. The rhizomes for the ointment should be crushed, added to a melted butter (about 150 g), which is boiled after rooting for 5 minutes. Even warm the obtained oil is filtered and used in the treatment of weather-beaten lips and cracks in the skin.

There remains one more "potion" in which the Kolgan root is used - tincture. It is very helpful in treating pulmonary diseases, with kidney and liver problems. The easiest way to make the tincture is 200 g of rhizome for half a liter of vodka (3 weeks insist in the dark, take in amounts of 40 drops to 2 tablespoons). By the way, if the medicine is needed urgently, the roots can be finely chopped, then the period of infusion will be reduced to two or three days.

But if you want to cure cirrhosis, tincture is done on 5 g of roots and 25 g of grass (dried and chopped), which in 600 g of boiling water for half an hour insist on a water bath. After the subsequent straining, this drug is drunk on a quarter or half a glass three times a day two hours before a meal. And so a month and a half. Treatment should be accompanied by a proper diet.

Restrictions on the use of such a useful plant are few: constipation, propensity to alcoholism, age to 12 years, pregnancy and feeding time and, as always, individual immunity.

Interesting observation: ginger is similar to the Kolgan root. The photo of the first is similar to the photo of the second one. As ginger has many useful qualities, so the root of the Kolgan can be indispensable in the treatment of certain diseases.