Lichen Parmelia: use and contraindications

Lichen parmelia, or cut grass grows in the desert-steppe zone, as well as mountainous areas. This plant is resistant to environmental pollution, it is absolutely unpretentious. In Russia, there are about 90 types of cut grass. This plant is widely used in folk medicine. Today the reader will learn a lot of interesting information about lichen parmelia: application and contraindications, properties, composition. Also find out how to prepare a decoction of cut grass.

What does it consist of?

Parmelia refers to both a group of green algae and fungi. The body of this lichen consists of branched, grooved, leathery-cartilaginous blades of a greenish-gray color. Cutting grass has the ability to photosynthesize, it is very resistant to severe climatic conditions.

Lichen Parmelia, whose properties can be read below, has a unique and curative composition:

1. Usninovaya acid - is a strong natural antibiotic.
2. Vitamin C is a natural antioxidant.
3. Fiber and complex carbohydrates are very important for the normal functioning of the digestive system.
4. Proteins, fats, ashes.
5. A large number of mineral elements, the main of which are potassium, calcium, phosphorus.

When can I use it?

Lichen Parmelia, the application and indications to which you can read in this article, has the following properties:

1. Antiseptic.
2. Bactericidal.
3. Haemostatic.
4. Wound healing.
5. Immunostimulating.

Cutting grass can be used in such cases:

- When you cough. Lichen helps quickly, gently and harmlessly rid the person of a protracted incessant cough.

- With bleeding gums. It is enough to make a decoction of cut grass and rinse it with your mouth.

- With diarrhea, acute colitis, ulcer of duodenum and other diseases of the digestive tract.

- In case of heavily healing wounds, resulting from injury.

- To combat bacteria that destroy the body, including the stick of Koch.

- To prevent the occurrence of acute respiratory viral infections.

- To stop bleeding.

- For the treatment of cardiovascular diseases.

Common species of parmelia

1. Cutting grass wandering. It grows 5 cm high. It looks like a lot of gray-green plates that swell after the rain. With a strong wind, the lumps of this species of parmelia come off and are transported over long distances, where they later get well.
2. The cut grass is furrowed. This lichen is leafy, it forms rosettes of irregular shape on the bark of any tree. Also it can be found on dry branches, in sheds, on fences, and also walls of houses. The crooked cutaway grass is bluish-gray in color, from below it is black, covered with straight or curved rhizomes.

Where can I collect?

Branches and trunks of coniferous and hardwood trees - that's where lichens of parmelia grow. Less often they can be found on rocks and mossy soils. Lichen grows well where there is excellent access to the sun. Most often, cut grass can be found in mountain forests. If you do not know where the lichens of parmelia grow, you can find out in the market from grandmothers selling various herbs. They'll tell you where you can collect medicinal cut grass. And if you do not want to go in search of her, then you can just buy it from the same lovely women in the bazaar.

Preparation of medicinal raw materials

If you decide that lichen parmelia must necessarily be in your home medicine chest, then you need to know, not only where to collect it, but also how to store for long-term storage. Collect the cut grass best in late April and throughout May. Collected raw materials must be dried in the wind and sun. Dried parmelia almost does not smell, the taste is bitter, a bit stinging. It can be stored for 4 years in a plastic bag or a glass container away from dampness and moisture.

Limitations to the use of parmelia lichen

The use and contraindications can be learned from traditional healers. In general, cut grass has the minimum number of restrictions to use. You can not use this plant for individual intolerance to the body. Also, with the appearance of urticaria, itching on the skin is also worth stopping to be treated with this lichen. With caution and only after agreement with the doctor, you can use cut grass in such cases:

- For the children.

- Pregnant and lactating women.

Prescription for tuberculosis

Parmelia grass is often used to treat such a serious infectious disease. The recipe for an effective medicine for tuberculosis :

1. Dried Parmelia (3 tbsp.) Chop and pour 0.5 liters of milk.
2. Put mixture on the fire, bring to a boil, and then simmer for 15 minutes.
3. Strain the medicine.
4. Drink up to 1/3 cup three times a day.

The recipe for a decoction of a cough

If a person can not get rid of this unpleasant symptom of a viral infection, then he will be helped by parmelia. The use and indications for the prescription of this remedy can be found in many medical publications. But how to prepare a decoction correctly is not always written. Below is a true recipe for making a healing drink from a cough:

1. Take 1 tablespoon of lichen, pour it 1 liter of water.

2. Put the pan with the contents on a water bath (in a large container, draw water, and inside determine a pan with cut grass). Hold for about 2 hours.

Ready to drink broth for 1/3 cup 3 times a day for 0.5 h before meals. Keep the medicine in the refrigerator. Before use, slightly warm up.

To the attention of readers! On many sites it is written that to prepare a decoction lichen can simply cook for an hour on fire. But this can not be done, because useful substances at a temperature of 100 degrees will simply decompose without further benefit. Therefore, to prepare a cough medicine should be only on a water bath.

Recipe for washing wounds, compresses

- Pour five tablespoons of lichen over 500 ml of water.

- Boil, cook over medium heat for 20 minutes.

- Remove from heat, insist at room temperature until the medicine is completely cool.

- Strain, raw materials squeeze into a healing broth.

Use externally for poorly healing wounds.

Preparation of ointment

- Take 200 g of interior fat. Add 2 tbsp. L. Parmelia (you can buy it in a pharmacy or grind it yourself in a coffee grinder).

- Mix all the ingredients, determine them in a saucepan and put in a water bath for 5 hours.

- The final medicine should be viscous.

Use an ointment based on parmelia and interior fat can be used to treat ulcers, cuts, wounds.

Where can I buy it?

You can buy cut grass in the market at grandmothers, on the Internet, and also in a drugstore.

And there, by the way, you can find out important information about lichen parmelia: application and contraindications, storage conditions, expiration dates. If a person wants to save money, then it will be cheaper to buy cut grass from grandmothers.

The opinion of Dr. Komarovsky

The famous pediatrician Komarovsky EO, the leading program about the diseases that affect children, gave his assessment of the use of parmelia in relation to children. He notes that the use of this lichen in the fight against protracted cough in boys and girls is not worth it. He says that cut grass is best used topically - to stop bleeding, disinfect wounds. And he does not categorically advise conducting various experiments on children. Komarovsky Evgeny Olegovich once again repeats that in order to eliminate a cough in a child, one does not need to run to the market in and buy lichen parmelia. Parents can save their son or daughter from this residual symptom of a viral infection by simple methods: moisturizing and airing the room, soldering the sick child with warm tea or compote. And if Mom will comply with these simple rules, but no parmelia of cough or other drugs from the pharmacy it will not be needed. And, by the way, Dr. Komarovsky notes one interesting fact: Americans do not know and do not understand why children give expectorants. And in the post-Soviet countries this practice is quite common. The pediatrician calls on parents not to buy cough supplements and not to stuff the child with chemistry or dubious herbs.

Conclusion

Now you know a lot of interesting information about lichen parmelia: application and contraindications, appearance, places of growth. Cutting grass has long been used in folk medicine for the treatment of tuberculosis, coughing, protracted wounds, etc. You can buy it on the market, in a pharmacy or order online. You can also pick this lichen yourself, prepare medicinal raw materials and later use it for preparing various broths.