Oregano: useful properties, application

From July to August in the clearings, along roads, in meadows, on the slopes of the hills, you can find beautiful violet-pink flowers resembling a hairy whisk. The leaves of these plants are dark green, permeated with black veins from the top, from the lower side - much lighter.

This is oregano. In our country, the plant is more commonly known as oregano. Useful properties of its many biologists with world-wide reputation equate to the actions of 18 antibiotics. This unique plant is able to kill even very resistant to microbials, capable of quickly adapting to new antibiotics. He is able to fight with the golden Staphylococcus, which terrorizes all hospitals of the world for many years.

A very rich composition of the plant makes it possible to use it for the treatment of a wide range of diseases. Oregano is used in cooking, cosmetology, and magicians for witchcraft rituals.

What is so good about oregano? Its useful properties are due to a large amount of essential oil, free alcohols, carvacrol, capable of killing even lamblia, other phenols.

Medicinal herb oregano in folk medicine of all countries was used in the treatment of seizures, paralysis, epileptic seizures. She was treated with gynecological diseases and cramps in her stomach.

Grass-oregano, the properties of which are recognized by official medicine, serves as the basis for the widest range of drugs for the treatment of the nervous system, intestines, the normalization of sweating glands, and the alleviation of bronchial diseases.

For colds, wounds, abscesses, skin rashes, too, is used oregano, the properties of which are not limited to wound healing or antispasmodic characteristics.

If a person is persecuted by insomnia, stress, bronchitis, he will also be helped by the oregano. Useful properties of grass are preserved only in the right raw material.

Collect oregano for the second year of flowering. Cut it in such a way that as few stems as possible fall into the collection. If you dry the raw material under a canopy at a temperature of 30-40 degrees, then the dried grass can be used as a spice to prepare a variety of dishes. Their dried herbs can also be used to prepare infusions or decoctions for the treatment of various diseases.

To get essential oil out of oregano, it is recommended to subject hydrodistillation immediately after collection, but it is better to do it in an industrial way.

Here are a few recipes from different areas in which the herb oregano is used. Its useful properties are used to regulate the monthly cycle of women.

Three pints of oregano are brewed with a glass of boiling water, defended, filtered, and then drunk the whole day in small sips. Such a composition is categorically contraindicated in pregnancy: it can cause miscarriage. It is this property of grass that folk medicine men often used to prevent unwanted births. On the other hand, pregnant women can use decoctions for washing. Oregano whitens well and nourishes the skin, makes it fresh, attractive.

In cooking, oregano is an indispensable spice for the preparation of pates, pickles, dishes from poultry or fish.

For the preparation of English pate it is necessary to cut and chop 250 g of young beef and the same pulp of turkey. Then mix the stew with the fried onions, add a few crushed juniper berries, half a spoonful of oregano pepper, 150 g of butter cow. Pass through the blender, put in molds, cool.

In cosmetology, oregano extracts are used to add to creams. In addition, with dry skin, rashes recommended baths with oregano or washing it with infusions.

Romantic rendezvous will be more successful, magicians and sorcerers believe, if during it in the smoker light a candle with oregano or drop a few drops of oil in the aroma lamp.