Yarrow. Useful properties of plants on guard of health

Yarrow is one of the many folk names of an ancient medicinal plant. From history it is known that the yarrow powder was in the war chests of the Macedonian and Suvorov soldiers.

There is a yarrow ordinary and noble. The latter has less pronounced therapeutic properties and therefore a yarrow flower noble with white flowers rather carries a load as an ornamental plant. He is not picky about the soil, this is a shrub plant, and the yarrow flower blooms during July.

Yarrow common almost grows throughout the former Soviet Union. It is a herbaceous perennial plant, very odorous, with a creeping yellowish thin and long rhizome. Numerous flowers of yarrow are collected in the inflorescence of white and pink, pink and golden yellow. They, along with the leaves and stems of the plant are used for treatment. The period of yarrow harvesting lasts from June to August. Proper collection and preparation of this miracle plant will preserve all its medicinal properties.

What is so good yarrow, useful properties which is even difficult to list? This plant has excellent sweating, diuretic, antispasmodic and astringent properties. He helps with such diseases as pulmonary tuberculosis, stomach ulcer and catarrh, nervous diseases, hypertension, bedwetting, liver disease, anemia and headaches, inflammatory processes in the uterus, malaria, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. In this case, the need to use the usual medications prescribed by a doctor, of course, does not disappear. In any case, herbal medicine is used as an adjunct to the main therapeutic measures.

With such a variety of medicinal properties, it is not surprising that the yarrow is so widely used. Useful properties of this plant also apply to hemostatic (with external and internal bleeding) and anti-inflammatory. Against the background of its use, blood coagulation is accelerated and wound healing takes place much more quickly. Its juice and decoction are used for small scratches, abrasions, cuts, nasal bleeding.

In cases where the hemorrhoids become inflamed and hemorrhoids bleed, of course, the yarrow helps. Treatment consists in applying moistened in its cold broth napkins. With ill-fated hemorrhoids, an enema of yarrow infusion is produced which is prepared by pouring 20 grams of grass with a quarter of a liter of water at room temperature, followed by heating for 15 minutes in a water bath and infusion for at least 45 minutes. Then filter. This infusion can be stored for 2 days in a cool place and used for washing wounds.

With the help of decoctions, juice and ointments prepared from yarrow, burns, psoriasis, purulent wounds, eczema are treated. Another yarrow, useful properties of which have been known for a long time, increases appetite, improves metabolism and cures female diseases.

Do not forget about the warnings of using the yarrow. Treatment with this multifaceted phytopreparation has categorical contraindications for thrombophlebitis and with increased blood coagulability, as well as for use in pregnant women. Be careful when using it for food, as skin rashes may occur. At the same time, the use of his broths and infusions by nursing mothers increases the separation of milk from them.

The millennial is not only a healer. In Australia, the women of Aborigines as a secret of beauty is his extract, moisturizing properties of which are used to get rid of stretch marks. For delicate and velvety facial skin and décolleté area, wipe these body parts with a decoction of a glass of boiling water and 1 tbsp. Spoons of grass.

Here is such an amazing yarrow, the useful properties of which have endowed him with healing power. But, following the commandments - do no harm, always need to consult a doctor before starting treatment.