Broth of bay leaves

One of the most common spices - the bay leaf, which is present in the kitchen of every mistress, can find use not only in cooking. It turns out that the broth of bay leaf is widely and effectively used in folk medicine and cosmetology. What is useful for decoction of bay leaf and how to use it, we will consider further.

Useful properties of broth of bay leaves

Traditional treatment with bay leaf is used almost everywhere - in Europe, Russia, countries of Asia. Laurel leaves contain essential oil , tannins, bitterness, organic acids (acetic, valeric, caproic) and their esters, trace elements, catechins, flavonoids and other valuable substances.

Means based on laurel leaves have the following properties:

• anesthetizing;
• soothing;
• antibacterial;
• antifungal;
• antiviral;
• diuretic;
• antihypertensive, etc.

Broth of bay leaves with diseases of the digestive system

Broth of bay leaves not only increases appetite and improves digestion, but also struggles with such diseases as chronic cholecystitis , cholelithiasis, relieves increased gas production.

In these cases, the bay leaf broth is prepared in this way: 4 g of dry leaf pour 100 ml of water, bring to a boil and keep on low heat for 10 minutes, then allow to cool. Take small portions of up to two glasses a day.

Broth of bay leaves, used by a special method, helps to cleanse the body of salt deposits in the joints. To prepare the broth 5 grams of crushed laurel leaves brew 300 ml of boiling water and boil in a water bath for 5 minutes. Then pour into the thermos and insist 4-5 hours, then drain.

This broth should be drunk in small portions within 12 hours, starting in the morning on an empty stomach. In the next two days, repeat the reception of the broth, and a week later - again taken for three days. In the first year, treatment courses are conducted quarterly, in the future - once a year. In days of treatment, you need to follow a vegetarian salt-free diet.

With diathesis, suppuration on the skin, as well as with allergies, you will not need a decoction, but an infusion of bay leaf. For its preparation, 5 g of bay leaf, pour 300 g of boiling water and insist in a thermos for 3 hours, and then strain. Prepared infusion to wipe skin inflammation and irritation several times a day. At night you can take a bath with the addition of a liter of infusion.

The external application of the infusion can be combined with the internal reception of a decoction prepared according to a prescription for the treatment of diseases of the digestive organs.

Broth of bay leaf for face

Broth of bay leaves relieves of acne, it is useful for sensitive, oily skin, and also is used as a rejuvenating agent.

To wipe your face, you should prepare a lotion: 25 laurel leaves pour half a cup of boiling water and boil for 5 minutes. Then let it brew for 4 hours and drain. This lotion perfectly tones, relieves inflammation, brightens the skin.

As a rejuvenating agent is used laurel oil, for the preparation of which two bay leaves should be poured a quarter cup of any vegetable oil, cover and insist for a week in a dark cool place. The received oil to rub into a skin of the face, a neck, a decollete, and also brushes of hands before a dream.

Wiping the problem areas with the tincture of bay leaves prepared according to the following recipe will help to cope with pimples and acne: pour half a glass of crushed laurel leaves with a glass of vodka and insist for two weeks in a dark cool place, shaking periodically.

Broth of bay leaf for hair

The bay leaf will help to cope with such problems as dandruff, fatty hair, loss of shine and elasticity. After each hair wash, you should rinse them with broth, cooked this way: 30 laurel leaves pour a liter of water, bring to a boil and insist in a thermos for 3 hours, then strain.

Contraindications to the use of bay leaf decoction

The use of bay leaf as a medicine is prohibited when:

• pregnancy and lactation;
• ulcer of the stomach or duodenum;
• acute cholecystitis;
• pancreatitis;
• propensity to constipation.