Traditional medicine prefers natural herbs to most pharmacological preparations for good reason. Many plants have a lot of useful properties. A vivid example is cudweed, the medicinal properties, indications and contraindications to the use of which will be discussed in the article. This inconspicuous plant acts more efficiently than many medicines. And unlike the latter, it does not harm the body at all.
The medicinal properties of the weed grass
Cucumber is a small plant belonging to the family of Compositae. She lives only one year. The size of the cudweed can vary from 5 to 20 centimeters. In the composition of this most ordinary looking plant contains many useful substances:
- essential oils;
- tannins;
- flavonoids;
- alkaloids;
- thiamine;
- phytosterols;
- resins;
- fatty substances;
- vitamins B and C;
- carotene.
It is due to the rich and diverse composition of the plant can be used to treat various diseases.
The main medicinal property of cudweed is anti-inflammatory. Very often, antibacterial agents prepared on the basis of a plant are used to treat wounds and burns. In the composition of some preparations, the cudweed is capable of exerting an astringent or sedative effect.
There are marsh swine and other medicinal properties:
- promotes vasodilation;
- produces an analgesic effect;
- strengthens intestinal motility;
- accelerates blood clotting;
- has a calming effect;
- stimulates the restoration of damaged skin;
- lowers blood pressure;
- has choleretic action;
- slows the rate of heart contraction.
Contraindications to the use of swamp and marsh swine
This plant is considered completely harmless. Practically all are allowed to use medicines on the basis of cudweed. And yet there are several categories of patients who are advised to refuse treatment with this plant:
- It is not recommended to use dried leaves in patients with bradycardia.
- When hypotension, use medicines based on plants need with extreme caution.
- A prolonged course of treatment with cucumbers can harm people suffering from vegetative-vascular dystonia in a hypotonic type.
Ways of using cudweed
If you do not have contraindications to the use of cudweed, a note can be taken several medicinal recipes:
- Infusion of cucumber with thyme, violets, pine buds and plantain helps with pneumonia (each component - one or two spoons). Take this drug should be four times a day for half a cup.
- When hypertension helps tincture sushenitsy. To make a tablespoon of dry mixture you need to pour a glass of alcohol.
Insist means should be a week. You need to drink it half a teaspoon twice or four times a day. Do this preferably before eating. - To treat burns and wounds, you can prepare a special oil. Milled dry wheaten should be poured with warmed vegetable oil. Leave the medicine for 12 hours, and then warm it in a water bath for 30 minutes. The finished product is applied to the wound twice or thrice a day.
- Infusion of cudweed with valerian, leaves of lily of the valley and berries of hawthorn is used to prevent diseases of the cardiovascular system.
- St. John's wort, cucumber and centaury, filled with boiling water and insisting in the heat for an hour, turn into an excellent remedy for heartburn and abdominal pain.
- On the basis of cudweed, you can prepare a relaxing and soothing bath. To do this, you need 150 grams of dry grass and 3 liters of boiling water.