medicinal Plants Azhgon (Ayovan sweet)

Oil is used internally azhgona cough, flu, asthma, colds, diarrhea, cramps, arthritis, rheumatism, cholera, externally for rheumatism, burns, vaginal secretions, to disinfect the mouth.Latin name: Trachyspermum ammi.Synonyms Latin name: Trachyspermum copticum, Ammi copticum, Carum copticum.English name: Ajwain, Ajowan caraway, Carom seeds.Family: Umbrella - Apiaceae.Synonyms: ayovan fragrant Indian cumin, caraway Coptic, shabpy, zipa.Used parts: fruits.Botanical description: azhgon - annual plant with much branched stem height 20-120cm. Sheet twice or thrice pinnate with small line segments. The flowers are collected in 10-12-ray sun umbrellas, on long peduncles. Calyx teeth blunt, distinct, ovate, thickish. Corolla white, petals glubokovyemchatye with inward curved tip. Dark brown mature fruit azhgona contain two seeds, the size and shape similar to Celery, bitter taste, with spicy, reminiscent of thyme.Distribution: in the wild are not known. Cultivated in North and East Africa, Southeast Asia, Afghanistan and Iran.Active ingredients: all parts of the plant contain essential oil, as its content in the fruit (2-11%). Oil is a colorless or brownish liquid with a pungent taste and strong smell of thymol content in the oil reaches 30-40%. Physical constants and composition of essential oils vary greatly depending on the stage of plant vegetation. In the essential oil from plants in full bloom phase contains large amounts of n-CYMENE and relatively few γ-terpinene and paraffin. The oil from the ripe fruit contains a lot of thymol, n-CYMENE, dipentene, α-terpinene, carvacrol. In addition, the composition of the oil are α-and β-pineny, β-phellandrene, 20-30% fatty oil, which consists of glycerides petrozelinovoy acid.Azhgon - useful properties and applicationsAzhgon used for disinfection of mucous membranes of the mouth, pharynx and throat, in the dental practice for the disinfection of cavities, and through local anesthetic effect for analgesia of dentin. Also has good activity against fungal infections of the skin and is used in various fungal diseases and actinomycosis.Azhgon (ayovan scented) included in the composition of dietary supplements plus Boswell, produced by the pharmaceutical standard GMP.In addition, thymol, which is part azhgona used as anthelminthic for the expulsion of mainly hookworms and whipworm. On other tapeworm works poorly.In pharmacy practice, thymol is used as a preservative for pharmaceuticals.Oil has azhgona tonic, diuretic, antispasmodic, expectorant, antiseptic, vermifuge action. Fruits and seeds azhgona have very wide application as a useful tool against gastro-intestinal diseases and cough. Azhgon improves digestion and appetite.Tags online, traditional medicine: herbsPosted by: Traditional medicine recipes

medicinal Plants Adonis summer

Adonis year is used as a herbal tea to cleanse the blood when you cough, as a mild sedative for the elderly and swelling of the body.Latin name: Adonis aestivalis.Family: Ranunculaceae - Ranunculaceae.Synonyms: summer adonis.Used parts: the grass.Pharmacy name: Adonis summer grass-Adonidis aestivalis herba (formerly: Herba Adonidis aestivalis).Botanical description. Adonis year - an annual plant reaches a height of 30 - 50 cm Erect stems sometimes branched at the top. Leaves alternate, twice-or three-trizhdyperistorazdelnye on a four segments. On a long stalk sits a single Surikov-red flower with a black spot at the back. If you see him at least once, do not confuse with any other. Blossoms Adonis summer from July to September. It occurs as a weed in the meadows, arable lands, fallow fields and waste places.Collecting and harvesting. During flowering, summer adonis cut pretty low to the ground, tied into bundles and dried in the shade outdoors.The active substances. In the summer Adonis glycosides found acting on the heart.Their content is insignificant, but it is inactive pharmacymeans can not be named. It is believed that Adonis has other active ingredients, but they have not been studied.Adonis summer curative effect and applicationThe official medicine, this herb is not used, because it is not meant to replace the spring adonis (Adonis vernalis). Only in folk medicine it is used according to the instructions of the old herbalists authors.The use of traditional medicine. Tea from the old Adonis commonly used to cleanse the blood when you cough, as a mild sedative for the elderly and swelling of the body.Herbal tea recipe from Adonis years: 2 teaspoons of raw pharmaceutical pour 1 / 4 liters of cold water and filtered after 10 hours. If you need to drink a cup of tea or a course for a cup 2 times a day. When coughing or as a soporific to sweeten tea with honey (for diabetics can podslastitsteviey!).Side effects. If the spring adonis is a poisonous plant, the symbol "poisonous plant" for Adonis (adonis year) will probably not be useful: cardiac glycosides in it very little.And yet, despite this, I would not recommend using this medication for self-treatment plant.Tags online, traditional medicine: herbs, herbal teas recipesPosted by: Traditional medicine recipes

medicinal Plants Agar-agar

Gelidium amansii Lamour, and other red algae (Rhodophyta)
The family of Agar-Agar: Gelidiatsievye - Gelidiaceae
Used parts: the thallus (thallus) algae.
Laboratory Name: Agar (formerly: agar-agar).
Botanical description Agar. Red alga Gelidium amansii found and mined on the Pacific coast of Asia from the Greater Sunda Islands to Japan, the Pacific coast of Mexico and California and the coast of the Indian Ocean. This is an open-work is extremely delicate branched plant, reaching a length of about 20 - 24 cm
In Russia, the greatest value as a producer has agaragara Ahnfeltia (Ahnfelria plicara [Huds.] Fries) from the family Phyllophoraceae.Collection and storage of agar-agar. The algae is extracted from the sea floor from May to September divers using nets or special rakes and thoroughly washed with fresh water from the mud and small organisms, usually in abundance on the surface of the algae. For the subsequent bleaching of the collected material is spread on the mat, where it is often washed with fresh water and dried, all the while turning.Dried seaweed Agar-agar is usually a time stored in warehouses before they are processed properly in the agar. To do it again moistened and cooked in large vats of water. After adding the acid boil again, with the gelling agents are dissolved, and strain off of the remaining sediment. Agar is isolated by freezing, after thawing, it is a leathery-leaf-mass. He was then re-dried and the product is ready for use.The active substances. 70% carbohydrates, proteins, crude fiber and water.Curative effect and the use of agar-agar. Swellable substance apothecary materials do not decompose either in the acidic environment of the stomach, through which pass very quickly, nor in the alkaline environment of the intestine, as a result of severe swelling of the intestinal contents increased, which causes its peristalsis. Thus, agar-agar acts as a mild laxative. But as a drug, as a major component of vaginal suppositories or pellets, it is not currently used. On the contrary, biologists commonly use Agar-agar as a base of nutrient media for growing cells and microorganisms.Side effects of Agar-agar is not known. The use of agar as a laxative is safe.Tags online, traditional medicine: herbsPosted by: Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine

medicinal Plants Avra drug

Gratiola officinali (Latin name)
Fig-wort - Scrophulariaceae
Used parts: aerial parts of plants.
Common names: gastric grass, grass fish.
Pharmacy name: Grass involving all hands - Gratiolae herba (formerly: Herba Gratiolae).
Botanical description of the medicinal involving all hands. At a depth of several centimeters from the ground surface is almost horizontal, long slender rhizome. From it rises a vertical four-sided stem that reaches 30-40 cm in height and has leaves opposite sessile lanceolate leaves with serrulate margin. Large flowers sit singly on long stalks in the leaf axils, have a tubular shape and yellow in color (white inside), with longitudinal stripes. Fruit - small bilocular capsule. Flowering from June to August. It occurs less frequently, but throughout Central and Eastern Europe. To fall into a ditch on the banks of ponds and wet meadows.
Active ingredients: volatile oil, bitter tannins, saponins, and above all, glycosides (one of them - the cardiac glycoside gratiotoksin - has the effect similar to digitalis).Toxicity involving all hands due not only to how still believed that it contains cardiac glycosides, but the fact that it includes kukurbitatsinovy ​​elateritsid glycoside.
Curative effect and application. Earlier vysokotsenimy, all hands on deck now almost unknown both traditional or scientific medicine because of constipation, dropsy, diseases of the liver and biliary tract, ulcers of the lower leg are now more effective means, for effects on the heart, we have ladyfingers and other types of Digitalis.Nevertheless, there is a scope for which it is a medicinal plant is very suitable: RF Weiss recommends that this plant is to stimulate menstruation, because of their infrequency not always be correct hormones. Of course, this is possible only under medical supervision, since self-poisonous plants is prohibited: it's dangerous!
The use of homeopathy medicine involving all hands. Homeopathic remedies for violations of Gratiola used the stomach, intestines and liver. Other applications (for headache, irritability, shortened menstrual cycle, skin eruptions and rheumatism) are insignificant. Use of dilution D3 to D12, give 3-5 (10) times per day of 3-8 drops.
Side effects. Avra is poisonous, and therefore can not be used alone. Symptoms of poisoning: increased salivation, nausea, vomiting, cramps, diarrhea, kidney disease, seizures, heart disorder, collapse, respiratory arrest.
First-aid measures. Consult a doctor or hospital. Urgent induce vomiting, take activated charcoal.Tags online, traditional medicine: herbsPosted by: Traditional medicine recipes

medicinal Plants avocado

Avocado has antioxidant properties, protecting cells against free radicals andpreventing the aging process.
Latin name: Persea americana.
English title: Avocado.
Family: Laurel - Lauraceae.
Common name: American Perseus
Used parts avokadr: fruit.Botanical description: avocado - a fast-growing tree, reaching a height of 18 m. The trunk is usually straight, strong branches. Leaves elliptic, up to 20 cm in fall year round. The flowers are inconspicuous, small, greenish, bisexual, are in the leaf axils.The fruit of avocado pear, oval or spherical, 5-10 cm long, weighs 0,05-1,8 kg. Peel the fruit is hard, immature fruit - dark green, shortly after ripening black. The flesh of mature fruit green or yellow-green, oily and contains a lot of fat. In the center of the fruit is a large seed.Distribution: Avocados are grown in many tropical and subtropical regions (USA, Brazil, Africa, Israel).Active ingredients (per 100 g of pulp)Fat - 30 gProtein - 1.6 g - 2.1 gVitamin K - 14.6 mgDietary fiber - 3.65 mgPotassium - 437.27 mgFolate - 45.19 mcgVitamin B6 - 0.2 mgVitamin C - 5.77 mgCopper - 0.19 mgCalories - 118 caloriesAvocado - useful properties and applicationsAvocado is effective in hypertension, diabetes, gastritis, dyspepsia, gastritis with low acidity and high acidity of gastric juice. Nutritionists recommend avocado with constipation, cataracts, beriberi, and as a tonic after previous infections and other diseases.Avocados are one of the fat-containing fruits, giving the palm a coconut, the lion's share of their component fats are useful and easily digestible monounsaturated fatty acids. Therefore, despite the high caloric content, this fruit is a useful dietary product.Avocados help to reduce "bad" cholesterol, are useful for atherosclerosis, anemia, hypertension, generally favorable working on the cardiovascular system.

Avocado also has antioxidant properties, protecting cells against free radicals and preventing the aging process.When used avocado reduced irritability, increased efficiency, ability to concentrate, drowsiness and fatigue passes, feel better. This is explained by the combined effect of a substance contained in the avocado mannogeptulozoy, which lowers the blood glucose level, while contributing to better learning of her brain cells.Potassium in large quantities is part of the avocado, the body responsible for the generation and transmission of nerve impulses, as well as normalizes water-salt balance and the work of the muscular system.Useful properties also have the seeds and leaves of avocados, broth which is used to treat dysentery and chronic colitis and enterocolitis.Contraindications. Idiosyncrasy. Also keep in mind that the composition of avocado pits are toxic substances that may lead to disturbances of the digestive system or cause a severe allergic reaction.Tags Perseus American folk medicine on the site: medicinal plantsPosted by: Encyclopedia of Folk Medicine

medicinal Plants Apricot

Apricots are used for digestion, liquefaction of sputum with a dry cough, as a gentlelaxative and febrifuge zhazhdoutolyayuschee.
Latin name: Prunus armeniaca.
English name: Apricot.                                                                      
Family: Rose - Rosaceae.
Used parts apricot: fruits, seeds (seeds).
Botanical description: apricot - large tree of the family Rosaceae height 3-17 m. Crohn's irregular shape. Gray-brown trunk with cracked bark on older trees. Branches glabrous, leaves large, alternate, elliptic, margin serrate. Petioles dark red, long, fluted. Apricot Blossoms in early spring. Flowers solitary, white or pinkish, with red sepals, bloom before the leaves. The fruit is rounded, yellow or orange, sometimes reddish, with a longitudinal groove. The seeds (pits) are flat, light brown, bitter or sweet. Matures in June - July.Distribution: apricot spread in Central Asia and Dagestan. It grows in river valleys, scrublands, rocky and gravelly slopes, singly or in groups. Apricot cultured in Ukraine, Russia, America, Australia, Hungary, and Iran in the subtropical and temperate climates.Active ingredients: fresh apricots contain pulp from 4.7 to 27% sugar (in the ripe fruit dominates sucrose), a small amount of dextrin, inulin and starch. Fiber content - 0.8%, organic acids - 1.3%.In the fresh fruit apricot contains about 305 mg of potassium salts (for dried - in 5-6 times more). Therefore, apricots recommend that people with diseases of the cardiovascular system and kidneys. There are also minerals - potassium, magnesium and phosphorus. Trace elements are iron salts (2.1 mg%) and iodine compounds, which are especially numerous in the Armenian apricot varieties.In fruits also have citric, malic, tartaric, and a bit of salicylic acid. Vitamin C in fresh apricots a bit (10 mg%), there are vitamin E, B1 and PP, but most of carotene (provitamin A) - up to 16 mg%. Such amount of carotene is not in any of the fruit grown in our country. Especially needed carotene young growing organism.Apricot bark contains tannin, wood - flavonoids. The leaves were found carbohydrates, vitamin C, flavonoids and phenolcarbonate acid, the flowers - carotene.From other substances present in apricots pectin has the ability to excrete toxic metabolic products, and cholesterol. There are apricots in tannins, which give the fruits tartness and some astringent taste and secure the property.Apricot - useful properties and applicationsApricot juice has antibiotic activity, in particular, a depressing effect on putrefactive bacteria.In the bones of apricot contains 35 to 60% non-drying fatty oil, chemical composition close to peach. Apricot oil has low acidity and low viscosity, it is used in medicine and cosmetics.In the pharmaceutical industry, apricot kernel oil is used as a solvent for some drugs, administered intramuscularly or subcutaneously, as well as for preparation of ointments.The presence of large amounts of iron determines the medicinal value of apricots with anemia, diseases of the cardiovascular system, and others who accompanied the development of potassium deficiency. Fruits are used to enhance digestion and liquefaction of sputum with a dry cough, as a gentle laxative and febrifuge zhazhdoutolyayuschee, as well as prolonged use of diuretics. They are especially needed for children as well as stimulate growth and improve health.However, for the treatment and prevention of vitamin deficiency and hypovitaminosis of vitamin A in liver disease and lowered thyroid function should not take apricots, as contained in apricots provitamin A in these disorders is not digestible, and therefore appropriate to adopt a pure vitamin A.With the purpose of treatment using apricot gum. Every year, tens of tons of harvest gum. Protrudes from the gum cracking apricot trees. It consists of colorless or grayish-yellow, brittle, hard, translucent slices. Odorless. Taste sweet. Store in a dry, ventilated area. Gum contains galactose, arabinose, glucuronic acid. Is a complete substitute for gum arabic. Completely soluble in water, gives a white powder. This powder is used to make medical emulsions.

Apricot in alternative medicine
Fruits are long since over the world used for therapeutic purposes. So, the folk healersof Ancient China apricot seeds in small quantities were soothing agent for coughs.One of Pakistan's tribal - centenarians. Scientists believe that the longevity they have toa large number of edible apricot. It is believed that 100 g apricots contribute to the process of hematopoiesis as well as the use of 40 grams of iron, or 250 g fresh liver.
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Determined to lead OneWorld Health, RUSSIAN CITIZENS, AND UKRAINE

In an effort to be healthy all are united - and the Russians, Ukrainians and other nationalities, so they share their experiences. Once in the article "Although I live in Russia -" Grandma "also read" their knowledge and offered me, talking about how to cope with high blood pressure and how to prevent a herniated. Now I want to write more about the treatment of these diseases.
Hypertension - a fairly common disease. Often, high blood pressure affects people, leading an active life, the reason she may also be stress, fatigue and more. So, before you start treatment, be sure to undergo a medical examination to determine what caused the increase of pressure. Having found out, immediately begin treatment, selecting a suitable recipe for you. Even before the start of treatment should always review your diet, confession, communion and to the Lord in prayer for help. I, for example, making sure that I have hypertension, nervous origin, to normalize the pressure started to use in the treatment of tincture of calendula and pharmacy drug "Raunatin."
The first day in the morning on an empty stomach would drink 15-20 drops of tincture of calendula and one tablet of "raunatina" on the second day of taking remedies in the same dose in the morning and evening before bedtime, and the third method is also repeated in the afternoon. Thereafter made a break for 5-7 days and then repeated the treatment. Hypertension receded. Try it, maybe someone else will approach it.
Now advice to those who suffer from herniated. My late husband (the seventh year it is no longer alive) 30 years ago, had surgery to remove it. Preoperative period and the operation itself - it's terrible endless pain that require willpower and patience. We can say that my husband went through all the torments of hell. After surgery, doctors warned that the hernia may reappear. And then an elderly nurse advised me to prepare on the basis of internal fat pig ointment and rubbed her husband in the spine.It should be 250 grams of fat melted in a water bath, then drain, to get 150 grams of pure fat, without shkvarok again, put a bowl of fat in a boiling water bath and add to it, stirring constantly, 2 tablespoons chopped yellow wax, and 1 tablespoon pine oil.When the mass is smooth, give it a little cool, not ceasing to interfere, and then add 1 tablespoon turpentine or ammonia. Ready to rub the ointment at night before bed spine from neck to tailbone. After that, well bundle up and go to bed. Repeat the procedure every night until the complete disappearance of pain. Ointment helps to strengthen and revitalize spinal connections. It should also take a tincture Comarum.Pour 0.5 liters of vodka 50 g of chopped herbs, let it brew for 20 days in a warm dark place, shaking occasionally, then drink 1 tbsp 3 times a day for 30 minutes before eating. Even my husband all the years wore a belt lifter, and slept on the floor of the boards. I also sleep on hard, and doing exercises in the system, Nishi.
Another evening, dissolve in a glass of warm boiled water, 1 teaspoon gelatin, leaving for the night and morning, add 1 tablespoon honey and drink it all on an empty stomach. This contributes to lubrication of joints and spinal injuries. To build up cartilage and synovial fluid of Education accept the 30 days, according to the instructions, pharmacy drugs, "Glucosamine" and "chondroitin sulfate". I do a 10 days break and then repeat the course. And so, with interruptions spend three courses.Also, to prevent a herniated, try not to supercool back. So do not be lazy, fight with herniated and you are sure it will win.
Amazing healing properties has black nightshade, which is so much in Russia, and Ukraine. From its berries are preparing an elixir of health, which helps to cope with radiation sickness, normalizes blood pressure, eliminates the headaches, improves memory and eyesight, cure impotence, rheumatism, gout, asthma, stomach ulcers, inflammation of the liver removes. Collected in autumn berries have mince and squeeze out the juice through cheesecloth masses. After that, a 5-liter juice dissolve liter jar of honey and 1 kg of sugar, pour the elixir made by the banks and put it into the refrigerator. Take it to 2-3 tablespoons before eating. Feel better soon.May God grant you health, happiness, joy, patience and longevity!, Rostov region.