2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Let's try to overestimate our view of the plants that we stomp mercilessly with our feet or consider as malicious weeds, resorting to various tricks to eradicate them in our summer cottages
Dandelion medicinal
All the ways gardeners struggle with the ubiquitous and tireless dandelion end in the victory of these sunny plants, which close their inflorescences in cloudy weather. Looking like little suns descending from heaven to Earth, they rejoice in this world, widely spreading their narrow golden flower-petals.
During its long life on the planet, the dandelion has learned to accumulate in its parts many substances useful for the human body, therefore, the hostile attitude of a person towards him is completely incomprehensible to the dandelion. He makes his way even through the city asphalt, hurrying to help people.
In his white
milky juiceGradually moving through the plant channels, you can find a bitter glycoside called "taraxacin", which helps to organize the metabolism in the human body in the best way. With a favorable internal metabolism, the body does not have toxins that clog the skin, provoke the appearance of acne and other misfortunes.
Fresh milky juice dandelion removes warts, labor corns, spots on the skin.
Infusion of herbs and roots dandelion is taken orally to get rid of acne, boils, rashes, acne.
Big plantain
An ubiquitous unpretentious plant with a spike-shaped inflorescence, collected from small flowers, and large beautiful leaves, in which numerous useful substances accumulate.
The presence of phytoncides in the leaves helps better cleansing and faster healing of ulcers and wounds on the skin.
Fresh chopped leaves applied to burnt skin, bruises, abscesses in order to slow down the inflammatory process, destroy pathogenic microbes.
Shredded plantain leaves - an excellent prophylactic agent for oily skin prone to painful acne. They make a face mask out of them, removing which after 15-20 minutes, it does not follow lubricate the skin with cream.
Plantain leaves are good because their beneficial properties can be used from spring to the arrival of frost. All this time, you can collect the leaves for drying, in order to stock up on them for the winter. Leaves are harvested without petioles.
Yarrow
If plantain leaves can be harvested from spring to frost, then Yarrow grass is harvested during the flowering period of the plant. True, it blooms for a long period, so even sluggish people have the opportunity to stock up on them for future use. Moreover, it grows everywhere, so you will not have to go to collect grass to distant lands.
Since ancient times, people have used yarrow for more successful healing of battle wounds, because wars accompany Mankind throughout History. Even the 21st century, on which the best minds had high hopes for a long-term truce between people, did not live up to expectations.
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leaves and flowers Yarrow accumulates a lot of useful things that curious people have adapted to use for the benefit of man. These are essential vitamins, essential acids, tannins and resinous substances, essential oils, which contain azulene, which can calm the inflammatory process of the skin.
Our great-great-grandmothers, along with spring and well water, washed
coupled with flowers Yarrow in the company of chamomile flowers, which also grew in abundance. Therefore, their skin had a noble matte shade and was distinguished by softness and velvety.
Scaly lichen and scabies are expelled
decoction of leaves, and they fight eels
decoction of flowers … Skin cuts and wounds are healed with 5 percent
water infusion of herbs
Leaf juice useful in the treatment of boils, skin ulcers, long-festering cuts and wounds.
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