Clear purple: medicinal properties. Application in folk medicine and cooking

In the garden areas you can often see small pink flowers, something like nettles. This purple is purple. Around her, always swarm bees and many other insects, because the plain, at first glance, the plant is an excellent mead. In addition, this unpretentious flower, growing on almost any soil, has excellent healing properties.

Description

The clearness of the purple is biennial, but some varieties are annual. The height of the plant does not exceed 30 cm. The stems are of two types: creeping or ascending, with a light reddish coating.

The leaves are covered with soft hairs, wrinkled, with a multitude of veins. Those that are located at the top of the plant have a purple color.

Flowers are located in the sinuses and come in several colors: white, white-pink, pink or purple.

The flowering period lasts from the middle of spring until autumn.

Spread

The clear purple, a photo of which can be found in this article, grows throughout Europe, Asia and parts of Africa. In Russia it is found almost everywhere: throughout the European part and in Siberia. The plant is unpretentious and loves not too fertile soils: loamy, calcareous and saturated with moisture. It is easy to find along fences, in parks and other shady places.

Healing properties

Due to the content of essential oils, tannins, flavonoids, organic acids and saponins, the use of purple purple flowers in folk medicine is especially widespread. The leaves of this plant are also used. In addition to the listed substances, they contain ascorbic, cumaric, coffee and ferulic acids, carotene and lamium.

Purple purple has such actions as:

• Anti-inflammatory;
• Antispasmodic;
• Sedative;
• hypnotic;
• Improves metabolism;
• Expectorant;
• Hemostatic;
• Hypotensive.

In folk medicine is used in the following diseases:

• Tumors of various etiologies;
• Hernia;
• hemorrhoids;
• urethritis;
• cystitis;
• eczema;
• hives;
• scrofula.

Recipes

1. The most popular in folk medicine is tea, prepared from a dark cloth. In addition to taste, it has a very wide range of medicinal properties. It is recommended to take with anemia, respiratory diseases, in the absence of appetite, skin problems. It is effective for many women's problems (painful menstruation, whitening, etc.). Elderly people are used as a sedative and hypnotic. To make a drink 2 teaspoons of herbs pour a glass of water, bring to a boil, remove from heat and insist for 5 minutes. Drink for a long time, 2-3 cups a day.
2. The infusion of the dark-wool is prepared as follows: one tablespoon of herbs need to be poured into 200 ml of boiling water and leave to infuse in a thermos for half an hour. Take 1/3 cup before meals.
3. Tincture is used for uterine bleeding. For its preparation, the flowers of the night are filled with vodka (for 10 g of raw material 300 ml of vodka) and insist for a week in a warm room, shaking from time to time. Strain, tincture is taken daily for 30 drops.

Contraindications

As a part of the glue, there are practically no poisonous substances, therefore it is possible to use the means on its basis without fear. True, one should use them cautiously during pregnancy, with hypotension, increased blood clotting, and atonic constipation.

The clearing is a delicacy

Not all medicinal herbs are used only in folk medicine. I found a purple purple application in cooking. It produces wonderful green cabbage soup, various herbal cocktails. In its raw form, her greens resemble spinach to taste, so the nettle is suitable for making delicious vitamin salads.

Workpiece

There is an opinion that the storage of a crater is a problem that is problematic. And all because of the fact that her flowers have a delightful honey taste and aroma that attracts a lot of insects. Therefore, its dried flowers are recommended to be stored in a vacuum package or a tightly closed container. Also, with moisture and moisture, raw materials will easily become moldy.

You can harvest a dark blue throughout the summer. If the number of plants allows, then exclusively inflorescences are collected, if there are not so many of them, then it is possible to collect leaves that are of no less use. Usually, for convenience, harvest the tips of shoots.

Purple purple is dried in a shaded place at a temperature of no higher than 40 degrees. To do this, you can use rugs for drying herbs and vegetables or dryers for vegetables with adjustable temperature. When dried, the pink color of the inflorescences disappears and turns into dirty gray.