Health, Alternative Medicine
Echinacea: flowers of a beautiful plant strengthen immunity
A popular, beautifully flowering, tall tall perennial with a pubescent stem and a slightly "prickly" name, which in Greek means "hedgehog", is a purple echinacea. Flowers, stem, leaves and root of this plant uses for medicinal purposes folk and official medicine. Ready alcoholic tincture of Echinacea can be bought in pharmacies. But no less useful are decoctions and water infusion from all parts of the plant, as well as herbal tea, for the preparation of which flowers are used.
Who is contraindicated echinacea? Flowers and seeds of the plant, which contain essential oil, people prone to allergies, should be used with caution. Do not give drugs to young children until the age of two. It is forbidden to take the plant for pregnant and lactating women.
Flowers and other parts of the plant contain biologically active substances. This perennial, growing in the wild nature of America and known as a healer in the Indians, has long moved to other continents. Here he soon gained popularity. For example, the pharmacopoeia of Germany uses echinacea for the preparation of two hundred medical products. The chemical composition of the plant contains bitterness, mucus, tar, flavonoids, tannins, enzymes, oils, vitamins, organic acids, polysaccharides, trace elements, and a valuable substance with a strong bactericidal action - echinacoside. Root root and rhizomes contain inulin - an easily digestible natural substitute for carbohydrates - starch and sugar.
How to prepare a medicine from the Echinacea plant
Flowers, stem, leaves, root, seeds of it - all are useful for making tea, broths, infusions and tinctures - simple and affordable medicines. With a general weakening of immunity - in the fall especially - drink herbal tea, where the only component can be echinacea. How to brew? In a cup with two or three flowers pour boiling water, under the lid they let it brew for 10 minutes and the tea is ready. You can sweeten it with honey, if, of course, there are no violations of carbohydrate metabolism.
For broth, usually take dry powdered raw materials (leaves, root, flowers) in a volume of 1 tbsp. L. And pour hot water - 1 glass. It should all be warmed up for 20 minutes, put in a water bath, then insist an hour. Filter and add the boiled water to the glass. To drink it is necessary in several receptions for a day. Echinacea is treated for a month. Then the month of the break is done. She does not have a harmful side effect.
In pharmacies, alcoholic tincture of Echinacea is sold - the necessary concentration of a medicinal plant is observed in it.
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