Grass Ivan-tea: medicinal properties and contraindications, application

Nature Mother gave people many plants that are able to maintain health and treat various ailments. Unfortunately, pharmacy drugs are so actively promoted and advertised that people often do not bother to inquire and learn about those natural healers that grow right under their feet, do not contain any "chemistry" and do not require fabulous money for the possibility of their use. And yet there are a lot of such medicinal plants. One of them is ivan-tea, whose properties, applications and contra-indications are discussed in this article.

Name

The plant is considered mysterious, about which legends are known. It is called differently, depending on the locality where it grows. For example, the names "kuril tea", "koporsky tea" and, of course, the famous "Ivan-tea" are known. In scientific terms, he is a narrow-leaved kapre.

The origin of the name "Ivan-tea" has different versions. According to one of them, it was widely known among the peoples of the Far East, where it was used as a cure for men's problems. Therefore, I received this name. Another version is more mercantile: on it the leaves of the spray were mixed by merchants in black tea, thus increasing their profit.

Let's consider what is the herb tea, medicinal properties and contraindications, as well as recipes for its use.

Description

This plant is known to everyone since childhood. It stands out with pink flowers in a meadow. Some types of canopy can be confused with each other (for example, furry horny hair can not be used), so it is important to know exactly what the ivan-tea looks like . Its useful properties are found throughout the plant. Even the roots can be used as a medicine. But flowers and leaves are most valuable.

In the dried form, it acquires the taste of black tea. Therefore, from the beginning of the nineteenth century, he easily supplanted expensive teas from China and India. He was drunk much more often than kvass, mors, sbiten and vvar. But for some reason they forgot about it in due course.

Composition

This medicinal plant contains a large number of tannins, especially in its leaves and roots. Also, it has in its composition tannides (which are derived from tannin), pyragol (from ten to twenty percent). It is known that in the shredded form the leaves are more useful than whole leaves. This is due to the combined effect of vegetable mucus, the percentage of which reaches fifteen, and tannins.

In addition, ivan-tea contains such flavonoids as kaempferol and quercetin, as well as organic acids in which the vitamins of the P. group are present.

Where it grows

Practically in all latitudes there is grass ivan-tea. Medical properties and contraindications are known to healers, wherever they live. The main places where this grass grows are meadows, roadsides and forest fringes, that is, he prefers sunny and open areas.

Its height reaches one and a half meters, turning the plant into pleasant bushes with pink flowers. Then you can start collecting it. In the central zone, this time begins from the end of June and continues until the beginning of autumn, when they collect ivan-tea, angustifolia.

Useful properties of the plant, however, are not known to everyone. Sometimes, when he appears in the garden, they try to get rid of him like a normal weed, instead of using it as a medicine or just a drink.

Kiprej is narrow-leaved and has a special endurance. For example, he can first start growing after a fire. But in wet and damp places, on acidic and loamy soils does not appear.

Collection and preparation

Only an encouraging aroma will cause a surge of strength and energy, if by chance there is found somewhere on the edge of a forest or a lawn, willow-tea! Therapeutic properties and contraindications to it, apart from a pleasant smell, have long been known. Therefore, many decide to grow the plant purposefully. It is quite possible to implement the idea, since it is unpretentious, is not afraid of any drought, and besides it will take out the weeds.

Leaves and flowers of it are collected before the beginning of the fire (which usually occurs from the middle to the end of August), since otherwise they will become unsuitable. Procurement of ivan tea is quite simple for medicinal purposes. But if it is going to be consumed as tea, then the leaves, besides drying, need to be fermented. Then the taste will improve many times.

The flowers are simply torn from the inflorescence and placed in large packages, and the leaves are best used from the middle of the stem, without capturing the lower and upper ones.

In an open room, the plant is dried in the shade or in the sun, spreading evenly on a thin layer on paper or cloth. It is desirable from time to time to stir up the raw materials by hand.

The stored drug is stored in paper bags or tissue bags until two years.

In the oven, too, sometimes dried grass willow-tea.

Healing properties

Both contraindications and indications must be known and taken into account when applying it.

In fact, all the ancient collections of herbs contained this medicinal plant. It can be considered universal in the treatment and prevention of a variety of diseases. The most famous medicinal properties that are exhibited by the spray are the following:

• Significantly affects the increase and strengthening of immunity;
• Useful for men (increases potency);
• Is used to treat and prevent prostatitis and adenoma;
• Heals the digestive system;
• Helps with disease and prevention of endocrine diseases;
• It is effective for gastritis, colitis and ulcers;
• Increases hemoglobin and regulates its balance;
• Promotes the healing of wounds and abrasions, quickly stops bleeding;
• Used as an antipyretic;
• Facilitates the child's condition with chicken pox and measles;
• Heals the nerves and helps stabilize the psyche;
• Increases efficiency, improves mood and invigorates;
• Normalizes the pressure;
• Removes toxins and toxins from the body

And this is not the whole list of beneficial effects that can be provided by Ivan-tea. Therapeutic properties and contraindications to it are confirmed by official medicine. In addition, the plant has a lot of properties that are not confirmed by professional healers. But one can definitely say that the beneficial effect on health is provided by the Kuril tea, or Ivan-tea, Kopor tea.

Contraindications

Any medicinal plant, according to traditional medicine, has not only indications, but also contraindications. However, there is an exception to this rule. It's about a plant like Ivan-tea. The only thing about which doctors warn that excessive use of it for more than two weeks can cause diarrhea. But this, in the opinion of many people who accepted him, is a rather controversial statement, as sometimes, on the contrary, it is used to get rid of this problem.

Application

Ivan tea, the medicinal properties and contraindications of which are so incommensurable, is one of the few herbs that can be freely used during pregnancy.

If the catarrhal disease only begins, then, after drinking a decoction or tea from a plant, one can forget about the disease. However, in the acute phase, it is unlikely to be sufficiently effective.

Ivan tea is often used as a sedative, although it will not act as a normal sleeping pill, as it has a mild effect. With constant use it will help not only to normalize sleep, but also to strengthen the nervous system.

There are even known cases when, during its adoption, the development of cancer cells ceased. Therefore, it is also known as an antitumor agent, which is also used to prevent metastases.

The plant perfectly copes with various diseases of the genitourinary system not only of men, but also of women.

Recipes

From the grass usually make alcohol tinctures and teas. To get a great taste, you need to use the fermentation method when drying. Then you get the famous Kopor tea. For this purpose, the newly collected leaves are tightly packed in a jar and covered with a lid. The capacity is exposed to the sun, and when the leaves in it change color to dark brown (usually it takes several days), the fermentation process will be finished. Then they are cut and dried in the usual way. Koporsky tea will turn out to be really tasty. It was not by chance that tsarist Russia exported large amounts of kiprei (Ivan-chai). The properties and contraindications mentioned above should be taken into account when using it as a drink.

Here are a few recipes that can be used for medicinal purposes.

• At a prostatitis take one tablespoon of a grass and insist two hours in a glass of boiled water. On the day the agent is consumed four times a tablespoon for a whole month. You can also mix it with ordinary tea and drink two or three glasses a day with honey. In this case, it takes longer: from four to six months.
• The first described recipe for combating prostatitis can also be used as an antitumor agent.
• In addition to broths, teas and tinctures, you can prepare oil from the grass. For this, a glass of fresh flowers is poured with a glass of vegetable oil and insists on the sun in a closed glass container for three weeks. The prepared preparation is used for healing wounds, with ulcers, burns and cuts.
• The curative properties of the grass of the ivan-tea perfectly show themselves in spray honey, which is so useful that healers advise it to use even a diabetic patient. For a long time he was treated with anemia, painful menstruation and inflammation of the bladder.
• Grass is actively used for cosmetic purposes. It is good for acne and other skin inflammation. You can use, for example, a decoction from it. To do this, three tablespoons filled with boiling water and insist until cooled. From the received product do daily lotions lasting two hours, periodically moistening the napkin in it.
• Also effective is the ice from the decoction of willow-tea, which you need to wipe your face every day.
• In addition to the skin, the plant will help the hair. To do this, prepare tincture and periodically moisten it with the roots of the hair.

Official medicine about ivan-tea

Medicine has not so rarely turned to folk methods. This shows the common sense of today's doctors. After all, it is clear how chemical preparations, on health, on the one hand, can harm their health with their numerous side effects. In addition, it would be illogical to abandon the facts that indicate the elimination of various diseases. Ivan-tea, about the medicinal properties, contra-indications of which were discussed, doctors are increasingly recommended as an addition to traditional treatment. And among ordinary people it is becoming more popular.