How to use burdock root in folk medicine

Burdock is a weed plant, widespread in temperate latitudes. Since ancient times, leaves, seeds and burdock roots have been used in folk medicine for the treatment of various ailments.

The roots of burdock containing tannins, tar, essential oil, flavonoids, glycosides, alkaloids, fatty acids, insulin, protein, vitamins A, B, C, P, E, salts of iron, chromium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium are especially curative. , Calcium, copper, sulfur, selenium, manganese, cobalt.

It is very important to properly prepare the root of burdock. Do this in late autumn and dig only plants of the first year of life that have not yet blossomed. For medicinal purposes, fleshy and succulent roots of burdock of the first year are used, the two-year root of burdock in folk medicine is already unfit. After digging up the roots do not wash, shake off the ground, cut off from the leaves and allow to dry. The next day using a brush to remove the remains of the earth from the roots, cut them into pieces of 10 cm, thick roots cut along the strips. Depending on the weather, dry outdoors or in a dryer with a temperature of about 50 ° C. If the roots are dried correctly, they will break, not bend. Outside, their color is brownish, and inside is light gray. Dried roots of burdock can be used for three years.

The range of diseases in which the burdock root helps is incredibly wide. People say that this root is a cure for all diseases. Apply burdock root in folk medicine in the form of broths, tinctures, extracts, butter, juice, powder, ointment. It is used, both externally and inward.

Tinctures are prepared on water, alcohol, oil. There is a hot and cold way of cooking. Cold method - pour shredded raw materials with water at room temperature and insist in closed containers. Hot way - root pour hot liquid and insist for a while in the thermos. Tinctures are drunk or applied externally.

Alcohol tinctures make on vodka or alcohol, keep in the dark enough warm (not below 20 ° C) place. The longer the drug is infused, the more effective it will be. Such tinctures are used, both inward and for rubbing, lotions, compresses.

Decoctions from the root of burdock are cooked on water or in vegetable oil. Raw material is poured in water and boiled for several minutes, then it is cooled, filtered, used externally or inward.

Decoction, infusion and juice of burdock root helps with gastritis, hepatitis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, peptic ulcer diseases, colitis, constipation. Juice heals ulcers, protects the mucous from irritating factors, normalizes the secretion of the stomach. With diseases of the liver and gall bladder, they make and drink burdock tea. To do this, the root (two teaspoons with a slide) is poured into half a liter of cold water, insisted for five hours, then put on fire, boiled for one minute. Filter and drink a glass three times a day.

It has long been used as a burdock root for uterine myoma and uterine bleeding. To reduce the size of fibroids, take the ground root (1 teaspoon) with boiling water (0.5 liters) and insist 10 hours in the thermos bottle. Drink four times a day for half a cup for four weeks. After two weeks, repeat the treatment.

Burdock root, as an antipyretic and anti-inflammatory agent, is used for infectious diseases accompanied by an increase in temperature. With a cold take juice from the root of burdock with honey.

The burdock root is 40 percent insulin. Infusion is taken orally for the treatment of diabetes mellitus. A tablespoon of crushed root is poured a glass of boiled water, half an hour, heated in a water bath, stirring. Cool, filter, add to a glass of boiled water. They drink half a glass warm three times a day.

They use burdock root in folk medicine, as a diuretic for urolithiasis and edema.

Lotions from the broth of burdock are treated with rheumatism, recurrent arthritis, polyarthritis.

Thanks to alkaloids, the burdock root has an antitumor effect and is used in the treatment of cancer.

To treat rheumatism and some skin diseases (eczema), use a decoction of burdock root. For ingestion take a glass of water and a dessert spoonful of root, bring to a boil, insist 20 minutes, cool, take before meals 4 times a day for a tablespoon. For outdoor use, prepare a decoction based on 5 tablespoons of root per bucket of water. The broth is cooled to a warm state, the sheet is lowered into it, slightly squeezed out and tightly wraps the patient so that the sheet is laid between the legs. At the top of the patient wrapped in a dry sheet and a wool blanket, leave for two hours. Such treatment should be applied at night once a day.

The burdock root is used, the tincture of which is applied externally and inward, for the treatment of eczema, dermatitis, neurodermatitis, itchy skin. With furunculosis, the broth is taken orally, as a blood cleanser. To do this, put a tablespoon of ground raw material in a half-liter of water, boil for 10 minutes, insist for an hour, filter and drink a quarter cup four times a day.

If the root of the mug to insist on vegetable oil, it turns out the most burdock oil, which is known to everyone as a reliable remedy for dandruff and to strengthen the roots of hair. Burdock oil heals well purulent wounds and burns.

Burdock root is used for alcohol intoxication, hangover, bites of poisonous insects and snakes.

Decoctions and tinctures of burdock root are used as a fortifying and metabolizing agent.