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The cultivation and use of useful properties of cotton


Botanical characteristics of cotton

The cotton plant is a small annual plant with a strong and extensive root system. The stalk is straight, branching towards the top. Upright on inconspicuous stalks are large leaves on long stalks. The whole plant is covered with hairs and dark spots. Flowering cotton in the period beginning with July and ending in September. Flowers plants – large size, yellow color, located on long stalks. In early autumn, place the flowers stems fruits appear. The fruit of the cotton – smooth, spherical capsule. Inside the box is a lot of seeds, which may be oval or egg-shaped. All the seed covered with white hairs.

Cotton grows in Mexico, but cultivated in Russia, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. In Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, cotton is grown for medicinal use.


Cotton production

Cotton – a drought-resistant plant that can't handle frost and low temperatures. This plant requires soil, especially to the content of the right amount of moisture during flowering and ripening. The soil before sowing of cotton clean from weeds, cultivated and fed. Before sowing the seeds of the plant can be dried, can be moistened and planted seeds, cleaned from the surface of the hairs.

It is better to sow cotton seeds in the spring, as the soil is already warm. The frequency and the distance between seeds depends on the variety and layout of plants. The cotton plant needs regular watering and hoeing.

The beneficial properties of cotton

In the cotton plant contain resinous substances, essential oils, organic acids, vitamins and other compounds that are beneficial to the human body. Cotton has antiviral properties. In addition, this plant removes from the blood cholesterol. The cotton used for the prevention of atherosclerosis and its treatment. Preparations of this plant used in skin diseases, tumors, and herpes. Cotton lowers blood pressure.

From the seeds of the plant cooking oil, which is used in ointments and plasters. The bark of the cotton plant possesses hemostatic properties. Cotton recommended for strengthening blood vessels.


Applicationcotton

The cotton used in the treatment of infertility, disorders of the monthly cycle and in toxicosis in pregnant women. This plant is used in shingles, herpes and other viral diseases. People with deficiency of vitamin E is recommended to use cotton in any form. A decoction of cotton plant is useful in cancer of the stomach or in the recovery period after surgery. Cotton is often used as a styptic.

A decoction of the bark of cotton in gastric tumors. Take the bark of cotton and dry it . Now the dry herb should be crushed to powder state. Take 1 teaspoon of the prepared powder and pour 200 ml of boiling water. Everything is put on the fire for 20 minutes. Strain the finished broth of cotton, it is cooled. Take this medicine three times a day for 70 ml for 30-45 days. The same decoction to treat herpes.


Contraindications to the use of cotton

At the moment of contraindications to the use of this plant have not been identified.