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Useful properties and applications crybaby loosestrife


Useful properties crybaby

The chemical composition of the grass crybaby present phenolcarbonate acids, tannins, volatile oil, resin, flavonoids, vitamins, there are traces of alkaloids. The roots contain saponins in flowers – anthocyanins. To use the herb for medicinal purposes harvested leaves, flowers and roots. The collection of aboveground plant parts is carried out before flowering, it is desirable to dig roots in the fall. The raw material is collected and dried in a well ventilated area, keep it in a dark dry place not more than a year.

Plakun-grass – excellent bee plant, attracting many bees and butterflies in July with its bright beautiful colors. The honey collected from this herb are very aromatic, have a slightly tart taste and rich color.


Application crybaby

The plant is widely used in folk medicine as a hemostatic, anti-inflammatory and tonic. The infusion of the flowers is recommended as an astringent in diarrhea and dysentery. Decoctions and infusions of leaves is good for epilepsy, nervous disorders, rheumatism, catarrh of the stomach and intestines, hemorrhoids. Dry whole plant can be used in insomnia. Treatment Plakun-grass gives a positive result for uterine bleeding, gastritis, enteritis, colds.

The plant also effectively helps in cardiovascular diseases and some skin (eczema, dermatitis). To ensure quick and painless healing of wounds, a paste of fresh herbs should be applied to the affected area. For painful fever and General weakness of the body, will be beneficial herbal tea.

One of the most important medicinal properties crybaby is that the herb effectively prevents swelling of the brain by the bite of encephalitic mite.

Crybaby infusion: for infusion you need 10 g of dry grass pour 250 ml of boiling water for four hours, then strain through a very fine sieve. To improve the overall condition of the body it is recommended to drink the infusion 3 times a day 25 mg.

Flower crybaby

Plakun-grass is famous for its beauty. Overgrown plants in natural conditions and in the flower beds look extremely beautiful. Directhigh, the stem densely dotted with purple or pink flowers, gathered in a decorative pyramidal inflorescences. Flowering plant from June to the end of September.

Flowers crybaby widely used in folk medicine. They contain tannin, pectin, carotene and other bioactive compounds. Tea of the flowers helps with headaches, decoctions and infusions with their Addendum used for ulcers of the stomach and intestines. Once the flowers were in demand in cooking as a food coloring.


Plakun loosestrife

It is a perennial herb with straight, dark green stem reaches a height of 100 cm Leaves he leaves opposite, oblong-pointed shape. Beautiful small flowers are collected in dense spike-like panicle. Fruits – oblong double boxes. Plakun loosestrife blooms in June-August. This plant is widely distributed almost throughout the European part of Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Its preparations are widely used in folk medicine.

Plakun UALITY has a tonic, tonic, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, analgesic, astringent and hemostatic properties. Decoctions and infusions from it helps with chronic colitis and enterocolitis, various bleeding, nervous diseases, epilepsy, fever. Externally they are used for nervousness, varicose veins and venereal diseases. In ancient times it was believed that this herb is an antidote in snake bites and rabid animals.


Contraindications crybaby

Plakun is non-toxic. It is contraindicated to take drugs only when high blood coagulability and tendency to thrombosis. Also should be careful in using this herb for people suffering from gastrointestinal diseases, especially with atonic constipation. Drugs from the plants are able to narrow the blood vessels, so high blood pressure when they are used, should closely monitor the pressure. Undesirable use of decoctions and infusions for pregnant and lactating women.