Popovic

Useful properties and applications of ordinary Popovica

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Botanical characteristics of Popovica

Popovic is an interesting herbaceous perennial which often grows more than 60 cm in height. It has crenate, obovate or oblong serrate leaves arranged in erect furrowed stem. Single flower baskets white shade is quite large, very similar to ordinary chamomile. Flat receptacle has scales. Small fruit presents the typical oblong ribbed achenes the Pappus.

Popovic kabarettistin has odor and sharp taste. This plant blooms from may to August, the fruits ripen in early September. As a rule, for their growing plant chooses slopes, meadows, forest glades and pine forests, as well as happy to settle along the roads in many regions of Russia.

The beneficial properties of Popovica

Popovic boasts for its anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antispasmodic, healing, diuretic, anthelmintic and insecticidal properties. Since this plant contains inulin and alkaloids, carotene and ascorbic acid, it is widely used in folk medicine.

It should be noted that the seeds Popovica found a large amount of fatty oil. Various infusions and decoctions of plants is indicated for colds, fever, cough, hemorrhoids, tuberculosis of the lungs, some diseases of the eye, incontinence of urine, with migraines, severe gastrointestinal colic, and during suffocation. Flower infusions can be used externally in various cutaneous eruptions, herpes and ulcers.

The use of Popovica

In various women's diseases and stomach ailments used miraculous decoction of the aerial parts of Popovych. To prepare an effective infusion take 2 tea spoon of the herb with flower baskets and fill this raw a full glass of boiling water. After 4 hours of infusion is a remedy recommended a good strain and take 1 tablespoon 4 times a day. It should be noted that such a remarkable effective and convulsions.

Popovich indicated for intestinal disorders, to expel a smallworms and as healing after insect bites. If you connect the grass Popovica with normal butter, it would make an excellent ointment, perfectly restoring the integrity of the skin. The flowers of this plant are an excellent diuretic due to its antispasmodic effects on the body.

A decoction of Popovica also helps calm the nervous system, relieve severe pain gynecological diseases, and also has a mild laxative effect.

Popovic common

Popovic ordinary – this is a gorgeous perennial plant known in the family Asteraceae, which has a straight stem not branched with a maximum height of 85 cm. It has a regular small leaves with coarsely toothed margins. White flowers are located in fairly large single baskets. The fruit is oblong ribbed achene without Pappus.

This plant blooms all three summer months. Reproduction is vegetatively and by seed. Ordinary Popovich chooses loam and sandy loam soils, often with pleasure settles on the forest glades and meadows, preferring fertile and well-drained soils.

Contraindications to the use of Popovica

This harmless plant has absolutely no contraindications.