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Useful properties and applications watch


Watch – this plant is related to shifts, it grows for many years. The rhizome of the plant long, thick, and friable, and in places where the leaves have fallen, there are sharp scars. Each shoot apex of the rhizome appear from three to five stalks, on which rosettes of leaves. Long leaves with a vagina, a very large size. Collected in an oblong brush pale pink flowers have fused petals which are ciliate on the inside. Watch the fruit is a spherical capsule with large seeds. Seeds plants – elliptical shape, shrinking from two sides.

Watch the flowering lasts from may to mid-June, and ripening occurs from July to August. Watch vegetatively propagated by seeds and rhizomes.

This plant can be seen almost throughout the European part of the CIS. Also watch widespread in Eastern Siberia and the far East.

Watch it grows on soils which contain much peat, namely the swamps, lakes, on the banks of ditches and rivers.

Will tell you about the legend that is associated with the watch. Long ago on the banks of the great river, there lived a Queen. The Queen had a daughter, whom she disliked from the first day. Ruined the wicked stepmother his stepdaughter. But the girl died and became a mermaid. Girl-mermaid-I miss my friends, the forest gnomes, with whom she talked when she lived with her stepmother. The sorcerer – Queen of the sea – ordered Vahki (the so-called step-daughter) that she never heard from their friends the mermaids, but she did not listen, and one day ran into the ground, trying to visit his friends gnomes.

Due to the fact that Wakka disobeyed, sea Queen forbade her to appear in the underwater Kingdom. The Queen gave a mandate to Woke be "on watch" at the gates of the underwater Kingdom. The little mermaid cried every day and every night, bitter tears, she berated herself for disobeying the mistress of the sea. And one mermaid became a beautiful plant: instead of legs she had roots, instead of hand – sheets, and the place of the head blossomed with beautiful pink and white flowers. Due to the fact that the mermaid was crying a lot, the plant became bitter. Here and there was plant watch.


Procurement watch

For therapeutic purposes, use the leaves to watch. Leaves grow after the plant itself will wither away, that is why the leaves are harvested after flowering (July-August). Already developed leaves should be cut with a small petiole. It is impossible to collect apical and young leaves because the drying process they turn black. The collection of watches be careful not to pull out the whole plant by the roots, otherwise will be left without plants.

Dried leaves need fresh air, but in a dark place, and finally the raw materials are dried in a dryer with a temperature of 50 degrees Celsius. If the raw materials are dried in this method, the dried leaves are a beautiful green color.

During the drying of the leaves should turn. Signs dried leaves are: the remains of the petioles and main veins when bending should be easy to break (not bend). The dried leaves can be stored for two years.


Therapeutic properties watch

Bitterness contained in the watch is the most active biological compounds. Bitterness refer to bitter substances. When hit in the mouth bitterness irritate the taste buds of the mucous membranes of the mouth and tongue, thus they increase the secretion glands of the gastrointestinal tract, increase appetite and improve digestion.

Preparations of watches have anti-inflammatory and relaxing action. In addition, the watch is a tool that can improve the peristalsis of the stomach, promotes secretion of bile. Also experts say that fresh leaves and crushed dry to help heal wounds on the human body.

The use of watches in medicine

In folk medicine used rhizomes and leaves of the watch. The rhizome is used for preparation of drugs in the treatment of chronic gastroenteritis, colds, tuberculosis of the lungs and hyposecretive stomach.

The infusion made from the leaves of the watch, used as a means of increasing appetite, gastritis, constipation and flatulence. Leaves are added to choleretic teas, liqueurs, laxative and sedative fees. Also the plant used to treat liver diseases, hypotenuse gastritis , malaria, scurvy, and migraines.

The watch can be applied externally – for example, it can help to get rid of acne on the face.

Infusion of leaves of the watch. Taken 10 grams of leaves watch, you need to pour a glass of boiling water and put in a water bath for a quarter of an hour. After 45 minutes of cooling, the infusion should drain, and squeeze out the remnants. The volume obtained should be diluted with boiled water to 200 ml. Take this medicine is recommended three times a day for 70-100 ml. the drug should be undertaken half an hour before a meal. The adopted infusion will stimulate the appetite. And in the case of chronic constipation, this infusion is used before bedtime asmicroclysters. Before you make mikroklizmy, you need to dilute 20 ml of infusion of 40 ml of boiled water.

A decoction of the leaves of the watch. Take 1 tablespoon of crushed leaves, pour a glass of boiling water and put in a water bath for 15 minutes. Infused within two hours, the broth should drain. Every day 3 times before meals take 1 tablespoon of this medicine.

Tincture of leaves of the watch. To prepare a tincture could be anyone, so how is it easy. So, take 10 grams of crushed leaves and watch them fill it with 50 ml of alcohol. This liquid leave to infuse for 3 weeks. Strain the tincture, take daily 10–15 drops 3 times as cholagogue.

Watch tincture on vodka. For its preparation you need to take 100 grams of fresh leaves, pour a one liter of vodka. Insisting 2 weeks, strain the tincture. Take this remedy for bouts of fever or malaria. After drinking 100 ml of tincture, you need to go to bed and bundle up with a blanket. Specialists of traditional medicine is very recommend taking this medicine. After three techniques of tincture of seizures can be forgotten.


Contraindications to the use of the watch

To date, the drugs of the watch can make anyone as contraindications and side effects are still not identified.