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Bay leaves in folk medicine

What is Bay leaf

Bay leaf - all of us are well known spice which gives the dish a sickly-sweet smell and bitter taste. Add a Bay leaf when cooking roasted meats, soups, jellied fish, sauces, and also for marinating and pickling. The best are the combination of Bay leaves with cabbage, beets, pickles and beans.

Leaves seasonings – dried leaves of Laurus Nobilis, go on sale the fresh twigs with leaves. Laurel is an evergreen tree, height up to 15 metres, native of the Mediterranean, now cultivated also in the South-West of the Krasnodar territory and the Caucasus. Laurel is grown as an ornamental plant. Laurel leaves are elliptical, dark green, the lower side of the color a little lighter, a length 20 and a width up to 4 inches. The flowers are small, yellowish, gathered in multiple inflorescences in the axils of leaves, in October and November ripe fruits (drupe) with a length of up to 2 inches, ovate, dark blue. Leaf collection starts in the fourth year of growing plants, after the onset of the fruiting phase.

Since ancient times, a Laurel represents success, glory, victory and glory. Woven of sprigs of Laurel wreaths awarded to the winners. The word "laureate"means"crowned with laurels".


The use of Bay leaf in medicine

For medical purposes use the leaves, fruits and oil Bay. Due to the high content of essential oils, tannins, bitterness, organic acids Laurel leaves are widely used in folk medicine to increase appetite, improve digestion, treat liver diseases, gastrointestinal tract, joints and as a diuretic. The high content of volatile allows the use of Laurel to enhance immunity and in the prevention of tuberculosis. Oil extracts are used externally in the treatment of rheumatism, paralysis and cold.

For therapeutic purposes you must use only high-quality materials, the leaves should be olive green with a strong aroma. Before use, the leaves should sort and rinse in cold water. Bay leaf cannot be stored more than a year, it loses flavor and becomes bitter.


The use of Bay leaf in folk medicine

Widely used Bay leaf in folk medicine, a number of diseases. Below are the recipes from the Bay leaf:

Arthritis and pain in the joints, to clean the joints, remove salts and impurities. 5 grams of leaves (half a pack of Bay leaf) pour into an enamel pan and boil on a slow fire in 300 milliliters of water for 5 minutes. Carefully wrap or pour into a thermos and leave for 3-5 hours. The resulting liquid, strain and drink in small SIPS throughout the day. Prepare fresh decoction and drink it should be 3 days, repeat in a week. In the first year of the course take place once a quarter, then once a year. During the procedures, you must consume only vegetarian foods and eliminate alcohol. When taken may be a temporary worsening of the pain. This decoction as a preventive agent, improves the General condition of the body.

Spastic pain. 5 g of crushed leaves pour into a thermos and pour 300 ml of boiling water, to insist 3 hours, drain. Drink the infusion for 12 hours in small SIPS. Apply the specified prescription 2 day.

Diabetes. 10 leaves pour into a thermos and pour 3 cups of boiling water, to insist 2-3 hours, drink the infusion prepared with half Cup 30 minutes before meals 3 times a day. Every two weeks to make a break for two weeks. After two weeks of use, with the normalization of carbohydrate metabolism, sugar needs to become the norm.

Renal failure. 1 teaspoon of crushed leaves boiled in two cups of water on high heat, to insist 2 hours, drink 1 tablespoon 2 times a day.

Psoriasis. 10 large leaves pour into a thermos and pour half a liter of boiling water, to insist 2 hours, strain. The prepared infusion to drink half of the glass 20 minutes before eating 3 times a day.

Discharge from the ear. 2 tablespoons of crushed leaves pour 200 ml of boiling water, to insist 1-2 hours. Infusion is used for the instillation 3 times a day or 1 time at night (ear hole after the procedure to close a cotton swab).

Barley. 3 large leaves brew 1 Cup of boiling water in a teapot or mug infuser. To drink as tea, a little before it gets cold. Do it every hour, replacing the plates with new ones. Just need to drink during the day, 6-7 cups. During the night the barley is ripe, and in the morning it will not.

Sinusitis.10 leaves pour 1 liter of water, put on fire, boil on low heat for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat. Breathe in the steam for 5 minutes, covering your head with a towel. If necessary, repeat the procedure. After the procedure will begin to withdraw the pus.

diseases of the joints, cramps, paralysis, bedsores. 30 g of crushed leaves pour 200 g of linseed (sunflower) oil, to insist in heat 7-10 days (or heat 1 hour in a water bath), strain. To be rubbed externally.

Stomatitis. Chew fresh Bay leaf.

Bee stings. Rto atrevete fresh leaf of Laurel, applied to the bite site and bandage.

Applying infusions of Bay leaf, control the response of your body. Having astringent properties, Bay leaf contributes to constipation. Persons who have a tendency to their appearance with the use of infusions, you need to consume prunes, beets, or reduce the amount of alcohol infusion.


Contraindications Bay leaf

Contraindications to the use of Bay leaf is pregnancy, glomerulonephritis (acute or chronic renal failure), bleeding tendency, amyloidosis (violation of protein metabolism). When using recipes don't forget to consult with your doctor.