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Useful properties and applications of root and tincture Hedysarum


Useful properties of Hedysarum

The healing properties of Hedysarum due to its unique composition. In the plant contains the xanthones (1 %), tannins, flavonoids, polysaccharides, vitamin a, phytoestrogens, pectin and starch. Flavonoids, namely catechins, excrete harmful substances and heavy metals, strengthen and restore the walls of capillaries, neutralize free radicals. This explains the wide use of Hedysarum for the treatment of tumors, leukemia, prostate, fibroids, neurological and cardiovascular pathologies.

There is also the ability of the drugs on the basis of Hedysarum to increase the production and activity of macrophages, allowing the human body to actively repel the attacks of pathogenic organisms and do not respond to stress. Medicines from this plant also have tonic and immunomodulatory ability.

In addition, kopeechnik naturally accumulates selenium is such an important trace element, without which the hematopoietic system can not function normally. In the medical purposes use the roots of a plant and its aerial part.


The use of Hedysarum

Traditional medicine of China and Tibet uses the infusions and decoctions of this herb for the prevention and treatment of catarrhal diseases of viral etiology, chronic lung disease, atherosclerosis and herpes. Siberian healers use the herb for cancer, anaemia, diseases of the urogenital system and also as a tonic and a stimulant.

There is information about the possibility of treatment with Hedysarum hidden infections – Ureaplasma, Mycoplasma, chlamydia. According to VILAR, they are able to stimulate sexual activity, due to the presence in the herbs phytoestrogens. However, improper use of drugs is potency possible to get diseases of the kidneys, liver and joints.

Infusion of root: 25 g of dry roots rinse and pour a liter of boiling water. Infuse the mixture should be at least one hour in a thermos. It should be drunk as a tea, 1/3 Cup 3 times a day, with milk and honey. This infusion helps the body cope with many cold-related infectious diseases (flu, sinusitis andetc.).


The root of Hedysarum tea

The root of this herb is brown, much branched, up to 1.5 meters, he astringent taste. It has always been used in folk medicine as an effective treatment for acute and chronic prostatitis, urethritis, prostate and other urological diseases. The root of Hedysarum tea is a natural non-hormonal stimulant of sexual activity for men, acting gently. It often make tinctures and balms purchasing due to the content of catechins in the root of beautiful pink-red color.

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This perennial herb reaches a height of 1.5 meters, has a thick branched rhizome and numerous erect stems 3-5 mm. thick Inflorescence represented by a long thick racemes, with 20-50 flowers. The fruit, appressed-hairy or glabrous beans. The flowering period of plants July-August, fruits ripen in late August and early September.

In medications used for the aboveground part of the plant, collected during budding and flowering. In the procurement of raw materials cut off stems with leaves at a height of 10-20 cm from the surface of the earth. In medicine preparations of this herb are used as a sedative and expectorant and also as an antiviral – herpes.


Tincture Hedysarum

To prepare tinctures can be used not only plant roots but also his grass.

Recipe 1: fill half-liter jar 1/2 fresh grass and 1/3 of the volume of dry grass, pour the brim with vodka, insist the mixture for at least 10 days in a dark place, then strain. Dosage: 1 teaspoon of tincture diluted in 100 ml of water and drink 3-4 times a day for half an hour before meals. The course of treatment is 1 month. During the year, it is recommended to spend 2-4 of the course.

Recipe 2: put in a jar, 0.5 liter of 50 g of dry powdered roots and to fill their 40-50-degree alcohol. To insist tool should be 8-10 days in a dark place at room temperature, after straining dilute 0,5–1 teaspoon in a Cup of warm herbal tea and drink 2-3 times a day for 0.5 hours before eating. Last appointment of the tincture is recommended at least 3 hours before bedtime, because the root of the plant has a tonic effect. The course of treatment is 1-3 months.


Contraindications to the use of Hedysarum

Preparations of the plant should not be taken if you are hypersensitive, pregnancy and lactation. They prohibited children under 14 years of age and with increased nervous excitability,hypertension III and IV degree, after myocardial infarction.

In the treatment of kopeechnik should strictly observe the dosage, as wrong intake of medicines of this herb can be accompanied by headache, heaviness in region of liver, allergies, nausea and nervousness.