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Useful properties and applications of herbs of meadowsweet


Useful properties of meadowsweet

The leaves of meadowsweet is ascorbic acid, in the flowers contain essential oil. The oil consists mainly of methyl salicylate, and yellow colorant. In addition, the members of the plant include vanillin, volatile, glycoside serein. In the rhizome found tannins pyrocatechol group, the stems of the substance pyrogallol group. For therapeutic purposes, use the rhizome and roots of plants, harvesting them in the fall or early spring prior to regrowth.

Dig up grass with a shovel, clear of the ground, cut the aerial parts and wash in cold water. The roots are dried under the iron roof or in a well ventilated area, laying a thin layer on paper or cloth. Store material in a well ventilated dry place in Packed form. Shelf life is 3 years.


The use of meadowsweet

Preparations from the plant are a good anti-rheumatic and analgesic agent. At the same time, they provide effective antibacterial, diuretic, analgesic, sedative, wound healing, hemostatic, anti-inflammatory and anthelmintic action. They increase the liver's ability to disinfect and excrete toxic metabolic products.

From the plant, prepare all kinds of decoctions, ointments, tinctures. Decoction is prescribed for dysentery, epilepsy, inflammatory diseases of the kidney and urinary tract diseases, nervous disorders and hypertension. Decoctions of the roots and flowers are used as Anthelmintics. To treat eczema, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer are recommended infusions of the flowers. Preparations from the flowers and leaves is used in chronic cholecystitis and diseases of the upper respiratory tract.


Tincture of meadowsweet

The infusion is used to treat wounds, burns, trophic ulcers of the lower extremities. It is effective for hormonal disorders and many women's diseases. The drug helps with psoriasis, the tints of different etiology, cancer of different localization (bladder, kidneys, uterus, ovaries). This drug reduces the level of sugar in the blood, which is vital for diabetics. For the manufacture of tincture of the dried herb is poured vodka or alcohol in a ratio of 1:3 and insist not less than five days.


RootFilipendula

In folk medicine, the root of the plant is used in diseases of the heart, pains in the joints, hypertension, skin diseases. The preparations used for wound healing and cessation of bleeding. The roots are used in treatment of oncological diseases and diseases of the joints.

A decoction four tablespoons of crushed dried roots, pour 1 liter of water, boil in a water bath for 1 hour, then cool and strain. Make the tool recommended 50 ml 4 times a day. Keep the medication you need in the fridge.


The flowers of meadowsweet

The flowers of the plant are small, clustered in corymbose-paniculate inflorescences, usually yellow-white, pinkish, sometimes red. They attract bees as source of pollen, not nectar. Meadowsweet blooms from June to August. From the flowers prepare the tea, well help with colds and arthritis. It is very tasty even without sugar. The tea is useful to drink in disorders of metabolism and in the diet. Also, this drink is useful for the prevention of epileptic seizures.

The infusion of the flowers is an effective remedy, recommended in the period of disease acute respiratory infections and the flu. In addition, the flowers have antipyretic action. You can recover in one day, if you start treatment at the first symptoms of the disease.

Varieties Filipendula

The plant has about 20 varieties, and half of them grow on the territory of the former USSR. This is mainly moisture-loving plants are quite hardy and do not require special training and shelter for the winter. Meadowsweet is propagated vegetatively and by seeds. The plant prefers loamy, fertile soil. During landing it is not necessary to moisten the soil: copious irrigation is mainly required in the summer. All kinds of plants especially look good in large groups on the background lawn.

Meadowsweet. The plant is widespread in the European part of Russia, Siberia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Asia Minor, Western Europe. It grows in grassy swamps, on the banks of rivers and lakes, sometimes among shrubs.

The substances contained in the plant, normalizes the processes of excitation and inhibition of the cerebral cortex. Inflorescences are used as a diaphoretic and antipyretic, since there is a substance resembling in its effect the aspirin. The flowers are diuretic, and the drugs are prescribed forurolithiasis and kidney disease.

Once the decoctions from the flowers of meadowsweet were taken inside through the bites of snakes, today they are used for poisoning with ethanol, they relieve the symptoms of a hangover.

Meadowsweet red. In nature the plant is found in Eastern North America, native to it is also from the USA. This powerful herbaceous perennial to 2.5 m forming large groups. The stems of the plants are large, durable, have a reddish color. Dense paniculate inflorescences are composed of small pink flowers, emitting a pleasant smell. The plant prefers light and moist soil. If a strong shade it may stop flowering. This kind of decorative by bright crimson fruits, which do not fall until late autumn. The plant tolerates even the 35-degree cold.

Meadowsweet ordinary. The plant has showy, pinnately dissected leaves, round beautiful buds white color. Luxurious blossoms rich in honey and are composed of many small flowers. The best soil for Filipendula vulgaris is rich in organic matter, but it can grow in any garden soil. It is important that meadowsweet can tolerate the cold and it does not need to be covered for winter. Due to the compactness and beauty of this type is usually grown in the flower beds.

Meadowsweet six-petalled. This mnogoletnee herbaceous plant height of 80-170 cm, with a simple naked stem, down leafy. Thin rhizome has an elongated tuberous thickening. Pinnately lobed ovate leaves top-green, bottom – white. The flowers are small, with six petals, white or pink colors give off a honey smell. Blossoms in may-June. It prefers moist soil, it grows among bushes, on glades and meadows.

Medicinally used aerial part, also the root and rhizome. In scientific medicine the plant is known as a diaphoretic, astringent and diuretic. In folk medicine used as hemorrhoid and astringent.


Contraindications to the use of Filipendula

The plant has low toxicity, however it should not be used for people suffering from chronic constipation, poor blood clotting and prone to hypotension. Also contraindications to the use of preparations from Filipendula is pregnancy. Before you begin using medicines based on plants should consult a doctor.