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Medicinal properties and application recipes cornflower


This plant with a height greater than 60 cm with a branched and straight stem. The root system is very developed cornflower. The leaves of the plant are linear-lanceolate, upstairs – downstairs – lobed. Beautiful blue or blue baskets of flowers in diameter reaches not more than 3 cm Flowers inside the baskets, blue-violet color, they produce fruit. Flowers on the edge of the barren and the color is a bit lighter interior.

Fruits cornflower achene grayish-yellow color, very smooth. The achenes have a Pappus red. Vasilej blue begins flowering in may, flowering lasts until the last days of autumn, the appearance of the fruit occurs in late summer.

Cornflower reproduction occurs by seed.

Blue cornflower is found in Europe, in some places of Central Asia, Siberia and the Caucasus. In fact knapweed is a weed, but it is grown for decorative purposes. It can be seen in the crops of rye, on the side of roads, in dry meadows.


The healing properties of cornflower

Marginal flowers of cornflower contain glycosides, flavonoids, vitamins, tannins, mineral salts, pigments and alkaloids.

Preparations made from cornflower blue, to possess diaphoretic, antipyretic, diuretic and antimicrobial properties. In addition, the cornflower has choleretic effect. The plant relaxes, heals wounds, relieve. And cornflower is a means of relieving the spasm of smooth muscles of internal organs, improving digestion and stimulating the appetite.


Picking and harvesting cornflower

For therapeutic purposes collect marginal flowers of cornflower. The collection should be made as follows: first we need to collect a basket of flowers, after hand plucking the outer flowers. Plucked and laid out on the paper flowers you need to ventilate in a dark place. If the flowers were dried properly, they will be blue in color, odorless, taste them to be bitter. The dried flowers of cornflower stored in glass jars for two years.

If the drying process for raw materials has caught the sun's rays, the flowers will not only change its color from blue to white, but will be without its therapeutic properties. In this case, just throw away these flowers, as they are no help.

Cornflower in medicine

Cornflower is used in cough, cold,swelling of the heart and kidneys, cystitis, nephritis and urethritis. Also, the plant is a tool that improves digestion. Cornflower is used for lotions for eye diseases, skin diseases, blindness.

Jaundice, intestinal worms, fever, colic, gout is another list of ailments that can be cured with the help of cornflower. In folk medicine the plant is used for headaches, for blood purification. And cornflower is used for the preparation of herbal infusions and teas.

Infusion of plants used as anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial remedy for conjunctivitis, night blindness and blepharitis.

Cornflower infusion for washing. For its production need to take 1 teaspoon of flowers of cornflower, which should pour 200 ml of boiling water. Leave the composition for 1 hour to infuse. Strain the finished infusion, it take 50 ml 3-4 times a day 20 minutes before meals.

Cornflower infusion for colds. Take 2 teaspoons of dried herb and brew it a Cup of boiling water. Leave to infuse for 2 hours. To take this infusion is necessary before a meal (20 minutes) 3-4 times daily.

Laxative of cornflower. For its preparation you need to take 2 teaspoons of dry roots of the plant and pour 200 ml of boiling water, infuse for two hours and strain. Take the medicine 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day 15 minutes before meals.

Infusion of flowers. You need 10 flowers pour 200 ml of boiling water, to insist, cool and definitely strain. Take this medication need three times a day between meals in 70 ml.

Infusion hair. Take 1 tablespoon of flowers pour 500 ml of the mixture of vinegar with boiling water (in a ratio of one to one). Leave to infuse for half an hour. Keep the composition in a dark room. This infusion helps to restore and strengthen the hair. It should be rubbed twice a day into the hair roots. Before bed, rinse your hair with plain water.

Herbal. Take flowers of cornflower, berries of the black chokeberry, herb yarrow, leaves, mistletoe, Valerian root, fruit of hawthorn and horsetail herb – all of these ingredients for 15 grams. Next, take 1 tablespoon of cooked and her collection pour 200 ml boiling water, leave to infuse for half an hour. The resulting tool, do not forget to drain. To adopt such a collection is recommended when hypertension 70 mg after a meal.

Cornflower for lotions. You need to fill with 1 teaspoon of flowers of plants two cups of boiling water. Cool composition and filtered. Patients with conjunctivitis are advised to make lotions6-8 times every day.

A lotion made from cornflower. Add 50 grams of fresh flowers of cornflower of 500 ml of boiling water. Leave to infuse for 1 hour, then strain. This lotion can be supplied for storage in the refrigerator. This means wipe your face people with oily skin. In day it is necessary to wipe this lotion face 1 time.


Contraindications to the use of cornflower

Given the fact that the cornflower there are active connections, which include a heap leach facility components, it should only be applied subject to receipt of advice from the doctor.

Be careful!