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Useful properties, application and treatment of the camel's thorn


Description camel thorn

Camel thorn is a low shrub, the stem which is branched and spiny. It may seem strange, but this plant belongs to the legume family. Powerful root camel thorn is deep in the soil, root length can be up to 45 meters, so the roots reach the groundwater.

The stems are covered with many small spines, glabrous and green. In the form of spines are modified axillary shoots.

Simple, whole leaves of the plant are awl-shaped stipules. The leaves are petiolate at the base of the stems and thorns. Top thorns of the plant are thin, herbaceous, but the spines on the bottom are very strong and short.

The thorns on the stalks and you can see beautiful pink or red flowers, collected 5-8 pieces. The camel thorn flowering lasts from may to the end of the summer.

The fruits of the plants are beans, consisting of 4-5 reniform seeds. Seed ripening begins in July.


Habitat camel thorn

Camel thorn can be found in deserts and semi-deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, Asia and Africa. A thorn grows in the South of Russia, the Caucasus and Kazakhstan.

For camel thorn is great gravelly and clayey semi-desert or desert. This shrub grows in dry grasslands, on the banks of rivers and canals, vacant lots and in the sand.

Will not be surprising that the camel thorn is grown in a location that is not exposed to winds, very Sunny and very warm. The soil for growing camel thorn needs to be drained and sandy. To propagate this plant by seeds or cuttings.


The beneficial properties of camel thorn trees

The roots of the plant contain vitamin C, tannins, alkaloids and coumarins. The leaves contain organic acids, rubber, essential oils, catechins and flavonoids.

A decoction of the camel thorn has anti-inflammatory, astringent, antipyretic and diuretic effect. Infusion and decoction help in dysentery and hemorrhoids, with laxative and diuretic properties. Infusion can also be used for bathing in the washing of wounds.

Sore throat, purulent otitis media, cervical erosion and eczema can also be cured if you apply the infusion or decoction of camel thorns.

Camel thorn emit an amazing substance – manna. Mann (substitute for sugar) is a tool that is laxative, diuretic and antipyretic.

Honey from camel thorn

This light yellow or light honey smell, but the taste of it is pleasant. This honey soon turns into a crystals.

Honey of camel thorn contains a variety of trace elements, organic acids and vitamins. Taking this honey, people will protect themselves from the action of the dysentery Bacillus and streptococci. This honey doctors recommend in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, as it displays the body of excess salts and toxins.

If you drink tea with this honey, then fatigue as a hand lift. Colds can also be cured by taking this med.


Treatment camel's thorn

For therapeutic purposes, used grass plants, and sometimes fruits and roots. Decoction, infusion and a fresh juice camel thorn is used as a diuretic astringent or cough with a cold.

A decoction of the roots of camel thorn trees. To make it, take 2 teaspoons of roots, pre-crushed, and pour them a glass of boiling water. Put the part on fire for 7 minutes. Insisting in a dark room for 30 minutes, the broth cools. All this liquid must be drunk at one time in the morning on an empty stomach. The broth has a laxative effect.

Decoction of herbs camel thorn bath. Take 4 tablespoons of the grass plant, pour in 500 ml of boiling water and steep for two hours, then strain the finished tool. Take the decoction in the form of baths for cervical erosion, the presence of wounds, purulent otitis media, and hemorrhoids.

A decoction of the camel thorn in dropsy. Flooded with 250 ml of boiling water 20 grams of the roots of the plants need to heat on low heat for 25 minutes. Then remove the composition from the heat and allow to infuse for half an hour. Strain the broth, you must use gauze. To take the medicine every day half an hour before meal – 4 tablespoons three times a day.

Infusion of camel thorn trees. 250 ml of boiling water to pour 1 teaspoon crushed roots of the plant and leave to infuse for one third hour. Of course, don't forget to drain! Use this infusion to gargle with pain, and feverish heat.

Contraindications to the use of camel thorn trees

Stillprofessionals contraindications to the use of this plant have not been identified.