Celandine - general description
Celandine - herbaceous perennial plant of the poppy family. The stem of the plant is straight, branched. It can reach a height of half a meter to a meter. Milky juice acts on the fracture of the plant, which immediately under the influence of air turns orange-yellow.
Celandine leaves consist of three or five pairs of oval or rounded lobes. The upper dale is larger than the rest and is usually three-lobed. The color of the leaves is green above and bluish on the bottom surface.
The plant blooms from May to August. Celandine flowers are golden yellow. Each of them has four centimeter petals. Celandine has no nectaries, but insects love this plant, because it has a large amount of pollen. The fruit of the plant is the pod. It contains black shiny seeds that are very attractive to ants. Ants and carry them, moving to new territories.
Mention of the healing properties of celandine dates back to 372 g BC. Even the scientist of Ancient Greece, Theophrastus prescribed it for various diseases.
Medical properties of the plant are used everywhere, but, along with this, celandine is also used as an insecticidal preparation that protects garden and garden plants from various kinds of pests. Effective celandine against aphids, scale insects, and tinkers.
Celandine - types and places of growth
The only species of this genus is the large celandine - a medicinal plant.
The birthplace of celandine is Europe, as well as Central and Northern parts of Asia. In North America, where the plant is now also found, it was introduced. In Russia, celandine is ubiquitous, except in the Far North. The plant grows like a weed. It can be found in gardens, against stone walls, on rocky slopes, on the edges of the forest.
Celandine - healing properties
Traditional healers use celandine for various skin diseases. Moreover, he is appointed both inside and out. With it, poorly healing wounds are healed, corns are removed, scabies are cured and tumors are prevented. Since the celandine has a urinary and choleretic, antitumor, analgesic, anti-inflammatory effect, it is prescribed for the following diseases: hepatitis, cholangitis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, ulcer and polyposis of the stomach, ulcerative colitis. Proper intake of celandine has a positive effect on the nervous system.
Celandine - dosage forms
Harvest celandine grass. They begin to collect it when the celandine begins to bloom. This happens in May-June. Since the plant is poisonous, tearing it off, safety precautions should be observed: you can not rub your face and eyes with your hands while working with celandine. At the end of the collection, wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water.
It can dry the collected grass under a canopy if there is good ventilation. The grass must be spread out in a thin layer and turned over several times during drying. If it is possible to use a dryer, then the optimum temperature for drying the celandine is 50-60 ° C. The collected raw materials are stored for no more than three years.
In homeopathy, the roots of celandine are used. Of them make tincture. Use fresh celandine juice. For information on warts, for example.
On the basis of dry grass, celandine make infusions, ointments, decoctions.
Celandine - recipes
Wounds and bruises are healed with celandine. For lotion, you should take one tablespoon of celandine, pour boiling water and insist for an hour. Dip a clean tissue into the resulting infusion and attach it to the affected area for a quarter of an hour.
Liver diseases can be cured by the infusion of celandine, which should be prepared from one teaspoon of celandine. The raw material is poured with one glass of boiling water, it is insisted and filtered for an hour. Before meals, take a tablespoon of infusion. No more than 5 times a day!
Gargling with infusion of herbs, which include celandine, can relieve gum disease and help with flux. For treatment, you need to take 2 tsp. celandine, 1 tsp sage and half a teaspoon of oak bark. A glass of boiling water requires 1 tbsp of the mixture. Insist for an hour. Rinse with warm infusion.
On the basis of celandine, an ointment is made that helps well with skin diseases. To prepare the drug, it is necessary to mix dry celandine powder with equal proportions with ghee and heat. The cooled ointment is ready for use. Lubricate it with sore spots. Store ointment in the refrigerator.
Celandine - contraindications
As soon as celandine was used by people for medical purposes, it was experimentally discovered that this plant is very poisonous. If it is taken incorrectly, inflate the dose recommended for use, they can be poisoned very much. Even death is possible.
Symptoms of poisoning can be nausea, cramps, depression of the nervous system, decreased pressure and slow heart rate. First aid is gastric lavage, as well as the introduction of the maximum allowable dose of fluid into the patient’s blood. However, self-medication with celandine can end tragically. Typically, celandine is not prescribed in pure form. It is safer to use it in combination with other medicinal herbs.
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