Rose-flower tea and its medicinal properties (Epilobium)
Fireweed Fireweed - a warm rose-flower tea: heats the air around it and land rescues feeble plants. "Note that Cyprus has always grows next to the young pines. This is their guardian, their protector, their nanny.
Medicinal properties have all the plant. Apply grass (stems, leaves, flowers), and separately - leaves, rhizomes and roots. Grass harvested at flowering in June and July, and the roots - in the spring or fall.
Epilobium, or rose-bay - is a perennial herb up to 2 m thick creeping rhizome and high straight stem. Purple-pink or purple-red flowers collected in a beautiful lush brush sticking pointed candle. The leaves are alternate, lanceolate, dark green, bluish-green below, resemble willow. Fireweed blooms from June to September. Plant barometer opened flowers willow-5 in the morning and close them before the rain.
"Willow-flower grow where once visited a man" (the popular belief). On dry sandy areas, forest edges, heat burns, clearings, where the rays of the hot sun is not growing any other herb, flaunt high thickets of willow-herb or fireweed angustifolium. It is best to spread naturally, giving the mass of Samos and inhabiting forest logging and fires.
Willow-herb tea or willow-herb is a premium honey plant and eagerly visited by bees. Longhaired small seeds are very light, equipped with a feather and freely dispersed by wind over long distances. Fruit - box gives fluff.
Willow-herb can be considered wild edible plants, it give us a salad, soup - soup, bread and cereal, tea, coffee. Roots, rhizomes and leaves of willow-edible. Young root sprouts and shoots of willow-herb drink boiled like asparagus and a cabbage. Sweet roots are eaten raw and cooked. From roasted roots prepared coffee drink. Autumn willow-roots collected, washed, dried, well-ventilated, and is ground into flour. It is used for dairy sugary cereal, bake bread, pancakes, tortillas. Leaves and shoots in spring prepare vitamin salad. In the Caucasus, from the rhizomes do the flour, baking cakes. This is an outstanding honey plant. The seeds of willow-herb contains up to 45% of edible oil.
Epilobium lives up to its name. Leaves, flowers, buds, brewed tea instead. They are gathered in store: dried in the shade with ventilation. 1 teaspoon of dried leaves and buds brew two cups of boiling water. Boil for 5 minutes. In the distant past of fireweed angustifolia prepared tea substitute, called Koporskiji TEA. It is assumed that hence the name of the plant. This is the name he has earned the revolution, as in the village of St. Petersburg Province hood of his prepared kaporsky tea. Kaporsky tea differs delicate aroma, taste unique and has healing properties.
Epilobium has emollient, wound healing, laxative and sedative effect. Infusions and decoctions angustifolium fireweed astringent, hemostatic, inflammatory properties, calm the nervous system, stimulates the activity of the heart. In the form of this is used for headache and insomnia, as anti-inflammatory agent for peptic ulcer and duodenal ulcers, gastritis, colitis. Useful in diseases of the stomach, intestines, stomatitis, tonsillitis, dermatitis, sunburn.
Outwardly infusion is indicated for the washing of wounds, sores, bruises, joint pain. Freshly prepared paste of flowers and leaves are applied to wounds and abscesses, and powder of the dried leaves sprinkled them.
In Tibetan medicine Epilobium known as an anesthetic (with headache) and soporific. Also used to treat infertility. In folk medicine, the Slavs willow-herb has long been used as an effective anti-inflammatory, wound healing, enveloping means. Can be used to treat stomach ulcers and gastritis, is part of a soothing tea.
Infusion: 15 grams of dried leaves and flowers of sugar and 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 1 hour, drain. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times before meals. 1 tbsp rhizomes and roots, pour 1 cup of boiled water, 45 minutes, filter. Take 1 tbsp 3 times a day before meals. Broth: 10 grams of dried leaves and flowers of sugar and 1 cup of boiling water, boil for 15 minutes on low heat, take 1 tbsp 3 times a day before meals.
In the form of this is used for headache and insomnia: 1 tbsp rhizomes and roots of fireweed pour 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 45 minutes, then strain, take 1 tbsp 3 times a day before meals. Atherosclerosis: 2 tbsp herb Epilobium pour 1 cup boiling water, boil for 15 minutes, cool, strain. Take 1 tbsp 3 times a day.
Infusion: 1 tablespoon herb Epilobium pour 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 2 hours, strain. Anemia drink 1 tbsp 3 times a day. Chronic cystitis drink in the form of heat for 1/3 cup 3 times a day 20 minutes before meals
Conjunctivitis eye wash: 1 tbsp Epilobium pour 1 cup boiling water, boil for 15 minutes, leave for 1 hour, drain. When inflammation of the middle ear: 2 tablespoons fireweed pour 2 cups of water, leave for 6 hours, drain, in the form of heat to moisten the swab and put it in his ear.
Fireweed (Epilobium) contains up to 20% tannins, mucilage, pectin and vitamin "B", "C". In the flowers of willow-herb, contains 25 mg of nectar per flower. In addition, the willow-herb contains a lot of protein, which is easily absorbed by the body, so you can simply and quickly be full of energy. Unique range of trace elements: iron, nickel, copper, manganese, titanium, molybdenum and boron. Is present in a significant number of potassium, sodium, calcium, magnesium, lithium, etc. 100g. willow-leaf tea contains between 200 and 400 mg of ascorbic acid (that is several times greater than in lemons). The presence in the plant of iron, copper, manganese, provided a general tool that can improve the process of hematopoiesis, improve protective functions. It does not contain caffeine, willow, purine, oxalate and uric acid, which are the violators of metabolism. To him there is no getting used like a normal cup of tea or coffee.
The unique composition defines the variety of medicinal properties of willow-herb. Due to the high content of ascorbic acid and bioflavonoids (vitamin P), is recommended for immunity and resistance to infections, strengthen blood vessels, prevents the accumulation of reactive radicals (atioksidantnaya activity), binds and removes heavy metals and cleanse the body at various intoxications in t.ch . alcohol, from contamination, healthier and increases efficiency. Cyprus in the form of tea has beneficial effects on the immune and endocrine systems, is effective for all inflammatory conditions, has a strong sedative, mild soporific effect.
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