Heartleaf linden (Tilia cordata Mill.)
Heartleaf linden is a tall tree in the linden family. It blooms in June through July (10-15 days). It is found in deciduous and less often mixed forests of Donetsk and Lugansk regions, planted in parks and squares.
Prepare linden flowers with bracts (linden color), in the household - leaves, buds, charcoal. Linden flowers contain: essential oil, flavonoids and other glycosides, carotene, vitamin C, tocopherol, saponins, pectins, phytoncides, phe-nol, mucilage and tannins, in the leaves - glycoside tiliazin, vitamin C, mucus.
Lime blossoms have long enjoyed a reputation as an effective diaphoretic. In addition, they have analgesic, juicy, anticonvulsant, sedative, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, expectorant, diuretic, astringent, antispasmodic, secretolytic, bactericidal, choleretic action. Used in medicine for respiratory colds, influenza and for gargling for diseases of the mouth, pharynx and larynx.
In folk medicine, in addition - with cough, hoarseness of voice, fever, bronchial asthma, measles, mumps, tuberculosis, hypertension, neurosis, epilepsy, neuralgia, migraine, seizures.
In the Far East, infusion of linden buds is recommended for paralysis (A. И. Schroeter) In France, it was found that an extract of the outer part of the linden wood dilates the coronary vessels of the heart. In Poland, a 10% decoction of linden flowers with honey is recommended before bedtime as a soothing remedy. Washing your hair in a decoction of linden flowers prevents hair loss. Linden, as well as birch juice, drink 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day, and externally - as a remedy for hair growth. Decoction of linden flowers - for aromatic baths for neuralgia.
Linden charcoal is used for various poisonings, belching with bad odor, heartburn, diarrhea, flatulence, dysentery, anemia, rickets, throat tuberculosis, and with goat's milk - with pulmonary tuberculosis. The charcoal goes into making tooth powder, which protects your teeth from spoiling and eliminates bad breath.
Heartleaf linden is an excellent and abundant mellifer. Linden honey contains many different vitamins and valuable substances and is considered the best medicinal remedy.
Methods of application:
1. 2-3 sts. spoonfuls of linden flowers insist 30 minutes in 1.5 liters of boiling water - 250-500 ml hot overnight for colds and 250 ml 3 times a day with gastritis and other diseases.
2. 2-4 sts. spoonfuls of linden flowers boiled for 5-10 minutes in 0.5 liters of water, take 2 cups at night as diaphoretic.
3. Lime charcoal - but 1 tsp. spoon in 1/2 cup of water 3-4 times a day for flatulence, diarrhea, belching.
4. 200 g of linden flowers boil 5 mi in 3 liters of water and pour into the bath.
5. It is included in diaphoretic collections and for gargling the mouth and throat.
6. Flowers of linden, elderberry, hawthorn, chamomile - equal parts of each; 1 - 2 tbsp. spoonfuls of the collection insist in 250-500 ml of boiling water, take during the day as diaphoretic (C. А. Tomilin).
7. Lime blossoms, mint leaf and fruits of garden dill - 1 part each, the root of elecampane and horse sorrel, grass and nettle leaves - 2 parts each, birch buds, St. John's wort herb, chamomile flowers, hop cones - 3 parts each, shoots of cucumber - 5 parts, mix; prepare as a collection (E. А. Ladynina).
8. Flowers of linden, elderberry, primrose (primrose), birch leaves, nettle, trifolium, cherry stalks, rhizomes of soapberry and wheatgrass - 20 g each; 3 tbsp. spoonfuls of the mixture cook 5 min in 0.7 l of water, infuse, drink 100 ml after 2 h in arthrozoarthritis (D. Pamukov).
Big burdock (Arctium lappa L.)
Repeinik, bardana, burdock, ukr.: rin"yah, lipukh, dschovnik.
Big burdock is a weedy plant of the aster family, 60-150 cm tall. It grows everywhere near housing, on weedy places, wastelands, in gardens, bushes, forests, margins of fields, roads.
The roots of the annual plant are harvested in the fall and the roots of the biennial plant in the spring, less often the leaves and seeds. Every year burdock roots are harvested fresh, preferably in the fall. They contain: polysaccharide inulin (45%), proteins, essential oil, bitters, mucus, resins, sitosterol, flavonoids and other glycosides, alkaloid, tannins, leaves contain traces of alkaloids, vitamin C, carotene, essential oil, mucus, seeds contain up to 20% fatty oil, glycosides. Burdock root is believed to be similar in its action to that of the imported sarsaparilla root.
Burdock roots of the first year of life are edible, they are eaten fresh, baked, added to cutlets, tortillas and soups instead of potatoes, make jelly, fried - a surrogate for coffee, young leaves are used to make salads, soups and mashed potatoes.
Big burdock is very popular in folk medicine - in the initial forms of diabetes, gout, rheumatism, arthrosis, diseases of the upper respiratory tract (bronchi, lungs, cough), stomach (gastritis, peptic ulcer), intestines, liver, etc. д.
А. П. Popov points out that burdock root is more effective in fresh form, and even better is the juice of the plant.
Decoction of burdock root on milk is drunk with diathesis and skin tuberculosis. Decoction of inflorescences or 20% alcoholic tincture of root powder in equal parts of alcohol and honey - up to 15 ml 3 times a day for stomach cancer and externally - for acne (I. Д. Yurkevich, V. Г. Minaeva).
В. И. Kizimov said that in Bashkiria in pulmonary tuberculosis and diabetes take juice from the root and leaves 15 ml in 250 ml of water 3 times a day, and May burdock root is grated and eaten without a norm in stomach cancer, fresh juice also - in skin cancer. In eczema burdock roots and dandelion 1 tbsp. spoonful of each insist 10 hours in 750 ml of water, then boiled for 10 minutes, insist 1-2 hours - 100 ml 4-5 times a day, and at the same time used ointment of equal parts of dandelion root powder and honey.
In violation of salt metabolism, gallstones and chronic pancreatitis 2-3 st. spoonfuls of root insist in 750 ml of water 3-4 hours, boiled over low heat for 10-15 minutes - 70-100 ml 2-3 times a day after meals.
2-4 sts. spoonfuls of dry root boil in 800 g of water until half of the volume remains, add 2-3 tbsp. spoonfuls of honey or sugar and drink 1 /2 cup 3 times a day as a diuretic. As a diaphoretic, use 250 ml of heated this decoction and well wrapped the patient, and after an hour there is a profuse sweat. Fresh burdock leaves or dry, soaked or boiled in water or milk (1 : 10), or compresses of fresh leaves and decoction (infusion) burdock root used for joint pain, mastitis, long non-healing wounds, ulcers, burns, eczema, itching, bruises, hemorrhoids, scabies, calluses, scrofula, acne, seborrhea, boils and furunculosis. Fresh leaves (lower side) wrapped around the joints in their disease and applied to sciatica and sciatica, you can use them throughout the spring and summer period.
For headaches and migraines, fresh burdock leaves are applied to the head. Burdock leaves, smeared with sour cream, applied to rye. In high fever cover the whole sick person with fresh leaves, changing them.
В. И. Korchan (d. Lebedin) for allergic skin rashes and itching recommended hot lotions and baths in a decoction of burdock root, as reported by physician A. Н. Dyachenko. Fresh burdock leaves together with leaves of mother and stepmother apply to the breast with mastitis. А. П. Levchuk recommended ointment of finely chopped roots and young leaves boiled in butter for burns and other skin diseases.
М. А. Nosal 75 g fresh burdock root insisted 24 hours in a warm place in 250 ml of sunflower or almond oil, then boiled for 15 minutes on low heat, after cooling squeezed, strained. Some people make a similarly 10% ointment from burdock seeds.
В. В. Karhut offers ointment from a mixture of fresh burdock root - 2 parts, oak bark - 1 part, walnut leaves - 1 part and marigold flowers - 1 part, a handful of the collection boiled in 250 g of vegetable oil 15 minutes on low heat, tightly closed, insist 10 hours in a warm oven, then squeezed and strained (for burns, joint diseases).
Especially popular medicines from burdock root or in a mixture with other plants as a means to strengthen hair - a warm infusion or decoction of a good handful of grass with burdock root in 1 liter of water rubbed into the scalp and wash the head with it every other day, without wiping it; or wash the head 2 times a week in a decoction of 20 g burdock root and 10 g marigold flowers and 15 cones of hops in 1 liter of water; or burdock root, horsetail grass and nettle 1 tbsp. spoonful of each insist in 3 cups of boiling water (in a thermos) 2-3 hours, rub into the scalp for several months with dandruff and oily hair. Apply for premature hair loss and baldness mentioned earlier ointment, which is rubbed into the scalp and after 2-3 hours wash the head.
Methods of application:
1. Decoction of 2 tbsp. spoonfuls of burdock root in 0.5 liters of boiling water - daily dose; or infusion of 1 tbsp. spoonfuls of burdock leaves in 250 ml of boiling water - 15 ml 30-60 minutes after meals for arthritis, dropsy, colitis.
2. 10% decoction of burdock root - 1/3 cup 3 times a day for furunculosis and other diseases.
3. 10-20% decoction of burdock root or herb for external application.
4. For baths make a decoction of burdock roots, heather grass, nettle, marshmallow, tartar and cowberry leaves (the dose is not limited) in rheumatism, arthritis, osteoarthritis (M. А. Nosal).
5. Burdock root powder - 0.5 g 2-3 times a day for gout (C. А. Tomilin).
6. 1 Art. a spoonful of a mixture (equally) of burdock roots, bean pods, blueberry leaves, walnut boil 5 minutes in 1 liter of water and drink after meals during the day for diabetes (In. В. Karhut).
7. 1 ч. spoonful of burdock root or seeds insist several hours in 250-500 ml of water, then boiled for 5-7 minutes and drink a day sips for constipation.
8. Roots of burdock, wheatgrass, grass succession, veronica and violet tricolor (equally), 1 tbsp. spoon collection boiled 15 minutes in 0.5 liters of boiling water and drink a day, the first time on an empty stomach - with gout, stomach ulcer, metabolic disorders and itchy skin (V. В. Karhut).
9. 20-25 g burdock root boiled for 15 minutes in 0.5 liters of water over low heat - 70 ml 3 times a day before meals for diabetes.
In the Donbass as a weed is also found burdock spiderwort (felted) (A. tomentosum Miller), which can be applied similarly to the first..
