Altai - medicinal properties and contraindications

Many people know that the most popular diseases can be treated without the use of expensive medications, it is enough to prepare medicinal herbs. In fact, we are surrounded by a large number of herbs, the healing properties of which many people do not know.

The marshmallow belongs to the variety of mallow, it is found in gardens and vegetable gardens very often. Ancient physicians knew about his medical characteristics. Hippocrates and Dioscorides writes about him in his writings. Many books and articles about this healing plant have been published.

What is a plant?

This is a perennial plant from the Malvaceous family. This variety stands out for its large size: the smallest height of the marshmallow is 60 centimeters, and the largest - 2 meters. The stalk is even, slightly branched. Below, the green stems are lignified, and the widest ones have a distinctive pattern in the form of a grid of long grooves.

Leaflets are arranged in steps, with villi below on the plate. Depending on the place of growth, they vary in shape and size. The leaves below have 1-2 feathers and have a round shape. Leaflets in the middle and at the top are large and sharpest, with a large base in the shape of a wedge.

A flower in the form of an ear, on a small peduncle, dense thickets of small flowers with a whisk of pink or whitish color are noticeable. Most often, large flowers appear in the recesses. But the description of the Althea will not be complete, if not to talk about its main therapeutic part - the root. The main ligneous rhizome can reach a length of half a meter with a diameter of 2 centimeters. Around him, the side shoots of a whitish hue.

Healing characteristics of the plant

For medicinal purposes, it is allowed to use the seeds and root of the plant. Seeds are harvested in summer or in the first months of autumn, in dry weather. The root is harvested in spring or late autumn. It must be carefully dug out, washed and cut into small pieces, then dried.

The healing properties of the marshmallow are as follows:

1. The rhizome of the plant reduces the likelihood of tumor growth, resolves the abscess, swelling on the skin, hematomas. It eliminates pain in the joints, removes tremors in the arms and legs.
2. Althea-based products are taken by people suffering from inflammation of the sciatic nerve, muscle breaks.
3. The seeds of the plant will help cure pneumonia, tonsillitis, colds, this is a great expectorant. At the same time, marshmallow leaves will benefit a woman with tumors in her chest.
4. A blast from the rhizome is advised to be taken with a disease of the gastrointestinal tract, bladder, with anus tumor, leucorrhoea, hepatitis.
5. A seed-based blast will cleanse the body of secretions after childbirth, it is drunk in case of difficulty with urination, in the presence of stones in the bladder.
6. Due to the fact that the rhizome of the plant contains many mucous substances, they soften, eliminate pain and are prescribed for diseases of the respiratory tract. The action of the plant is that it spreads along the mucous membrane of organs, places of inflammation, protecting them from subsequent irritation.
7. Marshmallow is also used for diarrhea, which is a consequence of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and 12 duodenal ulcer, with diseases of the stomach, such as gastritis and colitis.
8. The plant has a very effective effect on high acidity of the stomach. This is due to the fact that when the mucus and hydrochloric acid released during the secretion of gastric juice are combined, its viscosity becomes more.
9. Compounds based on this medicinal plant have a clear anti-cough effect. They are used in the treatment of laryngitis and whooping cough.
10. A hot blast of the rhizome of the plant is used externally for inflammation that occurs on the tonsils, throat or gums. At the same time, a cool tincture is used for compresses for fistulas, the inflammatory process of the mucous membrane of the eyeball, for wiping the skin with eczema or psoriasis.
11. Althea has an anti-inflammatory, expectorant, enveloping effect.
12. The rhizome of the plant contains a lot of starch and mucus, sucrose, pectins, tannins, as well as vitamin C and trace elements.

The use of Althea

A medicinal plant with such an impressive list of beneficial properties is widely used to cure many diseases. However, its characteristics are also noted in cosmetology.

The medicine
The main area of ​​use of Althea is alternative medicine, however, “traditional” also gives the green light to the reception of tinctures. A doctor may prescribe a plant in the following cases:

• With inflammatory processes in the larynx and respiratory tract.
• For cough therapy with a large separation of mucus.
• If there is irritation in the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract.
• To eliminate the abscess and the speedy healing of wounds.

Along with this, the mild exposure of the marshmallow is indispensable if you need to relieve pain on an inflamed nerve or regenerate an injured muscle. Tincture is taken during joint therapy.

It is worth saying that nutritionists are also aware of the healing characteristics of the marshmallow. The plant is often used when developing a plan for weight loss.

Cosmetology
The root of the plant has a very good effect on the skin of a person. However, this is not all of his merits: in addition to quickly healing the wounds, he, in addition, moisturizes the skin, preventing the effects of dryness. The liquid obtained as a result of the treatment will help strengthen the hair, while solving the problem with irritation.

With frequent use of boil, the hair will not fall out, and the acids that are in the rhizome will stimulate their growth in a short time. And all this is possible without using different chemistry.

Contraindications and Cautions

1. The plant does not often cause side effects, because of this, one significant contraindication to therapy is individual immunity.
2. At the initial stages of pregnancy, plant-based products can not be used, in the later stages it can only be used with the permission of a specialist.
3. Very carefully, it can be given to newborn children.
4. Do not advise taking the plant with bowel obstruction and impaired respiratory function of the lungs.
5. Syrup prepared from a plant is advised to drink very carefully for people with diabetes.
6. Using cough syrup, one must remember that it can not be used together with codeine and other drugs that suppress cough, this will make it difficult to dilute mucus and cause complications of the disease.
7. With significant consumption of funds based on the marshmallow, nausea and a vomiting reflex may occur. In such a situation, it is necessary to rinse the stomach and not take plant-based formulations.

Therapy with this plant

Explosions, tinctures, syrups, powders and other products from the rhizome of a medicinal plant may be used to cure respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases. Marshmallow seeds are used to treat dandruff.

Healing plant against sore throat

1. In a small spoon of finely chopped rhizome of the plant add a glass of hot water. Let stand for 8 hours, then filter the composition. Rinse the larynx with tincture.
2. Grind a small spoonful of marshmallow rhizome and a spoonful of sage and mix thoroughly. Add a glass of hot water to the composition, let stand for half an hour, then filter. Rinse the larynx with the resulting tincture three times a day.

Cough Recipes
Together with medications, it is allowed to use compounds from the rhizome of this medicinal plant to improve expectoration and as an anti-inflammatory agent.

1. In 2 tablespoons of finely chopped rhizome of marshmallow add a glass of hot water, put in a water bath for half an hour. Then filter the composition. To drink 100 milliliters three times a day after eating, you can add a little honey.
2. Grind a small spoon of dry root of the plant to a powder state and add a glass of cool boiled water. Let it brew for 8 hours and clean the composition. Drink 50 milliliters three times a day before meals.

Help plants with gastric ulcer
Therapy of a stomach ulcer should be carried out only with the permission and under the supervision of a specialist, since this disease can be expressed by various signs.

How to prepare tincture: mix thoroughly mix a spoonful of finely chopped rhizome of marshmallow, root of creeping wheatgrass, licorice rhizome, fennel fruit and chamomile inflorescences. A small spoon of the resulting raw material is poured into a glass of hot water and left for half an hour. Then they are filtered off and drunk in a glass once a day at night.

Althaea with prostate adenoma and chronic prostatitis
In a full, with a mountain, a spoonful of marshmallow rhizome, add ½ cup of warm water, and let it brew for an hour, then filter. Drink a spoon every 2 hours. It is better to carry out the therapy together with infusion of pear, marshmallow, tinctures of bark and leaves of hazel, periodically replacing with tinctures of aspen bark, fireweed and certain other medicinal herbs, combining with the use of drops of hemlock infusion, but only as directed by a specialist.

Help the plant with lung disease
2 tablespoons of finely chopped roots of a medicinal plant are poured with 1.5 cups of cool boiled water, left for an hour. Then mix and filter the infusion. Consume ½ cup three times a day. Therapy is continued for 2 months. The course is repeated three times a year for five years.

Also, for diseases of the respiratory tract, the following infusion will help: add 2 cups of hot water to 2 tablespoons of inflorescences and leaves of the plant. Allow to infuse and filter the composition. This is the daily dose. Take the infusion identical to the previous recipe.

Marshmallow with dry oral syndrome
In 2 tablespoons of the rhizome of the plant add one and a half cups of warm boiled water and insist 45 minutes. Filter out. Take a spoon six times a day for 1.5 months.

If a person suffers from Sjogren's syndrome, then the course of treatment is 2 months three times a year for several years.

Help plants with trigeminal neuralgia, myositis
4 tablespoons of the rhizome of a medicinal plant is poured with a glass of cool boiled water and insisted for 8 hours. Filter the composition. Apply as a compress or lotion.

Help plants to children

The plant is allowed to be used for the treatment of babies, it makes the child's well-being easier and eliminates the outbreak of coughing. Children are recommended to take syrup for acute colds and respiratory diseases. The healing properties of the marshmallow help liquefy and activate respiratory activity.

How to make and drink syrup for babies: in an equal ratio of 1 to 1, move the warm tincture of the marshmallow with any sweet syrup. Children under 12 years old are bred a teaspoon in half a glass of water. Take the syrup for two weeks, 4 times a day for a small spoon.

How to collect and save marshmallows

Only plants that have been growing in one area for at least two years will be suitable for medicinal harvesting, since new plants or one-year-olds will not give the result expected from them. It is best to collect the rhizomes in late spring, if it is cool, then the plant is harvested in the fall, at the same time they are collecting seeds. Stems and leaves should be collected in early summer, when the plant blooms - this is the peak of juice exchange.

Initially, the rhizome is processed as follows:

1. The dug root is cleaned from the ground and the stem. Then clean the root rhizome and capitate. It is imperative to remove processes that are not yet numb.
2. The semi-finished product is washed and dried for four days.
3. Then the workpiece is cut into segments 25-30 centimeters long, while splitting wide sections in a longitudinal section. Along with this, the “cork” is also removed. Everything, the rhizome is cleared.
4. This semi-finished product is stored in a cold, well-ventilated area. In the summer season they are placed under the roof of the house. As soon as the cold comes, it must be wrapped in a piece of cotton fabric and hung in the pantry.

With proper collection, processing and storage, all collected sections of the marshmallow will retain their healing properties for three years.

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