Periwinkle - medicinal properties and contraindications

The kurtov family owns a small shrub with beautiful little flowers - periwinkle. It is also called ivy, greenery and even grave grass. Witching and healing qualities of a shrub are used in alternative medicine.

Healing composition

The shrub contains many important acids: succinic, ursolic and malic. It is rich in vitamin C, proteins and tannins. It contains more than 20 types of alkaloids that prevent the occurrence of cancer.

The effect of glycosides on the heart is positive. It is aimed at treating atrial fibrillation using unconventional methods. Pectin in its composition relieves the body of poisons and lowers blood cholesterol.

Field of use of the plant:

• To expand the vessels of the brain and heart.
• For uterine contractions.
• Eliminate bowel spasms.
• Used as a painkiller.
• For the treatment of inflammation of the bronchi.
• To get rid of headaches, fever, unpleasant odor from RT.
• It treats impotence.
• Therapy of diabetes.
• To stop bleeding.

The healing characteristics of the medicinal shrub are as follows:

• Delivers oxygen to the brain.
• Increases the functioning of the heart.
• Tones veins.
• Eliminates spasms of muscle arteries.
• Resists bacteria.
• Prevents diarrhea.
• It has a diuretic effect.

Periwinkle is used for the treatment of diseases of the organs of vision, in particular, if vasospasm or impaired blood circulation in the retina are observed.

The plant perfectly cures from diseases of the spine, childhood neuritis of the facial nerve, and regenerates brain function after injuries and diseases. Among the ailments affected by this healing plant are: hearing loss, runny nose, myeloma, white blood, tachycardia and many other diseases.

Many serious diseases can be cured with vinca-based products. With the help of a boil prepared from this shrub, you can improve the condition of the face, restore skin elasticity and softness.

Limitations

Pregnant women are not allowed to consume periwinkle.

How to prepare it correctly

For medicinal purposes, the plant is harvested in early summer, during the period of rapid flowering and fruiting. Harvest flowers, leaves and stems of the plant. The processes need to be cut, and not dug up with roots, otherwise the plant will die.

Raw materials are dried under natural conditions. It is best to lay it on gauze and put it on the lawn. It dries for about a week in clear weather. If it rains outside, then you need to transfer the raw materials to the house, to a place that is well ventilated.

Cooked raw materials are odorless and bitterness. It is placed in a glass jar and stored for two years. When harvesting, we must not forget that the plant is very poisonous, so you need to be very careful.

Use in alternative medicine

There are a lot of recipes for the use of periwinkle. Here is some of them:

1. To stop bleeding and treat skin ailments. For the treatment, it is necessary to prepare a broth: 30 g of the plant, along with the inflorescences, is poured into a glass of boiling water and the container is placed in a water bath for 10 minutes. Once the composition has cooled, it is filtered off and drunk 3 times a day for 0.5 cups. With the same blast, damage or redness is rubbed on the skin.
2. Composition for the treatment of diseased gums. To rinse the mouth, the plant is boiled in wine or milk. To do this: pour a spoonful of grass with 0.5 liters of water and set to boil for 10 minutes, then insist another 20 minutes. As soon as the composition was filtered, the periwinkle is squeezed and poured with wine or milk to leave a mug of broth.
3. For the treatment of ulcers on the skin. Spoon the plants with a glass of hot water. Insist for about 5 minutes, then allow to cool and filter. Received infusion lubricate ulcers on the skin.
4. For the treatment of male impotence. To prepare the tincture, take 100 g of the medicinal herb, fill it with a bottle of vodka and let it brew for 2 weeks, stirring regularly. Take 5 drops, mixed with a spoon of running water, twice a day, preferably in the morning and at night. The duration of therapy leaves 4 days, then pause for 2 days and continue treatment. All you need to go through three courses of therapy.
5. Cancer infusion. It will take 50 g of plant flowers and a bottle of vodka. The raw material is poured with alcohol and insisted for a week in a warm dark place. The capacity is constantly shaken. Then the infusion is cleaned and taken in 7 drops before each meal. Infusion must be washed down with water.
6. From leukemia and lymphocytic leukemia the following tincture will help: pour a teaspoon of grass with a glass of hot water and let stand for 20 minutes in a closed container. Take three times a day in a spoon before meals.
7. Infusion from formations on the skin. To prepare the medicine for boils, pour 0.5 ем of raw material into a 0.5-liter jar and fill it with a bottle of vodka. The container is tightly corked and put in a dark place for 10 days. The resulting composition is treated with boils three times a day.
8. From childhood diathesis. To treat this ailment, a medicated ointment prepared on the basis of the plant is used. A spoonful of butter must be melted and add 9 chopped periwinkle leaves. The composition is heated again, let it cool for 15 minutes. and cleanse. Ointment smears red spots on the skin of the child.
9. Remedy for tonsillitis. If there are problems with the larynx, then the periwinkle-based tincture in a short time will relieve them, and also cure a disease such as angina. It will take a spoonful of plant foliage and a mug of water. All must be mixed, put on fire and boil for 20 minutes. Then the composition is cooled and insisted, filtered. Warm boiled water is added to make a full glass. Tincture gargle larynx three times a day.
10. Anemia. Infusion with anemia is prepared from foliage and flowers of a plant. 3 tablespoons of dry raw materials are poured with a mug of water and mixed well. Take a spoon six times a day.
11. To increase potency. Periwinkle infusion is used to increase male strength. A spoonful of finely chopped leaves is filled with a quarter liter of water. Cook for 10 minutes and let it brew in a dark place for a day. Then the composition is cleaned and consumed in a spoon twice a day, a quarter of an hour before a meal.
12. From hypertension. 2 tablespoons of finely chopped leaves are poured into 0.5 liters of warm boiled water and put on the stove to boil for about 10 minutes. Then the broth is cooled and cleaned. Use a third of the mug three times a day before meals.
13. With an epileptic seizure. To treat this serious ailment, foliage and periwinkle flowers are used in the form of explosions, tea, tinctures. A spoonful of dry raw materials is poured into a mug of hot water. The container is wrapped in a blanket and insisted for two hours. Then the infusion is cleaned and consumed in 2 tablespoons three times a day.
14. With uterine bleeding. It is necessary to prepare a healing broth, for this 3 tablespoons of raw material are poured into a glass of water and put on a stove. The broth is brought to a boiling state, removed from the stove, hidden in a blanket and insisted for 2 hours. Then take three times a day for a small spoon.

Against migraine
The infusion from this medicinal plant perfectly affects the vessels of the head, eliminating spasms and relieving headaches.You need to take a spoonful of raw materials, pour 100 g of alcohol and let it brew for 3 weeks in a dark place. You need to drink 10 drops three times a day.

You can prepare a healing blast that will help cope with a headache. To do this, pour a spoonful of crushed raw materials with a glass of running water and simmer for a quarter of an hour over low heat. Then let cool and clean the broth. Use three mugs three times a day.

Universal blast
A spoonful of finely chopped plants is poured into a glass of water and put on fire for about 20 minutes. Allow the composition to cool, filter it, then dilute it with a mug of warm boiled water. A blast is consumed in 1/3 cup three times a day. The resulting blast will help with such ailments as:

• Bowel obstruction.
• High pressure.
• Tuberculosis.
• Inflammation of the bronchi.
• Male impotence.
• Eliminate toothache.
• Colitis.
• Improves metabolism.
• It slows down the growth of cancer cells.

From high pressure
To get rid of this ailment, you need to prepare a healing blast of herbs. For this we need:

• A spoon of white mistletoe and periwinkle.
• 2 tablespoons of valerian healing.
• 3 tablespoons of hawthorn.

The raw materials are crushed, thoroughly mixed and filled with hot water in the proportion of a collection spoon for 2 cups of hot water. Collect insist for about an hour and filter. Take a month, three times a day for a third of the mug an hour after eating. Once the course is completed, a blast should be consumed every month for 2 weeks in order to consolidate a positive result.

The use of periwinkle in the beauty industry

This plant is so multifunctional that it has found application even in the beauty industry. It is part of many cosmetics. Manufacturers add it to various lotions and ointments to increase skin tone. The plant is used to create various shades of lipstick and an original fragrance in perfumery. However, in all cosmetics, its percentage should not exceed 10%.

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