Immortelle - medicinal properties and contraindications

Immortelle as a medicinal herb is a favorite and quite popular plant. Evidence of this is its various name, which gives it people from various territorial zones where it grows. They call it differently, but the most resounding names are goldfish, frost grass, sandy cinnamon or cmin.

Plant characteristics

In the botanical world, the plant has defined sonic characteristics. Scientists describe it as a perennial grassy felt-woolly. But, first of all, the immortelle is visible among other wild-flowering herbs due to the small flowers collected in a single panicle, only up to 6 mm. Flowers resemble a spherical basket. Usually it is multirow, orange or pale lemon with a yellow tint. During flowering, the plant does not lose its bright color, which is why they called it immortelle.

When flowering begins in June, the inflorescences are fairly dense to the touch, and then become softened. An interesting property of this plant: always the extreme flowers are female, they have a threadlike shape. Those in the middle are considered bisexual and have crests. And the fruit is obtained with a crest, but it is small and brown in color, it ripens in August. But it happens that if the weather favors, then the second flowering of the immortelle begins, then the baskets can be found in the axils of the upper leaves. The flowering period of each basket is on average 15 days.

The rhizome immortelle has a short and brown, straight stem, about 35-centimeter long. About the leaves, we can say that they have a sequence, oblong, narrowed into petioles.

Collection and harvesting of plants

The most comfortable for immortelle on dry and sandy soils, in steppe zones and sparse pine forests. First of all, inflorescences are used for medicinal purposes. They need to be picked in time before the side baskets are opened, otherwise there will be no effective therapeutic effect. There are still important conditions for procurement:

• you need to collect this plant only in dry weather, not very early so that the dew is gone;
• whether a sharp knife is cut using scissors;
• at one place, the collection can be carried out no more than 4 times, while the plant in turn blooms;
• re-collection is carried out not less than 5 days later;
• if the plant is pulled out completely, it is very easy to deplete its reserves.

The following preparations can be done in this place only after a few years, and for large immortelle settlements to reappear, it is necessary to preserve at least 10 plants, but always with inflorescences.

You can’t store the collected flowers for more than four hours, especially if the inflorescences are 1 cm long. They deteriorate very quickly, and therefore require quick processing. It will be necessary to decompose the harvested crop on a cloth or clean paper in one layer. You need to find a place away from sunlight.

The plant retains its healing properties for three years.

Yellow treasury of nutrients

• flavonoid glycosides;
• organic acids;
• essential oil;
• various trace elements;
• mucus, tar and wax;
• some vitamins;
• carotenoids;
• substances that include tanning, coloring and bitter.

Beneficial features

They use the plant in medicine to help people with diseases of the liver and biliary tract - acute or chronic, if the pathology affects the gastrointestinal tract.

Many drugs made on the basis of goldfish are capable of stimulating the secretion of bile. They also have many medicinal properties with a predominant effect:

• diuretic;
• soothing;
• antispasmodic, especially when acting on smooth muscles;
• stopping bleeding.

Processed for medical needs, inflorescences can improve metabolism, help the metabolic function of the liver.

Due to the fact that with the help of the Helichrysum it is possible to increase the secretion of bile, it is included in medications, which, in addition, have antispasmodic properties. In this case, they are taken by patients who were diagnosed with "chronic calculous cholecystitis", sand or small stones, up to 2 mm, were found.

Helping to increase bile secretion, bile cannot stagnate, its viscosity and density decrease. Its chemical composition is changing for the better, the content of gowns is increasing. Their presence is required in order to retain cholesterol, which cannot be dissolved in water, in the dissolved state, in the form of a colloid. In fact, bathrobes are salts of bile acids.

During the examination, it turns out that due to the immortelle, the level of "bad" cholesterol is significantly reduced and the level of bilirubin is restored to its normal state. If the amount of cholesterol is too high, it will precipitate, and will cause stones.

Hemostatic properties are used if a woman has uterine bleeding caused by a pathology such as ovarian dysfunction or uterine fibroids, characterized by hemorrhagic syndrome.

ethnoscience

Traditional medicine does not lag behind official, also using the immortelle for medicinal purposes. With the help of various recipes, herbalists expel such ailments as diseases of the liver and gall bladder together with the bile ducts. They successfully treat colitis, gastritis and urolithiasis, acute diseases associated with the work of the bladder, especially if there are big problems with urination, remove swelling, if they are provoked by renal failure.

At home, you can cook decoctions and infusions from the immortelle. Various dosage forms of the plant:

1. The simplest, independently made infusion as a choleretic agent, is prepared as follows: from 6 to 16 grams of flowers are taken and 360 ml of boiling water is poured. Drinks the resulting product in 100 ml from 2 to 3 times a day.
2. The broth can be prepared a little differently. 10 grams, which is 3 tablespoons, chopped flowers are placed in a container. 200 ml of water is poured there, it should be warm. The container is closed and installed in a water bath. So the broth should languish for 30 minutes, you have to stir occasionally. Then it should cool in a warm room. After a while, it is filtered and brought to the desired volume to get 200 ml, adding to boiled water. Take the medicine should be before eating, preferably in 15 minutes, 0.5 cups, 2 to 3 times a day. In order not to deteriorate, the broth is stored in a cold place, but not more than two days.
3. If liver treatment is necessary, there is such a way to get rid of the disease. 1 tablespoon of grass, this is 2.5 - 3 g, pour boiling water - 250 ml. Immortelle should be insisted in a thermos. You need to drink as medicine 50 minutes before the meal, the drink must be warm. Use the resulting infusion 3 times during the day.
4. There is such a remedy for cholecystitis and hepatitis. Inflorescences, along with grass, will need from 14 to 16 stems, which is 15 - 20 g, first cut, and then boiled in a liter of water for 10 minutes. The tool is ready.You need to drink like this: to 0.5 cups of broth add the same amount of milk, it should be hot, and a few tablespoons of honey. The medicine is taken half an hour before the meal. You need to take it in a certain way: drink medicine for 4 days, then the body rests for 2 days. This should last two months. In order not to go astray, it is advisable to make a schedule for convenience.
5. You can save yourself from uterine bleeding or hyperpolymenorrhea like this: take three tablespoons of inflorescences and pour 200 ml of boiling water. You need to insist for an hour in a tightly closed container. It will need to be taken every hour, but only for a tablespoon. The maximum norm is 10 tablespoons.
6. As a general strengthening agent, cold infusion is used. To do this, take 15 grams of inflorescences and pour 200 ml of boiled slightly warm water. The mixture is infused for 8 hours. After being filtered, they drink half a glass 20 minutes before meals. Take 4 times a day.
7. To get rid of leucorrhoea, women use the immortelle for douching. You can make a decoction and infusion, but apply only in a warm form. Such a recipe is especially effective: 2 tablespoons of inflorescences are poured into containers with warm water - 500 ml. Set on fire. As soon as the mixture boils, the fire must be made very weak. After 5 minutes, you can remove and strain after cooling. The procedure is carried out no more than 2-3 times a day.

There are extracts. They are a powder in granules. You need to take this type of medicine 1 g three times a day. Typically, therapy is 2 to 3 weeks. If treatment is required to resume, then only after five days. In this way, they are treated for diseases such as biliary dyskinesia, cholecystitis.

There is a special powder “flaming”, which contains some flavonoids that have undergone special processing. With its help, cholecystitis is treated in a chronic form, pathology of the biliary tract.

Application restrictions

Before starting treatment at home, you must inform your doctor. Immortelle should not be used without a break for more than three months, since it has toxic properties and can affect stagnation in the liver. It should not be used by pregnant women and people with high blood pressure.

This plant is strictly contraindicated for people suffering from obstructive jaundice.

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