Centaury - medicinal properties and contraindications

A perennial plant with a long single stem, elongated leaves, can reach half a meter in length. Pink small flowers, ranging in size from one and a half to two centimeters, with five petals and oblong about flowering leaves, are combined into small inflorescences. This plant is often used for recreational purposes in both folk and traditional medicine.

It also has several name options that can be found:

• umbrella;
• small;
• core;
• spool;
• Centauri.

Flowering occurs from June to July, in the second or third year. It has the property of spreading by seeds that ripen from August to September. The habitats of centaury flowers - territories throughout the European part of Eurasia, can be found in southern Russia, on the northern mainland of America, as well as in Western Siberia and Altai.

Flower legend - where does the name come from?

There is a superstition about the origin of the name of this plant. Once a rich man, ill, promised that he would give a hundred gold to the poor if he recovered. Then one of the nights an angel came down to him and said. You will get better thanks to the grass that I will leave for you, but do not forget about your promise and left. The next morning, the rich man recovered and handed out money, as he swore. After that, the doctors encrypted the medicine, recording it in no other way than 100 coins, but one doctor accidentally wrote an extra zero and he became a centaury.

Therapeutic actions of the flower

All the most useful substances appear during flowering in the second year of a flower's life. The collection of useful grass is carried out at the very moment of flowering, cutting off with a knife or sickle not lower than the first leaves about 7 centimeters from the ground. Subsequently, drying, the main condition is protection from direct sunlight. To do this, they put it under a canopy. For better drying, it is important to mix periodically.

Medicinal properties of centaury are very widespread. The centauria has been given the health benefits of a gencyanine alkaloid, the content of which reaches one percent. Also included in the composition:

• flavone glycosides;
• essential oils;
• ascorbic and organic acids.

Here is a list of the properties that the spool has.

• anti worm;
• antiseptic;
• painkiller;
• anti-inflammatory;
• laxative;
• tonic;
• choleretic;
• hemostatic;
• hepatoprotective;
• restorative;
• antimicrobial;
• antispasmodic.

FACT! This flower, due to its bitterness, has the property of stimulating appetite. Therefore, in the right doses, his infusion can be given to children before meals.

What drugs are included?

This herb is used as a raw material in many preparations of traditional medicine (ointments, tablets, medicines in liquid form).

Centaury is included in a drug such as Kanefron N - dragee contains a powder of rosemary and centauria. Accepted for diseases:

• kidney: glomerulonephritis and others.
• Bladder.
• to prevent nephrolithiasis.

Also contained in the medication Nephroton. It also has various extracts: water, rosehips, buckwheat roots, blackberry leaves.

IMPORTANT! Treatment with infusions, decoctions, compresses is used only in conjunction with the methods of traditional medicine.Independent centaury does not carry such a therapeutic effect, it is rather an auxiliary substance.

Indications for use

The flowers of this plant are used in cases:

• Overwork.
• Anorexia nervosa.
• Liver disease.
• Flatulence.
• Stomach pains.
• Gallbladder disease.
• Bowel pain.
• Sinusitis.
• Anemia.

Tinctures are also used for:

• Colds.
• Swelling.
• Nervousness.
• Diabetes
• Tuberculosis.
• Heartache.

IMPORTANT! The core also helps with alcohol addiction. Restoring internal balance and removing toxins, the plant helps the body fight alcoholism. But taking the plant and tinctures from it is strictly under supervision and only after consulting a doctor.

Centaury is useful for women with menstrual problems. Usually this occurs due to hormonal disruptions, stresses. When taking a flower infusion, the hormonal background is restored and a cycle is established. The spool has a soothing effect. It also helps with problems with the ovaries, cystitis and uterine bleeding.

For men, the inflorescence is beneficial for problems with an erection. Most often, these problems are associated with diseases of the genitourinary system. Overfatigue and stress also play an important role in this intimate problem. Decoctions help to solve the problem at the root, starting with the treatment of infections, soothing and beneficially improving overall well-being.

CAUTION! You can not use tinctures, decoctions of this flower during pregnancy and lactation without the permission and supervision of a doctor.

Contraindications

Like all medicines, centauria is not only beneficial, but can be harmful. The use of the funds in which this plant is included is contraindicated for people with such diseases and problems:

• Diseases of the stomach, such as gastritis or high acidity.
• Diseases of the intestine, duodenum.
• Frequent bouts of diarrhea.
• Tendency to obesity, since taking a tincture of the plant increases appetite.
• Personal intolerance to the body and allergies.
• Pregnancy and lactation.

IMPORTANT! Reception of a medicinal plant is effective only in tandem with traditional means. The main thing is to take decoctions and infusions only under the supervision of the attending physician and in the indicated dosages.

Medicinal products from centaury

1. From cystitis. Mix the spool with birch leaves, hawthorn and hypericum. Ten grams of grass is taken in half a liter of water, before use, heat, drink half an hour before meals. You can take this tea for problems with the bladder. But even such a huge list of beneficial medicinal effects does not exclude contraindications. Like any other medicine, a medicinal plant spool can be harmful. In those cases when the dosage is not respected, the possible effect on certain chronic diseases is not taken into account.
2. Infusion for improving appetite. Pour fifteen grams into a pan, pour a glass of boiling water. Then it is closed with a lid, and heated for 15 minutes. Cool, strain and add water to the resulting infusion to make 200 ml. Store in a cool place for no longer than 2 days. You need to drink the boiled infusion warm, half a cup twice a day, half an hour before meals to stimulate appetite.
3. To increase appetite. Pour a tablespoon of grass powder with forty percent alcohol. Insist ten days and drink a teaspoon before eating.
4. From nausea heartburn and bloating. A teaspoon of core + half a glass of alcohol, insist for three weeks, drink two teaspoons. Improves appetite and helps for digesting food. For heartburn attacks, it is worth taking a couple of grams of powder with a large amount of water.
5. Spool tincture. Prepared in a ratio of 100 to 10.For one hundred grams of seventy percent alcohol, 10 grams of grass is taken. Insist for three weeks and take ten drops once a day. Helps with diseases of the digestive system, colic and dysentery.
6. From worms. In half a glass of water add five grams of grass, and insist a couple of weeks in a dark place. Take a teaspoon in the morning before meals. Recipe 2: Take a spoonful of wormwood and spool, pour a glass of water, boil for 20 minutes. Cool and strain. Drink on an empty stomach.
7. Gastric collection. Prepared in the same proportions of chamomile, spool and thyme. Next, two hundred milliliters of water is poured onto a teaspoon of the mixture. Boil for half an hour. Take four times a day for a quarter cup. It is worth drinking in cases of digestive disorders.
8. To increase the amount of milk. Mix two teaspoons of dried herbs with 1.5 cups of water. Helps increase breast milk.

With diabetes
Twenty grams of grass pour a liter of water. Insist and strain. Drink broth warm half a cup before meals.

Make a mixture of centaury, thyme and oregano. Pour four spoons of this collection with water and leave for ten minutes. Drink three four times a day for half a glass.

Gastritis
Mix twenty grams of marshmallow and centaury. Pour boiling water over a liter. Insist five hours. Drink half a glass before meals.

Two hundred milliliters of boiled water + ten grams of centaury mix and leave for two hours. Drink one fourth glass three to four times a day.

Thus, it can be seen how many centaury has effects. It can rightfully be considered a golden grass. The healing properties apply to almost the entire body. It treats the digestive system, the genitourinary system and has a beneficial effect on the nervous system. It also improves immunity, appetite. This flower is not in vain very common in traditional medicine.

From alcoholism
Collect one hundred grams of wormwood, 40 grams of spool, mix. Take five grams, and pour 200 ml of water, take half a tablespoon.

Three tablespoons of centaury, one spoon of wormwood - the prescribed amount per half-liter of water. Insist half a day, drink four times during the day.

There is also such a recipe: you will need a salt spoon of wormwood and core. Four tablespoons of thyme pour 70% alcohol (0.5 l). Insist two weeks, take half a tablespoon.

To take one and a half glasses of water five teaspoons of grass. Boil for 10 minutes and insist an hour and a half. In such tea, you can add honey to taste.

In its pure form, although it does not carry so much benefit, but as the raw materials are found in ointments, tinctures, herbal preparations, dragees, tablets. Improves the effects of drugs. But even traditional medicine recipes should not be used as the main treatment. All recipes are best used in conjunction with treatment by a doctor, prescribed medications and tablets. The centaury increases the therapeutic effect, without interfering with the main course of treatment, and without excluding any beneficial effects of other drugs.

I would also like to note that it is not worthwhile to independently make such an important decision as taking folk recipes from centaury, as it has contraindications such as gastritis and obesity. And if such can be envisaged, then the spool can also cause allergic reactions. Therefore, it is very important to consult a doctor first, and the appointment should be made only under the supervision of a treating doctor.

Even if the doctor has allowed the use of a medicinal plant, you should not drink and take it without measure. It is very important to observe the dosage in any recipe, and take a strictly specified amount of tincture.

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