Medicinal herbs after. Hand treatment! Ancient Healing Methods! Features of nutrition and diet

Constant stuffy nose...

I have a stuffy nose and it's hard to breathe. Sometimes, especially in a stuffy room, I just suffocate. What can be done at home?

We need plants that will relieve swelling and reduce brain hypoxia. If this acute rhinitis With severe congestion nose and you just don’t see white light, you can buy rotokan tincture at the pharmacy (chamomile, yarrow, calendula). Dilute with water, moisten cotton buds and enter into the nose, hold for 10-15 minutes two to three times a day for a week. This effect is similar to Sanorin.

You can also recommend herbs that help restore vascular tone. Because if you have a stuffy nose for a long time, then the brain is also in a state of hypoxia - lack of oxygen. And such herbs are sold in pharmacies. These are linden flowers, sweet clover grass, clover. Their strained broth should be washed with a nose, and the oil extract should be instilled. Vascular herbs need to be taken from 3-4 weeks to two months to feel and consolidate the effect.

We treat the heart, but the stomach suffers

- Due to heart problems, I regularly take blood thinners. And they are bad for the stomach. As a result, I have frequent and multiple erosions of the stomach, gastritis with high acidity. Is there a chance to get out of this "vicious circle"?

- As an alternative to anticoagulants (blood thinners), you can use a teaspoon of white or yellow sweet clover herb to make an infusion and take throughout the day. This remedy gently thins the blood. But first, check with your cardiologist!

As a means of healing damage to the gastric mucosa, you can use a decoction of cudweed grass - 1 teaspoon with the addition of a teaspoon of elecampane roots to a glass of water. Bring to a boil, insist 20 minutes, strain. Take 2 tablespoons before meals and one hour after meals. On an empty stomach. In the evening - 20 drops of peony tincture.

How to bring down the temperature of a child

- What fees can be brewed for a cold for a child of 7 years old? food allergies No. But all sorts of acute respiratory viral infections are very frequent - we get sick five or six times a season. And is it possible to bring down the temperature with herbs?

In pharmacies there is a collection of phytogors (mint, lemon balm, sage, polygon). It is shown to children from 5 years. Plus breast collection with the addition of antipyretic herbs, such as linden flowers. To bring down the temperature with herbs during the day by 1 - 2 degrees is absolutely real.

But it is important to consider how much the child tolerates heat, whether there was an injury during childbirth, perinatal encephalopathy. If we are talking about a healthy and just a cold child, pediatricians even recommend that temperatures up to 38.3 - 38.5 degrees not be knocked down with medicines.

During infection, it is beneficial for our body to maintain elevated temperature to change the exchange, create unbearable living conditions for viruses or bacteria (microbes like body temperature more healthy person- 36.6 degrees).

But if a child has febrile convulsions, impaired consciousness, at 38.3 we begin to bring down the temperature! Everything needs common sense. Herbal treatment is a milder, but sometimes longer method.

And in acute situations, you need to call an ambulance and resort to emergency measures. The child should be rubbed with diluted vinegar or vodka. Plus drink plenty of water.

Pharmacies sell enterosgel - a silicone sorbent. A very convenient thing to remove additional intoxication of the body during colds. It can also be given to children.

If the vessels "crack" from the cold

- My head often hurts - from fatigue, tension, frost. This year, the whole of January is just bending over. They say weak blood vessels...

Weather sensitivity does not appear from scratch. It is important to know the features of your headache:

1. It is associated with insufficient blood supply to the arteries of the brain (pain like migraine) due to osteochondrosis, heart failure. In this case, decoctions of such herbs as loosestrife, briar, eyebright, rattle will be useful.

2. There is a violation of the venous outflow of blood (pressing pain, heaviness in the head). In this case, I advise a collection with primrose, horsetail, arnica, chestnut.

The ratio of herbs will depend on the predominant disorder.

And spasms of blood vessels, including the type of cold reaction, will help to remove the seeds of umbrella plants - cumin, fennel, chamomile, lemon balm, snakehead. Also, sweet warm spices - cardamom, cloves, cinnamon - have an antispasmodic effect. They can be added to a collection of herbs or tea.

Is it necessary to "steam" with a water bath?

- If we buy fees in a pharmacy, how to brew correctly? Insist on a water bath, as they say in the instructions? But it's so annoying...

But life shows that selection useful substances(extraction) occurs without it. So you can brew herbs like this: we take a glass teapot with a piston (this is a sieve, a dispenser, and just a beautiful little thing). At the bottom we put dry, better herbs a little crushed by hands and pour boiling water.

The beneficial properties of decoctions do not last long! Microbes begin to multiply there, and under their action various enzymatic transformations begin. Therefore, without a refrigerator, a decoction of medicinal herbs is stored for a day. In the refrigerator - two days.

BY THE WAY

Oil extract can be cooked... in the microwave

Herbal oil extract is a very valuable thing. It is effective if instilled with hoarseness, rhinitis, otitis media. And you can cook it without too much trouble right in the microwave! 3 - 4 tablespoons of dried herbs put in a cup of unrefined sunflower or olive oil(200 - 250 g). We put in the microwave oven for 10 - 15 minutes in medium mode. Take a larger container so that the extract does not spill over the edges.

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Hello everyone!

Recently, I very often have to deal with information that everything can be cured with drugs.

That they are much more effective than pills, and that modern medicine understands nothing of it.

That you need to seek salvation from various diseases in the recipes of traditional healers, in old books on traditional medicine, where herbs are one of the main components of any remedy.

Many really believe that herbal treatment is simple and very beneficial.

I do not quite agree with such a philistine statement and therefore I decided to write this post on how to be treated with herbs correctly and safely.

From this article you will learn:

How to be treated with herbs correctly and safely - the secrets of herbal medicine

I finished medical University, Faculty of Pharmacy.

And one of the most important and complex subjects that we studied on the course was pharmacognosy, the science of medicinal plants.

We studied this subject for five years, and it was more difficult to pass an exam in it or get a credit than in any chemistry or pharmacology.

How we taught these herbs, only those who studied there know.

We not only memorized the names of plants and their area of ​​application, but also worked with a microscope, did chemical reactions, determining chemical composition raw materials and its structure, considered the roots and leaves in the context, they sketched all this, memorized and crammed.

In the spring, we went to harvest medicinal raw materials, analyzed them using modern research methods and, of course, studied its full application.

I still remember a huge table filled with Petri dishes with dry medicinal raw materials, sometimes whole, sometimes crushed.

From this abundance, you had to choose what they would call you and prove that it was exactly that collection or that plant, by physical and chemical means.

Therefore, I can with great confidence refute the false statement that medicinal plants are the lot of knowledge of herbal grandmothers or traditional healers. official medicine knows no less, and even more about how to treat them and how to do it correctly.

It’s even hard for me to imagine how much new research is carried out annually for medicinal plants This science never stands still.

In the conditions of modern ecology, plants change their composition, which means that their scope may change or new contraindications may appear, and Newest technologies allow you to discover new medicinal properties known or unfamiliar plants.

Therefore, you should not rely so much on old folk healers, but it is best to buy a modern reference book of medicinal plants, which will indicate their chemical composition, medicinal properties and methods of application, as well as contraindications, and be sure to use them correctly.

Herbal treatment - important rules and tips

To begin with, I would like to voice several features of herbal treatment that few people pay attention to:

• Well, firstly, I immediately want to say that medicinal herbs do not work miracles, and it is impossible to cure all existing diseases with them!

If you hear somewhere a story about how a person completely cured himself with an infusion of oats or chamomile flowers from cancer in the fourth stage, consider that a miracle of healing simply happened to him, for the most part, thanks to his faith in himself, in God, in life, into this medicinal plant, or maybe he did something else that you don't know about.

Try herbs to treat muscular dystrophy, ALS, multiple sclerosis, meningitis...

• Herbal medicine is not as safe as many people think it is.

Medicinal raw materials can cause severe allergies, poisoning, start pathological processes in the body, negatively affect the development of the fetus in pregnant women, potency in men, and much more.

Therefore, before drinking any "harmless" herb, be sure to familiarize yourself with the possible side effects that it can give and its contraindications for use.

Particularly dangerous are illiterate medicinal fees, herbs collected in ecologically polluted areas, as well as taking herbs at the same time as medicines.

Always remember what time we live in, and plants, like people, absorb everything from the environment.

• A number of medicinal herbs have a strictly defined safe dose of use.

Roughly speaking, there are herbs that, in excess of the dosage, turn into poison.

• Medicinal herbs contain "harmful chemicals"

Well, I already hinted at this in paragraph 2, in addition to useful microelements, medicinal raw materials contain harmful ones (heavy metal salts). They are especially abundant in those that gathered along auto and railway roads and in other environmentally unfavorable places.

• Medicinal herbs should not be used for a long time and constantly

Some herbs are addictive, while others long-term use, depress the nervous system, cause an overdose, which is accompanied by negative consequences, so the course of treatment with herbs is individual.

For example, mint tea, with constant use, greatly lowers blood pressure, "safe" chamomile, with prolonged use, disrupts the absorption of iron, wormwood can provoke a violation nervous system, call for convulsions and fainting.

Therefore, "healing" with herbs from one disease, you can easily acquire another.

How to properly and safely treat with herbs?

So, remember the basic rules - how to be treated with herbs:

• In order for the grass to retain all the useful components, it is very important to collect it according to all the rules.

Taking into account the place of collection, the time of collection, as well as the conditions for its harvesting and drying. How to do this correctly, you can read in any good reference book of medicinal plants.

It is best to collect herbs yourself, following all the rules for harvesting, drying and storage.

Or buy medicinal herbs from time-tested manufacturers and specialized pharmacies, where you will be provided with all product quality certificates, including documents for its radiological control.

I do not advise anyone to buy herbs in the markets from unknown people, no one knows exactly what they may contain, where they were collected!

• You need to brew in a glass dish in a water bath.

This rule is important to follow because plants are able to interact with various chemical components and accumulate them in themselves, so boiling in metal, plastic dishes can be dangerous.

• In order to prepare an effective medicinal product from medicinal herbs, certain rules must be observed.

Medicinal raw materials are usually used in the form of water infusions and decoctions or alcohol tinctures.

The infusion is prepared from soft plant materials (flowers, leaves, herbs), decoctions from hard plant materials (roots, bark, dry fruits)

Usually infusions and decoctions are prepared in a ratio of 1:10

• How to prepare medicinal infusion?

We prepare raw materials, take 1 tablespoon of dry chopped grass. Pour a glass of hot water and boil in a water bath for 15 minutes. Then remove from heat and cool for 45 minutes. We filter.

• How to prepare a decoction of herbs?

We prepare raw materials, 1 tbsp. l per 1 glass of water, pour hot water and boil in a water bath for 30 minutes. Remove from heat and cool for 10 minutes. We filter hot.

The only exception is, which is prepared according to special rules.

It is not necessary to increase or decrease the time of boiling and infusion.

This is the optimal ratio in which all active ingredients leave the medicinal raw material in an infusion or decoction, do not change, are not inactivated, but act with optimal benefits for the body.

Strained infusion or decoction is brought to 100 ml with water and taken in the indicated dosage.

Shelf life of water infusions and decoctions - no more than three days in the refrigerator

• How to cook alcohol tincture on herbs?

Medicinal crushed raw materials are poured with 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:10, infused for 30 days in a dark, cool place, hermetically sealed, then filtered and stored in a cool, dark place for up to 6 months.

• It is necessary to take infusions and decoctions in accordance with the indicated dosage.
• When treating with herbs, they should not be used at the same time as medicines, alcohol, fatty and spicy foods.

Are herbs in sachets good for you?

I have an ambivalent relationship with them.

On the one hand, this is convenient, but on the other hand, the technology for preparing infusions and decoctions is absolutely violated.

And given that they are made like tea bags (low-quality raw materials after sifting), then it is better to buy herbs in bulk for treatment.

Well, and yet, I would like to voice such a moment as to be treated with herbs correctly.

When you come across some herbal treatment recommendation or herbal formula recipe, before you start using it, open a good reference book of medicinal plants (which lists the full chemical composition, structure, properties, etc.) and read:

• composition and contraindications of this medicinal raw material,
• pay attention to its dosage,
• component compatibility
• ways of application.

And only after that, make a decision whether to use this fee or not.

Some herbs today are credited with such incredible effects that you are amazed !!!

Therefore, before believing in another myth that some kind of herb or collection can cure, for example, alcoholism, read official studies, look at its chemical composition, what this herb has in it that can really help solve this problem and draw your own conclusions.

Well, and finally, I really love medicinal ones, I collect and prepare them myself.

I always have thyme, mint, oregano and many others at home.

I am convinced that at correct application, with certain diseases, they can have an effective therapeutic and cosmetic effect, restore strength and energy.

Therefore, be sure to use medicinal herbs, but do it correctly, and then, herbal medicine will bring real benefits to you and your body.

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How effective is herbal treatment?

Many of us are wondering how to recover without taking medication? One option is herbal treatment. This is a fairly ancient and traditional method of dealing with a variety of diseases. How effective is it now?

Let's start with the fact that a huge variety of herbs and plants serve as the basis and raw material for the manufacture of most medicines. Unlike them, herbs and herbal preparations act gently, sparingly and with little or no harm to the body. Of course, one of the significant disadvantages for a modern person, who has so little time for everything, can be considered a rather long period of treatment. However, the effect of the application is worth it. Quite often, it is with herbs that they treat protracted, chronic diseases. Also, such methods are useful in order to prevent various diseases, maintain the overall tone of the body.

Undoubtedly, the main thing in the effectiveness of the use of a particular herb will be how correctly it is selected. Regardless of whether a person is going to get rid of a sore throat or practice eye treatment with folk remedies, the issue of choosing drugs should be thoroughly understood. Indeed, many herbs have their own contraindications, some should not be used at the same time, and all these nuances should be taken into account so as not to harm herbal medicine, but to benefit. Checking compatibility issues concerns, first of all, St. John's wort, which can affect the activity of other herbs and fees in the direction of its increase or decrease.

It is necessary to select herbal preparations for a specific treatment individually, because each of us has his own characteristics of the body and its very different diseases. So in this case, what worked for one might not work for another. It is worth expecting at least some minimal effect no earlier than in a week, and the best indicators, especially in the treatment of chronic diseases, can be achieved only after a month.

Before taking this or that herbal collection or infusion, you need to study not only the indications, but also contraindications. For example, chamomile has beneficial properties in abundance - this is also a treatment respiratory tract, And beneficial effect on female organs, and soothing, and antiseptic. But it is not recommended for allergy sufferers and people with serious mental disorders.

For the most part, medicinal plants often contain useful compounds that are difficult to reproduce synthetically, and therefore they will be absorbed by the body better and with greater benefit. But herbal medicine, like other types of treatment, must be approached wisely and do not hesitate to seek help from specialists.

Good afternoon, dear guests of our collective blog! By occupation (I am a phytotherapeutist), I am often asked questions about which medicinal herbs help best with which disease.

To close this topic forever, I decided to prepare this article for you - a cheat sheet to which you can always return and draw the necessary information from it.

Man is so arranged that he cannot always be healthy! All of us, without exception, when we are sick with something and the first thing we do, we begin to swallow all kinds of pills with handfuls.

But many of them can be replaced with a great deal of success with medicinal plants. They even have some advantages over pills. The main advantage, of course, is that herbs act on the body much softer () than traditional ones. medications and practically do not cause addiction in the patient.

My article will tell you which plants and for which diseases it is most effective to use and how to do it correctly.

What herbs treat which diseases - a list - a cheat sheet for all occasions

Herbs for bronchitis, cough, tracheitis

Cough Recipes for Adults

• We take 2 tablespoons: sage leaf, calendula flowers, eucalyptus leaves, 1 tablespoon each: elecampane root, linden blossom, chamomile flowers.
• Next, you need to mix all the herbs, pour 1 tablespoon of this mixture with a glass of boiling water and heat in a water bath for 15 minutes.
• Then insist a little more and strain. Gargle with this infusion every 2 hours.

General weakness and increased fatigue

The following plants have an excellent ability to compensate for the lack of vitamins and add strength:

• black currant
• Rowan
• rose hip

Can be cooked very quickly healthy drink, like tea according to the following recipe:

• Pour 1 tablespoon of rose hips with a glass of boiling water and heat in a water bath for 15 minutes, then insist and strain.
• You can drink this drink instead of tea, 2 times a day, 1 glass.
• In the infusion, you can add rowan berries, blackcurrant leaves and nettles.

Herbs for varicose veins of the lower extremities

Reduce swelling and pain in the legs lower extremities fruits will help horse chestnut, St. John's wort, licorice roots, rowan fruits and chamomile flowers.

The collection is poured with boiling water at the rate of 1 tbsp. spoon on a glass of boiling water, then heated in a water bath for 15 minutes, infused and filtered. Drink with varicose veins 1/3 cup 3 times a day.

herbs for diarrhea

Oak bark will help get rid of diarrhea and normalize digestion. 1 - 2 tbsp. spoons of bark should be poured with boiling water, boiled for half an hour and strained. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day.

Herbs for constipation

• As a good laxative (about that), a decoction of brittle buckthorn bark helps a lot (at the rate of 20 grams of grass per 200 ml of water).
• For constipation, take 0.5 cup on an empty stomach in the morning and evening.

That's all. I hope that now you will be a little guided in which herbs for which diseases are the most effective. Of course, these are far from all recipes, in fact there are a great many of them. Subscribe to our blog update (the form at the top right) and you will always be up to date with the latest news from the world traditional medicine and not only! a lot of interesting articles, I and my colleagues guarantee you! Good luck!

Journalist Elena Egorova talks about some secrets of herbal medicine with a pharmacist, a hereditary herbalist, a member of the Society of Phytotherapists of St. Petersburg, the author of the books "I know about herbs ..." and "Hemlock - a healer of oncological and other diseases" Lidia Nikolaevna Dyakonova.

How long should herbal treatment take? What mistakes do people make more often in herbal medicine: do they drink the grass they need for too short a period of time, or, conversely, for too long?

L. D. More often, people take medicinal herbs for a shorter period of time than they should: they feel better and stop drinking the herb. However chronic diseases, such as diseases of the joints, tumors are treated for a long time. For example, tumors thyroid gland, mastopathy, fibroma should be treated with herbs from several months to a year, or rather, until a complete cure.
In the case of cancer, after surgical removal of the tumor, medicinal herbs should be drunk for 5 years so that there is no recurrence, and it is advisable to alternate antitumor herbs. Among the best plants that prevent cancer recurrence is the Siberian prince - these properties have long been valued in Tibetan medicine. It is advisable to use it to prevent relapses and hemlock, which kills tumor cells - and after all, all tumor cells cannot be removed from the body with a knife. Hemlock is taken 1 time per day, in the morning 1 hour before meals according to the scheme from 1 drop to 40 drops (on the first day they take 1 drop, on the second - 2 drops, on the third - 3, etc.) and back from 40 to 1 drop. After such an 80-day course of treatment with hemlock, a week-long break is taken. During this period, herbs are used that cleanse the body of intoxication. In Siberia, for these purposes, the kopeck forest is most often used. Where lespedeza is rare, burdock root or wormwood herb can be used. I often prescribe a collection of six herbs for cleansing from intoxication: wormwood, immortelle, yarrow, dill, St. John's wort and birch leaf. 1 teaspoon of finely ground collection should be poured with a glass of boiling water, insist, strain and drink, without sweetening, during the day.
Another thing is the intake of herbs containing cardiac glycosides, which include such a sensational plant as hellebore. There are even cases of hellebore poisoning due to ignorance of the people who used it, the characteristics of this plant and the rules for its use. The general rule for using poisonous plants is to start with very small doses. So, finely ground hellebore root powder is first taken in an amount of 5 mg (which in appearance corresponds to the size of a small match head) once a day, in the morning on an empty stomach, with a glass of water.
After a three-week intake of hellebore, you need to take a week break. At the same time, in parallel with hellebore, as well as during weekly breaks in its intake, it is necessary to drink diuretic herbs, such as rose hips (possible in the form of compote), birch leaf, currant or lingonberry. In addition, it has long been noted that hellebore is most effective in the cold transitional season - in autumn and spring. The dose of hellebore can be increased by a third in about three weeks.
Digitalis, spring adonis, jaundice also contain cardiac glycosides, so after every three weeks of taking any of these herbs, a week break is taken, during which they drink diuretic herbs.

Lidia Nikolaevna, you said that diseases of the joints are also treated with herbs for a long time. How long and with what herbs?

L. D. Avicenna wrote that joints should be treated for four seasons, that is, a year, but usually it takes even two years to treat them.
In diseases of the joints, herbs with anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial effects are used that affect the skeletal system, as well as herbs that activate the kidneys, Bladder and having a diuretic effect, because the infection needs to be washed out of the body. These herbs include lingonberry leaf, high elecampane, heather, knotweed, birch leaf, meadow geranium, marsh cinquefoil, horsetail.
Some medicinal plants, having a slight diuretic effect, help to remove salts that are unnecessary for the body, which are deposited in the joints. For these purposes, along with the already mentioned birch leaf, lingonberry leaf and knotweed, you can also use blackcurrant leaf, pharmacy asparagus, goldenrod, burdock root, rosehip root, common cocklebur.
Preparations from herbs and fees with anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial action are not only taken orally, but also rubbed with them on the joints.
It should be noted that in the treatment of tumor diseases, they also combine the internal intake of herbs with the external use of the same herbs, for example, in fibromyomas, bandages soaked in a medicinal infusion are made on the stomach.

How should herbal intake be related to food intake?

L. D. Herbs for the treatment of the liver and gallbladder should be taken 15-30 minutes before meals, and with a diseased liver, herbs are best taken in the form of infusions and decoctions, rather than alcohol tinctures.
If you are treating a sick stomach or intestines, then take the herb you need 30 minutes before eating.
In kidney herbal medicine, the appropriate herbs are taken an hour and a half before a meal or an hour after a meal - after all, the kidneys must, on the one hand, be washed, and on the other hand, the medicinal substances of the herbs should not be washed.
For the treatment of cancer, poisonous plants are used (celandine, periwinkle, mistletoe, etc.). Poisonous plants, as a rule, are taken once a day, in the morning an hour before meals and washed down with plenty of water (at least 100 ml).

Do I need to take breaks from taking herbs that are not poisonous?

L. D. Need to. The fact is that if you take any herb or herbal preparation for a long time, without taking breaks in taking it, then the body gets used to the phytotherapeutic effect, and as a result healing effect decreases significantly.
Some herbs require particularly skillful application. For example, wormwood cannot be used for a long time - this herb is taken no more than a week a month. The fact is that its long-term use is harmful to the stomach and the brain (it dries out the brain, as Avicenna wrote). Tansy, a bitter and rather toxic herb, is also not recommended to be taken for more than a week a month.
Some herbs are abortifacient and therefore contraindicated during pregnancy. These herbs include oregano, burnet, gentian, tansy.

What general rules the compatibility of herbs with each other should be adhered to?

L. D. Herbs that have a calming and tonic effect do not combine with each other, so they are not consumed in one go. The former include valerian, motherwort, evasive peony, blue cyanosis, mint, lemon balm, hop cones. To the second - eleutherococcus, Manchurian aralia, lemongrass, high lure, Rhodiola rosea, ginseng. However, you can take a tonic herb in the morning, and a calming herb in the evening of the same day.
Diuretic and laxative herbs are not taken at the same time, as they weaken the effect of each other. Laxative herbs (zhoster, hay, buckthorn) should not be used every day. If you suffer from constipation, take laxative herbs every other day, preferably at night.
When receiving such strong remedy, like hemlock, even the food consumed by the patient is important. Immediately after taking hemlock, it is not recommended to consume tea, coffee, milk and lactic acid products, as well as acidic foods such as grapefruit, lemons, oranges, sour apples, sauerkraut and dishes seasoned with vinegar. But within a few hours after taking the hemlock (say, at lunch), these products can be consumed. Smoking and alcohol also reduce the effect of hemlock.
Some herbs do not combine with hemlock: at the same time, wormwood, ferula, celandine, periwinkle should not be taken with it.

Probably, it is important not only to choose the right medicinal herb, but also to prepare medicine from it correctly?

L. D. Yes, sure. Although I would like to emphasize that good recipe not suitable for everyone. The fact is that each person has his own characteristics, his own health problems, and herbs can have side effect. For example, galangal and St. John's wort fix, St. John's wort increases pressure - all this must be taken into account.
Now about the preparation of medicines from herbs. The roots and bark of medicinal plants are usually boiled. So, they boil the root of calamus, the roots of galangal and wild rose, the bark of oak, so that they give their healing substances into the solution. In addition, a decoction of oak bark, rich in tannins, does not need to be infused for more than 20 minutes - it is filtered while still warm.
Contrary to general rule, the roots of plants such as burdock and marshmallow do not need to be boiled, although people often try to do this. The fact is that the active principles of these medicinal roots containing mucus dissolve in water precisely at room temperature.
Some herbs should not be boiled because their active ingredients are destroyed by boiling. These herbs include European dodder. And when the meadowsweet is boiled, an unpleasant pharmacy smell appears, so the cold method of infusion of plant materials is also appropriate for this plant. Pour the meadowsweet with water at room temperature overnight, and strain in the morning.
And one more piece of advice. Because essential oils break down quickly in solution, plants rich in essential oils, insist no more than 10-15 minutes, filter and immediately apply. Such herbs include wild rosemary, mint, lemon balm, chamomile, sage, buds and pine needles. These plants, rich in essential oils, are useful for inhalation for colds.

If you have any questions for L. N. Dyakonova, you can ask them on the website www.fito-lux.spb.ru

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