The most useful herbs

Phytotherapy is a method of treatment of various diseases using medicinal plants and preparations from them. Medicinal herbs are widely used in herbal medicine due to its affordability and high biological activity. The most popular and the most useful herbs are: mugwort, marigold, hellebore, dandelion, shepherd's purse and plantain.

You will need

• For a first experience in fitoterapia you will need the dry grass. They can collect and dry your own or buy in a pharmacy.

Instruction

1. Wormwood. Tinctures and alcoholic drops of wormwood administered to patients with reduced secretion of the stomach. It increases the appetite, improves the functioning of pancreas, it has choleretic action. Wormwood take in diseases of the liver, gall bladder, anemia. Wormwood compresses relieve inflammation and pain from bruises, grazes, sprains, insect bites.
2. Calendula officinalis. This plant has anti-inflammatory properties. Oil and tinctures of calendula are used in the treatment of inflammatory skin diseases. Calendula is indicated for gastritis with high acidity, gastric ulcer, duodenal ulcer, inflammatory bowel diseases. It also has choleretic properties. In gynecology, douching decoction of calendula heals cervical erosion, its infusion is indicated for the menopause. Calendula is useful for the cores, it reduces swelling, palpitations and shortness of breath.
3. Hellebore Caucasian. Hellebore is often used by people who want to lose weight. It improves metabolism and reduces appetite. Hellebore is used in heart failure. He also cleans the bronchi, relieves asthma attacks.
4. The dandelion is. Is used for gastritis with low acidity, Dandelion normalizes the production of enzymes of the gastrointestinal tract, improves appetite, stops inflammatory processes. It helps in chronic constipation, and cholecystitis. Infusions of dandelion to treat inflammation of the kidneys and bladder. Decoction is effective in the inflammation of the lymph nodes in this disease such as gout. Also, infusion of dandelion eliminate inflammation and skin blemishes.
5. Shepherd's purse. This plant is very useful for hypertensive patients. Infusion shepherd's purse reduces blood pressure and strengthens the walls of blood vessels. In addition, this plant is an excellent styptic. Shepherd's bag prescribed for uterine, pulmonary, intestinal bleeding. It stops diarrhea and relieves hepatic colic.
6. Plantain. Since childhood, known to all as a remedy for abrasions, cuts and insect bites. To wounds can be applied fresh, clean, slightly mashed with your hands leaves. As effective psyllium for the treatment of inflammatory skin diseases. Inside the plantain used in the bleeding of the digestive tract, colitis, and nephritis. Psyllium seed is used for the treatment of infertility, with cracked nipples in nursing mothers, as well as conjunctivitis.