Meadowsweet or meadowsweet meadowsweet: description, useful and negative properties. cooking recipes

Mar-13-2017

What is a labaznik?

Meadowsweet or Meadowsweet (lat. Filipéndula) is a genus of perennial herbs of the Rosaceae family. It has 10-13 species growing in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere.

Fortunately, the meadowsweet has retained its attachment to man and his housing and successfully thrives on the "hundred parts" and hectares of our estates, especially they are not located in the zone of "eternal dryness". The meadowsweet (this is her another name) loves wet, calm places and does not like to be disturbed. The stately and graceful meadowsweet becomes even more beautiful when its white airy flowers bloom, forming clouds of delicate inflorescences. And this happens at the very end of June. You can admire this beauty until mid-August. Meadowsweet is famous not only for the beauty of its inflorescences, but also for its surprisingly delicate honey aroma. This aroma is preserved both in infusions and in tea. It is not for nothing that the meadowsweet is called the honeydew, the marsh honeydew. This plant is widely used for medicinal purposes in Europe, Mongolia, North America.

Elm-leaved meadowsweet (F. ulmaria) is a common inhabitant of wet places. In almost any ravine, a roadside damp ditch, on the shore of a reservoir in July-August, its tall, sometimes up to 2 m tall, stems rise, crowned with dense paniculate inflorescences of small, very fragrant flowers with long stamens sticking out in all directions, which makes the slightly yellowish inflorescence seem fluffy .

The whole plant contains a large amount of methyl salicylate - a substance with a strong characteristic odor, which you know if you have used any ointment for rheumatism at least once, especially those made on the basis of snake or bee venom.

Methyl salicylate is a strong anti-inflammatory agent. This allows you to use meadowsweet for rheumatism, colds, sore throats. In addition, there are many tannins in the roots, they are suitable for tanning leather. The smell of methyl salicylate is so strong that it breaks even through the honey aroma of inflorescences. According to recent studies, meadowsweet has taken pride of place in the ranks of medicinal plants. Its action is interesting and varied, for example, it quickly relieves any nausea, including seasickness, and it is enough to insist the leaves or flowers in cold water. Infusion of meadowsweet flowers works like aspirin, lowering blood clotting, reducing fever during colds, and at the same time improves cerebral circulation.

The flowers are used as a tea substitute and to make a delicious floral wine (although it smells a bit of a pharmacy, but many people like it). Very young greens in early spring, while methyl salicylate has not yet accumulated, smell like cucumbers, but have a strong astringent taste. It is used in the Caucasus for pickling mixed with other wild plants. Fresh flowers are used in salads, especially fruit salads, and to decorate cocktails and desserts. To do this, they need to be cut off from the pedicels.

You need to collect flowers at the beginning of flowering, dry in the shade when airing, otherwise the flowers become moldy and acquire a very strong pharmacy smell.

Medicinal properties of the meadowsweet:

Elm-leaved meadowsweet - your assistant for maintaining healthy blood vessels in diabetes

Meadowsweet is a natural aspirin. It contains methyl salicylate and salicylaldehyde. And the roots of the plant contain a large amount of ascorbic acid. By the way, this acid is present, however, in smaller quantities in grass and flowers. With diabetes, infusions, tinctures, tea are an important component in the treatment.

Firstly, meadowsweet has the ability to reduce and even prevent blood clots. And this, as you understand, is extremely important in diabetes. Diabetes is often accompanied by obesity, hypertension, diseases of the nervous system. Means prepared using meadowsweet help mitigate the negative effects of diabetes on the body. Meadowsweet has a tonic, vasodilating, choleretic, astringent, diuretic, antitoxic and anthelmintic properties.

Meadowsweet preparations are widely used by the people in cases of muscle and joint damage with rheumatism. It is used as a diuretic for diseases of the kidneys and bladder, as an analgesic for inflammatory processes in the stomach. The meadowsweet performs well in the treatment of certain oncological diseases. A decoction of the herb helps with bronchial asthma, bronchitis, pneumonia. It has been established that a 20% herb tincture with 20% alcohol has an antibacterial effect and promotes the rapid epithelialization of trophic ulcers.

Neuralgia, intercostal neuralgia, neuritis of the facial and trigeminal nerves are treated with meadowsweet; inflammation of the sciatic nerve, it is used for epilepsy, and also as a sedative. Unexpectedly, the meadowsweet is also beneficial in other diseases.

Meadowsweet contraindications:

Meadowsweet is low toxic. But you can not use it for a long time with hypotension. The meadowsweet has to be abandoned in colitis with persistent constipation. Meadowsweet contains salicylates (salicylic aldehyde, methyl salicylic ether), having a diaphoretic effect - therefore, it is advisable to sit at home for an hour or two so as not to catch a cold. And keep an eye on your blood.

Meadowsweet treatment of various diseases:

So, what does meadowsweet treat? Due to its composition, meadowsweet is used as a tonic, tonic, sedative, bactericidal, diuretic, astringent, hemostatic, vasodilator, sedative, antipyretic, wound healing and anthelmintic agent. The choleretic, diaphoretic and diuretic properties of the meadowsweet are also known, the plant is able to enhance the cleansing function of the liver and relieve headaches. Meadowsweet-based preparations are used for rheumatic joint lesions, diabetes mellitus, and can be used to combat viruses.

Meadowsweet from atherosclerosis:

With atherosclerosis, a tendency to thrombosis, impaired peripheral circulation, hypertension, it is good to prepare an infusion of 2 tbsp. l. meadowsweet herbs.

Pour this herb with cold (20 °) boiled water (250 ml) and soak for 8-10 hours. The norm at a time is one third of a glass. One glass should be drunk per day. Take a drink 15 minutes before a meal. Course 21 days. After a break (a week), repeat the course for a long time. At least at least 3 months, and preferably 6. Pay attention to the temperature of the water used - it should be at room temperature. This is due to the fact that salicylates should be one of the main active components in the infusion. And they do not tolerate hot water: they quickly decompose. If other substances play a major role in the prepared infusions, for example, steroids, catechins, phenolic compounds and other active substances, then the grass (roots) can be poured with boiling water, heated over low heat for 15 minutes or infused, also in hot water until cool.

Meadowsweet for diabetes:

Alcohol tincture:

• Meadowsweet roots - 50 g,
• vodka - 0.5 l.

Cooking:

Pour finely chopped meadowsweet roots with vodka and insist in a dark place for a week. Shake the vessel periodically. Take at first 7 drops, bringing the dose to 14 drops, diluted in 3 tbsp. l. cold water.

Meadowsweet flower tea:

• Meadowsweet flowers - 2 tsp,
• water (hot, 70 °) - 1 glass.

Cooking:

Pour hot water over the flowers, leave for 10 minutes and drink. Tea is useful for both healthy and sick people. In particular, with colds, rheumatism, arthritis. It is good to add lemon balm, calendula flowers, currant leaves and strawberries to this herbal tea in a ratio of 1:1:1:1. In this case, the technology of making tea changes somewhat. All of the above components are brewed with boiling water, and after the tea has cooled to 70 °, meadowsweet flowers are added.

Infusion of the root, grass and meadowsweet flowers for diseases of the bladder, kidneys, indigestion:

• Collection of meadowsweet - 2 tbsp. l.,
• boiling water - 0.5 l.

Cooking:

Grass, flowers, meadowsweet roots pour boiling water, leave for 4 hours, strain. Drink half a glass 3 times a day before meals. Course 21 days.

Based on the book by Rosa Volkova “Diabetes. Full course of treatment. Author's method.

More recipes:

Meadowsweet for hepatitis:

1 tablespoon of dry grass is placed in a glass of water, boiled over low heat for 3-4 minutes, insisted for 2 hours. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3 times a day before meals.

Meadowsweet from edema of cardiac origin:

1 teaspoon of flowers is poured with a glass of boiling water, insisted for 1 hour, filtered. Drink half a glass 3 times a day before meals.

Meadowsweet for psoriasis:

Mix 1 part flower powder with 4 parts vaseline (or other fat). Lubricate the affected areas.

Treatment with meadowsweet for polyps of the stomach and intestines:

1 full tablespoon of grass pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, let it boil for 2-3 minutes, leave for 2 hours, strain. Take a third cup 4-5 times a day before meals and in between meals. Course up to 2 months.

Treatment of diseases of the kidneys and bladder with meadowsweet:

For diseases of the kidneys and bladder, including the stomach, pour 2 teaspoons of flowers with a glass of boiling water, leave for 4 hours and drink 1/3 cup 4 times before meals.

Meadowsweet for women:

Treatment of female infertility:

Here it is necessary to take equal parts of meadowsweet flowers, red clover flowers and linden flowers by weight. Chop, mix. 3 tablespoons of the mixture pour 1 liter of boiling water, close the lid and leave for 2 hours. Drink 1 glass 2 times a day half an hour before meals.

Based on the book by Rim Bilalovich Akhmedov "Plants are your friends and foes."

Meadowsweet meadowsweet or meadowsweet- Filipendula ulmaria (L.) Maxim. - a perennial herb from the Rosaceae family with a strong creeping rhizome. The stem is erect, 60-100 cm high (sometimes reaches a height of 2 m), ribbed, often reddening, ending in a multi-flowered inflorescence.
The leaves are alternate, dense, intermittently pinnatisected, with 2-5 pairs of large ovate-lanceolate leaflets and several pairs of small ones, with large and small leaflets alternating with each other. The terminal unpaired leaf is much larger than the lateral ones, it is 3-, 5-parted. Pinnate venation is clearly expressed on the plates of the leaflets, their edges are crenate or serrate, dark green above, glabrous, silvery on the underside due to thin felt pubescence. Leaves are equipped with large stipules.
Small white flowers with a very strong smell are collected in large numbers in the apical corymbose-paniculate inflorescence. Calyx of 5 green sepals. Corolla 6-8 mm in diameter, with 5 yellowish-white petals. The stamens in each flower are numerous - from 20 to 40, their threads are twice as long as the petals. Pistils 6-10, they are with the upper ovary.
Blooms from June to August. Flowers are pollinated by insects. The fruits ripen in July - September. The fruit is a multi-nutlet, which breaks up into spirally twisted nuts when ripe. Meadowsweet meadowsweet is propagated both by seed and vegetatively - due to rhizomes.

Meadowsweet spread

The range of the meadowsweet covers the whole of Europe, the Caucasus, Asia Minor and Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Siberia, and Mongolia. In our country, it grows in the forest and forest-steppe zone of European Russia, the North Caucasus, Western and Eastern Siberia.
The plant is moisture-loving, therefore it grows only in well-watered areas. Raw and swampy meadows, the bottoms of forest ravines are the favorite habitats of this plant. Here the meadowsweet meadowsweet forms extensive dense thickets, which are visible from afar by its high flowering shoots. It also occurs along the banks of streams and rivers, the coasts of lakes, ditches, in grassy swamps, in black alder and other damp deciduous forests. In addition to sufficient moisture, meadowsweet habitats are characterized, as a rule, by high fertility.

Economic use of meadowsweet

Meadowsweet in all its parts contains a large amount of tannins. Extracts from its rhizomes and herbs are suitable for tanning and dyeing leather black. The herb has been widely used in veterinary medicine. In the old days in Rus', thin and strong rods were used to make ramrods.
Good honey plant. Bees collect considerable bribes from flowering meadowsweet. And beekeepers even rub the inner walls of the hives with this fragrant grass. In the Caucasus, young shoots of meadowsweet are eaten in salads. The flowers, and to a lesser extent the leaves, served here and there as a surrogate for tea.

Medicinal value of meadowsweet and methods of therapeutic use of meadowsweet

In folk medicine, inflorescences, underground and aboveground parts of meadowsweet are used.
This herb in the common people was known as the "forty capricorn" - a remedy for forty ailments.
Grass should be collected during flowering, dried in the shade with good ventilation or in dryers, stored in tight packages. The roots are dug up in the fall, cleaned of the earth and dried in attics under an iron roof or in dryers, stored in bags. When harvesting, it is necessary to leave part of the full-fledged plants intact for renewal.
In addition to tannins, the plant contains essential oil, flavonoids, mucus, salts of salicylic acid. It is these compounds that determine its healing properties.
Medications from the meadowsweet vyazolistny have a diuretic and diaphoretic effect. They are used for gout and rheumatism, as well as against dropsy. In some cases, the infusion of this plant is used to "bring down" the temperature.

An infusion of meadowsweet is prepared using the simplest technology: 1-2 teaspoons of crushed dry flowers (or other raw materials) are poured into 1/4 liter of boiling water and left to infuse for 10 minutes. The infusion is filtered and drunk 1 glass 2 times a day in small sips.

Traditional healers use meadowsweet in the treatment of nephritis as a diuretic, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial agent.
The grass collected at the beginning of flowering is brewed at the rate of 1 tablespoon per 1 glass of water. This is the daily dose, which should be taken in fractional portions throughout the day. Meadowsweet can be combined with birch leaves and buds, hernia grass, horsetail, juniper cones.

Homeopathic medicine Spiraea ulmaria from fresh rhizomes of meadowsweet is valued as a good remedy for chronic and acute articular rheumatism, and helps with sciatica.
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And put it in a bag at Petrov's post.
Keep in the barn, treat the children,
Rub the joints
God bless the Lord!
Wash your wounds
Dispels convulsions
Happiness in the house settles.
God bless you and the whole good family!

In folk medicine, meadowsweet is used to treat throat and chest diseases, aches, suffocation, hernias, dysentery, gastrointestinal disorders, and anemia. Dry flowers (in powder) are sprinkled on scalded places, inhaled into the nostrils to get rid of a runny nose. Flowers and rhizomes are used for rheumatism, roots - for dysentery, hypertension, and a decoction of the roots - for washing festering wounds. Sometimes they use grass and rhizomes for malignant tumors.

The herb is known as a hemostatic and astringent in the form of an infusion: 1 tablespoon of chopped herb in 1 cup of water, drink 1/4 cup 2-3 times a day.

An equally effective hemostatic agent is a decoction of meadowsweet roots: pour 2 teaspoons of dry crushed roots with 1 cup of boiling water, leave in a boiling water bath for 30 minutes, cool at room temperature for 10 minutes, strain. Take 1/4 cup 3-4 times daily before meals.

It has been established that a 20% alcohol tincture of the herb has an antibacterial effect and promotes the rapid granulation and epithelization of wounds, ulcers and burns, that is, it can be used as a wound healing agent. Recent studies have shown that preparations from meadowsweet flowers have a calming and anticonvulsant effect on the central nervous system, reduce capillary permeability and reduce the formation of erosions and ulcers in the stomach. They treat well rheumatism, colds, arthralgia. Preparations from the roots of the plant have a similar effect. Infusions from the herb meadowsweet show a pronounced anticoagulant (preventing blood clotting and the formation of blood clots) and antidiabetic effect. The nodules are used for leukemia, the root and decoction of the roots - when bitten by rabid animals and snakes.
15 g of meadowsweet flowers per 1 liter of boiling water. Insist, wrapped, 3 hours, strain. Take for gout, salt deposition, 1/4 cup 4 times a day.

Some patients cannot stand valerian at all. In such cases, meadowsweet can come to the rescue. More than once I have seen how grass and meadowsweet flowers are used in the villages. The usual measure in such cases is 2-3 pinches of chopped herbs per 1 cup of boiling water, drunk instead of tea. Meadowsweet has not only a sedative, but also an anticonvulsant effect, improves sleep. And you can use this plant fearlessly, it does not have any contraindications.
A decoction of roots and flowers can be used for douching with whites: pour 20 g of roots with 1 liter of boiling water, leave in a sealed container in a boiling water bath for 30 minutes, strain.

A more concentrated decoction (2 tablespoons of herbs per cup of boiling water) is used externally as painkillers and anti-inflammatory poultices for various women's diseases.

Meadowsweet recipes for medical nutrition

Young shoots and roots are used as food for making salads, and flowers for making tea.

Salad from meadowsweet shoots
Young leaves are finely chopped, mixed with chopped dill, parsley, onion. Season with vegetable oil (or mayonnaise), salt, add a chopped egg. 100 g of young shoots, and parsley, green onions, tablespoons of vegetable oil (or mayonnaise), egg, salt.

Meadowsweet soup
Put in the meat broth, onions, carrots and cook until almost cooked. Season with finely chopped greens of young shoots of the meadowsweet, parsley and cook until cooked for 5-7 minutes. Served with sour cream and boiled egg. 0.5 l of broth, 2 potato tubers, 1 carrot, 1 onion, 100 g of young shoots of meadowsweet, parsley, salt.

Tea from meadowsweet flowers
The flowers are air-dried in the shade or in an oven and stored in paper bags.
One teaspoon of finely chopped flowers is brewed with 1 cup of boiling water, insisted for 5 minutes. and drink like tea.

Elm-leaved meadowsweet - a representative of the genus Filipendula, numbering more than 15 species, of which 8 can be found in the CIS, belongs to the Rosaceae family.

Meadows are ubiquitous. This is a beautiful plant with a honey-sweet-scented strong smell. Many species are grown near houses, as ornamentals, and are honey plants. Some representatives, such as the six-petaled meadowsweet and the meadowsweet, are used in cooking, used as a substitute for tea, as a multivitamin remedy.

The meadowsweet is elmous. Other names

Latin name: Filipendula ulmaria (L.) Maxim. (Spiraea ulmaria L.)

Other names: meadowsweet, oregano, whitehead, white grass, magpie.

Other types of meadowsweet

In addition to the meadowsweet, this genus includes the following species, to one degree or another, with useful and medicinal properties:

• meadowsweet - Spiraea crenata L. (Serenildfia C. A. Meu),
• meadowsweet - Spiraea hipericifolia L.,
• meadowsweet willow - Spiraea salicifolia L.,
• Siberian meadowsweet - Spiraea sibirica,
• meadowsweet average - Spiraea Franz Schmidt,
• meadowsweet six-petal - Filipendula hexapetala Gileb.,
• palm-shaped meadowsweet,
• meadowsweet Kamchatka, shalamaynik - Filipenduia camtshatica (Pall.) Maxim. (Spiraea camtshatica Pall.), etc.

Botanical characteristic

The meadowsweet is a perennial herbaceous plant. Height - 1.5-2 m. Creeping thin fibrous roots. The stem is straight, smooth, ribbed, branched in the upper part, all covered with leaves.

The leaves are similar to elm leaves (hence the name of the species), intermittently pinnately dissected. They consist of 3-4 pairs of lateral oval pointed incised-serrate leaflets, between which are small double-serrate intercalated lobules. At the top is one large sheet, divided into 3-5 lobes. The leaves are pubescent, the color is dark green above, whitish below.

The flowers are small white, yellow-white or cream, collected in a sprawling panicle (up to 20 cm long) at the top of the stem. Very fragrant.

The fruit is a polynutlet, breaking up into spirally twisted nuts.

Blossoms in May-June, fruits ripen in July-August.

Habitat

Meadowsweet (whitehead) is common in the European part of the CIS (Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Russia), in the Caucasus, in Western and Eastern Siberia, in Central Asia and Mongolia.

The plant prefers damp wet wetlands. It can be found in the forest and forest-steppe zones in sparse forests, in glades, along the slopes of beams, in wet marshy meadows, near water bodies among other moisture-loving herbs.

In river valleys / in floodplains, along the shores of lakes,

Procurement and collection of whitehead (meadowsweet)

Meadowsweet meadowsweet is a plant recognized by both folk and official medicine. For medicinal purposes, the leaves and flowers of the plant are used, less often the roots.

The aerial part is harvested during flowering. Drying the flowers of the meadowsweet should be done quickly to avoid their blackening. Shelf life is one year.

The roots of the plant are dug up in early spring or autumn, shaken off the ground, washed in cold water. The raw materials are dried, as usual, in the shade or in a well-ventilated area, spreading a thin layer, while not forgetting to periodically loosen to avoid decay. Shelf life is three years.

Raw materials are stored in paper, canvas bags, boxes. Flowers can be stored in closed glass jars.

Chemical composition

Meadowsweet meadowsweet has a high content of tannins. In their leaves - 13.3-35.46%, in stems - 3.26-12.97%, in rhizomes - 11.82-39.5%. In addition, a high percentage of ascorbic acid (376 mg%) and carotene were found in the grass of the plant. Therefore, it, like flowers, has long been used to make fragrant healing vitamin tea, especially popular in Siberia.

Also, the aerial part of the meadowsweet contains phenolic compounds, phenol glycosides (spirein, etc.), chalcones, caffeic and ellagic acids, catechins, flavonoids (hyperoside and avicularin), steroids, higher fatty acids (stearic, linoleic, etc.), essential oil and aromatic compounds (vanillin, methyl salicylate, salicylaldehyde, heliotropin, terpene), as well as free salicylic acid.

In addition to tannins, ascorbic acid, traces of coumarins, phenolic compounds, phenol glycosides (spirein, monotropitin), flavonoids and chalcones were found in the roots of the plant.

Useful and medicinal properties of meadowsweet

Elm-leaved meadowsweet has numerous useful and medicinal properties:

• vasodilator,
• painkillers,
• anti-inflammatory,
• hemostatic,
• wound healing,
• antiulcer,
• diaphoretic,
• expectorant,
• sedative
• diuretic,
• antirheumatic,
• astringent,
• anthelmintic,
• restorative.

The therapeutic effect of meadowsweet on the body

In order for the treatment to be effective and not bring any undesirable complications, all the medicinal properties and contraindications of the meadowsweet should be taken into account, and this can only be done by a doctor who is well acquainted with herbal medicine. Therefore, before you start taking herbal preparations, consult a doctor you trust, the information below is for guidance only.

Cardiovascular diseases

The healing properties of whitehead have been used in diseases of the cardiovascular system. An infusion of flowers and a decoction of the roots help with high blood pressure, due to which the pressure drops by about 40% in just 20 minutes.

In addition, the infusion of the aerial part of the plant helps to eliminate edema of various origins.

Gastrointestinal diseases

Useful and healing properties of the whitehead extend to the gastrointestinal tract. Infusion of herbs is used for inflammatory processes and pain in the stomach and intestines, indigestion, diarrhea and dysentery, and other similar conditions. This remedy helps to establish reduced intestinal motility, they are treated with hemorrhoids, and worms are expelled.

Also, as an astringent, the roots of the plant are used for dysentery.

Respiratory diseases

Phytotherapy has found application for the meadowsweet for the treatment of throat and various diseases of the broncho-pulmonary system. Infusion of herbs is used orally as a diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory and expectorant, for colds, including pneumonia and bronchitis, as well as flu, cough. It is also used for gargling.

In addition, the decoction is drunk for pulmonary tuberculosis (especially with hemoptysis) and bronchial asthma.

Oncology

For women

The medicinal properties of meadowsweet are used to treat gynecological diseases. An infusion of herbs is drunk with uterine bleeding, as well as in the form of a collection for infertility. In addition, both grass and roots are used for douching with whites and other similar pathologies.

Also, an infusion of the aerial part of the plant shows good results as a rinse for enhancing hair growth.

For the liver

Diseases of the bladder and kidneys

Official and traditional medicine use the medicinal properties of meadowsweet (both roots and grass) as a diuretic and anti-inflammatory agent for diseases of the kidneys and bladder, such as nephritis, cystitis, etc. In addition, the herb infusion is an effective remedy for pain in the kidneys.

Diseases of the nervous system

It has a benefit for the treatment of diseases of the nervous system. For these purposes, preparations of all parts of the plant are used. They are used for hysteria, convulsions, epilepsy, insomnia, as a sedative (sedative) remedy.

For joints and muscles

The medicinal properties of meadowsweet have proven themselves well for eliminating problems with muscles and joints. To do this, decoctions and infusions of the plant are used as rubbing, compresses, lotions, baths for various joint diseases, polyarthritis, rheumatism, radiculitis, gout, osteomyelitis (it has a strong antimicrobial effect). This remedy helps with various neuralgia and neuritis.

In addition, preparations from all parts of the plant are taken orally for rheumatism and gout.

Skin diseases

Preparations of all parts of the plant are used for rubbing, compresses, baths for certain skin diseases, such as furunculosis and psoriasis.

An ointment made from fat obtained from fresh river fish is used by folk medicine to treat eczema.

Wounds, ulcers, burns...

Numerous properties of the whitehead have been widely used for various injuries of the skin. Decoctions and infusions from the roots or aerial parts of the plant are used to treat wounds (including those that do not heal for a long time), ulcers, burns, diaper rash, etc. They have a hemostatic, wound healing and anti-inflammatory effect.

For these purposes, make lotions, rinses, powders (powdered leaves), ointment. It has been practically proven that a 20% herb tincture in 20% alcohol has a pronounced antibacterial effect and promotes faster healing of trophic ulcers.

For bites of poisonous snakes and animals, traditional medicine has long recommended making lotions at the bite site or applying chopped grass. In addition, it is necessary to drink a decoction of the plant.

Dosage forms and prescriptions

Herb infusion

1 tsp herbs meadowsweet vyazolistny pour 200 ml. boiling water, cover, warm and leave for 2 hours. Strain, squeeze raw materials.

Take 1 tbsp. 3 times a day before meals.

Root decoction for internal use

1 tsp the roots of the meadowsweet elmous (whitehead) pour 400 ml. water, bring to a boil and boil in an enamel bowl on the lowest heat for 15 minutes. Remove from heat, cover, warm and leave for 45 minutes. Strain through 2-3 layers of gauze, squeeze out the raw materials, bring the resulting broth with boiled water to the original volume.

Take 1-2 tbsp. 3 times a day before meals.

Decoction of roots for external use

It is prepared in the same way as a decoction for internal use, but at the rate of 20 gr. raw materials per 1 liter. water.

Indications for use. Beli (douching), diarrhea (enemas), fistulas and festering wounds (washing).

Infusion of flowers

1 tsp flowers meadowsweet vyazolistny pour 200 ml. boiling water, cover, wrap and leave for 1 hour. Strain, squeeze raw materials.

Take half a glass 3 times a day before meals.

leaf tincture

For the preparation of tincture, both leaves and leaves along with inflorescences are used. It is better to use dark glassware or pull a black nylon stocking or golf over a glass jar.

100 crushed raw materials pour half a liter of high-quality vodka (20%). Close the container tightly and insist in a dark place at room temperature for a week, not forgetting to shake occasionally. Strain, squeeze raw materials.

Take 1 tsp. 3 times a day.

Indications for use. Diseases of the stomach, kidneys, bladder, as a diuretic, colds, gout, rheumatism. Externally for the treatment of wounds, ulcers, as well as skin diseases.

Herbal ointment

Grind whitehead grass into powder. 5 gr. powder well grind with 9 gr. vaseline and 6 gr. lanolin (sold in a pharmacy).

Indications for use. Burns and skin diseases.

The meadowsweet is elmous. Contraindications and harm

In general, meadowsweet is a low-toxic plant and is well tolerated by most people, however, it has the following contraindications:

• hypotension (blood pressure should be constantly monitored),
• chronic constipation or a tendency to them,
• colitis with persistent constipation,
• poor blood clotting
• thrombocytopathy (may cause bleeding),
• pregnancy,
• children under 12 years old,
• tendency to allergic reactions (start taking plant preparations with small doses and weaker concentrations).

You should also refrain from going outside for an hour after taking the medicines of the meadowsweet, as the plant has a strong diaphoretic effect.

Sources:

Lavrenova G.V., Lavrenov V.K. Encyclopedia of medicinal plants. Volume 1 and 2.

Rim Akhmedov. Plants are your friends and foes.

I.N. Putyrsky, V. Prokhorov. Universal encyclopedia of medicinal plants.

Illustrated encyclopedia. Medicinal plants of Russia

Nikolaichuk L.V., Zhigar M.V. healing plants

V.V. Reshetnyak. Herbalist

Meadowsweet or meadowsweet is a perennial plant representing a source of substances with high biological activity. Due to its unique composition, meadowsweet occupies one of the first places among medicinal plants.

The plant is perennial, herbaceous, from the rose family, has a delicate aroma of beautiful flowers. Botanical structure of the plant:

• The rhizome is woody, quite rigid, slightly buried in the soil. There are numerous buds on it, from which shoots-peduncles grow by mid-summer;
• The stem is erect, covered with smooth red-brown bark.
• Large, dense, alternate, gray-green leaves, lanceolate, lobed or rounded, have felt pubescence on the reverse side. At the base of the petiole there are large leaf-shaped formations - stipules. A feature is the intermittent pinnate structure of large leaves with a central vein, alternating with smaller ones;
• The tops of flower-bearing shoots throw out dense panicles of inflorescences from many small, about 8 mm in diameter, white flowers by mid-summer; a single corolla does not exceed 1 cm in diameter, consists of 5 petals and long stamens, which give the inflorescence a fluffy look.
• After pollination of the flowers, brown, almost black, sickle-shaped, spirally twisted nut seeds ripen. The length of the fetus is 1-2 mm;
• Flowering time summer days from July to August. At the end of summer there is a chance of re-blooming.

The aroma of flowering meadowsweet consists of almond, vanilla, honey smell.

Growth area

Distributed in the nature of Europe, Asia Minor and Central Asia, Kazakhstan, the Caucasus, Siberia, Mongolia. Preferring wet areas, meadowsweet occupies well-watered places: banks of rivers, lakes, streams, rivers, grass swamps and moist deciduous forests.

Thickets of meadowsweet on fertile moist soils, impenetrable thickets.

Meadowsweet habitat - fields and meadows

Beneficial features

The medicinal nature of meadowsweet was recognized by official medicine in the last century. Useful substances in the composition of the plant are well studied and the plant is recognized as unique:

• The main component in the plant is salicylaldehyde and its derivatives. The essential oil of meadowsweet flowers has a complex composition, in which aldehydes and oils and esters of the aromatic series are identified. These biologically active organic compounds have the ability to thin the blood, relieve inflammation, and destroy viral particles;
• The stems and leaves are rich in carotene and ascorbic acid, which makes it possible to use the plant for preparing vitamin salads;
• The grassy part of the flower contains tannins, water-soluble polyphenols, which have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, hemostatic properties, which are widely used in official medical practice;
• The roots of the meadowsweet are rich in flavonoids, food antioxidants. These compounds are able to interact with vitamin C, enhancing its action in strengthening immunity;
• Seeds and roots contain diterpene alkaloids with antispasmodic and local anesthetic properties, presumably their action is aimed at protecting the brain from oxygen starvation.

Each part of the plant has a certain value in its chemical composition and is used to treat many diseases.

The use of the meadowsweet in official medicine

The study of the flower is aimed at obtaining drugs. Scientific pharmacological developments are represented by patents for the use of the meadowsweet as:

• Anti-inflammatory agent;
• Immunostimulator;
• Antioxidant;
• antiseptic preparations;

Extracts of various parts of the meadowsweet are widely used in pharmacology, providing a positive effect on the body in the following cases:

• Colds are treated with a decoction of meadowsweet root, having a diaphoretic effect on the body;
• A decoction of the herb meadowsweet helps to lower blood pressure;
• Using a decoction of meadowsweet, in medicine they relieve pain in the complex treatment of ulcers;
• The astringent action of meadowsweet is used to protect the walls of the stomach, ensuring normal digestion;
• For the prevention of cancer, the antioxidant properties of the meadowsweet are used. This plant has a general strengthening effect on the patient's body during the entire period of the disease;
• The anti-inflammatory and astringent properties of meadowsweet decoctions are used to treat diseases of the epidermis;

All preparations prepared on the basis of the meadowsweet have low toxicity. But its natural properties should be considered for people with low blood pressure.

After taking the drug, you should not immediately leave the room to avoid a cold. Using the meadowsweet for the treatment of any disease, careful monitoring of blood composition should be observed.

Contraindications for use

As with any medicinal preparation, the use of meadowsweet is limited due to its astringent and blood-thinning properties. It cannot be used in the following cases:

• The presence of chronic constipation;
• Low blood pressure (hypotension);
• Violation of blood clotting;

Before you start using meadowsweet-based products, you should visit your doctor and get the necessary recommendations from him.

Use in pregnancy

Preparations and remedies from meadowsweet are recognized as low-toxic. The plant is used in the treatment of a wide range of diseases, compositions based on this herb are used to treat infertility. However, pregnancy is the case when the use of the plant is prohibited.

The use of meadowsweet in children under 12 years of age should be avoided.

Meadowsweet in folk medicine

In traditional medicine recipes, all parts of the plant are used: ground and underground. Recipes have been used for many centuries and have a positive result, despite the simplicity and availability of the compositions. Let's see what a useful plant treats:

1. Hepatitis treatment

Dry meadowsweet is taken with a tablespoon, placed in a container into which 1 glass of cold water is poured. Water is heated to a boil and boiled for 3 minutes.

The finished broth is kept for two hours. It should be taken before breakfast, lunch and dinner.

1. Puffiness

With swelling associated with diseases of the cardiovascular system, an infusion is prepared from dry inflorescences, filled with a glass of boiling water. The tool is used an hour later, after preliminary filtering. It should be taken three times a day before meals.

1. Psoriasis

To prepare the product, a powdered composition of dry inflorescences is used. To do this, 4 tablespoons of petroleum jelly or baby cream should be ground with powder from meadowsweet inflorescences to a homogeneous consistency. Lubricate the affected areas with the prepared agent until complete healing.

Meadowsweet meadowsweet is a unique remedy for the treatment of many pathologies of the body. Knowing the properties and characteristics of the plant, you can help yourself as much as possible. In solving health problems, you should not experiment by making your own recipes. They have long been known and tested. The help of experts will save you from mistakes.

Another condition: do not destroy medicinal plants in nature. Collect them as needed.