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 Almost all of us love the beans, eaten, and know about the masks of them. But here's the alfalfa, even though one of the oldest cultures, which, by assumption, scientists have started to grow at the same time as the wheat, such as not too well known to most.
However, alfalfa is worth paying attention. Lucerne -
Medicago sativa
- Sowing or a wild herbaceous perennial plant of the legume family. In alfalfa numerous erect, glabrous or pubescent stems, branching at the top of a height of 40 to 90cm.
Stems densely studded with oblong or ellipse-shaped leaves. Flowers are small, butterfly, blue-violet, in racemes. Bloom alfalfa in June and can bloom all summer. Fruits - polyspermous spirally twisted beans ripen in August - September.
Homeland alfalfa called Central Asia. In our time in the wild alfalfa grown in Asia Minor and the Balkans. As a cultivated plant grown around the world. Especially a lot of alfalfa grown in the United States, Argentina, India and the countries of Western Europe.
 In Russia feral alfalfa can be found in dry meadows, talus, forest edges, along rivers, in the bushes in pastures. Alfalfa in the fields specially planted to enrich the soil - in its root nodules of bacteria successfully retain and accumulate atmospheric nitrogen, which stands at plowing alfalfa goes into the soil.
Alfalfa health
The drug is used for the aerial part of alfalfa which are cut during the flowering and dried in the open air under the eaves, laying a thin layer. Grass alfalfa contains vitamins B1, B2, B12, E, C, K, A, carotin, ketones, carbohydrates, essential oils, organic acids, steroids, alkaloids, glycidyl, chlorophyll, pantothenic acid, flavonoids, higher fatty acids, anthocyanins , minerals: calcium, potassium, phosphorus, manganese, iron, zinc, copper, magnesium, sodium, silicon, chlorine ...
- Preparations of the grass plants have anti-inflammatory, wound healing, bactericidal, tonic, diuretic, antidiabetic action.
- Traditional medicine uses alfalfa diseases of the intestines, stomach, thyroid gland, improves metabolism, increases lactation, and normalize state of the circulatory system, lower cholesterol, lower blood sugar, increase the level of hemoglobin in the blood.
- Lucerne recommend adding as food for the prevention of anemia, cancer, atherosclerosis, for strong bones, in diabetes, exhaustion, arthritis, allergies, heart pain, pain in the bladder, in diseases of the liver, kidneys, spleen, eyes, with physical weakness and increased fatigue.
- Young sprouts of alfalfa eaten fresh, added to salads. The taste they resemble green peas.
- Especially they are useful for pregnant and lactating women and children, because they have a lot calcareous substances, which are the "building blocks" for the bone tissues.
- Powdered alfalfa leaves are used topically as a wound-healing and styptic for cuts.
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Infusion.
2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped alfalfa grass pour 2 cups boiling water. Insist 4:00, encased. Strain, take 1/3 cup 3-4 times a day before meals.
- In diabetes and any function of the pancreas and thyroid glands. 1 tbsp. a spoonful of chopped dry grass, alfalfa sugar and 1 incomplete (to kaёmki) a glass of boiled water, 30-40 minutes, drain, take ¼ cup 3 times a day. In diabetes take the juice of alfalfa, divorced with boiled water 1: 1.
- How bracing and germicide. 1 tbsp. spoon dry grass pour ½ cup vodka, insist 2 weeks in a warm place. Take 10 drops in half an hour before meals.
Preparations of alfalfa should not be used in systemic lupus erythematosus!
Alfalfa for beauty.
In the cosmetics industry alfalfa added to creams and lotions for skin care.
- People Cosmetics recommends wiping tired, weather-beaten and faded skin decoction of alfalfa. 1 teaspoon chopped herbs fill 1_2 cup of boiled water, half an hour, strain, moisten with broth face, neck and décolleté. Wash is not necessary, but if there is a desire to wash off, then boiled with water half an hour.
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Packs of alfalfa for rejuvenation.
Pour 1 tbsp. a spoonful of chopped alfalfa grass 1, 5 cups of water, leave for 20-30 minutes, drain. Moisten in a warm broth gauze, folded into 3-4 layers and apply on face. After 5 minutes, wipe the face with ice or cold water wash. Again, apply a warm compress of broth alfalfa. So 3-4. Finish by washing with cold and apply a moisturizing cream. On cold then you can not go.
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A decoction of alfalfa
mixed with honey, the composition is impregnated gauze and placed on the skin as nutrient remedy for all skin types. Or applied with a brush in several layers. Wash with water at room temperature 15 minutes. This compress well removes puffiness.
- Eating beans alfalfa sprouts in winter significantly helps hair growth.
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