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 This is my most favorite spring flowers. According to one legend, one of the archangels let the thunder boom by evil spirits, but got into the plant and shot through him. And since then, lumbago juice helps to win over different evil spirits, they smeared arrowheads.
Monks in the old juice smeared all sleep-grass body to resist temptations unclean.
Backache or sleep-grass - perennial plant of the buttercup family. Just kind lumbago about 40 species, rasselёnnyh in temperate and even sub-tropical and cold regions of the world.
On the territory of the middle band Russia is most common wind-flower -
Pulsatilla parens
. It perennial with long, straight or oblique rhizome. Straight, pubescent gentle down stems reach 20-40 cm in height. When they are fruiting a little more elongated. Basal leaves of silvery color, pinnately dissected, covered with down, collected in the outlet.
Single large bell-shaped flowers white, blue, purple, lilac, purple, covered with soft down, bloom in April - early May before the leaves or more often at the same time with them. Flowering lasts for 20-25 days after flowering, flowers brighten.
 Scientists say that the cup of the flower resembles a concave mirror that can collect the sun's heat and keep inside. Because of this ability to cross can blossom and at zero temperature. Fruit - nut with long hairy columns. Growing grass in the sleep-rare pine forests and sunny uplands.
Medicinal properties of the sleep-grass
Son-grass is not only a beautiful plant, shrouded in an aura of magic, it is also a drug. Traditional medicine uses grass lumbago, which is collected during flowering.
- Preparations of lumbago have antimicrobial and anesthetic properties.
- In folk medicine, a decoction of the sleep-grass is used for insomnia, neuralgia, vertigo, migraines, asthma, rheumatism, gout, bronchitis, whooping cough, renal and hepatic colic, with early menstruation.
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Broth
1 dessert spoon of dry chopped herbs medicinal lumbago pour 1 cup boiling water, leave for half an hour and take 1 dessert spoon several times a day between meals.
However, treated independently, taking into broths dangerous, the grass is poisonous, it is believed that dry grass is safe, but who knows ...
That's what is written on the sleep-grass in the old Russian Travnik, "Son-grass themselves small, is growing in the groves and hills, the color blue, blooms of Nicolet-springtime, but as ottsvetёt all bars fuzzy: good it is from joint aches and hernia drive out, and cleans the womb, and the dream suggests, and by making nerasuzhdeniyu causes death. "
If poisoning lumbago take activated charcoal, milk and raw eggs. So it is better if treated with sleep-grass, it was only under the guidance of an experienced herbalist.
- If skin rashes from broth made gadgets, they also washed the wound. 1 tbsp. spoon dry grass lumbago pour 1, 5 cups of boiling water, leave overnight, strain and use.
- In rheumatic pain and skin cleansing taking a bath with a decoction of lumbago.
4 tbsp. spoon dry grass lumbago pour 1 liter of boiled water, 1 hour, drain and pour into a bath temperature not exceeding 38C.
Cosmetic properties of the sleep-grass
Use the sleep-grass in folk cosmetics for its softening and giving her tenderness.
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Face mask for inflamed skin and acne.
1 teaspoon dry grass to fill in ½ cup water, leave for 10 minutes, soak cheesecloth, folded in several layers and apply on face. After 15 minutes, wash with water at room temperature.
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To give the skin a satin smoothness
½ teaspoon dried chopped herbs to brew 1 cup boiling water, leave for 10-15 minutes. Strain. Use instead of washing in the morning and evening.
- Broth rinse hair for better growth and get rid of dandruff.
For magical purposes
grass harvested at the full moon in May, at dawn, she have to be covered with morning dew. This grass, the provisions under the pillow, helps to see the prophetic dreams. And if you carry it with you, it protects from all the bad and the lure will enforce good good event.
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