Cat's grass ...
 This woman is always gracious and wise, like a cat ... and somehow I it seems that all that love cats, suitable for women. For example, a tranquilizer drug.

The people myaun, cat root, cat grass, tryasovichnaya grass, forest ... incense

The aroma of valerian with antiquity is considered cathartic. The basic properties valerian and esoteric magicians believe love and harmony. What woman does not want them? Translated from Latin, it means valerian - healthy. Healthy and beautiful want to be all women.

Setwell   -Valeriana Officinalis L - a perennial herb of the family of valerian. Direct single stem sometimes reaches two meters. Leaves are complex ... Upper Stemless, medium with short petioles, lower long. White, pink or purple small flowers clustered in racemes loose panicles or shields. Flowering plant from May to mid-July.

 Cat's grass ...
   However, valerian is not appreciated for the flowers, but for the vertical rhizome short, densely covered with numerous roots.

Valerian grows almost the entire territory of Central Russia, it can be seen in forest meadows, lowland meadows, river banks, ponds, lakes, canal, on raw edges and even in the parks of major cities. Valerian is cultivated in Eurasia and South America.

Valerian rhizomes and roots are beginning to harvest from mid-July to mid-October. Dug rhizomes shake off the ground, thoroughly washed in running water. Remove all unnecessary, and then dried in the attic or under a canopy. Finally dried in the dryer or oven at a temperature of about 40 degrees. Then the roots are ground.

Keep them better out of reach of cats place. Because the smell of valerian attracts cats and they can spoil raw materials and nibble.

The roots of valerian contain : Essential oils, alkaloids, tannins, organic acids, saponins, sugars, macronutrients and micronutrients - manganese, iron, stranded, potassium, calcium, magnesium, zinc, aluminum, barium, tungsten, selenium, nickel ...

Of valerian is prepared tinctures, teas, tinctures, powders. More doctors of ancient Greece were treated with drugs of valerian nervous system diseases.

In our time, both scientific and folk medicine uses valerian as a sedative with nervousness, stress, insomnia, migraine headaches, heart palpitations, pain in the heart, hypertension, chronic violation of the coronary circulation, epilepsy, disorders of the secretory function of the glandular apparatus of the gastrointestinal gastrointestinal tract, esophageal spasm, especially in cardiac spasm, bears proof character, paralysis, liver and biliary tract, Graves' disease Diabetes insipidus, climacteric disorders with the ...

Infusion.   1 tbsp. a spoonful of minced raw pour 1 cup of boiled water at room temperature. Leave overnight. In the morning drain and take on the 1st. spoon 3 times daily before meals and at bedtime.

Valerian tincture.   You can buy at a pharmacy or make your own. 1 tbsp. a spoonful of valerian root pour ½ cup of vodka, clog and insist 14 days in a cool dark place. Not in the refrigerator. Take 15-20 drops 2-3 times a day.

! Valerian should not be taken into more than a month without a break. It can cause drowsiness.

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 To get rid of insomnia   not necessarily take valerian in, you can pour crushed roots in a linen bag and put next to my pillow. Sleep will be calm and pleasant dreams Hoveyan.

Baths of valerian   relieve stress, soothe the nerves, make your skin more elastic, smooth and even. 100 gr. Valerian pour 1 liter of boiling water and insist in a thermos for 10-12 hours, strained and poured into the bath. The temperature of the bath should not exceed 38 degrees. Take a bath for 15 minutes. The course of 10-15 baths.

To reduce sweating   decoction or infusion of valerian wash underarms and feet are washed.

To get rid of dandruff   and make hair soft and silky, his hair rinse decoction of valerian.

A weak decoction of valerian washed eyes for vigilance   and shine.

Inflamed skin   wash decoction of valerian for elimination irritated, scaling, and contraction.

In the old days women did of valerian amulet to save her husband's faithfulness   - Sewn milled root in the amulet and were with him.

It is believed that valerian facilitates conception If you put it under the mattress and hang in the bedroom.
Author: Natalia Alexeeva