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 Thistle plant have seen, without exception, but may not know that this thistle. The genus of about 200 species of thistle. Some of them grow on lawns, along the roads and on vacant lots in cities. Sometimes thistle for his reputation as a malicious weed called "pink thistle."
Summer residents, constantly fighting with him, as a rule, thistle lose. But, as the smell in the heat of his pink flowers, spreading around him honey aroma. By the way, thistle - one of the best late summer honey plants. 1 hectare of its thickets of bees collect up to 140 kg of honey.
Common names of plant: thistle garden, feathery thistle, scratching thistle, kistochkovy thistle, meadow thistle, milk.
The most interesting and valuable
edible thistle
. Its roots are not only eating of them prepare medicines and cosmetics.
Thistle - a perennial herbaceous plant of the Asteraceae family. The plant has a rhizome with oblong tubers. Direct branched stem up to 1 meter in height. The leaves are large, rigid, long-elliptic, sharp, narrowed into short petiole. Along the edges of jagged, gray-arachnoid below to white-tomentose. Raspberry-pink or purple flowers are collected in baskets at the ends of stems and branches. The outer wrapper leaves are bent outwards spines. Flowering plant in July - August. If the autumn is warm, the blooms and the whole of September.
For therapeutic purposes,
Use herbs, leaves and roots of the thistle.
- Thistle contains: vitamin C, fats, resins, essential oils, tannins, alkaloids, flavones and glycosides.
- Decoction of edible creeping thistle used: bronchitis, lung disease, cancer, tuberculosis, women's diseases, stomach cramps, gastritis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, neuroses, diseases of the gallbladder, liver, thyroid, rheumatism and gout.
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In epilepsy
1 tablespoon of herbs pour 1 cup of boiled water, bring to a boil, simmer for 5 minutes, leave for 1 hour, drain. Take ¼ cup 4 times a day before meals.
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Bronchitis and pneumonia
2 tbsp. spoons of crushed root to fill in 1, 5 cups of boiled water, bring to a boil, simmer for 7-8 minutes. Insist 40 minutes, drain, take ½ cup 3-4 times a day before meals.
- Externally this broth washed poorly healing wounds, make lotions.
- When conjunctivitis broth to moisten cotton swabs and put them on your eyes for 20-25 minutes.
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If skin rash
1, 5, Art. tablespoons dry grass pour 1 cup of boiled water, in a thermos for 2 hours. Strain the broth to moisten in cheesecloth and apply to the rash. As often wash the affected places.
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When inflammation of the appendages
1 teaspoon of the seeds of edible creeping thistle pour a glass of boiled water, bring to a boil and simmer on low heat for 5 minutes. Infuse half - two hours, drain, take 1/3 cup 3 times a day before meals.
Decoctions and infusions of creeping thistle should not be taken into the pregnancy, high blood pressure, varicose veins, and the propensity to form blood clots.
For cosmetic purposes
thistle is used to cleanse the skin, giving it a silky.
- 1 tbsp. spoon creeping thistle root brew 1 cup hot water, bring to a boil, reduce heat, simmer for 10 minutes, for half an hour, drain, soak in broth towel and apply to the face for 15-20 minutes. Wash with water at room temperature.
- This broth rinse hair after washing with oily seborrhea.
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Nourishing Mask
Grind the young leaves of creeping thistle, take 2 tbsp. spoon mashed potatoes, add 1 teaspoon of olive oil, 1 teaspoon of honey and apply on face for 10-15 minutes. Rinse with warm water, then wash cold.
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Hydrating Mask
4 tbsp. spoons of crushed leaves of creeping thistle mixed with 1 tbsp. spoon of yogurt and 1 drop of essential oil of rose. Apply on face for 15 minutes, rinse with warm water, wipe the face with ice from the broth of parsley.
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For freshness body and reduce sweating
4 tbsp. spoon edible roots creeping thistle pour 1 liter of boiling water, to insist 2 hours, drain, add to bath temperature not exceeding 38C. The bath takes 15 minutes. Preferably after a bath do not wipe, let dry out the moisture itself.
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