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 As soon as the time of colds and epidemics, from the TV screens on We are beginning to pour an endless stream of advertising various doroguschih funds. Would they are useless or harmful, unknown to anybody. Still, it's chemistry. While in nature, there are many tools that enhance the body's defenses. And one of them is licorice.
The fact that he is able to stand against colds, viral and infectious diseases, knew even in ancient times. On the root of licorice smooth talking such famous doctors antiquity as Hippocrates, Dioscorides, Theophrastus ... Ancient travelers took it on the road, and chewed to the body as quickly as possible is used to change the climate.
Licorice, licorice Common -
Glycyrrhiza glabra L.
- Herbaceous perennial plant of the legume family. Powerful licorice root system lies deep underground. The stem is straight from 40 to 100cm in height. Leaves imparipinnate with ovate-lanceolate leaves. Pale-purple, butterfly flowers clustered in axillary, dense, but loose brush. Blossoms licorice in June-August. The fruits are brown elongated, slightly curved bare beans with 2-6 seeds. Greenish-gray or brownish seeds resemble shiny buds.
 Distributed licorice, almost throughout Russia. It grows commonly in the plains and along river banks.
For medicinal purposes
use licorice roots, which neatly dug in late autumn. When using their purified from the outer crust.
- The liquorice contains: Vitamin C, starch, pectin, flavonoids, sucrose, glucose, slime, essential oil, kortizonopodobnye, trace elements - calcium, potassium, magnesium, ...
- Licorice is used primarily to enhance immunity, as well as colds, as an expectorant, enveloping, diuretic, anti-inflammatory agent.
- Enjoy it and spasmolytic, wound healing and light laxative properties.
- Preparations of licorice regulate water-share exchange of the body, reduce capillary fragility.
- Licorice is prescribed for respiratory diseases - whooping cough, bronchitis, coughs, lung diseases, allergic rhinitis, pharyngitis, bronchial asthma.
- And also with diabetes diabetes, gastritis, gastric ulcer, with food poisoning, diseases of the kidneys, bladder, kidney stones, atherosclerosis, diseases of the thyroid gland.
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Infusion
1 teaspoon crushed dried licorice root pour 1 cup boiling water, leave for an hour or so, cool, strain, take 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day before meals.
- Lotions decoction of the rhizome impose on skin diseases, psoriasis, eczema, herpes, hives, they heal and wound, pustular skin lesions
- When conjunctivitis broth washed eyes or bury it.
Preparations of licorice can not be used during pregnancy, the propensity to diarrhea and edema.
Licorice root extract is used not only in national but also in the industrial
Cosmetology
in anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial drugs in creams to prevent the appearance of age spots.
- Licorice has bleaching properties, relieves swelling, inflammation, and skin irritation. Licorice extract is present in lotions and tonics for problem skin. In anti-aging creams, it is used as a means of stimulating the production of collagen.
- How emollient and cleanser decoction of licorice root can be used at home.
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Broth licorice
1 teaspoon dried crushed root pour 1 cup boiling water and keep on a steam bath for half an hour, strain, pour boiled water to the original volume. Keep refrigerated. Wipe face in the morning and evening. A cotton swab dipped in warm broth can be removed makeup.
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To rejuvenate the skin do packs of broth
Fold the cheesecloth in two or three layers, wet well in the broth and put on your face. I put down a towel. After 10-15 minutes, wipe the face with ice. The effect is amplified if the ice is also from the infusion of licorice. Wash then do not. You can apply a moisturizer if you're not going more in that day out of the house.
- Usually, a simple washing and decoction of licorice in the month significantly rejuvenates for the skin, gives it a softness and the elasticity inherent in youth.
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