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 Ancient Slavs dedicated lime Lada - the goddess of love. Month of June can be called month of flowering limes. And just remember the lime avenue nests of the gentry, described in the novels of our classics. Once again, love, love and love ...
One of the most ancient and beautiful trees, a lime. It is said that linden same age of dinosaurs and appeared on the planet about 70 million. Years ago.
Lipa always has positive energy, under its crown accumulates a lot of oxygen.
Our ancestors believed that lightning for no reason not fall into the lime, and therefore believed that tree and place at which it grows, sacred. But in general zipper sometimes gets in lime, wood char, but the next year again turns green and blooming as if nothing had happened.
According to Christian legends of the Virgin lime covered with a small Christ during their flight to Egypt. Christians believe that the Virgin Mary and is now down to earth and resting on the lime tree. Our ancestors were hung on the linden scapular and icons. Near lime built churches and temples.
In ancient times many peoples around lime performed courts and holidays. The ancient Slavs were planted linden trees as a sign of victory and the conclusion of peace, under the lime trees cemented the marriage contract. In Herzegovina linden branch held over the heads of newlyweds during the wedding ceremony as talisman.
Vernacular linden lubnyak, Mochalnikov.
Small-leaved lime or heart-shaped
- Tilia cordata Mill - a deciduous broad-leaved trees family of lime. The height of the tree can reach a height of 20-25 meters, sometimes 30.
Trunk diameter up to 1 meter. The bark is smooth dark brown. On older trees dark longitudinally furrowed. Crohn wide.
Leaves on green stalks resemble pointy hearts with teeth on edge. The flowers are pale yellow, are collected in inflorescence Semiumbels. Very flavorful. Their honeymoon wind carries the smell of a few meters. Over linden flowers are always a lot of bees. Lipa most excellent bee plant. Linden honey is valued above many others. When the flowers paired membranous, reddish bracts, which are on the fruit and fall in the spring.
Blooms in June - early July. Fruits - spherical one-dvuhsemyannye nuts. They ripen in August - September.
Lipa - Wood survivor, she lives till 300-400 years, and sometimes up to 500-600 years. Tilia cordata grows in the forest and steppe zones of European Russia, the Crimea, the Caucasus, Southern Urals and Western Siberia, in forests and edges of forests. Cultivated in the towns and villages. Its planted in gardens, alleys, squares, parks and just outside the house in the yard. Linden survives even in the most polluted cities.
In medicine
the most commonly used flowers limes with bracts. Less leaves, buds, fruit and young bark. Flowers and leaves are harvested during the flowering and bark - in the period of sap flow.
The linden flower contains: vitamin C, carotene, essential oil, hesperidin, tiliatsin, saponins, tannins ...
Infusions and decoctions limes have antimicrobial, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory and emollient action.
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folk medicine
lime color used in the form of tea as a remedy for colds and coughs. And as in inflammation of the lungs and abdominal pain.
- 4 tbsp. tablespoons lime color brewed with 1 liter of boiling water. Insist 10 minutes and drink ½ 3 times a day in the form of heat for 20-30 minutes before eating. It helps with nervousness, dizziness, fainting and cramps, stomach cramps and pain in the gut.
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Infusion
. 1 tbsp. tablespoons lime color 1stakanom poured boiled water for 20 minutes, strain. Take ½, 3 times a day before meals in a warm form. Bronchitis, flu, cold infusion take 1 glass 3-4 times a day before meals. Neuralgia of the facial nerve from this infusion make gadgets. When migraine and headache on his head as a compress impose fresh scalded leaves lime tree. Hypertension of linden flower tea drink 1 glass 3 times a day before meals.
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Tea made from linden
If drink it, rejuvenate from the inside.
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Broth
Used outside, moisturize, nourish, soften and tone the skin, keeping moisture in the upper layers of the epidermis, prevent peeling skin.
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poultices and compresses from broth linden
to remove wrinkles on the face, neck and decollete. Compress is removed after 10-15 minutes. Then wash cool water or wipe the skin with a piece of ice.
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Mask of lime color.
A handful of lime-colored pour boiling water. Writing cool slightly and apply to dry skin with a thin layer on a thick oily skin, to cool. Top cover with a napkin. After removing the mask to lubricate the skin moisturizer without washing.
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Rejuvenating mask.
2 tbsp. tablespoons lime-colored pour ½ cup of milk, put on fire, bring to a boil, remove from heat, allow to cool slightly. And put on a warm part of the face, neck, chest for 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water after 15-20 minutes, apply nourishing cream.
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Lotion.
Prepare the broth, 2 tablespoons brew. tablespoons lime color 1 cup of boiling water, leave for half an hour, drain, cool. Add to the broth 1-2 teaspoons of vodka. Use as an anti-aging agent. Keep refrigerated.
Decoction of lime-colored helpful to wash before sleep and take baths with his addition. After regular application of skin noticeably younger and smoother, even for those women who are over 50-60 years.
Our grandparents were convinced that if we expand the linden flowers on the dining table in the house of peace and harmony reign.
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