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 Long ago, people paid attention to the fact that the flowering time of celandine coincides with the arrival of swallows. And there was a belief that swallows collect the juice of celandine and fly with him to the born blind children to return them to view. So named Swallow celandine grass.
The scientific name of the plant comes from two Greek words «chelidonion» - from the «chelidon» - swallow and Latin major - large. Vernacular celandine: nipplewort, warthog, chistuha, glechkopar, chistoploten, podynnik, zheltomolochnik, spurge zheltytak ...
Celandine -
Chelidonium majus L.
- A perennial herb of the family of the poppy. The plant has strong, thick to 0, 5 cm root. Stem branched, sparsely pubescent to 30-90sm. tall. Basal and lower leaves are larger, unpaired-pinnately dissected with long petioles, upper sessile and resemble a form of lyre. Top leaves green, bottom with a bluish waxy coating. Golden flowers bright yellow umbrellas are collected in the inflorescence of 4-8 pieces at the ends of the stems. Blooms from May celandine and all summer. Sometimes up to the frost.
Fruit - capsule pod, with two opening from the bottom of doors. Seeds are small, black, numerous, shiny, have white appendages that are very fond of ants, these Insects often introducing celandine seeds in the most improbable places. The fruits ripen in July-September and October. All the plant contains a poisonous, pungent taste, irritating milky juice orange.
The animals have celandine is impossible!
Prevalence swallow grass throughout the entire European part of Russia, in Western and Eastern Siberia, the Caucasus. It grows mostly near celandine accommodation, country houses, along roadsides, fences, in the bushes, in ravines, woods. In Europe, introduced into the culture at the end of the XVI century and is cultivated as a medicinal and ornamental plants. Cultural forms are larger and more massive than wild counterparts.
 For medicinal purposes
use of celandine grass, which are gathered during flowering, cutting off the plant with knives or scissors. Dried grass, spreading a thin layer on paper or cloth, in attics or outside in the shade. Grass is necessary at times to turn. Shelf life of raw materials up to 3 years.
Grass celandine contains: vitamin C, carotene, alkaloids, volatile oil, helidonovuyu, malic, citric and succinic acids, flavonoids and sponiny.
- Preparations of Celandine possess antimicrobial, bactericidal, diaphoretic, analgesic and antispasmodic properties.
- They reduce the reactivity autonomic nervous system, tone the smooth muscles of the uterus.
- In scientific medicine of many countries used water infusion of herbs Celandine at liver and gall bladder, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.
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Tea made from celandine
. 1 tbsp. spoon celandine herbs 1 cup scalded boiled water, 10 minutes, drain, take 2 teaspoons 3-4 times a day. The course of 4 weeks.
But the treatment celandine, using his mouth, alone can not in any case, only under a doctor's care.
- From celandine make an ointment for the treatment of long-term healing of purulent wounds and venous ulcers, skin lesions and mucous membranes, eczema, psoriasis.
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Celandine for hemorrhoids
. 4 tbsp. celandine spoon sugar and 1 cup boiling water, cool, filter, do the bath or apply a warm lotion to bumps.
- If a rash, itch, scrofula take a bath with a decoction of celandine and bathed in their children. The skin is clean.
 - Juice from the roots of celandine reduce calluses, warts, freckles.
- Milky sap from leaves buried in the eye when a cataract, trachoma.
- Juice in the old days was used as iodine. Washed juice of wounds and ulcers.
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When eczema.
1st. celandine spoon dry grass pour 1 cup boiling water, cover and enamelware (which is not used for food) heated in a water bath for 15 minutes, cool, insist about an hour, strain, obtained extract lubricate sore spots.
- For the treatment of the inflammatory process, with edema, insect bites, do baths with infusion of celandine. Temperature baths + 37 ° C for 15-20 minutes. daily. Baths help with abrasions, infections, micro. 4 tbsp. tablespoons chopped fresh herbs pour 1 liter of boiling water, leave for 2-3 hours. The course of treatment 12-15 days.
- Warts and other formations on the skin copiously smeared with juice celandine on waning moon.
- With periodontitis juice drip into a glass of water 4-5 drops and rinse.
- Douching celandine extract used in the treatment vaginitis, leucorrhoea.
- 100 gr. grasses pour 1 liter of boiled water, 4 hours strain, used in the form of heat. This solution is washed cracked heels.
- The juice of celandine helps get rid of warts. To this end it is diluted with water 1: 1 and a cotton wool soaked with liquid, is attached to papilloma, fixing plaster. It is desirable that the solution comes only in papilloma. Juice of celandine diluted with several drops of water, put on papilloma, fixing plaster. After 2 days, papilloma disappear.
- Either of fresh grass juice to squeeze, to evaporate it to the density of the extract daily and lubricate papillomavirus, until gone.
 - Insist celandine herbs rubbed into the hair roots for dandruff, increased fat and hair loss. 1st. a spoonful of minced raw pour 1 incomplete (to kaёmki) cup of boiling water, leave for 40 minutes, cool, strain and rub the hair roots.
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Acne Lotion
. 2 tbsp. spoon dried herb celandine Pour 1 cup of boiled water, 3 hours to cool, drain and clean how can thicket acne. It is not necessary to wash broth should be absorbed into the skin. In the morning and in the evening wiping required.
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The mask for oily, pimply skin
. 10 drops Celandine, 2 drops of lemon juice, 1 egg white, ½ teaspoon of castor oil. Stir, lubricate the face. After 10 minutes, rinse with warm water, then wash with cool.
Magee recommended to suspend the beam celandine in the hallway, as a protection against evil forces, and the petals to throw at the threshold of celandine through right shoulder to raise money.
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