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 That's what is popularly known as lungwort - early plant with beautiful leaves covered with spots and colorful flowers ... this wonderful plant to blossom in May and blooms for a long time, bringing joy to all Visitor shady glade in the park. Some lungwort grown in your own garden, appreciating not only her beauty and ability to decorate the garden from spring to the first snow, but good.
In the Middle Ages said, "... If otopёsh nectar of twenty and twenty-pink violet flowers lungwort, then your heart will become healthy and kind, and thoughts - pure ..."
Medunitsa Pulmanaria officinalis - a perennial herb of the family Boraginaceae. At a depth of several centimeters in the soil is a horizontal rhizome plant with numerous adventitious roots.
Direct woolly, rough stem lungwort can reach a height of 10 - 30cm. Long green or mottled leaves, as well as stem, covered with hairs. At the ends of stalks of flowers are arranged, having a form of tubes and assembled them into a kind of curls. Blooms in central Russia at the end of April and throughout May.
Needless flowering lungwort is very interesting, because at the same time on the same plant are flowers of different colors from pink to blue. When blooming flowers lungwort pale pink, then become purple, crimson, purple then, and wilted flowers are blue. You look at the brush and lungwort, it seems that you see a whole bunch. Fruit lungwort - four egg-shaped nut in a cup. It ripens in May - June.
It grows throughout the European part of Russia, in the Caucasus and Siberia, preferring shady deciduous forests, it can be seen among the bushes, in ravines ... The plant exudes a very pleasant subtle honey flavor. The taste of sweet flowers. Lungwort - honey plant, and its love bees and other insects.
For medicinal purposes
collect grass lungwort before blooming flowers. Dried in the shade or in a well-ventilated area. Shelf life 1 year.
Grass lungwort comprising: vitamin C, carotene, rutin, tannins and mucous substances, trace elements - potassium, iodine, manganese, iron, silicon, ....
Probably, almost all at least a few times in my life met lungwort. If you still see the plant in a clean area, do not pass by.
- Medunitsa very useful to women, both in fresh and in the form of tea. Her grass contains substances that prevent the occurrence of blood clots and the active principle of these substances is much stronger pharmaceutical heparin.
- Medunitsa boosts immunity, improves blood, prevents cancer, regulates the acid-alkaline balance in the body.
- In folk medicine, it is used as one of the most effective means lung, inflammation of the lungs, inveterate coughs.
- Decoction of lungwort helps tidy up the nerves, relieves headaches, cure heart disease and gastrointestinal tract.
- Due to its content of potassium and iodine, lungwort effective in the treatment of goiter.
- Assign it in diseases of the liver, kidney, bladder, scrofula.
- Broth treat hoarse throat, is applied to abscesses, washed the wound.
- Ladies douche broth with belyah.
- The powder sprinkled grass lungwort long nonhealing wounds and hemorrhoids.
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Tea from lungwort
to improve mood and well-being. 1st. spoon pour 2 cups boiling water, leave for 5-7 minutes. Drink in equal portions during the day. You can add honey.
- To improve the structure of skin, hair and nails: 2 dessert spoons of chopped herbs lungwort pour 2 cups boiling water and boil for 15 minutes, cool, strain, take into 1/3 cup a day.
- In the same way make 2st. spoons of raw materials and rinse hair after washing.
- The same broth pour into molds for ice and freeze wipe face in the morning, in the evening. In the heat of the day among.
- Grind a handful of fresh leaves of lungwort, add 1 teaspoon honey and 1 teaspoon of olive oil. Apply on face for 10 minutes. Rinse with warm water, wash cold. Mask rejuvenates the skin, making it supple and smooth.
- If you have dry sensitive skin and to relieve fatigue helpful
baths lungwort
. At a bath temperature not exceeding 38C topped up with 1 liter of broth lungwort (2st. Tablespoons sugar and 1 liter of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes, drain, add to bath).
- To look younger and gain tone will use
lungwort food
. From its leaves are prepared salads and soups. The flowers are added to tea and desserts.
Salad with rejuvenating lungwort
. You will need:
- 40-50gr. lungwort;
- 20g. green onions;
- 10g. parsley;
- 5g. dill;
- Juice of ½ lemon;
- Olive oil if desired and to taste
Preparation: boil hard boiled eggs and chop. All the greens washed and crushed. All the mix, season with lemon juice and oil.
The effect becomes significant if there is a salad every day for 3-4 weeks.
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