Rosemary: treatment of gastrointestinal diseases Bashny.Net

Rosemary officinalis. Shrub up to 1 m, straight, much branched. The evergreen leaves are oblong-linear, sessile, opposite, coriaceous entire, with rolled down edges, shiny on top, bottom golovolomnye. Bluish-purple flowers in groups of 5-10 in a small carpal inflorescences located at the tips of shoots. Blooms all summer. Distributed in the Crimea, in the Caucasus. Cultivated in the southern regions of Russia.

The plant contains essential oil, which is composed of pinene, borneol, camphene, and other terpenes, bitter, ursolic and rosmarinic acid, tannins.

For treatment rosemary is used as an anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, astringent, enveloping and sedative. Rosemary also has a tonic and analgesic effects, helps to restore the tissues. Reduces the formation in the gastrointestinal tract of gases and helps to eliminate them. It is widely used in dermatology and gynecology, for the treatment of disorders of the nervous system in the menopausal period. Application of preparations of rosemary are contraindicated during pregnancy.

Medicinal raw materials are leaves, collected before flowering, and apical shoots harvested in the period of secondary flowering.

Recipes Infusion of rosemary used in the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases, flatulence. Pour a teaspoon of dry raw materials Cup of boiling water, simmer on a water bath for 7-10 minutes, then infuse for half an hour, strain, take half a Cup in the morning fasting, and before bed.

The infusion of rosemary is used for colds, insomnia, neurasthenia, migraine, hysteria, vertigo, dystonia, impotence. A tablespoon of dry raw materials, pour two cups of boiling water, infuse for two hours, strain, take half a Cup three times a day.

The decoction of rosemary is used to treat menstrual disorders, severe menopause. 25 g chopped dry grass of rosemary, pour a glass of boiling water, simmer on low heat for 15 minutes, to insist hour, strain, take a decoction of a teaspoon, three times a day, half a HR before a meal.

Tea from rosemary stimulates the immune system, is effective in fatigue, weakened memory, colds. A teaspoon of dry raw materials, pour a glass of boiling water, to insist fifteen minutes, drain, take tea in the form of heat.

Poultices: 2-3 tablespoons of young stems of rosemary with the leaves scald with boiling water, wrap in gauze, apply to the sore spot.

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