Despite huge successes in medical chemistry, in modern pharmaceutics, medicines on the basis of natural raw materials still figure prominently: flowers, herbs, roots, etc. The nature is rich with curative plants, and a sin not to use this wealth. A subject of our article — a motherwort and that it treats.
As looks and where the motherwort grows
Two species of a plant are interesting to pharmaceutics:
- five-bladed or shaggy motherwort;
- warm or ordinary motherwort.
These are the long-term branching herbs of grayish color, 30-100 cm high, with direct, rectangular in section, a fluffy stalk of brown color. Petiolar leaves, opposite, from above green, and from below glaucescent. At a warm motherwort they also to five - and sometimes semipalchaty. The top leaves at both types ternate.
Pink flowers, small, put in deciduous bosoms. Blossoming time — since the beginning of summer and till fall. Fruit cups break up to 4 tetrahedral dark brown nutlets.
Both views are widespread on the whole Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Siberia. Places of growth: heathlands, roadsides of roads and river coast, pastures and the having a rest arable lands.
Whether you know? A motherwort — very valuable melliferous herb. In a wild look it is almost not widespread in Western Siberia. It is specially sowed near apiaries.
Chemical composition
The plant contains the following chemical compounds:
- alkaloids (it is exclusive at the beginning of blossoming);
- glycosides and their derivative saponins;
- essential oil;
- phenols and polyphenols;
- glucose and maltose;
- organic acids;
- A, C and E vitamins;
- salts.
Medicinal properties
The motherwort as medicine positively affects arterial blood pressure, reducing it; slows down heartbeat and increases amplitude of reductions of a myocardium. Its pharmacological action is close to a lily of the valley and a valerian medicinal (has the calming and spazmolitichesky character), but it is much stronger, than at the last, especially at treatment of cardiovascular diseases.
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Application
Now, knowing properties of a motherwort, let's find out for what it is drunk and in what look still apply.
In medicine
Medicines on the basis of a motherwort are appointed at cardiovascular diseases and nervous breakdowns, as supportive application at complex treatment of epilepsy, a gipertireoz, thromboses, diseases of a digestive tract and also for stimulation of smooth muscles of a uterus.
Whether you know? In the USA the valerian is not used, there use only a motherwort.
In cosmetology
In cosmetology the motherwort is used as a part of lotions, creams and face packs and a body with oily skin and also for removal of irritation from stings of insects. Water infusion or spirit tincture of a grass is added to creams and masks for sensitive skin. How to prepare them, read further in our article.
For hair and head skin the motherwort can be used as independent means, and as a part of masks and conditioners, reducing the fat content of hair, strengthening them and improving growth.
In cosmetology often also use such plants as rosemary, a sea-buckthorn, walnut, unab, hemp, jojobas, a linden, a sage medicinal, a peach, a sandalwood, orange and a lemon.
Pharmaceutical medicines on the basis of a motherwort
- Spirit tincture of a motherwort — excellent sedative. From what it helps: various neurosises, tachycardia, a stagnant cardiomyopathy, a subaortal stenosis, endomiokardialny fibrosis, a disease Fontana, short wind and a hypertension at early stages.
Important! Today the motherwort is a component of some dietary supplements. It is recommended to accept dietary supplements on its basis only after consultation of the doctor.
- The tableted neurotropny extracts of the calming action regulate functions of a cardiovascular system, lower ARTERIAL BLOOD PRESSURE, normalize central nervous system and also are applied at vegeto-vascular dystonia. Besides, some of them it is appointed for improvement of a dream, normalization of metabolism and removal of spasms; and others, the containing B6 vitamins and carbonic magnesium, strengthen influence on nervous system and are appointed at the raised stresses.
National recipes
Any herb finds the place, first of all, in traditional medicine, and the warm grass did not become an exception of this rule. Let's consider how to make a motherwort for drink and how to prepare from it water infusion or vodka tincture.
Tea
The advantage of tea from a motherwort consists in its salutary action on nerves, heart and vessels. However it can do also harm, as well as all medicines on its basis. About contraindications and side effects read further in our article. For now we describe the recipe of soothing tea from a warm grass: make a grass bouquet of equal parts of a St. John's wort, motherwort, yarrow, camomile and mint. Make daily 1 tablespoon of such tea and drink on half-cups three times a day on an empty stomach.
By the way, in the people the advantage of tea from a motherwort for men is known for a long time. If impotences were the reason nervous breakdowns and chronic fatigue, systematic consumption of warm grass drink will allow to solve a delicate problem. Besides, such tea and fresh juice of a grass help to solve a problem of early ejaculation.
Water infusion
Such drink from a motherwort is recommended to the patients having neurosises if they cannot take the alcohol-containing drugs.
Way of preparation: Fill in 2 tablespoons of a grass with 2 glasses of boiled water and insist under the closed cover during a quarter of hour. Drink the filtered infusion on 1 tablespoon three times a day on an empty stomach.
The recipe for men: fill in 2 tablespoons of a grass with 4 glasses of boiled water and leave for the night. Drink the filtered drink on half-cups three times a day on an empty stomach. Regular drink will restore a normal krovenapolneniye of a penis during an erection.
Spirit tincture
How to make motherwort tincture in house conditions: in a glass of 70% alcohol fill up 2 tablespoons of a dry grass (or is fresher than 6 tablespoons) and hide for 2 weeks to the dark place.
At the systematic use of means the dream becomes stronger, the excitability comes to naught and the functionality of VNS is stabilized. And still tincture eliminates neurosises and short wind, stabilizes a warm rhythm and HELL. It is also useful at primary cardiomyopathy.
How to take motherwort tincture for calm: on an empty stomach three times a day till 30-35 drops.
Medical collecting
- Soothing collecting No. 2.
Reduces excitability, has spazmolitichesky effect. Structure: rhizomes of a licorice and valerian, motherwort and mint. Indications: sleep disorder, vegeto-vascular dystonia, nervousness, asteno-neurotic syndrome. Preparation and use: To fill in 4 tablespoons with 2 glasses of hot water and to keep a quarter of hour under a cover on a water bath, and then to cool gradually. To drink the filtered drink warm twice a day on a glass on an empty stomach. Treatment duration — 15-30 days.
- Collecting Fitosedan.
Has soothing, spazmolitichesky effect, reduces excitability of central nervous system. Structure: valerian root, marjoram, motherwort, thyme. Way of preparation and application: to make 2 packages in a glass of boiled water and to draw a quarter of hour. To drink warm on a quarter of a glass four times a day on an empty stomach. Treatment duration — 15 days.
Collecting, drying and storage of medical raw materials
Only tops of healthy, young escapes, with unspoiled leaves gather. Time of collecting — blossoming of a motherwort. Stalks are cut off (are cut off, but do not escape) together with leaves at the length of 40-45 cm from a top. Conditions of collecting — dry weather.
Important! Collecting a motherwort in the places close to musornik, livestock farms, highways, industrial enterprises and storages of dangerous substances is strictly forbidden.
The grass is dried in the aired rooms closed from a rain, having spread out it on a fabric cloth and periodically stirring. It is possible to dry also in bunches, having suspended them.
Drying comes to the end when stalks easily break on a bend. At the same time rough parts of stalks and also the darkened or turned yellow parts are removed.
Storage conditions: in sacks from fabric, paper packages or in cardboard boxes, in the dark, dry, cool place.
Contraindications and by-effects
Contraindications:
- allergic reactions;
- pregnancy or right after its interruption;
- the lowered arterial blood pressure;
- bradycardia;
- stomach ulcer of a stomach;
- erosive gastritis;
- the work connected with the increased concentration of attention;
- at thromboses and thrombophlebitises only on doctor's orders.
Side effect is generally connected with overdose and is shown as follows:
- all body pains and general weakness;
- headache;
- dizzinesses and vomiting;
- feeling of weight in the pit of the stomach;
- tachycardia;
- belly-ache;
- digestion violation;
- releases of blood in excrements;
- thirst.
Now you, perhaps, differently will look at a fashionable subject of antidepressants, and in case of need will run not in drugstore, and to violent thickets of a motherwort which to you seemed earlier an ordinary weed. Protect health from the youth, but not after visit of the doctor.