Lyubistok – popular spice, but its application is not limited to cookery and dietology. Thanks to the unique properties, this plant is widely used in cosmetology and traditional medicine. It is necessary to know when it is possible to prepare lyubistok to avoid troubles, during some periods of the growth and development it is plant is poisonous.
Lyubistok – interesting perennial plant which is widely used in medicine, cookery, dietology and cosmetology. Willingly it is grown up on garden sites as spice, besides, the lyubistok very effectively looks, its presence serves as the real decoration of garden. Nobody will ignore this two-meter handsome decorated with difficult umbrellas, but you should not forget that without due control this plant is capable to expand in the real thickets and to be malicious weed.
Useful properties of lyubistok
Many centuries of lyubistka use in cookery and also in traditional medicine. Its medicinal properties allow to apply this plant when healing purulent wounds, grazes, to disposal of freckles, pigmental spots and dandruff. Broth of root of lyubistok can be used at diseases of digestive, nervous system, also this plant stimulates digestive tract vermicular movement, possesses bile-expelling, glistogonny action. In addition, the lyubistok is widely used as stimulator of male power, and the extract of essential oil serves as good aphrodisiac. One more interesting application of lyubistok – it helps to get rid of alcohol addiction. There are many recipes on the basis of this plant, tinctures, broths, extracts from its roots are cooked.
Useful properties of lyubistok are caused by its rich structure, in its roots organic acids, mineral, tannins, pitches and some vitamins are found. However it is necessary to use lyubistka very carefully, at its overdose or the wrong application of extract and broths of this plant can cause renal failure and poisoning of organism.
Contraindications for application of lyubistok
You should not use dishes with addition of lyubistok or to apply it to treatment to the pregnant women, people having hemorrhoids, sharp inflammatory diseases of kidneys: sharp nephrite and glomerulonefrity. It is connected with the fact that the use of this plant causes inflow to bodies of small pelvis therefore can provoke spontaneous abortion and exacerbation of diseases. Besides, the lyubistok can be prepared only in certain time, in September. In the summer, before blossoming and during it, parts and roots of this plant become poisonous. In recipes of traditional medicine use roots of lyubistok. For this purpose they need to be dug out, properly to wash out, cut on small parts and to dry in the open air in shadow. After drying the root of plant can be stored long time in glass by capacity under dense cover.