The healing capacities of the plantain are known to many from an early age when the mother advises to make a leaflet of this plant to the wound. However, not only these properties made it a "name" among medicinal plants. Plantain is an excellent means to combat cough in various diseases of the respiratory organs.
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Doctors recommend to eliminate wet cough to use natural-based preparations, which have the best expectorant effect. All medicinal preparations prepared on the basis of plantin leaves have such properties. This medicinal plant has in its composition of flavonoids, tannins, saponins, glycosides, phenolcarboxylic acids. These substances are anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, antibacterial effect.
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In medicine is widely used syrups from the plantain. It is worth noting that drugs based on plants sold in pharmacies have a higher price than synthetic analogues. However, overpay is not necessarily. After all, to prepare a full-fledged medicinal syrup from the cough from the plantain will easily succeed at home.
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To prepare the medicine, you should be stockpiled by freshly cut leaves of the plantain. First of all, it is necessary to rinse them thoroughly with water and chopped with a knife or meat grinder.
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After the raw material is ready, it needs to be placed in a large glass jar. Pre-at the bottom of the tank must be poured with a thin layer of sugar. Now we are putting a crushed plantain and spend it with sugar after 3-4 cm. So you should fill out the bank to the top. At the same time, we surely sprinkle with sugar from the top.
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Setting the raw materials to the jar, it must be closed with a plastic lid and leave to appease in a dark place. From time to time, the contents of the container should be checked for a syrup, which will gradually appear in the bank. It is drained into another container. In this way, it is necessary to join the medicine for about 2 months.
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In the harvesting of this syrup, sugar, which are shown by the layers of the plantain, can be, and even useful, replace with honey. In addition, it is possible to improve the drug from the plantain by adding a thyme. The latter will strengthen the healing properties of the plantain. Also in syrup you can add various essential oils, such as mint, eucalyptus.
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Also, the antitussive syrup can be prepared in a different way. To do this, the plantain is harvested, washed it carefully and crushed with a knife. After that, 3 tablespoons of the crushed plant must be pouring 150 ml of boiling water. The resulting "Tea" leaves for half an hour.
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After the infusion is cold, it is added to it about 150 g of flower or acacia honey and, stirring, again heated without bringing to a boil. The finished mixture is filtering, tightly close the container and store in a cold dark place.
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Take a corporate cough syrup from one teaspoon half an hour before meals. Just 3 times a day. Be careful using plantain syrup, for the treatment of children under two years. Even homemade home syrup must be "approved" by a pediatrician.
The plantain is a medicine that grows literally under our feet, besides, an excellent free alternative to pharmacy drugs. Equipping a cheap and useful antifreeze can be used in just one summer day for the entire winter.
Of course, I will not be so treated, or I will definitely consult a pediatrician, I'm afraid to go to the hospital and serious complications, but I know that the plantain has useful properties. My son did not have a sick until the garden did not go, then after three years, as we went to the garden .. It was ... cough, a runny nose. Last week were in the hospital, the bronchoves was discharged from cough, I liked the drug, in the form of a syrup, the taste of a pleasant child easily drank. The main intensity of cough decreased on the second or third day. The pediatrician said that the drug also trembles bronchi, ears and nose.
The first time I hear, to be honest .... I took another syrup (Orvis Broncho Timyan), and so, from the additional one, the throat was rinsed with chamomile with chamomile. So the cough and passed)) But in treatment, all means are good, as they say ... It is important to choose what it is suitable for you))
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Of course, I will not be so treated, or I will definitely consult a pediatrician, I'm afraid to go to the hospital and serious complications, but I know that the plantain has useful properties. My son did not have a sick until the garden did not go, then after three years, as we went to the garden .. It was ... cough, a runny nose. Last week were in the hospital, the bronchoves was discharged from cough, I liked the drug, in the form of a syrup, the taste of a pleasant child easily drank. The main intensity of cough decreased on the second or third day. The pediatrician said that the drug also trembles bronchi, ears and nose.
The first time I hear, to be honest .... I took another syrup (Orvis Broncho Timyan), and so, from the additional one, the throat was rinsed with chamomile with chamomile. So the cough and passed)) But in treatment, all means are good, as they say ... It is important to choose what it is suitable for you))