Yarrow - Medical Properties and Contraindications

Yarrow - a medicinal plant founding on meadows in latitudes with temperate climate. Probably everyone knows him. Do you know from what diseases can this grass can cure? We find out about it in the article.

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Yarrow - what looks like

Yarrow is a grassy plant growing for many years in one place. The height of the stems up to 80 cm, branches up. The leaves are complex, as if cut, the flowers are formed on the tops of the plants, small white or pink, are collected in the sink.

Thousands of yarrow has a tart smell, you will feel it if you scatter leaves or flowers between your fingers.
Flowers yarrow from June of the month throughout the summer. Since August, silver-colored fruits are formed from the outflower flowers.
Growing yarrow everywhere: in the meadows, fields, edge of the forest, among rare bushes, on wastehouses, along the roads.

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Yarrow - Medical Properties

Dosage is the whole plant yarrow: leaves, stems and flowers.

Yarrow has the following properties:

Hemostatic
Anti-inflammatory
Antiallergic
Bactericidal
Helps with burns
Hypotensive
Improves digestion

Yarrow recommends taking the body with such diseases and painful condition:

Stops blood with internal and external bleeding, without forming thrombov
At meteorism
With digestive disorders in the stomach and intestines
In case of intestinal infections (diarrhea, dysentery, colitis)
Kills harmful bacteria in the bladder and kidneys when inflammation
With allergies
Heals small burns, wounds, scratches
Helps with elevated arterial pressure
In acne, furunculaes and fistulas for blood purification
When losing hair

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Yarrow - contraindications

Contraindications for the use of yarrow:

Individual intolerance
Children's age up to 6 years
Pregnancy
With low arterial pressure
Long-term treatment without interruption popular drugs from yarrow

Precautions should be taken with folk remedies yarrow:

People are prone to formation of clots
Those people who have formed the high content of gastric juice

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Yarrow - application

Yarrow is used in the form of fresh juice, decoction, infusion, tinctures, ointments, and liquid tea extract. With him taking a bath with scabies and herpes.

It is known that fresh Juice from stems and leaves yarrow stops bleeding by 60% more effective than synthetic drugs.

In folk medicine, fresh juice of yarrow mixed with honey and take 1-1.5 tsp 3 times a day with bleeding from the nose, stomach, lung and uterus.

In addition, the juice of yarrow is useful for:

Violation heart rate
Lack of breast milk in breastfeeding mothers
anemia
Liver diseases until jaundice
As the prevention of formation of stones in the gall bladder and kidneys
To improve the appetite

decoction of yarrow plants prepared as follows: 1 tsp herbs pour 1 cup boiling water, boiled for 5-10 minutes, filtered, drink 50 ml 3 times a day for:

Severe blood loss at childbirth
aggravation of hemorrhoids
edema
gastritis
Metabolic disorder
Worms (drink half a cup 3 times a day)
Inflammation of the bladder and kidneys
Bed-wetting
Inflammatory diseases in women
Pain during menstruation time
Insomnia and nervous breakdowns

Decoction of yarrow flowers helps to remove blackheads.

Infusion. It is prepared as follows: 2 tbsp. tablespoons herb pour in a thermos 1 cup boiling water 1 hour, then filter and drink before a meal (half an hour) by cup-third, 3 times per day. The infusion is useful for:

Food poisoning, and related, the pain in the gut
Sore throat - rinse
Wound - to wash

Tincture. 4 tbsp. spoons grass pour 100 ml of vodka, insist in a dark place 1 week, filter. Drink as additional treatment, 20 drops 3 on p. per day for liver, kidney and bladder.

Tincture can be cleaned with acne, abrasions and small wounds.

Ointment freshly prepared from herbs, its ground in a mortar, and add to it the same amount of lard. You may also be prepared from tinctures ointment (1 part) with vaseline (4 parts). The ointment helps with bruises.

Tea of yarrow (2 tbsp. spoon herb in 1 liter of boiling water) helps in the treatment of hemorrhoids. Drunk as ordinary tea.

liquid extractBought at the pharmacy, take 5-7 drops diluted in water, in diseases: