Forget-me-not - general description
Forget-me-not belongs to the borage family and can be either one-year or two-year-old. An erect, branched stalk is covered with protruding hairs and reaches up to half a meter in height. The roots of the plant are short, pivotal. The successive leaves have a gray-green color and when they only hatch from the kidneys, they are very similar to mouse ears.
Forget-me-not flowers collected in inflorescences are usually pink, blue or white with a yellow core. It blooms from late May to mid-June. There are varieties of forget-me-nots in which flowering continues until the beginning of autumn. Fruits - black or dark brown nuts of a trihedral ovoid shape with shiny black seeds inside, ripen in June.
Forget-me-not - types and places of growth
In the world there are up to 50 species of this plant, in the territory of the former USSR - 35 (in the Caucasus, the European part, in Central Asia and Siberia). Forget-me-not grows in humid areas - in damp forests, on marshy fields, roadsides and along river banks. Prefers sunny places with fresh soil.
In addition to field forget-me-nots, scented forget-me-nots, Krylova, Sakhalin, related, Lazistan, are pleasant and rarely flowered.
Forget-me-not - healing properties
Forget-me-not is used only by traditional medicine. This plant has a hemostatic, expectorant, anti-inflammatory effect. With its use, perspiration is reduced, and inflammatory processes are stopped. Forget-me-not helps effectively with cough, chronic bronchitis, toothache, pulmonary tuberculosis (with emaciation and strong night sweat), intestinal tuberculosis and hemoptysis. Outwardly - with dry eczema, skin rashes, eye diseases, scorpion and snake bites. Forget-me-not juice treats genital and oral tumors.
Forget-Me-Dosage Forms
For medicinal purposes, use the entire terrestrial part of the plant (leaves, flowers and stems), collected during the flowering period. After harvesting, the grass is dried in a shaded place, spread in a thin layer.
Forget-me-not recipes
With intestinal tuberculosis, use the infusion of forget-me-not field: 2 teaspoon. lies. dry raw materials pour a glass of water (100 ° C), cover the container with a lid and leave to infuse for 4 hours. After this time, strain and take on the table. lies. (15 ml) 3 p./day. The same potion helps remarkably with increased sweating and coughing.
Field forget-me-not infusion for external washes: table. lies. dry grass pour ½ stack. water (100 ° C) and put in a water bath for 10 minutes. The finished broth is filtered and left to infuse for 2 hours.
For disorders of the intestines, stomach, diseases of the liver, kidneys and bronchial asthma, tea is brewed in the usual way from dry leaves and stems of field forget-me-nots.
With bruises, bleeding wounds, tumors or burns, traditional medicine recommends applying raw, forget-me-not grass to the sore spot.
The powder and juice of this plant is used internally for tumors of the oral cavity. Juice: tea lies. 3 p. / Day, washed down with water. Powder from the stems: 1 g. 3 p. / Day.
Fragrance forget-me-not infusion for fever, bronchitis and cough: table. lies. dry grass pour a glass of water (100 ° C) and insist for about an hour, drain. Reception: on the table. lies. 3 p. / Day.
A fragrant forget-me-not broth for baths with skin rashes: pour 2 kg of grass with 6-7 liters of water and boil for 10-15 minutes with a slight boil. Insist for an hour and strain. Use the entire volume for one bath.
Forget-me-not - contraindications
There are no contraindications for use, but it is better to consult a doctor first.
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