In recent years, both among doctors and among those growing craving for the use of plants for therapeutic purposes. What is the problem the use of medicinal plants? The problem is, and it lies in the fact that examples of effective healing herbs actions are transmitted from person to person, often pushing patients to resort to unauthorized persons, the main thing for which no treatment, and business. But ignorance and uncontrolled use of medicinal injuries can cause irreparable harm to the body.
The dangers arising from the use of medicinal herbs
The common opinion about the complete safety of medicinal plants is not true. When self-medication are possible poisoning, complications of the gastrointestinal tract and liver, as well as many others, up to miscarriages in pregnant women. But the main danger lies in the fact that medicinal herbs can gently ease the course of the disease, however disguised it, and therefore, the patient seek medical help too late. Therefore, medicinal herbs may appoint a doctor.
How to prepare medicines from plants
Medicinal plants are used in the form of decoctions, infusions of water, oil infusions and alcohol tinctures. From flowers, thin leaves, herbs, most fruit and seeds are generally prepared infusions. For this plant material is poured boiling water in a sealed container and heated on a boiling water bath
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15 minutes. Of the more coarse parts of plants (dense leaves, bark, roots and rhizomes) - teas. Decoction occurs in a similar manner, but the heating time increased to 30 minutes.
Not all of the nutrients in the plants dissolve in water. To remove the fat-soluble substances using vegetable oils - sunflower oil, soybean oil, almond oil, olive oil and so on.
How many medicinal plants?
This question is difficult to answer, because not all properties of the plant fully understood. In our country there are about 20,000 different species of plants, of which drugs are officially recognized and included in the State Pharmacopoeia of Russia about two hundred and about the same, are not included in it, used in folk medicine.
The benefits of herbs
Herbs - an effective means of treating and preventing diseases, particularly such as gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, gallbladder disease, bowel, kidney and urinary tract. Herbal medicine is indicated in neurosis, loss of strength, menopausal disorders, and so on.
Herbs have fewer side effects than chemicals, they are less likely to cause allergic reactions. Skillfully drawn charges may have to be taken for years without harm to the patient, which is especially important in chronic diseases. Patients who are on long-term diet and the host grass is not suffer avitaminosis, as in natural herbs contains complex vitamin to the organism in an optimum combination. Infusions of herbs normalize the natural intestinal microflora, and cholesterol, inhibit the development of atherosclerosis and related complications.
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normalizes the activity of the nervous system, regulates blood pressure, blood flow to the heart and brain, improve sleep
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, Increases efficiency.
Herbs have a further advantage over synthetic pills that they preserve the pristine complex therapeutic beginning, hence their complex effect on the body.
The mechanism of action of medicinal herbs
The mechanism of the beneficial effect of herbs is not yet fully disclosed. But it is known that their effectiveness depends on the drug content of a complex series of chemical substances that have a variety of effects on the body.
Some herbs contain alkaloids - nitrogen-containing organic compounds, which are often determined by the properties of poisonous plants. In low doses alkaloids are valuable drugs which are used to treat many diseases (atropine, ephedrine
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Caffeine, morphine, etc.).
No less dangerous (and useful) glycosides. Especially widely used as cardiac glycosides, which are used in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, increasing the activity of the heart muscle (eg strophanthin). Alkaloids and glycosides are used only under medical supervision.
Bitterness increase the secretory activity of glands of the gastrointestinal tract, stimulate the appetite and improve digestion, are bracing (wormwood, dandelion, yarrow).
Essential oils - is a complex mixture of aromatic volatiles. They have a multifaceted effect: antibacterial, antispasmodic (relieves muscle tension internal organs), anti-inflammatory and so on.
In addition, plants contain vitamins, trace elements and many other chemical compounds having a wide variety of properties.
Herbs can provide you with invaluable help in the treatment, but they should be used wisely and under the guidance of a doctor.
Galina Romanenko
