Celandine is known to people since ancient times. This herb with bright yellow small flowers used to treat a variety of ailments, both internal and dermatological. And if some of the disease with the help of celandine today is not treated, the celandine of papillomas, warts and dry corns is used today. The plant is poisonous, and to be treated with it should be cautious.
Thunderstorm warts
In Russia, celandine has long been not in vain called nipplewort: many centuries ago, people noticed that this plant is perfectly cleanses the skin from different formations. And the ancient Greek physicians believed that swallow celandine used for the treatment of eye diseases in chicks.
This herb is used to treat various ailments, and to this day. Celandine herbs collected in time of flowering and quickly dried at low temperatures. Water infusion of herbs used to treat diseases of the liver and gall bladder as a bactericidal and cholagogue. From celandine extract synthesize anticancer drugs, the effectiveness of which, however, failed to prove. The famous physician Avicenna recommended using celandine and for the treatment of eye diseases such as cataracts. But to date from these methods declined because of the high toxicity of the plant.
Celandine is widely used in folk medicine. For example, very effectively removing warts celandine. Also sap is used to cleanse the skin from other tumors, such as warts and dry corns.
Prudence will not interfere
Animals on pasture sidestep a pretty plant with bright yellow flowers small, and this is no accident. Celandine causes livestock poisoning and inflammation of the stomach and intestines, and in some cases, hearing loss. For a man celandine too toxic.
The plant contains more than twenty alkaloids. Among them, for example, close to morphine and papaverine
Papaverine - for pain caused by spasms of smooth muscles
alkaloid chelidonine. Also, celandine contains homochelidonine (convulsive poison, which has anesthetic properties); protopine (alkaloid increases the tone of the uterus and reduces the reactivity of the autonomic nervous system); sanguinarine (substance causing drug intoxication and convulsions) and other toxic components.
Eat celandine need to be careful. This plant is contraindicated in patients with epilepsy, asthma, angina. With care, this plant is used in all neurological diseases. If you are hypersensitive or suspected to those of celandine should be used with great caution. Even healthy people can eat celandine inside only under medical supervision. In no case can not be used on the basis of celandine drugs to pregnant women.
As a result of an overdose of drugs celandine nausea, vomiting, and even paralysis of the upper respiratory tract. In case of excess dosage should seek emergency medical care.
How to remove papilloma celandine
The most common celandine is applied externally to warts or papillomas stress. Treatment of warts celandine is popular because of its accessibility: growths on the skin are often removed on their own, without referring to your doctor. It is not right. Before you start using the juice, tincture or oil of celandine
Oil celandine: delicate solution of serious problems
of papillomas, warts, or other benign, you should consult a dermatologist. This must be done at least for diagnosis sometimes for unsightly, but harmless, in general, papilloma, take malignancies.
Removal of papillomas celandine has its own characteristics. As a rule, applied to skin formation fresh juice of the plant, extract or tincture of Celandine
Infusion of celandine: use requires caution
by papillomas are used relatively rarely.
It is desirable to not to fall on the surrounding healthy skin. Sometimes it is recommended to rub the juice into a papilloma, sometimes - just to wet the education, sometimes on a papilloma or wart celandine leaf paste with plaster. In most cases, the treatment lasts only a few days: after this period papilloma disappears and leaves the skin smooth and clean.
Sometimes before lubrication or dry corn warts juice of celandine recommend it to scrape the top layer with a sterile sharp instruments to juice medicinal plants better acted. Doctors usually do not approve of such treatments: such manipulation may result in injury and of infection.
Using celandine extract from warts also should not damage the skin formation in some way to enhance the effect. For example, do not need to fasten papilloma thread or try to cut it with a knife.
Effective Is Mountain celandine on warts?
On the shelves pharmacies can be found on the mountain celandine papillomas. It is believed that this agent is more effective for the treatment of various formations on the skin than conventional celandine. But is it really?
Botanists know a single view of celandine - Celandine. A "Mountain celandine" - it's just a brand name balm prepared based on the juice of this plant. Perhaps, celandine for the production of this drug is really going to the mountains, but it is possible that this is just a fancy name to attract attention.
The structure of balm "mountain Celandine" contains extracts of several medicinal plants: it celandine
Celandine - a means-tested over the centuries
as such, and gentian, and rhododendron, and Kakalia spear and series. Balsam pointwise applied to papilloma a term of seven to twelve minutes twice a day for two weeks. Then papilloma should disappear.
Certainly, the use of balm "mountain Celandine", as well as other drugs on the basis of celandine, very comfortable in the cold season, when fresh plants are not available. At the same time we expect from these drugs more effective than fresh juice of celandine, is not necessary. In addition, the pharmaceutical salves do not usually less toxic than fresh celandine.
Maria Bykov
