The fresh smell of eucalyptus, a large evergreen tropical tree is able to decontaminate the air pollution. Cultural eucalyptus plantations bred in many countries for the rapid growth of the tree and help in draining marshlands. Wood makes strong ties and ships, and the bark of the tree is used to produce paper. Leaves and eucalyptus essential oil is used against fever, because they have powerful antibacterial and antiviral properties. Many wonderful qualities of eucalyptus.

Eucalyptus - plant family Myrtaceae

Eucalyptus tree is called the clean air for its ability to disinfect the environment. Hard leaves of an evergreen tree exude a bright flavor, as well as any member of the myrtle family. The name of the eucalyptus few:

• wondrous tree, so called for the beautiful plant "cap" of flowers during the spring-summer luxuries;
• kamedistoe tree - because the tree trunk is often covered with secretions Discharges in women when there is cause for concern   gums, called a movie (with the accent on the first syllable).

The name "eucalyptus" was proposed in the late XVIII century French botanist Charles Louis de Lerite Bryutelem. Most of the huge eucalyptus species growing in Australia, Tasmania and New Zealand, several species occur in the Philippines, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. Eucalyptus - real sissy who want a tropical or subtropical climate. However, biologists brought by breeding hardy tree species that grow quickly in damp and marshy areas of France, North and South America, India, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Greece, Spain, in the Caucasus and Crimea.

Phytoncidal properties of eucalyptus have made it indispensable park tree planting lower groundwater levels and dried soil. The clearest example of recovery from Colchis lowland waterlogging and malarial mosquitoes secured the title of eucalyptus natural filter of the planet.

Eucalyptus essential oil: meaning and application

Eucalyptus essential oil is obtained by hydrodistillation of the leaves and young shoots of the tree. The oil has anti-viral, anti-inflammatory effect, destructive acting streptokkoki and stafillokkoki, dizentiriynuyu wand, paratyphoid A and B, and purulent anaerobic pathogens. Preparations eucalyptus promote rapid healing of wounds, considered restorative and imunomodeliruyuschimi.

The essential oil and the decoction and infusion of eucalyptus leaves are used for diseases of the upper respiratory tract for inhalation and rinse as lotions and irrigation - in diseases of the female genital organs. Eucalyptus tincture taken orally as an antiseptic for sore throat and mouth, as a sedative.

Eucalyptus oil is used as a local disinfecting preparation for abrasions, erosions, ulcers, phlegmons as antiparasitic - with lice and as distracting - for grinding radiculitis, myositis and plexitis. In aromatherapy essential oil of eucalyptus with a cooling odor used for cough, sputum thinning as antipyretic, stimulating, antihelminthic, analgesic.

For internal use of essential oils take two to five drops to half a glass of warm water with one teaspoon of honey two or three times a day. To rinse and inhalation - ten to fifteen drops in a glass of water. For aroma lamps Aroma - create an atmosphere   aromakulonov and uses two or three drops of oil.

It is interesting

On the leaves of eucalyptus prutovidnogo from late December to March there sugary effusion, the so-called Australian manna, which is a sweet gums. The natives of Australia and New Zealand were collected in a dry time and is used as an exquisite delicacy. Eucalyptus mannonosny highlights another kind of manna, which the locals used as an antidote to the bites of poisonous insects and jabs.

When using essential oils Essential oils and conception: can help the roses?   eucalyptus, tinctures and decoctions should check individual intolerance of the body. For external use oil may be skin irritation.

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Celandine tincture on alcohol

Alcohol tinctures of celandine is made from fresh juice squeezed from the root Celandine, mixed in equal parts with alcohol.

Except for very serious liver diseases and malignant tumors, alcoholate - is the ideal form of the use of celandine. On the one hand, very good alcohol extracts the active ingredients and on the other hand, the alcoholate is rapidly absorbed by the body, and acts immediately.

Cooking

The question is how to prepare an infusion of celandine is very important. Since celandine poisonous error in the manufacture of medicines on the basis of this plant can be fatal. That is why it is not necessary to purchase "miraculous tincture" from questionable sellers: much better to cure their own hands.

Vegetable raw materials can be bought at a drugstore or to prepare their own hands. Celandine is widely distributed in the middle lane, and find it is not difficult. Of course, you should prefer the grass that grows in ecologically clean areas, away from the city streets, or industrial enterprises. Celandine must be harvested during its flowering, which lasts from spring to early autumn. To prepare the infusion of the drug used aerial parts of the plant - the stems and leaves.

Gather herbs must be washed to remove dust and dry in the shade in the draft. Then you can start making celandine tincture on alcohol. To do this, take a clean half-liter jar, fill it halfway with dried celandine, and then pour the brim rubbing alcohol. After that, the mixture should insist for two weeks, shaking occasionally. Finished tincture is filtered and diluted with alcohol in a ratio of 1: 2. Instead of alcohol can be used as ordinary vodka.

Nuances:

• The infusion is prepared from the dried powder plant (grinding it into an electric coffee grinder). We must take a glass container and fill it halfway with powder, the bay in equal proportions with 70% alcohol. Tightly close the container and leave to infuse for ten days, then strain through cheesecloth into a small dark bottle. The tool is used on an empty stomach. One teaspoon of tincture dissolved in half a glass of water and take four times a day.
• For making tinctures important to use the best specimens of plants. Plants need to be collected under optimal conditions in their natural habitat. They must be collected at a time when the part of the plant that is used is in its best condition, and grow away from the contaminating factors, without the use of pesticides or fertilizers.

Beneficial features

Celandine - the plant family of the poppy. The Greek name of the plant comes from the word "swallow", as the ancient Greeks noticed that celandine starts to flower when the swallows arrive and fade when they fly. Herbaceous stem of a plant line and branched, with short fibers, the height of 50-100 cm. The plant has a milky juice of yellow-orange color. Leaves - green above and gray-blue bottom, deeply indented, with round or oval parts. Flowers - golden-yellow, collected in inflorescence. Celandine flowers from May to August. Used ground part of the plant, it is collected at the beginning of flowering. The plant has a pungent odor and bitter taste.

It is believed that celandine Celandine - a means-tested over the centuries   It helps with pain in the gallbladder and gallstones. It contains a component that helps gradually and positively change the course of the disease, and also helps to change the digestive and excretory processes and restore the normal function of the body. Tincture of Celandine used to treat gout, arthritis, eczema, psoriasis, rheumatism and tuberculosis disease. Scientific studies show that orange-yellow juice of the plant contains alkaloids that fight viruses, bacteria and fungi. Today, the infusion of celandine is used to remove malignant tumors, tuberculosis skin lesions, seal in the chest, swelling, moles, ringworm Ringworm - how not to be left without hair , Calluses and warts. Tincture of Celandine is also a mild sedative, and it has historically been used to treat asthma, bronchitis, chronic tonsillitis Chronic tonsillitis - inflammation of the tonsils   and pertussis. Tincture of Celandine has also been used for face, headaches and neuralgia shoulder.

Tincture cleans the body and stimulates the efficient removal of waste products from the body. It has the ability to purify the liver and stimulate the gall bladder. Celandine - a hepatoprotector or substance which supports normal function of the liver cells and protects it from damage. It is used to treat chronic liver disease and reduces inflammation and congestion in the liver, which can help prevent or treat liver fibrosis. Tincture of Celandine may stimulate and relax the gall bladder. It is used for indigestion. It is believed that Celandine relieves spasms and helps with indigestion. People with impaired liver function should use this tincture only under medical supervision.

Tincture used to lower blood pressure, and also as a mild diuretic. Chelidonine promotes modest but sustained reduction in blood pressure, increases the excretion of urine and stops or delays the development of anaphylactic shock.

As a sedative. Infusion of celandine helps with insomnia, reduce stress and anxiety and reduces pain. It is used by the weakness and drowsiness after eating or sleeping Dreams: how to understand our dreams And paralysis.

It is believed that celandine possesses anti-cancer activity. Celandine tincture may be potentially effective in the treatment of skin cancer (melanoma), seals in breast cancer, gastric cancer, malignant tumors.

Caution

• Do not exceed the dosage.
• Avoid long-term use.
• Used with caution in combination with other medicines.

Methods reception

With water, juice or other liquid; under the tongue.

Shake before use. Store in a cool, dark place. Keep out of the reach of children.

Contraindications

Tincture of Celandine has serious contraindications and can cause severe irritation of the mucous membranes. Pregnant and lactating women, children, or those who have liver disease should never use the herb. Its use should always be supervised by a physician. Chelerythrine, one of the components of celandine, a drug, and its excessive use can cause drowsiness and coughing.