- St. John's Wort: application - medicine for 99 diseases
- Action
Antispasmodic and hemostatic effect of St. John's wort
Antispasmodic effect of Hypericum is widely used in the treatment of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and biliary tract. The action of this is the ability to remove the spasm of smooth muscles of internal organs and blood vessel walls. That spasm of smooth muscles of the stomach and duodenum "guilty" in the event of severe pain in gastritis, gastroduodenitis, stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer.
Spastic muscle squeezes blood vessels, resulting in the wall of the gastrointestinal tract loses nutrients and oxygen, which enter the bloodstream, and it further enhances any irregularities in this area and facilitates the formation of ulcers. The treatment allows the hunter to remove the spasm of smooth muscles of the gastrointestinal tract, improve the nutrition of its walls, remove the inflammatory process.
In the treatment of ulcerative processes in the gastrointestinal tract is of great importance and hemostatic effect of St. John's wort - it prevents bleeding.
St. John's wort relieves smooth muscle spasm and biliary tract, so it is used as part of a treatment for congestive hepatitis, inflammatory processes in the gallbladder and biliary tract. Removing spasms in this area allows you to depart bile unload the bile duct and restore the normal process of digestion. Courses of treatment zveroboem
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prescribed as anti-treatment of chronic diseases of the gallbladder and biliary tract.
Antidepressant and anxiolytic effect of hypericum
St. John's wort is an easy mild antidepressant. This action is due to its presence in it of red pigment hypericin which has photosensitizing properties, i.e. the ability to increase sensitivity to light. And, as stated, one of the causes of depression is precisely the lack of light. Some other biologically active agents enhance the effect of hypericin, thus giving still more effective action of the plant.
St. John's Wort is prescribed for psychogenic (caused by mental stress and high loads) and somatogenic (caused severe disease) Depression, with endogenous depression caused such mental illnesses
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Such as schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis
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St. John's wort is not applicable.
Like most herbal medicines, St. John's wort works gently and slowly. It can improve the patient's condition through only one - two weeks after the beginning of reception. Under the influence of St. John's Wort improves mood, increased anxiety is removed, the expectation of possible fatalities. In general, the treatment of depression St. John's wort should last at least a month.
Treatment of vitiligo zveroboem
Vitiligo - it is a common skin disease in which the skin appear larger depigmented spots that tend to grow and merge together. Causes of Vitiligo is still not known but it is believed that a complex neuroendocrine disease, the origin of which is not the last place is occupied by heredity. When disrupted education in vitiligo skin pigment.
St. John's Wort has significant photosensitizing properties in its application increases the skin's sensitivity to light, that is, the ability of the skin to the pigmentation. Furthermore, Hypericum improves metabolism, including pigmentation.
At St. John's wort vitiligo appointed interior and externally. Infusion herb St. John's wort is prepared at the rate of a tablespoon of herbs to 1, 5 cups of boiling water, take on a third cup three times a day for half an hour before meals. After three weeks of treatment make a break for two weeks. A full course of treatment can last up to six months.
Outwardly vitiligo oil is used St. John's wort, which is prepared as follows: A tablespoon of dry powdered herb hypericum pour a glass of vegetable oil (most suitable olive oil), placed in a water bath and held for 1, 5 hours. The oil is then cooled, filtered, pressed, and stored in a refrigerator.
When pigmented spots of vitiligo to do daily baths with St. John's wort oil
St. John's wort oil - a remedy
for 30 minutes. This is followed by metered irradiate the skin under the sun (only oblique, that is the morning or evening), starting with one minute and gradually increasing the daily exposure. External use St. John's wort in combination with sunbathing must last at least three to four weeks.
Because St. John's wort increases sensitivity to light across the skin, in the summer it is recommended to protect against uncontrolled direct sunlight as often burns.
Galina Romanenko