Lavender - Properties And Uses Of Lavender

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Lavender

Properties and uses of lavender

Lavender application

Lavender is used to treat many diseases of the cerebral vessels, it also relieves the feeling of drowsiness, helps with headaches and dizziness, with paralysis and convulsions after a stroke. Among other things, it promotes the flow of urine, reduces toothache, opens clogged spleen and liver, warms the uterus in pregnant women, as well as the stomach in case of lack of warming, removes excess fluid in case of dropsy, and much more.

There is a special lavender tea for treating the stomach, especially relieving cramping or discomfort. To prepare it, you need to add a glass of hot water to a teaspoon of lavender flowers, then let it stand for five minutes, then pass through a strainer or gauze and drink two or three cups of the resulting composition every day.

Taking lavender inside is prescribed for melancholy, hysteria, neurasthenia and irritability, insomnia, influenza and various infectious diseases, painful sensations in the head, asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis, whooping cough, enteritis, intestinal parasites, flatulence, atony of the gastrointestinal tract, with leucorrhoea, spasms and rheumatism, atony of the consequences of paralysis, cystitis, scrofula, debility of children, amenorrhea, hypertension, fever, rash, etc.

The recipe for the preparation of the medicine is as follows: you need to add a liter of cool hot water to fifty grams of lavender flowers, put on fire, wait until it boils, and then place in a water bath for ten minutes, then cool, strain, and then add to the bath with a temperature of thirty six to thirty-eight degrees. Next, you should sit or lie down in the water and stay in it for about twenty minutes, after which you quickly go to bed. To get rid of a cough, it is helpful to mix a teaspoon of honey with two drops of lavender oil. The composition also reduces bronchial inflammation.

Lavender is used for treatment on the surface of the body with leucorrhoea, head lice, for tightening wounds (including chancres, ulcers on the hands and feet, gangrenous, infected and syphilitic, etc.), an additional remedy in the treatment of insect bites, animals and snakes, for hair loss, burns, acne, anal, chronic and perineal eczema, lung diseases.

If you have dry eczema, the recipe for the medicine is as follows: half a liter of olive oil must be added to twenty-five grams of lavender flowers and left for a couple of hours in a water bath, then let the product stand until morning, pass through a strainer or gauze and apply as an ointment. The composition should be used within four to six weeks.

For vaginal infections with painful sensations, you need to mix water and flowers at the rate of 25 grams of lavender per liter of water, put in a water bath for ten minutes, add another liter of boiled warm water. The course includes ten to fifteen procedures.

For taking medicinal baths with lavender, use the so-called "milk": take 50 grams of the plant for five liters of water, then leave the composition for sixty minutes, after which it should be used only in the evening. The number of baths taken should be from ten to fifteen per course. Especially such baths are necessary for often ill or weak children, in addition, they soothe in case of insomnia or nervous tension. Baths can be taken alternately with calamus, rosemary, algae or pine.

To remove redness and inflammation from the edges of the eyelids (the disease is also called "blepharitis") use lavender water. To prepare it, mix a liter of thirty-two percent alcohol with sixty grams of fresh lavender flowers, leave for a month, and then filter. It is necessary to apply the medicine to the inflamed eyelids for fourteen days, once or twice a day.

To relieve inflammation from insect bites, it is necessary to prepare a composition of alcohol and lavender oil in a one-to-one ratio and apply to sore spots.

Lavender herb or essential oil can help reduce the negative effects of a snakebite by rubbing them into the bite.

Lavender properties

Lavender is a plant that contains about 1.2 percent of essential oil, which in turn contains tannins, linalool and its acid esters, triterpene compounds and coumarins. The stems and leaves of lavender contain a small amount of essential oil, which contains borneol and geraniol.

The essential oil derived from lavender is an excellent medicine. It is used in cosmetology, perfumery and many other industrial fields. The healing properties of the oil allow you to get rid of bruises, bruises, burns, stems and leaves of lavender are used in aromatherapy for taking baths. In addition, lavender contains the so-called honey, which is an excellent medicine. Lavender flowers are dried and used to smell things and clothes, and to freshen rooms. In addition, flowers can help fight moths when placed close to clothing.

Essential oils contained in lavender are a good sedative, relieve spasms and soothe pain, heal wounds, improve the functioning of the intestines and stomach, relieve worms and rheumatism, promote the excretion of fluid from the body through sweat or urine, are an antiseptic, etc. among other things, the plant helps to get rid of insects and parasites, and also helps with snake or insect bites, including poisonous ones. Lavender herb helps to remove bile from the body, and the oil, given its effectiveness in fighting microbes, is used for inhalation for diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis, etc.

Given the calming effect of lavender, it is used for neurasthenia, neurosis, insomnia, melancholy, skin rashes associated with nervous experiences, excessive fatigue, as well as weakness together with low blood pressure. In addition, a plant such as lavender is an excellent indoor air freshener.

The wonderful effect that lavender has on the general mental and emotional state of a person and on his central nervous system in general has been noted. Lavender helps to create a sense of calmness and tranquility inside a person, thereby reducing the negative effects of adverse factors and stress, preserving consciousness and mental state.

The positive properties of lavender make it possible to accelerate the recovery of strength and energy, increase labor productivity, relieve stress at the end of the day, and increase mental activity.

Contraindications to the use of lavender

In large quantities, lavender is not prescribed for pregnant women by stimulating the number of contractions in the uterus.

The author of the article: Sokolova Nina Vladimirovna | Phytotherapist

Education: Diploma in "General Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the Pirogov University (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow (2008).