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Useful properties and uses of meadow tea
Botanical characteristics of meadow tea
Meadow tea is a perennial herb of the primrose family. It has a creeping, rooting, thin stem. The leaves are rounded, opposite. Incredibly beautiful bisexual, large, single flowers - yellow. The fruit is a spherical box. Seeds are rarely formed, only due to cross-pollination by insects.
The regions of distribution of the plant are Europe, Ciscaucasia, Japan, North America and the European part of the former USSR. Favorite places for meadow tea are wet meadows, river and lake banks, dark groves. The whole plant is used to prepare raw materials.
Useful properties of meadow tea
The beneficial properties of meadow tea have been known for a long time, and this herb is successfully used in folk medicine. The flowers and leaves of the plant, which are often brewed as tea, contain tannins and vitamin C, saponins, silicic acid, and the polymerase enzyme in abundance.
The ingredients of meadow tea provide a cure for many diseases. The plant is rich in substances that have an effective effect in the treatment of non-healing wounds, relieving inflammation. They saturate the body with vitamins. This medicinal plant is an excellent antiseptic, it copes well with allergic manifestations.
The use of meadow tea
The use of meadow tea is recommended for stomatitis, trophic ulcers, erysipelas, dermatitis. Fresh meadow tea in the form of infusion is indicated for dysentery, scurvy, candidiasis of the mucous membranes, and bad breath. With tea made from a miraculous plant, you can gargle with sore throat, relieve convulsive symptoms, treat cough (for dry cough, meadow tea is not recommended)
Tea can be drunk as a choleretic agent. Infusions treat rheumatism, gout, arthrosis, osteochondrosis, bruises and tumors, stop internal bleeding, eliminate diarrhea. Meadow tea is used to treat eczema skin.
Meadow tea recipes
Tea for blood cleansing: 5 dry meadow tea inflorescences must be poured with 250 ml of boiling water, insisted for half an hour, drain, take 2 cups a day with a teaspoon of honey for 1-2 months.
A decoction of the roots of meadow tea: 10 grams of crushed plant roots should be poured with 100 ml of boiling water, kept in a water bath for half an hour, drain, and brought to the original volume. It is recommended to take the broth 4-5 times before meals with inflammation of the ovaries and tumors.
Infusion of meadow tea for migraine, anemia and atherosclerosis: 1 tablespoon of powder from dry leaves of the plant is required to pour a glass of boiling water, insist for 40 minutes, take 2 tablespoons 3 times a day before meals.
Contraindications to the use of meadow tea
Meadow tea is a source of various useful substances. But not always its use can have a positive effect on the body. Correct observance of proportions in the preparation of traditional medicines and the recommended dosage for use, especially during an exacerbation of diseases, will make the treatment pleasant and effective.
We must not forget that the use of meadow tea is contraindicated for varicose veins, sclerosis of the vessels of the extremities, hypertension and high blood clotting.
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).
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