Toadflax
Useful properties and use of common toadflax
Useful properties of toadflax
Due to its healing properties, toadflax can take pride of place in the home medicine cabinet. This plant is capable of having a choleretic, expectorant, analgesic effect. Toadflax is often used as an antihelminthic agent. It is rich in ascorbic acid, pectin and resinous substances, mucus, phytosterol, choline and carotene.
Toadflax contains folic, citric and malic acids. The herb has a high therapeutic effect. The alkaloid peganin is able to lower blood pressure, improve the pulse and normalize the contractions of the heart muscles, increases the tone of the uterus and intestines.
Toadflax application
In folk medicine, the herb is used for anemia, metabolic disorders. It helps the secretion of mucus during dry cough, relieves shortness of breath, relieves the condition with jaundice, hernia. The cleansing properties of the plant can be used for poisoning. The herb ensures the removal of sand and stones from the bladder, treats cystitis, cleans the gastrointestinal tract of toxins. It can be used for diathesis and dropsy.
A course of therapy with toadflax will relieve dizziness, myopathy, tonsillitis. Possessing antiseptic properties, the plant is able to treat conjunctivitis, has a positive effect on changing the composition of the blood. Observing the action of a medicinal herb, traditional healers for many centuries have passed on knowledge about it and recipes for healing drugs based on it. Toadflax infusions can be used to cure ulcers, boils, heal purulent wounds and inflammation of the oral mucosa.
Recipe number 1: 400 ml of boiling water, you need to pour 1 tablespoon of dry raw materials, leave for 2-3 hours. Apply the infusion for external use.
Renal and hepatic problems can be eliminated with the infusion from the collection, which includes flaxseed, corn silk and immortelle.
Recipe number 2: taking 1 teaspoon of all herbs, they should be poured with two glasses of boiling water, insist 1-2 hours, squeeze. Take three times a day before meals 1 tablespoon of the mixture.
Toadflax herb is quite popular, it positively manifests itself as a mild, laxative. Its choleretic qualities are known. It regulates the processes in the stomach and intestines. With Meniere's syndrome, an infusion works well, which must be taken for a long time in a warm form, 125 ml 2 times a day before meals.
Infusion of flaxseed: 1 tablespoon of the herb should be insisted in 1 glass of boiling water for 10 minutes, strain - and you can take it.
Polyps, fungal lesions, bedwetting and ascariasis - all these troubles will pass faster if the complex treatment contains funds for external and internal use based on toadflax. Centuries of experience have proven that toadflax can help with encephalopathy, cardiopathy and muscle atrophy.
Flaxseed ointment
An ointment prepared according to a folk recipe has an excellent effect on the treatment of hemorrhoids, eczema, and lichen.
Recipe number 1: you should heat a mixture consisting of 2 parts of toadflax powder and 5 parts of pork fat, strain and lubricate the affected areas with the resulting ointment.
Recipe number 2: equal parts of toadflax flowers, oak bark, water pepper are soaked in melted lard, stirring, heated (the fat solidifies a little) and poured into a bowl. Tampons moistened with this mixture are inserted into the anus with bleeding hemorrhoids for several hours.
Recipe number 3: 2 parts of grass and 1 part of 70% alcohol must be mixed, insisted for a day, add 10 parts of internal pork fat, stand in a water bath until the alcohol completely evaporates. Then the composition is squeezed out, filtered. Store the ointment in a sealed container at room temperature.
Types of toadflax
Toadflax belongs to the genus of annual and perennial plants of the plantain family. The herb got its name due to the fact that its leaves resemble flax leaves. There are 80 to 150 plant species, they have spread in the Northern Hemisphere, along the shores of the Mediterranean.
Common toadflax. The plant blooms from July to September, the seeds ripen in August. This species loves to spread along the steppe slopes, wastelands, ditches, and chooses roadsides. Man uses all parts of the plant, except for the root. Dry grass has an unpleasant odor, pungent taste, salty-bitter. The plant contains resinous substances, mucus, phytosterol. Research confirms that the alkaloid peganin has an aphrodisiac effect and can be used to lower blood pressure, eliminate edema, and normalize heart rate.
In addition, the plant increases intestinal tone, improves peristalsis, and exhibits a laxative effect with constipation. Toadflax is used in folk medicine for colds, improves joint activity and increases muscle strength.
Toadflax Moroccan. This annual plant with whorled-linear leaves forms a compact bush. This species has small flowers, purple-purple with an orange throat, collected in beautiful clusters. Flowering begins in June and ends in September. An extract can be prepared from dry grass by mixing it in a 1: 1 ratio with 40% alcohol. A daily intake before bedtime, but not for a long time, one to three tablespoons of such a drug will help with chronic constipation. This gorgeous toadflax is designed for ornamental gardening.
Cymbal toadflax. Cymbal toadflax is a perennial ground cover plant with rounded leaves with a dark green and purple bottom surface and small flowers, lavender or white, popularly called "lips".
Tincture for constipation: you need to take 1 part of the herb and pour 40% vodka in a 1: 1 ratio, leave for 2 hours, strain, squeeze. They drink 1 teaspoon of the medicine before bedtime.
Alpine toadflax. It is a perennial with creeping, highly branched, drooping, bluish-gray and fleshy stems. Purple flowers appear in June and are pleasing to the eye even in September. They are large, with a bright orange spot on the "lip".
The plant is recommended by folk healers for cancer of any localization.
Infusion of alpine toadflax: 1.5 tablespoons of herbs should be steamed with 1 glass of boiling water, kept in a water bath for 15 minutes, insisted for 45 minutes, drain. It is recommended to use the drug 3-4 times a day, 1 tablespoon 15-20 minutes before meals. This infusion can be applied to the sites of tumor formation.
Toadflax chalk. It belongs to perennial herbaceous plants, the stems are often recumbent, the leaves are round-ovate, gray-gray. The flowers are irregular, yellow, collected in a loose inflorescence. taking funds from toadflax promotes rapid recovery from muscular dystrophy. There is a great way to treat hypotension.
Tincture of chalky toadflax: 50 g of dry grass is required to pour 0.5 liters of vodka, leave for 15 days, strain and take 20-30 drops 3 times a day before meals with water.
Contraindications to the use of toadflax
Toadflax is contraindicated for children, women during pregnancy and lactation, patients with cirrhosis of the liver, with renal and hepatic dysfunction. The plant is poisonous, the course of treatment should be no more than 10 days. An overdose can cause severe dizziness, severe abdominal pain, indigestion, and even fainting. Paroxysmal tachycardia and extrasystole are also prohibited for the use of toadflax.
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).
