Treatment with natural herbal remedies - the letter "U"

297. UKROP VEGETABLE

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One can not find, perhaps, such a man who would not encounter in everyday life with dill as a seasoning for dinner or in the preparation of all kinds of pickles.
But there was a time when in ancient times Greeks and Romans gave bouquets of dill to their beloved girls. And the ancient poets sang dill in their ode.
They were well acquainted with dill and used it not only as food, but as a medicine the Egyptians - most of all it was used by them with a headache.
Avicenna widely used dill in his practice: he gave his wet nurses children to increase the amount of milk, he advised taking with a hiccup and overcrowding of the stomach. When the gums in the intestines advised to do enemas, so that there was no pain, and warm napar grease pochechuynye (hemorrhoidal) nodes to avoid bleeding. Dill ashes were used for non-healing wounds.
In the chapter on "lascivious" herbs, Avicenna also paid much attention to dill. It is important to prepare it properly. Do not crush the green on a wooden board, but only on porcelain or ceramic. When drying, the sun's rays should not touch it. Store in a dark jar. The most healing is dry fennel for 4-5th year of storage. It is necessary for the health of men and women. In men, he relieves physical tension, fatigue, gives strength for the night, which should belong to a woman. A woman helps to relax and regulate the onset of a desired pregnancy.
Dioscorides used dill to treat eye diseases. Medieval doctor Krato treated cataract with dill. Galen, Platonius, Apalenus considered dill soothing morbid urination. Dill was attributed to a urinary stone dissolving property. Salern School used dill as a carminative.
In the morning, the Armenians in the morning were given tuberculosis of the lungs to drink hot milk mixed with a pinch of dill or cinnamon.
Now in scientific medicine infusion of dill is used for hypertension, angina, and dry fruit extract for the treatment of chronic coronary insufficiency, prevention of angina attacks, with neuroses accompanied by spasms of the coronary vessels and spastic conditions of the abdominal cavity organs.
Dill has an active choleretic effect, reduces the feeling of heaviness after taking heavy food. Use it for atherosclerosis, headache, liver disease. Some doctors recommend fennel seeds for the treatment of chronic bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma.
In cosmetics, the infusion of leaves is used in the form of lotions on the inflamed eyes, reddened with fatigue, and also on pustular skin lesions of the face.
Some useful tips.
NOISE IN EARS. Dry whole dill, chop with stem and seeds. Handful of herbs pour 0.5 liters of boiling water in a thermos and insist half an hour. Drink half a cup 3 times a day.
GLAUCOM, CATARACT. Squeeze out the dill juice. Dampen the bandage with juice, squeeze and apply to the eyes for 15-20 minutes several times a day. The course of treatment is not limited.
MOSQUITELY DIETEZ. Infuse dill seeds in cold boiled water at a ratio of 1:20. Take 1 glass 3 times a day (you can insist all night).
NEPHRITIS. Method of preparation and use as in urine acid diathesis. You just need to remember that the infusion reduces the pressure.
HURT. With a persistent hiccup, when nothing helps, 1 teaspoon of dill seeds pour a glass of boiling water. Insist 30 minutes. Take half a cup 3 times a day.
Atherosclerosis (with headaches). 1 tablespoon of dill seeds pour 1 cup boiling water. Insist for at least an hour. Take 1 2 tablespoons 4 times a day.
METEORISM, GLOSSES. 1 tablespoon of seeds for 250 ml of milk, cook for 5 10 minutes. To drink in a warm kind in two receptions.
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With frequent use and in large doses, dill reduces pressure, dilates blood vessels, which must be taken into account by patients with low blood pressure. Amirdovlat noted that dill seeds are harmful to the bladder. According to Avicenna, "prolonged use of it weakens sight." Modern physicians explain this by the possibility of a hypotonic state with vasodilation, which temporarily causes a deterioration in vision, which, when the dill preparations are abolished, passes without a trace.
We must not forget that one of the contraindications to dill is the atony of the smooth muscles of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract.

298. UNITED STATES OF VIKTOR

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This is an endemic Central Asian plant that is widespread only on the Gissar Range and its southern spurs - on mountain slopes, watersheds and gorges at an altitude of up to two and a half kilometers above sea level. A rare plant from the family of amaryllis. Some amateurs grow it for the sake of a yellowish-pink flower with a purple strip, some for medicinal purposes.
I will not forget the words of an experienced neurologist who told me after a stroke with a strong paresis of the facial nerve, when the left eye and the corner of his mouth did not close: "Oh, you would now snowdrop Voronov or at least Ungernia Victor would all go to the mend!" The fact is that Both these plants contain the most valuable substance - galantamine, the main raw material for the production of galantamine hydrobromide, used, in particular, for strokes.
The plant is very interesting: in the spring there are leaves - 7-10 in the rosette. After 2 3 months they die, and in August grow flowers on the leafless arrow. For medicinal purposes, leaves are used. They can not be cut off, you can only trim it carefully. Then cut into pieces and dry for 4 5 days.
In the pharmacies it can not be found, the herbalists of Ungernia are also very rare. However, sick people sometimes show such persistence that the necessary medicine will be obtained from the ground. Moreover, if they know that Viktor's ungernity is good for myasthenia gravis, progressive muscular dystrophy, motor disorders associated with neuritis, polyneuritis. Used ungernia and with encephalopathy, ischemic cerebral infarction.
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And yet, to moderate their ardor in search of this valuable medicinal plant will have those patients who have serious contraindications. And the drugs ungernia are contraindicated with the open form of pulmonary tuberculosis, with ulcer of the stomach and duodenum and other diseases associated with a tendency to bleeding, as well as with organic diseases of the central nervous system.
Since we are talking about this plant, I will tell you about the dosage. It is extremely small: the dose is only 0.1 0.2 milligrams, take 3 4 times a day. Higher doses are toxic.