Its name is a plant with a thick and fleshy rhizome, which is used in medicine, due to the place of growth - marshy soils. Air swamp has extensive healing properties, as well as some contraindications, and which were known even by Arab, Greek and other ancient healers. The Roman scientist Dioscorides recommended him as a diuretic and tonic remedy, and the ancient Asian peoples with his help fought with snake bites.
Composition and healing properties of marsh aureus
The plant includes a surprisingly complex mixture of natural components - organic acids, alkaloids, essential oils, tannins, resins, phytoncides, vitamins, minerals, camphor, starch, caloric, sesquiterpenes, borneol, curcumin, etc. The root taste is slightly astringent and tart, and The fragrance is quite pleasant. First of all, the plant has a good disinfecting effect: the powder from the roots is used to treat purulent wounds, ulcers, cuts and other injuries on the skin. Fresh root is useful for chewing in diseases of the nasopharynx, as well as those who want to get rid of the bad habit - smoking.
Due to antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic properties, it is widely used in the treatment of diseases of the upper respiratory tract - bronchitis, pneumonia, whooping cough, tuberculosis , influenza, etc. The vasodilator effect will be appreciated by hypertensive patients, and spasmolytic and stimulating digestion - patients with gastrointestinal diseases - ulcer, gastritis, pancreatitis. Due to choleretic action, people with hypotonic dyskinesia were able to significantly improve their health, and the diuretic effect would be beneficial to those suffering from genito-urinary diseases.
Methods of application and preparation
The healing properties of calamus ayr are largely dependent on the methods of preparation of the root. Here are the most popular cooking recipes:
- Decoction of the roots is used for poisoning, accompanied by diarrhea, colic and flatulence. To do this, pour a glass of boiling water a teaspoon of roots. Boil 5 minutes, cool, pass through the filter and take 1/3 cup once a day on an empty stomach. The same broth is used to treat hemorrhoids as an additive to healing baths, and rinse the sore throat.
- Prepared as a tea infusion should be drunk with bronchopulmonary ailments as an expectorant and diaphoretic. And still such infusion removes a pain at an exacerbation of a gastritis and an ulcer.
- Accepted powder of the root on the tip of a teaspoon will relieve heartburn. It is also used topically for the treatment of skin ailments. In addition, it has a toning effect, improves brain function and memory, increases sexual function.
- For the preparation of alcohol tincture, the ground root should be poured with vodka in the ratio 1: 5. Remove to a dark place for a week, and then take 10-35 drops three times during the entire waking period for liver disease, kidney stones, to improve vision and hearing.
Contraindications
Of course, ayr marsh, like any medicinal plant, has useful properties, but also contraindications. It can not be taken by pregnant and lactating women, young children. The healing properties of the marsh root can turn out to be harmful if you ignore such contraindications as hypotension and any bleeding. With increased secretion of the stomach and acute inflammatory process in the kidneys, this plant can not be treated. With any discomfort and discomfort, you should stop using the medication, and then you can try to repeat the treatment, but diluting the infusion or broth with water.