Lilac in folk medicine

Lilac is not only a beautiful plant, pleasing to the eye, but also medicinal, often used in folk medicine. Useful properties of lilacs are known from ancient times. For medicinal purposes, various parts of the plant are suitable - leaves, buds, flowers, bark. The leaves are torn off at the beginning of summer, the flowers - during flowering, the bark is harvested at the same time as the flowers.

Indications for lilac application

The medicine from lilac has anti-inflammatory, analgesic, antimicrobial and diuretic action.

Lilac preparations help with:

• gout, deposition of salts, heel spur;
• Rheumatoid arthritis, neuralgia, joint pain;
• ulcers, wounds, bruises;
• epilepsy;
• diarrhea, cystitis , kidney disease;
• stomach ulcer, colds;
• treatment of ringworm;
• asthma, tuberculosis, laryngitis.

Recipes from lilac

1. For the treatment of kidney diseases (pyelonephritis, cystitis, kidney stones) take infusion of lilac leaves. This same infusion can be used for lotions and washing of wounds, purulent ulcers. To make it, 2 tbsp. l. finely chopped leaves pour 1 tbsp. hot water. The resulting mixture boil and insist 2-3 hours. After filter and squeeze. Take 14 days for 1 tablespoon 4 times a day before meals. If necessary, after 14-21 days treatment can be repeated.
2. At high temperature, the leaves of lilac (6-8 leaves put in 0.5 l of water) brew, drink with honey and lemon.
3. For the treatment of asthma make infusion of flowers or leaves of lilac (they are collected during the flowering period). 2 tbsp. l. harvested raw materials are poured into 0.5 liters of boiling water, it is insisted for 1 hour. Take 0.25-0.5 cup 3 times a day half an hour after breakfast and 30 minutes before lunch and dinner.
4. Antipyretic and diaphoretic . Take 1 tbsp. l. flowers lilac and lime color pour 250 ml of boiling water, leave for 1 hour. Take infusion warm for 1 glass 3-4 times a day.
5. Wound healing and analgesic . 1 tbsp. lilac flowers pour 0.5 liters of vodka and insist in a dark place for 2 weeks. Apply lotions to the poorly healing wounds. On the first day, the bandage is changed 3 times a day, then 1 time per day.
6. With radiculitis, polyarthritis apply an anesthetic ointment: 2 tbsp. Spoons of flowers grind and grind with 2 tbsp. tablespoons of butter. Rub into sore spots.
7. Diseases of the respiratory system (bronchitis, tracheitis, pneumonia): 1 tbsp. Spoon dried flowers pour 250 ml of boiling water, insist 1 hour. Take 1 tbsp. spoon 3-4 times a day.
8. Neurological diseases (neuroses, insomnia). Tea from dried flowers: 1 tsp for 200 ml of boiling water, taken in the morning and in the evening.

External use of medicinal lilac

1. Headache. Apply fresh leaves of lilac to the forehead, temples or nape.
2. Leaves help the early ripening of abscesses and their purification from pus. Wounds heal quickly if you apply crushed lilac leaves to them.
3. Purulent wounds and ulcers, difficult to heal, are successfully cured with fresh leaves of lilac. The sore place is steamed and covered with carefully washed fresh leaves and bandaged. On the first day of treatment, the bandage is changed 3-4 times, in the future - once a day.
4. In case of problems with the veins, it is recommended to stomp your feet in hot water, then apply fresh lilac leaves to them.
5. For arthritis, neuralgia, rheumatism, ointment is used from the juice of young leaves with pork fat or oil (1: 4).

Treatment with lilac tincture

Tincture of lilac leaves is indicated for rheumatism, salt deposition, for compresses, rubbing, lotions for arthritis, sprains, bruises, gout and joint pain. 100 g fresh leaves fall asleep in a bottle, pour a liter of vodka, insist two weeks in a dark place. Take tincture of 30 drops three times a day for 30 minutes before eating and at the same time rub it with sore spots or apply compresses.

To cure pain in the joints, you need to use the following recipe: 2 tablespoons of dried lilac flowers and 1 tablespoon of crushed laurel leaves and willow bark pour 0.5 liters of vodka, insist 3 weeks. After this, tincture strain and use for compresses (compress to hold no more than 2 hours!).

In case of osteochondrosis and arthritis, a medicine should be taken, for which it is necessary to take: 2 tablespoons fresh lilac flowers, add 200 g of honey, 100 ml of vodka and 300 ml of freshly squeezed black radish juice. The received medicine to rub in sore spots 2 - 3 times a day.

Contraindications to the use of lilacs

Lilac is quite a poisonous plant. Application inside requires accurate dosage and accuracy.

Among the contraindications to the use of infusion lilac flowers amenorrhea - the delay in menstruation in women. Lilac, of course, is used for certain inflammatory diseases of the kidneys, but it can not be prescribed for chronic kidney failure, glomerulonephritis.