You may not have heard the scientific name of this plant, but there is no doubt that at least once in a lifetime a lichen was seen. The inconspicuous parmelia has many indications for use and almost no contraindications. It is actively used in folk medicine, and treatment with it gives quite good results.
Application of lichen parmelia
This is a small perennial plant. In height, it reaches no more than six to seven centimeters. The leaves of gray-green color are slightly wrinkled and, as a rule, closely closed with one another. In fact, parmelia - a symbiosis of green algae and the simplest class of mushrooms.
Lichen acts in a variety of ways. He has such actions:
- bactericidal;
- wound healing;
- hemostatic;
- antiseptic.
Very often parmelium is used to fight the tuberculosis-causing stick of Koch. During the Great Patriotic War, lichen was used to treat wounds. Till now some people use the plant for food. From dried thalluses, an excellent supplement to flour is obtained. And on contact with water, the powder swells and subsequently becomes jelly, so sometimes it is based on natural fruit jelly and jelly.
And more:
- If there are no contraindications to the use of parmelia herbs, decoction of it can be drunk from a cough . The agent helps or assists quickly enough, but operates thus very gently and harmlessly.
- Compresses with lichen heal even the deepest and longest healing wounds that have occurred as a result of injuries or due to dermatological diseases.
- From the broth of parmelia, you get an excellent rinse, which saves with gum bleeding .
- Medicine knows a sufficient number of cases when the lichen relieved patients of acute colitis, diarrhea, ulcers and other ailments of the gastrointestinal tract.
Contraindications to the use of parmelia
Like any other medicinal plant or medicine, parmelia herbs, in addition to indications for use, have contraindications. But there are not so many of them, as in the case of pharmaceuticals:
- The main warning - lichen can not be used for people with individual intolerance.
- Although the mechanism of the effect of plants on the body of pregnant women and nursing mothers has not been studied, it is not recommended to apply it in these periods.
- It is better to find alternative safer therapy and children under six.