Common lilac is a shrub that grows in almost every yard. Lilac bouquets adorn our houses in the spring, exuding the most delicate aroma. Few people know that the lilac is not just an ornamental plant, but a natural healer, helping to overcome a wide variety of ailments.
Why is lilac useful?
Lilac contains bitter phenoglycoside syringin, essential oils, coumarins, farnesol, ascorbic acid, resins, flavonoids. Despite the fact that the lilac is a poisonous plant, the preparations correctly prepared from it have the following properties:
- diaphoretic;
- antipyretic;
- anesthetizing;
- anticonvulsant;
- diuretic;
- antimicrobial.
Lilac leaves draw pus and eliminate headache, and plant buds help to normalize blood sugar level.
Raw materials for tincture
Alcohol tincture is prepared from white or purple lilac. The medicinal qualities of the plant depend not so much on color as on the variety - they say that the most common is lilac. Varied "Michurin" varieties with fluffy or curly flowers are more suitable for decorating the garden.
Lilac flowers are harvested in May, cutting them together with twigs, and the kidneys - a little earlier, during swelling. To collect raw materials it is important to choose an ecologically clean area. Flowers are stored in bundles in the traditional drying conditions - a dark place, good ventilation.
Tincture of lilac for joints
When treating diseases of the musculoskeletal system, tincture of lilac is taken internally and compresses and rubbing are done with it. Let's consider the most effective recipes:
- Equal parts of the flowers of lilac and alcohol are combined, cover. The drug is insisted 24 hours in a cupboard or a pantry (the place should be dark). After tincture filter. Ready medicine is taken before going to bed for 1 table spoon, diluting in warm water. Do not exceed the dosage. This lilac tincture is effective in the period of exacerbation of rheumatism and arthritis.
- In a three-liter jar to fold the flowers of a white lilac, pour vodka to cover the dry raw material completely. In a dark place under the lid, the drug should be infused for 10 to 14 days. The contents of the jar should be shaken daily. After filtering the preparation is ready. This tincture of white lilac found application as a means for rubbing and compressing with radiculitis, rheumatism, arthritis , salt deposition, muscle pain, heel spur. Sore place thoroughly rubbed, wrapped in cotton or woolen handkerchief, left overnight. Use alcohol instead of vodka, as it may cause a burn.
- Flowers and lilac buds in equal proportions to connect and fold in a jar. For 1 part of dry raw materials, 4 parts of alcohol will be needed. The aging time is 3-4 days. The drug helps with rheumatism. Treatment of joints tincture of the kidneys and flowers of lilac implies ingestion of 20-25 drops, diluted in 1 tablespoon of water. Tincture is drunk three times a day until the end of the exacerbation period.
Lilac tincture for colds
During the epidemic of acute respiratory viral infections and influenza ,
Remove the inflammation and pain with laryngitis will help tincture, prepared by the same procedure (for 50 g of flowers - 100 grams of vodka). The product is diluted with warm water (1:10) and rinse their throats.
Remove fever in case of flu and reduce coughing attacks with bronchitis, whooping cough, tuberculosis will help water extract from dried lilac leaves - raw materials (1 tablespoon) are poured with boiling water (1 cup), leave to infuse in a thermos for 40 minutes. It is drunk three times a day on a teaspoon before meals.
It should be remembered that an overdose of lilac tincture is dangerous. Do not take more than you should.