Purity in folk medicine: a universal remedy

This amazing plant is used for a variety of ailments. Purity in folk medicine is used for skin diseases, liver disorders, flu, gout and rheumatism. It has the ability to slow down the division of cancer cells, therefore it is widely used for the treatment of oncology of the skin and internal organs. Like other popular herbs, celandine has many names.

How to call a celandine in the people

The scientific name of the plant is celandine large. The most popular name - cleanliness, cleanliness - grass has acquired from the ability to treat skin diseases: rash, scrofula, lichen, acne and acne, eczema and even cutaneous tuberculosis.

For the ability to get rid of warts, the plant is sometimes called a wart, and for help with unclear violations in the work of the liver - icteric. Another name - a yolk-milk or a red-milker - has been cleaned in folk medicine because of the characteristic milky juice of a dark orange or orange-red color. For our ancestors, the juice of the plant replaced iodine, it was used to lubricate wounds, disinfect milk utensils and fumigate cattle from death. The use of it in certain eye diseases explains the name "the seer".

Other plant names are yellow grass, cheshuja, cow grass, golden grass, a herb, dog soap, witch grass, yellow spurge, swallow grass. By the way, the Latin name celandine (Chelidonium majus L.) is translated as "swallow". The plant blooms precisely during the arrival of the first swallows, but withers and withers during their flight.

Characteristics of the plant

Purity is perennial. It is a herbaceous plant with bright yellow or orange milky juice. Refers to the family of poppies. Leaves are alternate, pinnately divided, with large retracted pairs of leaves. The top is painted green, and the surface is bluish underneath. Large enough, 15-20 cm long, 5-10 cm wide. Flowers on long pedicels, bright, yellow in color. They have four petals of a rounded shape and a lot of stamens. Fruits - thin podochkovidnye boxes with two leaves, their length about 5 cm Seeds are arranged in two rows. They are dark in color and ovoid in shape.

The height of the plant is from 30 to 100 cm. The stem is erect, hollow, covered with small hairs, moderately branched.

The area of the grass covers almost the entire European part of the former Soviet Union, Siberia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. The celandine prefers lands rich in humus. It is widespread in the forest zone, it grows in abundance in gardens, bushes and ravines, near houses. In the steppe zone settled on the slopes and along the banks of rivers.

Blossom celandine at the end of May and blossoms until September. Fruits ripen from July to September. For medicinal purposes, the entire plant is used: stems, flowers, leaves, celandine juice and roots. Roots of celandine are rod-shaped, branched, with a short rhizome. Outside they have a reddish-brown color, inside they are yellow.

The grass is harvested at the time of flowering, in June-July, and the roots in autumn. Dry in the shade, the raw material is stored for three years in cardboard boxes or bags of thick paper. The room should be dry, cool and well ventilated.

Chemical composition of celandine

All parts of the plant contain alkaloids (roots - 1.90-4.14%, grass - up to 1.87%), chelidonin and its derivatives, sanguinorine, protopin, berberine, chelidamine, chelirubin, spartien and a number of other potent substances.

Be careful! Purity refers to poisonous plants. All parts are dangerous, especially the roots.

Also in the purifier are organic acids (chelidonic, malic, amber, lemon), vitamins A and C, essential oil, flavonoids and phytoncides.

Due to this complex composition, celandine in folk medicine is used to combat malignant tumors and in the treatment of liver diseases of unknown etiology.

Beneficial features

Extract of celandine has a lot of remarkable properties.

• Slows the growth of malignant neoplasms.
• Has a pronounced soothing and analgesic effect.
• Locally anesthetizing properties.
• Removes warts, spines and calluses.
• Relieves convulsions and spasms of smooth muscles, has a bradycardic and hypotensive effect.
• Heals wounds.
• Strengthens urination.
• It has irritating and choleretic effect.
• Used as a laxative
• Has antimicrobial and insecticidal action.

The plant contains many alkaloids, some of which have a controversial effect. Therefore, before using celandine, be sure to read the contraindications.

Contraindications for use

Take with care celandine inside. Since the plant is poisonous, this method of treatment requires medical supervision. In case of overdose or prolonged use, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, and respiratory center depression are possible up to a fatal outcome.

Also, celandine can cause irritation of the stomach and intestines, lower blood pressure and in rare cases provoke a loss of consciousness or hallucinations. At the same time, severe seizures may develop under the influence of the protopain alkaloid.

Who should not use celandine? In folk medicine, it is not recommended to use the plant for the following groups of people:

• During pregnancy and lactation.
• Children.
• Patients with epilepsy.
• Persons suffering from mental disorders.
• With bronchial asthma.
• With angina and cardiac decompensation.

Pure juice is not used for wound injuries of the skin - it is irritating and can cause inflammation.

Broth and infusion celandine: external application

Decoction plants are used to lubricate the affected areas of the body and in the form of lotions for psoriasis, lichen, eczema. The crushed raw material in an amount of 20-25 g (for dry raw materials) is put in an enamel saucepan, poured into 250 ml of water and boiled for 15 minutes. Then cool and filter into glassware. Store the broth of celandine for two days.

Also for the treatment of eczema and dermatitis use infusion in the form of trays. Twenty grams of grass is brewed with 200 ml of boiling water and insisted for about half an hour. For the baths use a warm infusion (temperature 37 ° C), the duration of the bath is about 15 minutes. Do daily until the signs of inflammation disappear. To treat acne and acne wash with diluted juice twice a day. After the first application, the skin condition may worsen, but after a few days all the inflammations disappear.

In case of extensive damage to the skin, cleanliness baths are taken. They are especially effective in cases of furunculosis, wet eczema and wound damage to the skin. To do this, use the roots of celandine. They grind and insist in cold water for two hours, then boil for twenty minutes. Drain and add to the bath, which is taken at night. The water temperature is approximately 37 ° C, the total course of treatment includes about 10 baths.

Infusion plants are rubbed into the skin of the head to get rid of dandruff.

In the same way, you can rid the dog of fleas: celandine has an insecticidal effect. After treatment, the infusion should be washed off so that the animal does not lick it, otherwise poisoning is possible.

Fresh Juice

Juice and extract of celandine are extracted from fresh stems and leaves. They are passed through a meat grinder and carefully squeezed. Then the juice is placed in the refrigerator for three days, filtered through gauze in a glass container with a lid. For about three weeks, the juice is re-baked, in the lid you need to make a hole for the escape of gases. After the end of fermentation, the resulting extract can be stored in the refrigerator until the next harvest. Before use, the juice is diluted with water in equal proportions.

Without re-digestion, the juice can be diluted with alcohol (25 ml per 100 ml of juice) or vodka (50 ml per 100 ml of juice). This tincture will be stored for a long time.

Pure celiac juice is used to treat herpes, burns, acne and acne, with scabies and flaking, skin lesions, non-healing ulcers and fistulas, polyps, condylomas and about 250 skin diseases.

Purity of nail fungus is used in the form of juice - rubbed into the nail plate in the morning and evening or make a warm bath with a decoction. Treatment is long, as with any fungal infection, so you should be patient.

Juice from freshly cut plants is oiled with syringes and warts until they disappear. With skin cancer, it is lubricated with fresh juice three times a day. With mastitis, treat the area of inflammation.

With external application, the juice is applied twice at intervals of 1-2 minutes. In this case, the extract acts not only on the surface, but also on the deep layers of the skin.

When hemorrhoids in the anus enter a swab of cotton wool or bandage, soaked in a decoction of celandine or in diluted juice. At the same time, it is recommended to take infusion of herbs inwards at 100 ml per day.

For the treatment of eye diseases, the juice is prepared as follows. The settled and filtered celandine juice is mixed with honey in equal parts. Add 2% pure table salt and boil the resulting mass in a water bath for 20 minutes, stirring and removing the foam. As a result, concentrate is obtained, which can be stored for several years. When instilled in the eye, dilute 1: 1 or 1: 2 with distilled or boiled water. Drip 1-2 drops three times a day for ten days. Then make a rest for 10 days and spend one more course. Applied for the treatment of conjunctivitis, barley, thorn, to improve visual acuity and relieve fatigue from the eyes.

Purity: how to take inside

When administered, the celandine has a choleretic, anti-inflammatory, diuretic and anti-cancer effect. To treat hepatitis, cirrhosis, cholecystitis and cholelithiasis, infusion of herb celandine is used. One st. L. Blossoming grass is brewed on a glass of water. Insist one hour. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day for half an hour before meals.

The same scheme is used to treat neuroses and vegetovascular dystonia, with whooping cough, gout, rheumatism.

How to drink celandine in the form of broth? For oral administration it is prepared as follows. For 500 ml of water take 30 g of celandine, boil for five minutes. Then insist for 50 minutes and filter. Drink 3 times a day for 20-30 minutes before eating half the glass.

With malignant tumors of internal organs, skin cancers, rectum diseases, an infusion is prepared: 1 tbsp. L. Celandine is put in a thermos bottle and poured 250 ml of boiling water. Withstand for 1-1,5 hours. Take 1-2 tablespoons before meals.

Another scheme of application of celandine juice with oncology: taken with milk. Begin with a minimum - one drop - then add a drop every day and bring to 20. Then reduce each day by drop, returning to one. With liver cancer drink the juice of celandine with vodka (diluted in an equal proportion) 3 times a day for 10-15 ml, washed down with water.

Decoction of the roots is used to treat dysentery. One st. L. The ground root is poured into 500 ml of water and boiled for 5 minutes, after insisting for one hour. The broth is filtered and drunk 25-50 ml three times a day.

Tincture of celandine

Ethyl alcohol dissolves in itself most of the active substances contained in the grass and roots of the plant. Therefore, tincture is a stronger preparation than decoctions and infusions. It can be purchased at the pharmacy network, and you can make it at home.

Use fresh or dried grass. Raw materials are put in glassware. If the grass is dry, then fill half the volume, if fresh - that's all. Pour vodka to the top of the jar. Insist in a dark place for 14 days, periodically shaking. Before using celandine on vodka you need to dilute: a half-liter jar of tincture adds another 350 ml of vodka.

Another proportion for making tincture is 20 g of celandine per glass of vodka.

Tincture is taken for violations in the liver and gallbladder: 3 times a day before eating 10 drops for three months.

For the treatment of tumors of the female reproductive system, drink as follows: for 21 days, half a teaspoon three times a day for 15-20 minutes before meals. Then rest for 10 days. After the break, the second stage - one tablespoon 3 times a day for 14 days.

With parodontosis use alcohol custard tincture of 30%. It is mixed with sunflower or olive oil and applied to the gums for 15 minutes. Then wash off with warm water.

Cultivation of the plant

Infusion of celandine is used for spraying plants from pests. In this regard, many summer residents cultivate the celandine and other medicinal herbs on its site. The plant multiplies only by seeds. They sow them under winter or early spring in a place protected from direct sunlight, slightly sprinkling with earth. Seeds withstand frost to -30 ° C. The width of the rows is about 50 cm. The celandine is a weed, so special care is not required. The first shoots need to be weeded and poured with water, then loosened the ground. Cut the plant during the flowering period, lay out a thin layer for drying or use in fresh form.

Purity is an indispensable tool for fighting skin diseases. In summer you can take fresh plant juice, and for winter prepare raw materials or tincture. It can be used in the form of infusions and broths, dry raw materials, extract and tincture. When skin diseases are effective lubrication, lotions, and in severe cases - baths with infusion or decoction of grass. Purity is widespread throughout Russia, it is unpretentious to the conditions of growth, so you can say that he is at hand all the time. Remember that the plant is poisonous, so take the medication from it with caution.