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Useful properties and use of cancer necks
Botanical characteristics of cancer necks
Cancer cervix represent the buckwheat family. A herbaceous plant with a thick curved rhizome, on which numerous thin roots grow, has a straight, fistulose stem that grows 50-80 cm in height, is a perennial representative of the plant world. The leaves at the base are large, oblong, with long petioles. The upper leaves are narrow, attached to brown funnels. In the period from June to July, small pink flowers appear, collected in an inflorescence – an ear. The fruit is a nutlet, trihedral, dark brown.
The crayfish neck grows in dry valleys, in water meadows with forbs, chooses swampy shores of lakes, forest edges, and settles among shrubs.
Useful properties of cancer necks
Cancer necks are widely used in traditional and official medicine, the plant contains tannins, gallic and ascorbic acid, starch. During flowering, the grass exudes an incredible aroma. The value of a medicinal plant lies in its rhizome. Young leaves and stems of cancer necks, rich in vitamin C and mineral elements, are eaten in some regions of Russia. Preparations of cancer necks due to tannins have an anti-inflammatory and astringent effect on the human body.
The use of the cancer neck
Traditional medicine recommends decoctions from the roots of cancer necks for inflammation of the gallbladder and bladder. A decoction of the cancer neck prepared at home can cure colitis, relieve acute inflammatory processes in the intestines.
Also, a decoction is taken as an antidiarrheal agent for dysentery.
Recipe opens #1: Brew the grass with boiling water 1:10. Insist, strain and drink 3 times a day, 1 tablespoon.
Recipe opens #2: 20,0 g of cancer necks and 1 liter of water are simmered for 20 minutes. It is recommended to take 1-1,5 cups a day. Rinsing with a decoction relieves inflammation of the oral mucosa, effective for gum disease. A decoction will help with the appearance of stones in the gallbladder and bladder, during treatment it is necessary to follow a strict diet, excluding meat, lard, fish, eggs, salt and alcohol. The remedy is also effective during enteritis of the large intestine and as a hemostatic agent.
Recipe opens #3: 5,0 g of powdered cancerous necks, a teaspoon of flax seeds, 200,0 g of water, brew with boiling water, and take 2 tablespoon every 1 hours for bleeding of internal organs caused by ulcers.
Outwardly, a decoction of cancer necks is used for lotions on old wounds, boils, external ulcers, bleeding wounds. Treatment with herbal cancer neck is prescribed for inflammatory processes of the oral mucosa (stomatitis, gingivitis).
Cancer neck flowers
An unusually beautiful plant has pale pink flowers, collected in a large cylindrical shape, dense spike-shaped inflorescence. Flowers of cancer necks will decorate any flower bed. In folk medicine, the flowers of cancer necks are practically not used. There is a recipe for an infusion used for ear diseases as drops.
Infusion of cancer necks: 10–20 g of raw materials are infused in 200 ml of boiling water in a thermos for 8 hours, then filtered. Take 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day.
Cancer neck root
The root of the herb cancer neck is part of the stomach teas. In folk medicine, decoctions and infusions are popular as an astringent in the treatment of wounds, bleeding, boils, diarrhea and in the treatment of diseases of the bladder.
A decoction of cancer necks: To prepare a decoction, 1 tablespoon of crushed rhizomes of cancer necks is poured into a glass of boiling water, boiled for 20-30 minutes and filtered. Take a decoction of 1 tablespoon 3 times a day before meals. Also, this decoction is used to rinse the mouth with stomatitis, inflammation of the gums.
The roots of cancer necks have a pronounced calming effect on the central nervous system. Decoctions are used for cystitis, for washing the vagina with abundant whites, colpitis, vaginitis. At home, you can prepare an extract to treat stomach disorders.
Root extract: Grind a large root, pour 70% alcohol 1: 1. Insist in a dark cool place for two weeks. Take 20-30 drops 2-3 times a day before meals.
Cancer cervix contraindications
Means from cancerous necks do not cause intoxication, but with prolonged use they cause constipation. Care should be taken to use the herb for angiocholitis of the liver and acute pancreatitis. Also, cancer necks are contraindicated in weakened kidney function.