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The use of immortelle and recipes for its preparation
Immortelle sandy (tsmin sandy)
Sandy immortelle, or, as it is called, sandy cumin, is a perennial plant, the height of the stems of which is 15–30 cm, less often – 60 cm. The rhizome of old bushes is short, branches little and is located in the upper layers of the soil. On the rhizome there are a large number of shoots (with inflorescences).
This plant has entire and alternate leaves. The inflorescences of the plant are baskets, which have dark yellow leaves of the wrapper and small light flowers. At the top of each stem can be located from a dozen to hundreds of baskets, collected in corymbose inflorescences. When the flowering period just begins, this inflorescence looks like a ball and is dense, and later it becomes loose. Each basket has a wrapper consisting of leaves, smooth and dry. All these leaves are lemon yellow or orange. Flowers – with a corolla, similar to a funnel pipe. The fruit of the plant is a brown achene, which has a length of 1,5 mm and a crest with soft jagged hairs. The whole achene is dotted with glands. Felt pubescence is located throughout the plant. Flowering immortelle occurs from July to late summer.
This plant can be seen on dry and sandy soil, which is observed in Ukraine, the Caucasus and Belarus, as well as in the southern and middle stripes of the European part of Russia. Due to the fact that there was a great demand for it, the immortelle was introduced into the culture.
When collecting, you can make a mistake and collect not immortelle, but something else, so here are a few signs of sandy immortelle: – flowers are dry and yellow; – the stem of the plant is felt and white.
If you do not pay attention to these features, then a person may mistakenly collect a cat’s paw or another type of immortelle (which has large pink baskets) instead of a sand immortelle.
The use of immortelle sandy
The flowers of the plant contain flavonoids, essential oils, tannins and dyes and resins. And also in the flowers of immortelle, the content of calcium and potassium salts, manganese, vitamin K was found. It is thanks to these substances that immortelle flowers have a healing effect on the human body.
For medicinal purposes, inflorescences are collected in early to mid-summer. Then the collected raw materials are dried and all kinds of preparations are already prepared from it for the treatment of various diseases by folk methods.
Sandy immortelle has an expectorant, diuretic, choleretic and analgesic effect. In folk medicine, this plant is used in the treatment of gastritis, colitis, constipation, liver disease.
This plant can increase blood pressure, enhance the secretion of the pancreas and stomach.
Immortelle is an excellent remedy for the treatment of atherosclerosis, obesity, and diabetes.
Preparations prepared on the basis of immortelle help with various liver diseases: cirrhosis, jaundice, cholecystitis.
For medicinal purposes, immortelle is cultivated on separate plantations. Many choleretic preparations are prepared from the flowers of the plant.
Immortelle is used in folk medicine in various forms: it is a decoction, an infusion, and an extract.
Sandy immortelle recipes
Flower mixture for sinusitis. Take 15-20 grams of immortelle flowers, the same amount of tansy and centaury and brew in 200 ml of boiling water. Leave to infuse for 40 minutes. When this time has passed and the mixture is infused, you should apply it to your nose (and flowers too).
Immortelle tincture. It is used for skin diseases. To prepare it, you need to stock up on the following: immortelle flowers and 20% alcohol. 10 grams of flowers pour 100 ml of alcohol and insist 1 week. You need to take this medicine in 15-20 drops, but they need to be diluted in 50 ml of boiling water. Every day, half an hour before meals, take this tincture 3-5 times.
Collection of immortelle. For this collection, you need to take 40 grams of immortelle flowers, 30 grams of water shamrock leaves, 20 grams of peppermint leaves and 20 grams of coriander fruits. 20 grams of such a collection should be brewed in 400 ml of boiling water, left to infuse for 20 minutes, then be sure to strain. Every day we take as a choleretic agent 3 times 100 ml of infusion half an hour before meals.
A decoction of immortelle flowers. Take 10 grams of immortelle flowers and put them in an enamel bowl. Pour 1 cup of boiling water there, cover with a lid and place in a water bath to heat. In the bath, keep the composition for half an hour, stirring often. Next, remove it from the water bath and cool, then strain and squeeze out all the raw materials. What happened, you need to dilute to a volume of 200 ml (we do this with ordinary boiling water). Put the finished broth in a cold place for 2 days. Take this medicine for half a glass of warm daily 2-3 times. You need to drink a decoction before eating – a quarter of an hour. This decoction has a choleretic property, it is used for itchy dermatoses or as an anthelmintic medicine.
Contraindications to the use of immortelle sandy
Immortelle can have a cumulative property, which means the following: if a lot of it accumulates in the body, this will lead to stagnation in the liver. It follows from this that it is impossible to take immortelle for a long time.
Given the fact that helichrysum increases blood pressure, people with hypertension should consult their doctor before taking the drug. If the patient simply needs to take a medicine from immortelle, then he is prescribed a course of treatment of 10 days.
Immortelle is contraindicated in people with high stomach acidity.