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Useful properties and uses of meadow tea
Botanical characteristics of meadow tea
Moneywort is a perennial herbaceous plant of the primrose family. It has a creeping, rooting, thin stem. Leaves are rounded, opposite. Incredibly beautiful bisexual, large, single flowers – yellow. The fruit is a spherical capsule. Seeds are rarely formed, only due to cross-pollination by insects..
The regions of distribution of the plant are Europe, Ciscaucasia, Japan, North America and the European part of the former USSR. Favorite places of meadow tea are wet meadows, banks of rivers and lakes, dark groves. The whole plant is used for harvesting raw materials.
Useful properties of meadow tea
The beneficial properties of meadow tea have been known for a long time, and this herb has been successfully used in folk medicine. The flowers and leaves of the plant, which are often brewed as a tea, contain tannins and vitamin C, saponins, silicic acid, polymerase enzyme in abundance.
Meadow tea components provide treatment for many diseases. The plant is rich in substances that have an effective effect in the treatment of non-healing wounds, relieving inflammation. It saturates the body with vitamins. This medicinal plant is an excellent antiseptic, it copes well with allergic manifestations.
Application of meadow tea
The use of meadow tea is recommended for stomatitis, trophic ulcers, erysipelas, dermatitis. Fresh meadow tea in the form of an infusion is indicated for dysentery, scurvy, candidiasis of the mucous membranes, bad breath. Tea made from a miraculous plant can be used to gargle with sore throat, relieve convulsive symptoms, and treat cough (meadow tea is not recommended for dry cough).
Tea can be drunk as a choleretic agent. Infusions treat rheumatism, gout, arthrosis, osteochondrosis, bruises and tumors, stop internal bleeding, eliminate diarrhea. Meadow tea is used to treat the skin with eczema.
meadow tea recipes
Tea for cleansing the blood: 5 dry inflorescences of meadow tea should be poured with 250 ml of boiling water, insisted for half an hour, strained, taken 2 cups a day with a teaspoon of honey for 1-2 months.
Meadow tea root decoction: 10 grams of crushed plant roots should be poured with 100 ml of boiling water, kept in a water bath for half an hour, strained, brought to the original volume. It is recommended to take a decoction 4-5 times before meals for inflammation of the ovaries and tumors.
Infusion of meadow tea for migraines, anemia and atherosclerosis: 1 tablespoon of powder from dry leaves of the plant is required to pour a glass of boiling water, insist for 40 minutes, take 2 tablespoons 3 times a day before meals.
Contraindications to the use of meadow tea
Meadow tea is a source of various useful substances. But not always its use can have a positive effect on the body. Proper observance of proportions in the preparation of folk medicines and the recommended dosage when used, especially during an exacerbation of diseases, will make the treatment pleasant and effective.
We must not forget that the use of meadow tea is contraindicated in varicose veins, sclerosis of the vessels of the extremities, hypertension and high blood clotting.