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Useful properties and recipes for the use of Tatarnik
Botanical characteristics of Tatarnika
Tartarnik prickly is a biennial compound thorny plant, reaching 2–2,5 meters in height. On erect stems, branching towards the top, there are regular oblong leaves with prickly teeth. The plant blooms from July to September. At the top of the stem is a basket in which there are several bright purple flowers. The fruit of the tatarnik is an oblong achene with a red crest, ripening in autumn.
Tatarnik is an unpretentious plant that is often found in Russia, Western Siberia and Central Asia. Tatarnik can grow absolutely anywhere, it can be a wasteland or a slope in the steppe.
Useful properties of the Tatar
Due to the content of prickly bitter substances, saponins, vitamin C, carbohydrates and proteins in tartar, this plant is used as a tonic, bactericidal, hypertensive and hemostatic agent. Tatarnik also has a diuretic and cardiotonic effect.
Tatarnik preparations are used for difficult-to-heal wounds, in violation of the heart and nervous system. This plant has a diuretic effect and can increase blood pressure. There is an opinion that tartar helps with skin cancer and inflammation of the bladder. Tatarnik also has an expectorant property, so it is used for colds.
The use of prickly tartar
Traditional medicine most often uses tartar as a diuretic. The plant is used for bronchitis, colds, hemorrhoids, coughs and skin diseases. Tatarnik is used internally in the form of decoctions and infusions and externally in the form of compresses and lotions in the treatment of boils, wounds and ulcers, skin diseases and allergies. Fresh tartar juice is used for scabies, lichen or infectious cracks in the corners of the mouth. An infusion is prepared from the flowers of the plant, which is used for lotions in the treatment of eye diseases.
Tatarnik is sometimes used in the treatment of diseases of the respiratory system and asthma. The plant is recommended for dropsy, rheumatism and scrofula. This plant is often used to increase blood pressure. In addition to all this, tartar helps in the treatment of malignant tumors. Tatarnik is a honey plant. Its honey has astringent and bactericidal properties. Tartar honey is used as a good blood purifier, expectorant for coughs and colds. honey helps with cystitis, edema, anemia and exhaustion of the nervous system.
Tartar infusion to increase blood pressure. To prepare it, you need to take 10 grams of flower baskets and the same number of plant leaves. Pour this mixture with 200 ml of boiling water and put in a water bath for 10 minutes. Next, the infusion is wrapped and left to infuse. After straining the medicine, it is used at low pressure three times a day, 1 tablespoon.
Infusion of Tatar for blood purification. Take 3 tablespoons of tartar grass and pour 500 ml of boiling water over them. After pouring the infusion into a thermos, leave for 12 hours to infuse. Strain the infusion and take half an hour before meals. The entire amount of the prepared infusion should be drunk in one day in 3 doses.
Tartar syrup for coughing. We take 150 grams of flower baskets of the plant and fill them with 300 ml of water. Add half a glass of sugar to this mass and put it on the fire to evaporate until half the volume remains in the container. After straining the finished syrup, the raw material is squeezed out. It is recommended to take the resulting remedy 5 times a day, 1 teaspoon. The course of treatment is 10 days.
Tincture for skin cancer, lupus. Take a glass liter jar and fill it to the top with Tatar flower baskets. Next, pour vodka into the jar so that it covers all the inflorescences of the Tatar. Leave the product to infuse for 1 month in a dark room, not forgetting to shake it periodically. After squeezing the raw material and straining the tincture, it is taken 30 ml each in the morning and evening.
Tartar juice for tumors of the anus. We take fresh leaves of the prickly tartar and squeeze the juice out of them. We take juice 1 teaspoon three times a day.
Bath with tartar herb for cellulite. You need to take 3 cups of fresh tartar grass and put it in a thermos. Add 1 liter of boiling water there. Leave the thermos for half an hour and filter the broth. The finished broth is poured into a bath and taken for a quarter of an hour (no more). Another important condition: you can only go down into the water up to the chest line.
Contraindications to the use of Tatarnik
There are no contraindications to the use of Tatarnik, but it is not recommended for people with hypertension to use it.