Root of the Liver: medicinal properties and contraindications

Many medicinal plants have received verycapacious and accurate folk names that fully disclose their main useful properties. One of them is a live-eye. This wonderful natural healer heals with injuries and diseases of the spine, bruises, arthritis, helps to grow bones even in the most complex fractures. In some regions this plant is called a comfrey.

A bit of history

The Root of the Lively, photo of which you can seebelow, is known to folk healers of different countries since ancient times. Documentary evidence of this has been preserved. More than two millennia ago, the ancient Greeks used the root of the living-creature. The healing properties of the plant proved to be effective for wound healing, in the treatment of fractures.

The second name of the plant - comfrey - is translatedas "fused" and indicates the main healing properties of this herb. It is mentioned in the treatise of Avicenna, which dates from the 15th century. In the Middle Ages, alchemists added the root of this plant to the "elixir of life".

In Ancient Rus this plant had many names- kozloborodnik, black grass, a livider. The root in folk medicine has been widely used for the treatment of joint and back pain, bruises, sprains and fractures. In Soviet times, the industrial cultivation of the life-giving was started. Scientists have found out that the plant is very rich in protein. It was planned to be used as feed for livestock and nitrogen fertilizer.

Spread

The larkshot (comfrey) is widespread in Europe,Carpathians, Central Russia, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Western Siberia. Prefers fertile moist soils, so it can often be found near rivers, streams, lakes. He likes to settle near natural or artificial depressions of the soil, ditches (trenches), for which he received the second name - comfrey.

Description of the joke

Perennial plant from the family Burachnikovyesometimes reaches a height of one meter, and sometimes more. At the base of the stem is covered with hard hairs. Leaves are regular, with an unusual cucumber smell. They have a hard and rough surface. The root of an adult plant is powerful, outside it is painted black, and inside - in white. On the fracture, a viscous mucus is secreted.

Flowering begins in late May. On the plant appear beautiful purple, blue, purple, much less often white flowers. The fruit is a pod with four nuts, which mature until September. The plant multiplies perfectly by self-seeding, and, being on the plot, quickly recovers new areas. With the root to remove it is incredibly difficult. Even from a tiny piece of root left in the ground, a healthy and strong plant will appear next year.

Composition

The root of the fool is rich in useful substances. It contains alkaloids: lysicarpine and cynoglossin. In addition, it includes tannins, glycosides, essential oils, resins, mucus, gums and other organic compounds.

Healing properties

Procurement of raw materials is carried out in late autumn. Root of the fool is used for the preparation of all medicinal forms: decoctions, infusions, ointments. They all have anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, regenerating, hemostatic, enveloping and astringent effects.

In addition, the lifeblood (root) whose applicationis spread in many countries of the world, raises the tone and improves appetite. Preparations based on this plant are effective for ulcerative gastrointestinal diseases, digestive disorders. The use of infusions is recommended to reduce the symptoms of soreness and inflammation in cancer.

The root of the livingtuberculosis, severe bronchitis. Liver is irreplaceable in the treatment of fractures, bruises, thrombophlebitis. With these diseases, a gruel is prepared from fresh roots and a compress is applied to the affected area. In addition, comfrey drugs are successfully used to treat trophic ulcers, inflammatory diseases of the oral mucosa, purulent wounds, arthritis.

Features of use

Liver is an excellent healer who cancope with many very serious diseases. But to everyone who plans to use the root of the life-giving for treatment, it is necessary to know that this is a very poisonous plant. For this reason, in many countries its use is prohibited in traditional medicine. This decision was due to the conclusion of scientists who believed that long-term use of drugs based on the root of this plant is harmful, since it can cause a mutagenic and carcinogenic effect.

Many of their colleagues do not agree with this opinion. While scientists argue, folk healers successfully use the plant to treat many diseases. Below we will introduce you some recipes.

Compress

You need 100 grams of powder from the rootand a vegetable oil diluted in water in equal proportions. Pour the powder with a small amount of water-oil mixture to make a gruel, a consistency resembling thick sour cream. To restore damaged in the trauma parts of bones, muscles, tendons, this gruel is used.

In addition, such a composition is effective forhemorrhage, stretching, dislocation, inflammation of the tendons and muscles. Put the prepared gruel on the diseased part of the body, cover it with a linen cloth, and put a thick terry towel on top. This compress is left for several hours, it is best for the whole night. In the morning, the composition can be washed off with warm water. To enhance the effect after the compress, you can apply a ready (pharmacy) ointment on the herbs. Such daily compresses will help with diseases of the spine, problems with intervertebral discs.

Burns with burns

To burn skin faster after recovery,take the roots of the joke, grind it with a blender and measure a tablespoon (with a slide) of the finished product. Brew it with a glass of boiling water, cover the container with a lid and let it brew for an hour. After this, the composition can be filtered and make lotions on the affected areas.

Root of the lance: alcohol tincture

The healing properties of this drug have already been evaluatedmany people suffering from joint diseases. In this case, the root of the living-creature fully justifies its name. The use of this tincture (for inflammation) for joints, to reduce pain in osteochondrosis, arthritis produces striking results.

Grind the root of the lifeblood. It can be grinded in a mortar to a powdery state. You need a medical alcohol, half diluted with water. Pour one part of the root with three parts of alcohol and place in a glass container. Leave the tincture in a dark place for a week. Periodically shake the bottle. The prepared tincture on alcohol is stored for no more than three years. To reduce pain, use tincture for compresses or rub in sore spots.

This tincture is effective in the treatment of sinusitis. To do this, for three days in the evening make compresses on the forehead. This procedure will localize the inflammatory process and enhance mucus secretion.

Honey mixture with a fisheye

This drug is known as effectiveanti-tuberculosis drug. In addition, such a composition is useful in the deposition of salts. Peeled and washed under running water, chop and mix in equal proportions with natural honey. The resulting mixture is taken on a spoon (tea) daily for half an hour before meals for two weeks. Then the treatment is interrupted for two weeks, after which the course can be repeated.

Contraindications

Since today we have presented you with a healing, butpoisonous plant, we want to warn that there is no question of self-medication with these drugs. Take them with great caution and preferably under the supervision of a doctor. Comfrey drugs greatly reduce blood pressure, so hypotension use of these drugs is contraindicated. Do not take them to pregnant women and nursing mothers, as well as with individual intolerance.