Ramson

Ramson – a herbaceous plant from family onions with oblong, light green, juicy leaves and garlick aroma. Call a ramson still wild garlic, chenzet or bear onions. It grows in the shady woods, wet areas of the foothills, on meadows of forest and subalpine belts, most often near swamps, in the territory of the most part of Europe, the Caucasus, Central and northern Asia, Turkey, North America.

Advantage of a ramson – in its bulbs, leaves and stalks. They contain carbohydrates, proteins, insignificant amount of fats, organic acids, cellulose, vitamins A, With, In, essential oils, carotene, flavonoids, citric acid, phosphorus, manganese, copper, sulfur, magnesium, potassium. Ramson caloric content - 36 calories.

Useful properties of a ramson and its use

Such curative properties of a ramson are known – it promotes development of a secret of digestive glands and improvement of intestinal motility, normalizes a metabolism, prevents cholesterol accumulation, lowers pressure, removes an inflammation, helps to bring parasites, treats a fungus and a scurvy, stimulates cardiac performance.

All these properties of a ramson apply at atherosclerosis, various infectious intestinal diseases, fever, rheumatism, radiculitis, otitis.

To kill rheumatic pains, it is possible to make gruel of young fresh leaves of a ramson: to cut them, to knead, add a little vegetable oil, after to turn in a gauze, to impose on a sore point on one or an hour and a half.

Effectively kills rheumatic pains and infusion on ramson leaves eliminates fever: it is necessary to take 10-20g a ramson, to make them in 250 ml of boiled water. At fever infusion is drunk, and at rheumatism rub with it sore joints.

Helps to kill joint pain and infusion on bulbs: one teaspoon of the crushed cloves is filled in with water (about one and a half glasses), insisted hour. By this infusion do grindings at rheumatism, gout.

If to draw ramson leaves on alcohol, it is possible to use this means outwardly in the form of lotions and grindings at bronchitis, radiculitis, or to accept inside – for treatment of cough.

The crude ramson at the regular use helps at diseases of a thyroid gland, including at a hyperthyroidism and a hypothyroidism, with prevention of a typhoid, cholera.

For prevention of development of inflammatory processes in an oral cavity 2-3 minutes are enough to chew one crude leaf of a plant – causative organisms perish thanks to the phytoncides which are contained in a ramson.

Ready spirit and water extract of a plant is applied as the diuretic and lowering blood pressure means. It is also noticed that these drugs slow down pulse and increase the number of reductions of heart.

For treatment of cold of a bulb of a ramson pound, turn in a gauze and put in a nose.

Purulent at children apply juice from a fresh ramson to treatment of otitis – two р / dig in day in an ear of 6 drops of juice. In 15 minutes surely it is necessary to dry an ear a tampon from cotton wool.

The advantage of a ramson at the eczema which affected skin of palms and hands is known: for treatment prepare mix from 1/3 glasses of a ground ramson, one tablespoon of apple cider vinegar, 1/3 tablespoons of oil sea-buckthorn. All these ingredients carefully mix and grease with this means of a hand for the night. For bigger effect after processing of hands it is necessary to put on cellophane and cotton gloves them. Treatment lasts usually 2-3 weeks

The ramson is strongly recommended to be eaten in the early spring when it ripens since these greens, the first after winter, helping to cope with avitaminosis. It is known also that the plant can and be dried – the ramson when drying does not lose the useful properties.

Contraindications to use of a ramson

That there was an advantage of a ramson, it is impossible to abuse it – it is possible to eat in day no more than 15-20 leaves, otherwise there can be a headache, diarrhea, sleeplessness, to become aggravated an ulcer, to be broken cordial activity.

The ramson is contraindicated to those in whom inflammations of intestines, a stomach, a pancreas (pancreatitis), a gall bladder are found (cholecystitis) or hepatitis. It is not recommended to eat it to pregnant women.