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Goose onions

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Medicinal properties

Use in traditional medicine

Use in cosmetology

Желтый Гусиный лук Goose onions (Gagea) – the undersized perennial bulbous plant of a sort of a lily family blossoming in small yellow colors. National names – a yellow snowdrop, a yellow gusyatnik, gadyuchy onions. Height of this plant of small, only 8-15 cm. Goose onions grow in moderate zones of Eurasia including in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. It is possible to meet him in the woods, steppes, hillsides, dumetums. From all subspecies more all yellow Goose onions (Gagea lutea) and small Goose onions are widespread.

Medicinal properties of Goose onions

With the medical purpose bulbs and leaves of this plant are used.

Bulbs of Goose onions gather or in the spring (before blossoming), or in the fall. To contain in them vitamins (C, B, E, PP), minerals (including iodine), essential oils, inulin, carotene, sulfur-containing connections, organic acids. This plant is close to garlic on the medicinal properties, its leaves can be used for preparation of vitamin salads. Medicinal properties of Goose onions are known long ago, used it at treatment of bronchial asthma, hypostases, hepatitis, epilepsy. Yellow Goose onions possess wound healing and antiseptic action, the crushed bulbs of this plant apply locally at treatment of wounds and is long not healing trophic ulcers.

The use of parts of Goose onions (bulbs, leaves) in food allows to fill a vitamin deficiency and minerals that especially urgent in the spring in the period of avitaminosis.

Use in traditional medicine

For the medical purposes prepare universal bulbs decoction: 1 tablespoon of the crushed bulbs is cooked in 300 ml of water of 3-5 minutes, and then insisted within 2 hours, filtered and cooled. It is necessary to accept broth of Goose onions on 1 tablespoon 4 times a day (at asthma, jaundice, hypostases). It is necessary to carry out reception of this broth by courses on 2 weeks (then the break for a month then the course repeats becomes). It is necessary to store broth of Goose onions at the room temperature no more days.

For treatment and processing of wounds it is also long not healing ulcers apply juice from bulbs of this plant or freshly cooked gruel. Polished onions (or juice) are put on area of a wound (a trophic ulcer) for days. Then the bandage needs to be replaced with fresh.

For treatment of flu and catarrhal diseases it is recommended to accept inside the polished bulbs of Goose onions mixed with honey.

Лечебный отвар готовят из луковицы Гусиного лука For prevention of attacks of epilepsy broth is prepared on milk. Several bulbs (3-5) are added to 130 ml of fresh milk and cook within 5 minutes. Then milk broth of Goose onions needs to be filtered, cooled. Reception is carried out on 2-3 teaspoons 3 times a day. A broth reception course – 2 weeks. Depending on disease severity duration of reception can be prolonged.

Use of Goose onions in cosmetology

Yellow Goose onions are traditionally applied in cosmetology. For the best growth of hair it is possible to do masks: 4 tablespoons of gruel of Goose onions mix up with 2 tablespoons of honey and are rubbed in roots of hair. The mask is left for 30 minutes then hair need to be washed out carefully by means of shampoo.

Also yellow Goose onions are used as face packs. At problem porous skin the following mask becomes: the crushed bulbs mix up with honey and are put for 10 minutes on a face, then washed away by cool water. Instead of honey at acne rash it is possible to add an egg yolk to a mask.

At a nevus pigmentosus juice of Goose onions is used, it is applied on area of freckles (nevus pigmentosus) 2-3 times a day. After that stay in the open sun is contraindicated within several hours.

There are practically no contraindications to treatment by means of Goose onions. It should not be applied only at individual intolerance.

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