Coltsfoot
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Coltsfoot – the medicinal plant possessing antiinflammatory, disinfecting and expectorant action. Since ancient times it is applied as an antibechic.
Chemical composition
In the medical purposes inflorescences and leaves of coltsfoot are used. They differ on the structure a little.
Leaves contain the following substances causing them useful properties: glycosides (туссилягин and sitosterol), organic acids (apple, gallic and wine), carotinoids, tannin, slime, tannins, inulin, saponins, flavonoids, dextrin, vitamin C, essential oils.
Inflorescences of coltsfoot incorporate: phytosterols, арнидол, фирадиол, triterpenovy alcohols, carotinoids (тараксантин), sterols (sitosterol, stigmasterol), Rutinum, гептакозан, tannins, complex carbohydrates.
Useful properties
Coltsfoot is long since known for the property to soften cough and to strengthen department of a phlegm due to stimulation of bronchial glands. Has also expectorant, antiinflammatory, antiseptic property, it is capable to have sudorific and spasmolytic effect. These properties do coltsfoot by a medicinal plant number one at treatment of bronchopulmonary diseases.
Indications to use
Coltsfoot is successfully applied in therapy of the following states and diseases:
- Whooping cough;
- Stomatitis;
- Laryngitis;
- Pharyngitis;
- Tracheitis;
- Bronchitis acute and chronic;
- Pneumonia;
- Bronchoectatic disease;
- Bronchial asthma;
- Pulmonary tuberculosis;
- Cough of smokers;
- ORZ and SARS which are followed by cough including flu;
- Inflammatory diseases of kidneys and bladder;
- Diathesis at children;
- Mastitis;
- Erysipelatous inflammation;
- Hair loss of various etiology;
- Abscesses, furuncles and other manifestations of a purulent inflammation of integuments;
- Varicosity standing;
- Gastritis;
- Coloenteritis;
- Lack of appetite.
Contraindications
Despite extremely wide range of use as medicine, coltsfoot has some restrictions. So, the plant and drugs from it is not recommended to be accepted in more than 4 weeks as except useful substances, it contains some types of the alkaloids capable to collect in an organism and as a result to make toxic impact.
Contraindication to use of coltsfoot are:
- Children's age up to 2 years;
- Pregnancy;
- Breastfeeding;
- Liver diseases.
House drugs from coltsfoot
To prepare house drugs from coltsfoot absolutely simply. We offer you several recipes:
- Coltsfoot juice with milk – good cure for bronchitis, bronchial asthma, cough of smokers. For medicine take fresh, spring leaves of coltsfoot, by means of the juice extractor or manually, having pounded and having squeezed out through a gauze, squeeze out fresh juice – 2-3 teaspoons. To dissolve this quantity in a glass of warm milk and at once to drink. To accept once a day. Such medicine is not stored, it needs to be prepared just before the use.
- Tea for cough. 1 teaspoon of dried flowers of coltsfoot to fill in 250 ml of boiled water, to insist within an hour. To filter, accept 4 times a day, having divided the turned-out amount of tea into 4 portions.
- Outside cure for abscesses and furuncles. To pound several fresh leaves of coltsfoot, to impose the turned-out gruel directly on a sore point. To apply several times a day before improvement. Leaves of coltsfoot can just be put to wounds, abscesses and skin ulcers, without pounding, but in this case their action is slightly weaker.
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Coltsfoot leaves pack of 35 g, Krasnogorskleksredstva (Mosk.obl)
61 rub.
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