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The comfrey is medicinal

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Description

Scopes of a comfrey

Chemical composition

Medicinal properties of a comfrey

Use in traditional medicine

Contraindications to use of a comfrey

Окопник лекарственный - травянистое растение семейства Бурачниковых Comfrey medicinal (живокост) – the herbaceous plant belonging to family the Borage family.

Description

The plant has the upright branchy stalk in height reaching 1-1,2 meters, covered with rigid hairs. Leaves at a zhivokost large next, with a rough surface, a form oblong and lanceolate. If to knead a leaf of a zhivokost in hands, then the cucumber smell will appear.

The plant small flowers of purple or violet color blossoms. A blooming period – since the beginning of May on July.

Meets живокост in the European part of Russia (except Far North), in the Caucasus, Central Asia, in the Carpathians and Western Siberia. The plant prefers the peat wet soil, edges of the woods and water meadows, coast of reservoirs.

Scopes of a comfrey medicinal

The comfrey medicinal in medicine found application. Still ancient doctors – Paracelsus and Avicenna successfully treated this plant of more than 100 diseases.

Also живокост it is applied in the cosmetic purposes. It is capable to recover an epithelium and to improve skin color. For tonic bathtubs use aromatic oils with extract of a zhivokost.

Comfrey medicinal – a rubber-bearing plant. Such fact is known – during the Great Patriotic War Germans tried to grow up it in the occupied territory of Ukraine. So they expected to solve a problem with shortage of rubber.

Chemical composition

Underground part of a comfrey medicinal contains alkaloids: лизиокарпин and циноглоссин. In addition, at roots there are tannins, essential oils, glycosides, pitches, slime, starch, gum and other organic matters.

Medicinal properties of a comfrey medicinal

In the medicinal purposes use plant roots. Prepare them late fall. Infusions and broths on the basis of roots of a zhivokost possess the antiinflammatory, antimicrobic, knitting, regenerating, enveloping and styptic action.

Broth from roots of a comfrey medicinal is applied to increase in appetite and a tone. Drugs on the basis of a plant use at digestive disturbances, diseases of digestive tract and ulcers.

Recommend to accept drugs on the basis of a zhivokost at oncological diseases and for the purpose of decrease in symptoms of an inflammation.

Use in traditional medicine

Use of a comfrey medicinal is very widespread in traditional medicine. On the basis of roots of a zhivokost make spirit tinctures, powders, ointments, infusions and broths.

In it accept at an ulcer of a duodenum and stomach. At tuberculosis, dysentery, bronchitis with difficult leaving phlegm the plant is also considered effective. Окопник лекарственный

In the form of compresses gruel from svezhezagotovlenny roots of a comfrey medicinal is used at thrombophlebitis, at injuries and fractures of bones.

Outwardly drugs on the basis of a plant are used for treatment of arthritis and radiculitis, inflammatory diseases of an oral cavity, at purulent wounds and trophic ulcers. Use живокост at treatment of oncological diseases of lungs, a prostate and mammary gland. Use of a plant slows down emergence of metastasises in bone tissues.

Contraindications to use of a comfrey medicinal

In spite of the fact that the comfrey medicinal is the great doctor who with success is used at treatment of many diseases you should not forget that a plant – poisonous. For this reason in a number of the western countries the plant is forbidden to be used in official medicine. Scientists-physicians at researches of a plant came to a conclusion that long administration of drugs from a zhivokost has mutagen and cancerogenic effect.

Therefore reception of a plant should be carried out under strict control of doctors.

Contraindication to reception of a zhivokost is the lowered arterial pressure, the period of pregnancy and individual intolerance.

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