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Chemical composition of a verbena medicinal

Preparation of a verbena medicinal

Medicinal properties

Use of a verbena in traditional medicine

Contraindications

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Вербена лекарственная, используемая в народной медицине Verbena medicinal – the perennial plant relating to family Verbena.

Grows preferential on dry meadows of Eastern, Central and Southern Europe.

The plant in the first year of life – in August blossoms. Flowers of a verbena are collected in numerous long kolosovidny inflorescences whisks. The plant can reach 60 cm in height. In October the plant yields fruits.

Chemical composition of a verbena medicinal

Flowers and grass of a verbena contain essential oil, slime and bitterness, steroids (sitosterol), tannins, аукубин, вербенамин, flavonoids (артеметин), triterpenoida (ursolovy acid, лупеол), silicon acid, vitamins, micro and macrocells, иридоидгликозид (verbenalin), хастатозид, carotinoids.

Leaves of a plant contain ascorbic acid.

Preparation of a verbena medicinal

Medicinal raw materials are served by all elevated part of a plant, and also verbena flowers, seeds and a root. The grass a verbena is collected in a blooming period and dried up in the dryer at a temperature of 50 — 60 °C. It is also possible to dry up a plant in the fresh air or in the dark dry room.

Medicinal properties

In east medicine the grass a verbena is used as antineoplastic cure for tumors of generative organs, as kontratseptichesky and sudorific, and also for treatment of eczemas and ulcers.

The verbena improves digestion, stimulates appetite, increases secretion of a gastric juice, improves work of a liver, stimulates blood circulation, normalizes a metabolism, tones up a nervous system.

Drugs on the basis of this plant possess antiseptic, antiinflammatory, soothing, spasmolytic, cholagogue, the laxative knitting tonic, wound healing, fortifying and antiscorbutic action.

Inside drugs on the basis of a plant are appointed at a SARS, laryngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, rheumatism, tracheitis, headaches, breakdown, cholelithiasis, hypotonia, anemia, thromboses, chronic gastritis, chronic hepatitis, atherosclerosis, cholecystitis.

Use of a verbena in traditional medicine

Ботаническая иллюстрация вербены лекарственной Leaves, stalks and flowers of a verbena use at headaches, and also as lotions at a scrofula, rash, eels, psoriasis, eczema, ulcers, itch. Do soothing lotions from dentagras, at inflammations of a mucous membrane of an oral cavity and throat.

Do compresses at diseases of skin of pounded leaves of a plant and for external use at it is long not healing wounds.

Numerous positive reviews demonstrate to a verbena that if a fresh plant to pound and make of it poultices, it will help at hematomas. And at fever have tea from a verbena grass. The root of a plant is used in the form of a cervical plaster at abscesses, a mumps and a scrofula.

Also essential oil of a verbena is used. Responses of many patients demonstrate that it helps at breakdown and exhaustion, at an inflammation of a liver and anemia.

Contraindications

Some reviews of a verbena showed that it is better not to use drugs on the basis of this plant at a hypertension, during pregnancy and a lactation, to children aged up to 14 years, and also at hypersensitivity to plant components.

Before use it is better to consult to the attending physician.

Reviews of a verbena demonstrate that the long use of drugs on the basis of a plant can irritate mucous intestines.

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Bella Panti Herbs laying Verbena daily 20 pieces

47 rub.

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