Chamomile is an annual herbaceous rather branched plant, which has an extremely wide scope of application.
Chamomile grows, usually along roads, on slopes, in rye.
A person specially grows chamomile because of its medicinal qualities.
In the daisy valuable flowers and the grass itself. The plant has won fame for its anti-inflammatory, antispasmodic, carminative properties, allowing it to be used in the treatment of many ailments.
The composition and scope of chamomile
The composition of chamomile is truly unique.. Its flowers contain essential oil, flavonoids, glycerides of fatty acids, coumarins, polysaccharides, phytosterol, choline, vitamins, bitterness, etc.
Calorie camomile is 9 kcal per 100 g of product.
Plant especially useful in acute and chronic inflammation of the stomach. It can not only remove unpleasant symptoms, but also heal.
Chamomile is also used to treat a number of other diseases:
1. With pain in the eyes chamomile extract is used, which is prepared as follows: pour 1 teaspoon of raw material with boiling water, insist for at least half an hour, filter and drink a serving during the day.
If the pain is very pronounced, then they drink up to 600 ml of healing agent.
2. Chamomile is good for the body. with flatulence. In this case, prepare a drug collection, consisting of chamomile and lemon balm (20 g). The composition is poured boiling water (1 l), give it to infuse, filter and drink a glass 3 times a day.
3. The beneficial properties of chamomile allow you to successfully use it with hepatic colic. When pains make a warm enema (1 tablespoon of flowers of the plant is poured with a glass of boiling water), then take a warm bath (20 minutes) and go to bed.
It is good to drink a glass of olive oil in the next 2-3 hours. However, this procedure should be performed with caution.
4. Chamomile is useful with conjunctivitis. For the treatment of the painful condition of the eyes, an infusion of 2-3 tablespoons of the plant per cup of boiling water is used. The mixture is drawn, filtered and used for washing the eyes (in the form of heat).
5. Chamomile is good for the health of people who suffer. stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer. In the treatment of these pathologies (as an additional tool), chamomile extract prepared in the traditional way (a tablespoon of flowers per cup of boiling water) is used.
The mixture, as is customary, insist, filter and drink immediately the entire dose. After that, the patient should calm down, go to bed. He needs to perform simple turns from side to side and back to stomach every 10 minutes.
Thus, a therapeutic effect can be achieved when the healing composition gradually irrigates the stomach walls, which leads to recovery. The procedure is recommended no more than 3-4 times a month.
6. Chamomile is good for the body as a whole and for sore throat in particular. Using a simple prepared composition (1 teaspoon of inflorescences per cup of boiling water), rinse is performed.
7. Chamomile is useful for women. It is used with delayed menstruation. In this case, traditionally brew a spoonful of flowers with a glass of boiling water. Drink the healing composition during the day 100 ml.
8. The plant is actively used. with ear inflammation. Pre-cook the infusion of 1 teaspoon of the plant and a glass of boiling water. After the procedure of infusion and straining the solution is instilled into the ear (always in a warm form).
This method of treatment of otitis should go in parallel with the main therapy of the disease and, of course, be appointed by a specialist.
9. Chamomile is good for the body. with spasms. In this case, drink the infusion of flowers of the plant, prepared in the classical way 3-4 times a day, little by little.
10. Chamomile is not bad copes with increased excitabilitycramp insomnia. Such manifestations are treated with an infusion of plant flowers (1 spoon per cup of boiling water), which is taken (necessarily warm) for a third glass three times a day.
11. Chamomile is good for women's health. with existing cervical erosion and even with malignant ulcers. In this case, use the plant oil, which is easy to prepare: pour chamomile flowers (50 g) with vegetable oil (500 ml).
The mixture is placed in an enameled container, put on fire and brought to a boil. Graduality is important in the preparation of a valuable product. The oil is placed in a dark place for 40 days, after which it is filtered, squeezed and used for its intended purpose.
12. Chamomile helps in diseases of the liver and kidneys. It is used as a choleretic and anti-inflammatory agent, drinking a tablespoon several times a day, the infusion prepared traditionally.
13. Chamomile is known as anthelmintic plant. It is used as part of the drug collection, with which you can expel parasites. Prepare it like this: combine 30 g of chamomile, wormwood and tansy, mix well and pour 2 teaspoons of the collection with a glass of boiling water.
Drink the composition (always on an empty stomach) in a glass in the morning and evening.
14. Chamomile is indispensable with bad breath and gum disease. Infusion for the treatment of diseases of the oral cavity is prepared at the rate of 15 g of flowers of the plant per cup of boiling water. Use the composition for rinsing.
15. Chamomile has found its application and in cosmetology. With its help, with some knowledge, you can prepare affordable and 100% natural products for the face and hair.
Most often, chamomile is used in the composition of cosmetic ice. A regular morning face massage with chamomile ice cubes cleans, moisturizes, mattes the skin, relieves it of inflammation.
Infusion or decoction of the plant rinse hair after washing. Chamomile gives hair a luxurious shine. It stimulates their growth, slightly brightens and revives.
Chamomile is used and as a face and body scrub. To prepare natural skin care products, chamomile flowers are poured with boiling water (about 2 tablespoons per 0.5 l of boiling water). Then the composition is drawn and filtered.
Cosmetic cubes can be made from the therapeutic infusion, and a real scrub is made from the thicken, combining it with the coffee grounds (for greater efficiency).
The composition is rubbed (with careful movements) into the skin of the face for 15 minutes. Then everything is washed off with water.
Chamomile: what is the benefit for the body?
The beneficial properties of chamomile make it possible to use the plant as an anti-inflammatory, anti-bacterial, sedative.
Chamomile is capable of:
• soothe the nervous system
• dilate vessels
• eliminate headaches
• eliminate fermentation processes
• normalize the stool
• improve gastrointestinal function
In addition, as mentioned above, chamomile is simply indispensable for women's diseases, as well as during pregnancy.
During the period of childbearing, the plant can be applied externally without restrictions, making compresses, douching, baths, inhalations from infusion.
Chamomile copes with such problems of future mothers as bloating, gas, constipation, stress. To take chamomile pregnant or not, decides a female doctor.
But the limited use of weak chamomile tea should not be afraid. Such a product will only benefit.
Low calorie chamomile makes it useful for losing weight. But in combination with other herbs. For those who want to get rid of a couple of extra kg, a collection consisting of chamomile, birch buds, immortelle is recommended. For greater efficiency, strawberry leaf is added to the composition.
Collecting helps cleanse toxins and lose weight.
Chamomile: Is there any harm to health?
Undoubtedly, chamomile has a lot of useful properties. However, like any other medicinal plant, it has side effects. So, with too long taking infusion or decoction of the plant may cause headache, nausea, dizziness.
Chamomile can not be taken on the principle: "useful can not be harmful." It is incompatible with some sedatives.
In addition, chamomile should be used carefully by people prone to allergies. After all, the inflorescences of a plant store pollen in themselves, which can cause an allergic reaction.
Chamomile in the composition of infusions and decoctions is not recommended for pregnant women and people with individual intolerance.
Chamomile for children: useful or harmful?
Universal anti-inflammatory medicinal plant - chamomile is good for children's health. Due to its strongest antiseptic properties, the plant is successfully used in the treatment of children's colds.
With the help of chamomile infusion, rinse procedures of the nasopharynx and oral cavity are performed for laryngitis, pharyngitis, tonsillitis, sinusitis, stomatitis, gingivitis, adenoids.
Chamomile is successfully used during the flu epidemic. as part of therapeutic tea. And all because of its diaphoretic and anti-inflammatory properties.
The plant is indispensable (as an additional tool) for children's bronchitis. Due to its disinfecting action, it is used for inhalation, which helps to quickly deal with the disease.
Chamomile regulates the gastrointestinal tract. Therefore, it is actively used for dysbacteriosis, bloating, lack of appetite, flatulence.
To relax the nervous system baby is advised to drink chamomile tea with honey before bedtime (in the absence of allergy to honey). For greater effect, cast mint, lemon balm, calendula, linden.
You can not combine chamomile with plants that have a tonic effect such as aloe, ginseng, ginger.
Irritating children can have a bath with a few drops of chamomile oil or a relaxing massage with oil. And the best is both.
Chamomile oil is also effective for "minor" children's problems: wounds, insect bites, sunburn.
Of course, chamomile is useful for humans. Due to its properties and low calorie content, it is used in cosmetology and in traditional medicine.
Damage to chamomile - in its excessive use. Only a reasonable approach and respect for your health will allow you to get the maximum benefit from the use of a plant that is familiar from childhood.
