St. John's wort, indications for use, composition and medicinal properties

Along with the medicines that official medicine recommends, folk remedies are often used, in particular - medicinal herbs.Among the benefits of herbal medicines is a natural origin, their use in rare cases causes side effects.Nevertheless, the herbs surprise with their versatility and the force of the impact on a person.One of such miraculous plants is St. John's Wort.

content:

1. Hypericum as a medicinal plant
2. methods preform raw
3. Types of drugs from Hypericum
4. therapeutic effect
5. Hypericum, indications
6. Contraindications
7. Hypericum in cosmetology

Hypericum as a medicinal plant

St. John's wort is an annual or perennial herbaceous plant that can grow in the form of a shrub or even a tree.Has flowers in semi-zoothes of golden or yellow color on tetrahedral stems.The fruit of the plant is a leathery box that ripens, bursts and splits into multisemited nests.The most common are two species of St. John's Wort, both of them have medicinal properties.Less known are evergreen species - plants with pink branches and long leaves, which are bred as ornamental.

Methods of procurement of raw materials

When collecting St. John's wort, it is necessary to distinguish it well from other plant species, because the error can lead to severe consequences - complex poisoning.Collect this plant is necessary only in those places where it grows massively.

In this case, it is not possible to tear the stem completely from the root, it is necessary to leave 20% of its height or cut off near the ground, so that eventually the plant can resume.If this is not done, the St. John's wort in this place can disappear altogether.

In addition, remember that collect in the same place can be produced no more than once in 6 years, so that it can recover.After all, the species of St. John's wort perforated in several areas is considered to be endangered, so it is listed in the Red Book.

Collection of this medicinal plant is made when it completely blooms.This happens after June 20th, on Ivanov's Day.Although sometimes the weather makes its own adjustments.

Prepare most often flowers or part of a plant up to 20 cm high, with a flower aureole, without a thickened stem.For medicines use the ground part of the plant.Sometimes his leaves are collected.Flowers are usually collected after their dissolution, waiting for five days, because at that moment they concentrate the maximum amount of useful substances.

In places of artificial cultivation of St. John's wort, it is possible to collect medicinal raw material twice, since, after two months, flowering often repeats.It is desirable to produce the billet in the daytime in dry weather, because any dampness threatens the rapid formation of mold and rot.

In addition, the flowers are a very delicate part of the plant, so they must be carefully peeled off or cut off and carefully, without crushing, laid with balls, since crumpled flowers are prone to spoilage.

Then the collected raw materials are necessarily hidden from the sun's rays, which can destroy many useful substances.It is laid out for drying a thin layer, sorted, cleansing of debris and removing very wrinkled flowers.Harvested upper parts of St. John's wort stems are laid out with a layer of up to 8 cm. The preparation procedure for drying should be done as quickly as possible - in a few hours, otherwise the flowers in the heap lose their properties and quickly deteriorate.

Types of medicines from St. John's wort

The medicinal properties of St. John's wort have been known for a long time.Therefore, the recipes for preparing not only broths, infusions and tinctures, which are used both inside and outside, are known.From this herb is a good therapeutic tea.In addition, several recipes for cooking oil from St. John's wort are known.

Therapeutic effect

The name of the plant most likely has its roots in the Kazakh language, the "jeroba" in Kazakh means "healing wounds".In fact, the antibacterial properties of the plant are very pronounced.

The stems and leaves of the plant contain a high percentage:

• carotene and organic acids,
• phytoncides, tannic and bitter substances,
• essential oils and sugars.

Official and folk medicine actively uses St. John's Wort as a raw material for the manufacture of products:

• antiseptic and wound healing,
• suppresses inflammatory processes and analgesics,
• helminthic,
• antirheumatic,
• normalizing the bile and bladder.

Modern developments of scientists confirm that the plant can have a positive effect on the nervous system and can be used as an antidepressant.And after all such medicine of a natural origin has undeniable advantages, its reception does not become the reason of allergic reaction, contraindications to such preparations are not available.

Vitamin E contained in St. John's Wort is able to protect our body from free radicals, and carotene - to restore the functionality of the eyes and provide regeneration of the skin, it will also serve as a barrier against various viruses.

Nicotinic acid will be useful for the heart and nervous system.Tannins are necessary for the disinfection of wounds and their healing.Vitamin C improves immunity, restores cartilaginous tissues, it interferes with the transformation of healthy cells into cancer cells.

Rutin in St. John's wort is used to strengthen the walls of blood vessels, hypericin - as an antidepressant.Phytoncides act as antibiotics.

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St. John's wort, indications for use

Thanks to the content of many biologically active substances, St. John's wort has healing qualities, it allows to use it in the treatment of a number of diseases.

Water infusions cure diseases:

• of the heart and kidneys,
• migraine,
• enuresis,
• urinary tract diseases,
• female ailments,
• gastric ailments,
• hemorrhoids.

Infusions and decoctions of St. John's wort are used to treat inflammations of the digestive tract, they are effective as rinses for stomatitis and inflammatory processes in the throat.External preparations of St. John's wort are used for severe burns, for treating wound surfaces, various skin lesions, including ulcers, abscesses, and mastitis.

For the treatment of moderate and mild depressions, a preparation based on St. John's wort concentrate is also used.In folk medicine for a long time it is known that infusions of St. John's wort drink at pains in heart and for the general strengthening of an organism, and lotions from it used from bruises, grazes and other external damages of a skin.

Hypericum oil treats complex wounds that do not heal for a long time, gastric ulcer, pressure ulcers and ulcers, lesions on the skin of the hands.

Tea from St. John's wort is effective for diseases of the nervous system:

• fears,
• depression,
• sleep problems.

All this became the basis of what St. John's wort has long been called "Medication from 99 ailments."

Contraindications

Treatment with St. John's Wort is accompanied by some attendant factors that need to be remembered:

• does not exclude cases of increased blood pressure;
• there may be bitterness in the mouth, a feeling of discomfort in the area of ​​the liver;
• increased sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation;
• has a negative impact on the postoperative period after different kinds of transplants;
• decrease in the effect of contraceptive agents in women and the weakening of potency in men;
• severe complications in patients suffering from mental illness;
• facilitating the removal of drugs from the body, resulting in a reduction in the effect of antibiotics;
• possible enlargement of the liver after prolonged intake of St. John's wort;
• an increase in the effect of anesthetics, may be affected by the condition of the optic nerve;
• ability to reduce blood levels of the drug that the patient takes from AIDS, it is possible to completely neutralize its effects;
• complications may occur when trying to take both St. John's Wort products and antidepressants;
• may reduce the effect of drugs of cardiac and anticoagulants.

St. John's wort in cosmetology

St. John's wort is also used in cosmetology, as it gives an excellent tonic, anti-inflammatory, anti-seborrhoeic and anti-aging effect.

Drugs with this healing herb help with acne on the skin.In this case, washing with infusion is recommended.With increased fat content of the skin, rubbing with a cotton disc moistened in St. John's wort is used.A good result for solving this problem is a mask from steamed grass.

Evening wiping pieces of ice from the lotion based on St. John's wort will help restore the tone of the fading skin, and daily intake of its inside infusion will help in solving the problem of alopecia.

Decoction from St. John's wort is used for the treatment of the skin with pustular diseases and for foot baths, which help to eliminate cracks on the heels.