Smolovka vulgaris: medicinal properties and application

Smolnova ordinary belongs to the clove family. Inconspicuous in appearance, this plant is very popular in folk medicine due to its medicinal properties.

Botanical Description

The stem of the resection is erect, branched in the upper part. Its height usually ranges from 40 to 100 cm. Lancet opposite leaves have a dark green color. The flowering period starts in June and lasts until September. At this time, the plant is decorated with small white flowers, having a bubbly-swollen shape. The corolla is 5 bifid lobes. In place of the flower, then a fruit is formed in the form of a spherical capsule with small kidney-like seeds.

In people, the plant was called popcorn, or tar. His favorite places of life are the steam fields, forest edges, roadsides, wastelands, etc.

Useful properties

The healing properties of the tar, unfortunately, have not found application in the field of traditional medicine. Scientists have not yet proved the usefulness of the cracker. But it is precisely known that the leaves and flowers of the plant contain useful substances - saponins. People have known from ancient times that the cracker has hemostatic, anti-inflammatory and analgesic qualities.

Smolnyka vulgaris has a favorable effect on the human nervous system. Our ancestors also treated her with depression infusions, depressed spirit and other similar disorders. Inflammation of the skin quickly passes after external application of infusions tar.

Indications for use

Thanks to its medicinal properties, found ordinary use in medicine unconventional.

Traditional healers treat chronic bronchitis with the help of the broths of this herb. When skin diseases use lotions and compresses, impregnated with her broths. This is a great sedative. In addition, broths from flowers of plants are used for inflammations of female internal organs or muscular fibers of the vagina.

Infusions of tar are very useful during gastritis with high acidity of the stomach. In folk medicine they are recommended to drink also with diseases of the genitourinary system. The diuretic properties of the plant have long been known. The juice of white tar is used during the inflammatory process of the mucous membranes of the eye. Most people use compresses on the appearance of hair loss or lesions of the colon.

Recipes of infusions

The ordinary smashing described at the beginning of the article is applied both inside and outside. Herbalists have found many different recipes that number more than one hundred years:

1. In case of stomach disorders, it is necessary to brew 15 g of dried herb crackers with a glass of boiling water and wait 30 minutes. After that, the broth must be filtered and cooled. Apply three times a day for 100 g before eating.
2. For the treatment of inflammatory processes, 3 spoonfuls of the dried plant are insisted, filling it with boiling water. Compresses are applied several times a day.
3. Inflammation of the oral cavity is treated with a mouth rinse with infusion tar. To do this, it is necessary to pass dry grass with boiling water( 300 g of raw materials per 1 liter of water).Close the container with a lid, wait 30 minutes and cool. Mouth rinse with warm infusion 4 times a day.
4. 20 grams of white tar should be filled with water and boiled for ten minutes. After that, the broth is left for forty minutes and filtered. Apply with ulcers, gastritis and heartburn for half a glass before eating.
5. The infusion of tar is drunk at fifty grams daily for nervous system disorders, depressions and apathy. The composition of the decoction is very simple: thirty grams of white tar and five hundred grams of boiled water.
6. If you have headaches, insist on two tablespoons of dry raw materials in boiling water. After thirty minutes, strain and drink at a time.
7. Deep depression requires 50 grams of tar and half a liter of vodka. All this is insisted for seven days. After this, filter the infusion and apply on a teaspoon four times a day.
8. During bronchitis, you need to grind the flowers of the resin( up to six tablespoons).The resulting mixture is poured with a liter of water and boiled for 4 minutes on low heat. The broth is cooled and drunk 0.5 cup three times a day.
9. 50 grams of crushed flowers, two cups of boiling water are placed in a container and allowed to stand for two hours. Apply the decoction when there is edema, cystitis.

Contraindications to the use of

Smolnka vulgaris is a plant that must be used for treatment with caution. It is categorically forbidden to use for constipation, colic, with stomach diseases with low acidity. You can not drink decoctions of women during pregnancy and lactation. Before consuming decoctions or infusions of tar, it is best to consult people who have the knowledge and experience in folk medicine.

Smolnka vulgaris is harvested during the flowering period. Drying is best done in a dark place, choosing a canopy for this. The dried plants must be stored in tightly closed containers.