Modern food, cosmetic industry and medicine is difficult to imagine without such a universal representative of the flora as sunflower. It is a source of popular vegetable oil, delicious sunflower seeds, the basis for the production of drying oil, alternative biofuels, raw materials for the production of pharmacological preparations. But very few people know how valuable the sunflower root is - the beneficial properties and contraindications of this part of the plant, fortunately, are thoroughly studied by folk healers.
The healing properties of sunflower roots
The main quality of the phytocoagre is cleansing. Its active ingredients are capable of destroying even very solid insoluble compounds based on organic acids (uric, oxalic, cholesteric and others).
Useful properties of sunflower roots help:
- to clear blood vessels from lipid plaques;
- dissolve urates and stones in the bladder;
- remove saline deposits from the intervertebral spaces and joints;
- get rid of the natural way of the stones in the gallbladder.
Therefore, the described agent is used in the treatment of arthritis, arthrosis and osteochondrosis, cholecystitis and urolithiasis, atherosclerosis of vessels and diabetes mellitus.
Additionally, the roots of sunflower provide normalization of blood pressure, effective relief from headaches , detoxification of the body and restoration of the functions of the digestive system.
Contraindications to the use of medicinal properties of sunflower root
Like other herbal remedies, the presented phytocoagulant can not be taken in case of its individual intolerance, the occurrence of allergic reactions during the treatment period. Also, the roots of the sunflower are contraindicated in the presence of insoluble stones in the kidneys formed in an alkaline environment (carbonate, phosphate stones).