The shepherd's bag , or as it is called a handbag, blooms from April to September. Small white flowers adorn thousands of fields and meadows. But herb shepherd's bag application found its not only in decoration, most often it is used in medicine.
Therapeutic properties of a shepherd's bag
The healing properties of the plant are provided by its composition. All parts of this plant contain:
- micro- and macro elements;
- organic acids;
- alkaloids;
- vitamins A , K, B2 and C;
- coumarins.
Also, this herb produces phytoncids, and its seeds contain approximately 28% of fatty oil, which is similar to mustard oil. In addition, the shepherd's bag has useful properties, because it has gums, flavonoids, peptide, saponins and a lot of potassium.
Use of a shepherd's bag
In medical practice, this herb was used in ancient Rome and Greece as a hemostatic. Today the medicinal plant of the shepherd's bag is used in the treatment of gastrointestinal disorders and hypertension, as a diuretic and antipyretic. It is indispensable to have a shepherd's bag with bleeding , even the uterine ones. It is prescribed for atony of the uterus, cystitis, pyelonephritis and urolithiasis.
Effective shepherd's bag in gynecology. Traditional medicine uses the juice of this plant as a contraceptive and for the delay of ovulation. A handbag is also useful in the case of metabolic disorders, since it contains many minerals. Effective treatment of a shepherd's bag with endometriosis, it is good to wash badly healing wounds and bruises, and rinse your mouth with mucous infections.
This herb is also used in cooking. Her young leaves are good in vinaigrettes, salads, soups, mashed potatoes and garnishes. If you mix the fresh herbs of a shepherd's bag with celery, you will get an excellent and tasty vitamin paste for sandwiches. Dried seeds of this plant can replace mustard and pepper.
Recipes from a shepherd's bag
Buying dried herb sheepskin bags is not necessary, it grows like a weed everywhere. In the summer in the flowering phase, it is cut, mowed or torn out and cooked with her teas, decoctions, tinctures.
- Delicious and useful tea from a shepherd's handbag is easy enough. Need 2 teaspoons of herbs pour 20 ml of hot water, leave for 10 minutes and strain. More than 2 glasses of this tea is not recommended to drink.
- The recipe of a herb from a shepherd's herb is also not complicated. To cook it you need 1 tablespoon. Raw material pour 200 ml of warm water and leave for 40-60 minutes. Drink it with renal, gastric, nasal, pulmonary and uterine bleeding after abortion or childbirth three times a day for 1 tablespoon.
- With diarrhea, vomiting, gastritis, atony of the intestines, with stomach and liver diseases alcoholic tincture of the shepherd's bag will help: the ground raw material of grass is poured with 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:10, left in a warm dark place for 14 days and filtered. Take it with 1 teaspoon of water for 20-30 drops three times a day before meals.
- Outer use a decoction broth and crushed grass in the form of lotions. They are applied to wounds, ulcers and to places of bruises. The broth is prepared from 2 tbsp. spoons of raw materials and 1 cup of water, which must be boiled for 1-2 minutes, leave to cool for 30-45 minutes and drain.
Contraindications to the use of a shepherd's bag
The shepherd's bag has contraindications. Its use is prohibited when:
- hemorrhoids;
- thrombophlebitis and thrombosis;
- hypercoagulation;
- hypersensitivity.
Categorically, you can not treat the disease with a shepherd's handbag during pregnancy, because it causes a contraction of the smooth muscles of the uterus, which can provoke miscarriage.
Dosage of this medicinal herb should be strictly observed, as excessive use of it causes nephritis and bloody diarrhea.