The Latin name for immortelle (tsmin) sandy - Helichrysum arenarium, comes from three words "helio" - the sun, "chrysum" - gold, "arenarium" - sandy. How beautiful it sounds - the golden sandy sun. And you can do it differently: gold is sunny and sandy. Take a closer look at the immortelle flower - this is a small golden sun growing on sandy soil. Immortals are so useful! Flowers are turned into a powder, from which a medicine is made - flamin. Indeed, immortelle is gold for people with liver problems. There are also other names for immortelle among the people: simple and precise - dried flower, and affectionate - cat's paws.
Plant immortelle (tsmin) sandy - perennial whitish-felt herbaceous, it has oblong-lanceolate leaves, and small lemon-yellow flowers, sometimes light orange, are collected in baskets. Immortelle grows almost all over Russia, choosing for itself young pine forests and sandy soil.
For treatment, flowers are used, which are collected from the beginningJune until the end of July, until the flower baskets fluff. In its flowers, sandy immortelle contains saponins, flavonoid glycosides, aglycones, sugars, essential oils, dyes and tannins, vitamins C and K, carotene, resins and fatty acids, microcomponents in the form of s alts of potassium, sodium, calcium, manganese, iron.
Sandy immortelle is a choleretic and diuretic, expectorant and diaphoretic, hemostatic and blood purifier, antimicrobial, antiseptic, analgesic, and antihelminthic. It has the ability to increase blood pressure, enhance the secretions of the pancreas and stomach.
Sand immortelle is used in herbal teas for diseases of the gallbladder, inflammation of the bile ducts and liver diseases (jaundice, cholangitis and cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, hepatitis). Immortelle is used for dropsy and some skin diseases (bathed in a decoction of flowers for pustules, lichen, diathesis). Immortelle is included in the collection of medicinal herbs for the treatment of papillomatosis in the bladder, anacid gastritis.
It has been established that after 3-4 days from the start of treatment with immortelle decoction, vomiting and nausea stop, the feeling of heaviness in the epigastric region, pain in the liver decreases, the color of the skin and eye proteins normalize.
Contraindications: Helichrysum preparations should not be taken by those who have high blood pressure, gastritis with high acidity. When using immortelle for treatment, the indicated dosage should be strictly observed, since sandy immortelle evenand low toxicity, but its toxins accumulate in the body, The maximum duration of treatment with immortelle is 10 days.
Decoction for cholangitis and cholecystitis: equal quantities of immortelle flowers, St. John's wort, corn stigmas mix. Pour 1 tbsp. l. mixture with a glass of boiling water, keep for 30 minutes in a water bath. Cool to room temperature, strain. Top up the resulting volume of broth to 1 cup. Divide the decoction into 3 parts and drink one part before meals.
Decoction for cholelithiasis: you need to take 4 parts of immortelle flowers and 3 parts of rhubarb root for 7 parts of yarrow (grass with flowers) - grind the components and mix. In a glass of boiling water, brew a mixture of 1 tbsp. l., insist, drink in 1 dose in the evening.
