For official medicine, as it does not exist, although the first would not be without the second. Modern drugs are chemical analogues of natural substances. For thousands of years, people knocked down the temperature with aspirin, that’s just got it from the willow bark, and antibiotics — from mold, vitamins — from berries, fruits and vegetables. The beginning of physiotherapy was the warm-up of the waist with hot bricks and additional sinuses — hard-boiled eggs. And so around!
Only each medicine and procedure has its own contraindications, and folk methods are no exception, although most of us are convinced of the opposite. Dangerous mistake! It doesn’t matter if you took a handful of aspirin pills or a liter of cool willow bark infusion: an overdose is an overdose.
“Everything is poison and everything is medicine, it’s in the dose” — the ancients said, and they were right.
To “grandmother’s” methods are not brought to trouble, you need to use them with skill, getting rid of the blind belief that “from the herbs” and other folk remedies will not be worse.
Myth № 1. You can drink herbs for life.
Oddly enough, the pills for hypertension patient is prescribed for life (the only way you can take pressure under control, not allowing a heart attack and stroke), but herbal fees with the same effect — for a period of 2 weeks to 1.5 months. And then you need to take a break for at least a week, or better — for two or even a month. Or go to another pitocchelli with the hypotensive action to the pressure due to the cancellation of the herbal infusion is not jumped.
Why: taking your pills until the end of life — please, and the collection of plants is a no — no? Yes, just part of the drug includes one active component (well, or more, if we are talking about combined means) in a strictly defined dose. It is now learned to reduce due to the extension of the drug: before taking it 4 times a day, and now — only once before bedtime. And the effect of Valerian root and motherwort grass can not be prolonged, their infusions have to be drunk several times a day.
And after all, each plant contains dozens of active components! Anyway, it’s a big load on the body. The fact that they are “living”, “natural”, says only that they affect us more than alien to our cells chemistry.
It’s like caffeine: in small doses it invigorates, but if you drink 4 cups of coffee a day, you can bring yourself to a hypertensive crisis, tachycardia, insomnia, and exhaustion of the nervous system. But, it would seem, a natural substance! What can it do to a bad body?
Myth № 2. Medicinal plants are “consonant” to the body
They have unique properties and inexhaustible therapeutic potential. But at the same time-foreign to the human body for the simple reason that we are not vegetables and fruits. Not even trees! Transfusing birch SAP instead of blood won’t put us on our feet, but rather kill us. That’s why we drink it to strengthen the body, and not put it into a vein.
And it is not true that the action of herbs is limited to the regulation of the natural forces of our body! Most of the active components of plants, as well as chemical analogues created on their model in the composition of modern drugs, do not copy natural human bioregulators, but act in their own way. Because some “herbs” there are contraindications that must be considered when receiving such “living drugs”.
Myth № 3. Hellebores are easy to lose weight
There are legends about this miraculous herb among those who dream to lose weight. It is called the sensation of the Millennium! Meanwhile, the hellebores Caucasian — not the discovery of the century, and the long-known plant of the family Ranunculaceae, that is… toxic. Unsafe heart drug based on hellebores became a “slimming”. The rhizomes of the plant contain diuretic substances and cardiac glycosides, which increase the contraction of the heart muscle and lengthen its relaxation time. The patient’s dose of glycosides is selected individually-an overdose can cause cardiac arrest. You do not come to mind to lose weight with the help of a defibrillator!
Hellebores drugs have another dangerous property-they accumulate in the body, which leads to serious consequences. That is why the drug was withdrawn from production. Nevertheless, those who want to lose weight continue to chase after him: after all, if you want to get hold of this grass is not so difficult! Sell it with hand and using the dried roots, powder, herbal. It’s just the same case as the words “grass” and “poison” are synonyms.
Symptoms of hellebores poisoning — a sharp drop in blood pressure, dizziness, loss of consciousness, respiratory failure, heart failure until it stops. If this has happened to you or your loved ones — immediately call an Ambulance and send the victim to the hospital… do not forget to tell the doctor that maybe it is — the effect of taking hellebores. Knowing what they are dealing with, doctors will release the body of the victim from the poison.
So is it worth the sheepskin dressing, given that the” slimming ” effect hellebores due to its diuretic effect, and the fat cells it does not affect. With the same success, but only without the risk to health, you can lose weight on bear ears or horsetail field!
Myth № 4. In each spine – the whole pharmacy, so the body heals in all directions
Medicinal plants contain many active components, but this feature of them is not always a virtue, but rather a stick about two ends. If the operating principles of this or that grass are combined not too successfully for this particular patient (and such at all great wisdom of the nature meets very often), they can neutralize each other, duplicate, destroy or render directly opposite action.
Take at least citrus-everyone knows that they are full of healthy ascorbic acid (aka — vitamin C). That’s just in addition to it in tangerines-oranges contains ascorbic enzyme, destroying useful ascorbic! Or remember the same buckwheat, which is rich in iron compounds, healing us from anemia. But in the way of assimilation of this valuable macronutrient stand fitini, which also accumulate in grains. These substances prevent the absorption of calcium, and the lack of this element can lead to heart failure and bone problems.
But there are also opposite examples! About plants with a harmonious combination of operating principles, thanks to which they have truly become “medicines for everything”, we know from folk Proverbs: “Borage — heart Comforter”, “Onion — from seven ailments”, “Sell coat — buy Stachys officinalis”. Fortunately, sell nothing – the same letter can be grown in the country. From this plant prepare infusions for rinsing the throat with a cold and sore throat, with its help heal wounds and bruises, get rid of edema. Stachys officinalis has active anti-inflammatory and antiseptic effects, is able to soothe pain and relieve skin irritation.
Myth № 5. Herbal medicine can get rid of insomnia
Contrary to popular belief, to restore the broken sleep with the help of herbs it is impossible if not to take into account plants such as some varieties of poppy and cannabis containing narcotic substances, that is unsafe. Mint, motherwort, Valerian only calm the nervous system, and this in some cases is enough to sleep. However, to cope with serious sleep disorders plants can not afford.
Many of the herbs in excess of the dose become poisonous. You can use their juice when taking a bath or reduce them warts, but inside, without consulting a phytotherapist, do not take, so as not to experience all the “charms” of poisoning with these plants. Among them-a strong thirst, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, severe pain in the stomach and head, dizziness until fainting, hallucination.
For salads, nature has saved a huge number of plants-from all the familiar nettle to a little-known plant called “Geum rivale”.
When starting herbal medicine, be sure to find out how long the course should last, what break you need to do before you repeat it, and how many such repetitions are allowed throughout the year.
Herbs to help
Take note of the recipe collection, in which all the medicinal components of herbs act so smoothly, helping each other and mutually reinforcing effect that they are able to defeat even some forms of intestinal infections, not to mention intestinal dysbiosis.
- Mix equally Acorus and Potentilla rhizomes with eucalyptus, nettle and Plantago leaf, as well as Gnaphalium uliginosum and Achillea grass.
- Pour 3 tablespoons of collecting 0.5 liters of boiling water in a thermos 1 hour.
- Cool, cool, and take 0.5 cups three times a day if stomach upset. Contraindications: Allergy, individual intolerance.