Mother-and-stepmother from coughing with bronchitis

Mother-and-stepmother is a popular plant with an unusual name and a variety of healing properties. With bronchitis, recipes based on plants have anti-inflammatory, mucolytic, expectorant, antipyretic, enveloping and spasmolytic effects. That is, one herb acts as several different drugs in the complex.

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Dosing and administration

Cough is good for taking tea, infusion and decoction of flowers and plant leaves.

For tea it is better to take flowers that have a noticeable mucolytic effect, i.e. Thanks to them, sputum becomes less viscous and leaves bronchi more easily during a cough. A 250-gram cup of boiling water is taken 1 tsp. Dried flowers. Insist the composition covered for about 10-15 minutes. Ready tea is drunk warm for 2 times.

For infusion and broth for the same amount of boiling water take 1 tablespoon. Dry raw materials. In this case, it is better to use leaves or leaves together with flowers. The infusion is prepared by keeping the composition covered for 40-45 minutes, after which it is filtered and taken 3 tbsp each. 3-4 times a day. Take a "medicine" before eating.

The broth is prepared by boiling the mixture for 10 minutes, after which it is left to be infused for another half an hour. Single dose of broth - 1 tbsp. Multiplicity of admission - 3 times a day. Take the decoction, as well as the infusion, before eating.

There is another recipe: 3-4 tsp. Dry leaves of plants pour a glass of boiling water and stand on a water bath for a quarter of an hour. Further infusion filter, add water to the top of the glass, and take the remedy in the first days of the disease for 1 tbsp. With an interval of 2 hours. When it becomes somewhat easier, you can take infusion 3 or 4 times a day for half an hour before meals.

From dry leaves of mother-and-stepmother, you can prepare a powder, which for bronchitis should be consumed 3 times a day with warm milk. A single dose of powder is 1 g (approximately 1.5 tsp).

When coughing a good action is a compress of fresh leaves of mother-and-stepmother, previously steamed in hot milk. Such a compress in a warm form is held on the chest, covering the leaves with a film and a warm cloth.

Applying herbs from pneumonia and bronchitis (and inflammation of the lungs very often results from insufficient treatment of bronchitis), we do not forget about mother-and-stepmother. Preserved juice from fresh leaves of the plant is stored in the refrigerator, mixing 2 parts of it with 1 part of sugar or sugar powder. Take the medicine 4-5 times a day before meals. Single dose - 1 tbsp.

Mother-and-stepmother is a part of many herbal dues for bronchitis and pneumonia, along with chamomile, oregano, ledum, birch buds, nettle, plantain and other medicinal herbs.

Useful grass and with bronchial asthma, if its leaves are mixed with the same number of leaves of plantain and pine buds. A glass of water is taken 4 tsp. Herbal collection, insist the composition for two hours, after which it should be boiled for no more than 5 minutes. Drink the broth for 3 hours during 1 day.

Mother-and-stepmother for inhalations is applied in the form of infusion. A glass of boiling water take 1 tablespoon. Dry grass and flowers. Brewing the plant with boiling water and waiting for the composition to cool slightly, you can cover it with a towel and breathe a medical vapor.

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Contraindications

But no matter how useful the grass, it is not recommended to use it for a long time, especially if the symptoms of the disease have already passed. The maximum course of grass intake is a month and a half.

It is not recommended to resort to prescriptions based on mother-and-stepmother to pregnant women and patients with severe liver pathologies. It is also dangerous to use herbs in case of hypersensitivity of the organism to them. During lactation, breastfeeding for the period of application of the herb should be discontinued, as there is a possibility of liver damage in the child.

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Side effects Mother-and-stepmother

Medicinal herbs, although they have minimal side effects, are not recommended for abuse. Still, these are alternative medicines that have a complex composition and possibly incorporate toxic components. It is clear that severe consequences in the form of oncology are possible only with a very long intake of mother-and-stepmother, when there is an accumulation of harmful substances in the body in sufficient quantities. And yet it is not recommended to use weed for more than 6 weeks.

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Overdose

The use of grass in large doses is fraught with the appearance of symptoms of an overdose in the form of nausea, abdominal pain, vomiting. It is enough to take a break and adjust the dose, and unpleasant symptoms will go away.

Storage conditions

Flowers should be harvested in the flowering period (March-April), and the leaflets later (May-June). Leaflets should be even, green without spots. It is better to take young not very large leaves. Flowers cut off at the base of the stalk.

Leaflets and flowers dry in the shade with good ventilation. Leaves can be threaded and threaded for drying. If the raw material is dried in a dryer, then the air temperature to it should be less than 55 degrees.

You can store dry raw materials in paper bags, glass containers with lids, fabric bags, cardboard box in a dry and quite warm place. Flowers mother-and-stepmother retain their properties for 2 years, the leaves can be stored and longer - 3 years.