White Assen is a plant with beautiful large flowers that certainly attract with its appearance and pleasant aroma. However, few people know that this plant is dangerous to human health.
If you smell it or worse, touch it, you can get a rather serious chemical burn. But, as you know, every coin has two sides, and the yasenets is no exception.
It is successfully used in traditional medicine to get rid of various ailments. Let's try to get acquainted with this controversial plant and learn how to use its beneficial properties.
- Chemical composition
- Beneficial features
- Yasenza application
- Infusions
- Decoctions
- The juice
- Ointment
- Tea
- Contraindications and harm
- Billet medicinal plants
Chemical composition
The burning bush contains about 0.5% of poisonous essential oil, as well as anethole and methylchavicol. Most of the nutrients found in the root and stem of the plant.
The root contains sitosterol and fatty acids, and the stem is rich in saponins, alkaloids, anthocyanins, dictamnactones, flavone glycosides.
Beneficial features
Due to its composition rich in microelements and beneficial substances, the white seedling has the following properties:
- calms the nervous system;
- narrows blood vessels;
- used at high temperature;
- eliminates swelling;
- increases the secretory function of the stomach;
- regulates the female cycle;
- improves digestion;
- effective against microbes;
- helps relieve cramps;
- used in cosmetology.
Yasenza application
Lancet is white, or Caucasian, used to treat chronic cystitis, pyelitis, kidney stones, diarrhea, female diseases (for menstrual disorders), high fever, depressed state and epilepsy, malaria, hepatitis.
In folk medicine, decoction and seeds of the yasets are used as a diuretic and for vasoconstriction. It is also used to treat dermatosis, nettle fever, eczema.
Broth from the Yasenets root is used externally to strengthen the hair follicle, with varicose veins and athlete's foot. Infusion of seeds is used for cosmetic purposes. The burning bush is part of the means for the treatment of overwork, asthenia and insomnia.
Infusions
- Infusion of seeds (recommended for diarrhea):
- Infusion for the treatment of impotence:
- Tincture of the root (with hypertension):
Decoctions
- Broth from the roots of Yasenets (universal recipe):
- Broth for the treatment of cystitis and jaundice:
- A decoction of seeds (for the treatment of amenorrhea, hysteria, is used as an antiseptic):
The juice
Get rid of stuttering will help this recipe: 3 drops of juice from the leaves and flowers of the yasenets need to be mixed with 2 drops of juice of stinging nettle. Place on tongue, hold for several minutes and spit out.
Repeat every day with a two-hour interval between doses for 10 days. Juice of flowers is used as an ointment to treat skin cancer. Also, the juice from the stems and leaves of the plant is an effective remedy for warts.
Ointment
- Athlete's foot ointment:
- Ointment for the treatment of dermatosis:
Tea
- Tea from the aboveground part of the plant:
- Tea from the roots of the plant:
Contraindications and harm
Since the burning bush is a poisonous plant, it is impossible to collect fruits without gloves. For the same reason, you need to be careful with the amount of raw materials used and do not exceed the recommended dose.
- cardiovascular diseases;
- problems of the respiratory system;
- diabetes;
- diseases of the urinary system;
- ARVI;
- oncology;
- liver disease;
- deep skin damage;
- reduced immunity;
- disorders of the digestive system;
- children under 12;
- individual intolerance.
Billet medicinal plants
In the wild, a burning bush grows in many places: on forest edges, on grassy and stony slopes. Therefore, harvesting grass will not be difficult.
Yasenets grass is collected during flowering, and the roots - in the autumn season after the fruits ripen. Some gardeners prefer to have this plant doctor in their garden.
Ashen, or burning bush - the plant is quite unpretentious, its cultivation does not require special skills of gardening. When collecting grass, you need clothes that completely cover the whole body, and rubber gloves to avoid skin damage.
The dried grass of a yasenets is stored in the room with the minimum humidity in well closed glass jars. Keep one year. The burning bush is a very interesting plant.
On the one hand, it is dangerous, and on the other, it helps in the treatment of many ailments. Still, he has more positives, so stock up on gloves, harvest raw materials, and heal.