Useful properties of orchid and recipes for its use in medicine

Northern Orchid, growing in our latitudes, is called the orchid, and love it not for its decorative properties.

The root of the flower found its use in traditional and traditional medicine, cooking.

Description

Orchis, or "cuckoo's tears," refer to perennials of the Orchid family. Externally, it is a single stem with a height of 25-50 cm, depending on the variety. In northern orchids oblong lanceolate leaves.

On the stem, like an ear, there are flowers of bright color. Orchis bloom from spring to midsummer. In August, fruits are formed, filled with small seeds. The main feature of the orchid is its root, which is a pair of oval tubers. Here the plant accumulates nutrients for which lovers of traditional medicine appreciate it.

Depending on the species, wild species can grow both in a sunny meadow or forest edge, and in wetlands. Gardeners grow domesticated plants that differ from wild-sized flowers.

Types of Orchis

The genus includes hundreds of plant species. Almost half of them can be found on the lands of the CIS countries, the rest grow in Africa, North America, the Canary Islands and the Caucasus.

The plant suffered for its medicinal properties: most species are listed in the Red Book. Plantations of northern orchids are specially grown as ingredients for medical products.

Orchis

Orchis male - a perennial tuber plant. It is characterized by short brushes with crimson flowers. The structure of the leaves and the stem corresponds to the genus. The flowering period is May-June.

The species can be found in the Caucasus, the Urals, in Ukraine and in the nearby territory of Russia. It grows in non-coniferous forests, adapts to different types of soil, but does not live well on wet and sour soil.

In the male orchid tubers contain elements that are used in preparations for the treatment of gastrointestinal tract. They are also used in cystitis and as an anesthetic.

Medicinal products where this plant is included have a tonic and wound-healing effect. In veterinary medicine is used against infertility.

Orchis spotted (spotted finger)

Orchis is a spotted forest species of the Palchatkokornik plant of the same family. The roots of the flower are two tubers: one is old, dies off, and the second is young, provides the plant with the main part of the nutrients. They differ in shape from tubers of other varieties.

On a long stem, there are up to 8 spotted leaves, for which the species got its name. The flowers are light lilac, have a helmet shape. In the fruit-box, which ripens by the end of summer, there are many small seeds.

Habitat spotted species - forests of Belarus, Ukraine, Russia. Tubers are valued for their content of dextrin, pentosan, methylpentozan and other useful substances. Their collection is carried out in the period from late spring to June, when the plant blooms. Used when diseases of the digestive system.

Orchis

Orchis is a classic representative of its kind: it has two well-developed tubers, one straight stalk, at the bottom of which several leaves grow. Blossoms kind of pale pink flowers.

You can meet the orchid orchid in Russia and the Caucasus. It grows better in meadows and glades with dry soil with a high calcium content.

From the tubers create drugs that increase potency, drugs for the respiratory system and the digestive system. In addition to medicine, helmet used in cooking. Previously, they cooked soups from it and added powdered powder to the dough, but now dishes with its tubers are rare.

Burnt Orchis (Neotene burnt)

Burnt Orchis, a representative of the genus Neotinia, approached an extinction trait. It has two oval tubers. One of them develops a kidney, which then becomes a new root.

For the burnt appearance, small two-colored inflorescences are characteristic: the “helmet” of the flower is bright red, and the “lip” is white with red splashes.

The species grows in Belarus, Ukraine, Scandinavia, the Mediterranean, Anatolia and the European part of Russia. It is suitable for the slightly alkaline soil of non-coniferous forests.

Collect this kind of orchid at the end of June or July. Older tubers are not used, and young ones are made by salep. A decoction of it is assigned when gastrointestinal tract diseases inflammatory nature, poisoning. The seeds of the species help with epilepsy.

Composition

"Kukushkin tears" are popular for their tubers. They contain:

• mucus (50%);
• starch (30%);
• mineral salts;
• calcium oxalate;
• polysaccharides;
• glycosides;
• dextrin;
• essential oil;
• protein and pectin compounds;
• sucrose;
• methylpentozane, etc.

Various bitter substances, carotenes, coumarin, quercetin and the glycoside poroglossin are found in the stem, leaves and flower.

Medicinal properties

The tubers of the plant contain mucus, which has an enveloping, hematopoietic, anticonvulsant and tonic effect. She is taken inside, doing an enema with her.

Traditional healers use dried root flour - salep. The infusion based on salep is unique in its properties, they are being treated:

• diarrhea;
• tuberculosis;
• depression;
• gastritis, ulcers, pancreatitis;
• catarrh of the bladder;
• infertility;
• inflammation of the appendages;
• anemia;
• asthma;
• impotence;
• bronchitis;
• physical and nervous decay.

Application recipes

In folk medicine there are many recipes for the use of dried root: external use, decoctions, compresses. It is used to improve the condition of the elderly, the rehabilitation of children after physical exhaustion.

Salep for colds

Salep helps against colds. It is produced by grinding the dry tuber of a plant.

At 200-250 ml of cold milk, dilute 1 tablespoon of orchid powder. The container is set on fire and constantly stirred until the liquid thickens. For taste, you can add honey, sugar or spices to the drink. In Turkey, salep is a very popular drink that is drunk with cinnamon.

Infusion of the orchid

There are several types of tincture of cuckoo tears. For cooking non-alcoholic tincturewhich a child can drink, the flour from the tubers is poured with boiling water, hot milk or broth, stirred, poured into a jar. Children's dose - 4 teaspoons in 24 hours. Adults can use a glass of this drug per day.

Apply also alcohol recipe tincture, popular among men to improve potency. To prepare the tincture you will need:

• 1.5 Art. l Salep;
• 500 ml of cognac;
• pounded half a loaf of rye bread.

All ingredients are mixed and infused for two months. The resulting mass is pressed under pressure, burn the residue and add the ashes back to the bottle. Then insist another two months.

With diarrhea and hemorrhoids

In case of diarrhea, the alcoholic infusion from Salep described above is drunk.

To help with hemorrhoids, will have to do a special enema.

For it, a cooled tincture of salep on water is used, adding to it a quarter of a teaspoon of crushed flax seeds.

Less commonly, mucus from freshly harvested tubers is used in a similar manner.

Orchis from impotence and inflammation of the prostate gland

The most effective for maintaining male power is considered spotted variety. If it is possible to grow the orchid alone, then during the flowering season it is recommended to eat a couple of tubers without drying. For taste, you can drop a little olive oil on them.

When inflammation of the prostate gland will help a special tincture of the flowers of the orchid in olive oil. Mix them up 1:10. Tincture is taken before breakfast and dinner for 10 g.

Contraindications

Experts are still continuing to investigate the medicinal properties of orchid tubers, but no contraindications to their use have been found. Root-based preparations are safe for humans. They are allowed to take when breastfeeding and children.

But do not overdo it. When consuming a plant, stick to the dosage. This is especially true of recipes related to male potency.

Collecting and harvesting

The root of the plant is harvested during the flowering period or immediately after it. It is then that it contains a high concentration of beneficial macro and micronutrients.

Tubers are thoroughly washed, doused with boiling water. Dry them in a special dryer or in the shade with good air circulation. Do not overheat the product or leave it in direct sunlight. A tuber is considered properly dried if it shines a little.

You can store the product in cardboard packaging or linen fabric, so it retains its properties for up to 6 years.

Cuckoo tears are harvested and harvested in the same way as tubers. The rest of the plant is not used for medical purposes.

The healing properties of the orchid destroy it; there are few northern orchids left in the world. In most countries, the plant is protected, cultivated. But, knowing its unique properties, you can improve your own health in a natural way, by buying ready-made powder or by growing cuckoo tears on your own.