Coltsfoot

Coltsfoot

Coltsfoot: Description. Perennial herb. The flowers are yellow with a reed petals collected in baskets. The leaves are large, rounded-cordate, toothed, dark green, smooth, lower white-pubescent. The underside of the heats and cools the top. The leaves appear just after flowering. Plant height of 5-20 cm
Flowering time. March - April.
Habitat. In wet soils, on the banks of rivers, ponds, ditches and fields.
The applied part. The leaves and flowers.
Collection time. Cysts and March - April, leaves in June - July.
Coltsfoot: Chemical composition. Leaf contains saponins, bitter glycosides, acids (gallic, malic, tartaric, ascorbic), mucous membranes, tannins, carotene (provitamin A). Flowers contain tannins, substances, essential oils.
Coltsfoot: Action. Expectorant, emollient, anti-inflammatory, disinfectant, diaphoretic, antipyretic, tonic, choleretic, wound healing, anti-sclerotic, diuretic. Weakens and stops inflammation, stimulates the secretory activity of various glands, improves appetite, coats mucous membranes of the mouth, throat and protects against irritation.
Coltsfoot: Application. When you cough, acute and chronic bronchitis, laryngitis (hoarseness), bronchiectasis, lung abscess, bronchial asthma, pneumonia, pulmonary tuberculosis, fever, tracheitis, tonsillitis, pleurisy. Inflammation of the mucous membrane of the gastrointestinal tract, lack of appetite, gastric and duodenal ulcers. When inflammation of the veins
feet - or broth put mashed leaves. When hair loss, dandruff, scrofula, boils, wounds, festering wounds, ulcers, burns from the lime-applying fresh mashed leaves. When erysipelas-attach sheet, and sprinkle the powder better than the leaves, taking into powder by 1 / 6 tsp 3 times a day. When inflammation of the kidneys and bladder, edema, liver, heart, hypertension, atherosclerosis.
Dosing ..
1. 1 tablespoon leaves of coltsfoot in 1 cup boiling water, a thermos of 3-4 hours. Drink 1 / 3 cup 3 times a day.
2. Powder from a sheet of mashed, with sugar (1:1), and take 1 tea. Spoonful 4 times a day for 30 minutes. before eating, drinking milk or water, in case of bronchitis.
3. leaf extract coltsfoot or juice and apply grease to list the affected sites of skin.
4. 1 tablespoon sheet mother and stepmother, and 1 tablespoon of nettle in 1 cup boiling water, and wash your hair 2 times a week with hair loss, dandruff and itchy scalp.