Origanum

Origanum

Oregano: Description. Perennial herb. Stems erect, branched, quadrangular, myagkoopushennye. The leaves are opposite, oblong-ovate, pointed. The flowers are small bilabiate, purple and pink, are collected in corymbose inflorescences. Stamens four, with a pestle chetyrehrazdelnoy upper ovary and a long, exceeding corolla dvurasscheplennym column. The fruit consists of four round-ovoid nutlets. Plant height 30-80 cm
Flowering time. June-August.
Habitat. Forest glades, meadows, steppe, in the bushes.
The applied part. Leafy tops of the plants with flowers in early bloom.
Collection time. June-August.
Oregano: The chemical composition. Essential oil, tannins, pigments and a lot of vitamin C.
Oregano: Action. Calm, diaphoretic, diuretic, choleretic, expectorant, antispasmodic, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, wound healing. Helps to improve digestion with a deficiency of digestive juices, peristalsis and normalizes the activity of the gastrointestinal tract, increases urine output, regulates menstruation when they are delayed. It soothes the central nervous system, enhances the secretion of sweat glands.
Oregano: Use. Herb oregano is used in chronic gastritis, colitis, stomach ulcers and duodenal ulcers, atonic constipation, liver and gall bladder, jaundice. For colds, coughs, pulmonary tuberculosis, sputum, bronchitis, pneumonia, asthma, whooping cough. In the cases of arthritis and rheumatic, epilepsy, insomnia, hypertension, headaches, mental disorders, nervousness, headaches, nervous excitement, depression, paralysis, pyelonephritis. Outwardly marjoram is used for hair loss, wounds, festering wounds, itchy eczema, pustules, itchy rash, scrofula, rickets. Method of application.
1. 1 tablespoon marjoram 1 cup boiling water, a thermos for 2 hours. Drink 1 / 2 cup 3 times a day for 30 minutes. before eating.
2. 10 g of 1.5 cups of boiling water, a thermos for 2-3 hours. Drink 1 / 2 cup 3 times a day for 30 minutes before meals - for epilepsy. The treatment course of 3 years.
3. 10 g of marjoram 150 ml of alcohol 70 °, insist 7-10 days in the dark. Drink 30-40 drops 3 times a day. When a toothache fit cotton wool with a hollow infusion sick tooth.
4. 50 g of grass on letter boiling water, use-for lotions and wash for skin diseases.
Contraindications. Pregnancy.