Lily May

Lily May

Lily May: Description. A perennial herbaceous plant with two large elliptical leaves and brush odnobochnoy white fragrant flowers. The flowers are small, drooping with globular-campanulate perianth. Fruit - spherical red berries. Plant height 15-25 cm
Flowering time. May - June.
Habitat. In the forests, often mixed, and in floodplains.
The applied part. Stems and leaves with flowers.
Collection time. May-June.
Lily May: Chemical composition. Cardiac glycosides, saponins konvallarin (irritating the kidneys, intestines), malic and citric acids, traces of essential oil. The plant is poisonous.
Lily May: Action. Diuretic, sedative, analgesic, anti-inflammatory. Alcoholate lily slow heart rate, improves the filling pulse reduces stasis, dyspnea, cyanosis (blueness)
Lily May: Application. With heart disease with harshly. Severe neurological phenomena, of dropsy, asthma, malaria, epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, headache. Lily drugs differ in their pure form or mixed with valerian roots. Lily is used in acute and chronic heart failure, cardiac neurosis, weak heart muscles.
Dosing ..
1. Fresh flowers, lily of the valley to put in a half-liter bottle, filling it 3 / 4 volume, pour the wine with alcohol the top. Infuse 2 weeks. Strain and drink 10-15 drops in water 2-3 times a day.
Contraindications. The plant is poisonous. Contraindicated with organic sharp changes of the heart and blood vessels, acute myocarditis, endocarditis, and a pronounced cardiosclerosis.