Mullen skipetrovidny

Mullein - a herbaceous biennial plant of the Figwort family. For the first year forms the outlet bottom leaves, the second year of the stem grows up to six meters in height. Flowers are yellow and arranged in spike-brush, their halos are medicinal raw materials. Mullein grows in meadows and forest edges, roads and housing around the rocky places of the European part of Russia in the Caucasus and Central Asia. Total in Russia there are about 50 species of herbaceous plants.

Harvested for medical purpose mullein flowers fluffy, ordinary and magnificent. Are not permitted to use and harvesting melkotsvetkovye kinds Korovyakov with a whisk diameter 10-30 mm, with the staminal filaments, covered with purple hairs!

generic name of a plant related to the Latin word "beard", which indicates a strong pubescence him the same definition of different species of flowers in the inflorescence, resembling a straight standing candle. Dioscorides, Pliny the similarities of leaves with a wick lamp. However, they were not unanimous on the 'subject' use of plant parts: one he prescribed the leaves, the other - the rhizome.

Collected mullein flowers in early bloom, flowers beaters are removed easily, but sometimes together with a whisk to remove and stamens attached to the their base. Since the flowers one day, spend every day gathering in fine sunny weather, dry them immediately after harvest, so they will not browned. Dried flowers keep in glass jars, tightly closed lids, as the flowers are hygroscopic and moisturizing, perishable. The flowers contain mucus, carbohydrates, essential oil, flavonoids, carotenoids.

In folk medicine, mullein has long been used as anti-inflammatory and soothing agent in catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, cough, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, liver and spleen. Infusion took in bronchial asthma, pulmonary tuberculosis, and central nervous system disorders. The collection, consisting of equal parts of mullein flowers and mallow, alteynogo roots and leaves of coltsfoot are well used to rinse the throat and inflammation of oral mucosa. Infusion is used only filtered (otherwise fall hairs irritate).

Apply mullein in cosmetics and dermotologii. Infusion of the flowers is used as an external emollient as compresses and poultices, mixed with other herbs. Use to rinse the mouth and throat are used for baths for metabolic disorders, skin diseases, fresh leaves are applied to boils; flowers stop the bleeding.

In France, mullein has long been consumed as an anti-inflammatory, emollient, anodyne, and is now used for skin diseases, herpes, boils, eczema. In Poland, outwardly - for washing the hair with alopecia. In Germany, the "flower-Torch" (the so-called mullein) topically applied in the inflammation of the facial nerve. Propagated mullein seeds.