Healing properties of Veronica herb

VERONICA DRUG-Veronica officinalis L.
Fig-wort family - Scrophulariacea
Perennial herb 10-30 cm tall stems creeping and ascending, a creeping rhizome. Leaves elliptic or back shirokoyaytsevidnye, are short, toothed. The flowers are collected in the upright spike dense brush, pale blue with a purple tinge, sometimes white. Fruit - polyspermous dvuhgnezdnaya box. Blossoms in June and July.
There is growing throughout Ukraine, in forests, mostly on forest edges, clearings. Since the purpose of treatment using grass, which provides in the flowering stage.
Chemical composition: glycosides aukubin and veronitsin, bitterness, tannins, volatile oils, saponins, resins, and vitamins. Chemical composition is not fully understood.
Apply only in folk medicine, according to which, the grass
possesses anti-allergic, choleretic, sedative, anti-inflammatory, diuretic.
In dermatology used for eczema, neurodermatitis, urticaria, prurigo, pruritus genital organs, anus, as well as piodermitah, fungal diseases.
Usage: 1 teaspoon veronica pour 1 glass of boiling water, leave for 20-30 minutes and take 1 glass 3 times daily after meals for allergic diseases, or to eat in diseases of the digestive system. More pronounced antiallergenic, antipruritic effect is observed when receiving grass veronica in combination with other herbal preparations.
Eczema, piodermitah, fungal diseases VV Karhut (1978) recommends a mixture of veronica, violet tricolor, a succession of (in equal proportions) - 1 teaspoon sugar and 1 cup boiling water, to insist. Take 1 glass 4 times a day after meals. We are in his practical activity using this infusion with pruritic dermatoses and notes the positive clinical effect. Outwardly at neurodermatitis, subacute and chronic stages of eczema ointment used extraction with grass veronica drug for lard in the ratio 1: 4.