Medicinal herbs

Medicinal herbs - is that the essence of traditional medicine. People have used herbs as a supplement to the food throughout the history of civilization. Classic example of a bay leaf. However, as medicine, herbs were being used, after one of the greatest physicians of antiquity Galen has developed ways of making tinctures, decoctions and medicinal ointments using herbs.
The first stage of the use of herbs is their collection. Folk medicine uses all parts of medicinal plants - roots, leaves, stems, inflorescences and seeds. Terms of harvesting different. The roots of medicinal herbs are gaining the maximum force during the minimum movement of juice - this is early spring or late fall. Extracted from the earth washed from the root of the residual soil, it should not be damaged, should be characteristic of this plant color. The root is divided into slices, strung on a thread and dried in a ventilated place. Store dried root should be in the basement, in the dry sand.
Leaves and stems of herbs are harvested in the spring when flower buds begin to form during the full moon day when the morning dew has dried. Drying of harvested raw materials produced in under an awning, or in another, a shady, ventilated place.
Inflorescences herbs are harvested during their flowering, using, as a rule, only their petals. Dried petals in the oven with minimal heating, stored in a glass vessel with a tight lid.
The seeds of medicinal herbs harvest when fully ripe, dried in a ventilated area before storing them sorted, emptying into the water. Surfaced seeds discarded, drowned again dried, they are stored in wooden drawers or linen bags.
Medicinal herbs are used in the form of tinctures, decoctions and ointments. The infusions are prepared in aqueous or alcohol based. Alcohol tinctures are much more active than water. The principle of preparing all infusions is the same, it is prolonged contact with water or alcohol solution into which the active ingredients of medicinal herbs. The broth, on the contrary, is prepared by boiling herbs in water for a strictly defined period of time. These two different ways to make it possible to manufacture different on the Effects of drugs of similar composition components.
Masi, is nothing but a tincture of fat basis. As a rule, is used as the basis of visceral pork fat, it melts, and it adds certain formulation components. In the molten state mixture is maintained at certain times and filtered, after setting ointment ready for use.
Filtration - absolutely necessary operation, leaving the components is a common and undivided mistake. Prepared in compliance with all rules of folk remedies based on medicinal herbs are used successfully to treat various diseases from acne to cancer.