Burdock: useful properties and contraindications to plants

This is a long-term culture, which is used for medical, cosmetic and culinary purposes. It belongs to the Astro family and has other names: burdock and dogman. This is a strong and powerful plant that blooms with purple prickly flowers in the summer. The leaves of the burdock are pale green in color and have a heart-shaped shape. The plant has long roots of black and green-brown hues.

Long ago traditional healers used burdock for treatment of many diseases. Useful properties are the leaves, stems and roots of the dogman. From it they make tinctures, decoctions, make juice, take baths. Burdock in folk medicine occupies a separate niche and is successfully used for the therapy of such diseases:

• Hepatitis, cholecystitis;
• Gastritis, ulcers;
• Colds;
• Urolithiasis;
• Gout;
• Skin;
• Female genital organs.

Not only folk medicine, but modern cosmetology is widely used burdock. Useful properties of plants are used against hair loss, creating funds for strengthening curls. So, the use of juice or butter burdock makes the hair soft, thick and shiny.

Burdock: useful properties of culture

The dog has the following useful qualities:

• Diuretic;
• Anti-inflammatory;
• Diaphoretic;
• laxative.

Burdock contains many useful minerals and vitamins (P, E, C, B, A). The root of the burdock is 50% consists of inulin and is a salvation for people with diabetes. In addition, the plant is used for the treatment of oncology, alcohol poisoning and joint diseases.

How and where to apply burdock

Today, there are many recipes for burdock for the treatment of diseases. Before you start using any of these, you should consult a specialist. Let's note the most popular recipes:

1. When violations of the gallbladder and the liver make tea from the roots of a dogman. To do this, they must be finely chopped and poured with water, insist, boil and strain. They drink this decoction three times a day.
2. With sun and household skin burns. To do this, you need to make an ointment from the leaves of the plant, previously welded in water, and butter.
3. With diabetes, rheumatism and chronic gastritis. Take roots burdock, pour water, insist and drink three times a day. This tincture can be used to rinse the oral cavity for colds.
4. With urolithiasis and gout drink freshly squeezed plant juice. It is enough to eat three times a day.
5. With female infertility and menstrual irregularities. In this case, helps the juice, which is obtained by properly suppressing the burdock. Useful properties of plants are also used for the treatment of mastopathy, imposing the leaves of the dogman on the chest.

When it is forbidden to use burdock

In general, the plant has a beneficial effect on the human body and copes with a variety of diseases. But you still need to be careful, using the leaves, stems and burdock root. Contraindications in the use of plants are as follows:

• With individual intolerance;
• When breastfeeding;
• During pregnancy.

Before using burdock for the treatment of children, it is necessary to consult the treating doctor.