The roots of elecampane are a remedy for many ailments

Devyasil belongs to the family of the Astrope. The plant is herbaceous, perennial, growing in the form of bushes. It blooms in the second half of the summer with orange or yellow solitary flowers, and also collected in the corymbose or racemose inflorescence. The leaves of the elephant have an oblong form and are pointed at the ends, and the stem is straight and fleshy. This plant is widespread in Central Asia, the European part of Russia, Western Siberia and the Urals. It grows mainly in meadows, near water bodies, in ditches and quarries.

In Russia, elecampane began to be used for a long time "against nine ailments". But the roots of elecampane help not only with nine diseases, they are used much more widely. Still this plant has many other names. This is allante, yellow color, divosil, elenina grass, doubt, wild, wild sunflower. As the medicinal raw materials are used the roots of elecampane, they are harvested in autumn. For this, plants are selected not older than three years, the stem of which is straight and tall. They are excavated, cleaned of soil and cut off the ground part. Then the roots are washed, cut into small pieces and dried for several days in the air.

Contain the roots of elecampane substances such as polysaccharides, inulin and inulin, a few alkaloids, essential oil, saponins and vitamin E. These roots have a spicy, burning and bitter taste and a peculiar smell. Devyasil improves digestion, stimulates appetite, normalizes the secretory function of the intestine and stomach and improves metabolism. It is also a good anthelmintic, diaphoretic, diuretic and astringent. Also, elecampane has antiseptic, expectorant, soothing and anti-inflammatory properties.

Traditional medicine has long used the root of elecampane with a delay in menstruation, as well as in painful and irregular menstruation. He was also always considered an effective remedy for exudative diathesis, not specific arthritis and gout. Devyasil is used for epilepsy, headaches and palpitations. It can be used as a hemostatic. And for outdoor use of decadal produce decoctions and infusions, which contribute to the treatment of eczema, hard-healing wounds, neurodermatitis, hemorrhoids and inflammation of the gums.

Infusion of elecampane is prepared as follows: a teaspoon of dried and crushed roots is poured a glass of boiling water. Then the mixture is infused for eight hours and filtered. This infusion can be taken four times a day for a quarter of a glass, as a gastric and expectorant, an hour before meals. With bronchitis, influenza and other similar diseases will help decoction of the root elecampane. To make it, you need to fill a spoonful of crushed root with a glass of boiling water. Then this mixture should be heated for half an hour in a boiling water bath, stirring constantly. Then the broth should be cooled and filtered. It is taken an hour before meals 2-3 times a day in doses of half a cup.

A tincture is also prepared from the elecampane. For this, the dry roots of the plant are insisted in vodka for 10-12 days. And if the crushed roots of elecampane pour half a liter of port and 10 minutes to cook, you get an elixir. It will be a wonderful firming and toning remedy with a general decline of strength. It takes such an elixir before eating 2-3 per day in portions of 50 milliliters. If you heartburn heartburn, you can take in small doses powder of elecampane. These are the same crushed roots and rhizomes of this plant. Still from these roots prepare ointment and a decoction for baths, which help with skin diseases.