Lilac - a shrub from the Olive family, reaching a height of 2 to 7 meters, with many stems on the branches and a strong root system. From time immemorial, it has been considered by the people as a medicinal plant. Any part of the shrub contains bitter syringin. The flowers are rich in essential oils, coumarins, farnesol, flavonoids, resin, ascorbic acid.
Lilac is widespread everywhere. It is rare to find a site without this beautiful shrub. It is cultivated as a fragrant, beautiful plant in gardens, cottages, parks, but often runs wild. Survives well in dusty and polluted air.
Lilac tincture for joints or other medicinal purposes is made from buds, bark, leaves and flowers.
At the beginning of budding, the flower is cut along with the branches, tied into a bundle and dried in a shady place.
Leaves should be collected in early summer in dry weather. You can also dry them in the shade or at a temperature of 40 to 60 degrees in a dryer, spreading them in a thin layer.
The bark should be harvested from young stems and stored in a wooden container or bag for no more than two years.
Benefits of lilacs
Lilac is rich in useful substances. Therefore, in folk medicine, teas, infusions, decoctions, ointments and compresses are made from it. For example, from the kidneys of a plant, a medicine is made that lowers blood sugar levels. Lilac tincture is applicable for joints, for the treatment of malaria, diarrhea and rheumatism. Stomach ulcer, shortness of breath, whooping cough, diabetes mellitus are treated with tinctures from flowers. Lilac treatment is effective for bruises, pain, wounds and neuralgia.
Diseases of the joints. Lilac tincture
Pain in the joints can cause diseases such as gout, arthrosis, arthritis. Injuries, infections, improper metabolism, allergies, vitamin deficiencies or disorders in the nervous system can cause arthritis of various forms. Often, progressive arthritis makes a person disabled. People of any age get sick with it, but arthritis is more common in older women. To combat this disease, such means as taking medications, nutrition correction, physiotherapy, hirudotherapy, mud therapy and surgical operations are used. Of course, lilac tincture for joints can also help.
Recipes
- You can start treatment by cleaning the joints from s alts. And the best option is hot water. The process is long but effective. Start each morning with half a glass of hot water, sipped in small sips.
- Two-month lingonberry course. An infusion of lingonberry leaves removes s alts well. Together with this treatment, you need to drink potassium three times a day, one tablet before meals. Otherwise, lingonberries will bring outbody along with potassium s alts. The infusion is drunk twice a day. Half a glass in the morning and evening before meals.
- Lilac tincture for joints is done as follows: dried white lilac flowers are poured with 40% alcohol (1 to 10), insisted for 10 days in a closed jar. Drink three times a day, 20 drops. Together with this, you can put compresses on the affected areas or rub them. The method is especially effective for arthritis.
- It is good for the joints to use this recipe: mix three large spoons of dried white lilac and the same amount of vaseline or butter. Rub the resulting ointment into the inflamed joints.
- Pour a couple of glasses of spring lilac buds with half a liter of vodka and store in the dark for 10 days. Sore spots are rubbed with this medicine, and lotions are made for bruises.
Treatment is work, we wish you success and patience in this!
