Meadowsweet herb medicinal

Meadowsweet is a perennial herb, has many different names - steppe meadowsweet, bater, peanut, ivan's color, bone, porridge, etc. Reaches one hundred and seventy centimeters in height, has a pleasant honey-scented aroma, regular leaves, white double small flowers, collected in paniculate inflorescences that appear in early summer and finish blooming in August.

Meadowsweet is a herb with medicinal properties that are used in alternative, folk medicine and herbal medicine. Flowers, grass, plant roots collected during flowering are used as medicinal raw materials. The leaves of the plant contain a large amount of carotene, anthocyanin, vitamin C, flavone and tannins, in small amounts - coumarins, alkaloids and essential oils.

Meadowsweet has antibacterial, hemostatic, astringent, anti-inflammatory and diaphoretic effects. Thanks to this, the plant is used against many diseases and health problems.

- Twenty percent alcohol tincture of the herb helps to speed up the healing of ulcers, burns and wounds. With poor intestinal motility and tachycardia, it is recommended to use a tincture of meadowsweet flowers.

- Traditional medicine uses meadowsweet for such diseases and malfunctions in the body as gout, edema, hernia, hemorrhoids, insomnia, diarrhea, suffocation, inflammation of the respiratory system, headaches.

- With malignant tumors, nervous diseases, hypertension, it is recommended to make yourself a decoction of the plant roots.

- If you suffer from rheumatism, it is better to make ointments for joints from butter and crushed rhizomes of the plant into powder.

- A decoction of meadowsweet flowers is used as an astringent and diaphoretic for discomfort and pain in the stomach, chest, intestines, bleeding and diarrhea, heart disease, headaches, hysterical cramps. The broth is also used as an anthelmintic, diuretic and cold remedy.

- Also from flowers and tops make tea against fatigue.

The meadowsweet grows along the shores of lakes and rivers, in river floodplains and in swamps.