Useful and medicinal properties of daisies

Small perennial plant. The leaves are collected in a rooted rosette, spade-shaped or obovate, obtuse, in the anterior part with separate denticles. The colored basket is white, in the middle of the yellow color, located on the tip of a thin, grassy, ​​up to 15 cm tall, leafless pedicel;Leaves, wrapper baskets, lanceolate, arranged in two rows;peripheral flowers white, reed, pistil, middle yellow, tubular, bisexual;the bottom of the basket is convex, the fruit is obovate, without flying. Blossoms in April-June.

Distributed among shrubs and in grassy places. Daisies grown in culture have larger baskets, often colored in many colors.

For medicinal purposes, baskets with leaves are used during flowering.

Raw materials contain organic acids, bitter substance, essential oil, saponin, inulin, etc.

In folk medicine, the daisy is used inside as an expectorant for bronchitis, liver diseases, jaundice, gout, rheumatism, externally in the form of poultices and compresses from decoctionbruises with bruises, furunculosis, hemorrhoids, inflammation of mammary glands in lactating women( washing with decoction or compresses from crumpled leaves).

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Inside the grass, daisies are used in the form of infusion: 3 teaspoons of crushed raw material is insisted in 1/2 cup water for 8 hours( dose for 1 day);externally - in the form of infusion, prepared from 6 parts spoons of raw materials.

With pulmonary tuberculosis, powder from daisies is mixed in equal doses with 2 eggs cut to a dusty state and drank in a morning and evening with milk one wine glass of the mixture. Daisies have a tendency to slightly weaken, so when tubercular patients develop a liquid stool, the treatment with daisies is stopped.

In children's practice, people with tuberculosis of the spine or bones on a sore spot impose rags with ointment from the comfrey with daisies and melissa leaves. The ointment is made as follows: 200 g of melted very hot pork unsalted fat are poured with 20 g of powder from daisies, 30 g of crushed comfrey root and 20 g of powder from leaves and bald spots of lemon balm. The mixture is soared in the oven for 24 hours, watching that it does not boil, filter into a jar and tie it with paper.

Daisies in a dose of 10 to 15 g are added to the mixture, which treat diseases of the kidneys, pelvis and bladder.

People collect only wild daisies, while digging out the whole plant during flowering.