Useful and curative properties of buds
( catfish, sorocaustic)
Perennial herbaceous plant of the family labialose with creeping stems, reaches a length of 15-60 cm, with rising flower-bearing branches. The lower leaves are kidney-round or cordate, on long and thin petioles, grow in pairs. Flowers two or three in axillary rings, blue or light violet, rarely reddish or white, mostly 6 in the whorl. Blooms in May-June. The smell of the plant resembles the smell of mint, albeit with an unpleasant shade.
Distributed everywhere. It grows in fields, in orchards, between shrubs, in lowlands, along shady banks of rivers, lakes and marshes, it is often found near housing.
Collect the plant during flowering. Dry in the shade in the air. The above-ground part is used. The taste of the dried plant is bitter, astringent, with a mint flavor.
Budra is used for diseases of the respiratory organs - lung inflammation, bronchitis, etc. - as an appetite remedy, as well as in the treatment of kidney diseases, liver and gallbladder diseases in the form of broth: 1-5 g finely chopped herb for 250 ml of boiling water -dose.
In folk medicine - with pains in the stomach and intestines, as a strengthening and regulating activity of the gastrointestinal tract, with catarrh of the stomach and intestines, with gout, malaria, as an emollient for respiratory diseases, as a diuresis and pain reliever for kidney failurestony disease, kidney disease, bladder as a means of separating sand, liver tumors, pain after childbirth, with chronic bronchitis and bronchial asthma as an expectorant and anodynein. Budra is also used in goiter and hearing loss.
This plant is often used with other herbs that have a similar effect.
Outwardly, the thymus thighs are used for abscesses, ulcers, tumors, bone fractures, for healing of
wounds and for the treatment of various skin diseases, in the form of baths, etc. Fresh buds, well-crushed( until they turn into a dough-like mass), are applied todiseased skin. To do this, you can apply and dry leaves( in winter), but in such cases they need to be strewed to soften;apply for fractures of bones as promoting the regeneration of bone tissue, etc.
When scabies helps infusion of leaves on vinegar: they rub twice a day affected areas.
When lacrimation do lotions from the broth, which insist a long time.
People prefer fresh juice from this plant as a more active remedy than a decoction or tincture, with liver cancer.
Application
Decoction: 1 teaspoon per cup of boiling water;take at 2 3 tbsp.spoon 4 times a day.
Infusion: 100 g per 200 ml;to insist for 8 hours;use 2-3 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day.
Tincture 15%: take 15 drops 3 times a day.
Powder: one pinch 3-4 times a day.
Mixture 1: bud budded with ivy leaves - 2 tbsp.spoons, poplar buds - 2 tbsp.spoons, black elderberry - leaves or flowers - 1 tbsp.a spoon. Mix everything, brew in three glasses of boiling water and drink for five meals during the day. Use for pneumonia.
Mixture 2: bud budded with ivy leaves - 1 tbsp.spoon, root or hoof leaves - 1 tbsp.spoon, herbs of cocklebur - 1 tbsp.a spoon for three cups of boiling water;drink, like the mixture of the first composition. Tea from the bud is useful in inflammation of the respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tract.