Snakehead - medicinal properties and contraindications

The snakehead, or as it is also called "Dragocephalum", is a honey plant and has a pleasant citrus-mint aroma. This herb is grown in many countries, due to its unpretentiousness in care. It is able to withstand low and high temperatures, requires good lighting and sufficient humidity (watering).

However, the most important thing in the snakehead is that it is a storehouse of various vitamins and is actively used both in medicine and in cosmetology. From it you can make delicious tea, a useful tincture, a healing compress or just add to the food to give it a gentle, piquant taste and aroma.

The benefits of a medicinal plant

Dragocephalum, due to its high content of essential oil and nutrients, is an effective “doctor” of many diseases. This plant is very popular both in folk medicine and in traditional. In folk medicine, flowers, fruits, stems, leaves and root of the plant are used. Traditional medicine does not add a snakehead to therapeutic regimens or drugs, but it is often used in the production of vitamin A.

The snakehead has an extensive list of useful properties for both men and women:

1. Wound healing property. The plant promotes the healing of wounds, abrasions, cuts, bites and helps in the fight against various types of skin rashes.
2. Antispasmodic property. An excellent assistant for pain and various disorders during menopause or premenstrual syndrome.
3. Anticonvulsant property. Helps with muscle fatigue and epilepsy by relaxing muscles and relieving tension and cramps.
4. Soothing property. The plant is used and effectively helps with insomnia, depression, neurological disorders and overexcitation.
5. Anti-inflammatory property. It treats inflammation of various parts of the body and helps fight diseases such as sinusitis, stomatitis, bronchitis and meningitis.
6. Restorative property. The snakehead improves and restores the gastrointestinal tract, improves appetite.

Also, the medicinal plant copes with:

1. Cleansing the body of harmful substances and excess fluid.
2. Elimination and prevention of cramping in various diseases of the kidneys, bladder, cholecystitis and digestive disorders.
3. Strengthening immunity and replenishing calcium in the human body.
4. Reducing heart rate with tachycardia.
5. Normalization of the human digestive system.

Useful and effective healing properties of dragocephalum helps to cure or prevent the appearance of many diseases of the female and male body. However, before using this medicinal plant, you should consult a specialist, he will not only examine your body for contraindications, but also calculate the correct dose and duration of use of the snakehead.

In what form should I take?

The snakehead is a unique plant, all parts of which can be consumed by preparing various medicines from them. Depending on the type in which the medicinal plant is used, its various beneficial properties are manifested. After all, each part of the snakehead contains various useful substances and is used for various diseases and ailments of the human body.

The most popular uses of a medicinal plant are:

1. Tea. Tea made from a snakehead has a pleasant smell, taste and helps fight and prevent the occurrence of acute respiratory or viral diseases. To prepare medicinal tea, use a mixture of various parts of the snakehead, pour it with boiling water, mix thoroughly and insist a little. For a change of taste and smell, honey is also added to the drink. Such tea helps with gastritis, hypertension and cystitis. However, due to its calming effect, it can also be used for various manifestations of depression.
2. Tincture. Using tincture from the snakehead, you can cure or prevent various diseases and disorders of the gastrointestinal tract. Often, alcohol or vodka is used to make tinctures, mixing them with the root and dried leaves of a medicinal plant. They use tincture by adding a certain amount of drops to water, and they drink such a natural medicine several times a day. Tincture is an effective assistant in the fight against high blood pressure and diarrhea.
3. Essential oil. The snakehead contains not only beneficial substances, vitamins and flavonoids. It also includes an essential oil with a pleasant lemon-mint smell. Aromatherapy from essential oil of the snakehead helps to normalize the nervous system, overcome depression and just relax after hard and stressful days. By taking a bath with the essential oil of a medicinal plant, you activate the fight of the snakehead with a fungus and tubercle bacillus.
4. Honey. The snakehead is a honey plant thanks to which bees collect a large amount of honey. Dragocephalum honey is famous for its huge amount of useful substances, delicate sweet taste and pleasant citrus aroma. He is also an excellent assistant in the treatment of various diseases. Honey snakehead has a positive effect on both the adult and the children's body.

Contraindications to the use of the snakehead

Despite the fact that the snakehead is a storehouse of a large amount of essential oil, tannins and vitamins, there are some contraindications to its use:

1. Individual intolerance to the components of a medicinal plant, that is, the occurrence of allergic reactions (rash, indigestion, cough and others) after eating a snakehead.
2. It is not recommended to eat any part of the snakehead during pregnancy and breastfeeding. However, external use of this medicinal plant is possible (gargling and rubbing the skin).
3. It is forbidden to use the snakehead internally for children, but external use can be used to combat various diseases of the child’s body.
4. It is not recommended to eat food and drinks with the addition of a snakehead for diseases and disorders of the gastrointestinal tract.

If you do not have contraindications for the use of a medicinal plant, you can with peace of mind enjoy delicious honey, tincture or tea from the snakehead.

Recipes

Pleasant taste, aroma, a high content of nutrients - all this has been known for the snakehead since ancient times. Nowadays, a large number of recipes have been invented, where the main or additional component is this herb.

Top 3 most common snakehead recipes:

1. Inhalations from a medicinal herb. 30 grams of dried grass of the snakehead must be poured into a large container and pour a liter of hot water. You need to breathe the generated steam, covering your head with a large towel. After the procedure, bed rest is recommended.This type of inhalation using a snakehead helps to cure various diseases of the upper respiratory tract: cough, sore throat, runny nose and bronchitis.
2. Snakehead tincture. A tablespoon of dried leaves of the medicinal plant should be poured into a mug or any other container. Then you need to pour this mixture with boiling water and strain. The recommended dose is 100 grams in the morning and evening. Tincture will be an excellent assistant in the fight against nervous disorders, stress and insomnia.
3. Massage oil. The dried parts of the plant should be poured into a jar and pour olive oil. Infuse this mixture for 3-4 days in a dark and cool place. After opening the cans, the dried parts of the medicinal plant should be added there again and the procedure repeated 3 times. As a result, after 9-12 days you will get aromatic massage oil from the snakehead, which is ready for use. Such an oil has many useful properties for the human body: from improving the hormonal background, to treating abscesses.

With proper use, the snakehead becomes an indispensable natural medicine for humans. Its unique and useful properties can be put on its feet in certain diseases, as well as prevent possible ailments that appear with age.

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