Table of contents hide 1 ACTIVE PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS 2 3 Principles that soothe 4 Principles that clean 5 Principles that activate 6 TREATMENT FOR COMMON DOLENCES 7 Digestive Disorders 8 Constipations 9 Digestion 10 Flatulence 11 Hemorrhoids 12 Symptoms of Poisoning 13 Liver and Kidney Treatments 14 Liver Calculations 15 Kidney Stones 16 Cirrhosis 17 Hepatitis 18 Liver Cleansing 19 Pulmonary and Respiratory Disorders 20 Aphonia 21 Tonsillitis 22 Asthma 23 Bronchitis 24 Sinusitis 25 Cough 26 Circulatory System Disorders 27 28 Hematomas and Bruises 29 Chilblains 30 Infectious or Viral Conditions 31 32 Accesses 33 Nasal Congestion 34 35 Cold

For centuries, plants were the main resource for safeguarding family health: In many parts of the world this is still the pattern of sanitary functioning, but for most Western civilizations the widespread use of medicinal herbs in the home is a thing of the past, or at least it has been until recently.

In the last decade there has been a significant resurgence of interest in the preparation and use of herbal remedies and its popularity is increasing, as evidenced by the large number of herbal products, nonprescription, which Currently it can be found in major pharmacies and chain stores.

From the Virtual City of the Great White Brotherhood we hope that confidence in medicinal plants and the power of nature will be restored. In this compendium of medicinal plants and their secrets an invitation is made to know and use medicinal plants, with prudence and responsibility as a tool in the search for physical and spiritual health.

ACTIVE PRINCIPLES OF MEDICINAL PLANTS

Principles that calm

Plants that relieve the most common symptoms of most diseases, such as pain and inflammation. They can be grouped as follows

1. Analgesic and antipasmodic principles: Relieve, soothe or relieve pain. The most potent known analgesics are opioids and alkaloids. Its indiscriminate use is not recommended since they can be very toxic and cause addiction. They must be used under medical prescription. Most of the pain that is experienced daily can be controlled with less dangerous plants, which contain salicylic acid or essential oils; active ingredients that are effective as analgesics and antipasmodics: Poppy, drunk, coca, chamomile, marjoram, willow, etc.
2. Tranquilizing Principles: They help fight nervous problems such as irritation, insomnia, or nervous excitement. Citron, curuba, apple, melissa, orange, valerian.
3. Anti-inflammatory Principles: The most important natural active ingredients for their anti-inflammatory effect are essential oils, resins, saponins, mucilages, carotenes and flavonoids. Some resins have great effect when applied externally, but if ingested they can be toxic. It is recommended to use them only in the form of hot cloths, poultices or compresses. Especially for bumps, neuralgia, dislocations and muscle spasms. Carare, chuchuhuasa, nettle and sarsaparilla contain very potent anti-inflammatory principles that can be used for arthritis, and other more serious diseases. Emollient substances are the best natural anti-inflammatories for inflammations caused by peptic ulcers. For hepatitis, kidney problems and digestive irritations: Celery, marigold, barley, flaxseed, mallow, papaya, solder, tomato, tobacco.
4. Astringent Principles: Decreases or eliminates excess secretions, by the action of active ingredients known as tannins. Coffee, cinnamon, eucalyptus, guava, apple.
5. Antiemetic Principles: They help calm vomiting or decrease in case of digestive irritations. The antiemetic plants act thanks to the substances contained in their essential oils. Cinnamon, fennel, chamomile, marjoram, melissa, yerbabuena.
6. Antiusigenic Principles: Cough is a defense mechanism of the organism to help expel secretions and toxins from the respiratory system; however, in excessive irritations it becomes chronic and painful, which makes it necessary to ingest plants or substances that inhibit it. Anise, borage, cherry, pennyroyal, elderberry, valerian, violet.

Principles that clean

Many plants clean thanks to their active ingredients flavones and flavonoids, saponins, carotenes, essential oils or sulfur principles.

1. Antiseptic and antibiotic principles: The action of the plant consists in attacking the microbe directly until it is eliminated or weakened until the organism can destroy it. Antiseptic or antibiotic plants can be used in different preparations or applications directly at the site of infection. Garlic, marigold, onion, eucalyptus, gualanday.
2. Depurative Principles: Clean the body of different kinds of toxins and stimulate the defensive or immune system. These plants contain various substances that penetrate all tissues and ionically drag toxins to some outlet such as bile, urine or sweat. The depurative action helps control cholesterol, triglycerides, single acid or glycemia. Fique, walnut, nettle, rosemary, sage, sarsaparilla.
3. Purgative Principles: Substances that serve primarily to clean the digestive system and the body in general. Olive oil, castor, elderberry, senna, verbena.
4. Antiparasitic Principles: Substances that act directly on intestinal parasites, causing their death or expulsion. The antiparasitic plants are divided into two groups: those that attack large parasites or worms ( paica and higuerón milk) and those that eliminate small parasites such as amoebas and guards (pineapple, garlic, peppermint and rue).
5. Expectorant Principles: Substances contained in the essential oils of some plants; It helps the expectoration of mucus produced by the respiratory system. Brew, onion, cherry, mango, blackberry, pineapple and aloe.
6. Sudorific and Febrifugal Principles: They fight fever and are widely used in cases of influenza and infections. Borage, quina, willow, elderberry, linden, verbena, violet.
7. Diuretic principles: These are plants that increase the amount of urine produced by the kidneys. For people with kidney problems, high blood pressure or congestion of the heart. Celery, corn hair, horsetail, cube, dandelion.
8. Emenagogue Principles: Means cleaning of the uterus or womb. They are plants that are used especially during menstruation or in case of delays in the period or after delivery. Cotton, wormwood, altamisa, parsley, rue, windy.
9. Principles that cleanse the liver: A large number of current plants on the liver and bile ducts. They can increase the amount of bile, improve its quality, facilitate its release or clean the liver cells. When bile is produced in good quantity and quality, it promotes digestion and acts as mild laxatives. Wormwood, boldo, botoncillo, plantain, manrubio, rubiardo.

Principles that activate

Substances that stimulate, tone or activate certain functions of the body.

1. Stimulating Principles: They contribute to take away sleep, activate circulation, reduce hunger and promote physical activity. They are alkaloids derived from xanthines. Its excess causes damage to health. Coffee, chocolate, guarana, guayusa, kola, mate.
2. Tonic Principles: The tonics act on the nervous system, stimulating the functions of all organs; function due to substances such as alcohols, flaconas and terpenes. Matricaria, nettle, rosemary, sage, verbena.
3. Defensive activating principles: Some medicinal plants contain flavones, flavonoids, organic acids such as ascorbic or vitamin C and carotenes, substances that in addition to acting as cleansers, stimulate the defensive system. Calendula, lemon, orange, nettle, sarsaparilla.
4. Circulatory Tonic Principles: Act directly on the circulatory system activating its functioning. Garlic, lemon, mastranto, nettle, rue, sage.
5. Cardiac tonic principles: From the plant known as digital and from the broom flowers substances with cardiotonic principles are obtained
6. Hormonal Principles: Diseases such as diabetes, lack of insulin and hyperthyroidism in which there is thyroxine deficiency have been controlled with the use of hormones prepared in laboratories. Strict and permanent medical control should be preferred.

TREATMENT FOR COMMON DOLENCES

Digestive Disorders

Constipation

Commercialized laxatives usually contain strong purgatives but this mild infusion can be very effective. 10 grams of dandelion root, 10 grams of romanza root, 5 grams of dried licorice root and 2 grams of chopped fresh ginger root are taken; a decoction or infusion is prepared and a cup is taken before meals. Castor oil is also recommended and take seeds of zaragatone capsules to lubricate the intestine. A tablespoon of Zaragatona seeds are left soaking in a bowl of boiling water for 10 to 15 minutes, stir and drink in the morning on an empty stomach. If the capsules are taken, drink 500 milliliters of water with each intake to prevent excessive absorption of digestive fluids.

Digestion

To improve digestion it is recommended to drink lemon peel infusion. Eat salads with onion; Plums, tamarind, papaya, whole grains, beets, pitahaya.

Flatulence

It is recommended to consume infusions of cinnamon, dill, marjoram, thyme, melissa, peppermint, anise, fennel, lemon, chamomile. Avoid the consumption of dried legumes, fermented cheeses, stews, cauliflower, starches and pork.

Hemorrhoids

In the Middle Ages it was found that minor celandine is a good remedy for hemorrhoids, currently this astringent herb is a component of many of the remedies marketed against this disease. It is advisable to prepare an ointment with dried roots and leaves of lesser celandine and apply it on the affected areas after each bowel movement and before bedtime. Take sitz baths with bran or starch this soothes the burning and itching. For bleeding hemorrhoids, sitz baths are taken with a warm decoction of oak bark 100 grams per liter of water.

Symptoms of Poisoning

When stomach disorders occur with vomiting and diarrhea it is recommended to take a cup of infusion of ulmaria, dried Asian sparkle and a pinch of powdered ginger every two or three hours during the acute phase. It is recommended NOT to eat raw vegetables, carbohydrates, fermented cheeses or fats. Consume thick soups or a beverage prepared with any food that contains starch, boil a cup of rice in 3 cups of water in an uncovered bowl over high heat for 15 minutes, strain, let it cool and give it to the patient.

Liver and Kidney Treatments

Hepatic Calculations

Take parsley decoction, dandelion infusion. Consume boldo, artichoke, olive oil and apply local heat. Do not eat chocolate, eggs, sausages, fats, preserves, sprouts and alcohols.

Kidney Calculations

Drink infusion of verbena.

Cirrhosis

Dandelion has great liver properties. It is frequently used to fight liver infections.

Hepatitis

Drink tea of ​​dandelion in decoction, avoid eating egg.

Liver Cleaning

Prepare a cooking of wormwood, dandelion, altamisa, plantain, matricaria, botoncillo, verbena.Take this cooking that lasts two or three weeks together with a healthy diet. Ingest the juice of a bitter plant once a week preferably one hour before breakfast

Pulmonary and Respiratory Disorders

Aphonia

If aphonia is caused by laryngitis, a good remedy is lemon juice with hot water, the proportions of one lemon per cup of water. Honey is another healing product of aphonia, it can be taken dissolved in water or in the breakfast drink in half a liter of water. Boil 200 grams of carrot for 15 minutes, cut and squeeze, mix the juice with honey and drink not very hot. Infusion of chamomile.

Tonsillitis

Perform gargles with basil tea and with verbena decoction. Perform eucalyptus gargles, also make gargles 3 times a day with pomegranate infusion.

Asthma

The albarrana onion has an important action in the pulmonary processes. Consume garlic, Eucalyptus frailejon, Pomegranate, oregano, radish, sarsaparilla, whole grains, seeds and sprouted grains, green vegetables, carrots, raw nuts, onion stock, do not consume processed foods, refined foods, cheeses, drinks stimulants, alcoholic beverages, eggs and chocolate.

Bronchitis

In case of acute or chronic bronchitis, 75 grams of lettuce leaves are boiled for 30 minutes in a liter of water, three glasses are taken daily between meals. Make a few touches every night, without rubbing, with turpentine essence on the chest and on the shoulder blades. In case of fever, drink thyme, tusilago, Violeta, sac, pine or fir buds. Raw carrot juice consumed on an empty stomach in an excellent expectorant.

Sinusitis

Drink an infusion of leaves of minor plantain and marshmallows three times a day. Make steams of lavender and thyme; 4 milliliters of lavender oil, 3 milliliters of thyme oil, 3 milliliters of maluca oil and 20 drops of peppermint oil, the oils are mixed in a sterilized dark glass bottle, provided with a drop count and shaken well; pour 10 drops of the mixture into a basin with boiling water.

He bows his head over the basin, cover himself with a towel and inhale the vapors for 10 minutes, repeat twice a day, after making the vapors remain in a warm room waiting for the mucous membranes recover their normal temperature.

Cough

Garlic with boiled milk helps to cure rebel cough and bronchitis. Prepare an onion syrup: you throw a kilo of clean onions, half a cup of honey and a pound of sugar in 2 liters of water, let it cook for 3 hours then let it cool and store it in a glass bottle preferably dark. You take three tablespoons a day the sugar can be replaced by honey, this syrup is one of the best remedies against the discomfort caused by cold, cold, cough and pain throat.

Circulatory System Disorders

Bruises and bruises

If there is swelling, Arnica tincture cold water compresses are applied, a tablespoon is placed per half a cup of water cabbage leaves, flaxseed leaf or slices of raw potato.

Chilblains

They affect people who suffer from some disease of the blood vessels. Eat foods rich in vitamin AP and D.

Infectious or Viral Conditions

Access

Apply poultices of fresh garlic juice, renewing it when it dries, you can also apply poultice prepared with breadcrumbs with leek juice. Rub cabbage leaves, elder leaves tinctured with salt and vinegar. Apply clay poultice with hot milk. When access has burst, apply chamomile and eucalyptus infusion

Nasal congestion

Make a massage with elderflower cream on the sinuses in the morning and at night. reduce congestion by applying nasal serum with a little salt and you can add infusion of thyme elderflower plantain is applied several times a day and cold birch function prepare an infusion with 20 grams of chopped fresh ginger root and 5 grams of Ginger cinnamon powder already in Add the cinnamon in half of the cooking drink a cup of infusion every three to four hours

Cold

You can take a teaspoon of honey with the juice of half a lemon or mix them with a hot infusion. The hot liquid will relieve symptoms such as a sore throat. If that cold has completely covered your nose producing an annoying sensation, place water and some eucalyptus plants in a pot, wait for it to boil and release its aroma. Turn off the heat and carefully approach the pot and breathe its vapors, to make this home remedy more effective you can surround your face with a towel, so the steam will be more concentrated.

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Source: The healing secrets of plants.

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