Goldenrod has many names: golden rod, golden feather, live grass and others. This herb is common in the former Soviet republics, in Central Asia and in many European countries.
Goldenrod: the chemical composition of a medicinal plant
The chemical composition of the goldenrod is still poorly understood. Those substances that are found in the plant goldenrod, of course, give it healing properties. It was found that alkaloids, flavonoids (rutin, quercetin, etc.), glycosides, saponins, and terpenoids are present in its composition. Also identified tanning and bitter substances, coumarins, essential oil. In the composition, phenolcarboxylic acid derivatives — coffee, chlorogenic, hydroxycinnamic — have been found.
Useful properties of goldenrod for humans
Due to its medicinal properties, goldenrod is used as a diuretic (urolithiasis, kidney and bladder diseases), anti-inflammatory and antibacterial. Goldenrod is able to regulate the exchange of salts and reduce the amount of salts in the body. The flavonoids present in the composition of the plant, support normal capillaries.
Preparations based on goldenrod show beneficial properties in the treatment of urate and oxalate stones. Undoubted benefit for men has a plant for prostatitis and urethritis. As part of some herbal preparations significantly improves the condition of prostate adenoma and impotence. In gynecology, the plant helps alleviate the condition of cystitis, candidiasis.
Important! You can not use the grass "golden rod" in the treatment of stones without the advice of a doctor, except for the benefits you can cause and harm - a drug based on goldenrod is contraindicated in phosphate stones, because it increases the pH of urine.
Therapeutic anti-inflammatory properties of the plant are useful for suppurating inflammation of the skin, for fractures and edemas, the properties of the herb help to heal and clean wounds. In Germany, the goldenrod is officially used as an antioxidant and vessel strengthening agent.
How to apply the goldenrod
Traditional medicine finds goldenrod application for stomach disorders, gallstone disease, improper metabolism of uric acid. It greatly facilitates the condition of patients with nephritis and pyelonephritis. The goldenrod helps to relieve painful symptoms of rheumatism and gout. Fresh grass is used to treat ulcers and boils on the skin, reducing swelling. Our ancestors treated grass with jaundice, scrofula and cutaneous tuberculosis. When rinsing the throat, you can recover from stomatitis, sore throats and gingivitis, reduce inflammation and bleeding of the gums, as well as eliminate the unpleasant smell from the mouth.
Did you know? Goldenrod is a rather aggressive plant, occupying any area, it forces out other cultures. In addition, it quickly spreads by self-sowing, occupying more and more territories and changing the plant world. Apparently, therefore, ecologists of the Biodiversity Fund are sounding the alarm.
Goldenrod broth
The herb of goldenrod, its decoction when used for the treatment of nephritis, urate and oxalate salts in the kidneys has some contraindications: it is not recommended to drink the decoction for puffiness caused by heart and kidney failure. To prepare the broth, pour boiling water (200 ml) with one tablespoon of dry grass, hold for ten minutes in a water bath. Then leave for three hours to infuse and cool. When salts in the kidneys, jade and stone diseases drink 50 ml once a day. For external use, the decoction is made more concentrated. It is used to treat skin inflammations, psoriasis, cutaneous tuberculosis and eczema.
Goldenrod tea
To make tea, 5 g of herbs, pour 200 ml of water, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Cover for 2 minutes. Such tea can be drunk up to three glasses a day, but the goldenrod has, besides testimony, contraindications. A healthy body tea in such quantities does not harm. If there are inflammatory processes or problems with cardiac activity, tea should be consumed moderately.
Tea from the herbs of goldenrod, thanks to the routine in the composition of the plant, becomes a rich source of antioxidants. The drink helps to strengthen the capillaries, cleanses the body of free radicals, reduces the level of acidity. Tea is pleasant to the taste and has a light aroma of essential oil.
Use of goldenrod honey
Goldenrod love bees. Honey of this plant has high antibacterial qualities. The use of the product is useful for strengthening the immune system, a beneficial effect on metabolic processes in the body. Outwardly, in the form of compresses, honey is used to treat skin diseases, edema. Internally, it is a good and effective remedy for sore throat, sinusitis, chronic rhinitis, rhinitis and meningitis. Goldenrod with its beneficial properties has a positive trend in the treatment of the gastrointestinal tract, but honey is contraindicated in the presence of acute inflammatory processes in the stomach and intestines. Caution should be used honey allergy sufferers.
Interesting! The famous Polish magazine "Beekeeping" in the summer article of 2016 published interesting indicators: the sugar production per hectare of goldenrod was 251 kg, pollen - 48 kg.
Healing properties of goldenrod infusion
Cold brew from the herb of goldenrod is used in the treatment of the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, prostatitis, adenoma, rheumatism and gout. To prepare take two tablespoons of inflorescences, pour 200 ml of boiled water at room temperature and leave to brew for four hours. The dose of infusion is determined individually. It is possible to consume the goldenrod for no more than a month, then without a two-week break, reception is contraindicated. This infusion can be used to treat the gastrointestinal tract, kidney, gout, prostatitis, adenoma, rheumatism. Hot infusion is used to treat throat diseases and dental problems. One tablespoon of herbs pour boiling water (250 ml), leave for two hours. Externally, the infusion can be used for compresses and lotions from skin diseases and for better bone fusion in fractures.
Preparation of goldenrod tincture
Alcohol tinctures are effectively used in the treatment of kidney, urinary and gallbladder problems. Tincture also helps with circulatory disorders, vitamin deficiency. You can relieve the condition of diarrhea. Significantly improves health with arthritis and fractures, with skin problems. For tincture take 80 g of dry grass, pour vodka - 500 ml, left in a dark and dry room for three weeks. Accepted, diluted with water, 15 mg. The course of treatment for a month. For metabolic disorders and liver function, honey is added to the tincture: a teaspoon of honey, 5 mg tincture per 120 ml of warm boiled water.
Attention! It must be remembered that the goldenrod with honey, besides its therapeutic properties, has contraindications - acute inflammatory processes in the gastrointestinal tract, especially since the action of the tincture is due to alcohol.
Contraindications to the use of goldenrod
The golden rod and plant-based preparations, despite unconditional medicinal properties, have some contraindications. The goldenrod is strictly contraindicated in pregnant women and nursing mothers. Can not be used for people with glomerulonephritis. Precautions should be used drugs from the goldenrod, as well as honey for diabetics, people insulin-dependent. Do not use without prior testing for people with allergies, especially to ambrosia.
In the case of exacerbation of kidney disease, you must first remove the acute condition, and then apply the goldenrod herb, otherwise the healing properties will be harmful to the body. It is not recommended to abuse the drug with high blood pressure. Herbal therapy sometimes brings more results than medication. The only thing you should know is that any drug, its dosage and its effect are always uniquely individual for each individual organism; what helps one can hurt another. The advice of the attending physician will never be redundant.
