The Latin name for the sandy immortelle (cmin) is Helichrysum arenarium, derived from the three words "helio" - the sun, "chrysum" - gold, "arenarium" - sand. How beautiful it sounds - the sun is golden sandy. And it can be otherwise: sunny sandy gold. Take a closer look at the immortelle flower - this is a small golden sun growing on sandy soil. Immortals are so useful! Flowers are turned into a powder, from which they make a medicine - flaming. Indeed, immortelle is gold for people with liver problems. There are other names for the immortelle among the people: simple and exact - dried flowers, and affectionate - cat's legs.
The immortelle plant (Tsmin) is sandy - perennial whitish-felt grassy, it has oblong-lanceolate leaflets, and small flowers of lemon yellow are sometimes collected in light orange baskets. Immortelle is growing almost throughout Russia, choosing for itself young pine forests and sandy soil.
For treatment, flowers are used, which are collected from the beginning of June until the end of July, while the flower baskets are not full. Sandy immortelle contains saponins, flavonoid glycosides, aglycones, sugars, essential oil, coloring and tannins, vitamins C and K, carotene, resins and fatty acids, microcomponents in the form of salts of potassium, sodium, calcium, manganese, and iron.
Sandy immortelle is a choleretic and diuretic, expectorant and diaphoretic, hemostatic and blood-purifying, antimicrobial, antiseptic, analgesic, and anthelmintic. It has the ability to increase pressure, enhance the secretion of the pancreas and stomach.
The immortelle sand is used in phyto collections for diseases of the gallbladder, inflammation of the bile ducts and liver diseases (jaundice, cholangitis and cholecystitis, gallstone disease, hepatitis). Use immortelle with dropsy and some skin diseases (bathe in a decoction of flowers with pustules, lichen, diathesis). Immortelle is included in the collection of medicinal herbs for the treatment of papillomatosis in the bladder, anacid gastritis.
It was established that after 3-4 days from the start of treatment with immortelle concoction, vomiting and nausea cease, the feeling of heaviness in the sublactic region, pain in the liver decreases, the color of the skin and eye proteins normalizes.
Contraindications: do not take immortelle preparations for those who have high blood pressure, gastritis with high acidity. When using immortelle for treatment, the indicated dosage should be strictly observed, since immortelle sand, although low-toxic, but its toxins accumulate in the body. The maximum duration of treatment for immortelle is 10 days.
Decoction with cholangitis and cholecystitis: equal amounts of immortelle flowers, St. John's wort grass, corn stigmas mix. Pour 1 tbsp. l mix with a glass of boiling water, keep for 30 minutes in a water bath. Cool to room temperature, drain. Add the resulting volume of broth to 1 stanak. Divide the broth into 3 parts and drink one meal before meals.
Decoction for gallstone disease: you need to take 4 parts of immortelle flowers and 3 parts of rhubarb root for 7 parts of yarrow (grass with flowers) - grind the components and mix. In a glass of boiling water, brew a mixture of 1 tbsp. l., insist, drink in 1 dose in the evening.
