Greater burdock is a weedy plant, widely distributed in temperate latitudes. It has long been used leaves, seeds and burdock root in folk medicine for the treatment of various ailments.
Burdock roots, which contain tannins, resin, essential oil, flavonoids, glycosides, alkaloids, fatty acids, insulin, protein, vitamins A, B, C, P, E, salts of iron, chromium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, are especially healing. , calcium, copper, sulfur, selenium, manganese, cobalt.
It is very important to properly prepare the burdock root. Do this in late autumn and dig out only plants of the first year of life that have not yet bloomed. For medicinal purposes, use the fleshy and juicy roots of burdock of the first year, a two-year burdock root in folk medicine is no longer suitable. After digging, do not wash the roots, shake off the ground, cut off the leaves and allow to dry. The next day, using a brush to remove the remaining soil from the roots, cut them into pieces of 10 cm, cut the thick roots lengthwise into strips. Depending on the weather, dry in the open air or in a dryer with a temperature of about 50 ° C. If the roots are dried correctly, they will break, not bend. Outside, their color is brownish, and inside is light gray. Dried burdock roots can be used for three years.
The range of diseases in which burdock root helps is incredibly wide. People say that this root is a cure for all diseases. Apply burdock root in folk medicine in the form of decoctions, tinctures, extracts, oil, juice, powder, ointments. It is used both externally and internally.
Tinctures are prepared on water, alcohol, oil. There is a hot and cold cooking method. Cold method - fill the crushed raw materials with water at room temperature and insist in a closed container. Hot way - the root is poured with hot liquid and insisted for a while in a thermos. Tinctures are drunk or used externally.
Alcohol tinctures are made with vodka or alcohol, kept in a dark place warm enough (not lower than 20 ° C). The longer the medicine is infused, the more effective it will be. Such tinctures are used both inside and for rubbing, lotions, compresses.
Decoctions of burdock root are prepared in water or in vegetable oil. Raw materials are poured with water and boiled for several minutes, then cooled, filtered, used externally or inward.
Decoction, infusions and juice of burdock root helps with gastritis, hepatitis, cholecystitis, pancreatitis, peptic ulcers of the digestive system, colitis, constipation. Juice heals ulcers, protects the mucosa from irritating factors, and normalizes gastric secretion. With diseases of the liver and gall bladder, they brew and drink burdock tea. For this, the root (two teaspoons with a slide) is poured with a half liter of cold water, insisted for five hours, then put on fire, boiled for one minute. Filter and drink a glass three times a day.
They have long used burdock root for uterine myoma and uterine bleeding. To reduce the size of fibroids, take the crushed root (1 teaspoon), pour boiling water (0.5 liters) and insist in a thermos for 10 hours. Drink four times a day for half a glass for four weeks. After two weeks, repeat the treatment.
Burdock root, as an antipyretic and anti-inflammatory agent, is used for infectious diseases accompanied by fever. With a cold, take juice from burdock root with honey.
Burdock root is 40 percent insulin. The infusion is taken orally for the treatment of diabetes. A tablespoon of crushed root is poured with a glass of boiled water, heated for half an hour in a water bath, stirring. Cool, filter, add to a glass of boiled water. Drink warm half a glass three times a day.
Use burdock root in folk medicine, as a diuretic for urolithiasis and edema.
Lotions from a decoction of burdock treat rheumatism, recurrent arthritis, polyarthritis.
Thanks to alkaloids, burdock root has an antitumor effect and is used in the treatment of cancer.
To treat rheumatism and some skin diseases (eczema), a decoction of burdock root is used. For oral administration, they take a glass of water and a dessert spoon of root, bring to a boil, insist 20 minutes, cool, take 4 tablespoons a day before meals. For external use, a decoction is prepared at the rate of 5 tablespoons of root per bucket of water. The broth is cooled to a warm state, the sheet is lowered into it, it is slightly squeezed out and the patient is wrapped tightly so that a sheet is laid between the legs. On top of the patient is wrapped with a dry sheet and a woolen blanket, left for two hours. Such treatment is used at night once a day.
Use burdock root, the tincture of which is applied externally and inward, for the treatment of eczema, dermatitis, neurodermatitis, skin itching. With furunculosis, the broth is taken orally, as a means of cleansing the blood. To do this, put a tablespoon of crushed raw materials in half a liter of water, boil for 10 minutes, insist for an hour, filter and drink a quarter cup four times a day.
If the burdock root is insisted on vegetable oil, then we get the very burdock oil, which is known to everyone as a reliable anti-dandruff and for strengthening hair roots. Burdock oil heals purulent wounds and burns well.
Burdock root is used for alcohol intoxication, a hangover, bites of poisonous insects and snakes.
Decoctions and tinctures of burdock root are used as a general strengthening and metabolic agent.