Medium Stellate - Medicinal Properties, Benefits, Contraindications

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Medium starfish

Instructions for use:

1. 1. Chemical composition
2. 2. Useful properties
3. 3. Indications for use
4. 4. Contraindications
5. 5. Home remedies

Medium stellate is an annual herb, preparations from which have an immunostimulating, anti-inflammatory, regenerating and wound-healing effect.

Chemical composition

Medium starweed (wood lice, wood lice, bum lice, canary grass, heart grass, hernia) belongs to plants of the genus Star lice of the Clove family.

The medicinal raw material is the aboveground part of the plant. 100 g of herb contains:

• carotene - 23 mg;
• vitamin C - 114 mg;
• vitamin E - 44 mg.

Other useful biologically active substances: vitamin K, trace elements (iron, magnesium, potassium, copper, chlorine, selenium, cobalt, silicon), essential oils, aliphatic alcohols, triterpene saponins, tannins, lipids, organic acids, sinapic acid, alkaloids, wax, flavonoids (vitexin, saponaretin).

Beneficial features

Due to the medium biologically active substances that are part of stellate, the plant has an immunostimulating, anti-inflammatory, regenerating, wound-healing effect, less pronounced - laxative, choleretic and diuretic.

Other beneficial properties:

• hemostatic, hemostatic (due to vitamin K); the plant regulates blood clotting, it can also be used to enhance lactation;
• coronary dilator, hypotensive (due to flavonoids and vitamins C and E); wood lice, increasing blood flow to the heart, has a beneficial effect on it, which allows the plant to be used to relieve angina attacks.

The average starlet is not included in the State Pharmacopoeia of the Russian Federation. It is also not used by mainstream medicine. However, the plant is widely used in folk medicine and homeopathy.

Herbalists are advised to use the juice of the plant, as well as to prepare various decoctions, infusions and oil extracts (as a wound healing, analgesic, hypotensive, antiseptic, expectorant, antihistamine, tonic, antihypoxic and diuretic). Homeopaths use wood lice to prepare a healing essence (as a fortifying, hemostatic, laxative, diuretic and hemostatic agent).

In Belarus, the average stellate is traditionally used to treat hemorrhoids, bleeding, hemoptysis, hypovitaminosis, and vomiting of blood. In Karelia, the ground part of the plant is brewed for skin diseases, heart pathologies, diseases of the lungs, liver, kidneys, and also as a diuretic, laxative and hemostatic agent. The Nanai prepare baths from fresh green woodlice, which relieve swelling of the legs.

The plant can be used not only for therapy, but also for the prevention of diseases such as cystitis, hyperthyroidism, osteochondrosis, atherosclerosis, anemia, cirrhosis, scurvy, eye diseases. In such cases, it is possible to use not only decoctions, tinctures and infusions, but also woodlice juice.

Indications for use

• hypertension, angina pectoris, vegetative-vascular dystonia, ischemic heart disease (cardiovascular system);
• gastritis, enteritis, colitis, enterocolitis, diarrhea and colic (digestive system);
• neurasthenia, epilepsy, nervous seizures, convulsions (nervous system);
• diseases of the oral cavity, thyroid gland, liver, gallbladder, lungs, urinary tract, infectious and inflammatory / respiratory diseases, hypovitaminosis, leg edema, immunodeficiency, cystitis, scurvy, anemia;
• scrofula, rash of various etiologies, pustular eruptions, acne, boils (skin diseases; external use);
• bedsores, abrasions, cuts (external use);
• sprains, joint diseases, myositis, arthritis, rheumatism, radiculitis, mastopathy (musculoskeletal system; external application in the form of compresses).

Contraindications

• hypotension;
• pregnancy;
• childhood;
• individual intolerance to the components of the drug, as well as a tendency to develop allergic reactions.

Home remedies from starwort medium

• infusion (general recipe): 1 tbsp. l. raw materials for 200 ml of boiling water; infusion time - 4 hours; method of application - 4 times a day before meals, 2 tbsp. l.;
• infusion (therapy of cystitis): 1 tbsp. l. raw materials for 200 ml of boiling water; insist like tea; method of application - 3-4 times a day, 100 ml;
• tincture (therapy of pain in the stomach and intestines): 1 tbsp. l. raw materials for 300 ml of vodka; infusion time - 14 days in a dark place in a dark dish, with occasional shaking; method of application - 3 times a day, 20-25 drops;
• decoction (therapy of sore joints for skin diseases, polyarthritis, rheumatism, myositis, radiculitis, sprains - externally in the form of lotions and compresses): 4 tbsp. l. raw materials for 1 liter of water; cooking - cook for 5 minutes, leave for 2 hours; method of application - moisten gauze folded in several layers in broth and apply to problem areas;
• decoction (therapy of joint pain - externally in the form of baths): 200 g of raw materials per 1 liter of boiling water; cooking - cook for 10 minutes; method of application - pour the resulting broth into a bath, temperature - not higher than 35–40 ° С, duration of procedures - from 15 to 20 minutes.

Maria Kulkes Medical journalist About the author

Education: First Moscow State Medical University named after I. M. Sechenov, specialty "General Medicine".

Information about the drug is generalized, provided for informational purposes only and does not replace the official instructions. Self-medication is hazardous to health!