Zivokost has many medicinal properties, so it has long been the basis of traditional medicine.
It is for this reason that we will talk about the larkspurge and its use for treating various diseases.
Larkspur or delphinium: description of the plant
First of all, it’s worth your attention that Larkspur has many names - the grass and larkspur, and the delphinium, and the wiener, and comfrey. But all these names are applicable to the plant of the buttercup family, among which there are both annual and perennial representatives.
Did you know? Previously, comfrey flowers were used to obtain paint, with which they dyed fabrics and carpets.Depending on the species, live hives can grow in height from 0.5 to 2 meters. On tall plants during flowering a large number of flowers are formed, which can reach up to 5 cm in diameter and have very different colors:
Learn more about the medicinal properties of such herbaceous plants as catnip, horsetail, double-leaved, bitter wormwood, nettle, lythrum.
At the same time flowering lasts about three months - from the beginning of summer to the very autumn, therefore the fruits ripen only at the end of August.
Ornamental plant varieties are used even in floriculture, although it represents the main value as a medicinal raw material. How to harvest live-bones, its healing properties and photos, you will find below.
Composition and useful properties of live-stock
Larkspur is a fairly common plant with wide use in medicine, but all parts of this plant are toxic, since they contain alkanoids.
In folk medicine, delphinium is used very widely:
- for the treatment of toothaches;
- with frequent headaches;
- with cystitis;
- eye inflammation (conjunctivitis);
- with pneumonia and complications;
- for dermatological purposes.
Important! It is necessary to collect the live beast with extreme caution and only in those places where it grows in large concentrations. Thanks to this you will be able to prepare the least toxic plants.Delphinium is valued as a tool that can have an anti-parasitic effect and restore blood volume in the body.
Due to the presence of alkanoids in the correct doses, extracts from zyukost are salutary with convulsions. They even help with bone fractures, when it is necessary to remove the swelling of tissues.Did you know? In the countryside, domestic animal is fed with grass, pre-mixed with salt. It is believed that it helps them get rid of worms.
Delphinium: dosage forms
The raw material of the live-life, which is used in medicine, are seeds and flowers with leaves, plucked from the tops of the plant. It is necessary to collect leaves and flowers during the period when flowering on the delphinium is just beginning. To do this, you can cut the side tops, so that the plant continued to grow.
In order to procure large stocks of the larkshaft, plucked shoots must be thoroughly dried in a shaded place where air does not stagnate. It is better to store grass in fabric or paper bags suspended under the roof of the house. 
The root of live-stock also has many healing properties. It is recommended to harvest in early spring, when the plant has not yet had time to go into active growth, which will significantly reduce its healing properties.
For this, the plant root is completely dug out of the soil, and side shoots break off from the main maternal part. The rest of the dropping back - she will be able to successfully settle down.
Important! The healing roots of the live-stock must be succulent and break with a crunch. If they are dried and rotted, they cannot be used for medicinal purposes.
For long-term storage, comfrey roots are first thoroughly washed, and then cut lengthwise into two parts. After that, they are laid out in the sun for drying, and for final drying they hide in a ventilated shaded room. 
Consider that it is necessary to dry it no more than at 60 ° C, otherwise it will not remain healing properties.
Application of zhivokost in traditional medicine
Larkspur officinalis has a very wide application, aimed at the treatment of almost all human organs. However, for treatment, it is better to buy herbs in a pharmacy or to collect it with extreme caution, and to apply it only by following the following prescriptions clearly:
Important! Previously, grass and comfrey roots were widely used even for epileptic seizures, as well as for the treatment of cancer and syphilis. However, due to the danger and severity of these problems, traditional medicine does not recommend using this plant on its own as a medicine for such cases.
- Tincture of live-bonescooked at home - An excellent remedy for diseases of the kidneys, liver and stomach. To obtain such an infusion, comfrey grass is used in a volume of 2 tsp., Which is poured with 0.8 liters of boiled water. Livestock should be defended in a sufficiently warm place for 8 hours, after which it is filtered and the resulting infusion is taken in a volume of 100 g four times a day.
Beneficial effects on the liver are: white currant, scorzonera, carrots, fennel, black currant, silver fox, aloe, hibiscus, cobweed, parsley, amaranth.
- With jaundice, inflammation of the eyes and problems with the genitourinary system comfrey grass (20 g) steamed with a liter of boiling water. This broth is recommended to drink three times during the day, each time drinking 1 glass. When conjunctivitis such a decoction is used as lotions on the eyes.
- Treat zhivokosty even paralytic diseases. For this purpose, again use the herb of the plant, which in the amount of 1 tbsp. l steam in a glass of boiling water. After the herb is infused for at least three hours, it is filtered and the patient is given an infusion of 100 g after breakfast, lunch and dinner.
- Larkspur root in folk medicine is applied and in the treatment of tuberculosis, for what are used a variety of recipes. For one of them, comfrey root is washed, cleaned, ground, and mixed in equal parts with honey. You can apply immediately, using within two weeks to 1 tsp. 30 minutes before meals. After a two-week break, you can repeat the treatment.
- Larkspur is very effective for joints (osteochondrosis, arthritis, back pain and fractures), which are treated with the help of the root of this plant. For this purpose, dry root should be crushed in a mortar and pour diluted alcohol (50%) in a glass dish. The amount of root in relation to alcohol should be 1: 3. The root should be infused for 7 days in a dark place at a temperature of 18 to 22 ° C. For an infusion to turn out to be of high quality, it is important to stir it during the period of insisting. You can use for rubbing or making comfrey compresses.
- To cure burn, 1 tbsp. l comfrey roots are ground in a blender, and then poured boiling water. After the infusion lasts 1 hour, it can be used as a lotion to burns.
- To relieve symptoms of sinusitis and cure of this disease, it is necessary to prepare alcohol tincture according to the same recipe as for the treatment of joints. For treatment, compresses are made, which are applied on the forehead before bedtime for 3 days (it is possible overnight). In such a short period of time, it is possible to completely relieve inflammation.
Also, antritis is treated with marigold tinctures and propolis, kalanchoe, beeswax.
Delphinium: contraindications
Given the toxicity of this plant, the use of drugs from it is not recommended for pregnant women, as well as people who suffer from low pressure and myasthenia. Consider that if you take too much of the drug, you can get a serious poisoning., the main features of which are:
- vomiting;
- convulsions;
- labored breathing.
Important! Alcoholic infusion of comfrey can be stored and retain their medicinal properties for three years.
To relieve a person from such symptoms, he needs to do a gastric lavage. After that, you will still need hospitalization to recover and prevent the development of complications.
Larkspur is an indispensable plant for traditional medicine, but it should be collected and used with extreme caution.
If you do not know what this plant looks like or whether it can be used for your disease, it is better to use traditional medicine instead of traditional medicine in order not to put yourself in danger.
