What associations do you have when you listen to the song "Wild Flowers"?Surely many people first thought will be about the daisies.We're so loved these delicate flowers with white petals and yellow heart that seated them closer to home: in the gardens, and suburban areas.And we buy them in flower stalls, decorating of your home.
American traveler
But pineappleweed has not always been a resident of the European continent.From America the seeds of its "arrived" in Russia at the beginning of the XIX century.There pineappleweed considered weeds growing in fields with crops.No one would probably never knew of the existence of this type of "weed", if not for sale.Grain intended for sale, poured into bags and loaded into the holds of ships.With him went a long voyage, and the seeds of chamomile.The bags were unloaded on the continent using special hooks in the rail cars.As a result of congestion in the sacking of the hole appeared, albeit small, but enough to "travel" on the railways Russia chamomile seeds left their mark on the way.About 30 years for the plant to settle spaces of the European part, to penetrate into Siberia, the Far East and even to reach the Arctic Circle.Now it grows in forest clearings, along railways, on apiaries and along the banks of reservoirs.
Collecting and harvesting
pineappleweed - annual plant that has branched bare stem, convex receptacle and folded down petals.It is permitted for medical use on a par with the pharmacy.It is very easy to harvest, as a daisy growing large thickets and available for collection.Drug is the color in baskets.Gather them in dry calm weather at the beginning of flowering.Raw materials dried at 40 ° C in a ventilated area in the shade.We can not allow peresushki flowers.Stored dried chamomile in canvas bags in a dry place.Over the summer, it can be carried out 4-5 pieces of raw materials.
Application chamomile
For centuries, chamomile has been used as a remedy for disorders, sleep disorders and headaches, but there are many more options for its use of what we may not know.Let's see what this plant can do for us, and how nature is ready to answer some of our health problems.Thanks contained in the flowers essential oils, pineappleweed photo, which is in all the books on medicinal herbs, used to treat respiratory tract, rheumatism, skin diseases as a diaphoretic.Broth and tinctures use at any inflammations and allergies.Chamomile flowers are used in cosmetics and pharmaceutical industries.With the ability to tone and soothe the skin, it reduces redness and itching.You just need to hold face over the steam from brewed chamomile.In gynecology in inflammatory processes is assigned douching decoction of it.Pineappleweed applied topically in the form of rinses and lotions.Chamomile oil when rubbed into the temporal area helps eliminate headaches.It is also effective in case of burns.
smell of dried chamomile not like mice.Expanding it in storage products, storage rooms, you can be sure that the gray cheat do not come for tidbits.
chamomile decoction used when rinsing the hair and tinting in light tone grown gray.Essential oil obtained from it is used to create the gels and shampoos.Of course, we all drank camomile tea, but as a rule, because we are accustomed to its mild taste and relaxing scent.In some European countries they drink a drink with cream.Bulgarians call this tea "likes".Drunk on the night the glass of this drink will give a restful sleep and pleasant dreams.
