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How to make herbal preparations yourself?

Collecting and drying medicinal plants doesn't mean learning how to use them yourself at home. Often for the therapeutic effect of a herbal infusion, not one, but several medicinal plants of similar action or complementary therapeutic action are required. How to make herbal preparations yourself and not be mistaken in choosing a companion plant?

All medicinal plants are divided into several groups according to similar clinical and biological effects:

Anti-inflammatory;
Antiseptic;
Stimulating tissue regeneration (wound healing and antiulcer);
Hemostatic;
Expectorant;
Choleretic;
Diuretic;
Astringents (fixing);
Laxatives;
Antispasmodics and carminative;
Sedatives (sedatives, sleeping pills);
Adaptogens (biogenic stimulants);
Hypoglycemic;
Carriers of vitamins and minerals.

How are medicinal plants combined in collections? Considering that a medicinal plant can have multiple properties, covering a fairly large area for medicinal use, and affecting various organ systems and their functions, it is necessary to take into account the diverse medicinal effect of each plant in the collection in all its medicinal directions. For example, drinking an herbal infusion for a diuretic effect and at the same time having a choleretic effect from such an infusion of a plant is a bad choice if a person has an increased activity of digestive enzymes. In this case, it is necessary to select a medicinal plant with a diuretic effect, but without a choleretic effect.

Sedative and adaptogenic medicinal plants are mutually exclusive plants with opposite healing effects, and their proximity in the plant collection is unacceptable.

If you combine plants with a laxative effect and at the same time plants with an antispasmodic and carminative effect, you can get the effect of non-stop diarrhea, since such a company of the plant mutually reinforces the properties of each other.

Plants with an astringent effect in a company with plant vitamins and microelements in one medical collection is a vain calculation for taking vitamins and microelements, since the astringent effect of the plant will not allow useful substances to be absorbed into the intestinal walls, but will simply facilitate their excretion.

Tissue trauma is almost always accompanied by some inflammatory effect - this inflammation ensures the functioning of the immune system, therefore, slightly inflamed near-wound surfaces do not need anti-inflammatory treatment with herbal infusions, but if the inflammation of tissues (skin or mucous membranes) becomes chronic, for example, with skin diseases or with infectious or traumatic diseases of the intestinal mucosa, it is very useful to combine the anti-inflammatory and regenerative effect of the herbal infusion.

It makes no sense to drink a herbal collection, composed at the same time of plants with a diuretic, diaphoretic or laxative effect and plants containing vitamins and minerals. All useful plant components will be quickly evacuated from the body by urination, perspiration or bowel movements.

All plants in medicinal preparations are evaluated from all sides: both as independent complexes of therapeutic effects and as group medicinal complexes. The proximity of such sets of plants is considered acceptable only if the side effects of their intake cannot aggravate existing diseases or functional disorders of the human body. It is for this reason that one should not get carried away with herbal medicine, if there is no medical or pharmacological knowledge, and it is not clear what health disorders, in addition to the disease that causes the use of medicinal plant preparations, are still present in the human body.