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Medicinal plants in gynecology.

Women's health at all times needed closer attention from medicine, because the health of her future offspring has always depended on the state of a woman's body. Herbal medicine, too, has not ignored women's problems and has at its disposal a number of medicinal plants, with the help of which the female body can be maintained in a state of health.

Most of women's troubles lie in inflammatory and infectious diseases of the female reproductive system. Many serious and incurable diseases originate from here. Prevention and treatment of diseases such as colpitis, vulvitis, vaginosis, cervicitis is of great importance in the prevention of tumors and non-carcinogenic changes in the structure of tissues that form female organs. For this reason, all medicinal plants with anti-inflammatory, wound healing, hemostatic and antiseptic effects can be used in the treatment of the above-described diseases.

Medicinal plants in gynecology can be used in the form of mono-infusions (only one plant is present in the infusion) or in the form of combinations of herbal components to give them a multi-purpose effect. Infusions of medicinal plants are used for douching, baths, in the form of applications (they put tampons soaked in infusions for a while).

Chamomile, St. John's wort, Bidens tripartita, calendula officinalis are suitable for the preparation of any type of infusion - these are anti-inflammatory plants. Salvia officinalis, yarrow, plantain, immortelle, thyme, horsetail can be used as local antiseptic herbal preparations that suppress the reproduction of the microflora of the mucous membranes. The local healing effect is provided by sea buckthorn oil, St. John's wort oil, applied in the form of applications to the genital mucosa.

The concentration of the infusion depends on the methods of its use. For douching and applications, infusions are suitable: 1-2 tablespoons of plant materials, brewed with a glass of boiling water (filtered through a thick mesh). More concentrated infusions are suitable for baths: 4-5 tablespoons brewed with a glass of boiling water. Concentrated infusions can be diluted with some water.

Plants of tanning action or phytoncides are not used in gynecological practice. Such plants can irritate an already inflamed mucous membrane and support the inflammatory process.