Cowslip - Discover The Healing Qualities Of The Herb

The article deals with the healing qualities of cowslip and ways to use it when dealing with various health problems.

The plant can be found growing in a dry meadow, hill, edge of a forest, brushwood and etc. Many nations cultivate cowslip as a medical herb and vegetable. Their leaves are used to make spring salad, soup and refresher.

You should collect cowslip blossoms or just corollas during the florescence of it. Besides that, you can collect leaves from clean and undamaged plants at the end of florescence and rootstock together with roots - in late autumn or early spring before the leaves open. 

Wash the herbs under running water and air dry them. 

You must not expose blossoms and leaves to direct sunlight. You can dry the herbs in a drying camera at a temperature between 80 and 120 degrees Celsius, as well. Rootstock and roots, in their turn, should be dried at a temperature between 50 and 60 degrees Celsius.

1. Infuse 1-2 tablespoons of the leaves with a glass of boiling water and leave the infusion to brew for some time. Afterwards, decant it and drink 0.5-1 glass of the tincture 3 times a day to prevent hypovitaminosis, and deal with grippe, pneumonia, bronchitis, gout and rheumatism. In order to make the infusion of tops, you should infuse 20 grams of the herbs with a glass of boiling water. Take a tablespoon of the infusion 3-4 times a day.
2. Saponins the rootstock and roots contain are proven to treat inflammation of upper airways, chronic tracheitis, bronchitis and pneumonia. In order to make the infusion or decoction, you should infuse a tablespoon of granulated herbs with a glass of water. Take a tablespoon of the remedy 4-5 times a day before meal.
3. The decoction made of the tops is intended for external use, as well. Use the remedy for compress to treat dislocation and bruise. Juice and tops are used to make a salve for the treatment of eczema of the head.
4. When using the herb, you must strictly observe the indicated dose. Consumption of large quantities of the herb might cause vomiting, nausea and diarrhea. After the contact of pollen of the herb, sensitive people might experience allergic reactions, such as, contact dermatitis, strong itch and watery sore. When the dust of the herb gets into the airways, you might experience the inflammation of mucous membrane.

Pharmaceutical companies use the roots to produce remedies for the treatment of cough and various diseases of airways. Besides that, roots are used in homeopathy to produce extract, tincture and compound remedies.