How to treat insomnia?

White slumber, or white gum, wood cockle, soapwort, toothgrass, firecrackers, is a biennial herbaceous dioecious plant of the carnation family. The leaves of the plant are opposite, oval-lanceolate, pointed, slightly pubescent. The flowers are white, with a swollen, fused tubular calyx of five sepals and five corolla petals. The fruit is a capsule opening at the apex with ten teeth, containing numerous small seeds. It blooms in June–July, the flowers usually open in the evening, emitting a pleasant aroma.

Contained

saponins

squirrels

essential oil

Andrey Zalomlenkov, pharmacist-phytologist, Orenburg region, Buguruslan:

White slumber is found in most areas of the European part of the country along forest edges, along roads, in vegetable gardens and meadows, and is sometimes cultivated as an ornamental plant. The stems, leaves, flowers and roots of the plant are used for medicinal purposes. White slumber has anti-inflammatory, emollient, analgesic, hemostatic, sedative and mild hypnotic effects.

1. For nervous tension, insomnia, tachycardia, nervous headache, epilepsy, colic in the gastrointestinal tract, use an infusion of the herb white drowsiness.

2. An infusion from the plant is drunk for uterine bleeding and heavy menstruation, for the treatment of umbilical hernia.

3. Warm infusion of the drema herb is used to rinse the mouth for toothache, and the crushed herb is applied to hard swellings and tumors of the glands, to hemorrhoidal cones and inflamed veins in the legs.

Methods of application

Infusion

1 tbsp. l. dry drowsy herb, pour 300 g of boiling water and leave in a warm place for 2 hours, strain. Take the infusion 1 tbsp. l. 3-4 times a day after meals for colic, female diseases, nervous disorders. As a sleeping pill - half a glass of infusion at night.

Compress

Boil fresh or dry drema herb with boiling water, wrap it in gauze and apply it hot to hard swellings and hemorrhoidal cones.

Root decoction

1 tsp. Boil crushed dry roots for 5–7 minutes in 300 g of water, leave for 1 hour, strain. Take 2 tbsp of decoction. l. 3 times a day after meals for articular rheumatism, inflammation of the kidneys and urinary tract, tachycardia, severe cough, bronchial asthma.