About Phytotheray

Introduction

The term of “phytotherapy” indicates the made look after itself by the plants .
Phytotherapy uses the active part of the plants having therapeutic properties. The use of the therapeutic plants goes back to the night of times. They are used in a fresh state (in salads or dishes of crudenesses), infusion , decoction or maceration . Most active ingredients of the plant will be dissolved, others however will be destroyed under the effect of heat. The cold maceration, it, preserves the active ingredients of the plant but does not allow any the integral extraction.

Explications

Modes of use of the plants medicinales

The plants have very powerful active principles which are is in the roots, the bark, the sheets, the flowered celebrities, the fruits, the resin …. The parts used of the plant vary from one species to the other, or for the same plant according to the desired result.

The herb tea of plants is the most known use of medicinal herbs, but there exists a large variety of methods: in ecternal use (cataplasms, compresses, eye lotion, mouthwash, baths…) or in consumption (ingestion, cure, infusion, decoction…), in fumigation , inhalation …

External use

According to the therapeutic indications, the plant is taken out of infusion, decoction, is reduced out of powder, or in a wine, a vinegar, an elixir, a syrup.

• To relieve the pain of an insect bite, you can as well rub with fresh sheets of plantain (by hoping that you are in a place not polluted) or with balsam of plantain already prepared.
• Bain oral: you gargle with a solution of clove or you chew, without swallowing. Deposited in a painful tooth to relieve the pain it acts like local anesthetic.
• To make a cataplasm you take a crushed or cut fresh plant in general of pieces to more easily release the substances which will penetrate in the skin. Example: cataplasm of fresh rags. In certain cases, one cooks the plant to soften it: for example, one puts garlic cooked at the vapor on the warts. The plant can also be mixed with a little linseed meal to obtain desired consistency.
• To make a compress, the fabric of the compress is plunged in a liquid preparation, an infusion or a decoction of plants. In general, the compress is renewed when it cooled.
• To disinfect a small wound and to already use the healing principles of the arnica, one will use is a pomade with the arnica or a dyeing mother with the arnica.”

' To mass and make penetrate the active ingredients of the plants, one uses an oil of massage or pomades, balsams, ointments, which are less fluid .

Intern use

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