So in the early middle Ages Charlemagne describe the role of spices. In fact, aromatic herbs valued not only for its food quality, but for healing properties. Because essential oils, tannins and bitter contained in a number of plants that have a noticeable therapeutic effect.

Natural antiseptic

Long before our era cloves as a drug used in India, Indonesia and China. It was believed that sorcerers during the sessions should be kept in the mouth of cloves is easily communicate with the spirits. Also recommended it to spouses, dreaming of the heir.

In Europe aromatic medicine took headache, hearing and dropsy. What carnations can relieve a toothache, opened court doctor of French monarch Charles IX Ambroise Pair.

Add cloves in a variety of dishes should those who suffer from chronic gastric and intestinal pains and cramps; useful it with nausea, vomiting and pulmonary diseases. Don't overdo it: when the dose can cause serious disorders of the nervous system.

Ukraine has long been used to treat hypertension is a remedy. Forty buds cloves, fill 4 cups of cold water and boil on low heat until then, until there 0.5 liters. Take the broth tablespoon three times a day (in the morning on an empty stomach, the other two times before meals). The course of treatment time is 1-2 years, but the pressure to normal for a long time.

The remedy for boredom

Medicinal properties of cinnamon known from the III Millennium BC.

In Europe in the Middle ages cinnamon was primarily used as a means of stimulating digestion, and... as an aphrodisiac. Modern herbalists recommend eating cinnamon rolls, and add it to the puddings, jams and compotes chronic fatigue, poor appetite, neurasthenia and diabetes. High blood pressure is better to take cinnamon honey or yogurt.

In the treatment of dyspepsia prepare a mixture: the leaves of black currant - 10 g, cinnamon and cloves 1, Pour a liter of hot water and leave for 3 hours. Take 200 ml after a meal.

If you are, thank God, healthy, can prepare himself for Breakfast this kind of sandwich: slightly fried in butter the bread, sprinkle with cinnamon sugar, mixed with sugar. Treat will give you energy for the day.

From cinnamon to be abandoned pregnant women and people with sensitive skin and suffering from nervous exhaustion.

For women only

Cumin started to cultivate in Asia Minor in the VIII century BC. Dishes with the addition of caraway useful for gastric and intestinal colitis, Qatar intestines, shortage of milk in nursing mothers and respiratory diseases.

Chronic constipation, colitis and flatulence prepare an infusion: a tablespoon cumin seeds pour a Cup of boiling water and leave for half an hour. Take a tablespoon three to four times a day.

Bronchitis and pneumonia brew 2-3 teaspoons cumin seeds Cup boiling water. This is the number of infusion should be drunk during the day.

Indian doctors for diarrhoea and dysentery recommend a mixture pinch of powder caraway seeds and fresh butter. Unfortunately, strong floor caraway medications contraindicated - they inhibit the function of the prostate gland.

Expel stones

The birthplace of black pepper - South India. The use of peas and black pepper powder is an excellent prevention against kidney stones and gall bladder. If you "got" pebbles, try this method of treatment.

Large raisins remove stones and nafarshiruyte his peppercorns. Eat a berry, and then increase the daily amount of "pills" for one thing. After the ten-day course start one at a lower dose. Highlights should be thoroughly chew. The same "tablets" are used in the treatment of malignant tumors and other diseases of the liver and kidneys. In this case, the medication should be taken within a month.

"Pepper vodka" from baldness

From the fruit of hot pepper cook alcohol tincture is used for grinding rheumatism, radiculitis, gout and muscle pain. It helps and female baldness. Recipe miraculous structure is simple: 1 part pepper pour 5 parts 70%alcohol or vodka, leave in a dark place a week, strain. In small quantities (10-20 drops for reception) can be taken inside for excitation of appetite and improve digestion, and for painful menstruation.

Persian guest

Saffron was known in Ancient Assyria and Egypt for thousands of years BC. According to the medical opinions of the time, its use is useful for gout, as well as heart disease and kidney failure.

Now water saffron infusion is used for inflammation of the bladder and urinary tract, disruption of the menstrual cycle, when dry bronchitis, whooping cough and hysteria with nervous seizures.

For infusion teaspoon not saffron pour a Cup of boiling water, let stand for 15-20 minutes, strain and cool. Take a tablespoon three times a day before meals. Lotions with this extract is effective in the treatment of conjunctivitis and keratitis, and compresses in the treatment of purulent wounds on the skin. At the use of saffron in the food to be careful in high doses (more than 4.5 g) he causes severe poisoning, symptoms are dizziness, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and uterine bleeding.

The magic root

Ginger was the first Asian spice relocated to southern Europe and America and great in there own. Even the ancient noticed that adding this root to food helps with nausea, stomach disorders, joint pain, and promotes digestion and improving the blood circulation.

At the first signs of respiratory diseases or flu recommended ginger tea. It is prepared from a teaspoon freshly grated ginger, juice of half a lemon and a teaspoon of honey, Bay mixture of boiling water. Regular consumption of this drink relieves suffering asthmatics.

In atherosclerosis, the recommended ingredients: 400 g of ginger root wash, peel. Grate, pour in a bottle, fill 0.5 liter of alcohol. Insist on the sun or heat for two weeks, from time to time shaking. The tincture should take yellow. Then strain, press through a cloth and let rest for the day. The medicine should drink two times a day after meals, diluting teaspoon drink half a glass of water. From time to time in the treatment, you should take a break for a few days. Taking tincture, give up meat, and before bedtime do foot baths.

With digestive disorders and loss of appetite, difficulty urinating, chronic enteritis, edema and rheumatism helps ginger liqueur, which prepares so: 150 g root pour 800 ml of water, insist during the week, strain. Take a teaspoon, squeezed water, twice a day.

Ginger drugs is contraindicated in pregnancy.

Andrei Bourmistrov, phytotherapeutist