Hops, braiding the supports with flexible shoots, grows up to 6 meters, its rough leaves consist of 3 or 5 blades, they are attached opposite to the stem. The flowers are small, female in pineal-shaped fruit, and male - small greenish-white panicles. For medicinal purposes, only hop cones from female plants are used.
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Composition, vitamins and minerals
This vine of temperate latitudes grows everywhere, preferring places with high humidity, it can be found in bushes or along the banks of rivers and reservoirs. In villages, hops wind on fences, and in Germany they cultivate it on large plantations. In addition to pharmacy, the plant is used in bakery and brewing.
If you grind hop cones, you can see a yellowish substance - lupulin. It gives the plant a special smell, it contains nitrogen-containing components, wax, resins, fats, essential oils and ashes. During brewing, lupulin breaks down into humulin and lupulon, giving the beer its special amber color and light bitterness.
Hop cones contain:
- bitterness;
- flavonoids;
- catechins;
- anthocyanides;
- phenol carboxylic acids;
- vegetable oils;
- phytoestrogens.
Hop cones: healing and beneficial properties
People have known about the healing power of hops for many centuries. Women in villages use hop cones for hair, preparing decoctions for rinsing on their basis. Empress Catherine II herself curled ringlets on beer.Grandmothers use a mixture of sweet clover and hops for arthritis and arthrosis, back pain.
Instead of yeast, aromatic loaves are baked on hops. To prepare the hop cones, knead, fill with water, filter, and on this basis knead the dough. It rises slowly, not like yeast, but the bread is healthy and tasty.
The healing properties of hops:
- stimulates appetite;
- has a diuretic effect;
- reduces cramps;
- anesthetizes;
- removes inflammation;
- strengthens capillaries;
- heals ulcers;
- regulates the fluid exchange in the body.
The plant is used as a sedative, not only in decoctions, they are stuffed with pillowcases from natural linen or cotton fabric. On such herbal pillows, old people with insomnia and restless children fall asleep well.
Indications for use
This unique plant is one of the main components of many drugs.
It has found application in such diseases:
- angina pectoris;
- nephrolithiasis;
- sleep disturbances;
- intestinal cramps;
- cystitis, pyelonephritis;
- nerve overload;
- ascites;
- anaplasmosis.
Medicines from hoppy inflorescences also help with other ailments - pain in the temples and crown, pneumonia, gastrointestinal disorders and tuberculosis. With a decoction of flowers, water procedures are performed with hiragra, paralysis, rheumatism. Inside the hop tea is taken for oncological tumors of the internal organs - stomach, liver, lungs, for colds and to improve vision.
The infusion of the plant is externally used for compresses, imposing them on painful injuries, infiltrates. Used in home cosmetology to improve curls.
To heal festering wounds, trophic ulcers, psoriasis, boils, an ointment made on 1: 4 pig fat is used. Douching with a decoction of inflorescences treat Trichomonas colpitis and vaginitis.
The essential oil of the plant is part of the drug Valocordin, which is taken for intestinal cramps, angina pectoris and neurosis.
Hop cones are also found in the well-known medicine Urolesan. It is used to treat chronic cholecystitis, urolithiasis and cholelithiasis, biliary dyskinesia according to the hyperkinetic type.
How to brew hop cones
Cones are usually collected in August or September, tearing them together with the stalks. Cones should be light green. Only female cones should be collected, male cones are unsuitable for treatment.
Female cones from male cones are distinguished by a large number of flowers, and they need to be collected. The collected raw materials are dried in a dark room with good ventilation, and stored in paper bags for up to 2-3 years.
Infusion for insomnia
Inflorescences of hops (20 g) pour 250 ml of boiling water, leave for 2 hours. Then express, and drink a quarter cup before meals, 3 times a day, or a glass 1 hour before bedtime. You can add 1 tsp to warm, hoppy tea. a spoonful of linden or flower honey.
Alcohol tincture
1 weight part of hop inflorescences infuse in 4 parts of alcohol (40%) for 1 week. Then strain, and take 5 drops per 1 tbsp. l water in the morning and evening before meals.
Hop decoction
Pour 2 tbsp. l chopped hop inflorescences with 2 glasses of water, and simmer for 10 minutes. Insist another 8 hours, drink 100 ml 2 times a day half an hour before meals.
Napar in milk
In case of jaundice, steam the hop inflorescences (2 tbsp. L.) With a mixture of milk and water (1 tbsp. Each), insist all night. Drink all the steam during the day.
Application in traditional medicine
In folk medicine, hop inflorescences collected from female plants in mid-August are used. They are dried, spread out in the shade with a thin layer. When the rod breaks when pressed, they are collected in cardboard boxes, trying to tamp tightly.
Traditional healers recommend treating such diseases with the help of a plant:
- malaria
- tuberculosis;
- gastritis;
- cystitis;
- swelling.
Decoction and tinctures are drunk with reduced appetite, lack of interest in food. They are also used as a sedative and painkiller. They make baths with neurosis and skin diseases, for which they use hop cones in decoctions. Prepare ointments in vegetable oil to increase breast size.
Hop cones for a larger bust
Hop cones contain phytohormones similar to female hormones (estrogens), they contribute to breast growth. In folk medicine, there are recipes for preparing tinctures for internal and external use, popular among women.
For oral administration you need to brew hop cones (1 tbsp.) with a glass of boiling water, insist 1 hour, drink 50 ml 3 times a day.
For external use prepare hop oil. The crushed cones are poured into a jar, and pour oil from olive, sesame or almond, so that they are completely covered. The jar is tightly covered with a lid. When after 1 day the oil is absorbed, pour a little more. The jar is placed in a dark, warm place, and insisted for about 1 week, shaking its contents every day. Then filter the oil, let it brew for another week. To increase the size of the breast, rubbed into the décolleté area overnight, without affecting the nipples and the area around them.
Too often, hop infusions and ointments cannot be taken, they can cause depression and laziness, as well as other very unpleasant side effects.
Beauty Use
Hops are used to rinse hair so that it grows beautiful and strong.
The recipe for tincture against hair loss
Components:
- burdock root - 1.5 tbsp. l .;
- calamus root - 1 tbsp. l .;
- calendula flowers - 1.5 tbsp. l .;
- hop cones - 1 tbsp. l .;
- water - 300 ml.
Preparation and use:
- Grind vegetable raw materials in a coffee grinder.
- Pour in hot water (100 ° C).
- Leave to infuse for 2 hours, covering the pot with grass lid.
- Strain through cheesecloth into a jar.
- Moisturize the scalp every morning and evening, while doing a massage for 3 minutes.
Apply such an infusion daily for a long time. The result will be noticeable in 1-2 months - new hair will begin to grow from the "awakened" hair follicles. Store the infusion in a cool bathroom or refrigerator door.
Contraindications
Hop - a poisonous plant, lupulin, which is part of it, when ingested in large quantities, causes vomiting. Pregnant and lactating women should not use hops; this may affect the baby.
In addition, hops are contraindicated for small children under 2 years of age and for those people who have allergy-based drugs on their basis.
Beer drunk in large quantities can reduce the potency in men, and contribute to the growth of “beer” belly.
In women, when using infusions and decoctions of hops for more than 2 weeks, menstrual irregularities, infertility and endometriosis are possible. These serious problems are too big a fee for the desire to look beautiful.
