Oregano is a plant called through extending from its incredibly strong aroma. This perennial plant can be found in forest or forest-steppe zones. Oregano grows to 30-80 cm in height, its inflorescence are pale purple color. Useful properties of oregano are great, so use it and doctors, and estheticians. In cosmetology essential oil produced from blossoms of oregano, add in the spirits and creams, used for the manufacture of colognes. Useful properties of oregano is due to its content of thymol-free alcohol, geranyl acetate and tannins.
Oregano is a good honey plant. In addition, it can serve as a spice to add to different dishes. It will be much tastier vegetable and meat dishes. Also added to flavor the beer, kvass, compote and tea. The leaves and buds of marjoram can be used in the salting of tomatoes and cucumbers, this will not only lend a pleasant flavor to pickles, but also to keep them. Another appointment of oregano is to help people. In medicine, oregano is used in the form of infusions or decoctions. Oregano is considered a great help in the treatment of rheumatism, epilepsy, pain in the intestines, scrofula. This plant is an excellent diuretic and a diaphoretic, and has a calming effect on the Central nervous system, while it increases the secretion of various glands.
British researchers decided to compare the effect of oil of oregano and the most popular 18 antibiotics. After a study, they found that oregano not only works better, it is able to kill even immune to drugs microbes, e.g. Staphylococcus aureus. The plant contains aromatic substances, one of which is carvacrol, which has long been due to its properties attracts science. Essential oils containing carvacrol are able to kill not only microbes, but also parasites such as Giardia.
The chemical composition of oregano is very rich. In its above-ground organs contain tannins and dyes, a high percentage of essential oils containing phenols. Oregano, vitamin C, refers to the Champions, as this contains vitamin 565 mg in the leaves, 170 mg in the flowers and about 60 mg in the stems. Its seeds contain 28 mg of fatty oil. In folk medicine, the decoction of this plant is taken in various diseases: rheumatism, epilepsy, paralysis, convulsions, abdominal pains, colds, gynecological diseases, and in scrofula and rickets in children. Useful properties of oregano make it possible to recognise it indispensable for use in modern medicine.
Folk healers have long noticed the healing properties of this plant. Infusion of oregano they were treating cough, cold, bronchitis, tuberculosis, sore throats, gum disease, sickness of the stomach, liver, female diseases and hypertension. Healers used decoctions and infusions as an expectorant, diaphoretic, cholagogue, anthelmintic, wound healing, analgesic, stimulating the appetite means. For the treatment of rickets and scrofula in the child, from the flowers and leaves of oregano were making tea and bathed him. Such baths are also very effective in skin rashes, eczema, boils and abscesses.
Freshly prepared infusions and decoctions of oregano help with epilepsy, convulsions, paralysis, rheumatism. This infusion is used for headaches, shortness of breath and insomnia. Shampoo with infusion of oregano helps get rid of migraine, significantly accelerates the growth of hair. Due to the presence of such a large number of useful properties, oregano are unable to ignore modern official medicine. Too often today, preparations of this plant the doctors prescribed as an adjunct in the treatment of various diseases.
