Cornflower grows on meadows, forests, plains, along roadside and in specially designed gardens.
Cornflower has soothing, emollient, anti-inflammatory, anti-irritant, decongestants and healing properties that why is widely used in herbal medicine and traditional cosmetics.
The chemical composition of the plant is one rich in potassium and magnesium salts, tannin and bitter substances.
Drying flowers stretching will be in a single layer in a dry surface. Until they are used to prepare teas and infusions, dried flowers will be kept in paper bags.
The dried flowers are used in the pharmaceutical industry for coloring of medicine. And the blue pigment is widely used in cosmetics to color make-up.
Cornflower is used as an infusion for tired, irritated or inflamed eyes.
The cornflower tea is used for colds and chest diseases, as a hot drink sweetened with honey. Cornflower is used in fever symptoms and skin diseases which as a decoction made of roots of cornflower.
It is also a remedy for constipation, stomach and intestinal colic in infants, dark circles, diarrhea, dyspepsia, eczema, itchy eczema, increase the amount of milk in lactating women, hemorrhoids, intestinal infections, indigestion, psoriasis, kidney, colds, cuts, dry skin and sores effusion.
Have therapeutically wealth effects on kidney and bladder infections, eye disorders, anorexia, muscle problems, chest diseases, bronchitis, intestinal disease (restore the intestinal flora).
The fresh or dried cornflower flowers can be prepared as tincture, using only those flowers or in different combinations, like aloe (for constipation problems), plantain, mallow, Iceland moss and fir (for chest problems) and yogurt (for bowel problems).
Diarrhea problems will be stopped with a combination of cornflowers and blueberry leaves tea.
Because of its beneficial effects on our health and beauty, cornflower is known as “the flower of happiness” or “flower with a thousand virtues”.
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