Of cornflower blue.

ATTENTION!Infusions and decoctions of Cornflower are poor poison . Pregnant women do not take!
DROPSY
Brew 1-2 teaspoons of cornflower blue flowers cup of boiling water, insist hour, drain. Drink 1/4 cup 3 times a day for 10-15 minutes before eating.
Hydronephrosis
Take 2 parts of bearberry leaves, 1 part of parsley root, birch buds, leaves of bean trefoil, elecampane root. Pour 1 tablespoon of the collection 2 cups boiling water, boil for 7-10 minutes, add 1 teaspoon of flowers of cornflower, for 20 minutes. Take a glass 3 times a day before meals in the form of heat.
JAUNDICE
Insist cornflower petals on vodka at a ratio of 1:10. Drink 20-30 drops of tincture 1 tablespoon of warm water 3-4 times a day before meals.
Gastrorrhagia
Take 2 tablespoons of the roots of cornflower blue, grass, yarrow, horsetail herb. Pour 2 tablespoons of the collection of 0.5 liters of water and boil until the liquid volume will not be 0.3 liters. Take 2 tablespoons of broth per hour. After the cessation of bleeding broth drink another 2 days to 2 tablespoons per day.
CHOLELITHIASIS
Mix 2 tablespoons of flowers of cornflower, 1 tablespoon of dandelion root, 4 tablespoons of marigold flowers 1 tablespoon of nettle root, 1/3 tablespoon of clover. Brew 1 tablespoon of the mixture of 1 liter of boiling water, put 5 pieces of sugar, stir, and covered with a warm scarf, insist hour. Drink a glass before meals 4-5 times a day.
Myocardial infarction
Pour 100 grams of freshly picked herbs cornflower (at the beginning of flowering) 2 cups of olive or sunflower oil, close the lid tightly and place in the sun for 20 days, then strain. Take 1 teaspoon in the morning on an empty stomach for the normalization of cardiac activity after a heart attack.
Nephritis, cystitis, urethritis
Take 1 tablespoon of cornflower petals edge, pour 1 cup boiling water, for 2 hours. Take 1/4 cup 3-4 times a day.
Edema
Take 1 teaspoon of cornflower petals, pour 1 cup boiling water, 1 hour in a sealed container. Take 1/2 cup 3 times a day for 30 minutes before eating.
Prepare part of bearberry leaves, flowers cornflower and liquorice in equal shares. Brew 1 tablespoon of the mixture and 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes, cool and strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
Decreased appetite
Take 1/2 tablespoon of cornflower blue flowers, brew 1 cup of boiling water. Drink 30 minutes before a meal.
FRECKLES
Mix 2 tablespoons of herbs immortelle, marigold, violet tricolor, 3 tablespoons of Hypericum and 1 tablespoon of cornflower flowers. Boil 2 tablespoons of collecting 0.5 liters of boiling water and infuse overnight in a thermos. Wipe face 3 to 4 times a day.
Inflammation of the eyelids
Take 1 tablespoon of flowers of cornflower, insist in a 1/2 cup of vegetable oil. This tincture moisten a cotton swab, apply them on the eyelids for 15-20 minutes, then wipe skin swab dipped in an aqueous infusion of flowers of cornflower. To obtain 1 tablespoon of flowers pour 1 cup boiling water and infuse 30 minutes.
To collect the morning dew with cornflowers on Midsummer. Rinse eyelids dew.
OILY SKIN
Pour 1 tablespoon of cornflower flowers 1 cup boiling water and infuse for 30 minutes. Wipe skin extract 2 to 3 times a day. The same infusion mixed with 1 tablespoon of vodka or  cologne. The resulting mixture is used for oily, porous skin for rubbing and compresses.
Napkins gauze, folded in 2-3 layers, or a towel to moisten the above-described infusion, gently squeeze and quickly put on your face so that the middle compress fell on the chin and cheeks covered edge. Compress changed 3-4 times, since the hot and cold finishing. Hot compresses cast for 3-4 minutes, cool - for 10-15 minutes.
CONJUNCTIVITIS
Take 20 g of grass toadflax, cornflower blossoms and elder flowers, mix, pour 2 cups boiling water collection, insist 8 hours and strain. Apply a decoction for washing, as well as in the form of lotions or drops. Infusion reduces inflammation, removes pus and improves vision.
1. eyewash ball of wool to moisten freshly boiled and cooled  infusion. Extend the eyelids with an direction finger and thumb of his left hand - and wash the eyes, squeezing them a lump of moist cotton wool.
2. Lotions do as follows: pure cotton wool moistened with a solution of the drug, is applied to the closed eyelids, changing every 10-15 minutes. The total procedure time - 30-60 minutes.
3. Instill: Wash hands, two fingers of his right hand to take the pipette, collect the medicine index finger of his left hand to pull the lower eyelid. See if this upside. Without touching the eyelashes and eyelids, drip 1-2 drops of the drug on the mucosa-drawn century. To a drop does not flow in the cheek, put a finger under the ball of wool. (Do not pour out of the pipette remains of medication into the vial with the drug.) Immediately after instillation of the drops into the eye of the inner edge of the lower eyelid near the nose pressed against the finger (there are tearful way) and keep it in this position for about a minute so that the medicine is not It is gone from the eye through the tear path in the nose and nasopharynx.
WOUNDS, warts
Powder sprinkled crushed seeds of cornflower warts and scars. In the treatment of seed warts it can be covered on top of a strip of adhesive tape.
Fatigue and redness of the eyelids
Take 3 tablespoons of flowers of cornflower, pour 1 cup boiling water, to insist 2 hours, drain. Use for eye baths and at the reddened eyelids, barley and tired, lost their luster eyes.
Pour 1 tablespoon of cornflower 1 cup boiling water, leave for 20 minutes, drain. Swab moistened with warm infusion, apply on eyes for 15-20 minutes.
Blue Cornflower (Centaurea cyanus)One- or two-year plant with a straight, slightly pubescent stems 30-100 cm tall. Leaves are linear. Inflorescence - baskets. The flowers are blue, blue. The fruit - achene.
Weed. It blooms from late May to September, fruiting in July-September.
For therapeutic purposes, use the leaves and flowers of cornflower beaters. Collect baskets in the period of full flowering (May-August), the edge of which pluck flowers and blue tubular part - not more than 40%. The flowers contain glycosides (tsentaurin, cicorine , cyanine), ascorbic acid, carotene. A diuretic, diaphoretic and choleretic properties. It helps with colds, conjunctivitis, blepharitis. It has wound-healing properties. Baths of grass cornflower take with skin diseases.