Elenina grass

National names of a devyasil: the sunflower wild, divosit, the yellow pugovalnik, will crumple, Oman meadow, a rough grass, an animal grass, a bear grass. The Latin name of a plant Inula came from the word "helios" — the sun.

Ancient Greek myths tell that devyasit grew from tears which were shed by Elena Prekrasnaya, Zeus and Leda's daughter who was kidnapped by the son of the Trojan tsar Paris that in a consequence led to the Trojan war.

Devyasil - Inula L. - a perennial grassy plant from family of a thistle family. At a devyasil the reinforced, fleshy, branching rhizome. The straight line stalk, furrowed, above branched out, is covered with fibers and in height reaches 1.5 - 2.5 meters. Radical leaves large, long, with long scapes, have the ellipsis form, stem leaves remind hearts and adjoin to a stalk. All leaves from a bottom side are covered with hairs.

Golden-yellow or orange flowers are collected in large single inflorescences baskets to the 5-7th in the diameter. Blossoms devyasit from June to September. Fruits are tetrahedral semyanka with a cop.

The homeland of a devyasil most often call Greece. In a wild look grows almost in all territory of Russia on forest meadows, among bushes, especially coastal, on pastures, near fences and fences.

This plant is cultivated in many countries, at us it is often grown up at dachas for the medicinal and cosmetic purposes. Use leaves of young plants, but most often roots of a devyasil of three-year age which dig out in the fall and are more rare in the spring, wash out, cut on circles and dry in the fresh air.

The rhizome of a devyasil contains: vitamins E, To, minerals - manganese, magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, and also: polysaccharides, slime, pigments, essential oil with devyasilovy camphor - elenin, saponina, bitterness, there is a lot of inulin, pitch, gum, slime.

As devyasit a herb used since antique times, it is mentioned by Pliny the Elder and Hippocrates writes in the works. In Ancient Greece and in Rome B.C. devyasit cultivated not only as medicinal, but also as a food plant. In Medieval Europe devyasit used as antidote.

Modern traditional medicine uses devyasit as cough remedy, at whooping cough, asthma, gastrointestinal diseases, stomach ulcer and a duodenum, at diarrhea, a meteorizm, an urine delay, jaundice, worms, at hemorrhoids, nervous breakdowns, a craw, a senile sclerosis, oncology, tuberculosis of lungs, diabetes, diseases of a gall bladder, liver, bladder and kidneys.

- Tea from a rhizome of a devyasil
To fill in 1 teaspoon of the crushed raw materials with 1 glass of boiled water, to insist 15 minutes, to filter, take tea warm with addition 1 of a teaspoon of honey on ½ glasses 2-4 times a day. Tea from a devyasil stimulates intellectual and muscular activity.

- Trays from broth devyasit an effective remedy for disposal of a fungus of nails. To fill in 2.5 tablespoons of the crushed rhizomes of a devyasil with 2 glasses of boiled water, to bring to boiling, to lower fire and boil 15 minutes on slow fire, to filter, pour out in a basin, to allow to cool down a little to lower legs in broth, to hold until cools down at all.

- Fresh leaves of a devyasil put to chirye for their fast maturing, to wounds for their fastest healing.

- Broth for face cleansing
to fill in ½ teaspoons of the crushed roots of a devyasil with 1 glass of boiled water, to insist 15 minutes, to filter. To moisten a gauze in broth and to put on a face. In 10 minutes to wash water of room temperature.

- For the coarsened hands or after garden works
To make 1 tablespoon of the crushed roots 1 glass of boiled water. To insist 20 minutes. To filter, lower in hand liquid. Or to wet 2 pieces from a terry towel, it is good to impregnate with liquid and to impose on hands. In 15 minutes to rinse water of room temperature and to grease with cream.

- For rinsing of an oily hair and disposal of dandruff
To fill in 1 tablespoon of the crushed roots with 2 glasses of boiled water, to insist 20-30 minutes, to filter. At dandruff to moisten with liquid hair and to rub in head skin, to leave for half an hour, to rinse hair with warm water. If there is no dandruff, then to add 2 glasses of warm water to 2 glasses of broth and to rinse hair after washing of the head.

In old times magicians used devyasit for love spells. It is considered that if to a subject of passion to add to food for breakfast three days in a row powder from flowers of a devyasil, then he will always love.