Hand bell …

They say that hand bells grow there where either bell-ringing, or a ring from jingles falls …

Hand bell symbolize constancy. They not only are pleasing to our eye the beauty, but have salutary properties, care for our beauty. And their young small stalks and leaves use in cookery.

The hand bell is Campanula L. - a perennial grassy plant from family of a bell-flower family. In the world more than 350 types of hand bells grow. In a midland of Russia ten types of wild-growing hand bells. Most often in our corner of the world meet – a hand bell broad-leaved, large-leaved, average, dense, krapivolistny, persikolistny … They differ among themselves with a form of leaves, flowers and their color.

The Latin name of a hand bell "campana" designates "bell" and is given it for a form of flowers. A rhizome at a hand bell horizontal with numerous roots, as a rule, hand bells grow at the group connected by one rhizome. Fragile stalks of hand bells grow in length from 20 to 150 cm. Below leaves of hand bells are collected in the socket. Stem, roundish with cloves on the sheet edge.

The correct flower of a hand bell consists of a pyatizuby cup of blue, blue violet color. Flowers of a dense hand bell kind of nestle to each other, and on a branch can be up to 20 flowers. At other hand bells on one branch smaller quantity of flowers.

Hand bells are good melliferous herbs, in good weather their flowers are widely opened, but the rain will hardly gather, and its first drops will fall, flowers are densely closed. Often in them also insects wait bad weather.

Medicinal properties of a hand bell
Leaves of a hand bell contain: vitamin C, carotene, cellulose, coffee and kumarovy acids, flavonoids, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium …

- Medicines from a grass of a hand bell possess the calming, styptic, protivokashlevy action.

- Traditional medicine applies hand bell broths at plentiful periods, uterine bleedings, belyakh, at diseases of a thyroid gland, a headache, cough, fever, atherosclerosis, stomach pains, locks.

- Lotions from a grass put to wounds, dog stings, moisten cat's scratches, at quinsy rinse a throat, at rheumatism put to sore points in the form of compresses.

Hand bell for female beauty
From flowers of a hand bell krapivolistny receive the oil exhaling freshness which is very often used in perfumery.

- Grass infusion for washing and compresses
To make 2 teaspoons of the crushed dry grass 1 glass of boiled water, to draw half an hour, to cool, filter, use for washing in the morning and in the evening. Skin will become gentle and silky.

Do compresses of the same broth. To wet the gauze put in several layers, to put on a face for 10 minutes. To wash boiled water of room temperature.

- A mask from a grass moistening
To mix 1 teaspoon of the crushed grass of a hand bell with 1 tablespoon of sour cream and 2 drops of olive oil. To put on a face for 10 minutes. To remove the tampon moistened in warm water. To wash cool.

- The bathtubs raising a tone and mood banish sad thoughts. At more prolonged use save from a depression. To fill in 1 tablespoon of roots of a hand bell with 1 liter of boiled water, to insist minutes 40, to filter, add to a bathtub with water which temperature of +37 degrees. Time of reception of a bathtub of 10-15 minutes.

- A bathtub from a hand bell grass
To make 1 tablespoon of a grass in 1 liter of boiled water, to insist 1 hour, to filter, pour out in a bathtub. The course of bathtubs especially well helps at tearfulness and insomnia.