HAWTHORN

Crataegus monogyna

It’s especially has effects on heart diseases also a diuretic and a cure for costive.

 

HOLLYHOCK

Altheae rosea  

It is dried by spreading in shaded place. In this plant’s structure there are; gluten, colour giving ingredients and tanning material. It is a very good expectorant. Healing of inflammations in mucosa, coughing, asthma, chronic gastric and intestinal  disorders and in costive. 2 spoons of herb soaked coldly with a bowl of   water  to drink. In case of  dermatologic diseases it is used in bathroom or  with bandages. Mostly, roots and leaves and sometimes the flowers are used for mucolytic and healing specialities.  Hollyhock tea is used as an effective remedy for coughing, hoarseness, flu and lung diseases.  Dried and  divided  roots, leaves and flowers can be cooked. Because by cooking only the effective ingredients can be taken out. But the cooking process shouldn’t last long, otherwise  if you boil it too much the mucoid material changes and the taste sours and it gets hard to drink it.
When we mention about drinking it as a tea; for this  8-12 gr. Hollyhock is added to  1 litre of water and boiled until ¾  litres left. The prepared tea  named a honey or seizure sugar. The hollyhock can be boiled in order to drink or used in partial bath or in bathroom in dermatological diseases. By this method  the skin can be cured. Used as  gargle water or gargle tea . Throat problems, bronchitis, tinnitus  can be healed by respiring the vapour of hollyhock. The newly harvested flowers  should be dried ,n normal position in vase without putting upside-down.