Healing properties
The active substances of the cinquefoil: flavonoids, essential oils, resins, tannins, termentolic acid, waxes, elago and gallic acids, phytosterols, dyes, organic substances, minerals, flobafen, starch.
Cinquefoils have long been used in folk medicine, they are also important medicinal plants in modern medicine, they have a lot of tannins, even more than in the bark of oak. Preparations made from rhizomes have strong astringent properties and are the safest to use.
The decoction is used to treat diarrhoea, intestinal ulcers, inflammation of the intestine, dysentery, oncological and other diseases. All parts of the cinquefoil, especially rhizomes, are rich in compounds with antimicrobial properties. A decoction or infusion helps to stop bleeding, which is used when blood sugar is low, increases the body’s resistance to infectious diseases.
Cinquefoils have long been used in folk medicine, they are also important medicinal plants in modern medicine, they have a lot of tannins, even more than in the bark of oak. Preparations made from rhizomes have strong astringent properties and are the safest to use.
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Very good herbal
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