Potatoes have long been the most popular vegetable on our table, but it turns out that it can not only be eaten, but also used as a medicine! To do this, it is enough to put potato tubers in a warm and bright place for 2-3 weeks, and after germination use potato sprouts for treatment.

Potatoes, like many other plants, are protected from numerous pests with the help of special substances that are formed in potato tubers as they grow. Potato alkaloids scare away from tubers not only mice, rats and insects, but also destroy pathogenic bacteria, fungi and viruses that try to "settle" on the surface of the plant.

Due to the action of solanine - a very active alkaloid, flowers, fruits and sprouted potato tubers can cause serious poisoning or even death of a person or animal, but in small doses solanine has a pronounced therapeutic effect.

In addition to antibacterial, antiviral and antimycotic action, potato sprouts have a beneficial effect on the walls of the vessels, strengthening them and reducing the permeability of the vascular wall. Also, preparations based on potato sprouts have analgesic, anti-inflammatory, spasmolytic and wound-healing action.

Tincture of potato sprouts is used to treat:.

Skin diseases - with fungal skin lesions, dermatitis, eczema and other diseases;.

Inflammatory respiratory diseases - with angina, bronchitis, laryngitis, cold and so on;.

Diseases of the mouth - with stomatitis, gingivitis, caries and so on;.

Diseases of the osteoarticular system - with arthritis, gout, arthrosis;.

Ran, cuts, abscesses, furuncles - with damage to the skin, tincture of potatoes helps to speed up healing;.

Oncological diseases - tincture of a potato accept under the special scheme.

Contraindications Tincture of potato sprouts can not be consumed by pregnant women, nursing women, children under 12 years old, patients suffering from diabetes mellitus and other diseases with metabolic disorders. Also tincture of sprouts of a potato is not recommended to use to the people suffering from venereal diseases and the raised or increased sexual excitability. It is not necessary to drink tincture of potato sprouts to patients with a violation of acid-base balance, with bowel diseases - enterocolitis, colitis and enteritis at the stage of exacerbation.

Potato sprouts - recipes For the preparation of spirits from potato sprouts, sprouted tubers and 40% alcohol are needed. With sprouted tubers, the sprouts are cut off or cut off, washed, dried and filled with a glass jar (preferably from opaque glass) to 14 - 13 volumes, then filled to the top with alcohol. Tincture is left in a warm dark place for 2-3 weeks, then filtered and used for oral and external use.

For the treatment of diseases of the upper respiratory tract and oral cavity, it is possible to prepare a rinse with tincture - for 1 t of warm water add a few stalks of tincture and rinse the throat or mouth 3-4 times a day until complete recovery. It is also possible to make compresses or rub alcoholic tincture into the interlateral area and the upper part of the thorax.

For the treatment of skin diseases, wounds, boils and other skin lesions with a tincture solution (1 tincture of tincture for 2 tbsp water), wash the wounds. Also very effective are compresses with tincture - for this, a clean, folded several times gauze or cotton cloth is moistened in undiluted tincture and applied to the affected area, leaving for several hours or overnight.

With articular diseases tincture of the sprouts of potatoes is rubbed into sore spots, the top is wrapped around the joint with a warm woolen cloth and left overnight. Course of treatment 2-3 weeks.

With oncological diseases, the following treatment regimen is used:

1 drop of tincture for 12 tablespoons water 3 times a day, then add 1 drop per day to each dose until it reaches 15-25 drops for 1 time. When there are signs of poisoning with solanine - nausea, vomiting, weakness, dizziness, stop treatment. After reaching the maximum dose, the treatment is interrupted for 5-7 days, during which you can not eat meat and you need to drink as much natural juice as possible, then repeat the treatment.

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