Estragon, also known as tarragon, is often associated with tasty tea and lemonade, but this does not end its useful properties. The plant has its own characteristics in traditional medicine and cosmetology.
The plant is in demand not only in cooking, but also in medical and cosmetology matters, which is especially valuable for women.
The article describes in detail the beneficial properties and contraindications of tarragon for women. The material also contains information about the use of the plant in cosmetology and medicine.
What is useful tarragon?
Tarragon girls will be particularly interesting as an assistant in the fight against age-related changes and an important component for the manufacture of extracts for skin care of the face and body.
Estragon can be considered as a means to improve the work of the female reproductive system, the gonads and the normalization of the cycle. Especially the help of the plant is felt in cases of depressed or prolonged menstruation. Also, the plant will help get rid of pain in the lower abdomen and nausea in critical days. But during pregnancy and lactation, taking tarragon is unacceptable.
Composition
Estragon has a unique composition, combining minerals, vitamins and special enzymes. Thus per 100 grams of dried tarragon accounts for:
Calorie content | 295 kcal |
Protein | 22.77 g |
Fat | 7.24 g |
Carbohydrate | 42.82 g |
Dietary fiber | 7.4 g |
Ash | 12.3 g |
Water | 7.74 g |
The content of vitamins per 100 grams of plant:
Retinol (A) | 0.21 ml |
Ascorbic acid (C) | 50 ml |
Thiamine (B1) | 0.25 ml |
Riboflavin (B2) | 1.34 ml |
Pyridoxine (B6) | 2.41 ml |
Folic acid (B9) | 0,274 ml |
Nicotinic acid (PP) | 8.95 ml |
Nutrients per 100 grams of grass:
Macronutrients | |
Potassium (K) | 3020 mg |
Calcium (Ca) | 1139 mg |
Magnesium (Mg) | 347 mg |
Sodium (Na) | 62 mg |
Phosphorus (P) | 313 mg |
Trace elements | |
Iron (Fe) | 32.3 mg |
Manganese (Mn) | 7.97 mg |
Copper (Cu) | 0.68 mg |
Selenium (Se) | 0.0044 mg |
Zinc (Zn) | 3.9 mg |
Tarragon can be recommended to those who wish:
- Strengthen the bones.
- Improve sexual function.
- Relieve stress and anxiety and return healthy sleep.
- Strengthen immunity.
- Improve the work of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Reduce pressure.
- Increase your appetite.
- Improve kidney function.
- Remove toothache.
- Refresh your appearance.
- Clean and strengthen the walls of blood vessels.
- Lower the level of sugar in the body.
- Drive away the parasites.
- Increase the number of red blood cells.
- Normalize the functioning of the thyroid gland and so on.
Are there any contraindications and can you be pregnant?
In general, tarragon is exclusively beneficial, but in some cases, its use is better to refuse:
- With individual intolerance to tarragon and the presence of allergic reactions to it.
- In the presence of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (ulcers, gastritis, increased acidity, and so on).
- It is strictly forbidden to take tarragon in pregnant women, as the plant tends to stimulate menstruation and can cause miscarriage.
The use of tarragon in traditional medicine
Tarragon for medical purposes can be used in the form of tea, syrup, kvass, decoction and infusion. For example, only some recipes will be given to eliminate health problems with the use of this herb.
For kidney
20 grams of fresh tarragon should be mixed with 500 ml of boiling water and infused for 20 minutes. The resulting medication is support for kidney disease. Apply 4 times a day, 100 ml, for 3-4 weeks.
Normalization of the menstrual cycle and the work of the sex glands
In this case, tea helps when 1 teaspoon of grass is poured with a glass of boiling water and infused for 20 minutes. Either a teaspoon of tarragon, half a teaspoon of ginger is taken, a slice of lemon is added, and all this is poured with 250-300 ml of water. In half an hour the drink will be ready.
Thanks to the diuretic effect, a recipe using tarragon and ginger will be useful for cystitis.
Against neurosis
1 tablespoon of raw materials to throw in a glass of boiling water and insist for an hour. After straining to take the resulting liquid three times a day, 100 ml.
The use of plants in home cosmetology
The chemical composition makes tarragon a great helper in cosmetology.that every girl will be able to appreciate the tested recipes on her body.
Improving hair condition
A package of colorless henna is brewed with boiled water with tarragon. When the mixture has cooled to an acceptable temperature, 3 drops of tarragon essential oil or any other preference are added. The mask is held under the cap on the head for at least an hour, if you wish, you can sleep with it. Then everything is washed off with warm water, without shampoo.
Skin Improvements with Herbs Benefits
- In the presence of oily skin on the face and neck, ice from tarragon-broth herb helps well, allowing it to rejuvenate and tone it. If the skin is normal and dry, then you need to rub 2 tablespoons of fresh tarragon leaves or steam up a tablespoon of dry tarragon and also turn it into mush.
Then it is mixed with cottage cheese and one ampoule of vitamin A is added, and the gruel is applied to the face. At the end of 15 minutes, everything is washed off with alternating cool and warm water.
- In the fight against fading skin, a mask consisting of two tablespoons of chopped tarragon herb mixed with two tablespoons of kefir comes to the rescue. The mask should be on the face for 20 minutes, and washed off first with warm water and then with cool mineral water. Finally, a moisturizer is applied.
- Carrot juice, soft cottage cheese, cream (all one tablespoon) and a bunch of tarragon will help rejuvenate the skin and give it brightness. Flushing is done with a swab dipped in green tea brewing. After another half an hour you need to wash with cold water.
- Fresh grass juice promotes skin regeneration, wound healing, inflammation, and burns.
- Tarragon essential oil in combination with the pulp of cucumber rejuvenates, brightens and tones the skin.
- Pouring a teaspoon of tarhun herb with a glass of boiling water, and adding two tablespoons of cucumber to it, you can get a great tonic for washing.
As can be understood from the above, with reasonable use, tarragon is an extremely useful plant in cooking, medicine and cosmetology. The main thing to comply with the dosage and take into account that it can not be used by women during pregnancy, as well as people who have contraindications to receive tarragon. The daily rate of grass for adults: fresh - 50 grams, dried - 5 grams, in the form of tea - 500 milliliters.