Who from us isn't familiar with a geranium – the favourite grandmother's alumna pleasing a look with the whole bouquets of bright flowers. For certain to everyone the specific smell of this plant was remembered also: bitter, warm, invigorating and lightening mood. The old acquaintance is capable not only to be pleasing to the eye, but also to help with fight against serious diseases!

The geranium – is very unpretentious and presented by a huge number of types and grades. The homeland of a plant is the African continent.

The geranium is obliged by the wonderful properties to the essential oil containing in its greens in a huge number. It made a geranium one of the plants most used by healers. It with success apply both at usual cold, and in complex treatment of the hardest diseases, including the oncological.

Antibacterial properties of a geranium are so high that practically all microbes which have appeared near a plant, inevitably perish. People noticed this feature in the 19th century when the geranium became the ordinary inhabitant on window sills of simple city dwellers. Except the ability to clear air of pathogenic microbes, the plant also frightened off insects - messengers of dangerous diseases.

Besides essential oil, in a geranium there are phenols (in roots), multiple phenolic connections (in green material), sucrose, starch, flavonoids, vitamins.

There are thousands recipes of use of a geranium in traditional medicine and a life. It apply as antiviral, antibacterial, diuretic, anesthetizing, antidiabetic, antiedematous means. It well affects a warm rhythm, stimulates work of a cardiac muscle and a blood-groove, kills a headache. For normalization of arterial pressure happens to put the kneaded leaf of a geranium to a wrist enough.

One only the smell of a geranium is capable to affect well in public, patients with chronic gastritis, diseases of a liver and kidneys. Only it is necessary to lodge a plant at home.

The geranium is really wonder-working at various catarrhal diseases. Juice from leaves is dug in in a nose, as drops. However hypersensitivity to essential oil of a geranium therefore initially it is better to dilute juice with water is possible. Infusion it is very good to rinse a sore throat. The green leaf can be added in water for inhalation.