A unique plant with a whole range of healing properties has long been used in folk medicine to fight extra pounds.
Apply hellebore for weight loss with extreme caution, observing all the rules. Only then it will become useful for the body, and it will help to lose weight.
The composition and useful properties of the Caucasian hellebore for weight loss
A plant with a long history has its own special composition, thanks to which hellebore is so valuable and useful. Its chemical composition includes:
• alkaloids, which are complex chemical compounds and have many healing qualities;
• cardiac glycosides are poisonous compounds that can have a positive effect on the organs of the cardiovascular system, participating in the treatment of hypertension, heart failure, nervous diseases;
• flavonoid glycosides strengthen the walls of blood vessels;
• essential oils that are rich in pharmacological properties;
• coumarins and saponins.
There are many varieties of such a perennial plant as hellebore. But the Caucasian hellebore is the most effective representative of the buttercup family in the fight against excess weight.
The main useful properties that not only contribute to weight loss, but also improve the health of the body as a whole, include the following:
• removal of toxins from the body, cleansing of toxins and excess salts, effective bowel cleansing;
• providing mobility of joints, improving their general condition;
• normalizing the level of sugar in the body and regulating blood pressure;
• providing an antitumor effect on the body;
• stimulation of the manifestation of diuretic and choleretic effects, normalization of metabolic processes in the body;
• gradual weight loss without losing skin elasticity and sagging in problem areas;
• flexibility of the duration of the course depending on the amount of excess weight.
To hellebore brought only benefits to the body, you should carefully monitor its dosage.
Rules for using the Caucasian hellebore for weight loss
Providing a mild effect on the body, hellebore can not only cleanse the body of harmful substances and toxins, remove salts and waste, but also relieve extra pounds. To obtain greater effectiveness, it is necessary to combine the use of hellebore with some actions. So, the main rules of admission:
1. For starters, you should completely abandon junk food such as fast food, convenience foods, sausages. You will also have to forget about sweet, flour and confectionery products.
2. It is necessary to include in the diet more foods rich in vitamins and other trace elements.
3. You will have to refrain from drinking alcoholic beverages.
4. The last time a day you need to eat food no later than 3 hours before bedtime.
5. You should carefully monitor the size of your servings and avoid overeating. Fatty and high-calorie foods should not be present in the diet.
6. You need to make a habit of taking hellebore every day at the same time. The best option for this is morning and an empty stomach.
Regarding the use of the plant itself, there are also some recommendations that should be followed:
• eat grass best in the morning;
• this should be done on an empty stomach, after which you need to refrain from eating food for 1 hour;
• observe the regimen of the plant and the dose should be strictly;
• it is necessary to provide the body with a set of measures for losing weight, combining physical activity and taking grass;
• you should be responsible for the storage conditions of the plant, its roots should be in a glass dish in the refrigerator.
How to cook and take hellebore for weight loss
Caucasian hellebore itself is a poisonous plant, so it is so important to observe the dosage when taking it. When cooking, it is also important not to deviate from the recipe in order to avoid causing harm to your body.
Most often, the roots of the hellebore plant are used in home medicine and for weight loss in the form of a powder. This product is not found in pharmacies, but can be done at home. To prepare powder yourself:
• dig up the hellebore rhizome in the fall and rinse well under water;
• then leave to dry in the fresh air, while avoiding direct sunlight. Dry roots have a darkish brown color on the outside, and a creamy shade inside;
• to extract powder from rhizomes, you can use a coffee grinder by passing them through it several times.
When the raw materials are ready, you can begin to prepare drugs for weight loss. To do this, you need 50 mg of raw material, which takes a regular measuring spoon without a slide, and ¼ cup of water. The first 10 days should be taken in 50 mg potions, the next 10 days in 100 mg, in the third ten for 150 mg, and starting from day 31 and all subsequent time, 200 mg. The entire course of weight loss with hellebore powder should not exceed more than six months. If there is a need to continue it, then you should take a break of 1 month and you can resume the procedure.
You can use hellebore in another way, which is no less common than the first. To do this, make an infusion of hellebore. It will take 50 mg of raw materials, which will need to be poured 2 tbsp. l boiled water. The mixture in this form should be left to infuse all night, in the morning it will need to be filtered and drunk on an empty stomach. It will be possible to take food only after 15 minutes. To increase effectiveness, you should not eat 4-5 hours.
Do not forget that exceeding the specified dose can be dangerous to health and threatens poisoning. Excessive consumption of the plant will not lead to early weight loss.
Contraindications to the use of hellebore for weight loss, especially the combination with other drugs
As already mentioned, hellebore is a poisonous plant, therefore, it has certain contraindications. It is not possible for everyone to use the plant, namely:
• hellebore is contraindicated for nursing mothers and pregnant women;
• people with individual intolerance and hypersensitivity to the components that make up the plant should refuse to use hellebore;
• people who have diseases of the cardiovascular system and gallbladder disease, it is undesirable to use a plant;
• Children under the age of 14 should not include hellebore.
Hellebore is not a completely safe plant for people not on this list. It has the ability to accumulate toxic substances in the heart muscle, which can lead to severe poisoning and death. The main signs of an overdose of the body by the plant is swelling of the tongue and disturbances in the activity of the heart.
Interacting with various medications, the far from harmless plant is capable of producing various, including negative, reactions. Therefore, using hellebore for weight loss, you should refuse:
• from laxatives to avoid dehydration and disruption of the water-salt balance in the body;
• from diuretics, in combination with which the toxic effects of hellebore will only intensify;
• from preparations containing calcium. The combination of these funds can lead to the development of osteoporosis.
Growing Caucasian hellebore for weight loss at home
To stock up for a long time with a healing remedy for weight loss, you can grow it yourself. The plant is unpretentious and does not require special care. To grow it, for example, in the country is quite simple. You should not plant grass in bright, well-lit areas, it will develop much better in dark places. The ideal habitat for hellebore is a moderately moist and plentiful humus-rich soil with limestone.
Rhizomes can be harvested even in July, the main thing is to do it after the seeds have left. They should be excavated at night until dawn or in the evening before sunset. For use in treatment and for weight loss, rhizomes of adult 4-5 year old plants are used.
