The article deals with the healing qualities of sweet flag.
It describes simple guidelines on how to use the herb when dealing with various health problems.

1. Essential oil and bitter substances the herb contains have irritant effect on taste buds resulting in the stimulation of appetite.
   In addition, these substances excite the reflex of the secretion of gastric juice.
   Sweet flag has antispasmodic, bacteriostatic, fungicide and anodyne properties.
   Moreover, the herb is proven to prevent digestive disorders related to reduced concentration of acid in gastric juice, fight gas accumulation in stomach and intestine, as well as, treat diarrhea.
   In order to make an infusion or decoction, you should infuse 2 tablespoons of the herbs with a glass of water.
   Drink one fourth of a glass of the remedy 3-4 times a day.
   
2. Mix sweet flag rootstock, mallow root and meadowsweet tops to treat inflammation of intestines.
   
3. Folk medicine uses the infusion, decoction and tincture made of the herb in case of rectal cancer, edema, paradontosis and toothache.
   You should chew sweet flag rootstock during epidemic.
   
4. Infuse 15 grams of the herbs with 600 millilitres of water and boil the infusion.
   Drink half a glass of the decoction before meal to treat edema.
   You can use the tincture for the treatment of edema, as well.
   Infuse the rootstock (1 part) with ethanol (10 parts) and let the tincture to brew.
   Take a teaspoon of the tincture 3 times a day by washing it down with water.
   
5. Infuse the herbs (1 part) with ethanol at 60 percent concentration (5 parts) and mix the tincture with cold boiled water (proportion 1:3).
   Use the mixture to wash wound and for compresses.
   In addition, you should mix 20-30 drops of the tincture with water and drink the mixture twice a day before meal.
   
6. Rootstock is used in folk cosmetics, as well.
   Wash your hair with the infusion or decoction 2-3 times a week to strengthen your hair roots.
   Afterwards, wrap your hair in a towel and wait for at least 2 hours.
   In order to take care of your hair, you should mix the rootstock with hop spikes, birch leaves and greater burdock root.
   Infuse the mix of the herbs with boiling water to make the infusion or decoction.
   Use the remedy to wash your hair or rub your head skin with it.
   

Pharmaceutical companies use the active substances sweet flag contains to produce various remedies.