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Breeding, care, oil and recipes of the use of wormwood


Botanical characteristics of wormwood

Wormwood is a perennial, low-smelling plants with developed stems with basal leaves. Rhizomes short, but having a strong, stalky, branchy root. The plant has basal leaves that are on long stalks. The stem and leaves of the plant are painted in a silver-grayish color. Flowers of wormwood yellow color, small size, collected in inflorescence – the brush, which form a panicle of flower heads. At the edge of the basket are female flowers, but in the middle of bisexual flowers. The wormwood fruit is an achene with the presence of longitudinal wrinkles, gray or brown in color.

The plant blooms from mid-summer and flowering lasts until the end of summer. The fruits ripen in late summer – early autumn. Wormwood is found throughout Eurasia and North America. This grass prefers to grow in fallow lands, on the waterfront, clearings, forests and gardens, along roads, in dumps and vacant lots.


Reproduction of Artemisia

Wormwood is propagated by seeds and cuttings. For the first method, you need to collect seeds and sow them in rows. As the germination of seeds plants need in the process of thinning. Thus, there will be only strong and sturdy plants. After a few weeks you can transplant grown plants to a permanent place in the pot or soil.

Many lovers of this plant is propagated by its cuttings. To do this, cut the cuttings with a heel of 10 cm Then planted the cutting in a flower pot, which was then put in a cool room. In early spring we planted rooted cuttings in individual pots, but in early autumn they can be planted in a permanent place.


Care sagebrush

Tarragon prefers well-drained soil and a Sunny location. This plant is unpretentious, and it does not need any special care. Water it copiously in summer. Winter watered as the drying of the soil. Wormwood is very good for complex fertilizers, which contribute to the period of active growth of the plant no more than two times. If wormwood has expanded greatly, it is necessary to make pruning rhizomes.


Useful properties of sage

Wormwood has anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic and anticonvulsant properties. This plant increases the appetite and improves digestion, helps reduce pain during menstruation. Wormwood is the bitterness that helps to improve the functioning of the body and improving its tone. The plant has a purifying property. Wormwood is the bestmeans that helps fight harmful microorganisms entering the body and compromising its vital functions.

Wormwood is used to make drops and pills for treatment of stomach, as well as fees that have a choleretic effect on the body.

The use of wormwood

Wormwood has long been a great demand among folk healers. It was used and now is used as a treatment for malaria. Wormwood has anti-ulcer and antiseptic. The plant is used in the treatment of kidney diseases, tuberculosis, inflammation in the kidneys and bladder, hemorrhoids and hydrocele.

The roots of the sage have a calming effect on the human body, a patient with epilepsy. From the leaves of plants to prepare drugs that reduce pain in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

Wormwood tincture for coughs. For its preparation you need to take 10 grams of wormwood and pour them a glass of vodka. Leave everything for 24 hours in a dark and cool place. Take a tincture three times a day for 1 tablespoon before meals and 4th time before sleep.

The infusion of wormwood rheumatism. Preparing the infusion: 1 teaspoon of plants pour 500 ml of boiling water, insist 1 hour. Then infusion of strain and take 2 tablespoons before meals three times a day. Such treatment should not last more than 7 days.

Decoction of wormwood in diseases of the pancreas. Take 2 table spoons of dried powder from the plant and pour them a glass of boiling water, put in a water bath for a quarter of an hour. After draining, squeeze and pour in the broth, a Cup of boiling water. Accept, sredsvto before meals for 50-70 ml.

Enema of wormwood from pinworms. Take 1 head of garlic, pour a glass of boiling water and put on fire for 15 minutes. Prepare a decoction of wormwood in a quantity of 500 ml final volume. Broth connect and do enemas 3-4 days.

Syrup of wormwood in diseases of the stomach and liver. Taking 50 grams of grass, soaked it a day in pure spring water. Then put this infusion on a small fire, closing the lid. After a couple of minutes there is added 200 grams of sugar (honey) and leave on the heat for another quarter of an hour. Strain the syrup, it is taken 1 teaspoon three times a day before meals.

Collect at alcoholism. Take 5 grams of Artemisia, 15 grams of creeping thyme and mix. Now take 2 tablespoons of this collection pour two cupsof boiling water and set on heat for 10 minutes. After removing from heat the composition, give it to infuse for 10 minutes. Raw materials in the broth needs to be overcome, and the resulting volume is diluted with boiling water, until a pint. Ready collection take 1 month at a 70 ml three times a day. Further 40-45 days make a break, after which again repeat the treatment.

Oil of wormwood. To make it, take fresh herbs of wormwood and put it in a liter glass jar. Pour olive oil to the brim and close tightly with a lid. Leave for a week and a half to infuse. Once the oil acquires a dark green ( or pearl) color – it's ready. Strain the oil, store it in the fridge. Oil lubricated wounds, ulcers and sore spots on the body.

Wormwood tincture with pumpkin seeds for worms. For its preparation take 100 grams of sage leaves and as much of the crushed pumpkin seeds. The mixture pour 300 ml of vodka and insist 7 days in the sun or in a warm room. Take a tincture of 50 ml on an empty stomach before lunch and before dinner. So treated 2-3 weeks.

Wormwood for weight loss. Prepare a tincture of the herb mugwort and take 1 tablespoon three times a day before meals. You can also prepare collection: take buckthorn, wormwood and tansy 2 tablespoons and pour a glass of boiling water. Keep on heat for 10 minutes and remove. Taken in the same way as a tincture.

Wormwood insomnia, and headache. Take 10 grams of seed plants, make them powder. The prepared mixture is mixed with 40 grams of olive oil and leave for 8 hours to infuse. Apply 2 drops before sleep.

Wormwood for the appetite. For preparing this medicine need to take 80 grams of wormwood and mix with 20 grams of yarrow. Taking 1 tablespoon of this collection, it is poured in 500 ml of boiling water, leave to infuse for half an hour and take 50 ml three times a day.


Contraindications to the use of wormwood

Wormwood should not take long, as it will lead to disorder of the nervous system. The maximum dose of the medication wormwood is 30 days. Pregnant and lactating women wormwood is contraindicated. People with gastric ulcer and gastritis is also impossible to accept preparations of wormwood. Many people have an Allergy on wormwood, so it is strictly prohibited to use it as a drug.