If you list medicinal herbs known to people from ancient times, St. John's wort will certainly be among them. More than a thousand years ago, it was used to treat superficial wounds. St. John's wort was included in any of the recipes for the preparation of the “knightly elixir”.
Avicenna advised using it as a diuretic, painkiller and
wound healing agent.St. John's wort grass . Useful properties for burns
It is advisable that the house always had oil from this plant. It’s easy to cook. It is necessary to grind fresh leaves and flowers of St. John's wort, measure 0.5 cups and insist them 21 days in 100 ml of vegetable oil (any). After pressing and filtering, the resulting product must be moved to a refrigerator for storage. Compresses are made from it on the affected areas, even if the surface of the skin is damaged by two-thirds. If the finished oil was not at hand, you can cook it in an accelerated way: combine the components in the above proportions and warm them for six hours in a water bath.
St. John's wort grass. Useful properties for smoking and alcoholism
It is known that a decoction of this plant with prolonged regular intake causes an aversion to alcohol. To prepare it, pour St. John's wort with boiling water (4 tablespoons of grass per 0.5 l of liquid), hold for about half an hour in a water bath. Filter the product after it has completely cooled. Take it before meals only 2 times a day: at lunch and in the morning, 2 large spoons. It is necessary to continuously be treated for at least 2 weeks. When smoking, another remedy is prepared. Measure 8 large spoons of dry raw material, fill it with vodka (0.5 l), tightly close and leave for a week. Just do not forget to occasionally shake this tincture. It must be taken every day before meals (40-50 drops).
St. John's wort grass. Useful properties for flu, colds
Reception of this herb instead of tea helps well from nasal congestion. It is necessary to add more honey and Kalanchoe juice, pre-mixed equally. Also, with a runny nose, you can instill a nose with warm hypericum oil, prepared according to the same recipe as for the treatment of burns. In case of flu, take a tincture made from 100 g of herb and half a liter of vodka. It can be used after 36 hours. In a glass of warm water, 20 ml of this tincture is dissolved and drunk before meals.
St. John's wort grass. Useful properties in cosmetology
If the skin is porous, oily, prone to sweating, it is useful in the morning to rinse your face with cool infusion prepared from several herbs taken equally (St. John's wort, coltsfoot, sage and yarrow). Pour a spoonful of this mixture with boiling water (1/5 L), filter in the morning. It is also good to make lotions with a decoction of the following herbs: leaves of coltsfoot and sorrel, calendula flowers, St. John's wort grass. They need to be mixed evenly, pour 1 to 2 with boiling water and a little more kept on fire. The cooled broth is filtered, impregnated with a multilayer gauze and put it on the face for 20 minutes.
St. John's wort grass : contraindications
Despite the fact that this medicinal plant is easily accessible to all categories of the population, it should be used only after consultation with a specialist. The fact is that St. John's wort grass, having a strong antibacterial effect, as a result of uncontrolled and prolonged ingestion, can not only destroy the pathological microflora, but also affect the beneficial, lead to dysbiosis.