Wormwood is not just a plant. This is a whole storehouse of useful elements that can solve many human problems.
General information
This is a shrub growing in a desert area. The plant belongs to the family of asters and is poisonous. It has a pronounced specific aroma. It is popularly known as an anthelmintic.
The stems of wormwood can be up to half a meter high. The flowering period runs from August to September.
Wormwood grows in the Central Asian regions, mainly in Kazakhstan. Locals call the plant darmina .
This is what the wormwood growing in the southern part of Kazakhstan looks like, the photo of which is presented below.
The plant prefers fertile land and flat terrain. Often found in the form of thickets.
How to grow
It is important to note that the plant likes hot summers, but at the same time, high humidity also does not hurt.
Wormwood citrate tolerates even very cold winters, but drought affects its flowering is not the best way.
Propagate the plant quite easily. Roots, seeds, and shoots are used.
The most convenient is the method of direct planting of seeds in the ground. The best time for this is from November to January. So there is a great chance to achieve an excellent harvest.
The harvesting of buds for subsequent drying should occur at the end of July.
Store dried wormwood in cloth bags or cardboard boxes. Contact of the plant with plastic or metals is unacceptable, as this affects its pharmacological action.
Wormwood citrate. Application and medicinal properties
What else is interesting to know about this miracle? From ancient times wormwood known as a plant endowed with great healing power. Some witches and sorcerers used it in their drugs and conspiracies. It was believed that a decoction of its flowers gives strength and health to even a hopeless patient!
The story of this plant is quite confusing. Already in the Middle Ages its healing power was mentioned. Many believe that it has been used by Arabs for medical purposes since ancient times.
And today, wormwood used against worms. Especially good expels parasites from the child's body. This is due to the high content of santonin, which even nowadays has no synthetic analogues!
Folk legend
Among the people there is a legend about a boyar son who suffered from roundworms. His father gave him to an ordinary shepherd for education, so that he would teach him his work. The shepherd fell in love with the boyar child as his own and decided to help him cope with the disease. He prayed to higher powers every day and asked to send a blessing to the boy. One fine day, the shepherd had a dream about the grass growing on the lawn, and an unknown voice told him that this was the solution to his problem. The man, not believing in this, prepared a potion with wormwood and gave the boy a glass of drink. A month later, the child was completely cured of this disease, and the happy father provided the shepherd with money for the rest of his days!
Tales are tales, but the benefits of wormwood against worms have been proven more than once. Even experts recognize the effectiveness of this treatment method. After all, analogues of synthetic origin do not always help in this situation.
As you know, not all plants have a therapeutic effect. The greatest concentration of beneficial properties is in unbroken buds.
How to use
Many people have a question about how to take citrus wormwood.
It must be noted that experts advise doing this with great caution, since there is a high risk of side effects. For example, an allergic reaction or even vomiting may occur.
Therefore, it is necessary to consult a doctor about whether you should take the flowers of wormwood or preparations made on their basis.
Now many people are surprised that earlier in the villages where they kept a large number of cattle, there was a very low level of infection with worms, although almost all people were involved in agriculture and were constantly next to different animals.
The fact is that now you have well-known wormwood citrus, whose beneficial properties are widely used in this area, really saved from this disease.
Recipes for the prevention of worms were passed on by the housewives from generation to generation, so these are really proven folk remedies that will help you cope with the problem of parasites.
Wormwood on alcohol. Worm Recipe
The method of preparation of such a drug:
- Two tablespoons of dried wormwood pour ten tablespoons of vodka.
- Stir and infuse the mixture for a week.
- Strain and pour the resulting tincture into a glass jar.
Adults take twice a day, fifteen drops.
A decoction of worms
Decoction is easier to prepare, and adjusting the dose is easier. It is also suitable for children's use.
Cooking method:
- Two teaspoons of wormwood will need two glasses of already pre-boiled water.
- Pour and simmer for about seven minutes.
- We insist about half an hour.
It is recommended to cook this broth daily, so that the beneficial properties of the plant get into the body. Take three times a day for half a glass.
An effective course of treatment with enemas filled with the same decoction will also be effective.
Mixture with tansy
Cooking method:
- Mix twenty grams of tansy flowers with one head of garlic passed through a press and add ten grams of citrus seed.
- Pour boiling water over everything and put it on for a couple of hours.
- Eat four tablespoons of the resulting broth three times a day.
Birch bud mix
The recipe is impossibly simple, but its effectiveness is simply amazing.
- Fifty grams of birch buds mixed with ten grams of citrus seed.
- Pour with two glasses of water.
- Send insist on nine hours.
- Take before meals three times a day.
Dark beer broth
Cooking method:
- Pour ten grams of wormwood seed with a liter of beer.
- Bring the mixture to a boil.
- Then leave to infuse on the stove for ten minutes.
It is recommended to take thirty milliliters three times a day.
Wormwood oil
It is necessary to place the freshly picked plant in a liter jar and add olive oil. The remedy is infused for ten days.
Apply for wound healing and smear problem areas of the skin.
Recipes are contraindicated lactating and pregnant women, as well as people with individual intolerance and suffering from various chronic diseases.
A child can use citrate wormwood as an anthelmintic. under the supervision of the attending physician. Accordingly, only he can prescribe a dosage and method of application.
Remember, folk recipes, although time-tested, but each human body is unique, therefore, what is the solution to the problem for one may be contraindicated in another. Therefore, you must definitely visit a doctor and pass all the necessary tests for intolerance before self-medication.
Wormwood is truly a medicinal plant, look at it, perhaps it will help you deal with worms when other medical supplies do not help.
Such cases in folk medicine have been recorded quite a lot. Patients suffering from parasites were cured almost immediately after undergoing treatment with wormwood citrus. They were very surprised that experienced specialists with high experience could not help them, and the tablets prescribed by them also turned out to be ineffective. Suddenly, at first glance, it would seem, an ordinary weed helped them cope with the disease and again live a full life!
Also, the plant is an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and can help with rheumatism, neuralgia.
So do not underestimate such simple and common plants. Some of them can cure the most advanced diseases.
Such is wormwood citrine, which cured many generations of people from worms!