The beneficial properties of wormwood are due to the chemical composition of the plant. It contains alkaloids, ascorbic, succinic and malic acids, capillin, glycosides, carotene, flavonoids, tannins and poisonous essential oil. It has grass and phytoncide activity.
Wormwood. Therapeutic properties in diseases of the joints
For arthritis, arthrosis, as well as tired legs and bruises, bath infusion is used. To prepare it, you need to fill in 50 g of wormwood with boiling water (2 l) and leave for half an hour. Then it is necessary to pour the infusion together with leaves into a basin or bucket, add still warm water there. Immerse your feet in a container for 5-10 minutes. Add hot water periodically. With rheumatoid pains, neuralgia compresses with wormwood help well. To prepare them, you need to scroll a fresh plant through a meat grinder, and soak the dried one with boiling water. Wrap the resulting slurry in a thin cloth and fix it on the sore spot with a bandage. You need to hold the compress for about half an hour.
Wormwood. Medicinal properties in the absence of appetite, loss of strength
With these symptoms, patients are sealed with specially prepared teas. Their effect is due to the presence of aromatic bitterness in the plant, capable of stimulating appetite. With the help of these teas during the war they even raised those patients who, due to a breakdown, did not eat anything. Appetizing teas were prepared as follows. Wormwood was combined with leaves of either yarrow (4: 1), or tripoli and centaury grass (7: 7: 6). A large spoon of one of these mixtures was brewed with boiling water (1/5 L), insisted for about 20 minutes, and after straining, the patient was given a tablespoon of the patient shortly before meals.
The same tea can be given to children who have problems with appetite, only a glass of boiling water needs to take a teaspoon of the mixture.
Wormwood. Medicinal properties for external use
With toothache, an unpleasant odor coming out of the mouth, with inflammation and bleeding gums, you can prepare the following remedy. Finely chop the fresh wormwood grass and insist on alcohol (70%) in a ratio of 1: 5. Tincture should be diluted with water and rinsed with her mouth. Wormwood effectively eliminates oily seborrhea. It is only necessary to show patience. So, the dry grass of wormwood in a ratio of 1:10 is brewed with boiling water and left for two hours. Then strained infusion wash their hair every other day. It is necessary to carry out 15 such procedures. If necessary, you can repeat the course after half a month.
Wormwood. Medicinal properties for helminthic invasions
To combat roundworms and pinworms, enemas are made, the infusion for which is prepared from bitter wormwood, tansy and chamomile inflorescences taken equally. Two large tablespoons of the mixture need to pour ¼ l of boiling water, cool and strain. Enter the infusion should be in a warm form and hold at least 5 minutes. It is necessary to carry out the procedure every other day and continue until the itching completely disappears.
Contraindications
In order for the treatment to be safe, you need to know not only how beneficial the wormwood is, but how it is harmful. This plant is strictly contraindicated during pregnancy. It is also not recommended for use in case of anemia, colitis and enterocolitis. Excessive consumption of wormwood is also dangerous. An overdose threatens with consequences such as convulsions, hallucinations, dizziness and convulsions.