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The ordinary wormwood (Artemisia absinthium L.), also known as white wormwood, tarragon and bitter wormwood is a herbaceous perennial and fragrant plant of the family Asteraceae (Compositae), genus Wormwood. It originated in Europe and Siberia, but is now widespread in the United States.
The wormwood is deeply connected with traditional medicine and beliefs. It is believed that the aroma of this herb, harvested during the waning moon, is able to benefit from the home any unclean forces. It is applied in small doses, and the house is smoked with it for a short time. The belief associated with it is that it restores harmony with nature, and the best way to use wormwood is to hang it at home.
Types of Wormwood
In the genus Wormwood quite well-known species enter, such as wild wormwood (black wormwood Artemisia vulgaris L), taros (tarragon) and goddess tree (katrinica). This herb has many aromatic leaves, and some of the species are medicinal, others are used as a spice, and still others are an important part of pasture crops. A unifying feature of all types of wormwood is that they have an extremely bitter taste.
White wormwood has a peculiar pleasant aroma and very bitter taste. It blooms from July to September, and is found in grassy and stony places, in bushes, gardens, along fences and roads throughout the country, mainly in the plains and foothills.
White wormwood is a silver-gray herbaceous plant, which since ancient times has been used to treat menstrual disorders in women and rheumatism and others. Wormwood is one of the most commonly used plants in Balkan folk medicine, and Hippocrates knew its benefits.
From wormwood the flowering leafy tops are mainly used, together with the yellow flowers, cut about 25 cm from the top, which are collected at the beginning of flowering. Unlike white, black wormwood has dark green, bare, and white upper petals below.
Composition of wormwood
Wormwood leaves and stems contain a palette of different substances. The stems of white wormwood contain between 0.5 - 2% essential oil (Oleum Absintjii), whose main components are oxygen derivatives of bicyclic terpenes - alcohol thujole and ketone thujone, as well as azulene sesquiterpene chamazulenogen. The wormwood herb also contains sesquiterpene lactones, organic acids, provitamin A, vitamin B6, vitamin C, carotene, acetic and isovaleric, malic and succinic acids and others. According to Japanese experts, capilin is an active antibiotic.
Application of wormwood
For centuries, even millennia, wormwood has been used for medicinal purposes. An interesting fact is that wormwood is used to prepare absinthe because of the ingredient thujone contained in it. Some species of wormwood are used for food by the larvae of several species of Lepidoptera. Wormwood is also used to repel fleas and moths, as well as to flavor beer and wine. The aperitif vermouth (from the German Wermut - wormwood) is a wine-based drink flavored with aromatic herbs today, but in its original form vermouth was flavored with wormwood.
Benefits of wormwood
The white one wormwood or Tarnika is used only on prescription and has a tonic effect, improves digestion, anti-inflammatory. It is used for gastritis and other inflammations of the stomach, liver and bile diseases, bad breath, anemia, insomnia, intestinal parasites, irregular menstruation, chest pain, bronchial asthma, eczema, wounds, insect bites and more.
How to use: Extract of 1 tsp. herb in 200 ml of water for 2 hours. Take 100 ml before lunch and dinner, and can be made infusion.
Mixture for tea with wormwood for stomach ailments
Crush 1 tsp. wormwood, ½ tsp cinquefoil root, ½ tsp. St. John's wort, 1 cm cinnamon stick and half a teaspoon of orange peel. Pour all this with 1 tsp. boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes and strain. Drink in small sips after meals.
The wormwood has a good effect on problems with the bronchi and stomach, has a tonic effect in influenza and colds, antiparasitic, antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, affects the pineal gland.
The complex of active substances of wormwood stimulates the secretion of the digestive glands, gallbladder and pancreas and thus stimulates the appetite and improves digestion. This makes wormwood an effective remedy in the fight against anorexia or lack of appetite.
The essential oil of wormwood acts as a local anesthetic and also as a cardiac stimulant, stimulating the central nervous system. It is used internally to improve blood circulation, and externally - smear for arthritis, bruises, neuralgia, rheumatism, flat feet.
Worms from wormwood
The white one wormwood it should not be used for inflammation of the kidneys because it has an irritating effect. It is especially important that wormwood should not be used in young children. Large doses of the herb can be poisonous, and prolonged intake of wormwood in higher doses sometimes leads to nausea, vomiting, hallucinations and seizures.
Even completely healthy people should not drink more than 3 cups a day. Wormwood tea should not be taken for more than 4 weeks, as this can damage the central nervous system. Remember that wormwood is always applied in small doses for only a short period of time.
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