Folk Medicine With Walnut Leaves

2024 Author: Jasmine Walkman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 08:29

If walnuts are used mainly for subsistence, then walnut leaves are the true priceless gift of nature. They are rich in tannins, flavonoids, pectins, carotene and others. substances that for centuries have made them faithful helpers in the treatment of a number of diseases.

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You may have heard that prominent folk healers such as Peter Deunov and Peter Dimkov recommended that babies be bathed in sunny water in which walnut leaves are immersed to avoid developing rickets. But you hardly know that walnut leaves also have antifungal, anti-inflammatory and antibacterial action.

The possibility of reducing the risk of cancer is also being considered scientifically, and it has already been conclusively proven that decoctions prepared from walnut leaves, are especially recommended for people suffering from diabetes because they regulate blood sugar.

For external use you can prepare healing bath of walnut leaves like the one mentioned in babies. In addition to rickets, such baths have a healing effect on diseases of the musculoskeletal system, and according to Vanga, if the leaves are pre-cooked, the bath will be especially effective in protecting children from anemia.

You can also make tea or decoction from already dried walnut leaves. They are useful for improving the function of the digestive system and against diarrhea, to prevent cardiovascular disease, to improve the appearance of the skin, etc.

Whether you use walnut leaves externally (for baths, compresses, etc.) or internally in the form of teas or medicinal decoctions, it is best to pick them in early June. Then they have the smoothest surface, are more elastic and are especially rich in valuable substances.

You can either use them immediately externally or dry them for a few days and use them for further purposes. The already dried leaves are closed in paper bags and stored in a dry place, and to save space, you can pre-grind them.

Petar Dimkov has his own remedy for inspiring new forces in the human body, because he believes that the decoction prepared according to his recipe leads to the renewal of the blood. We can't help but share it with you, but to prepare it, you will need other ingredients besides walnut leaves. However, if you take it daily for 10 days in each season, you can achieve miracles.

Recipe with walnut leaves to purify the blood

Mix 30 g walnut leaves, pine needles, whip, St. John's wort, Greek nettle, raspberry leaves, yarrow, plantain, blackcurrant and wild strawberry leaves, fragrant lazarkin and red juniper berries.

Scrape 2 tbsp. of already mixed herbs and leave it to neck for 5 minutes in 500 ml of water. Drink 150 ml of this decoction three times a day.

According to Dimkov, it is through the purification of the blood that the human body "drives away" diseases. Or as he himself claims When a person is sick? "When his blood is unclean." When the venous blood in a person's body is purified and becomes arterial, he stops getting sick. A person's blood must be absolutely pure - it must not contain any impurities, any foreign elements that are able to change his thoughts and feelings.

And we can't help but trust Petar Dimkov, known only as the Healer.

See more health recipes from our useful health encyclopedia. And to combine the useful with the pleasant, take a look at these walnut cakes for the soul.