Healing weed: 5 recipes using wood lice
Woodlouse is a nondescript, unpretentious plant that is widespread throughout our country. It grows quickly and sometimes fills the plots, bringing a lot of grief to gardeners. Perhaps they would be less upset if they knew that woodlice is a valuable medicinal plant. It contains vitamins A, C and E, organic acids, tannins, wax, saponins, lipids, mineral salts and essential oils.
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Woodlice herb has a diuretic, analgesic, choleretic and expectorant effect, is a strong antiseptic. Taking drugs from this plant helps to normalize blood pressure, relieve nervous tension, improve heart function and increase vitality. Today we will talk about ways to use woodlice as a medicine.
Water infusion
The drug is prepared from 1 tablespoon of plant materials and 1 glass of boiling water. The mixture is infused for 1 hour without shaking, then filtered. The resulting liquid is instilled into the eyes 1-2 drops 4 times a day. It is believed that this helps to stop the process of corneal opacity and partially restore the lost vision.
The same infusion can enhance lactation, which is very important for young mothers. To do this, you need to take 1/2 cup of the product 3 times a day. With swelling of the mammary glands, a compress with an aqueous infusion of woodlice is applied to the chest for 20 minutes.
Taking 1/2 glass of infusion at least 4 times a day helps with nervous disorders, blood disorders and heart failure.
Alcohol tincture
To prepare an alcoholic tincture, 300 ml of vodka is poured into 1 tablespoon of chopped woodlice herb. The mixture is infused in a dark place for 2 weeks, filtered and stored in the refrigerator, then used to treat chronic gastritis and bowel diseases. It is taken 1-2 times a day, dissolving 20 drops of the product in 1 glass of boiled water.
There is information that taking an alcoholic tincture of woodlice helps to normalize the gastrointestinal tract after food poisoning, relieves pain in the stomach and intestines, and also helps improve appetite.
Juice with honey
Freshly squeezed woodlice juice is one of the best remedies for the treatment of thyroid and liver pathologies. It is combined with bee honey in equal proportions and taken 1 teaspoon of the mixture 4-5 times a day before meals.
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Decoction
A concentrated decoction of woodlice herb is added to bath water for various skin lesions, and is also used to soak compresses that are applied to inflamed or festering wounds.
The tool is prepared as follows: 10 tablespoons of raw materials are poured with 1 glass of hot water and boiled in a water bath for 5-7 minutes. Then the mixture is infused for 4 hours and filtered.
To get rid of benign neoplasms of the uterus (fibroids and cysts), a decoction is used, prepared from 2 tablespoons of woodlice herb and 500 ml of boiling water. The mixture is boiled in a water bath for 30 minutes, then filtered and brought to the original volume with boiled water. The resulting liquid is taken 50 ml 4 times a day before meals. This remedy is also considered useful for general weakness, dizziness and anemia.
Fresh herb compresses
Fresh woodlice compresses help with breast tumors. The crushed grass is applied to the sore spot 2-3 times a day for 20 minutes.
Woodlice does not have a pronounced taste of its own, but it is quite edible. As a vitamin supplement, it can be included in fresh vegetable salads and summer soups. Reception of this wonderful herb has almost no contraindications. The only exception is hypotension, since drugs made from woodlice lower blood pressure. Of course, the likelihood of individual intolerance is not excluded, so you should be careful to start using woodlice or preparations from it, monitoring the body's reaction.
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Maria Kulkes Medical journalist About the author
Education: First Moscow State Medical University named after I. M. Sechenov, specialty "General Medicine".
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