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Useful properties and recipes for woodlice
Botanical characteristics of woodlice
Woodlouse is an annual plant with a creeping branched stem. The entire stem is covered with hairs, which collect moisture from the air into the stem and store it in it. On long stems are leaves of a rounded-oblong shape. On the edges they have cilia. The upper leaves are sessile, while the lower leaves are petioled. The flowers of the plant are small, white in color, collected in inflorescences, they look like small stars.
The fruit of the plant is a box of spherical or oblong shape, dark brown in color. Inside the box are many seeds, which are round or in the form of kidneys. The ripening of the box occurs from the end of July to the beginning of October, it is at this time that the box at the base opens.
Woodlouse is a plant that grows throughout Russia. She prefers vegetable gardens, orchards, forest edges, banks of rivers and streams, and places where garbage accumulates.
Useful properties of wood lice
Mokritsa is a real storehouse of useful substances. For example, it contains vitamins of many groups, organic acids, saponins, tannins, wax, essential oils and lipids. Woodlice contain minerals such as magnesium, iron, copper. The plant has analgesic, emollient, diuretic and expectorant properties. Woodlice are used as a blood stopper. In addition, the plant has a choleretic and antiseptic effect.
Woodlouse restores the nervous system, lowers blood pressure, if it is elevated, and has a positive effect on heart function. This plant is a tonic that strengthens the entire human body.
The use of wood lice
Woodlouse has long been used in folk medicine. Its juice helps with kidney or liver disease, hemorrhoids and even thyroid disease. Woodlice juice contains vitamin E, namely, it is responsible for rejuvenating the body, cleansing blood vessels and improving blood. Vitamin E also removes all harmful substances from the body.
Woodlice are used not only in the form of juice, but also fresh, in the form of decoctions and infusions from the leaves, stems and flowers of the plant. For example, an infusion of woodlice helps to cure eye diseases, and an infusion of this herb is used for stomach ulcers, colitis, coughs, scurvy, diseases of the heart, kidneys and lungs. Woodlice helps to increase the level of hemoglobin in the human body.
Infusion of woodlice is also used externally – in the form of baths for skin rashes, festering wounds, ulcers and scrofula. Lotions are made from wood lice, which are used as a remedy for aches, rheumatism and symptoms of sciatica.
Infusion of wood lice for the eyes. Take 1 tablespoon of fresh herbs and pour a glass of boiling water over it. Leaving to infuse for an hour, the broth is not touched or shaken. The finished infusion is filtered and instilled 1-2 drops into the sore eye no more than four times a day.
Tincture of woodlice for pain in the stomach and intestines. To prepare this tincture, you need to take 1 tablespoon of wood lice and pour 300 ml of pure vodka into it. We leave the composition to infuse for 2 weeks in a dark place. Take tincture before meals, previously diluted. To do this, you need to take 20 drops of tincture, dilute them with a glass of water and take it already in such a diluted form.
Woodlice juice for lactation. Take 1 teaspoon of woodlice juice and mix it with the same amount of honey. We take this medicine three times a day before meals for a teaspoon.
A decoction of woodlice with myoma, erosion and cyst. Take 2 tablespoons of herbs and pour 500 ml of boiling water over them. Pour everything into an enamel bowl and put in a water bath for half an hour. After straining, the broth must be brought to its original volume. Take the drug 50 ml 4 times a day before meals. With the help of the same decoction, you can get rid of dizziness, weakness and anemia.
Lotions from wood lice for skin diseases. Take a ready-made decoction of wood lice and moisten gauze lotions in it. Apply a lotion from a decoction of wood lice several times a day to the problem area of uXNUMXbuXNUMXbthe skin.
Fresh woodlice from a tumor of the mammary glands. To do this, you need to take fresh woodlice grass and make a compress out of it, which should be applied to the sore chest. The compress is kept on the chest for 20 minutes. Such procedures are carried out 2-3 times a day.
Infusion of wood lice strengthens the nerves. The recipe for the preparation of the infusion is described above. Ready infusion should be taken 4 times a day. Single dose – 50 ml.
Contraindications to the use of wood lice
Woodlice have the property of lowering blood pressure, therefore, people with already low blood pressure should not use preparations from it. Otherwise, there are no contraindications to the use of this miracle herb.