Wormwood tincture

About healing properties wormwood known for a long time. She was credited with healing and even magical properties. Of course, one can be skeptical of magic, but the presence of its useful and healing properties is beyond doubt.

Wormwood tincture is a dark green liquid.

As a basis for the preparation of oil tincture, you can use olive or any other vegetable oil, sunflower is suitable. The raw material is crushed wormwood seeds (1 tablespoon), which are added to half a glass of oil. For a day, this composition should be placed in a dark and warm place. After the allotted time, the tincture is filtered. It is recommended to use double-folded gauze or bandage for this purpose. In order to facilitate the process of falling asleep, put 5 drops of this tincture on a piece of refined sugar and eat this bittersweet preparation.

Oil tincture of wormwood can be made from fresh raw materials. To do this, the leaves of the plant are placed in a half-liter jar. There is no need to tamp them down. Next, oil is poured into the jar. Suitable olive, linen. The jar is closed with a lid. After 10 days, the strained medicine is ready for use. Its color should be dark green or pearlescent.

Usually wormwood tincture is an alcohol solution, 70%. Wormwood tincture is quite easy to prepare at home.It will take 1 part of dry raw materials and 5 parts of 70% alcohol. The resulting mixture is placed in a dark and cool place. After two weeks, the drug is ready.

This tincture is used to treat nervous disorders. Required: one liter of cognac and two tablespoons of wormwood roots. The roots are poured with brandy and heated in a water bath for about 10 minutes. The finished mixture is poured into a jar, tightly closed with a lid and infused in a dark, warm place for two days. After the specified time, the medicine is filtered and 3-5 drops are taken twice a day.

The smell is rich, pronounced. The taste of wormwood tincture is very bitter.

Wormwood tincture and products containing sugar are two incompatible things. Sugar weakens the medicinal effect of the plant. In this regard, during the period of use of tincture, sweets should be discarded.

Nutritional value and calorie content of 60% alcohol tincture contains 83 kcal.

• Proteins - 0 g
• Fats - 0 g
• Carbohydrates - 8.8 g

Abuse causes:

• Convulsive and hallucinogenic states.
• The so-called "wormwood epilepsy".
• The most severe poisoning that causes great harm to our body.
• Nervous disorders.

• Wormwood tincture is strictly contraindicated during pregnancy and lactation.
• Individual intolerance to the body of the components of the tincture.
• With anemia, the use of tincture should be limited both in dosages and in the duration of the course of treatment.
• Gastric ulcer.
• With caution in patients with asthma.
• It is strictly forbidden to use wormwood tincture after surgery.

Due to its medicinal properties in folk medicine, both wormwood oil and wormwood decoction.

• Wormwood tincture is an effective remedy in the treatment of many chronic diseases: cholecystitis, pancreatitis, enterocolitis.
• It is used for gastritis.
• Being an antiseptic, it finds its application in dentistry in the treatment of stomatitis and gingivitis. In complex therapy, she is treated for periodontal disease.
• Wormwood tincture treats constipation and heartburn.
• An oil tincture of wormwood is taken for insomnia.
• Wormwood tincture can be used in compresses to treat various skin lesions (fungi, eczema).
• It is recommended to use the tincture of wormwood both inside and in massages for patients with rheumatism.
• A choleretic agent is prepared from a mixture of sage and wormwood.
• Traditional medicine recommends the use of tincture of wormwood for hemorrhoidal manifestations and for herpes.

• Being an excellent appetite stimulant, it is used for its violations. Getting into the stomach, wormwood tincture accelerates the process of production of gastric juice. When treating, 15 drops are enough for a quarter of an hour before meals.
• Wormwood tincture kills parasites living in the intestines. For cooking, you will need very simple ingredients: pumpkin seeds, wormwood grass, alcohol or vodka. Pumpkin seeds must first be thoroughly crushed. Mix them with the same amount of wormwood and pour the alcohol-containing component (if it is alcohol, then it must be diluted with water to make a 50% solution).For one part of the plant mixture, 3 parts of alcohol are taken. The resulting solution reaches its curative stage within 10 days. Leave it in a warm place for this time. A tincture of 23-50 ml is used (the dosage is directly related to the patient's body weight) half an hour before meals. The course of treatment is 10 days. If there is a need, then it is repeated.
• In the autumn-spring period, when there is an exacerbation of viral colds, wormwood tincture can serve as a wonderful prophylactic. 3-4 days will be enough. Dosage - 1 teaspoon.
• With anemia and depletion of the body, tincture of wormwood is treated for two weeks. But the dose should be the smallest, i.e. 1 drop. It must be diluted in one teaspoon of boiled water. Consume on an empty stomach once a day. After a 2-week treatment period, a pause of 2 weeks is made and, if necessary, the course can be repeated again.

Wormwood is widely used in the preparation of various alcoholic tinctures, the most famous of which is absinthe.

Preparation of absinthe is a long and troublesome business, but there is also a simplified version of this drink:

• For 250 ml of vodka, the following components are needed: dry ground herbs of wormwood (30 g) and mint (15 g), lemon zest (10 g) and sugar syrup (35 ml).
• At the first stage, wormwood is added to vodka and placed in a warm place for 48 hours. It is necessary that the temperature in which wormwood is infused be about 40-50 ° C. For this purpose, you can use a home heating battery.
• Next, the remaining components are added to the wormwood tincture, but without sugar syrup.The infusion process lasts 1-1.5 weeks.
• Then everything is carefully filtered and sugar syrup is poured. Homemade absinthe is ready to drink.

The beginning of the 20th century brought wormwood scandalous popularity. Absinthe, which at that time was very fond of the French creative intelligentsia, was addictive. And its uncontrolled use entailed hallucinogenic and neurotic states of the bohemia who used it. Although absinthe was originally created as a medicine, thujone (an alkaloid that was part of wormwood) did its job and absinthe was banned from production. Only after some time, absinthe again appeared on sale. Manufacturers now strictly monitor that the level of a dangerous alkaloid does not exceed the maximum allowable limit.

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