Wormwood

Wormwood is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Asteraceae; in Latin the name of this plant will be as follows: Artemisia stolonifora (Maxim.) Kom.

As for the name of the wormwood family itself, in Latin it will be like this: Asteraceae Dumort. (Compositae Giseke).

Description of wormwood

Wormwood is a perennial herbaceous plant, the height of which will fluctuate between ninety and one hundred and fifty centimeters. The rhizome of this plant is creeping and it will be endowed with underground rooting shoots. The stems of wormwood can be either bare or equipped with appressed hairs. The leaves of this plant, in turn, can be either almost sessile or sessile; on top, such leaves are painted in dark green tones, and below this color will be whitish. The length of the average stem leaves will be about six to nine centimeters, and the width will be equal to three to four centimeters; these leaves can be either oboval or broadly lanceolate. The leaves of wormwood are endowed with a wedge-shaped base, while the upper stem leaves are smaller and almost linear. The baskets of this plant are on stalks in a compressed inflorescence, which will be racemose-paniculate. It is noteworthy that all the flowers of this plant are fertile.

The flowering of wormwood occurs during the period from July to August. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in the Far East, but for the growth of wormwood it prefers deciduous forests, hill slopes, and forest zones along ridges.

Description of the medicinal properties of wormwood

Wormwood is endowed with very valuable healing properties, and it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. The term grass includes flowers, stems and leaves.

The presence of such valuable healing properties is recommended to be explained by the content of sesquiterpene lactones and flavonoids in this plant. Baths based on the herb of this plant are indicated for use for various colds and joint pain. Compresses from the herb wormwood are indicated for use in metabolic polyarthritis and rheumatism.

To prepare a very valuable medicinal product based on this plant, you will need to take four hundred grams of dry wormwood herb per five liters of water. The resulting mixture should be boiled for three to four minutes over fairly low heat, then this mixture based on wormwood should be left to infuse for two hours, and then this mixture is filtered very carefully. This product based on this plant should be used in a bath with a volume of two hundred and fifty liters.

For rheumatism and metabolic polyarthritis, it is recommended to use the following very effective remedy based on this plant: to prepare such a healing remedy, you just need to use crushed fresh herb wormwood for compresses.

When coughing, it is recommended to use the following very effective healing remedy based on this plant: to prepare such a remedy, you will need to take one teaspoon of dry crushed herb wormwood to one glass of boiling water. The resulting mixture should be infused for about one or two hours, after which the mixture based on this plant should be filtered very carefully. Take this healing remedy based on wormwood shoots before meals three times a day, one or two tablespoons.