Euphorbia and its medicinal properties

Not all medicinal plants are 100% useful. One of these plants is called spurge. On the one hand, spurge is recognized in many countries as a very useful tool for treating many diseases, and on the other hand - it contains many dangerous indicators. Moreover, even animals bypass this plant, because it causes severe irritation when used due to the poisonous substances contained in it. More information about spurge and its medicinal properties can be found by reading this article.

Description.

Euphorbia belongs to a large family of euphorbia growing around the world. In this family there are several thousand varieties, of which more than one are distributed in Russia. Our spurge plants are both perennial and annual.

Euphorbia: useful properties

Euphorbia can occur in the form of a herbaceous plant, in the form of a shrub and even a small tree. A separate plant of milkweed can consist only of leaves, stems and leaves, have spines and look like a cactus. Absolutely for all types of milkweed, a common feature is the juice of white and milk color, which flows in branched vessels without partitions. Flowers are collected in inflorescences and are located on top. Among them, up to ten men and one female. Blossom blossoms in the period from June to August.

The spurge plant mainly grows in the southern regions of Russia, for example, in the Volga region, the Caucasus, and also in other countries with a warm climate.

In most cases, the spurge is regarded as a weed and avoid adding it to the animal diet. Quite often, spurge is used for pest control, that is, the destruction of bedbugs, fleas and other insects.

Composition.

Milk white milk juice is called euphorbia. It has a burning taste, is odorless and when it is cut through a leaf or stem, it emits heavily, hardening in the air. Euphorbia contains euphorbion, malic acid, various resins and some other substances. Euphorbion is defined as a mixture of substances such as euphol, alpha-euphorbol, rubberipherol, taraxerol, beta-amirin. All these components belong to the category of poorly studied substances, the exact action of which is not fully known.

Euphorbia, as a medicinal, and at the same time poisonous plant has been known since ancient times. Doctors and healers have always warned about the dangers of internal use of milkweed in the form of infusions and broths because of the obvious irritating effect on the gastrointestinal tract. More often, the spurge was applied externally.

Euphorbia: properties.

Euphorbia can help with many diseases.

Very useful is the milk of euphorbia, named after a Numidian doctor, who led his use in the treatment of many diseases before the beginning of our era. Healers of all times were confident that the milk juice has a diuretic, laxative, diaphoretic, anti-inflammatory, emetic, distracting, analgesic and anti-worm effect. Euphorbia was used in swelling, paralysis, long-lasting non-healing ulcers, with bites of animals suffering from rabies.

Healers of Russia from ancient times use spurge in rabies or rabies, from the evil eye, and also as a laxative and emetic. Euphorbia was used externally to remove warts, pigment spots, to heal corns and to treat malignant tumors.

Euphorbia is widespread in the Altai. Local residents consider its juice fortifying and able to prevent aging of the body. With the help of juice of milkweed in the Altai in ancient times, they treated kidney diseases, cleared blood, bleeding in women, sexually transmitted diseases, impotence, drove worms, skin and rectum cancer. From the spurge plant, curative decoctions and infusions were applied externally for the treatment of purulent wounds, eczema, used to remove warts and calluses.

The healing properties of this plant are well known in the East, where the spurge was used by Tibetan monks and doctors of China to prepare various medications. However, Avicenna warned everyone about the poisonousness of the milkweed.

To date, the use of milkweed has only an external appearance and is used to remove warts, freckles, is used in the treatment of corns, bleaching of pigment spots, and also in the treatment of long-term non-healing wounds.

Methods of procurement of milkweed.

Grass millet collected during the flowering period. It is finely chopped and dried in the fresh air, under a canopy.

Milk juice is collected by push-up, then evaporated in a water bath and poured into cans.

The roots of the spurge plant are excavated early in the spring until the leaves have appeared, or late autumn, when all the leaves have fallen. Roots are washed in cold water and dried in an oven at a low temperature.

Recipes for the preparation of medicines.

One tablespoon of juice of milkweed should be combined with three tablespoons of cottage cheese, then carefully grind and put on the tumor, standing for an hour, after which a burning sensation should appear. After the skin you need to clean and apply just curd, which will be there until the next procedure with the milk. Such treatment is carried out twice a day.

one teaspoon of finely chopped dry herb milk, you need to pour half a liter of boiling water, insist half an hour, strain and apply to foot baths with a stop fungus.

However, it is worth remembering that the external application of milkweed can cause severe irritation, so it is not worth using.

Euphorbia is a poorly studied poisonous plant, which, of course, has medicinal properties, but a strong irritant factor is also clearly pronounced. Internal use of milkweed should not be used, and with the outside should be extremely accurate. Before using a medicine made from milk, it is necessary to consult a doctor.