What are the contraindications of St. John's wort?
St. John's Wort is a poisonous plant, you need to monitor your health when you take this plant. It is dangerous for people who have hypertensive disease, as St. John's wort restricts blood vessels, increases blood pressure. Unpleasant sensations may appear in the liver.
Useful properties of St. John's wort
St. John's wort contains essential oils, phytoncides, nicotinic acid, vitamin C, tannins, flavonoids and others. St. John's wort is used for stomach ulcers, nervous diseases, hypertension, anemia, hemorrhoids, migraine, with increased acidity of gastric juice, with coughing. And also from jaundice, tuberculosis, with colds, with respiratory diseases, and so on.
Collection of St. John's wort
St. John's wort blooms from June to August. The grass is harvested at the time of flowering. Cut the top 20 cm of grass. For the subsequent propagation of plants on a bush leave a pair of inflorescences, the grass is tied in small bundles and hung for drying. Dry grass without artificial heating, in a dark ventilated place, in the attic. St. John's wort is kept for about three years.
St. John's wort in broths and infusions
Take a half tablespoons of herbs, pour a glass of boiling water and half an hour to warm in a water bath. Then cool and strain, squeeze, add boiled cool water to get a glass of infusion again. Take a decoction for half an hour before meals, three times a day.
St. John's Wort
For 300 grams of boiled water take 2 tablespoons of St. John's wort. Half an hour to insist, take before meals, half a glass three times a day. Take with rheumatism, liver disease, with cystitis, with pain in the stomach, with headaches.
Prepare the infusion of St. John's wort
Take a glass of boiling water for 10 grams of St. John's wort (dry grass), insist 40 minutes. Take after meals 6 times a day for a tablespoon.
Prepare St. John's wort juice
In the flowering period of St. John's wort, gather a large amount of fresh grass. If there is no juicer, scroll the grass through the food processor, put the mass in gauze and squeeze it out manually. Take the juice half an hour before meals, on a tablespoon to neutralize the bitterness, take with honey.
St. John's wort for rinses
Tincture for rinses -½ liters of vodka, 20 grams of herbs, insist for 15 days. Then strain.
Apply, diluting 30 drops of tincture in half a glass of water. Then rinse your mouth after eating three times a day.
And also used to treat burns, wounds, skin diseases.
St. John's wort oil
Sunflower oil pour fresh St. John's wort leaves in a proportion of 4: 1, put on a 21 day transparent capacity in the sun. Then strain and store in a cool place, in the refrigerator.
Another recipe for cooking oil from St. John's wort:
200 grams of sunflower oil pour 3 tablespoons of fresh herbs. Infuse in a cool, dark place for two weeks, constantly shaking. Strain.
Ointment from St. John's wort with radiculitis
Dry grass rubbed into powder, mixed with turpentine and vegetable oil, to make a magnificent mixture. Regularly use the ointment during the day, rubbing into sore spots.
St. John's wort tea
Take a tablespoon without a slide on a half cup of water, brew and insist like an ordinary tea. You can drink before eating ½ cup of this tea three times a day.
Now we know about the useful properties of St. John's wort. Knowing the properties of St. John's wort and applying it as tea, ointment, tincture or broth, you can heal health and use as a preventative against various diseases.