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Cold wormwood is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Compositae, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Artemisia frigida Willd. As for the name of the cold wormwood family itself, in Latin it will be as follows: Asteraceae Dumort. (Compositae Giseke).
Description of cold wormwood
Cold sagebrush is a perennial herb, the height of which will fluctuate between seven and fifteen centimeters. The entire plant will be covered with fine, compressed hairs. The leaves of this plant can be both sessile and short-petiolate, and they are also double-pinnate, the width of such leaves is about seven to fifteen millimeters, and the length is one to two centimeters. The baskets of cold wormwood are in racemose or paniculate inflorescences, they are spherical, and their width is three to four millimeters. The corolla of this plant is bare, conical and sometimes hairy, and such a corolla will be painted in yellow or purple-pink tones.
Cold wormwood blooms in the month of August. Under natural conditions, this plant is found in Central Asia, Western Siberia, Zavolzhsky and Volzhsko-Kamsky regions of the European part of Russia. For the growth of wormwood, the cold prefers the steppe zone on stony and gravelly slopes of hills and low mountains, the edges of pine forests, sandy hillocks and terraces, steppe meadows and old deposits.
Description of the medicinal properties of cold wormwood
Cold wormwood is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while for medicinal purposes it is recommended to use the inflorescences, fruits, roots and grass of this plant. Grass includes stems, leaves and flowers. The presence of such valuable healing properties is recommended to be explained by the content of ascorbic acid, flavonoids, traces of undecanoic acid and essential oil in the herb of this plant, while traces of essential oil will be present in the roots of cold wormwood.
As for traditional medicine, here this plant is quite widespread. In the form of an infusion or a decoction, the herb, roots, fruits and inflorescences of this plant should be used as a very effective diaphoretic for various diseases: cough, pneumonia, fever and pulmonary tuberculosis.
In addition, cold wormwood will be considered an anti-malarial agent. The infusion, prepared on the basis of the leaves, herbs and inflorescences of this plant, is indicated for use in heart attacks as an antihypertensive and cardiotonic agent.
For rheumatism, it is recommended to use an infusion prepared on the basis of fruits, inflorescences and herbs of cold wormwood as a pain reliever. In addition, such a healing agent is also used as a hemostatic agent. Tincture prepared on the basis of the herb of this plant should be drunk with gonorrhea and vitamin deficiencies, as well as to stimulate appetite. Such a remedy is used as an anti-inflammatory and diuretic.
Tibetan medicine uses cold wormwood for joint inflammation, epilepsy, headache, myalgia, bone aches, chronic alcoholism, diphtheria, gastralgia and other gastrointestinal diseases in the form of baths.
A powder based on this plant, as well as an infusion of cold wormwood herb, is applied externally in the form of compresses for neuralgia, gout and rheumatism, and is also used for washing and lotions for eczema, burns, non-healing wounds and ulcers, allergies and tissue damage. It is worth noting that with proper use, such healing agents based on cold wormwood are very effective.
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