Wormwood Yakut

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Wormwood Yakut is one of the plants of the family called Asteraceae or Compositae, in Latin the name of this plant will sound as follows: Artemisia jacutica Drob. As for the name of the Yakut wormwood family itself, in Latin it will be as follows: Asteraceae Dumort. (Compositae Giseke).

Description of the Yakut wormwood

Yakut wormwood is an annual or biennial plant, the height of which will fluctuate between twenty-five and forty centimeters. The whole plant will be painted in grayish tones, and the root itself is vertical and rather thin. The stems of this plant can be either single or present in the number of several pieces, such stems will be erect or ascending at the very base. The baskets of the Yakut wormwood will be hemispherical, their width is six to eight millimeters, such baskets will be on legs in a wide loose paniculate inflorescence, and the baskets can be either drooping or rejected. The marginal pistillate flowers are in number up to twenty-one, and the corolla itself will be narrow-tubular. The flowers of the disc will be bisexual and fairly numerous, and the corolla will be conical. The length of the achenes of the Yakut wormwood reaches one millimeter, and in shape such achenes will be oblong-ovate.

Blossoming of the Yakut wormwood falls on the month of August. Under natural conditions, this plant is found on the territory of the Okhotsk region of the Far East and in all regions of Eastern Siberia, with the exception of only the Yenisei region. For growth, the plant prefers sandy shores, saline meadows, sandy outcrops of peaks and slopes, salt marshes, gravelly areas of steppes, shoals of salt lakes and rivers.

Description of the medicinal properties of the Yakut wormwood

Yakut wormwood is endowed with very valuable healing properties, while it is recommended to use the herb of this plant for medicinal purposes. The concept of grass includes inflorescences, leaves and stems. The presence of such valuable medicinal properties is recommended to be explained by the content of essential oil in the composition of the aerial part of this plant.

The essential oil, alcoholic and chloroform extract of this herb are endowed with fungistatic activity. The essential oil of Yakut wormwood has anti-inflammatory properties, and is also endowed with the ability to reduce joint swelling, reduce capillary permeability and suppress exudation. In addition, the essential oil of this plant will effectively eliminate the signs of hydropic dystrophy and metabolic disorders in the parenchyma of the kidneys, heart and liver. It should be noted that the effectiveness of the essential oil of this plant is more pronounced in comparison with the essential oil of wormwood sivers, wormwood of Pontic and wormwood. Also, such a healing agent is endowed with fungicidal and antibacterial activity, and will also stimulate the growth of connective tissue during wound regeneration.

As for traditional medicine, here Yakut wormwood has become quite widespread. An infusion prepared on the basis of the herb of this plant is indicated for use in malaria and various venereal diseases, while a decoction prepared on the basis of the Yakut wormwood inflorescence is recommended for use in scabies.

In case of edema, it is recommended to use the following very effective healing agent based on this plant: to prepare such a healing agent, you will need to take one tablespoon of chopped dry herb of Yakut wormwood for two cups of boiling water. The resulting healing mixture should be infused in a warm place for about two hours, and then this mixture must be very thoroughly filtered. The resulting healing agent based on Yakut wormwood is taken three to four times a day with one third of a glass.