2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38
Among the large number of species of wormwood, "Common wormwood" stands almost alone. Since ancient times, healers and magicians of all stripes have resorted to her help. Common wormwood does not contain active hallucinogenic substances, but at the same time contributes to the supersensible perception of being. In this ability, no other plant can compare with the common wormwood. In addition, it normalizes the hormonal system of women, stimulates the production of sex hormones by the pituitary gland, and cures insanity
Description
Wormwood is a branched perennial plant that grows up to 2-2.5 meters, has a creeping many-headed rhizome.
The blackish stem of wormwood, for which it is also popularly called "Chernobylnik", is erect and covered with pinnate leaves. Common wormwood can be distinguished from a closely related species of "wormwood" by the color of the leaves. In common wormwood, the upper and lower parts of the leaf differ sharply from each other. While the top of the leaf is bare, or slightly pubescent, and therefore green, the bottom is very densely pubescent, from which its color turns into silver.
The panicle-like loose inflorescence is collected from numerous small flowers of brown or yellow color.
The fruit is achene.
Mythological properties
Common wormwood is the oldest of the herbs, to which people attributed supernatural properties that can cleanse the human aura of negative energies. It is surprising that the same magical properties were attributed to wormwood in different parts of our planet, which at that time had no connection with each other. How can one not believe in the existence of higher forces, or the presence on Earth of a single civilization in ancient times.
During the Middle Ages, wormwood was used to drive out demons and evil spirits, for which they burned green plants, hung bunches of wormwood in dwellings, and put stalks in shoes during long journeys. It was called “the grass of St. John,” because, according to legend, John the Baptist, who baptized Jesus Christ in the waters of the Jordan River, while living in the desert, wore a belt woven from stalks of wormwood.
In order to see prophetic dreams, you need to sleep on a pillow filled not with feathers, cotton wool or foam rubber, but filled with ordinary wormwood. For such purposes, wormwood must be collected on the growing moon just before the sunrise of our Luminary. Thus it is necessary to repeat the words: "Wormwood, I will rip you off, so that my path is not tiring."
Medicinal properties
Wormwood is considered a female herb for its ability to normalize the hormonal system of women, especially when there is an excess of male sex hormones in the female body.
Wormwood helps to "descend from heaven" lovers of dreams, living in the world of their fantasies, to live "here and now", where only real life exists. It maintains connections between the left and right hemispheres of the brain, which love independence so much that they cannot always coordinate their actions. Strengthens associative memory.
Tea brewed from the leaves of wormwood works wonders:
• Regulates various disorders in the activity of female organs (symptoms of menopause, delay or irregularities during menstruation, removes the afterbirth).
• Stimulates digestion processes (increased appetite, liver function, bile production).
• Helps with colds, bronchitis, fevers.
• Relieves leg fatigue and rheumatism pain when taking a bath with wormwood leaves.
In addition, wormwood juice has antiseptic and disinfectant effects.
Contraindications: avoid during pregnancy.
Use at home and in the country
Wormwood is the enemy of moths.
When storing carrots and onions, wormwood stalks are placed between vegetables to protect them from insects.
A decoction of wormwood is used for spraying plants precipitated by sawfly larvae or caterpillars of butterflies that love to gnaw leaves.
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