Deceit Of Mother And Stepmother

2024 Author: Gavin MacAdam | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:38

Still, not only for the two sides of the leaf, which have different temperatures, the plant was called by a double name. The idea of the ancient sage that any plant is both a medicine and a poison is confirmed by Mother and Stepmother. Reading a long list of its useful properties, not everyone pays attention to a few lines at the end of the text, entitled - "Caution"

Warning

Let's break the usual structure of the text about medicinal herbs, starting from the end.

Having heard from a friend about the miraculous properties of a mother-and-stepmother, which relieves a painful condition when coughing, just in case we rummage on the Internet, leafing through its web pages, and find on them confirmation of the friend's words.

Running through the lines of the last section, the name of which is sometimes highlighted in red letters, signaling, like a traffic light, about the danger, we note with satisfaction:

1. My liver is fine.

2. Pregnancy is long over.

3. Breastfeeding a baby - a picture from the distant past.

And we successfully forget about this list, highlighting the main thing - it helps with coughing. Having tried it on ourselves, we are convinced of the correctness of the advice, and we carry the "baton of the baton" further, recommending it to everyone who coughs.

But not all people are avid internet users. Moreover, not everyone has at hand, or rather, before their eyes, at the right time there is a reference book. And now a pregnant woman, on the advice of a friend, begins to treat her cough with grass of her mother-and-stepmother, being fully confident that herbs can only help.

Pyrrolizidine alkaloids

At the end of the 20th century, in prosperous and literate Europe, the foremothers of alchemists, healers and pharmacists, an emergency happens (emergency). A child who has lived in this world for only 38 days dies with a diagnosis of toxic hepatitis.

Such a disease occurs as a result of exposure to toxic substances, that is, poisons, on the liver cells, causing it to enlarge. Such substances include plant pyrrolizidine alkaloids found in some plants, including coltsfoot and butterbur. Along with the high biological activity of some alkaloids against tumors, other alkaloids are highly toxic, having chosen the human liver for their attacks.

Poisons can enter the body in different ways: through the skin, the respiratory system or the digestive tract. This can be a one-time intake of a large amount of poison, or its gradual accumulation in the body. In the case of a child of this age, only the mother could become a source of poison.

Herbal tea - breast collection

In search of the reasons for the death of the child, it turned out that, being pregnant, the mother drank herbal tea. The so-called "breast fees", consisting of a number of medicinal herbs, as a rule, do not do without a mother and stepmother. In the collection, which the injured mother drank, there were also the roots of medicinal butterbur. Such a commonwealth significantly increased the dose of alkaloids, which were found in the mother's blood. They played a fatal role.

It does not at all follow from this that it is necessary to urgently throw away all the "breast fees" in the closet. You just need to carefully read the composition, quantitative content of certain herbs and not abuse the drinking of such tea for a long period of time. Everything is good in moderation. Any poison becomes a medicine if taken in certain quantities and for a limited period of time. And any medicine can easily become poison if you overdo it.

Cultural mother and stepmother

Austrian experts bred the cultural form of coltsfoot, "cleaning" its leaves from the content of deadly alkaloids. Now coughing Austrian mothers and children are not in danger of an alkaloid attack on the liver.

Well, for the residents of other countries, including us, for now, we need to be extremely careful when choosing an assistant in the fight against coughs. In America, for example, in the medical literature, coltsfoot is referred to as a plant with "unspecified safety." Our medicine is silent on this topic, and therefore the responsibility for our health and well-being lies on our shoulders.