Many people know such a plant as wormwood. This herb is known for its specific smell and bitter taste. In addition, it is widely used in non-traditional medicine.
To harvest a plant, you need to collect its leaves before the flowering begins, you can still harvest the tops of stems and roots. The collected grass is dried on the street or in a room where there is good ventilation, and then a medicine is made from it.
Dried grass is suitable for use for the next two years.
Treatment of gastritis with wormwood
Many prescriptions for traditional medicine that are used for the treatment of gastritis are contained in wormwood. It strengthens the work of the digestive tract and helps to combat irritation and inflammatory processes on the gastric mucosa.
There are cures for gastritis, which are prepared exclusively from wormwood:
- Tea. For half a liter of boiling water you need to take a teaspoon of finely detailed grass, leave for half an hour to insist. Ready tea will be drunk 50 ml 3-4 times a day for 30 minutes before the meal.
- Tincture. Dried wormwood pour alcohol( take part of the grass and 5 parts of alcohol) for 2-3 days, filter and begin to drink as a medicine. Drink tincture is necessary 3 times a day for 20 minutes before taking food for 20-25 drops.
- Powder. Already dried grass is placed in a mortar and pounded until it becomes a powder. Then crushed berries of cranberry are added to it. This mixture will need to be taken 3 or 4 times a day for an hour before eating 2-3 grams.
- Extract. The extract can be purchased in almost every pharmacy. In order to drink it with the goal of treating gastritis, drip 20 drops of extract per glass of water and take 15 minutes before eating. The reception is repeated 4 times throughout the day.
All medicines from wormwood with gastritis are applied 2-3 weeks. In the event that the course will need to be repeated, it is allowed to do this after a break, which lasts one and a half to two months.
Precautions for the intake of Artemisia
This herb affects the body, especially the nervous system and kidneys. Too prolonged use or intake of excessively large doses of wormwood with gastritis can cause severe intoxication, even with fatal outcome. Therefore, you do not need to take excessively large doses for more than two weeks without interruption.
During pregnancy, as well as during the period of breastfeeding, preparations from wormwood are strictly forbidden to drink. Also, the negative consequences can lead to such treatment option against the background of the presence of bleeding in a person, enterocolitis, bronchial asthma.