What is mistletoe? Mistletoe: medicinal properties and contraindications

Not everyone knows what mistletoe is. In appearance it resembles a ball - completely round in shape with a lot of thin twigs. This plant parasitizes on large trees, among which are birch, poplar, oak, linden, elm, apple or pear. And the fruits and flowers of her are spherical, white, collected on 5 pieces in the inflorescence.

Description

So, what is mistletoe? It is an evergreen shrub up to 60 cm high, belonging to the family of serpentina. The mistletoe is covered with a yellow-green bark. At the nodes it is thickened, naked. The leaves are pale green, leathery, opposite, oblong-oval, located at the ends of the shoots in pairs. Flowers dioecious, shade of yellow or yellow-green, are in the forks of branches for 5-6 pcs. Blossom in the spring. The fruit is a berry, ripens in late summer.

Spread

Mistletoe grows in the Far East, in the southern part of Russia, in the Caucasus, in the Crimea. It grows on hardwoods (maple, oak, linden, poplar, birch), and on fruit trees (apple, pear).

Workpiece

A young branch of mistletoe is harvested together with leaves. They are stored in autumn, after which they are dried in a warm place, spread out in a thin layer, and also in dryers at 40-50 ºС. Raw materials are stored for 12 months without access to air.

Chemical composition

The leaves of the plant contain viscotoxin, viscerin, alcohols, viscolus, acids (ursul and oleanolic), choline, alkaloids, fatty oil, tarry substances, carotene and ascorbic acid.

Berries contain oil, which includes oleic, palmitic, linoleic acids, rubber, vitamin C, carotene and resinous substances.

Mistletoe: healing properties

Preparations on the basis of this plant have an antihypertensive, and also calming effect, in addition, improve cardiac activity. Another mistletoe has diuretics, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, astringent, hemostatic properties.

Use in folk medicine

Mistletoe, the medicinal properties of which are described in detail in this article, has been actively used by healers for many years. Traditional medicine infusion of mistletoe grass is used in hypertensive disease. It increases efficiency, improves sleep and normalizes the general condition of a person, and also reduces pressure.

Healing infusions of mistletoe white expand the blood vessels, reduce the excitability of the nervous system, enhance cardiac activity.

Infusions and decoctions are used to improve the work of the intestine (pain in the abdomen and atony), with bleeding (uterine, gastrointestinal, nasal and pulmonary). The plant is used to treat atherosclerosis, in addition, with nephritis and other kidney diseases.

The mistletoe plant, whose properties are described in the article above, is used for various female diseases, in addition, with hemorrhoids and rheumatism.

The plant extract increases diuresis and promotes the release of nitrogenous products, has a tonic effect.

In folk medicine, this plant is used with increased thyroid function, convulsions, neuralgia, bronchial asthma, widening of veins, incontinence. The flowers of mistletoe are used for the expulsion of pinworms, ascarids and other round worms.

The plant helps to cure malignant neoplasms of all possible localization.

Fresh juice of the plant treats infertility. Decoctions are recommended for use externally with myositis, skin diseases, radiculitis, abscesses, muscle pains. When hemorrhoids use a bath with the decoction of this plant.

To strengthen the muscle of the heart

Pour 30 grams of dried twigs with a liter of water and boil for 15 minutes. Take this broth 1/3 cup three times a day for a month.

To improve sleep and normalize blood circulation

It will take a tablespoon of the crushed dry leaves of the mistletoe plant (photos are presented in this article). They need to fill with a liter of hot water and simmer for 5 minutes over low heat, then leave to infuse for 15-20 minutes.

Take 2 spoons three times a day. Children can also give this broth, but first you need to limit to 1 spoon once a day.

With bleeding (uterine, pulmonary, etc.)

So, we have already found out what the mistletoe is. Now let's find out how it should be taken with bleeding.

1. 25 grams of leaves you need to pour 100 ml of vodka and remove the infusion for 5 days in a dark place. Then the tincture is filtered and used on 30 drops inside twice a day in between meals.
2. Pour 15 g of finely chopped sprigs into a glass of boiling water, then allow to cool. Ready to infuse the extract and use three times a day for 1 spoonful. To drink not on an empty stomach, and after half an hour after a meal.

With blood pressure jumps

You need to take a spoonful of mistletoe leaves, pour a glass of cold water, then remove the infusion for 5 hours. Use inside a third of a glass before meals three times a day.

To increase potency

You will need 20 grams of chopped twigs and leaves of the mistletoe plant (photo can be seen in this article). They need to be filled with a glass of medical alcohol. Infuse about two hours in a warm place and the infusion obtained take three times a day for 20 drops.

Treatment of hypertension

It is necessary to find a mistletoe growing on a pine, carefully trim its branches, finely chop them, then pour a glass of cool water. During the night, the tincture should be settled, and in the morning it is necessary to drink a full glass. The course of this treatment takes 5 days. One branch can be used 2 times.

We already knew what a mistletoe is. It is interesting that this recipe well helps with high blood pressure, normalizes blood circulation, cleanses blood vessels. After 5 days, the blood pressure stabilizes. This recipe is prohibited for people with low blood pressure.

To raise the tone

Pour a glass of boiling water 5 grams of chopped herb mistletoe and remove insist to a state to the extent of a warm infusion. Use three times a day for 150 grams. You can add honey for taste. The use of this infusion enhances the tone of the body, gives strength to the person, heals also from depression. The plant is very useful to take patients after serious illnesses or operations, as well as the elderly to maintain physical strength.

From dizziness

Insist in a glass of boiled cold water for five hours with a spoon of crushed leaves of the plant. It is necessary to take 70 grams three times a day until all symptoms disappear.

Mistletoe: contraindications for use

Mistletoe white in itself is a poisonous plant, therefore, it is necessary to take funds with its components very carefully, under the supervision of a specialist. With prolonged use of products from it is likely to poison the body.

In addition, it is forbidden to take any broths and infusions to pregnant women, people with low blood pressure, and mothers during lactation.