Useful and medicinal properties of mistletoe white
Evergreen fork-branching plant 20-40 cm( sometimes up to 120 cm) in height. The branching of the roots penetrates under the bark and into the wood of the host tree, forming in the latter numerous suckers. The branches are green or in the lower part brownish-green, woody, articulate, glabrous, easily fractured in knots. Leaves opposite, located in pairs at the ends of the branches, leathery, thick, pale green, oblong, narrowed at the base, obtuse, entire, 5-7 cm long, with parallel venation. The plant is dioecious: flowers are same-sex, unattractive, yellowish-green, with a simple four-eddied perianth, crammed in 3 shoots( rarely 5-6) at the ends. Staminate flowers are sessile;their perianth with a short tube and ovoid lobes, stamens 4, without stamen filaments. Pestle flowers are smaller, lateral - sessile;medium on short stalk;perianth with four ovate obtuse lobes, pestle with a semicircular one-cavity ovary and sessile;a thick, pincushike stigma. Fruit is a false globular juicy one-seeded berry, with maturation white, translucent. The seed is large, densely clothed with adhesive, mucous pulp. Blossoms in March-April, fruits ripen in September-October.
Mistletoe white is common in the southern regions of the European part of Russia. It occurs as a parasite on trees - often fruit, birches and poplars, less often coniferous, on oak.
Medicinal raw materials are young twigs and leaves, collected in late autumn or winter. In folk medicine, plant grass is used.
Leaves and branches contain sugar, gum, starch, fatty oil, mineral salts and sticky resinous substance - viscin, tannin-like substances, oleic acid and compounds of glucoside nature, as well as choline derivatives. Rubber is found in the flesh of the fetus. Leaves contain ascorbic acid, carotene.
In medicine, mistletoe has been used for a long time. Still Pliny, Paracelsus used it in the treatment of epilepsy, nervous diseases, colic, bleeding. Doctors of the XVIII and XIX centuries appointed a mistletoe at dizziness, apoplexy and hysteria.
Currently in scientific medicine, mistletoe is used to treat early stages of hypertension in the form of a thick extract from the leaves of the omelon.
Studies have established that mistletoe lowers blood pressure, enhances the activity of the heart, dilates blood vessels, reduces the excitability of the central nervous system.
In folk medicine mistletoe white is used inward in the form of tinctures and broths for epilepsy, hypochondria, hysteria;as an anticonvulsant, with atherosclerosis, headache;as a hemostatic agent - with uterine, pulmonary, hemorrhoidal, gastrointestinal bleeding. With gastric bleeding preparations from mistletoe white are more effective in mixture with grass horsetail.
Usually mistletoe is used with birches. Water decoction is drunk at increased pressure, headache, epilepsy. Decoction of mistletoe from hornbeam, oak, pine is used for heart diseases, nervous diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, cancer, koltun, asthma, rheumatism.
Tea from mistletoe white is used to raise the tone of life for the weakened elderly people, and for dizziness - any age.
Used mistletoe is white from round worms. Outwardly broths from mistletoe are used in the form of lotions with chronic non-healing wounds, ulcers, abscesses;in the form of sedentary baths with hemorrhoids.
Application
Tincture 25%: 30 drops 3 times a day.
Infusion or decoction( 35-40 g per 1 liter of water) of branches with leaves or berries is used inside st.spoons for atherosclerosis, dizziness, headache, convulsions and bleeding - gastric, pulmonary, etc.
Easy broth: 15 g per 200 ml;1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day, the application is the same.
Broth-mixture for external use: 15 grams of mistletoe grass and 10 grams of yarrow, water pepper, oak bark, nettle herb grass and flowers of deaf nettle;mix and brew in a liter of boiling water.
Powder mixture: mistletoe leaf powder - 0.5 g, mistletoe - 0.5 g, powdered valerian root powder - 1 g. The mixture is taken inside to remove round worms for 3 days. It is recommended to eat fresh grated carrots.