Useful and curative properties of wild rosemary( shag, bug)
Evergreen shrub, reaches a height of one and a half meters. Leaves below are reddish-brown, dark green on top, regular, linear-lanceolate with shortly folded edges. Flowers are collected in an umbellate scutellum, white or pink, with a highly aromatic odorous odor, capable of causing a headache in hot weather. Fruit is an elongated box with five leaves, ripening from the base and emptying oblong seeds of brownish-golden color. Blooms in May-June. Ledum grows in the tundra and forest zones of Russia. It occurs mainly in marshy forests, sphagnum bogs and peat bogs, sometimes forms continuous extensive thickets.
Medicinal raw materials are leaves and young twigs of grass. Collect raw materials in August-September. Dry in a dryer at a temperature of 50 degrees.
In all parts of the plant, with the exception of roots, there is an essential oil( in leaves - up to 7,5%, in branches - up to 1,5%, in flowers - 2,3%, in fruits - up to 0,17%),which causes a sharp smell of wild rosemary.
In medical practice, infusion of leaves or herb tea( 1:10 or 1:15) is used inside as an expectorant for acute and chronic bronchitis, bronchial asthma, as well as spastic conditions of the intestine. There are indications that the infusion of leaves when used inside has a general calming and narcotic effect.
With internal use of medicines from ledum, you must be careful not to allow the administration of a single
dose in excess of 0.5 g in powder or more than 1 tbsp.spoons in broth, since the plant is poisonous and can cause inflammation of the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract.
In traditional medicine, lemongrass is used for colds, whooping cough, scrofula, bronchial asthma, rheumatism, gout, wet eczema, and as a diaphoretic, diuretic and soothing. Apply an aqueous decoction of flowers with cough, whooping cough, bronchitis, with pulmonary tuberculosis, rickets, diarrhea, with a weak bladder;when rheumatism drink a water decoction, and rubbed with tincture of flowers on vodka, the same tincture rubs strong bruises, from pain in the chest and from coughing, with scrofula, from the scurf;drink from infertility, suffocation in infectious diseases, neurasthenia.
About the narcotic properties of wild rosemary bogs can be judged at least by the fact that earlier in beerhouses this herb was put into beer and vodka for more intoxication and intoxication of drinkers.
Application
Decoction: 10 g per 200 ml;take 1 tbsp.spoon 3-4 times a day.
Mixture 1: Ledum - 10 g( 2 tsp);root of althea medicinal - 25 g( 5 teaspoons);mix, brew in 1 liter of boiling water and insist for 10-15 minutes;take 1 tbsp.spoon every two hours for dysentery.
Mixture 2: Ledum - 10 parts, root of althea - 20 parts, mother-and-stepmother - 20 parts;2 teaspoons of this mixture brew in a glass of boiling water, insist for 20 minutes, strain and drink half a cup 3-4 times a day( as an expectorant).
Mixture 3: Ledum grass herb - 25 g and nettle stinging shallow - 15 g brew in 1 liter of boiling water;take half a glass 5-6 times a day for colds, rheumatism( except for rubbing) and bronchial asthma, with coughing. After a two-week treatment, the patients were cured of bronchial asthma completely.
Ointment for pain in bones, from scabies and lice: Leaves of Ledum bog - 150 g;the root of the hellebore white is 150 g;
pork fat - 500 g. All this mix, put in the oven at night, and then strain.
Powder from moths and bedbugs: chop grass grasshopper bog in the mortar until it turns into flour, sift through a thick sieve. Sprigs of wild rosemary are put to discourage mice.