In nature, there are many plants that have long been used by people for medical purposes, but while some of them bring only benefits, while being completely safe for health, others with careless use can harm it. I would like to tell you about one of the representatives of the last species. How safe is a wolf's hat and whether or not to pay attention to it - read on.
Description and composition of wolfberry
The wolfberry is represented in nature by deciduous or evergreen shrubs, which adorn beautiful red berries. Flowering plants begins in early spring, but fruiting occurs only in July (less often in August). The flowers of wolf bast consist of 4-5 petals, which grow together at the base into a tube.
Evergreens are characterized by flowers with a greenish tinge, while in deciduous varieties they are pinkish. All types of wolf's lick are extremely poisonous, which is worth remembering when collecting and using them. Common wolfberry (most common) is a fairly large shrub, often 180 cm high.
It is distinguished by yellowish-grayish, slightly shriveled bark and straight stems. The leaves of the plant are located in the next direction, and at the end of each branch they are oblong-ovate. The flowers on the shrub are fragrant and tubular, and their smell resembles a hyacinth.
Dark pink or red petals bloom on bare stems with the arrival of spring, because they are located in the axils of last year's leaves (this is called caulifloria). Juicy bright red fruits of a bush cover its trunk and branches, settling down just below the leaves.
The bulk of the beneficial and dangerous properties of wolfgrass is explained the presence in its composition of toxic substances Dafnina glycoside and meserein, which inhibit the action of vitamin K. These elements are present in any part of the plant, and in the bark of the wolf bast there are also wax, gums, gum and fatty oils. The fruits of the plant contains coccognean glycoside, pigments, coumarin, essential oils and sugars.
In the wild, you can find shrubs in North America, the mountains of Europe and in Asia. In Russia, it is most often found on the territory of the Belgorod and Kursk regions. The plant prefers limestone and rubble soils, chalky outcrops.
Did you know? The Latin name for daphne is "daphne", the bush was named after the Greek nymph Daphne. In his Metamorphoses, Ovid told how the daughter of the river god Penea had turned into a plant.
Useful properties of the plant
Despite its poisonousness, wolfgrass found wide medical usewhere it is used to eliminate puffiness, normalize the functioning of the cardiovascular system, the central nervous system and gastrointestinal tract, prevent the development of tumors, quickly eliminate inflammatory processes, accelerate wound healing, remove parasites from organisms and increase overall defenses.
The work of the gastrointestinal tract and the central nervous system is also positively affected: apples, purple stonecrop, monarda, cinquefoil white, chervil.
In addition, the plant is part of the funds for insomnia, as well as drugs for the treatment of furunculosis, sore throats, dropsy, cough, tuberculosis, thrombosis, diathesis and some other diseases. All preparations based on it have good laxatives, antibacterial, antiepileptic and hypnotic properties.
In most cases, the compositions of wolf cubs are used as an external agent. Despite the fact that this plant is one of the most generous and early honey plants, its honey, like other parts, is very poisonous, and it can only be used after boiling.
How to use a wolf's bast
In the people, wolves are used only after proper preparation and proper processing. Often, a wide variety of decoctions, tinctures and tinctures are prepared on the basis of the plant, the recipes of which have been used in traditional medicine since time immemorial.
Important! You can use a wolf's bore inside only under the supervision of a doctor, in no case self-medicating. If you are not sure about the appropriateness of its application, it is better to choose another solution to the existing problem.
Decoction
To prepare a decoction of wolfberry, you can use the bark, roots and fruits of the shrub. There are many recipes for such means, but we will tell only about the most popular ones.
Option 1
For 100 ml of boiling water, you need to take 2 g of wolf bast roots and, after mixing, place the composition in a water bath for half an hour. After the specified time, remove it from the heat and leave to infuse for 15 minutes. After straining, decoction can be taken as a strong sleeping pill for epilepsy (overnight by 5 g).
Option 2
2 g of dried and crushed plant roots should be poured with 1 cup of boiling water and, after placing in a closed enameled bowl, boil over a low heat for 15-20 minutes. The finished composition is removed from the plate, filtered while still hot, and after pressing the volume is adjusted to its original value.
The tool take 5 drops three times a day before meals, or internally 1 teaspoon twice a day. Like the previous version, suitable for use as an anti-epileptic and hypnotic. The duration of treatment is 5 days.
Option 3
As raw material, they harvest the bark of the wolfberry and crush it. Then, 20 g of this powder should be poured with 1 cup of boiling water and, boiling over low heat, boil until half the amount of liquid is reduced. After that, the decoction is allowed to cool and consumed 1-2 drops three times a day.
Option 4
This time you will need the berries of the plant (5 g) and 500 ml of water. They need to boil on low heat for about 5 minutes, and then insist for another hour. After the specified time, the broth should be drained and consumed orally in 1 teaspoon three times a day.
Using any of the described recipes, you can effectively deal with insomnia, inflammatory processes in the body, parasites and other aforementioned illnesses.
Many plants that have medicinal properties are poisonous: bathing, fragrant rue, berry yew, dodder, autumn crocus, bathing bowl. Therefore, when using them, be extremely careful.
Infusion
The infusion of volcheyagodnik helps to fight with radiculitis, neuralgia and even tumors, in particular, it is used for stomach cancer and leukemia. When a toothache means gives an analgesic effect.
To obtain a medicinal drug, 1 g of fruit must be poured over 100 ml of cold water and left to infuse for 8 hours. After filtering the product is used in 5 ml 3-4 times a day (after breakfast, lunch or dinner), after diluting the product in 50 ml of water.
You can also make an infusion from wolf bark leaves: 1 teaspoon of finely chopped raw materials should be added to 0.5 liters of boiling water, and after two hours of infusion and straining, use 1 teaspoon 1-2 times a day. This tool helps to cope with ascites and constipation.
Tincture
For the preparation of a medicinal product from berries 1 g should be poured 100 ml of alcohol (in 70% concentration) and leave for two weeks to infuse in a dark place. Then the tincture can be taken 2 drops three times a day, choosing the time after a meal (treatment lasts 5-7 days). Also, this tool is great for lotions for radiculitis and rheumatism.
Instead of fruits, you can use a similar amount of bark, only need to insist the mixture for one week, periodically shaking the container with it. For paralysis of the muscles of the tongue, the finished tincture is held in the mouth for 1-2 minutes, then spit out, and the mouth itself is thoroughly washed with clean water.
Internally, the tincture of the bark of the wolfberry is taken as an anthelmintic agent, as well as for thrombophlebitis, thrombosis, scrofula, sore throat, tumors of the pharynx or esophagus and itchy dermatoses.
Important! All the above recipes are provided for informational purposes only and are not guidelines for rash actions. Therefore, before you assign yourself a particular tool, be sure to consult with your doctor.
Harmful properties and contraindications
Few plants are as poisonous as a wolfberry. Even its pollen when inhaled causes irritation of the mucous membranes of the respiratory tract and nose, and after eating the berries you will feel stomach pain, burning mouth and nausea (vomiting, general weakness and even convulsions are possible).
Once in the eyes, the sap of the plant threatens with ulceration of the cornea, which is also difficult to heal. Impact on the oral cavity, even the smallest piece of bark is felt as a burning sensation and scratching, and ulcers and blisters form on the mucous membrane. At the same time, if you touch it with a wet bark, purulent wounds may appear. Given all this, the use of wolfberry in medicine is always associated with health risks.
Simply put, all drugs that have a wolf's bite are poisonous to one degree or another, and they can only be used after consulting with a competent doctor and under his supervision. Self-medication is akin to suicide.
The use of drugs on the basis of woland is strictly prohibited (even in the form of rubbing) for lactating, pregnant women and children. You can not use the plant and for any bleeding, tachycardia or heart failure, as well as people with individual intolerance to its components. Everyone else to use drugs with its content should be clearly adhering to the dosage.
Did you know? In the Middle Ages, the juice of the wolf's bark berries was used as blush, which many women actively used. However, historical manuscripts also say that prolonged use of such cosmetics led to serious damage to the blood vessels of the face.
Collection and preparation of raw materials
The main medicinal raw material of wolfberry is usually bark of a plant. It must be collected before the flowering of the shrub, that is, in early spring or in the first half of summer. To do this, from the trunk and thick branches, it must be cut off in thin strips and put in one layer (inner side up) in a dry and regularly ventilated room, leaving there until it is completely dry.
Until the bark is dry, i.e. it will be wet, you can touch it only with gloves, since the ingress of juice on the skin easily provokes the formation of boils and ulcers, and with prolonged contact will lead to a general poisoning of the body.
They begin to harvest the fruits of the shrubs at the end of the summer, after which they need special drying at low temperatures. Sometimes even leaves with branches that are also carefully cut from a bush are used to prepare formulations and, having been collected in small bunches, are hung in the attic or in another dark and ventilated place.
Do not forget that even after drying, the plant does not lose its poisonous properties, therefore, it is impossible to entrust the process of preparation to children, and ready raw materials should be kept away from them, in signed containers. When processing a plant, a respirator will be useful, which will protect you from breathing in toxic substances emitted by it.
