Why in the old days our ancestors collected and dried woodlice grass.

Woodlice has long been used in the treatment of various diseases. Traditional healers loved this weed and dried it in order to use it later for their decoctions and tinctures.

Is this common herb, which can be found in almost every vegetable garden, really useful?

Gardeners do not like this weed plant, because it can grow with great speed and even the first frosts are not afraid of it. Weeding the beds, they throw out woodlice, not even suspecting that it is capable of curing diseases and enriching the body with vitamins.

Woodlice has several names. Some herbalists prefer to call it woodworm, hearty, or canary herb. They know very well that this plant contains much more vitamin C than the well-known lemon.

In addition, the heart herb contains carotene, vitamin E and trace elements useful for the body such as iron, magnesium, potassium, calcium, bromine. All these elements are vital for a person for the normal functioning of the body.

How can wood lice be used?

The simplest thing is to add fresh herbs to salads. It will not spoil the taste at all, but it will saturate the body with useful substances and vitamins. Sometimes woodlice is added instead of spinach.

For example, throughout the summer and autumn I prepare such a salad: one boiled egg, onion, a little wood lice, I chop, salt and season with sour cream.

It turns out very tasty, and most importantly - healthy. There is no need to buy expensive overseas foods to get the vitamins you need. We get wood lice for free, but the benefits from it are even greater.

In folk medicine, there are a great many recipes that include wood lice. Here is some of them.

Tea for colds

It is prepared from dried wood lice, so you should take care of the preparation of raw materials in advance.

To make tea, we need 2 tablespoons of dry herbs, which must be poured into a thermos and pour 500 ml of boiling water. Half an hour is enough to brew tea in a thermos.

You can add sugar or honey to the drink. Woodlice tea will help to cope not only with colds, but also soothe the nervous system. If you drink tea before bedtime, you will forget about insomnia.

Woodlice tincture for arthritis

This medicinal tincture is made from fresh herbs. You need to collect as much woodlice as possible and squeeze juice from it. Then dilute the resulting juice with vodka (1: 1).

This solution is used externally. It will relieve joint pain if you rub it with tincture.

To prepare a drinkable tincture, you need 1 tablespoon of chopped wood lice, which should be poured over with 1 cup of boiling water. The container with the brewed herb must be wrapped in a towel and allowed to brew for two hours. Then, having filtered through a sieve, take a couple of sips half an hour before meals.

Woodlice infusion to lower blood pressure

To bring down the pressure, they also drink an infusion of woodlice. To prepare it, you will need 50 grams of the plant, which must be filled with 200 ml of boiling water. The infusion is brewed for 20-25 minutes and taken after meals.

You can drink this infusion for some time, until the pressure stabilizes. Low blood pressure is a contraindication to the use of drugs from woodlice.

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