Botanical name: Absinthe audience, wormwood common (Artemisia vulgaris) belongs to the family complex (asteraceae). Originally from Europe, Asia and North America. Thrives on roadsides and heaths. Also we encounter as a cultivated species. Its height reaches 1,50 m, has dark green feathered leaves, red or yellow blossoms in bunches. It blooms from July to September.
The lebithochorto have been used since ancient times as a healing plant and possessed a permanent place in the monastic medicine, where the recommended for digestion problems. It is said that the Romans soldiers covered their sandals with lebithochorto to keep healthy their their paws.
From the lebithochorto used the leaves and young shoots can be harvested up to the bloom. The botreis are cut at the end of summer, just before bloom, and dried.
Properties: The lebithochorto is aromatic and bitter taste, due e.g.. the bitter substances and essential oil that contains. It has qualities appetizing, Digestive and soothing
Use: The lebithochorto traditionally described as a tonic for the stomach and intestine, which stimulates the production of digestive fluids and promotes digestion. Even for the eykoiliotita, anorexia and unpleasant breath recommended the lebithochorto folk healing. Also used as a medium that promotes blood supply and as an emmenagogue and soothing. You can drink every day until 3 tea cups.
Tolebithochortoechei milder action from other related plants, so giamakro totoailebithochortoyna can be used as long as appetite stimulant or to strengthen the functioning of digestion.
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