Naturopathy

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Latin name
Common names
Ingredients
preparation
Side effects

Latin name

Agrimonia eupatoria (belongs to the rose family)

Common names

Five-leaf, field man, Greek liverwort

Plant description

The Odermenning is easy to recognize by its knee-high, conspicuously hairy stalk and the leaf number. Or poor blooms yellow and spike-like from bottom to top in the months of June to September.

Occurrence: Central and Northern Europe, Balkans, Russia, widespread in North America, growing wild in dry, sunny locations.

Fruits with seeds are popular because they are carried by barbs in the animal's skins.

Plant components used medicinally

The whole flowering herb from the Odermennig without roots is used for production.

Ingredients

Tannins, essential oil, bitter substances, silica

Medicinal effect and application

Ormennig is effective against diarrhea because the contained Bitter substances the Promote bile flow.

Odermennig is used at

Upset stomach
Inflammation of the lining of the stomach
Loss of appetite
diarrhea
to baths and compresses poorly healing wounds
Inflammation of the gums (as a gargle)

preparation

Ormennig tea: 1 heaped teaspoon of cutting drug is poured over 1 cup of water and heated to a boil. Let it stand for five minutes and strain. In the case of diarrhea, we recommend a cup with glucose and several times a day 1 pinch of table salt to drink staggered.
To gargle with Inflammation of the mouth the tea is used unsweetened. Also unsweetened for loss of appetite and stomach problems.

Combination with other medicinal plants

One mixes in little, especially at Stomach and gall bladder problems, gladly with other aromatic bitter agents like Wormwood or peppermint.

Mixture of tea: 10.0 g wormwood and 20 g mint leaves mixed. 1 teaspoon of this mixture is poured over with a large cup of boiling water and left for 2 minutes, then strained. This bitter tea is drunk as warm as possible, unsweetened.