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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.
Side effects
So far there are no known side effects of Odermennig.
