Euphorbia is a perennial plant growing on almost all continents. There are over a thousand species of this plant. The name "spurge" plant received because the stems and leaves of the plant are filled with thick white juice, resembling milk.
Useful properties of milk from milkweed
Milkweed honey has a specific taste and an unusual aroma. Due to the admixture of iodine, it is tart and bitter. However, honey from milkweed keeps healing properties for quite a long time. This tart taste nectar has unique healing properties. It is used to treat diseases such as sclerosis, rheumatism, anemia, gastritis. It helps to clean the blood vessels, prevents the development of heart disease. Its useful properties help with diseases of the liver, stomach, intestinal diseases.
Iodine in the composition of milk euphony improves memory, improves muscle tone and strengthens the nervous system. The iron contained in it contributes to the production of hemoglobin, which is indispensable for anemia and anemia. A large number of vitamins and minerals present in its composition, as well as biologically active substances, allows replacing the complex of vitamins and minerals during vitamin deficiency, replenishing their deficiency in the body.
Interesting! If you suffer from insomnia and chronic fatigue, you have shaken up your nerves, drink warm tea with a spoonful of milk from milkweed.
Useful properties of milkweed juice
Toxic juice euphorbia is actively used in homeopathy and in traditional medicine. Milkweed juice is diaphoretic, diuretic, analgesic and anti-inflammatory. The juice contains alkaloids, gum, saponins, tannins and zuforbon. Enzymes that are found in thrush help with leukemia, supporting the immune system. Euphorbia has aphrodisiac, antiseptic and antibacterial properties. In ancient times, milkweed juice was treated with insect bites, animals, ulcers.
The plant has an anti-cancer effect, medicines based on milkweed help even with extensive tumors. Plant juice stops the growth of metastasis. Once in the blood vessels, the lactones present in the juice of milkweed are carried with blood to almost any place of localization of tumors where there is no access for a scalpel.
Did you know? In ancient Egypt, euphorbia was treated with eczema, fungi, warts. With the help of juice they stopped bleeding and relieved headaches.
When applying juice in small doses regularly, it has a rejuvenating effect. Juice of milkweed is treated with diarrhea and hemorrhoids, used as an emetic, stomach and heart diseases are treated. Milky juice smears warts, lichen and skin affected by scabies.
The use of stems and leaves of milkweed in medicine
Tea from the leaves of milkweed is dosed for cancer of the stomach. Infusions of weak concentration are prepared for the treatment of catarrh of the stomach, kidneys, cystitis, dysentery, hemorrhoids.
Broths drink with headaches, whooping cough, lung diseases. Tea made from stems and leaves has a laxative effect.
Important! Remember, for the preparation of medicines you need to know the exact dosage. Euphorbia is a strong poison, not a medicine, if you exceed the norm, which is not dangerous to health. When using homeopathic remedies, consult your doctor.
Broths and lotions from the leaves and stems removed pigment spots and warts, corns. Good trays of decoctions of leaves for gout. Infusions can treat chiri and fungal diseases of the feet. Remembering the dangers of milkweed, infusions and decoctions for bathing children with skin diseases are used with caution.
Euphorbia is used in the treatment of hormonal disorders in women. As part of this plant there are special compounds - phyto-androgens, which have a corrective effect in case of hormonal disruptions, significantly reduce the growth of hormones and regulate the general background. Androgenic properties of milkweed is used in fibromas and myomas in women.
The use of herbs and milkweed roots in medicine
Popularly, the milk euphorbia root is called “peasant root” not only because of its shape. Medicines prepared from the root, used in the treatment of impotence and erectile dysfunction. The benefits of milkweed manifested in the treatment of all the organs of the small pelvis in men.
Tincture helps with ulcers and inflammatory processes in the lungs, helps strengthen the immune system, fight infections. Tincture of the root helps with skin diseases. Tannins, glycosides and saponins, which are part of the root, treat gastric diseases.
The herb of the plant relieves the symptoms of diarrhea and cystitis. The people most often used it as a laxative and diuretic, using it to get rid of worms. Previously, spurges were considered magical grass, it helped to get rid of damage and dark forces.
In modern medicine, root extract is used for severe poisoning as an emetic, for bites of animals infected with rabies. Infusion plants relieve painful symptoms of kidney disease, hemorrhoids, internal disorders of the body. A decoction of grass helps with stomach ailments, headaches, whooping cough. Grass lotions relieve itching and inflammation in eczema, abscesses, boils and other skin diseases. Medical hygienic compresses make children with urticaria or thinning.
The use of butter from the seeds of milkweed in medicine
Many, if not all, have heard of castor oil: this product is mined from castor bean, also from the Euphorbia. The long-forgotten medicine was used in the treatment of colds and viral diseases, hemorrhoids, burns, with its help ticks were removed.
Castor oil helps with cuts, burns and boils. It is used to strengthen nails, hair, smear eyelashes for growth. Oil softens the skin and smoothes wrinkles, so modern beauties should take a closer look at this product.
Milkweed oil can be added by inhalation for the treatment of bronchitis, tracheitis and other respiratory diseases. Cypress euphoric oil is used in the production of medicines of various directions, liver disease, kidney disease, gastrointestinal tract, bronchial asthma, pneumonia.
Milkweed oil is used for the manufacture of medicines in the form of tablets and suppositories for the treatment of gynecological problems: cysts, myomas, fibroids, infertility. Mongolian healers even treat venereal diseases with oil. In the old days and now oil is used as a laxative. Previously, the seeds of the plant were mixed with fried hot peppers and cholera was treated with this mixture.
In cosmetology, in addition to care for the skin of the face, body, hands and head, the oil is used to make high-quality soap, not only at home, but also on a production scale.
What is dangerous euphorbia
In the juice of the plant there are substances and enzymes that have a toxic effect on the human body. When asked whether it is possible to keep euphorbia at home, the answer is definitely not if there are children or pets. Milkweed juice causes allergic reactions, juice burns heal for a very long time, because the juice eats away tissues, turning them into ulcers. You do not need to specifically break off a branch or sheet. It is enough to hook, as the juice immediately splashes onto the hand or nose, the eyes of a child or an animal.
Attention! Eyes must be rinsed immediately with plenty of clean water. The juice can cause temporary blindness until the tissue of the mucous membrane that it eats up is restored.
If fluid gets on the mucous of the mouth, nose, or lips, rinse immediately. If the juice is swallowed, the minimum that expects is an upset stomach. The composition of the juice includes alkaloids, toxic resins and toxic compounds, which, when used properly and in dosage, are medicine, and if uncontrolled, moreover, are accidentally ingested in a concentrated form, poison. In addition to digestive disorders, the juice can cause clouding of reason, it was not for nothing that in ancient times it was called demonic milk.
Spurge - a beautiful ornamental plant, many gardeners would not refuse to replenish the collection with an unusual flower. Information about what harmful euphorbia, will help to properly care for him, taking all precautions.
