Wormwood in pharmacology and traditional medicine — the first tool in diseases of the liver, biliary tract, gall bladder, poor digestion. However, the people — it is also a popular remedy for worms. What parasitic disease is treated with wormwood?
Antihelminthic properties of wormwood
What are the healing properties of parasites wormwood?
- Vermifuge. The high content of bitterness in the grass gives it anthelmintic properties.
- The excretory. The same bitterness stimulates the secretion of the gallbladder, normalizes intestinal flora, the work of digestion, which is often compromised in helminth infection.
- Blood purifier. The grass acts as a detoxifying agent, cleanses the body of toxins and metabolic products of the parasite (anti-enzymes).
- Tonic. When helminthiasis severely affected the immune system. Due to the volatile and vitamins wormwood strengthens the body's defenses.
Basic principles of treatment
How is cleaning the body from parasites? A comprehensive approach is necessary in treatment. It includes such types of drugs:
- sorbents and probiotics;
- anthelmintic;
- cholagogue;
- protective (regenerating liver cells);
- laxatives.
Also important vegetarian diet and drink plenty of liquids during treatment.
Therapy is conducted in 4 stages:
- Preparation of the body. You can drink flax or pumpkin seed oil, sorbents for removing toxic substances from the body.
- Anthelmintic and antihistamines. It can be strong synthetic drugs which often have side effects and suppress the healthy bacteria. In the last resort to herbal remedies anthelmintic wide spectrum of action, often used wormwood, tansy and cloves. Antihistamines help to relieve an allergic reaction to the toxins released by parasites.
- Laxatives. To cleanse the bowel of toxins after the collapse of the parasites.
- The restoration of the functions of the digestive system and the immune system. Appointed cholagogue, enzyme, protective, immunostimulating drug. Rehabilitation after helminth infestation is very important. Equally important is the monitoring of treatment and, if necessary, a second course of therapy.
It is important to take wormwood parasites in the human body, so as not to severe intoxication, the poisoning waste products and disintegration of worms. Therefore, it is not recommended self-treatment. It is necessary to establish the type of parasitic infection, pass the necessary tests and only after that the doctor prescribes a comprehensive treatment.
Treatment of opisthorchiasis
Opisthorchiasis — defeat worms the bile ducts and pancreas. Infestation is dangerous because it can become chronic. This leads to the threat of acute inflammation of the liver, biliary tract, gallbladder, there is a risk of rupture of the bile ducts and cancer. Can also develop asthma and pneumonia. Wormwood from opisthorchiasis is often included in herbal teas, drink it with tansy, thyme, clover, yarrow, aspen bark, green pumpkin seeds. In the official medicine wormwood against opisthorchiasis does not apply to herbal remedies the first choice. With the diagnosis prescribe strong synthetic anthelmintic means.
Treatment of giardiasis
These single-celled protozoa are frequent guests in the human body. Giardia multiply in the small intestine, but then often move to other organs — liver, gall bladder. Parasites provoke inflammatory processes in these organs, clog the bile ducts. Despite a frightening diagnosis of "parasites in the liver" — giardiasis can be successfully treated, the liver is fully restored. However, to identify it, it is sometimes difficult because the symptoms of this disease are similar to symptoms of diseases of the digestive tract, giardiasis often becomes chronic. Wormwood from Giardia will give a therapeutic effect only when a subsistence diet, with the exception of sweet.
Wormwood from giardiasis can be taken in pure form. But for greater therapeutic effect, it is taken together with other vermifuge herbs — tansy, wild rosemary, celandine, birch buds, sweet flag, gentiana, shoots of pine and poplar, St. John's wort, walnut.
The treatment of ascariasis and enterobiasis
With the help of decoctions and infusions of wormwood successfully excreted pinworms (enterobiasis) and roundworm (ascariasis). The grass is taken internally in the form of ethanolic tinctures and decoctions. From herbal teas and water infusions do enemas to cleanse the bowel from parasites. In decoctions for oral administration often add chopped pumpkin seeds and garlic. You can find recipes mikroklizm of worms based on wormwood with the addition of onions and garlic. These tools can injure the delicate mucosa. And ulcerative colitis, inflammation of the rectum, hemorrhoids such treatments are contraindicated.
Scheme and rules of admission of wormwood
You first need to identify the type of worm infestation and the stage of infection. And this can only be a doctor. It is also important to remember the complex approach in treatment. Without sorbents, antihistamines, enzyme, laxatives effect of wormwood may not be as effective.
- How to make wormwood parasites — before or after eating? All anthelmintic means take 30-40 minutes before eating. Also recommended to take the grass in the evening, before bedtime.
- The frequency of administration and treatment. There are treatment regimens, when extracts taken twice — morning and evening to ¼ Cup. But you can divide them into 4 doses for 2 tbsp. Treatment wormwood should not exceed two weeks. But helminth infection body cleansing can last a month under the supervision of a physician.
Features of the use of children
How wormwood safe for children? Perhaps the grass will bring less harm to the child's body than synthetic anthelmintic drugs. However, we must not forget about the toxicity of wormwood and its age-related contraindications. Only your doctor may prescribe this medicinal plant children.
- Wormwood from Giardia children. It is known that the kids often adults become infected with giardiasis. This is due to the violation of hygiene and frequent exposure to the street (playing in the sandbox) and more open contact with the outside world. There is a physiological reason: children have a stomach acidity is much lower than in adults, so the chance of survival of Giardia is much higher. There's a third reason — children love sweets, but it is also food for the reproduction of these parasites. Wormwood giardiasis in children helps in complex therapy.
- Wormwood with pinworms and ascarids. These parasites are frequent guests in the child's body. And infusions of wormwood good deal with them. But for successful treatment it is necessary to take the grass repeat courses several times to pass a stool for enterobiasis and ascariasis. It is also important to observe during treatment, hygiene facilities, bed linen and underwear, to carry out preventive treatment for the whole family.
Treatment in adults with grass can last up to 1 month. Long-term use and overdose can lead to side effects. Often there are disorders of the digestive system: nausea, vomiting, heartburn, belching, diarrhea, constipation, bloating. Possible violations of the nervous system: convulsions, tremor, dizziness, and even loss of consciousness. We can not exclude an allergic reaction to the grass in the form of urticaria and itching.
The recipes for tincture, infusion and decoction
The use of wormwood for worms in humans perhaps in different dosage forms in the form of infusion, decoction, alcoholic tincture, powder. As already mentioned, often the wormwood is taken in gathering with other herbs anthelmintic action.
Infusion
How to drink the wormwood of parasites in the liver? For this recommend cooking herbs. Treatment is carried out at a vegetarian diet, excluding meat, fatty foods.
Preparation of infusion of gathering herbs:
- Take 1 tsp of sage, immortelle, yarrow, St. John's wort, buckthorn, chamomile, oak bark.
- Pour ½ liter of boiling water.
- Insist in a thermos for 8 hours.
- Strain.
Taking a collection on an empty stomach once a day for ¼ Cup. The course lasts for 10 days, followed by a break for 3-5 days, then the course is repeated.
The broth
The decoction can be taken internally and also use it for medical enemas. Recommend to prepare the decoction every day that they remained useful bitterness.
The recipe for the broth
- Take 1 tsp. of herb.
- Pour a glass of boiling water.
- Boil or soak in a water bath for 5 minutes.
- Leave for half an hour.
Take ½ Cup 3 times a day.
Tincture
Alcohol tincture of worms can be prepared not only from herbs and seeds of wormwood. This dosage form is convenient because it can be kept long, it can be calculated on a long course of treatment.
Preparation:
- Take 1 tbsp. of dry grass.
- Pour 5 tbsp of vodka.
- Insist 7 days.
- Strain.
Take tincture twice a day — morning and evening before bedtime. The dose for adults — 15 drops. There are recipes for a weaker tincture — 1 part herb take 10 parts of alcohol. But there are also recipes where you take 50 or 100 g herb in ½ liter of alcohol. Get a strong tincture that can be taken 3 drops. To avoid overdose and poisoning, should be cautious about such recipes.
Powder
Often recommend taking mugwort powder and wash it down with water. The slower powder takes place in all sections of the intestine, its effects on the worms more efficiently. To expel ascarids and pinworms is recommended to apply the powder from the seeds of Artemisia Cina. How is it treated?
- One course of treatment will need 100 grams of herb powder.
- The first 3 days powder drink 6 times a day, according to incomplete teaspoon.
- On the grass take 4 times a day at the same dosage.
- The course of treatment is 7 days.
Such cleaning of the body can be carried out as a preventive measure, but not more often two times a year. Also recommended during treatment to put an enema of wormwood.
"Russian triptych"
A lot of positive feedback about the method of "Russian triad" (by Ivanchenko) of parasites when you take a mixture of powder of wormwood, tansy and cloves. What is the method?
Preparation of the mixture:
- Take 100 powder tansy.
- Add 50 grams of clove powder and 30 g of powder of wormwood.
- Mix.
- Store mixture in a closed jar.
Take medicine according to this scheme:
- first day: first dose (1 teaspoon) in the morning drink on an empty stomach 30 minutes before Breakfast;
- day two: 1 tsp. powder in the morning and in the afternoon 30 minutes before meals;
- the third and subsequent days at the same dosage in the morning, lunch, evening.
The course of treatment lasts for 7 days.
It is important to know that when cleaning the body of parasites can worsen chronic diseases, to weakness, nausea, dizziness, indigestion. If you experience these signs you need to consult with your doctor.
Mugwort for worms — an effective remedy for the ascariasis, and enterobiasis, giardiasis, opistorhoze. But to apply it themselves due to the toxicity of not recommended. The grass is strictly contraindicated in pregnancy. The use of this vermifuge remedies in children without a doctor's prescription is forbidden!