Gelsemium - Useful Properties And Application Of Gelsemium

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Gelsemium

Useful properties and application of gelsemium

Description of Gelsemium

Poisonous Gelsemium from the Loganiev family is a beautiful evergreen shrub, the height of which often reaches about one meter. This climbing plant with twisting thin branches has a cylindrical rhizome with thin long roots and underground horizontal shoots. The opposite lanceolate leaves are dark green and glossy. Dense leathery plates have a solid edge. The fruit is a reddish-brown opening box containing numerous seeds.

Graceful opposite flowers up to 5 cm long are rationally located only in the axils of the upper leaves. They are pale yellow in color and have a pleasant smell. Gelsemium grows well in Central America along the sea and river banks. It is successfully bred in the Caucasus in spacious light greenhouses. For medicinal purposes, only thickened rhizomes with shoots and roots are collected and harvested.

Useful properties of gelsemium

Extraordinary Gelsemium contains alkaloids and resin. The gelsemin present in it has a special strychnine-like effect. This unique homeopathic herb is considered to be a rather strong poison. The main effect on the human body is directly related to the general paralysis of the nervous system. When higher doses are taken, complete paralysis of all motor nerves occurs. Also, there is an exceptional relaxation of the sphincter, which leads to urinary and fecal incontinence. Difficulty breathing is possible, and in some cases, cardiac arrest, leading to death.

The correct dosage of gelsemium can effectively treat a variety of serious eye diseases, including drooping eyelids and squint. It is also possible to heal inflammation of the choroid and retina. Preparations based on this plant help with congestive headache, dysmenorrhea, neuralgia and severe uterine colic in the postpartum period. For hysterical convulsions and serious nervous diseases of smokers, a special homeopathic remedy containing the rhizomes of Gelsemium is very effective.

Various remedies are indicated in cases of fever as well as catarrhal influenza. Many modern doctors recommend special remedies for the flu. They are shown to all people, even those who are highly sensitive and irritable. Gelsemium helps to solve problems with speech and thinking. At low dilutions, homeopathic remedies provide invaluable health benefits.

Application of gelsemium

To prepare the gelsemium tincture, you must take a fresh root. A dry medicinal mixture intended for dilution with water or alcohol is also suitable for various rubbing. Enough 10 grams of rhizomes and 100 ml of alcohol to insist a healing tincture in three weeks. It should be taken after filtering 5-20 drops, depending on the recommendations of a specialist and the form of the disease. Tincture of gelsemium is prescribed for headaches, neuralgia, severe cough, toothaches, shortness of breath, and insomnia.

Along with this, with the help of tincture, you can get rid of alcoholism if you take the remedy for six months. With neuroses, which are caused by dystrophy of an important autonomic nervous system, various infusions based on the presented plant are also shown. Some remedies are indispensable for the treatment of polyneuritis and post-infectious paralysis.

Contraindications for gelsemium

Since the plant is very poisonous, special attention should be paid to the prescribed dosages.

The author of the article: Sokolova Nina Vladimirovna | Phytotherapist

Education: Diploma in "General Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the Pirogov University (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow (2008).