Hemlock
Treatment and use of speckled hemlock
Hemlock
Hemlock speckled is a biennial poisonous plant belonging to the umbrella family. In the first year of life, the plant develops several basal leaves. It is at this time that hemlock is very similar to regular parsley, which is why some people are poisoned by it. In the second year, the plant develops a stem with many branches, the length of which can reach two meters.
The root of the plant is white, fusiform. The stem of the plant is highly branched, 60–180 cm high. The hemlock leaves are smooth, pinnately dissected. The flowers are small, gathering in complex umbrellas that form a corymbose inflorescence.
The whole plant is poisonous! Therefore, it must be used with caution in treatment. Hemlock bloom lasts from early to mid-summer, seeds ripen from August to September. Hemlock has an unpleasant odor, which can cause a headache, for this very reason, when collecting it, it is necessary to be from the wind.
Spotted hemlock grows throughout Russia, in Western Siberia, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It can grow in a garden, in a vacant lot, near dwellings, in neglected vegetable gardens, and less often in bushes.
Collect hemlock grass only during the flowering period of the plant.
Application and preparation of hemlock tincture
For medicinal purposes, the leaves, stems and flowers of hemlock are used. The leaves are harvested during the flowering period, and the seeds after they dry.
In folk medicine, hemlock is used as a sedative, analgesic and anticonvulsant for epilepsy, migraine or whooping cough, that is, in cases where a person has a disease that is accompanied by spasm of internal organs or convulsions.
At the beginning of summer, a strong and tall speckled hemlock is freed from the inflorescences, which contain a huge amount of essential oil. The collection of inflorescences should be carried out in two glass jars. Use one jar (1.5 L) to collect crushed inflorescences with several leaves. When the can is half full, you need to pour the contents into a three-liter jar. Pour 500 ml of vodka (or moonshine) there. When you move the raw materials into a three-liter jar, do not forget to shake everything that is in it: this is necessary to soak all the raw materials with vodka. When you fill the bottle to 50% with raw materials, you can safely go home, where you will fill the entire volume of the bottle with vodka. After that, the bottle must be sealed with a lid (you can use a plastic bag, only hermetically sealed) and put it somewhere in a cool place for two weeks, for example, in a cellar. Sure,if there is a need to take the tincture after 5 days, then you can take it, but the effect will not be the best, since the remedy has not yet been infused. When the medicine is infused for the prescribed period, pour a little into a separate container and refrigerate it away from food.
For esophageal cancer, use the tincture as follows: start with 1 drop of the tincture (diluted in 100 ml of water) in the morning on an empty stomach. From the second day, you need to increase the dose by 1 drop and take it so until the day when a single dose will be 40 drops of tincture. Now we do everything exactly the opposite, that is, from 40 drops we take 1 drop less daily. You should stop at the moment when you need to take 1 drop. After 80 days of such treatment, you can safely eat the food that you ate before the onset of the disease. However, after a month, you need to repeat the course of treatment again according to the same scheme (this is the second course of treatment). The third course of treatment is reinforcing, it is carried out after another 6 months, but only those who wish.
Everyone knows that all parts of the hemlock plant are poisonous, therefore, preparations from it should be taken very carefully and in small doses: with drops in the form of a tincture of alcohol.
Alcohol tincture of hemlock. To prepare it, you need to take 10 grams of leaves and 10 grams of speckled hemlock seeds and fill them with 40 ml of 90-degree alcohol, then leave to infuse for two weeks, then strain. It is necessary to take this tincture in a diluted form: 2 drops of tincture per 20 ml of water. Take the remedy daily 3-5 times, no more.
Precautions
I repeat once again: hemlock is a very poisonous plant, so you need to take it carefully and in small doses, but it is better to consult a doctor and not self-medicate.
In the case of taking a large dose of speckled hemlock, the body is poisoned and the following symptoms appear: salivation, dizziness, vomiting, dilated pupils, burning in the mouth. Without medical attention, the result will be respiratory paralysis and death.
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).
