plant: Acorus calamus L.

Native Name :
Bel pelin
Scientific Name :
 Acorus calamus L.
English Name :
 White wormwood
Family :  
Collected by :  Pece Petrovski

Medicinal Use :

 

We put 1 teaspoon from the plant in 300 cm3 water to stay two hours. From that mixture we must drink one coffee cup before our lunch and before our supper. The wormwood contain etherical oil which agitate the nevous system.

The wormwood is one of the most used plants in the medicine on the Balkan. This plant was used even by Hipocrat.

There is a proof that the contents in this plant have a bitter taste and appease the stomach muscles.

Our medicine use this plant for gastritis, inflammation on the stomach, cause pain on the liver, and on the gall, against anaemia, intestinal parasites.

 

Other Information :

 

In the past century in Russia there has venenation from plant called “PELINOVA VOTKA”, and in France in 1915 was made decision: do not use any aperative with wormwood aroma because they are very tocsic.

There are 12 classes of wormwood. And from the 12 classes in our homemade medicine are used wormwoods: the black one, kamfer, seacoast santon wormwood, one year wormwood.

For treatment is used the stem with flowers on length 25 cm from the top. Collect at the beginning on his blossom.

The plant grows on dries places, by the roads, fences and gardens.