 "Willow and all its of its searing force
Throughout known; she said and moderately knits.
Bloody wound glue it to the state of the leaves;
If they drink the water, then prevent conception in women;
Ashes of zhzhёnoy crust combined with strong vinegar
With leg casts corn imposed il anoint;
In the same way, he also cleans even warts. "
(Odo of Mena)
I remember that magic wand Harry Potter's mother was made of willow ...
I think Willow would be magical tool for all women who think about their health and beauty.
Willow - a tree female, lunar, and is dedicated to the moon goddess and the moon magic. Willow tree is often called creation. It is subject to international law, and usually installs everything is as it should be.
In ancient willow branches decorated altars before the ritual. The Slavic name of the willow - willow, willow, willow, willow.
Willow -
Salix
- Large deciduous tree of the family of willow. In a large willow krona, dangling or spherical. Willow may be shrubs and trees up to 4-6 meters high. The diameter of the trunk can be up to 1 meter.
 The bark is gray with deep cracks. Flexible branches greenish or reddish in color. The leaves are silvery-green elongated shape.
Flowers small, dioecious, without perianth, in the men's two stamens in the female pistil with one upper ovary. Both assembled in the cylindrical thick catkins.
Flowering willow in April - May. Willow beautiful honey plant. Fruit - capsule with numerous small volatile seeds ripen in May - June, simultaneously with the opening of leaves.
The world grows 116 species of willows. Willow distributed throughout the European part of Russia, Siberia and the Caucasus.
In the wild state grows near rivers, on sand spits, in wet ravines and forests. Recently, often willow steel plant in the cities.
In medical and cosmetic purposes
usually used willow bark, collect it from April until July, rarely leaves and flowers are very rare.
The willow bark contains vitamin C, flavones tannins, compounds of salicylic acid and other substances.
It is from the bark of the willow was received the world's first aspirin.
Preparations from willow have antipyretic, analgesic, diaphoretic and diuretic properties.
Traditional medicine treats using willow colds with fever, fever, malaria, rheumatism, headaches, gastrointestinal and heart disease.
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Tea made from willow bark
1 teaspoon of chopped bark pour 1 cup of cold water, put on the stove and bring to a boil over low heat. Take ½ cup 2 times a day before meals. This broth rinse the throat with inflammatory processes.
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Steam Bath willow
to cleanse oily skin porous
Prepare a towel, hat or scarf hair, vessel trays. 1 tbsp. spoon willow bark pour 1 liter of boiling water, let cool slightly, tie your hair with a scarf, covering her head with a towel and lean over the vessel for 5-6 minutes. Wash with cool water and apply moisturizer.
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Purifying Mask
2 tbsp. tablespoons dry willow leaves pour boiling water so as to obtain a paste. Infuse for 10 minutes, cool slightly and spread out between the layers of gauze to put on your face for 10 minutes. Wash and apply a moisturizing cream.
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Willow bark strengthens hair
and promotes its growth
1 teaspoon dried crushed bark pour ½ cup of vodka, insist three weeks, occasionally shaking. 1 teaspoon of tincture diluted 10 teaspoons of boiled water at room temperature and rub into the roots of the hair with a cotton swab for 20-30 minutes before shampooing. After some time, the hair will be bright, shiny and fluffy.
In the old days, women and girls bewitches using willow favorite otvorazhivali and unwanted.
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