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 Legend has it that one day in the harsh winter, the trees, long-suffering from freezing cold, asked for help from God, and he dropped them from the sky evergreen mistletoe bushes ...
The English have a tradition, meeting the Christmas kiss under the branches mistletoe to the New Year was happiness. It started well with all the Druids, Priests the ancient Celts, who deified the mistletoe white, growing on an oak, and believed it cures all diseases and all evil. In ancient times there was belief that mistletoe seeds falling from the sky on lightning bolts. And yet it was the custom - in the days of the winter solstice for the addition of wealth in the house, we had to dig the mistletoe and kiss her roots.
Served in America's first settlers took with them the white mistletoe - as the guardian and medicine. Mistletoe is started at a new place and now adorns the New Year holidays at home almost all Americans, whose ancestors were British.
Mistletoe -
Viscum album L.
- Evergreen shrub of the family remnetsvetnyh parasitizing on the branches of various trees - poplars, klёnah, birches, limes, pears, apple trees, oaks, pines, spruce, fir, larch ... Generic name of the plant comes from the Latin
viscum
- Birdlime and Latin
albus
- White.
There are over 70 species of mistletoe, but the healing is considered the mistletoe. Woody branches of mistletoe up to 1 meter form a spherical bush. The leaves of mistletoe leathery, narrowed to the base. In March and April at the disbanded mistletoe inconspicuous greenish-yellow flowers. False fruit - white berries ripen in September-October and remain on the branches until January. Ripe berries are beginning to show through. In the sticky pulp is a major seed-like oval.
 For medicinal purposes
harvested in late autumn, young branches with leaves. Wonderful fruits of mistletoe are poisonous, they are especially dangerous for children. The fruits of the mistletoe love to feast on birds, especially blackbirds. After the meal, birds, climbing higher, clear the beaks of seed on the trees. Sticky seeds adhere to the branches and grow. Since mistletoe is propagated, and it is connected with it its Latin name. Trees of mistletoe noticeably affected, the wood loses its strength, becomes brittle.
Homeland mistletoe are considered tropical and subtropical Africa, Asia. However, from time immemorial the mistletoe grows in Australia and in Europe, including the European part of Russia, Ukraine, Crimea, Belarus.
The assembled feed mistletoe contains: carotene, vitamins E, C, sugars, proteins, amino acids, resinous substances glycoside elastomer carbohydrates, organic acids, rubber, steroids, saponins polypeptides, phenols, phenol carboxylic acids, tannins, flavonoids, higher fatty acids ...
In folk medicine used young twigs, leaves and berries. For therapeutic purposes, the mistletoe used more ancient Greeks and Romans.
- Pliny, Paracelsus used mistletoe in the treatment of epilepsy, diseases of the nervous system, gastrointestinal colic, bleeding, spinal cord paralysis, diseases of the lungs.
- In the Middle Ages, mistletoe was used in hysteria, headache, dizziness, apoplexy.
- The medieval Armenian physician Amirdovlad Amasiatsi believed that mistletoe is able to dissolve tumors, and is useful for disease sciatic nerve.
- Modern folk medicine uses the mistletoe with hypertension, atherosclerosis, as a means of calming the nervous system, to expand the vessels, in menopause, chronic diseases of the joints, to treat diarrhea, whooping cough, hemorrhoids, diseases of the thyroid gland.
- We also know that mistletoe has analgesic, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, laxative and hemostatic properties.
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The infusion of mistletoe
1 tbsp. a spoonful of chopped herbs fill the mistletoe 1, 5 cups of hot water, but not boiling water. Insist 2 hours, strain, take ¼ cup 3-4 times a day before meals.
 Mistletoe is used in cosmetics
to soften the skin, ridding it of pimples, pustules and rash.
- 1 teaspoon minced raw mistletoe pour ½ cup hot water insist hour, drain, wipe face.
- Herbalists claim that women, mistletoe host for some time inside, much younger, at least 5 years.
- 1 teaspoon of crushed leaves and twigs of mistletoe white fill overnight and 1 cup of boiled water at room temperature. In the morning drain. Take 1/3 cup 3 times a day before meals.
- Take a bath of mistletoe and to cleanse the skin and the acquisition of smooth and silky. In the bath temperature 37 degrees is added to the broth of white mistletoe (1 tbsp. Spoonful of raw sugar and 1 liter of hot water, press 1 hour in a thermos).
- Decoction of mistletoe rinsed hair to improve their growth and give them the pomp and volume.
Sorcerers say sprig of mistletoe in that house, especially for the new year brings happiness and wealth.
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