Description
Mindful Garden
🐝 Supplier / Place of Origin: 小悅媽手工房
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🛍 Product Information :
Ingredients: wormwood water, glycerin and compound essential oil.
With the weather warming up and the responsibilities of the school year fading into distant memory, there’s little better than putting your feet up to relax in the backyard or on the patio. That is, of course, if there aren’t mosquitoes buzzing around your head. The little blood-sucking pests have a funny way of ruining a nice afternoon or evening. Luckily, there are some plants that you can add to your garden that will help keep them away. Below, Wormwood is only of plants that repel mosquitoes for which you just might want to find a place in your backyard landscape.
Wormwood, must be used with caution. The pungent scent of this plant will keep mosquitoes away, but the plant is not a good option for environments in which pets and children reside. Outside of the garden, Wormwood is a primary ingredient in absinthe. This green-colored liquor was banned in the United States early 1900s, thought to have hallucinogenic properties. The ban has since been lifted, and the incredibly strong spirit is now widely used in high-end cocktails, particularly apéritifs.
Medicinal use
It is used in herbal medicine for conditions of the liver, spleen and kidney. The whole plant is strongly aromatic.
Wormwood leaves are gathered on a warm dry day in spring and summer when the plant is in flower and dried in the shade. In traditional Chinese medicine, they are considered to have bitter, pungent and warm properties and to be associated with the liver, spleen and kidney meridians. The leaves are used as an antiseptic, expectorant, febrifuge and styptic. The herb is considered to increase the blood supply to the pelvic region and stimulate menstruation, help treat infertility, dysmenorrhea, asthma and coughs. Another use is in moxibustion, a form of healing in which the herb is burned in cones or sticks or as a compressed ball set on the top of an inserted acupuncture needle. Boiling water can be poured onto the ground up leaves and used in a decoction, alone or with other substances, and the fresh leaf can be crushed and blended and a juice extracted. A volatile oil can be extracted from the leaves and used in the treatment of asthma and bronchitis for which purpose it is sprayed onto the back of the throat and brings rapid relief. The leaves have an antibacterial action and have been shown to be effective against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus dysenteriae, Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus typhi, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas.