Pharmacy name: sheep grass - Cnici benedicti herba (formerly: Herba Carduibenedicti).
Botanical description. This annual plant looks like a thistle, has a height of 30-50 cm and will branch strongly. Straightened pentahedral stem is striped, bottom bristle-haired. Leaves are elongated-lanceolate, more often pale-comprehensive, sharply serrated along the edge, often fluffy and sticky. Inflorescences are submerged in a funnel from the upper leaves and equipped with wrapping sheets with spider webs. Blossoms from June to September. In Germany, this plant, which has a Mediterranean origin, is found only occasionally, and as a wild plant. For medicinal purposes it is cultivated in rows with 30 cm rows and fertilized well. Collection and preparation: collected during blossoming and dried on dryers in the shade.
Active ingredients: bitterness (Knitzin), some essential oils and tannins.
Healing effect and application. The healing effect is caused mainly by bitterness. They stimulate the secretion of gastric juice, improve appetite, eliminate digestive problems (which is also noted by the German Public Health Service), increase the formation of bile and facilitate its outflow. From a single wolf tea is rarely used, more often used tea blends, in which the wolf serves as an important component. In addition, there are many halene preparations that contain active ingredients from this medicinal plant. Those with impaired digestion should undergo a treatment course with wolf tea: within a few weeks, 2 times a day, 1 hour before basic meals, to drink 1 cup of tea each.
Lupus tea: 1 tablespoon with the top of the grass is poured 1/4 litre of cold water, slowly brought to the boil, then removed from the fire and after about 2 minutes filtered. Tea is drunk in warm, small sips, unsweetened.
My special advice. In chronic pain in the stomach, which is accompanied by loss of appetite and which may be of nervous origin, as well as in digestive disorders of various nature are effective drugs of bitterness. If they are combined with healing plants that contain essential oil and, in addition, have a special effect on the stomach and intestines, such as the root of aira, the scope of application is expanded.
Tea blend of wolf and aira: Wolf grass 30.0 Aira root 20.0
Two teaspoons of tea spoons with the top of the mixture, pour 1 / 4 liters of cold water, slowly bring to boil, strain, drink tea unsweetened 2 times a day for 1 cup.
Use in folk medicine. In folk medicine, this medicinal plant is used primarily in violation of the stomach, gall bladder, liver or intestines. It also facilitates such phenomena as loss of appetite, meteorism and constipation. Moreover, folk medicine uses she-wolf for lung diseases, anemia, cardiac disorders and as an external one to treat poorly healing wounds.
Side effects. Nausea and vomiting may occur when overdosing. Allergies are possible.