Section 9

The botanical name of spotted hemlock is Conium maculatum L. It belongs to the umbrella family Apiaceae Lindl (Umbe-lliferae Juss). Hemlock spotted hemlock is a biennial herbaceous plant with large leaves. In the first year of growth it forms a rosette of root leaves, and in the second year - a strongly branched furrowed stem, which in good soil can reach two meters high (more often 70-150 cm). The stem is bare, in thin furrows, with a bluish cast, hollow inside, in the lower part with clearly visible dark-red spots (which is why the plant got the name "mottled"), not quite faceted, with powdery scurf. The internodes of the stem are dudate. Leaves are also glabrous, on long petioles, vaginal, with ovate-oval pinnately dissected leaflets on long petioles. When rubbed, they have a pungent mouse odor.

The plant is officinal (from officina - pharmacy, medicine) in many countries of the world, that is, it is included in the official pharmacopoeias of these countries. However, Russia does not belong to such countries, and the use of hemlock spotted hemlock for medical purposes in our country is officially and categorically prohibited.Modern folk healers believe that the herb hemlock has analgesic, sedative, anticonvulsant and anti-inflammatory properties. It is used mainly for making preparations that reduce pain, as well as for the treatment of malignant tumors.It should never be forgotten that hemlock belongs to the most poisonous plants. Both the healing effect (in strictly therapeutic doses) and toxic - up to lethal - are provided by the same substances contained in the plant.

The initial symptoms of hemlock poisoning (itching in the mouth, behind the sternum, numbness of skin areas, dizziness, headache, visual and hearing disorders, dilated pupils, salivation, repeated vomiting, shortness of breath, palpitations, irregular pulse, convulsions, during which blood pressure rises), as a rule, appear in 20-30 minutes, but it should be remembered that in some cases it may occur in one and a half to two hours.In a mild form of hemlock poisoning, salivation, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea appear. Pupils dilated, body temperature is low, limbs cold, immobilized, breathing is difficult. In cases where proper immediate measures are not taken immediately, the poison of hemlock continues to be absorbed very quickly into the blood from the gastrointestinal tract. In severe cases of hemlock poisoning increases muscle weakness, turning into muscle paralysis (starting with the legs). Then - loss of consciousness, collapse, ascending paralysis.

As a medicinal raw material hemlock leaves are used at the beginning of flowering, flowers and unripe seeds together with umbrellas. The time of collection is June. Leaves and flowers are harvested at the beginning of flowering and dried in the usual way in the shade in the fresh air separately from other plants. Seeds are collected and dried with the umbrellas - just like flowers and leaves. From the dried umbrellas, the seeds spill out themselves.For medicinal purposes, the stems are also used; the time of their preparation - July. Experienced people strongly recommend that when collecting hemlock inflorescences, approach the plant from the leeward side, otherwise you can be poisoned, because the alkaloids are volatile substances.

Hemlock has long been used in folk medicine in many countries for the treatment and prevention of cancer, as well as in homeopathy (Conium maculatum), but in clinical scientific medicine the properties of the plant have not found practical application to this day. And this is despite the fact that not only folk healers, but also many specialists oncologists are convinced that hemlock as a means of anti-cancer in the highest degree promising and should be studied in order to scientifically enter the list of major anti-cancer drugs.Recently, interest in the plant has increased so much for a reason. It is established that hemlock herb is the strongest immunostimulant, activating and strengthening the body's defenses, so its use can give a good result in the treatment of many diseases, if clinically they are manifested by a decrease in the immune status of the body.

The main cause of malignant growth of tissues, according to V.V. Tishchenko, is their hypoxia, oxygen starvation. And here this remarkable doctor again showed an innovative approach: he began to consider oxygen not as an oxidizer (as it is generally accepted today everywhere), but as a corrector of individual frequencies of each cell of the body. Thus, it is oxygen that determines its vital tone - this is also due to the fact that the wave structure of the cell and oxygen have a similar frequency. Thus, oxygen is exactly what connects all the cells of the body into a single and indivisible whole.First of all, before starting the treatment, it is necessary to clean the liver. The procedure lasts for three days. Every day in the morning you do an enema and drink only freshly prepared apple juice.

After cleaning, introduce pumpkin or pumpkin juice into the diet in unlimited quantities. When oncology can not eat meat, sausages, broths, spicy, salty, fried, sweet, fatty. Useful porridge on water, fresh juices (especially carrot and beet). It is also good to enter the daily diet salad: carrots, dark maroon beets, green sour apples (all in equal parts) rubbed on a grater or run through a meat grinder, add kefir, sour cream or vegetable oil to taste. Then once again pulverize with a meat grinder or blender until a homogeneous mass.V. V. Tishchenko developed four main varieties of methods of taking tincture of hemlock inside, based on the general condition of the patient.

"...I use only wild hemlock collected in its natural habitat, in one of the most ecologically clean regions of Europe - in the Pskov region. This is my principle of using herbs - they are much stronger in wild form, especially poisonous herbs. Poisonousness depends on the composition of the soil, its temperature, humidity. Especially since there is data on hemlock that it prefers to grow in geopathogenic, i.e. unfavorable, zones and in places with increased natural radioactivity. And of course, wild hemlock is much stronger than cultivated". - T.V. Makeenko. Tincture of hemlock A.M. Ermolchik offers to drop not in water, as advised by V.V. Tishchenko, and in various decoctions (and cooled before use). For example, licorice (if the pressure is high, then do not apply for a long time, it is better to alternate), Kuril tea, caragana, decoction of oats. Use licorice decoction if your blood pressure is stable and within the normal range.

Hemlock has been used as a medicinal plant since ancient times, including the "fathers of medicine" Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna. Ancient medicine defined the nature of the plant as cold and dry, and attributed properties to him stunned, soporific and hemostatic.As has been said many times, hemlock is poisonous: its use leads to loss of speech, dizziness, darkening of the eyes, coldness in the extremities, sore throat, narrowing of the respiratory tract and esophagus. Treatment of poisoning, according to the ancients, is to induce vomiting, and then give to drink wine, donkey's milk, tincture of bitter wormwood.In the old days were well aware of all the dangers associated with the use of hemlock, and yet used medicines from it, as evidenced by the surviving herbalists of those times. Here are a few such examples.

The term "Conium" (Conium maculatunh) is used in homeopathy. Conium is one of the basic drugs in homeopathy and is quite often prescribed for the treatment of various diseases or painful conditions. Homeopathic tincture of hemlock 30th dilution you can buy in a specialized pharmacy with a doctor's prescription. And a homeopathic doctor will surely prescribe you. Diseases of the senses, nervous system. Weakening memory decline in intelligence, depressed mood. Sleep disturbance, insomnia, terrible dreams (disease, death, torment), late falling asleep, worsening of well-being at night and in bright sunlight. Eye pain (especially when reading), burning and cold sensation in the eyes, photophobia, instant blindness from bright sunlight, myopia, cataracts. Decreased hearing, tinnitus, large accumulation of wax in the ears.Dizziness, headaches. Dizziness when turning the head or looking to the side, when moving from a vertical position to a horizontal position, heaviness in the head, headache.