Burdock is a purifying plant fighting acne and hair fall

Burdock is a humble plant. It grows everywhere in grasslands and in uncultivated and sunny areas. It has large leaves which are heart-shaped and whitish in the lower part. Flowers are red and their stem is long and vertical.
Burdock is known also with the name of burr, clothburr and fox’s clote, since its flowers easily catch on clothing, hair and fur.
The parts used in herbal medicine are roots and fresh leaves. Roots are harvested in autumn, after the first year of vegetation of the plant or better in the following spring. They are taken out of the soil with a hoe and deprived from small side leaves. They are washed up, cut into thin slices and, if you want to dry them up, they are put into the sun and kept then in glass pots.
For this reason, it’s necessary to know that burdock root, because of its high sugar content, is easily perishable: it must be well dried and replaced every year.
Leaves are gathered without stem in spring, before flowering: if you want to dry them up, arrange them into thin layers in the shadow and keep them into paper bags.
The most widely known property of this plant, thanks to its purifying power, is its anti-acne, anti-furuncle and anti-seborroheic effect. It’s thus recommended for all types of acne, furunculosis, dermatosis and eczemas, for internal use (in infusions or decoctions) or for external use (actually there are some burdock soaps).
Moreover, it’s an excellent general depurative, perspiratory and laxative remedy. For external use, fresh leaves lotion is used against scalp seborrhoea and thus to fight hair loss.

Diuretic and depurative burdock wine: put 50 g (1.76 oz) of burdock fresh root to soak in 1 l of white dry wine after having ground it well. Drain and drink into small glasses (1 in the morning and 1 in the night after meals).

Burdock lotion against hair loss: put 30 g (1.05 oz) of well ground and contused fresh root to soak into 1 l of distilled water and 30 ml of 90% ethyl alcohol. Drain it 3 days later and use in the morning and in the night, rubbing it on the scalp. In this way, seborrhoea will be eliminated and hair fall will be stopped.

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