Infected wounds

Infected wounds: Gently boil leaves for 20 minutes in very little water, and lay this paste on the wound. Change twice a day. For closed boils, use garlic, see Chapter 2.

Eye Infections

Many people in the Tropics are blind (trachoma) because, as babies or young children, when troubled by flies, they could not afford expensive pharmaceuticals or a doctor. The following two recipes are only for emergencies when sterile eye drops or eye ointment are not available. Europeans should be cautious, as they often have an allergic reaction to artemisia pollen: Ensure that they are not allergic, and that the tea with which they bathe their eyes is made only from leaves, and not from flowers!

Recipe A:

Boil 25 g of fresh or dried artemisia leaves with 1 cup of water (200 ml) for 5 minutes, and then filter through a (coffee) paper filter. Put a clean cotton cloth into this tea and briefly boil again. Leave to cool and put the wet cloth onto your eyes for about 5 minutes.

Recipe B:

Mix 10 g of clean, dried and pulverised artemisia leaves (without flowers) with 100 ml olive oil and 10 g bees wax. Heat in a clean saucepan (without water bath), stirring constantly. Using a thermometer keep the mixture at 95-100 degrees centigrade for 15 minutes. Filter immediately through paper filter and pour into clean containers (e.g. seal 5 g into small polythene bags). Use on eye infections on an experimental basis. Even in disaster areas work so as to keep everything as sterile as possible. With both recipes, repeat this treatment several times a day. Treat your eyes also with aloe gel, and support this treatment by drinking artemisia tea internally.

Skin problems; athlete’s foot, haemorrhoids, eczema

Use artemisia ointment for its mild antiseptic effect. Pulverise 5 g (for haemorrhoids 2.5 g) of artemisia leaves and mix with 100 ml of vegetable oil (the best is olive oil, otherwise peanut or sunflower oil). Heat this mixture on a water bath for 1 hour. Filter the mixture through a cloth, add 10 g of melted beeswax and immediately pour into containers (e.g. clean film canisters). Use within 1 year. Always apply on WET skin and rub in well. With this ointment we have had good experiences with children with eczema, where the doctor could only think of cortisone... 

Infected Wounds

Gently boil leaves for 20 minutes in very little water, and lay this paste on the wound. Change twice a day. For closed boils, use garlic.

Note: this text is no substitute for medical advice. Dr. Hans-Martin Hirt is professional pharmacist, he does not run a pharmacy. He works full-time in the development partnership. He isn’t oncologist. The organization “anamed” can only offer A-3 tea and Moringa powder as raw materials, neither is accredited as medicines. “anamed” promotes home-growing these plants, especially where no doctors work anymore! For detailed literature, see www.anamed-edition.com