Witch Hazel is a tree used to treat many kinds of illness. Its bark and leaves has healing properties and are use today for illness remedy. Its botanical name is Hamamelis virginica and its common name is winter bloom, striped elder, spotted elder, hazelnut, snapping hazel, pistachio, and tobacco wood. And the medicinal properties are: It acts as astringent, tonic, antiphlogistic, and sedative.
Treating diseases and illnesses using trees and herbs has been considered as an old-fashioned remedy. Herbalists and experts on herbals and trees have used this kind of healing all their life with most remarkable results.
It is unsurpassed for stopping menstruation, hemorrhages from the lungs, stomach, uterus, bowels, etc. It is also very useful in diarrhea, taken internally and as an enema. In nosebleed, snuff the tea up the nose. For piles, inject a teaspoonful several times a day and after each stool. Excellent local application, in gonorrhea, leucorrheas, and whites, give as a douche. Internally, steep a heaping teaspoonful in a cup of boiling water thirty minutes. Take one or more cupfuls during the day as needed, a large mouthful at a time. Children less according to age.
It will also restore perfect circulation. As a poultice or wash is excellent for painful tumors, all external inflammation, piles, bed sores, and sore and inflamed eyes. Excellent gargle in throat troubles. In piles and dysentery, or diarrhea, give enemas. Nature has always proved that there are many ways man can heal himself. Just look around and seek whatever you need. Man only need to learn how.
