Useful properties of the lover

Lover (Levisticum) is also called dawn, lover, piper, beloved grass and love potion. The name speaks for itself: this plant was created to help in love.





But the properties of an amazing herb are much more diverse: it is a spice, and a medicine, and a beautiful cosmetic product that has long been used by our grandmothers. No wonder lovers grew up near every house.

Lubistok has some similarity with its relatives from the family of umbrellas - parsley and celery. For this, the British called it “love parsley”, and in Russia called “winter celery”.





The composition of “winter celery” includes more than 200 substances. Among them, potassium, vitamins of a broad group of action, malic acid and valuable essential oils, which largely determine the medicinal properties of the plant.





Lovely leaves have a characteristic smell resembling the smell of celery, spicy, sweetish. The taste is somewhat salty, original, with a little bitterness.

Lovers in folk medicine The wide use of lovers medicinal found in folk medicine. This plant has expectorant, diuretic, tonic, soothing, anti-inflammatory and blood-purifying effects.

  1. Infusion for bronchitis and colitis
    4 grams of seeds pour half a glass of boiling water and let it brew for 30 minutes. Take 15 milliliters 3 times a day.

  2. Ulcer infusion
    Mix 2 tablespoons of lubricant root, 5 grams of dandelion root, 15 grams of althea root. Insist 9 days in 0.5 liters of vodka and 0.5 cups of honey. Consume 30 milliliters in the morning and evening.
  3. Infusion for swelling
    Pour a tablespoon of leaves with a glass of boiling water and leave in a thermos for three hours, then cool. Eat a tablespoon 30 minutes before meals.


  4. Infusion for heart disease
    Boil 30 grams of dry root in a liter of water for 7 minutes. Consume during the day in 5 receptions.


  5. Remedy for hair loss
    Two teaspoons of the root steam in a thermos with a glass of boiling water. Insist overnight. Strain and rub it in the scalp. Wrap your head with a towel and leave the infusion for 2 hours. After that, wash your head with an egg yolk. Use the tool 2-3 times a week.
  6. Means to increase potency
    Pour 2 teaspoons of the root lubricant 0.5 liters of vodka, insist for 2 months. Drink a dessert spoon daily.


Contraindications lover Despite numerous healing lovershipHe also has contraindications. Do not use lovers pregnant and children, as well as the following diseases.

  1. Hemorrhoidal and uterine bleeding.
  2. Inflammation of the ureter.
  3. An allergic reaction to the plants of the umbrella family.
  4. Acute renal failure.


With full right, lovers can also be called a herb of beauty. It is added to shampoos against hair loss and hair growth. The juice helps whiten the skin of the face. Essential oils are used in creams against freckles and to reduce pigmentation.





Baths with the addition of a lover relieve inflammation of the skin, heal microcracks and cuts. Lotions and decoctions treat acne, pimples, purulent inflammation.





In many villages, following an ancient tradition, it is customary to bathe in the lovebird of newborns. It is believed that girls will bring beauty, and boys, when they grow up, will love girls. Another lover puts a girl in a crib so that she chooses her happiness, not a stranger, and that it remains with her forever.

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