Wild Lettuce Herb Tea Bag
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Botanical Name: Latuca virosa
Wild lettuce is a plant. The leaves, sap (latex), and seed are used to make medicine.
Wild lettuce is used for whooping cough, asthma, urinary tract problems, cough, trouble sleeping (insomnia), restlessness, excitability in children, painful menstrual periods, excessive sex drive in women (nymphomania), muscular or joint pains, poor circulation, swollen genitals in men (priapism), and as an opium substitute in cough preparations.
The seed oil is used for “hardening of the arteries” (atherosclerosis) and as a substitute for wheat germ oil.
Some people apply wild lettuce latex directly to the skin to kill germs.
Wild lettuce has calming, relaxing, and pain relieving effects.
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Botanical Name: Latuca virosa
• Asthma
• Difficulty sleeping (insomnia)
• Restlessness
• Sexual disorders
• Killing germs when applied to skin