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Lactuca Virosa (sachet 50 gram - cutted)

Wild lettuce can be used in cases of an overactive nervous system and as a sedative. The dreamy effects are a little bit similar to opium, but milder. Wild lettuce can help reduce the feeling of restlessness, excitability and insomnia.

Furthermore it can relieve colic pains in the intestines and uterus and also muscular pains related to rheumatism. Some Indians use the herb to enhance the vividness of dreams. They believe that induced dream states provide more information about reality than the conscious waking state.

Usage

Wild lettuce is to be used as tea: pour a cup of boiling water onto 1-2 teaspoons and let steep for 10-15 minutes. Drink three times daily.



Another method is to make an extract. Soak 100 grams of wild lettuce herb for 8 hours in warm but not boiling water. Then sift and press all the liquid out of the wild lettuce. Put the dark liquid in a pan and let it evaporate. Putting the pan in a bigger pan with boiling water will avoid burning the wild lettuce while drying. What is left is a kind of gum that can be used like opium: smoked or eaten. To smoke, make sure not to burn the gum directly but put it on aluminium foil and hold a lighter underneath while inhaling the smoke through a tube (use for instance the plastic tube of a pen).



To fight irritable coughs wild lettuce may be combined with wild cherry bark. For insomnia it combines with valerian (Valeriana officinalis) and pasque flower (Euphorbia pulcherrima).

Warning

Be careful with the dosage; tests have revealed that on small testing animals even small overdoses can be (very) poisonous.

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