Virtually no grass from fleas is used in the people as often and in such volumes as wormwood. Perhaps only tansy in the fight against fleas can make wormwood some competition.
This is not surprising: it is the wormwood with its smell that is able to scare a wide variety of insects, and not only parasites. It is used against ants, cockroaches, moths. In the villages, even flies fly less into the rooms with livestock, in which caring owners have previously laid out brooms from wormwood.
Wormwood from fleas in rural areas is often used as the main means, although it is not capable of destroying these parasites. And even today, in large cities, where fleas can easily be taken out in a matter of hours using affordable and safe insecticidal preparations, wormwood helps fleas to many pet owners.
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Flea grasses have never been an absolutely reliable means of removing these parasites: in most cases, the only task for grasses is to scare away insects. This is exactly how wormwood works against fleas: if they are already wound up in a room, it is unlikely that they will be able to get them out using this tool. But to prevent the entry of fleas into the apartment wormwood is quite help.
At the same time, even in a big city, buying wormwood to scare fleas is not a problem at all: it is sold in markets from herbalists, in pharmacies in the form of tinctures and crushed raw materials.
With the right approach against fleas, you can use almost any form of wormwood.
How does wormwood affect fleas?
Wormwood scares off fleas with its peculiar odor. For a person, the smell of this grass is quite pleasant and creates the atmosphere of a summer field indoors.
It is important to remember that the strong smell has only freshly mown or freshly dried plant. Accordingly, wormwood will have the greatest effect from fleas until it loses its flavor.
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“My grandmother always poisoned insects in the house with various herbs. They cannot find any aerosols or powders from fleas in the village, but the whole village is surrounded by huge meadows where wormwood grows in unlimited quantities.When fleas accidentally appeared in our apartment, I first etched them with a chemical preparation, but then I called and found out from my grandmother what kind of grass fleas are afraid of. Grandma said that wormwood helps best of fleas. They sell it from us in the market, I now regularly buy a small bundle and put it near the cat's house to scare off random parasites. ”
Oksana, Kiev
As a poison, wormwood does not affect fleas. Even if you put an insect in a bunch of grass, nothing will happen to it. However, the flea will try to leave the space smelling of wormwood as soon as possible.
Wormwood owes this scaring effect to the volatile essential oils found in its stems, flowers and leaves. Thanks to the same essential oils, wormwood is widely used in medicine and cooking.
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The most pronounced deterrent effect of wormwood is manifested in relation to gardening pests. Therefore, preparations from it are most often used to protect trees from caterpillars and tree borers. The ability of wormwood products to prevent the development of fungi, including parasitic fungi in humans, is also known.
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“I did not think that wormwood can be applied from fleas in an apartment.I only remember that in the village it is constantly laid out on the verandas and in the chicken coops. And when I did the same thing in a city apartment, I got a lot of pribaldela - the sumptuous smell of the summer meadow went through all the rooms, that my childhood was immediately remembered. Probably three weeks laid it on the balcony and under the door, while hound fleas have dogs, and so far the parasites in the house have not met. I don’t know if wormwood can be used against fleas as the main means, but it works perfectly for scaring. ”
Anna, Moscow
Wormwood can be used not only to scare away fleas in the room, but also to combat animal parasites, for example, in cats and dogs.
True, in order for wormwood to be effective in this case, you need to be able to do it yourself. In practice, this is not so difficult.
What forms of wormwood is used against fleas
Most often, fresh or slightly dried grass of wormwood is used against fleas. Dry brooms also retain their deterrent ability, but to a somewhat lesser extent.
Other forms of the plant have also proven themselves:
- Wormwood oil is used against fleas, being poured into cups or jars.They should be placed in places of possible penetration of parasites into the apartment. But with oil, it is also effective to process animal hair that has already managed to pick up fleas on the street - in this case the parasites will try to leave their prey as soon as possible.
- Tincture of wormwood from fleas is used almost exclusively for the treatment of animal hair or bird plumage. It is not known that it repels parasites more - the smell of alcohol or the smell of the wormwood itself, but the effect of the tincture is no less pronounced than from the oil.
- Broth wormwood - also a good remedy for fleas, mainly for getting rid of pets from these insects. As a rule, it is used while bathing a pet.
In the photo below - wormwood essential oil sold in pharmacies. From a flea with the help of such a bottle, you can protect one or two-room apartment.
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“I once tried using wormwood for fleas. I did as my grandmother taught in the village: she made a decoction, cooled, sprinkled on the furniture and baseboards. The effect is zero. Maybe the parasites didn't disturb the day. And then everything is new. Grandma then advised other herbs that help from fleas, but I already decided not to fool around and sprinkled flat means Geth. It helped the first time.
Galina, Kursk
Do not destroy, so even scare: instructions for use of wormwood from fleas
For the most effective scaring away of fleas, wormwood should be laid out in bunches near animal resting places, under bedding and carpets, near doors and windows, in closets, storerooms and closets with old things and equipment, if possible in ventilation ducts. Replace these brooms often should not be - as long as they fill the place with smell, they will work. Fresh grass should be laid as the old one exhales.
It is recommended to clean the floors in the house with the addition of one liter of wormwood decoction in a bucket of water. You can also use wormwood in its other forms.
In order to rid fleas of pets, they should either be bathed with a thorough rubbing of the hair with decoction or tincture of wormwood, or simply rub a wormwood oil into the skin between the hairs in several places.
Wormwood oil from fleas in a cat or dog should be used first in the smallest, test doses, and only if the animal does not have an allergy after that, you can process it more carefully.
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The most topical is the use of wormwood, as well as tansy in the summer,when fleas are most active and often jump on pets.
Harvesting and storing wormwood as an insecticide
The most widely used representative of fleas has been bitter wormwood - perhaps the most famous representative of its kind. It has the most persistent odor and contains the most bitterness and essential oils.
City dwellers, far from nature, it will be useful to know that the wormwood looks like a dense low light green bush with one or several main shoots and pinnately dissected leaves (see photo).
Very often, wormwood looks like a very low grass, which is especially characteristic of meadows, beaten with cattle. It is most easily recognized by the characteristic very light color of the leaves.
Wormwood is harvested in any season, but most often in summer. Brooms from it are dried in the shade by a draft, and after that they retain their original smell for a long time.
A decoction of wormwood is prepared as follows: in two glasses of water, two tablespoons of chopped herbs are brought to a boil, after which all the liquid is drawn for several hours and cooled down.
For the preparation of the same tincture usually 2 or 4 teaspoons of herbs infused in half a liter of high-quality vodka.
It is very effective to combine wormwood with other herbs.For example, tansy against fleas, along with wormwood, has an enhanced effect, and in city apartments it is pleasant to lay out brooms of wormwood, mint and thyme.
These herbs can also be used independently as an alternative to wormwood - the effect of them against fleas will be comparable to that of this famous bitter herb.
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Many thanks, good advice.
Only mint and thyme, I would not advise those who have cats. My on these herbs, as the valerian react.
In the room where we sleep, fleas start up, they almost ate their son alive. And dichlorvos bought, sprinkled, locked the room - to act better, but still bite. She removed all the linen, cleaned it, pulled out the mattresses, blankets and pillows in the sun. It was just a nightmare. Then, with my mother, we went to look for this wormwood, picked up a whole package, scattered all the corners and under the mattresses, and everywhere, in short, where I could. And lo and behold, they disappeared! But week 2 suffered.
Once I used a tincture of wormwood to save a wounded cat from maggots, which were practically everywhere in it. Just added the tincture in a bowl of warm water and plunged the cat in there. They climbed with him - it was scary to look like from a zombie 🙂 As a result, the cat is alive and well.