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Common tree of the wooded areas growing to 5 m of which one uses the bark, leaves and catkins.
Hazel tree is mainly used for its astringent properties in case of metrorrhagia, hemorroids, nosebleed, phlebites, varicose ulcers.
Also : Febrifuge
And in external use : varicose veins, wounds, oedemas, ulcers, obesity (catkins).
For swollen eyelids: compresses with an infusion of 20 g of leaves for 1 liter of boiling water, let infuse during 10 hours, filter.
Wash the wound with an infusion of 25 g of leaves in 1 liter of boiling water, let infuse during 10 minutes.
Corylus avellana, Common Hazel,
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