Post by Onyxaeon on Dec 4, 2008 0:26:36 GMT -5
Hazel is a medicinal herb used for the skin. It is a large shrub with smooth brown bark, fragrant winter flowers, and woodsy fruit capsules. A distillation from the leaves and flower-bearing twigs is used in skin products for its disinfectant and astringent properties. It is used on chapped and sunburned skin, bruises, swelling, rashes, to stop bleeding, and to reduce varicose veins and hemorrhoids. Seeds are edible and can be brewed for a warming tea.
