March birch air is exceptionally healing. Scientists have found that March birch air does not contain germs. It enhances the burning of cholesterol, which is extremely important in the treatment and prevention of cancer, blood vessel diseases, atherosclerosis.
Following the first thaws, the birch tree begins spring "weeping", i.e. sap flow when the birch tree is wounded during the period of bud swelling in spring, before the leaves blossom.
What can be said about birch sap? Is it necessary to drink it? Many people believe that the harm done to the tree in obtaining the juice cannot be justified by its usefulness. Is that so?
Experts in the healing properties of birch trees consider fundamentally wrong the statements of zealous "conservationists" that birch sap should not be used - there is a lot of harm, and almost no benefit! Such a statement from start to finish far-fetched and has no real ground. Of course, you should not "suck up" the first birch on the outskirts of the village or the outskirts of the city. You can't do it the wrong way: chopping up a third of the trunk with an axe and leaving the wound to rot. It is immoral and criminal! As immoral and criminal is the "justification" of the worthlessness of birch sap. Why deceive people whose ancestors used birch sap throughout the history of their existence? After all, hundreds of thousands of hectares of birch forests are cut down for firewood every year in our country. Cut down for the most part without "pruning". "Sucking up" is possible and necessary, but it should be done carefully and orderly, in birch forests, which will soon go for felling. There is little or no damage to the tree when pruning is done properly. A single birch tree in early spring can yield up to several dozen liters of sap. In order not to damage the tree, when extracting birch sap it is necessary to drill a hole several centimeters deep with a drill and insert a groove in the hole, through which the sap will flow freely into the dish. It is better to make the hole on the north side, as much more sap goes in there. The villagers know this little trick well. You can simply cut a twig, wrap it with a strong thread, the ends of the thread lowered into a hanging jar - and the juice will flow.
Birch sap contains sugar, vitamins, trace elements and is an excellent drink with healing properties. Birch juice is a means of "healing" blood, it has hematopoietic and regenerating effect, stimulates metabolism in the body, promotes rapid release of the body from the products of metabolism and is very valuable in intoxication and diseases caused by violations of metabolic processes in the body, particularly in cancer.
The following folk remedy is useful for alleviating the suffering of cancer and for delaying it. Mix two parts of birch juice with two parts of yarrow herb juice, two parts of carrot juice, one part of hemlock herb juice, one part of St. John's wort herb juice and one part of thavolga herb juice. Drink a day one tablespoon of the mixture in the morning on an empty stomach, drinking natural (not pasteurized) milk, and one tablespoon of the mixture in the evening, before going to bed, also drinking milk. In this case, it is useful to take inside the powder of licorice root in an amount of 1-2 g.
The action of birch sap is much the same as that of birch buds. Birch juice has a stimulating effect on the acid-forming function of the stomach, which makes it useful in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, accompanied by a decrease in acid formation. It is advisable to include it in differentiated complex therapy of gastric and duodenal ulcer disease and chronic gastritis both during exacerbation and remission.
Birch sap, in essence, is the secret of plant cells with unlimited possibilities of synthesis of various biogenic stimulants such as hormones, enzymes and, undoubtedly, can be attributed to the type of liquid with a very diverse healing biological functions and a very complex physical and chemical composition.
Birch juice drink as a wonderful diuretic for gout, arthritis, edema, rheumatism, with long non-healing wounds and trophic ulcers, colds, sore throat, bronchitis, bronchiectasis, pneumonia, tuberculosis, as a wonderful antizyngotnyh means. Birch juice is used as an external remedy for acute eczema, neurodermatitis, psoriasis, skin itching, furunculosis, vulgar acne, scabies, scrofula. In parasitic and fungal skin diseases along with daily external rinses, lotions, compresses of birch sap is very useful to take daily inside one glass of birch juice a day, better in the morning, on an empty stomach.
Birch sap is useful to drink in maternity fever and in diseases with high fever, venereal diseases, hay fever. Birch sap drink one glass before meals 3-4 times a day for 2-3 weeks, following a milk and vegetable diet. Juice gargle the throat and drink it slowly with sore throat and other inflammatory diseases of the throat and mouth.
For chronic runny nose should drink 1 glass of fresh birch sap every morning in the spring.
With diseased kidneys, when there are no direct indications of stones, it is useful to drink a glass of birch juice every day. Another option is to drink birch sap on an empty stomach one glass at a time. The juice is great at chasing stones and sand out of the kidneys and bladder. Birch sap destroys urinary stones of predominantly phosphate and carbonate origin, without affecting oxalate and uric acid stones.
Those who easily catch colds and from this constantly coughing, it is useful to drink in the spring birch juice with milk and a small amount of flour or starch, as well as instead of tea to drink an infusion of birch leaves with strawberries or strawberries.
Birch sap finds use in liver diseases, anemia after wounding, as an anthelmintic against ascarids and pinworms.
Birch juice in combination with squeezed juice of young birch leaves stimulates kidney function without irritating renal tissue. Moreover, this mixture strengthens the kidney tissue to such an extent that weak kidney tissues can regain their normal state.
Healthy people can take fresh birch juice unlimited (not allowing, however, overdose of the total amount of liquid) instead of tea, compotes, water for one to two months. The juice should be stored in the refrigerator, for it quickly sours and spoils.
It is useful to mix birch juice with all kinds of juices derived from fruits and vegetables, infuse birch juice on St. John's wort, rose hips, leaves of all kinds of mint, thyme, cumin, melissa, basil, hyssop, linden flowers, cypress, thavolga elm, buds of sedge (black poplar), etc. п. The healing properties of medicinal plants, vegetables, fruits complement the healing effect of birch juice.
Take an early spring vacation of 15 to 20 days during the snow melt and collect and take fresh birch sap daily. And you will feel how you will leave weakness, headaches, dizziness, insomnia, tinnitus, palpitations, fatigue, irritability, significantly increase the number of red blood cells and hemoglobin, improve your overall mood and well-being.
It is very good to pour birch berry juice with cowberries. It makes a great cure for many ailments.
From hair loss helps rubbing into the skin birch juice with alcohol or brandy and decoction of turpentine root. The same remedy is also good for hair growth.
In cosmetics, dry skin is cleansed with fresh or preserved birch sap instead of toilet water. For long-term preservation of birch sap, it should be preserved by adding 5.0 ml of hydrochloric acid to 1 liter of sap.
You can make the following simple mask in the morning before washing your face. Wipe the face skin with a cotton swab soaked in any vegetable oil. 1 tablespoon of sour cream, or plain sour cream, mix with 2 tablespoons of birch juice, add 1 teaspoon of honey. Mix everything thoroughly and apply to the skin for 10-15 minutes, then wash with cool boiled water.
Birch sap is used to make birch kvass. Juice is heated to 35 ° C, then add yeast to it at the rate of 15-20 g per 1 liter of juice, canned and put in a cold place or in the refrigerator. After 3- 4 days birch kvass is ready. This pleasant-tasting, healing beverage can be stored in a dark, cool place for up to 3-4 months.
Concentration of birch sap is achieved by evaporation at 60°C and 100°C to 1/4-1/5 of the original volume. Evaporation can be carried out until the birch sap is completely dried and a white or slightly yellowish precipitate is formed, which can then be dissolved in an appropriate volume of distilled water, not exceeding 1/4-1/5 of the original volume of birch sap.
The results of the studies showed that the effectiveness of the action of concentrated birch sap on yeast cell division is several times higher than that of ordinary birch sap. The high activity of concentrated birch sap is mainly due to the fact that the unit volume of sap has a higher content of biologically active substances compared to non-concentrated.
Birch sap concentrated at 100°C has a higher stimulatory effect than birch sap concentrated at 50-60°C.
Birch sap collected in the middle of the "weep" has higher medicinal properties than that collected at the beginning or end of the "weep". Birch sap collected from the higher openings of the trunk also has higher medicinal properties.
