Common Elmberry
.The common rowan is widely distributed in the forest and forest-steppe zones of Russia. It is a tree with gray bark up to 10 m tall. Its leaves are regular, unpaired, with 11-12 oblong, almost sessile, acutely serrate acuminate leaflets along the edge. The buds of the mountain ash are felted and fuzzy. Flowers are white, small, collected in inflorescences in the form of a round shield at the ends of branches.
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Fruit is berry-shaped, orange-yellow or red, shiny. Common mountain ash blooms in May-June. The fruit ripens in late September.
Medicinal raw material of mountain ash is the fruit, collected in October and dried in ovens or in the sun. The fruit is quite rich in vitamins B2, P, PP, E, K, A, and has more vitamin C than a lemon. In addition, common rowan is rich in trace elements such as potassium, iron, copper, iodine, zinc, magnesium. That's why rowanberries are used to treat many diseases. Rowan has and tannins, essential oil, citric acid, which further enhances its healing effect.
In folk medicine, the common mountain ash has long been used to treat stomach diseases, as a diuretic and styptic. It helps hypertension sufferers to lower their blood pressure. Useful rowan and patients with anemia, due to its high content of iron, copper and vitamins. It is used for cholecystitis, heavy menstruation, and colds. The rowan tree is good at providing humans with a variety of vitamins. The best for this is a multivitamin tea, which is a mixture of equal parts of mountain ash and rosehip fruits. Tea is prepared as follows: 1/2 tablespoon of a mixture of fruits pour 2 cups of boiling water, boil for 10 minutes, leave in a closed vessel for 24 hours and add sugar to taste. Take such a very rich in vitamins, tea 1/4 cup 2- 3 times a day.
It should be noted and the fact that mountain ash helps to eliminate various harmful substances from the body, removes swelling of internal organs.
Common Lilac
.Common lilac is a small tree or shrub, 2-6 m tall, with brownish bark. The leaves, dark green, heart-shaped, glossy, turn green earlier than all shrubs and remain green into deep fall. Flowers are small, fragrant, lilac (or white), gathered in pyramidal panicles.
In medical practice, mainly folk, leaves and flowers are used. They are harvested in May, plucked by hand, and dried in the shade in well-ventilated rooms.
Common lilac contains essential oil (the largest amount is found in the flowers), phenoglycoside, and leaves - ascorbic acid, bitter glycoside.
Leaves and flowers have diaphoretic, antimalarial, analgesic properties. The leaves hasten the maturation of abscesses and clear them of pus. In folk medicine, common lilac is used as an infusion of fresh or dried flowers for whooping cough, kidney stones, and in a mixture with linden flowers - as diaphoretic and antimalarial remedy. Tea from lilac flowers is used in epilepsy. Crushed leaves are applied to wounds and ulcers for faster healing. Ointment from the flowers is used for rubbing in rheumatism, and ointment from the calyxes - in neuralgia.
Homemade plums
.The domestic plum can reach a height of up to 12 m, the bark of the tree is cracked, grayish-white. Leaves obovate, hairy, toothed below. The flowers are white, fragrant. The fruit is a knuckle, fleshy, green, yellow, red or purple, with a blue waxy coating. Home plum blooms in April and May. Its seeds are poisonous.
Leaves are harvested for medicinal purposes (immediately after flowering), fruits - after their ripening.
The leaves contain a coumarin-derived substance scopoletin, which has a therapeutic effect on the body. Home plum in fresh form is rich in sugars, organic acids, pectin substances, tannins, minerals (potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus), vitamins C, Bu B2, P and PP, carotene. Plum seed contains fatty oil.
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Folk medicine has long known that the domestic plum, namely its leaves, has wound-healing properties, and the fruit excites the appetite, disinfects the intestines, increases its peristalsis and improves digestion. Fresh or cooked plums have diuretic and mild laxative effects.
Plum fruits have long been used (fresh or dried) for prolonged constipation, heartburn. They are useful for patients suffering from atherosclerosis, kidney disease, gallbladder disease, rheumatism, gout.
Home plum has an antiseptic effect. Crushed fresh or steamed dry plum leaves applied to festering wounds and ulcers for their rapid healing..
