White Acacia (Robinia -lozhnoacacacia)
.Acacia white is a tree from 10 to 25 m tall, its bark is brown. Leaves are unpaired and pinnately pinnately compound. The bracts are in the form of prickles. Acacia flowers are white, fragrant, collected in hanging brushes. The fruit is represented by a brown-colored bean, it is flat and broad. The tree blooms in June. Its plantings are ubiquitous, especially in southern areas.
Acacia flowers contain a glycoside, robinia, an essential oil (with the odor of the tree flowers) containing methyl ester, and other inherent acacia substances.
The medicinal raw material is usually the bark, which is harvested during the flowering of acacia. In folk medicine, the flowers are also used for therapeutic purposes, for example, in the treatment of varicose veins, as well as in some stomach diseases. Toasted acacia seeds are used instead of coffee as a tonic drink. Its flowers have an expectorant effect, they are also used in the treatment of colds.
Sweet orange
.It is an evergreen tree that reaches a height of 10-12 meters. Its crown is compact, leaves are dark green, with winged petioles. Orange tree flowers are white, fragrant, and both sexed. The fruit is yellow, orange or orange-red. The flesh is sweet and sour. The tree blooms almost constantly.
Orange fruit contains organic acids, sugars, nitrogenous and coloring substances, mineral salts, vitamins A, B, B2 and C. Rich in orange and phytoncides. The rind of the fruit contains several types of essential oils.
The fruit and peel are harvested for medicinal purposes.
Orange stimulates appetite, improves digestion. The fruit is used for atherosclerosis, hypertension, liver disease, obesity, gout, scurvy. Orange also has a loosening effect.
Orange juice is a good thirst quencher, especially in feverish conditions. Juice, due to the presence of phytoncides in it, wash long non-healing wounds and ulcers.
Oranges are contraindicated in peptic ulcer and duodenal ulcer, gastritis with increased acidity of gastric juice.
Wart birch (birch birch)
Birch is a forest forming species in pure or mixed forests. The tree is widely distributed in the territory of our country. It reaches a height of 20 meters.
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The medicinal raw materials of birch are swollen but not blossomed resinous buds and leaves. The branches are also cut and tied into bundles and dried in the shade. Collected branches with buds are upholstered (or harvested by hand). The buds are dried in the shade in the air or in dryers at a temperature of 25-30 ° C; it is necessary to ensure that the buds do not blossom. Birch leaves are collected throughout the summer.
The finished raw material - dark brown or brown buds - should not contain other parts of the plant (earrings, branches) more than 8%, foreign impurities.
Shelf life of medicinal raw materials - 2 years.
In addition to buds from the birch birch get birch sap (molasses), birch charcoal and birch tar, which were widely used for medicinal purposes even by our ancestors.
In medical practice, an infusion of birch leaves is used, which has a diuretic effect, and a decoction of the kidneys - and choleretic effect. Infusion has a therapeutic effect in chronic gastritis, peptic ulcer and duodenal ulcer. In addition, the infusion has a blood-cleansing effect in skin diseases. It is useful for patients suffering from edema associated with heart or kidney failure.
Preparations of birch buds used for rubs, compresses and baths for myositis, arthritis, poorly healing wounds, eczema, bedsores.
Many ancient recipes have come down to us, from which it is clear that brunki (so in ancient times called birch buds) was widely used in the treatment of diseases of the stomach and liver, to raise the general tone and effective cleansing of the body.
Our distant ancestors widely used alcohol infusion on birch birch birch birch boughs, which were excellent wound-healing agent. Such an infusion treats, for example, such a terrible disease as tuberculosis. Birch "birch" infusion is used as a diuretic, choleretic and disinfectant.
Alcohol tinctures on birch barks are also effective in the treatment of heart disease. They are also used externally for rubbing for neuralgic pain, myositis, arthritis, rheumatism in the form of compresses.
In sunny weather in early May, be sure to collect birch pollen. This pollen is undoubtedly one of the precious gifts of the birch tree! It is an excellent natural antibiotic that inhibits pathogenic microbes. It is better to take pollen on an empty stomach or shortly before meals. The norm for an adult.- 20 grams per day (4 teaspoons), for children over 3 years old - 1 teaspoon. Take one month at the beginning of each season (4 times a year).
Alcohol tinctures on coastal birch boughs are similar to the action of birch sap. Therefore, it is useful for everyone without exception to drink a glass of birch juice in the morning on an empty stomach.
Fresh birch juice acts on the body tonic and diuretic. It is useful in urolithiasis, cold ailments, gout, rheumatism. Externally, it is used for various skin diseases.
Birch tar has long been used externally in the treatment of skin diseases. This birch substance is the main part of the well-known to many Vishnevsky ointment, as well as in the composition of tar soap.
Activated charcoal, derived from birch, has long been used for various poisonings, flatulence, increased acidity of gastric juice.
Birch brooms have been used in baths since ancient times to harden the body. They perfectly stimulate metabolic processes, improve blood circulation.
Since time immemorial, people have used with great success very useful for their health birch mushroom - chaga (by the way, such a mushroom grows sometimes on aspen and mountain ash).
For medicinal purposes, irregular, jelly-shaped growths with a black, heavily pitted and cracked surface are collected. The inner tissue of these growths is dark brown, very hard (cannot be scratched with a fingernail). Collected mushrooms are dried at a temperature not exceeding 50 °C. Dried mushroom is usually stored for 4-6 months.
Birch mushroom contains many healing components that are still poorly understood, but which have pronounced healing effects. This healing birch product has long been used to treat malignant tumors of various localizations, especially in those cases where surgery or radiation therapy is not indicated. In recent years, chaga is also used to treat peptic ulcer disease. Particularly effective chaga in the treatment of diseases of the stomach, accompanied by low acidity of its juice. In these cases, the use of mushroom leads to an improvement in the general condition of patients, relieves nausea, pain in the pancreatic region and normalizes bowel activity.
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Infusion of chaga is used with success in diseases accompanied by fluid retention in the body (but the infusion in this case should be double strength, as we will discuss below, considering kidney and heart diseases, flowing with edema).
From chaga, the medical industry has long produced a semi-thick extract called befungin. This drug has a general tonic and analgesic effect, and use it in chronic gastritis, dyskinesia of the gastrointestinal tract with atony, as well as peptic ulcer disease. In addition, doctors have long been prescribing befungin as a symptomatic agent that improves the general condition of cancer patients.
Befungin is available in 100 ml bottles. Store the medicine in a cool, protected from light place.
Chaga is contraindicated in patients with chronic colitis and chronic dysentery. Penicillin and intravenous glucose infusion are excluded during treatment with chaga. In addition, when using chaga, it is necessary to follow a dairy and vegetable diet, limit the use of meat, animal fats, spicy dishes..
