Birch phytoncides perfectly stimulate the human respiratory system. Especially useful inhalation of soothing volatile substances of birch for children. Inhalation of odorous substances of young birch leaves - an excellent prevention of overstrain of the central nervous system. The genus name Betula comes from the Latin word beatus (happy, blessed) and is apparently associated with the state of a person who drank the life-giving birch sap in spring. According to other information, the name comes from the Celtic betu - birch.

Preparations of birch buds in the form of aqueous infusions or decoctions are useful to use as a sedative for overstressed secretory and motor functions of the stomach. These preparations always have enveloping and mucous substances that help to reduce irritation and lead to a weakening of motility and secretion of the stomach. Alcoholic tinctures of birch buds, having in its composition fatty oils, always excite the secretion and motility of the stomach. Therefore, they can be appointed when it is necessary to excite the depressed function of the stomach and intestines, with achylic condition and hyposecretion.

BIRCH BALSAM. Pour a bucket of birch sap into a barrel, pour 3 bottles of dry grape wine, 2 bottles of vodka, add 1.5 to 2.5 kg of sugar and 1.5 kg of raisins. Close the barrel as thoroughly as possible and put on ice for 2.5 months. After that, pour the contents of the barrel into bottles, corked, zamolit and, putting them on the side, keep in the sand in a cool place. Pour sugar into the birch juice, you need to dissolve it thoroughly.

Birch pollen is an excellent foodstuff capable of curing severe anemia, which causes so many severe disorders in the body of children and adults. Rapid and significant increase in hemoglobin content in the body, when taking pollen can successfully cure weakened children suffering from anemia. This means that pollen treatment can be recommended for all mentally retarded, rickety or stunted children.

Infusion or decoction of dried birch leaves are given to drink women during menstruation to facilitate the release of blood, and in the postpartum period, starting on the 12th day after childbirth, to facilitate and accelerate postpartum cleansing. For the same purpose it is useful to take an infusion or decoction of birch buds. Baths or tampons of infusion or decoction of birch leaves are used for erosions of the cervix and inflammatory processes in the uterus.

Psoriasis is a chronic inflammatory skin disease characterized by a monomorphic papular rash that also affects joints and nails. The etiology of the disease is unclear. Hereditary, viral, neurogenic, metabolic genesis of the disease is assumed. Skin rashes are usually represented by symmetrically located, flat, bluish-pink, rounded papules the size of lentils, covered with silvery-white scales, which, increasing and merging, form plaques and large lesions. Localization of rash elements everywhere, but the favorite is the scalp, elbows and knees. The rash may be accompanied by moderate itching.

Simple wood vinegar serves as an anti-decay and burning agent. Due to the presence of phenols (creosote) and wood alcohol, it inhibits the development of putrefactive microbes, so it is used for disinfecting fumigation, dressing and washing stinking, rotting wounds, bedsores, frostbitten members, etc. Due to its property of slightly cauterizing mucous membranes, it is used with 2-5 parts of water in case of abundant purulent whitewash for washing the vagina.

How to remove a splinter? You should smear birch tar on the place where the splinter is embedded. Sometimes a cloth soaked in tar is applied. This means is very effective, even if the splinter is in the body for more than two days. In 15-20 minutes after applying a rag or smearing with tar, the end of the splinter will appear and it can be easily pulled out.

For those who are afraid of various impurities in water, the simplest filter can be made by yourself. Chop a birch log into small shavings and burn in a closed dish on high heat. The resulting birch charcoal lay layers of gauze or linen, cotton material - and the filter is ready. It can work for several days.

Folk medicine uses the following remedy against malignant neoplasms. It is necessary to take 200 g of dry crushed birch bark, peel off the wood and boil in an earthenware pot in one liter of water over low heat until the liquid is not reduced by half. Preserve in a tightly closed pot in a warm place for 2-3 hours and strain through a clean cloth. Adults take in the first and last week of the month for 1 tablespoon 2 times a day before meals, and in between give two weeks for 2 tablespoons 3 times a day before meals. This remedy folk medicine uses almost all types of malignant neoplasms.

The current use of chaga preparations in cancer treatment allows us to conclude that chaga has a stimulating effect on the central nervous system. In many patients who retained strength and did not get cachexia, chaga slows down further development of the tumor. The exception are patients in a state of marked cachexia, which is observed areactivity, accompanied by depletion of reserve forces of the body. For them, treatment with chaga is ineffective.

It is good for the time of withdrawal of stones to stock up on oat straw or birch leaves and during renal colic associated with the release of the stone, make hot compresses of their strong decoction on the kidney area. During renal colic well help baths from the following collection: birch branches - 100 g, raspberry leaf - 20 g, cuff leaf - 10 g, herb wheat grass - 10 g. Brew the mixture for a bath in this amount in 5 liters of boiling water, insist in a tightly closed container in a warm place, strain, pour into the bath, the water level in which should be slightly above the waist.

When stomach cancer is useful to use the following preparation: 200 g chaga, crushed on a grater or put through a meat grinder, 100 g pine buds, 100 g rose hips, 5 g bitter wormwood, 20 g St. John's wort herb, 10 g licorice root. This mixture soak for 2 hours in 3 liters of cold water, then put on the fire and boil over low heat in a tightly closed pot for 2 hours. Removed from the fire, well wrapped and put to infuse for 24 hours in a warm place, then strain, add to the decoction 200 g of aloe juice (stoloniferous). Before preparing the juice of aloe do not water one week. Also add 250 g of cognac, 500 g of honey. Stir the mixture thoroughly and let stand for another 4 hours, after which the medicine is ready for use.

Carbohydrates in plants account for 70-80%. They combine mono-oligo- and polysaccharides. For example, glucose is a monosaccharide. Starch, cellulose and glycogen are built from glucose. The green parts of plants contain a lot of fructose, which is part of polysaccharides. Sucrose is already an oligosaccharide. They are found in leaves, seeds, fruits, berries, tubers. Fiber (cellulose), of which all plant membranes consist, is also a polysaccharide. Thus, in wood it is up to 50%. The intercellular spaces of plants contain pectins, which belong to polysaccharides. They are abundant in berries and fruits. Thanks to pectins gelled marmalade, jams. Once in the body, pectins are not digested, but adsorb poisonous and harmful substances and remove them. Mucilages and gum are close to pectins.

The aira plant as a medicinal herb has been known since ancient times, especially in China and India. Physicians of ancient Rome, such as Dioscorides and Galen, also knew about the medicinal properties of the herb. And in the XVI century. German apothecaries sold already several centners of the root of the plant of the aira plant. In many countries, herbs of aira are included in the official pharmacopoeia. It is believed that the bitter essential oil and akorin increase appetite; this increases the secretion of gastric juice, improves digestion, reduces stomach pain. Used herbs and aira and in peptic ulcer disease of the stomach and duodenum, aira plant is effective in gastric diseases, especially with low acidity of gastric juice. There are reports that the plant helps with kidney colic; it is used as a choleretic and diuretic. With a bitter taste, plant aira reflexively stimulates gastric secretion and increases appetite. The rhizome of the aira plant is included in many stomach and appetite teas.

Ledum marshii has evergreen narrow-lanceolate leaves that resemble broad needles. In a damp forest or on the edge of a bog, the bog fennel grows more than 1 m in height, while on the sphagnum ridges of a high bog the trunks of the bog fennel rise only 20-30 cm above the surface. When you get into the thickets of marsh fen, especially during the flowering period, in the first moments the smell of the plant seems pleasant. But stay there for a while and the reaction is not slow to take effect: lethargy, drowsiness and heart palpitations appear.

A water ant bath is useful for rheumatism. Put the contents of one ant heap in a bag and bring it home. Pour out of the bag all that is in the bucket and fill it to the top with steep boiling water. It is necessary to insist the contents of the bucket for several hours, and then pour into a hot bath with a temperature of 30 to 37 ° C. To increase the healing power of the bath should be sure to add to it a fairly significant amount of fresh birch leaves.

Medicinal raw material of the useful plant are roots and rhizomes of Valeriana medicinalis. Valerian roots are harvested in early spring, when the above-ground part of the valerian plant has not yet developed, or in the fall, after insemination. Excavated rhizomes of valerian plant are thoroughly cleaned from the ground, washed in cold water and dried. The rhizome of the valerian plant contains up to 2 % of useful essential oil of complex composition. In the rhizome of the valerian plant found alkaloids, saponins, organic acids (including valerian), glycoside, sugars, tannins and resinous substances. The most favorable effect on the human body is not the individual components of valerian herb, but its active substances as a whole. In addition, high treatment efficacy is achieved with systematic and prolonged use of valerian preparations.

In recent years, the idea of using thousands of years of experience of peoples of different countries and continents in modern medicine has been supported and approved by the World Health Organization. Indeed, only a shallow person can think that modern scientific medicine has nothing to learn from folk medicine. Ancient folk remedies have another value: they are needed not only for sick people, but also for healthy people. Imagine that you came from work broken, tired, or even with a headache. With some knowledge, you can get rid of these pains and feelings of fatigue, using completely harmless ancient and modern self-help remedies.

The downy birch is a tree that reaches 25 m in favorable conditions, but in bogs the birch often forms multi-stemmed bushes only 3-5 m high. Light white-barked trunks of the downy birch make bogs as if openwork, transparent. The leaves of the downy birch are ovate, rhombic and differ well from the triangular leaves of another widespread birch, the drooping birch, which does not grow in bogs. There are also other distinctive features: the twigs of the downy birch stick upwards, while those of the drooping birch stick downwards; the former have fluffy twigs, while the latter have warts.