Kalina useful properties
Kalina is a shrub that belongs to the family of honeysuckle.
The generic name is associated with the Latin word vimen - a flexible rod, a woven product, because the flexible young branches of a plant in ancient times were used for weaving baskets. Species definition comes from the Latin word opulus - maple, for the leaves of the viburnum are similar to the leaves of the maple.
Botanical Description. Shrub up to 4 m high. Crohn is rare, often irregular in shape. Young branches are covered with gray bark, angular, glabrous, with age the crust becomes covered with cracks and acquires a brown or reddish-brown color. The kidneys are smooth, ovate, slightly pointed, reddish-green. Leaves are located opposite, usually trilobate( less often pentagalose), broadly ovate or even almost round, up to 10 cm long, 5-8 cm wide. The base of the leaf is rounded, truncated, sometimes shallow, cordate. Edge of leaf blade unequal-toothed. The middle leaf blade is most often quadrangular with more or less parallel sides, tapering at the base. Leaves from above are dark green, glabrous, from below - grayish-green, velvety-pubescent( sometimes pubescence is found only through veins).White fragrant flowers are collected in friable corymbose panicles. In the inflorescence there are flowers of two types: marginal - sterile( barren), on pedicels and middle - bisexual almost sessile. Sterile flowers are flat, white, with five unequal lobes of corolla obovate. Bisexual flowers are smaller in size than infertile, white or pinkish-white, short-campanulate, with wide blunt lobes. Stamens with yellow anthers, approximately 1.5 times longer than corolla. Pestle with a short column. Ovary lower.
Fruit is a bright red globose or wide elliptic drupe with one bone.
Kalina blooms in late May - first half of June, fruits ripen in August - September.
grows in the forest belt and steppe zone of the European part, in the Caucasus, in Western Siberia, Kazakhstan and Central Asia. Bred in gardens and parks as decorative: there are forms with large globular inflorescences, golden yellow fruits, variegated. It occurs in damp, mixed and deciduous forests, along fringes, felling, banks of rivers, lakes and marshes. Demanding to soil moisture, badly tolerates direct lighting.
Therapeutic properties of
For medicinal purposes use bark and fruits. Yield of the bark - from 250 to 600 g / m, from one plant can be obtained 45 - 140 g. Yields of fruits in the Kirov region in the spruce-green-moshnike - 18-23 kg / ha.
The bark contains up to 6.5% of the resin, which includes many organic acids, sterols, viburnin, tannins( up to 2%), glycosides. Extract and decoction of the cortex are used to reduce and stop uterine bleeding. Fruits contain up to 32 % Sugars, about 3% tannins, organic acids, ascorbic acid. Preparations from fruits strengthen cardiac contractions and increase diuresis. Fruits are included in the vitamin dues. Fresh fruits can cause vomiting, they can be used for filling pies, cooking jelly, marmalade. Seeds have a tonic effect, contain ascorbic acid, fatty oil, are used as a substitute for coffee. The fruits give a red color.
In the southwest of the European part, in the Crimea and in the Caucasus, the viburnum is also proud. Sometimes bred as decorative in gardens and parks, there is a variegated form. Chemically less studied. Fruits and bark contain tannins and are used in folk medicine for diarrhea, throat diseases, gums. The leaves are stained with straw-yellow color, fruits - in red.
Indications: preparations of gueldering bark are used as a hemostatic agent in the postpartum period, with uterine bleeding, with painful and profuse menstruation, with hemorrhoids. The berries of the viburnum are used as a vitamin, restorative and easy diuretic, as well as a laxative and diaphoretic. Fresh berries of viburnum are useful for various allergies( it is enough to mash 3-4 berries in a cup with tea every morning).The seeds of the viburnum are inedible, so they should not be swallowed. Berries or juice with honey are an excellent remedy for colds. Apply Kalin at atherosclerosis, cardiovascular spasms, with heart failure. When external and internal hemorrhages drink a decoction of the bark. Kalina has a diaphoretic, astringent, antiseptic, soothing, diuretic, fortifying properties. In addition, it contains a large number of vitamins, and the content of vitamin C can compete with lemons.
Preparation and storage: berries are consumed fresh. As a medicine, bark, flowers and berries are used. The bark is harvested in early spring, in the period of sap flow, from felled bushes, ground into pieces and dried outdoors or in an attic. The dry crust breaks, the under-dried bend. The flowers are dried in a dryer at a temperature of 40-50 C. The bark is kept for 4 years, the flowers are 2 years old. The fruits are harvested in September-October, they are well dried in the air and dried in a furnace or in an oven to a solid state.
Medicinal raw materials are bark, in folk medicine - flowers, berries and roots.
The bark is removed in spring, cut into strips and dried in the open air or in a well-ventilated room.
Finished raw material - strips of bark 30 cm long, brownish-gray outside, brown-yellow on the inside with red spots. Shelf life 4 years.
Viburnum bark contains Viburpine glycoside, tartaric substances of pyrocatechol group, resinous esters, formic, acetic, valeric, caprylic, oily, linoleic, ceretinic and palmitic acids, vitamins C and K, bitter substances.
In medical practice, the bark of the guelder-rose is used mainly as an astringent, hemostatic, analgesic, antiseptic and sedative. No side effects were observed with the use of drugs. As a hemostatic agent used for bleeding, especially uterine and hemorrhoidal, with painful menstruation, with the onset of abortion to prevent miscarriage and as an anticonvulsant, as hemostatic in the postpartum period.
Decoction of flowers of the viburnum - with pain and spasms in the gastrointestinal tract, diarrhea, pain in the uterus and as a diuretic.
In folk medicine, a simple decoction of the bark of the viburnum is used for internal and nasal bleeding. As a firming and soothing condensed product( instead of a ready-made extract) is used to prevent pregnancy. Adults drink decoction of the bark for colds, fever.
Fruits collected after the first frost( having a sweetish taste) are used as a sweatshop, laxative and emetic agents, as well as for stomach ulcers;welded with honey - for colds, coughs, hoarseness, suffocation, diarrhea, liver diseases, jaundice, hypertension;when heart disease is better, there are berries with bones( raw with sugar), with cancer.
Berry juice removes pimples on the face;juice acts as a laxative.
Viburnum berries with sugar, fermented, it is recommended to take people suffering from high blood pressure.
An aqueous decoction of flowers( flowering branches) is useful in painful menstruation;it is drunk when coughing, cold, dyspnea, sclerosis, pulmonary tuberculosis, stomach diseases, cancer, give children drink and bathe in diatheses, children's eczema, skin tuberculosis.
Fresh berries and infusions from them - with gastritis with reduced secretion and for the prevention of stomach cancer;berries, infused on hot honey for 6-7 hours, - with bronchitis, pneumonia and liver disease.
Honeysuckle berries are very useful for coughing. Even in the nineteenth-century Russian medicine, it was said that "berries cooked with honey are used for cold cough, hoarseness, choking. .. Broth from flowers and berries serves as a good rinse off of hoarseness, toads and other seizures of the throat".
Traditional medicine uses the juice of the fruits of the viburnum or the kalinovy broth with honey for bronchitis and bronchial asthma as a means of soothing cough. This remedy also cures colds of the upper respiratory tract and hoarseness.
To prepare a healing decoction, pour 1 cup of calina fruit 1 liter of hot water, boil for 10 minutes, strain and add 3 tablespoons of honey. Take 70 g 3-4 times a day. When bronchitis is recommended, there are berries of Kalina, infused for 6-7 hours on hot honey.
Decoction and infusion of the flowers of Kalina, collected in May-June, is also used as an expectorant and diaphoretic. They are drunk in a warm form with cough, cold, dyspnea, pleurisy, pulmonary tuberculosis. To prepare a decoction of flowers pour 1 tablespoon of raw material 200 g of water, boil 10 minutes on low heat and strain. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
Infusion of flowers is prepared according to the following recipe: brew 1 tablespoon of raw material 200 g of boiling water and warm in a water bath for 15 minutes. Cool at room temperature for 45 minutes and strain.
For colds and choking drink also decoctions of the roots of the viburnum. Infusions and decoctions of berries of a guelder-rose are drunk at the edemas caused by diseases of heart or kidneys. They have a weak diuretic effect.
To prepare a diuretic infusion, pour 10 g of calendula fruit 200 g of boiling water, heat in a water bath for 15 minutes, cool for 45 minutes at room temperature, strain, wring out and boil with water to bring the volume to the original. Drink 50-70 g 3 times a day.
Tea from the viburnum is useful for strengthening loose teeth. Decoction of fruits is used for bleeding gums.
In polyps in the stomach, in order to avoid malignant degeneration, folk healers recommend a course of treatment with viburnum berries. In the autumn, you need to eat 2-3 fresh berries a day. The course of treatment is 4-5 weeks, beginning in September.
Liquid extracts and decoctions of the bark are used in medical practice as a hemostatic agent for internal bleeding, most commonly uterine bleeding.
Cosmetologists recommend the use of viburnum juice to whiten the skin of the face. One tablespoon of vine juice mixed with egg yolk, keep for 20 minutes, rinse with lime-colored infusion. This mask is very good for bleaching thin and dry skin.
After frying, the fruits of the viburnum are eaten. Of them, squeeze the juice, make syrup, jelly, jelly, marmalade, pastille. From them prepare a stuffing for pies. Kalina rubbed with sugar or honey. Cooking is made from it. Juice can tint some foods.
For prolonged storage, the viburnum berries can be frozen, as well as hang bunches of viburnum in cool rooms. You can dry the viburnum.
Seeds have a tonic effect and can be used as a substitute for coffee.
Dosage forms: bilberry extract is prepared from a large bark powder and 70-degree alcohol in a 1: 1 ratio. Take inside 20-40 drops 2-3 times a day before meals. Broth of bark of a guelder-rose - 1 item.l.raw materials are placed in enamel ware, pour 1 glass of hot water, boil over low heat for 30 minutes, cool for 10 minutes, filter and squeeze. Take 1 tbsp.l.3-4 times a day. Infusion of berries of the viburnum - berries ground in a mortar, pour gradually boiling water at the rate of 1-2 st.l.berries for 1 cup of boiling water, 4 hours insist, infusion drink 3 glasses a day.
Extract 25%: for 20-30 drops 3 times a day( uterine, hemostatic).
Infusion: 10 g per 200 ml;1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day( uterine, hemostatic).
Broth : 3-4 g finely chopped bark pour 200 ml of boiling water, insist 15 minutes, filter and drink during the day sips( daily dose) with threatening abortion and starting bouts with him.
Broth: 10 g per 100 ml of 1/2 cup 2 times a day( soothing and anticonvulsant).
Decoction of branches and berries of viburnum is taken with cancer tumors.
The fruits contain sugars, vitamin C, pectins, organic acids, including valerian and isovaleric, which have a pronounced calming effect on the central nervous system. The fruits of the Kalina have a diuretic and diaphoretic effect, intensify the contractions of the heart, help with stomach diseases. The fruits of the Kalina have a bitter taste and can cause vomiting, so they must be ripped off after frost, then the bitterness disappears. Of them, boiled jelly, compotes, jam. Healing part: fruits, flowers.
Plant characteristics: shrub with lobed coarse toothed leaves. Inflorescences white, umbellate. Fruits are red bones of bitter taste.
The composition of tea and the way of its preparation:
Kalinovo-apple tea: fruits of the Kalina-1 st., Apples - 1 pc. Berries and finely chopped apple in a teapot to pour boiling water. Drink like ordinary tea. Healing properties: restorative drink.
Tea with cold: 1 hour. . crushed flowers of viburnum on 1 tbsp.boiling water. Drink in equal portions 3-4 times daily before meals, you can with honey. Healing properties: colds.
Juice
Kalina is common in the European part of Russia, especially in the middle belt, forest and forest-steppe zones and Siberia, in the western part of Eastern Siberia. It occurs in mixed and deciduous forests, in river valleys in almost all regions of Russia.
The berries of Kalina contain up to 32% of invert sugar, up to 3% of tannins, up to 80 mg% of vitamin C, vitamin P, carotene, pectic substances, organic acids( acetic, formic, isovaleric, caprylic), mineral salts of zinc, manganese and others..
Juice made from viburnum is prepared from berries, taken after the first frosts( it is necessary to remove the sweet cherry varieties before frost).For 1 kg of calendula berries you need 200 g of sugar and 200 ml of water. From dried and washed berries squeeze the juice, fill the pulp with water and boil for 5-10 minutes, drain. The broth is combined with the squeezed juice, add the sugar, stir and cool.
Kalina juice has a tonic effect, improves heart function, is used as an astringent and diuretic, and also as soothing and useful in neuroses, vascular spasms, hypertension. In folk medicine, the juice of berries with honey is used for colds of the upper respiratory tract, hoarseness, and against diarrhea. Juice is drunk to strengthen the gums with loose teeth, it is useful for peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, for colitis, and for ulcerative and pustular skin diseases.
Juice made from viburnum can be obtained in various ways: either by squeezing fresh berries, or by filling berries with sugar and leaving in a cool place for 10-15 days. If the sugar dissolves poorly, a bit of boiled cold water can be added to the berries. Instead of sugar, you can take honey. In the process of such insisting, a beautiful juice is obtained. To fully extract the juice from the berries, they are crushed and squeezed juice. You can squeeze the berries and again, for which add the boiled cold water( 1, a glass per 1 kg of scrap) to the pulp, stir and squeeze. Since the juice after the infusion is obtained is very sweet and concentrated, before use it can be diluted with water.
Broth St. John's wort and birch bark
Required: 1 tsp. St. John's wort, 1 tbsp.l.crushed bark of Kalina, 200 ml of beer.
Method of preparation. St. John's wort and bark pour cold beer and simmer for 30-40 minutes. Then strain the broth.
How to use. Take 1 tbsp.l.3 times a day before meals with coronary heart disease.
Recipes
For bronchitis and tracheitis: 1 part of the fruit of the common viburnum is mixed with 2 parts of bee honey. Berries of the viburnum cook in honey for 5 minutes. Take 1-2 tablespoons 4-5 times a day, washing down with water.
♦ For colds: 1-2 tablespoons of mashed potatoes with a glass of boiling water and insist for 4 hours. Strain. During the day, drink 3-4 glasses of tea infusion.
♦ For hemorrhages, hemorrhoids: 2 parts of a liquid extract of viburnum should be mixed with 1 part of wax and 4 parts of cocoa butter. Use as a candle.
♦ Common restorative. Liquid extract of the viburnum: mix the vinous powder with 70% alcohol in a 1: 1 ratio. Take 20-40 drops orally 2-3 times a day before meals.
♦ Soothing: 10 grams of calyx bark pour a glass of water, boil for 10-15 minutes, insist 2 hours. Strain and take a tablespoon 3 times a day.
♦ For improvement of renal circulation: a teaspoon of calyx bark pour a glass of boiling water, insist 15 minutes. Strain, take a third cup 3 times a day.
♦ In case of hypertension: 1 teaspoon of calyx bark, pour 1 cup of boiled water, insist 8 hours. Strain, drink a dose for 3-4 hours during the day.
♦ In case of hypertension: take 1 part of the bark of the viburnum, the fruits of the arboreal ashberry, the fruits of cumin, two parts of the root of the valerian officinalis, the leaves of lemon balm, the hawthorn flowers of the blood red, the vinca leaves and the mistletoe's three suits. A tablespoon of mixture pour a glass of boiling water, insist 30 minutes. Take 0.5 glasses 3-4 times a day after meals.
♦ When scrofula( exudative diathesis): cut the branch with berries, place in a small pot, fill with water, sweeten, cover, cover with dough and put overnight in a hot oven or in the oven for 8 hours. Take children under 2 years on a tablespoon per day in the morning on an empty stomach;over 2 years - 2-3 tablespoons in the morning on an empty stomach;from 12 years - 2-3 tablespoons of the drug in the morning and evening. Treatment last 4-6 weeks.
♦ When scrofula( exudative diathesis): young shoots of viburnum along with kidneys( 15-20 g) finely chopped, pour water( 0.7 l) in a pot with a lid, cover with dough. Boil 5-6 times, put a pot for the night in an oven or a warm oven. Keep in a cool place in a sealed state. Take the children on a teaspoon 3 times a day: in the morning on an empty stomach, 2 hours after lunch and 1.5 hours after dinner. During treatment, give up all the sour, salty and black bread. The broth can be sweetened with honey or sugar.
Recipes
Cook separately the berries of viburnum and apples in a ratio of 1: 1. Wipe through a sieve, mix together and add the sugar of the same weight as the mixture. Then boil the mass on a small fire, constantly stirring, to such a state that it lagged behind the spoon and from the pelvis. Dispense into shallow dishes. Cool, dry in the oven at a temperature of 50-60 degrees. Cut into pieces, roll in sugar and fold in boxes.
Viburnum, rubbed with sugar
1 kg of viburnum, 1 kg of sugar.
Remove the bitter fruit from the grit through a sieve and mix with sugar. Warm up to 75 degrees. Prepacked in sterile jars, pasteurized, rolled.
Kalnniki( old recipe)
In circles of rye dough( prepared from rye flour, like any other dough), put a handful of berries, pour half a teaspoon of sugar, wrap pies, put on cabbage leaves and put in the oven.
Note. You can use the usual dough, but the berries must first be steamed and baked not cakes, and cheesecakes, without cabbage leaf, on a greased baking sheet.
Sweets from the viburnum
1 kg of berries, 200 g of powdered sugar, 10 g of starch.
Mix the powdered sugar and starch.
The berries are washed. Place in a saucepan and cover with a mixture of sugar and starch.
The saucepan is tightly closed and in a circular motion shake the berries, so that each is in a sweet cocoon. Pour the contents of the saucepan on a board, level into one layer and dry it on air for 24 hours.
Arrange in boxes of candy. Store in a dry place.
Jelly from the viburnum
1 kg of fruit, 400 g of water, 1 kg of sugar.
Blanch berries in boiling water for 5-7 minutes and immediately fill with cold water for 15 minutes. To merge the water.
Pour the berries with the specified amount of water and boil until completely softened. Wipe through a sieve. Add the sugar in the mash and cook for about 50 minutes, stirring so that the mass does not burn. Expand on the banks and close.
Store at room temperature.
Pastille from the vinous
1 kg of viburnum, 4 cups sugar, 1 glass of water.
Berries fill with water, cook until softened. In hot form, wipe through a sieve.
In the mashed potatoes add sugar and continue heating until a thick mass lags behind the bottom of the dishes. Lay the mass in a thin layer on a wooden board.
Dry in the air or in a slightly heated oven.
Morse from a viburnum with honey
Kalinovyj juice-100 g;honey -100 g;water -1L.
Dissolve honey in water, pour in the potassium juice, mix and serve on the table in a cold state.
Syrup from the viburnum
Kalinovy juice - 1 l;sugar - 2 kg;citric acid -10 g.
Add sugar to the juice of the viburnum, heat until completely dissolved, add citric acid, boil for 5 minutes. Remove from heat, strain through gauze, pour into bottles and cork them with boiled stoppers. Store in a cool place.
Kissel from the viburnum
Viburnum berries - 200 g;sugar - 150 g;starch - 2 tbsp.spoons;water - 800 g.
Kalina put in a pottery, add a little water, close the lid tightly and soak in the oven for 2-3 hours. Then wipe the berries through a colander, add sugar and water, bring to a boil and pour the starch diluted in cold water. Stir, remove from heat. Pour into glasses, serve on the table in hot or cold.
Garnish of the vinas
Juice of the viburnum - 400 g;powder from juniper fruit -20 g.
Add the powder from the juniper fruit to the wine juice, stir, bring to a boil, remove from the
fire and cool. The gravy can be used for meat dishes.
Viburnum, wiped with sugar
Viniculture berries - 1 kg;sugar - 1 kg.
Berries put in the dishes and put on 1-1.5 hours in the oven. Then cool and wipe through a sieve. Stir with sugar, put in cans and pasteurize for 15-20 minutes at a temperature of 90-95 ° C. Banks roll.