Birch buds
Herbalist A. P. Popova writes about birch buds: "Birch preparations are used for skin diseases, acute rheumatism, liver inflammation and maternity fever, with peptic ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer. Usually in such cases, take 50 grams of birch buds, insist them for 10 days on] 500 grams of vodka and give a liqueur from 1/2 to 1 teaspoon of water 3 times a day for 15-20 minutes before eating. "
This agent causes the patient to have a good appetite, promotes healing of gastric and duodenal ulcers. When toothache apply a cotton wool with tincture on a sick tooth. With all these diseases( except for toothache), these drugs are consumed inside and outside.
Birch buds tincture or decoction, as well as decoction of leaves are taken as anthelmintic for pinworms and ascaris. People use this tincture externally and with bedsores.
Lotions from decoctions of birch leaves and kidneys or tincture from the kidneys heal fresh wounds, even deep ones.
Kidney broth: 1 teaspoon of kidney for 1/2 cup of boiling water;use 2 tablespoons 3 times a day. Tincture of the kidneys to alcohol - 25 grams of kidneys per 100 grams of alcohol, to insist for 8 days, take 20 drops 3 times a day. Tincture of the kidneys on vodka: take a bottle of vodka 1/2 bottle of kidney, insist for a month, use 40 drops 3-4 times a day( with cholera - 1 glass every hour until vomiting stops).
From birch buds prepare alcoholic tincture. Take 30 grams and more kidneys per 1 liter of approximately 70 ° alcohol. This tincture is taken 3 times a day for 15-20 drops per spoonful of water in case of gastric ulcer, with indigestion of the stomach, with disorders and various pains in the stomach, as well as in dropsy caused by inflammation of the kidneys, with all kinds of renal suffering, against smallround worms( pinworms and ascarids), with diseases of the skin, bladder;external - to heal wounds( washing, soap), to rub( and also inside) with rheumatism.
Instead of alcohol tincture, also use a decoction of birch buds: from 5 to 10 grams per 1 glass of water and drink 3 cups a day, in the same cases as the drops.
If there are no kidneys, then with the same success apply a decoction or napar young leaves: 10 grams per 1 glass of water. It is believed that all these parts( kidneys, leaves, juice) have the property to favorably influence the metabolism, remove from the body any harmful ballast and harmful substances in infectious diseases. Decoction or napar from the kidneys or leaves in the same dose are given to women during menstruation to facilitate the release of blood and in the postpartum period, starting from the 12th day after birth, to facilitate and accelerate postpartum cleansing.