Useful and therapeutic properties of alder adherent, or black alder, alder gray, or white

Alder gluey, or black, is a tree with a gray-brown bark, sometimes reaching 25 m in height. Leaves are regular, whole, ovate-elliptical, petiolate, gluey. Flowers are of different sexes, develop on the same plant. Men's are collected in the dangling racemose inflorescences, earrings, female - in small "bumps".Blossoms until the appearance of leaves in April-May. Fruits are complex, known as cones, winter on plants and fall off for the second year after seeding.

Alder gray differs from alder in black ovoid leaves, pubescent on the underside, gray-green in color. Blooms in March-April.

Occurs in raw forests, near water bodies with running water, along river banks, often forming continuous thickets - alders.

Medicinal raw materials are cones of alder, bark of young branches and leaves. Alder copulations are collected in the winter - December-January( best collection time), bark from young branches to sap flow. Drying in a warm place, in dryers, etc., the shelf life of cones and bark for 4 years. Leaves better to collect young.

Olive cones contain tannic substances - tannin, gallic acid. Flavone glycosides - hyperosides, quercetrin, coffee, chlorogenic and protocatechinic acids - are found in the leaves. There are tannins in the bark;triterpenoids: tarakserol, tarakseron.

In scientific medicine, alder preparations are used as an astringent and hemostatic agent, especially for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, acute and chronic enteritis and colitis( acute and chronic inflammation of the small and large intestines).The beneficial effects of decoctions of the bark, cones and leaves of alder for articular rheumatism, colds and diarrhea in children.

In folk medicine, they prefer a young bark and young cones of sticky, or black alder for medicinal purposes. Preparations of them are also used for acute and chronic inflammations of the intestines, colds, gout, diarrhea and dysentery, rheumatism, arthritis, throat( mouthwash) and oral cavity, to strengthen the gums;from hemorrhoids.

Application of

For prolonged( chronic) gastroenteritis and enteritis accompanied by severe pain and diarrhea, a decoction of alder cones( 50 g cones per 1 liter of water) per 1 tbsp is used.spoon 3-4 times a day.

With chronic colitis, dysentery - broth: 4 g per 200 ml, or 1 teaspoon of crushed cones per cup of boiling water, to insist for 1 hour, take 1/4 cup, and for dysentery, 1 glass 3-4 times a day. In the beginning, this broth should be drunk hot.

Tincture of alder cones on 40 ° alcohol( 1 part of cones per 5 parts of vodka) is taken 25-40 drops 3 times a day.

Tincture on vodka: 1 teaspoon of cones per 100 ml of vodka, insist 15 days;take 20-30 drops per glass of water 3 times a day.

Tincture of bark and cones 25%: 30-40 drops 2-3 times a day.

Broth of bark: 15 g per 200 ml;1 tbsp.spoon 3-4 times a day.