Useful and medicinal properties of wild bird cherry
A tree or shrub with alternate, petiolate, whole leaves, with a serrate at the edge of the plate. Flowers white, fragrant, collected in dangling brushes. The calyx and corolla are five-membered, there are many stamens, and one pistil. Fruit is a black drupe. Blossoms in May-June, the fruits ripen in August - early September.
Distributed in all areas, found in the undergrowth of deciduous moist forests, over bushes, ravines and floodplains of small rivers.
Medicinal raw materials are fruits, in folk medicine - fruits, flowers and bark.
Cherry fruits contain tannins, other organic acids( malic, citric), as well as bitter almond essential oil, amygdalin glycoside, etc. It should be remembered that the flowers, leaves and bark of the bird cherry contain the glycoside amygdalin, in the decay of which the highly toxichuman substance - hydrocyanic acid.
Cherry fruits have a pronounced astringent property. In medicine, a decoction or infusion of fruits is used inside as an astringent, an antidote. With trichomonas colpitis - in the form of douching.
In folk medicine, infusion of cherry fruit is used as an antidote. Infusion of flowers - as a lotion for inflammatory diseases of the eye mucosa( brewed as tea).Flowers insist on denatured or kerosene and apply as rubbing in rheumatism. The bark from the young branches in the form of a decoction is a diaphoretic, antipyretic and antiparasitic;bark, infused with vodka, - rubbing with radiculitis;Broth of the bark is washed by sick eyes and drunk from rheumatism. Decoction of leaves is used for gastric diseases. In diseases of the lungs, leaves and flowers are brewed and used in the form of tea. Flowers, leaves and fruits are used for trichomonas colpitis in the form of douching.
Application of
Broth of berries: 15 g per 200 ml;2 tbsp.spoon 3-4 times a day.
Infusion of flowers: 1 teaspoon into a glass of cold boiled water, insist 8 hours - with inflammation of the eyes in the form of lotions, etc.
Mixture of preparations for the stomach: 3 parts of berries bird cherry and 2 parts of blueberries, all this is crushed and mixed;1 tbsp. A spoonful of the mixture is brewed in 1 cup of boiling water;use 2 tbsp each.spoon 3-4 times a day.
Tea from bird cherry leaf is recommended for bronchitis and as a rinse with inflammation of the oral mucosa.
Indications: cherry fruit is used as an astringent for diarrhea of non-infectious nature and other disorders of the function of the stomach and intestines, and also as an auxiliary for infectious colitis and diarrhea.
Dosage forms: decoction of wild cherry fruit - 1 tbsp.l.the fruit is brewed with 1 glass of boiling water, boiled for 20 minutes, filtered. Adults appoint 0.25 cups 2-3 times a day. Infusion of fruits is poured with 1 glass of boiling water, boiled for 5 minutes, insisted for 2 hours. Take 0.25 cups 2-3 times a day.