Useful and medicinal properties of aspen

A well-known tree plant( tree), often found in forests and river valleys.

With a curative purpose, they use kidneys, juice, ash, bark in folk medicine.

Kidneys contain glycoside salicin, essential oil, carotene, vitamin C and other substances.

In the people of the kidney in the form of infusion used for rheumatism, gout and infectious diseases as antipyretic.

Decoction or tincture is used for fever, diarrhea, dysentery and aches, mostly catarrhal, rinse the sick teeth.

Knows people an original simple way of external application of aspen juice with salt from toothache( see below).From the kidneys prepare the ointment used by

for burns and hemorrhoids( lubricate cones).The plant contains essential oil, ascorbic acid, benzoic acid, malic acid, bitter glycosides, salicin and poplite, enzyme salicose, tannic and resinous substances, fat and carotycin.

The bactericidal effect of the drug from aspen buds against staphylococcus aureus, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Flexner dysentery stick and typhoid sticks has been established in the experiment. Decoction of the cortex has a neurotropic effect. During hydrolysis, salicin is cleaved, releasing saligenite, which has antipyretic effect.

In Western European medicine, aspen preparations are prescribed for diseases of the bladder, especially in the elderly, cystitis, urinary incontinence, prostatic hypertrophy, gastrointestinal disorders, rheumatism, gout, hemorrhoids. External - with burns, ulcers.

In folk medicine infusion of bark is recommended for fever, coughing, poor appetite, scurvy, syphilis and toothache. Decoction or alcohol( more vodka) tincture of the kidneys is used as an anticonvulsant for "ache" and as a diaphoretic.

For rheumatism, radiculitis, sciatica, concomitantly with the ingestion of a decoction or infusion of aspen, medicinal baths are used from decoction of greenish( young) bark. Young crushed leaves, boiled with boiling water, are used for poultices with furunculosis, rheumatic, gouty joints and hemorrhoidal cones. Tree juice is lubricated with lichen, warts and toothache.

Application

Decoction of the kidneys, leaves or bark: 1 tbsp.a spoonful of raw materials for a glass of boiling water, boil for an hour, strain and drink 1-2 tablespoons.spoon 3 times a day.

Aspen ash from the trunk, mixed with fresh pork fat, is used as an ointment for eczema: leaves burn, smoke fumigated, ash is sprinkled with furuncles.

Easy broth: 25 g per 200 ml;1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day. The original way of treating the teeth: take a freshly cut

short log, drill its core, but not to the end, pour a hole in the drilled hole and caulk something( the density of the cork is important), throw the log into the fire and, without letting it burn to the finish, pour out salt from the hole, already saturated with juice. This salt or directly put on a sick tooth, or diluted it in a ratio of 1:10 to rinse the mouth.

Ointment is prepared from powdered dried buds, sifted through the finest sieve, this powder is mixed with sunflower oil.