Useful and medicinal properties of bird cherry.herbal teas
In the midst of spring, when everything in the nature is bubbling and bubbling from an excess of strength, for some time all the other plants go into the shadows, parting before this miracle: light green elongated sheets of this when the bush, when the trees hide under a thick white foam -bird cherry blooms. A juicy stupefying aroma floats over meadows, forests, country villages. Even the city's fumes and exhaust fumes are powerless before it. Yes there is a fumes, no germs can not stand! So if you have a cherry blossom under the window, consider that you breathe a unique, fresh, healing air.
Brushes of white flowers bend the branches of the valley, and then cover the whole earth with a light white coverlet, which sways at every blow of the wind, forms small "color hairs".
June, July will pass, and again the bush cherry tree will attract attention. First, on the southern side, under the sun, he will cover with handfuls of black agate berries. Then all will become pockmarked from the fruit.
Berries are sweet, juicy, warm, as if paired inside. You send them to your mouth with handfuls, even a strong bone and a persistent bitterness do not confuse. They, the truth, strongly knit in a mouth so, as though it would be desirable, and it is a lot of them you do not eat. Bird cherry is a favorite berry in Siberia. In the middle lane, it is not always welcome. But in vain. What magnificent pies are obtained with a filling of bird cherry flour! What fruit and tinctures can be created from fresh and dry berries!
In wild cherry berries, there are no useful elements: sugar, phytoncids, organic acids, flavonoids, tannins, vitamins, and microelements. Especially much in the bird cherry cherry, which is necessary for the normal operation of the heart, to strengthen the heart muscle.
In medicine, bird cherry is used as an astringent, which perfectly helps in disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, with non-infectious diarrhea.
In addition to berries use both flowers and bark of this plant. The bark is removed in the early spring and the decoction from it is drunk with rheumatism, gout, as a diuretic and diaphoretic. Use it and externally - to flush the festering wounds. Infusion of berry cherry bark on vodka is used as a grinding with rheumatism.
Water infusion of flowers is good for inflammation of the eyes. In this case, it is used as a lotion. Infusions of flowers, leaves and fruits, thanks to the presence of phytoncides, are recommended for syringing with trichomonad colpitis.
♦ If there is an intestinal disorder: a tablespoon of dried wild cherry berries should be poured with 1 glass of boiling water. Cool, drain. Take 0.5 glasses 1-2 times a day.
♦ For diarrhea: take 3 parts of wild cherry fruit and 2 parts of blueberry fruit.10 g of mixture pour a glass of boiling water, heat in a boiling water bath for 30 minutes, cool for 10 minutes. Strain, raw squeeze and bring boiled water the amount of broth to the original volume. Take half a quarter of a glass of broth 3-4 times a day.
♦ In case of enteritis: take in equal amounts the fruits of wild bird cherry, the fruiting of alder gray, the fruits of fennel, the fruits of anise ordinary, the rhizome with the root of valerian officinalis, the rhizome of the mountaineer of snake, the herb of St. John's wort, the root of the blood-groove. A tablespoon of mixture pour a glass of boiling water, insist 30 minutes. Strain and take in equal parts 3 times daily before meals.
♦ When enterocolitis: take in equal quantities the fruits of wild bird cherry, the bark of an oak tree, and cones of alder gray. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water, insist 30 minutes, drain. Infusion to drink sips throughout the day.
♦ When enterocolitis: take in equal quantities the fruits of wild bird cherry, the leaves and fruits of blueberry, the flowers of chamomile and the fruits of caraway. A tablespoon of collection pour a glass of water, boil 10-15 minutes, cool 45 minutes, drain. Decoction to take half a glass-a glass in the morning on an empty stomach.
♦ For enterocolitis: take 3 parts of wild cherry and 2 parts of blueberry leaf. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water, insist 40 minutes in a warm place. Strain and take half-a-quarter cup 3 times a day.
♦ In case of eye inflammation: pour a teaspoon of fresh wildflower flowers into a glass of cold boiled water, leave for 8 hours. Apply as lotions for 10-15 minutes.
♦ For rheumatism and gout: 5 g of bird cherry bark pour a glass of water, boil for 15 minutes. Cool, drain. Take a third cup 3 times a day. The same broth is a diuretic and diaphoretic.
♦ For rheumatism: 5 g of wild bird cherry bark insist on 100 grams of vodka during the day. Use as rubbing for joints.