Useful and medicinal properties of blackberry.herbal teas

If you find yourself on a hot summer day on the bank of a forest nameless river or on a clearing,

you will probably have to meet with dense thickets of prickly things with patterned leaves and creeping stems-bunch of bushes. Note: triple large leaves and rather large white flowers collected in the inflorescence, and here, next, already ripening black with a bluish coating of large fruit - this is it, the blackberry. It grows in the European part of Russia everywhere. Probably, therefore, in every place they call it differently: turquoise, dereza, ezhina, zhivina, zhivinnik, azhina, kamenika, kumanyk - and that's not all.

It blooms in June-July, the fruit ripens a month after flowering. And what a miracle - in the bright green leaves of the leaves, the last flowers and the first ripened succulent, sweet, almost tartly-berry-tasting berries are scattered with handfuls.

But it only tastes good. In fact, in blackberries, ascorbic acid is six times larger than in lemon, and five times more than in orange. In addition, berries contain about 1 / o of sugars, carotene, thiamine, tocopherol, pectic substances, organic acids, bioflavonoids, minerals( potassium, magnesium, manganese, copper, phosphorus, etc.).According to the content of vitamins of group P, blackberry is ahead of raspberry. In the leaves of this plant there are tannins, apple, lactic, tartaric and oxalic acids. In seeds - about 12% of fatty oil.

About the healing properties of blackberry is known since ancient times. Dioscorides, more than two thousand years ago, prescribed to patients a decoction of leaves in the form of rinsing with diseases of the gums and oral cavity;externally - compresses from leaves with skin diseases.

Now it is well-known pronounced antipyretic effect of blackberry, so it is useful to use in the treatment of acute respiratory diseases and pneumonia. Broths and infusions of dry berries are one of the most powerful diaphoretic and diuretics. In addition, the decoction of berries is an excellent multivitamin, improves bowel function, is taken as a mild laxative. The same action has overgrown berries, and immature, on the contrary, fix. Berries and infusion of them have a restorative and soothing effect with climacteric neuroses. Berries are recommended for joint diseases, inflammatory processes in the bladder and kidneys.

Blackberry leaves have astringent effect. Prepared from them napar use with gastric bleeding and diarrhea,

for the treatment of hemoptysis. It is also used as an expectorant for coughing, rinsing with sore throat, stomatitis and gum disease. Of crushed leaves of blackberry make a poultice and apply it to the affected areas of the skin for lichens, eczema, purulent wounds. Avicenna also used blackberry leaves for the treatment of scaly lichen. Burned to the wound of the poultice from the leaves will help stop the bleeding. For the same purposes, infusion or decoction from leaves or young ends of branches with leaves, prepared from the calculation of 10 g of leaves per 200 g of water, is used. The same infusion can be taken in a hot form with honey for coughing and as a diaphoretic. Broth from the branches can help with nervous disorders, menstrual irregularities, dyspnea, flu.

If you regularly wash your head with a decoction of the branches, you will notice how much faster and thicker the hair grows.

Blackberry leaves are very useful and pleasant tea, which is similar in color, taste and aroma to Chinese. To make a tea substitute, blackberry leaves are fermented. To do this, they are placed in an enamel saucepan, covered with a lid and left for 2-3 days until they fade. At the same time, the leaves turn black, wander, give off a pleasant smell resembling the smell of a rose. After that they are dried in the open air.

Broth from the roots of blackberries is used as a diuretic.

♦ A remedy for the treatment of gastric bleeding, diarrhea, hemoptysis: 20 g of dry leaves of blackberry with blue water, pour 200 g of water, put on a water bath for 20-30 minutes. Cool, filter.11 minutes on a tablespoon 3 times a day.

♦ Diuretic: 10 g of dry roots of blackberry bluish with 200 g of water, boil for 10-15 minutes.() to stool, drain. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times and a day before meals.

♦ For inflammatory bowel diseases: take 2 parts of the blackberry leaves with a sizuke and 1 part of the marigold flowers. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water and hold 1.5-2 hours in a water bath. Take a teaspoon 3 times a day.

♦ For diarrhea, gastritis, gastric bleeding: 6-10 g of dry leaves of blackberry bluish pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, boil for 20 minutes. Cool, drain. Take 0.5 cup 3 times a day.

♦ If there is a disorder of the gastrointestinal tract: take 10 parts of the leaves of the blackberry with bluish, raspberry leaves, wild strawberry leaves, plantain leaves, herb St. John's wort, 3 parts of the leaves of black currant and 2 parts of the creeping thyme. A tablespoon of mixture pour a glass of water, bring to a boil and insist for 1 hour. Take as 1-2 glasses of tea a day.

♦ With enteritis: take in equal amounts the leaves of blackberry with bluish, flowers of marigold, leaves of peppermint. A tablespoon of mixture pour a glass of boiling water, insist 30 minutes. Take 0.5 cup 3 times daily before meals.

♦ For pancreatic diseases: 2 parts of blackberry leaves, 3 parts of strawberry leaves, 2 parts of fruit and hips. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of water, bring to a boil, to insist for 1 hour. Take as a tea 1 - 2 times a day for 1 glass.

♦ For pancreatic diseases: take 2 parts of the leaves of the blackberry with bluish, leaves of the bones, 3 parts of the strawberry fruit and 1 part of the creeping thyme. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of water, bring to a boil, to insist for 1 hour. Take as a tea 1-2 times a day for 1 glass.

♦ For pancreatic diseases: take 2 parts of blackberry leaves with a bluish, blueberry leaves, rhizome grass, sporis grass, leaves of wild strawberry, 1 part of black currant leaves and creeping thyme grass, 5 parts of black leaves of badan. A tablespoon of mixture pour a glass of water, bring to a boil and insist for 1 hour.

Take as 1-2 cups of tea a day.

♦ In case of diabetes: take in equal parts dry berries of blackberry with bluish, ash leaves, grass of horsetail, valerian root.6-8 g of the mixture to brew a glass of boiling water, insist in a thermos for 3-4 hours. Take 0.5 cups in a warm form 3 times a day.

♦ For atherosclerosis: take 3 parts of the leaves of the blackberry with bluish, 4 parts of the leaves of wild strawberry and hips, 3 parts of peppermint, 1 part of the herb of the motherwort. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water, insist 2-3 hours in a warm place. Strain, take 0.5 glasses a day.

♦ For skin rashes: take in equal parts a blackberry leaf with a syza, an oak bark of the common, a grass of a horsetail of the field, a grass of a sequence of three-separate, petals of flowers of a dogrose, flowers of a calendula officinalis. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water, boil in a water bath for 10 minutes, insist 2 hours. Use as lotions and washings with inflamed skin and rashes.

♦ When pustular skin lesions: take in equal amounts the leaves of blackberry with bluish, budma grass, the root of elecampane high, the rhizome of calamus ayr. Two tablespoons of the mixture to boil in 100 g of sunflower oil 10 minutes, to insist 4 hours. Use for lubrication and compresses.

♦ For skin diseases and diathesis: take 3 parts of blackberry fruit and leaves with bluish, leaves of sweet potato, 2 parts of leaves of peppermint leaves and mint leaves, 4 parts of rose hips, 5 parts of flowers and leaves of oregano. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of water, bring to a boil and insist 30-40 minutes. Take as 1-2 glasses of tea a day.

♦ For diatheses and skin diseases in children: take 2 parts of blackberry fruit and leaves with bluish, herb of common oregano, 3 parts of herb thyme, 5 parts of rose hips. A tablespoon of mixture pour a glass of water, bring to a boil, insist 30-40 minutes. Take as 1-2 glasses of tea a day.

♦ With hysteria, neurasthenia: take 25 g of blackberry leaf with a sizoya, 20 g of herb cutler and herb of the motherwort five-lobed, 15 g grass marshweed, marsh, 10 g grass thyme creeping. Mixture pour 1 liter of boiling water, insist 3 hours in a warm place, drain. All the infusion to drink during the day hot.

♦ Soothing: sew 3 parts of the leaves of the blackberry with bluish, 2 parts of the leaves of the spearmint, 4 parts of the cinnamon cinnamon and herbaceous leaves of the five-lobed motherwort, 5 parts of flowers and leaves of the oregano. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of boiling water, insist 30 minutes, drain. Take 0.5 - 1 glass 2-3 times a day as tea.

♦ Soothing for children: take 2 parts of the leaves of the blackberry with bluish, 3 parts of the cinnamon rosehard, 5 parts of the herb of common oregano and the herb of thyme creeping. A tablespoon of the product pour a glass of boiling water, insist 30 minutes, drain. Take 0.5 cup 2-3 times a day.

♦ Vitamin collection: take 3 parts of blackberries with blueberry and bones, 1 part of berries and leaves of blackcurrant and blackberry grass. A tablespoon of the mixture pour a glass of water, bring to a boil, to insist for 1 hour. Drink a cup of tea 1-2 glasses a day.