Barbaris: medicinal properties and contraindications. Root of barberry: medicinal properties

Barberry is a deciduous shrub shrub up to three meters high. For medical purposes, berries, leaves, plant roots and bark are used. Usually barberry and Amur are used. They have almost the same properties, since they are species close in origin.

The medicinal properties of barberry ordinary were known even in Ancient Mesopotamia. To date, flowers, leaves, bark, roots and berries of this plant are widely used in medicine, in addition, they are used as raw materials for the production of homeopathic and pharmaceutical preparations. In medicine, barberry preparations are used such as:

• Cholelithine;
• Berberine biosulfate;
• Tincture of barberry.

Composition

Barbaris, the medicinal properties and contraindications of which we will consider in detail in this article, contains the alkaloid berberine, which determines the cholagogue properties of the plant. It includes:

• carotene;
• Alkaloids;
• tannins;
• ascorbic acid;
• Organic acids;
• Tocopherol.

Beneficial features

Barbaris, medicinal properties and contraindications to the use of which have been known for a long time, are used in such pathologies as:

• Kidney disease (kidney stone disease, including);
• Liver disease;
• Diseases of the gallbladder (gallstone disease, including);
• Hepatocholecystitis;
• Inflammation of the gallbladder;
• dysentery;
• Spleen diseases;
• Spasms of the stomach, stomach pathology;
• Pathology of the eyes;
• heat;
• Diseases of the oral cavity;
• malaria;
• tuberculosis;
• scurvy;
• pleurisy;
• rheumatism;
• gout;
• lumbago;
• Diseases of the throat, stomach and liver;
• Bleeding, which was associated with childbirth;
• Postpartum uterine bleeding;
• Reverse retarded development of the uterus after abortion or childbirth;
• Bleeding in uterine inflammation;
• Toxicosis of pregnant women;
• hemorrhoids;
• Heart pain;
• hypertension;
• diabetes.

In addition, preparations based on barberry are used as:

• Antiseptics;
• Means for increasing appetite;
• Laxative;
• Diaphoretic and febrifuge;
• Tonic.

Shrub barberry curative properties is very diverse, but one of them is unique - it removes bouts of vomiting and nausea. Due to this, the plant is actively used by pregnant girls for toxicoses, since pharmaceutical preparations that have the same effect, mainly have various side effects. In addition, he can take off attacks of cough, wet in particular, when the bronchi are clogged with phlegm.

Barbaris finds its application even in the treatment of various cancers. Thus, scientists were able to prove that berberine, which is part of its composition, has anti-leukemia and antitumor effect. At the same time, berberine does not respond to chemical synthesis today. Since this discovery was made recently, at the present moment it is used only by rare experts of non-traditional medicine who have studied the antitumor properties of this plant.

Healing properties of barberry. Berries

The green berries of barberry are poisonous, they can lead to very strong intoxication. In non-traditional medicine, only ripe fruits are used. Berries help strengthen immunity. In different regions of our country, it is customary to freeze them in order to be thawed in winter and used for food.

Flowers

The plant barberry has medicinal properties and contraindications is very diverse. With hypertension and heart pain, decoction of flowers is used. To do this, a spoonful of dry plant should be poured ½ cup of water, boil for 10 minutes on a small fire, then 2 hours to insist, drain. Use 2 tablespoons twice a day. The above decoction also eliminates inflammation of the mucous eye, for this, washing them up to six times a day.

Leaves

In order to make a tincture on the vodka leaves of barberry, you need to take these ingredients in a proportion of 5: 1, respectively. The ready mix is insisted for 15 days. Use 25 drops three times a day for 20 days. Then you need a break in 10 days, then repeat the course. This tincture is used in the postpartum period with atonic bleeding, bleeding due to inflammation, uterine subinvolution, in addition, in gynecological and obstetrical practice.

The leaves of barberry, the medicinal properties of which help in the treatment of various diseases, are also used for making other infusions. To do this, 2 tablespoons of dried leaves should be insisted for an hour in a glass of boiling water. Then the infusion is filtered and consumed on a table spoon several times a day for one month. It is used in the pathologies of the gallbladder and liver as a choleretic and anti-inflammatory agent.

Bark, branches and roots

The root of barberry, the medicinal properties of which have been known for many years in folk medicine, is the raw material for the manufacture of berberine. It is used in traditional medicine :

• To reduce pressure;
• As a cholagogue;
• For uterine contractions;
• For calming the heart.

The roots of barberry are an important component of Zdrenko's famous medicine.

Broth of fruits

In the non-traditional medicine for several centuries the medicinal properties of barberry have been used. Berries are used to prepare a decoction. To do this, take 2 tablespoons of fruit, pour ½ tablespoon of water, put on a fire and boil for 20 minutes. Then the broth to bring water to its original volume. You need to take 50 ml three times a day. Decoction of fruits is used as a diuretic, choleretic, diaphoretic, with cough, bronchitis, colds, pneumonia.

Mature fruits mixed with honey - this is a wonderful vitamin remedy, which increases the immunity, the protective forces of the human body, useful for beriberi including.

Decoction of leaves

You need to take 15 grams of leaves, pour a glass of water on them, put on fire, boil for 10 minutes, then insist. Follow the broth with water to its original volume. Should be taken on a spoon 4 times a day. This broth helps to eliminate nausea, it is used for spasms in the intestines and stomach, diarrhea.

Decoction of the root

The root of barberry has a variety of medicinal properties. You need to take a spoon of the crushed root of the plant, pour 400 ml of water, put on a fire for a couple of minutes. Then the broth is infused for 30 minutes and is taken every hour on a tablespoon with diarrhea and spasms in the intestines. Decoction is also used for inflammation of the gums for rinsing the mouth, as an antispasmodic and analgesic. They make lotions with radiculitis and arthritis, spasms of the muscles of the legs.

Use in Cooking

Barbaris, whose medicinal properties have been described in this article, is widely used in cooking. Its fruits are added to pilaf. In addition, from the barberry syrup, compote, jam, juice, marmalade, jelly are cooked.

Contraindications

• Fruits are contraindicated to persons suffering from thrombophlebitis, with high acidity of the stomach, and also to people who are in the pre-infarcted state.
• With prolonged use of barberry, constipation may develop (constipation).
• In gynecology and obstetrics, barbaris is prohibited for bleeding, which is due to the non-removal of placental fragments from the uterus after childbirth and dysfunction of the ovaries.
• It is also contraindicated in the menopause with bleeding.
• Since drugs from the roots and bark narrows the blood vessels and increase blood clotting, they can not be used for heart pathologies, spasms of cerebral vessels, high thrombosis.
• Infusion of leaves can not be used by pregnant women.
• Cirrhosis of the liver.
• Decoction of the roots reduces blood pressure, so it is contraindicated in hypotension.
• Children up to 12 years.

In addition, you need to remember that is a poisonous unripe barberry. The healing properties and contraindications to the reception of plants are now known to you! All the best!