Birch buds. Home Use

Birch buds are a whole storehouse of useful substances. Our ancestors knew this, who went out every spring to the forest, to harvest brooms and birch buds.

Their application in folk medicine is very broad. They contain flavonoids, vitamin C, resins, essential oils. They are useful as a diaphoretic and diuretic, with the help of birch buds you can treat eczema, heal wounds. Extract of them is part of some antitumor drugs. Alternative medicine recommends preparing from the kidneys decoctions or infusions for the treatment of tuberculosis and gastritis. They are good for chronic stomach disorders. Decoctions expel from the body ascaris, pinworm. Lotions or poultices relieve pain with gout and rheumatism.

To preserve all the properties of birch buds, it is recommended to collect them in the early spring, when they have already swollen, but have not yet blossomed. Collect not individual buds, but whole young branches. Having sustained some time in heat, they hang out in a cool dark place. In a month, when they dry up, the buds are cut off and stacked in paper bags.

How to prepare drugs, which include birch buds? Their use depends on the disease. Here, for example, is a recipe for a magical elixir that can prolong youth. He was known even by ancient healers.

You need to take equal amounts of dried birch buds, chamomile, immortelle, St. John's wort. Mix them thoroughly, grind them. It is best to do this in a mortar, but you can use a coffee grinder. The resulting powder to pour into a jar of dark glass, close. Every evening, about an hour before bedtime, a tablespoon of powder is poured into a half-liter of water, boiled, insisted for 20 minutes. In a strained broth dissolve a spoonful (you can more) of honey and drink it before going to bed. In the morning, drink the remaining broth before breakfast. Already two weeks after taking the elixir there will be a burst of energy. The sleep will improve, the complexion will improve, the metabolism will be normalized. Healers assure that daily intake of such an elixir prolongs life.

How else do they use birch buds? Their application for inhalations also passed the test of time. Mix dry birch and pine buds, add thyme, eucalyptus, sage, pass through a coffee grinder. Then pour boiling water, for 2 minutes put on fire. Leaning over the dishes with broth, covered with a towel with your head (carefully, so as not to burn yourself!) Inhale steam. Such inhalations will reduce cough, relieve inflammation, help to cure a cold.

Decoction can treat heart disease, regulate the liver and kidneys. Decoction of birch leaves is recommended to drink with beriberi, nervous or physical exhaustion.

Prepare it so. Fresh leaves are washed, poured cold, but boiled water for 10 minutes. Then the water is drained, the leaves are poured hot, but not boiling water, leave for 4 hours. After that, the cake is removed, and the resulting dark green beverage is allowed to settle for about 6 hours, after which it is filtered. Drink a glass daily. To improve the color and taste of the drink from birch leaves, it can be filtered through coal. However, the content of vitamin C drops sharply.

Such a decoction can be prepared from dry leaves, but there will be very few vitamins. With pain in the back, you can make a gruel, which will include leaves and birch buds. The use of such a slurry for compresses can alleviate the pain.

Fresh birch leaves are rubbed together with the kidneys, add a few drops of alcohol obtained by rubbing the spine. They wrap them first with compress paper, then with a warm scarf. Hold for half an hour.

Birch buds and leaves, like any other herbal remedies, may have contraindications, cause allergies. Do not use them without the advice of a doctor.