Blackberry - curative berry

The blackberry is a deciduous perennial tree or shrub from a large family of honeysuckle. It "lives" in the deciduous forests of the European part of the Russian Federation, in the Transcaucasus and in Ukraine. It often grows like a weed in gardens, in yards and gardens - sometimes in groups, sometimes in isolation.

Medicinal raw materials are buds and flowers. They are harvested even before the coronals are sprinkled, with scissors or a pruning shear, cutting off all the inflorescence. They contain a certain glycoside sambunigrin that cleaves gluconic acid with cyanide and benzaldehyde, as well as essential oil, rutin, tannins.

The blackberry is an application

In Russia, grapes shone to a shine samovars, and berries were used for dyeing. The bark of young twigs served as a means for expelling flies, mosquitoes, cockroaches and ... alcoholism from the house.

Wood is suitable for wide use in professional turning production.

Branches can be used to protect from granary weevils.

The plant terribly scares mice and rats, so elder elderly people try to plant around barns, sheds, cellars.

Flowers are used in veterinary medicine for rheumatism and colds in horses.

Fruits color silk and wool on the mordant in a variety of colors.

Insecticide for bedbugs, blackcurrant mite, gooseberry moth, raticide.

The fruits are well cleaned copper dishes.

From fruits, a purple and red food color is used, used in confectionery production, for juices, jelly.

Elderberry is grown as an ornamental plant in gardens and parks.

The black elder is an excellent honey plant.

In the Middle Ages, it was revered by people as a sacred tree.

Blackberry - treatment

The blackberry in folk medicine has been widely used. Decoction, juice, infusion, baths, poultices from its raw material outside and inside are used:

• As a diaphoretic;
• As fortifying;
• As antipyretic;
• As a choleretic;
• As an expectorant;
• As a laxative;
• As anti-inflammatory;
• As a sedative;
• As a diuretic;
• With ascites (dropsy);
• With kidney disease;
• With diseases of respiratory organs;
• With swelling;
• With menopause, female diseases;
• With headache;
• With ARI and influenza;
• With diabetes mellitus;
• With peptic ulcer;
• With rheumatism, gout, arthritis, polyarthritis;
• With neuralgias, sciatica, radiculitis;
• With hemorrhoids;
• With hepatitis;
• With oncological diseases;
• As antimalarial;
• With skin diseases;
• With chloasma, freckles;
• With inflammation in the mouth and throat;
• With blepharitis, conjunctivitis;
• With hydrophobia (rabies);
• With depressive states.

Infusion of flowers

1 table.l. Flowers are taken at 1 tbsp. Boiling water, insist for about 20 min. In any closed vessel, filter, drink hot as a diaphoretic for the night or take 100 g 3-4 r / day for a quarter of an hour before meals as an anti-inflammatory, astringent, expectorant.

Infusion of bark

Insist in 1/2 liter. Boiling water 5-7 g of bark or 4-6 g of bark powder (5-6 hours in thermos), then carefully filter. Take 4-6 rubles / day for ½ tbsp. With edema, kidney diseases.

Infusion of leaves

Pour in the evening 1 table. L. Finely chopped dry leaves with two glasses of steep boiling water, so insist until the morning (you can even in a thermos), drink in the morning warmed up. Take as a diuretic, with a severe cold.

Infusion of fruits

Table. A spoonful of dried berries pour 1 stack. Boiling, insist about 20 minutes, take somewhere 50 ml after eating 2-4 r / day for diabetes.

Decoction of the roots

30 g of raw materials are covered in 1 liter. Boiling water, put on a small fire and boil for 4-5 minutes, insist 40 minutes, filter. Used for kidney disease, diabetes, and also as a diuretic for edema of a variety of origin.

The healing properties of black elderberry will make your life full of joy, without any unnecessary diseases!