How to insist pine cones on vodka. Contraindications and indications for use of the tincture

Modern medicine offers medicines for almost all diseases. However, more and more people are trying to use not the tablets and medicines made in laboratories, but the means of alternative traditional medicine. As you know, there is nothing more effective than what is created by nature itself. After all, it's not for nothing that animals at the level of instinct help themselves from disease by eating certain products of plant origin.

So, American scientists noticed one feature. In winter, many animals dig out pine cones from under the snow and eat them. A logical conclusion from this observation led to the fact that the composition of such plant products was carefully studied.

The results did not take long. It turned out that cones of pine accumulate in a summer period and part of winter a large number of phytoncides, essential oils, bioflavonoids, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory and antiviral substances. Also in their composition in a small proportion are resin acids, ascorbic acid, tannins and anthocyanins. What makes bumps very attractive for human use in the fight against various ailments.

Used in folk medicine are not only mature, but also green fruits. The best option for using them is the means for the manufacture of which you need to pour pine cones with vodka.

Areas of use

There are many diseases, for the treatment of which pine cones on vodka are used. Their application is based on the ability of the useful substances in their composition to dissolve in alcohol and acquire even more qualitative functional properties already in the form of tinctures.

The action of such an infusion is as follows

• Restoration of brain cells and functions of the nervous system after a stroke;
• Treatment and prevention of pulmonary diseases;
• Elimination of cardiovascular system disorders;
• Treatment of the oral cavity;
• Arthritis;
• Rheumatism and muscle spasms;
• Treatment of the gastrointestinal tract;
• Diaphoretic ;
• Treatment of anemia;
• Gout.

In addition to a wide range of therapeutic effects, like any medicine, there are disadvantages of pine cones on vodka. Contraindications to their use are based on individual characteristics of each organism and are reduced to such items:

1. Intolerance or inability to drink alcohol.
2. Age range: up to 7 and after 60 years.
3. Diseases of the kidneys and liver (when dosing).
4. Pregnancy.
5. Lactation period.

Let's consider in more detail the spectrum of action and the main ailments, which use green and mature pine cones on vodka, contraindications to their use.

Green cones: human use

Young, immature pine cones have a beautiful green color and look very dense and strong.

They contain a large amount of phytoncides, which have been considered the most effective antibacterial substances for centuries. In addition, there are a lot of tannins in the cones - substances that stimulate the production of hormones of good mood and the appearance of a sense of freshness, clarity of thoughts. Therefore, the bath with the infusion of these fruits tone and relieve fatigue.

In addition, tannins can stimulate the recovery of cellular structures, which is used as the basis for therapy after a stroke. Vitamins and essential oils of green cones help to strengthen the immune system, increasing vitality and providing a surge of energy.

It is recommended to collect them in June-August. It is at this time that they contain many nutrients to ripen the inner seed. The maximum benefit of extracting them is obtained by applying such infusion as green pine cones on vodka.

At what diseases use alcoholic infusion of green cones

Infusion of pine cones on vodka (green) is used to treat liver and kidney diseases. Also, long-term use in small doses allows you to get rid of fatigue, chronic drowsiness, headaches and bad mood.

Very good green pine cones, infused with vodka, with atherosclerosis, for the purification of blood vessels.

The recipe for the solution

For the preparation of healing infusions we will need:

• Enamelled saucepan;
• Collection of green cones;
• Moderately warm room;
• vodka.

Fill prepared dishes for a third washed in warm water and cut into pieces green cones. Then pour vodka so that the ingredients are immersed in the liquid. Cover the lid and put in a room with a temperature of at least 20 ^° C. We insist about 40 days, and the readiness is determined by color. The color should become dark brown.

This is the first recipe that uses green pine cones. Tincture on vodka allows all useful components to go into solution and become more digestible.

Another recipe for which you will need:

• glass;
• Green cones;
• vodka;
• A lid tight to the glass;
• A warm place;
• Fine sieve.

In a glass we pour shredded cones and pour vodka (cones and vodka equally) to the brim. Tightly close and clean in a warm place for infusion. Leave for 10 days. Then tincture we filter through a sieve and the received solution we accept on 20 drops before meal. It is desirable to dilute with warm water.

Green pine cones on vodka: contraindications

The main contraindications for the use of alcoholic infusions from green cones are the same as for products from ripe pine cones on vodka. This pregnancy and lactation, old age, intolerance of components (atopic dermatitis, allergies), renal or hepatic insufficiency.

The only thing that can be specially emphasized here is a violation of the dosage of the tincture. This can not be done categorically. Consequences may be severe dysfunction of the stomach, damage to the walls of the digestive tract. Maybe even poisoning. Misfortune, a feeling of nausea, dizziness. Since alcohol tincture, its use in large doses and often for a long time can provoke the formation of alcohol dependence.

Mature pine cones: characteristics of components and application

Mature pine cones are very easy to distinguish from young ones in appearance. They are brown, friable, almost completely open. In many you can see the ripened seeds.

In addition to those components that have already been listed for young fruits, mature pine cones also contain an increased amount of tannins. It is this feature that determines the direction of their application in alternative medicine.

The main thing is, of course, the treatment of stroke and post-insult conditions. Therapy with such infusion promotes the renewal of brain cells, their rapid regeneration and normal functioning. Infusion of pine cones on vodka provides recovery of cellular structures of the higher nervous system, and also blocks the enzyme that causes their death in stroke.

If young cones can be used for a very wide range of diseases, then the use of mature ones is limited to the treatment of the stroke state. Thank you to the American scientists who proved that pine cones (tincture on vodka) is a way to get to your feet after a serious illness.

Consider how to better collect the material, prepare it and on what recipe to make curative infusion.

Collection of mature cones

Such cones are best collected from December to March. During the summer and autumn period they manage to accumulate a lot of useful components. Like canned foods, which consist of extremely useful and biologically significant for the body substances.

Phytoncides and tannins, bioflavonoids and anthocyanins, essential oils and tannins, resins and carotene, vitamins C and A, antioxidants are all stored in snow-covered mature pine cones reliably covered with snow. That's why they are so fond of chewing animals in zoos and nurseries.

Special processing of the collected material consists in purification from foreign components and dust. To do this, you can simply rinse the fecal crop with warm water. The subsequent drying will complete the pre-treatment step and the product will be completely ready for infusion.

Recipe: pine cones on vodka (mature)

For the preparation of the present it will be necessary:

• A small dish with a tight-fitting lid;
• Vodka or alcohol (70%);
• 5-6 mature cones, washed and prepared;
• Cool place for infusion.

Take the cones, crush it and put it in the dishes. Pour 200-250 ml of vodka or alcohol, cover with a lid and put it in a cool place for infusion. In half a month the medicine is ready. Use should be a teaspoon after eating once a day. The course of treatment is from 3 months and longer. With proper reception, it is practically unlimited.

Negative effect, contraindications

Categories of persons who are forbidden to use such infusion are the same as for infusions of green cones.

With proper use, without disturbing the dosing and without the abuse of components, and also with the correct preparation of infusions, in which the base is mature pine cones on vodka, there are no contraindications to its use.

In the event of a violation of any of the points, the consequences may be gastrointestinal diseases of varying complexity, poisoning, alcohol dependence.