The birch is one of the most widespread trees in our climatic zone therefore annually from this tree receive tens of thousands of liters of nutritious juice which is extracted not only by individuals, but also the small companies. At the same time not all know that the birch is valuable not only because of juice. Today we will tell you as birch kidneys are used, than they are useful and as it is correct to prepare them. Let's talk about recipes of traditional medicine.
Than birch kidneys are useful
Let's begin with discussion of what birch kidneys and with what diseases they will help to cope are useful to us.
Properties which are used both in national, and in traditional medicine:
- diuretic;
- bile-expelling;
- anesthetic;
- krovoochistitelny;
- sudorific;
- glistogonny;
- wound healing;
- disinfecting.
Use these raw materials for treatment of gout and rheumatism, medicines on the basis of kidneys help to cope with skin diseases and also accelerate regeneration of the damaged cages.
For treatment of rheumatism also use rosemary, a sabelnik marsh, a celery, a meadow clover, a cornflower blue, a horsetail field, a lyubistok.
Considering the aforesaid, it is possible to draw a conclusion that birch kidneys are a valuable natural product which proved the medicinal properties because of what it is applied not only in traditional medicine, but also is on sale in drugstores in the form of medicines.
Important! From kidneys essential oil which can be bought in drugstore is produced.
When collect and how to store birch kidneys
At once It is necessary to tell that if you have no opportunity to collect a product for any reasons, then you will be able to find birch kidneys practically in any drugstore, and their price will not devastate your purse.
However fresh-gathered raw materials are more valuable therefore further we will tell you how and when to collect a birch product and what it is necessary to meet storage conditions that a medicinal part of a plant did not lose the properties.
Collecting. It is necessary to collect products at the end of February — the beginning of March, until emergence of the first leaves. It is important to remember that if on a tree appeared at least some leaf, then time is missed, and it does not make sense to collect the late kidneys. It is necessary to bring together only the bulked-up vegetative bodies of a plant as they contain the maximum quantity of useful substances. If you hurry up with collecting and will break raw materials prior to the movement of juice, then receive a useless product which has no medicinal properties.
Collecting is carried out by means of a sharp knife. It is necessary to cut off each kidney at the basis not to injure it. Remember that only the live intact vegetative bodies therefore it is not necessary to cut off all raw materials from a tree are subject to collecting.
Important! It is possible to collect kidneys only in dry weather.
Drying. As we collect products in the early spring, to dry it is rather problematic. Room temperature, protection against direct sunshine and also good air circulation is necessary for drying.
If it cannot achieve, then dry kidneys in the electric dryer at a temperature no more than +30 °C. Storage. The medicinal products are stored no more than 24 months. After drying the generative bodies of a birch place in glass tanks, or paper packages then take place in the dry room, far from sunshine.
How to use in the medical purposes: recipes
Further we will tell about what medicines can be prepared on the basis of generative bodies of a birch and from what any given medicine helps.
Broth
For a start it is necessary to take exact electronic scales, or the packed product then to measure 10 g. Further the product is filled in by 200 ml of boiled water then boil a quarter of hour on weak fire.
In the medical purposes apply also broth from bark of a buckthorn, a linden, a grass a thyme, leaves of cowberry, a sea-buckthorn, St. John's wort of an ordinary, kalganovy root.
Filter and leave to cool down at the room temperature. Medicine does not need to be diluted in addition with water and if the specified volume is not enough, then initially prepare more medicine, using a ratio of 50 g of kidneys on 1 l of water. Broth is used for recovering of an organism from serious diseases and also at spring avitaminosis. Means will help to cope with cold and flu. Also it is used as antiedematous means.
Whether you know? The parasitic fungus which is formed in the form of an outgrowth on a birch is also used in the medicinal purposes for treatment of stomach ulcer and cancer tumors.
Spirit tincture
At once it is worth specifying that there are two options of tincture: for internal or external application. At the same time it is worth understanding that external means at the oral use not only will not cure you, but also can worsen a state therefore do not experiment.
Tincture on alcohol for internal application. We take 20 g of dry products, small we cut then we fill in with moonshine or vodka. To use alcohol rather dangerously, however, if you are sure of quality of a product, then buy only 70% the option (septit). For preparation of medicine it is enough to take 100 ml of an alcohol-containing product.
Further we place the received spirit mix in the dark place for 3 weeks. Every week it is necessary to check a condition of tincture and also to stir up it that medicine infused better.
In 3 weeks, tincture is filtered then medicine is ready to application. It is necessary to accept as homeopathic remedy: till 15-20 drops 3 times a day for half an hour to food.
Tincture for external application. We take 40 g of kidneys, we pound them in a mortar to a powdery state then we fill in 200 ml of alcohol. In this case it is possible to use 96% option.
We place tincture in the dark place for a week then the product can be applied in the medicinal purposes. It is not obligatory to filter.
Application of tincture for the internal use:
- laryngitis;
- bronchitis;
- tracheitis;
- tuberculosis;
- ulcer or gastritis of a stomach;
- lack of appetite;
- worms;
- bladder diseases;
- migraine;
- atherosclerosis.
At atherosclerosis apply hawthorn fruits, a sage, chicory, a feijoa, sea-buckthorn oil, badger fat, avocado, a bee subpestilence.
Application of external tincture:
- anesthetic and resolvent;
- rheumatism;
- gout;
- decubituses;
- integument erosion;
- lacerations;
- toothache.
Oil tincture
We take a thick glass tumbler and we fill it with small cut or ground birch kidneys. Further we fill in structure of 0.6 l of sunflower oil. We mix and send for 40 days to infuse to the storeroom.
After the specified time, we get infusion and we add to it 50 g of an officinal camomile and a St. John's wort. Then we poison for 3 weeks to infuse.
Further tincture is got, boil about half an hour and again sent to infuse for 3 weeks.
Use. The oil option helps to cope with hemorrhoids. At daily drawing on external hemorrhoids, it in several days will be opened and soon completely will heal. If you have internal hemorrhoids, then daily enemas with addition of a small amount of oil will help to cope with an illness quicker.
It is important! Both in a case with external, and in a case with internal hemorrhoids, it is necessary to carry out the procedure twice a day.
Also this medicine is used for treatment of various dermatitis and as cosmetology means for face skin.
Ointment
There are two options of preparation of ointment: on the basis of butter and on the basis of lanolin.
The first option. We take 600 g of butter and as much the crushed kidneys. We impose serially layers of butter and a birch product in the enameled pan, we turn in a foil and we send to an oven. The structure has to stay in an oven about a day that cream was ready. Temperature is exposed no more than +100 °C, otherwise everything will burn down.
When ointment is ready, it is extracted from an oven and add a small amount of camphor.
The second option. We take 1 part of kidneys and we fill in them with two parts of boiled water. In 10-15 minutes we filter and we add the kindled lanolin to the received infusion. Mix has to turn out dense that after hardening we received cream, but not suspension.
Ointment is used for treatment of diseases of joints and also eczema.
At treatment of diseases of joints use also a cranberry, a thistle, a mushroom of a chag, cowberry leaves, a great nettle, pink salt.
Improving bathtubs
We take 300 g of dry kidneys and we trouble them in boiled water liter. Further we send to infuse for day to the dark place. After the structure infuses, it needs to be added to the filled bathtub at the rate of 100 ml of infusion on 10 l of water, that is, the liter of tincture will be enough for 100 l of water in a bathtub. Duration of reception of a bathtub — 25 minutes.
Important! It is impossible to use spirit infusions for bathtubs.
How to use in the cosmetology purposes: recipes
Further we will tell about how birch kidneys can help to improve appearance. Let's consider several simple recipes which will keep money and will improve a condition of skin and hair.
For face skin
For treatment of rash and irritation on face skin. We take 20 g of the crushed kidneys and we fill in 100 ml of vodka. Container is densely closed and we send to infuse. In 7 days, tincture is ready.
Apply wheat germ oil and castor oil to treatment of rash and irritation.
It is possible to use as lotion. To kill a strong alcoholic smell, it is possible to add essential oil.
For removal of wrinkles. We take about 100 g of the crushed birch product and we fill in with a glass of boiled water. In 2 hours, infusion is filtered and we add honey in the ratio 1:1. We mix the received mix and we shift in the enameled pan.
We put on fire and we evaporate to dense consistence. When mix cools down, it is shifted in a convenient vessel and used as a mask.
Daily apply to skin for 15-20 minutes then wash away warm water.
Important! It is necessary to store cosmetic in the fridge.
For hair
This means helps to strengthen roots of hair and also to reduce their loss. We take 10 g of the crushed dry kidneys and we fill in 100 ml of alcohol. We poison to infuse in a closet for 2 weeks. After the specified time, we get tincture and we filter.
It is used as follows: before drawing it is parted 1 part of tincture in 10 parts of warm water. We mix and rub in roots of hair. It is not necessary to wash away. Means gets divorced just before application, it is necessary to store infusion in not divorced look.
Contraindications and harm
Oral use of medicines on the basis of a birch product during pregnancy or breastfeeding is forbidden.
It is possible to use birch generative bodies only after consultation at the doctor at diseases of a secretory system and also at a renal failure.
Whether you know? There is a kind of this tree which is called Schmidt's birch. Its wood so strong that it is also difficult to bend it, as well as welding iron.
Now you know, than the birch product whether it is possible to get it in drugstore and from what illnesses can save kidneys is useful.
Remember that medicinal raw materials have to be qualitative therefore it is not necessary to bring together generative bodies of a tree near highways or the plants, differently not to avoid hit in an organism of heavy metals and poisons.