Sea-buckthorn — very useful plant; with the medical purposes even its leaves are applied. If you do not know what diseases it is possible to treat with their help, surely read our article. In it we will in detail tell about their useful properties. And also we will explain how to collect them, to dry, store and use.
The leaves collected even prior to blossoming — somewhere at the beginning middle of June are the most valuable.
We recommend to you to esteem about from what help when to collect how to dry and make leaves of cowberry, a wild strawberry and raspberry.
It is possible to bring together them along with sea-buckthorn berries. It is very convenient to do it if branches were cut previously off.
Plants should be spread out a thin layer on dense paper and to dry on a draft, protecting from sunshine. For this purpose the verandah, a balcony or the attic will be ideal (the room surely has to be aired). Do not forget to move from time to time them that they did not grow mouldy. Drying comes to an end when they begin to break in hands.
Important! They are dried also in an oven, having spread out a thin layer and periodically stirring slowly.
It is necessary to store dried sea-buckthorn leaves in the dry and cool room at a temperature no more than 18 °C.
One of wreckers who can threaten a sea-buckthorn is the green sea-buckthorn plant louse. Because of it the damaged leaves are twisted, become yellow and fall that weakens development of escapes and berries.
It is possible to struggle with a plant louse as follows: fill in 400 g of tobacco of 10 l of hot water, let two days will stand. Put 40 g of laundry soap. Let's infuse 150-200 g of a peel of onions in 10 l of water for four-five days. Filter. Fill in 400 g of leaves of a dandelion of 10 l of warm water and let two hours will stand. Sprinkle a tree. One more serious wretch — a sea-buckthorn vyemchatokryly moth. Its caterpillars eat young leaflets that becomes the reason of decrease in productivity and deterioration in fruits. There are a bit later dolls who are unsafe to a tree not less caterpillars.
Whether you know? The sea-buckthorn was applied still by ancient Greeks to treatment of horses, and it was called Hippophae — the Brilliant Horse ("hippos" — a horse, "faos" — shining) as her leaves, among other things, added to animal hair beauty and gloss.
Spray a tree when kidneys begin to be dismissed, with suspension of biological means of an entobakterin, adhering to concentration — 0.5-1% (50-100 g on 10 l of water). And as web nests where caterpillars in the future will begin to live will begin to appear, they should be collected.
There is a lot of different useful properties at leaves of this plant:
- soothing;
- hypoglycemic;
- immunomodulatory;
- anticonvulsant;
- hepatoprotective;
- anti-virus;
- anti-inflammatory;
- knitting;
- antiseptic.
In them there are coumarins which interfere with formation of blood clots. And tincture from fresh leaves is good at diabetes and illnesses of digestive system, still it — fine means for improvement of hair and disposal of dandruff.
Whether you know? The Greek mythology claims that the sea-buckthorn was favourite food of the Pegasus — a horse with wings.
Tinctures and plant decoctions apply as poultices at fight against problems of joints.
Many pathologies can be facilitated, constantly accepting means with sea-buckthorn leaves: different violations of the musculoskeletal device, cardiovascular and central nervous systems, viral infections, inflammations, dermatology and trikhologiya.
Do various drinks of a plant. Also it is used in pharmacology — for example, is a part of medical drugs against a SARS. About each of them we will tell separately.
It will be useful for you to esteem about preparation of drinks from leaves of raspberry, blackberry and currant.
It is very much recommended for overcoming dental problems. To fill in with 1 tablespoon of fresh or dry leaves 200 ml of boiled water. To allow to infuse 1/3 hours. To filter. It is possible to sweeten a little bit. To use warm 2-3 once a day.
It will be useful for you to learn about useful properties: tea of a sench, Pu-erh, rooibos, milk oolong tea, tea with ginger and also read as it is correct to make tea with a melissa, a camomile, a thyme and Kuril tea.
4 tablespoons of leaves of a plant to fill in 1 l of boiled water. To cook on a water bath of 15 minutes. To allow to stand 2/3 hours. To filter. To drink on a half-glass three times a day. It is possible to apply to rinsing of a mouth, a throat.
To fill in with boiled water (0.5 l) of 2 tablespoons of leaves of a plant. To allow to infuse hour. To use on a quarter of a glass up to 4 times a day.
2 tablespoons of dry or fresh leaves to fill in 100 ml of vodka. To maintain 14 days. To accept ½ tsps 2-3 times a day.
It is important! Not to do much harm to the organism, similar means should be applied, strictly adhering to a dosage. And it is even better — to consult before it with the attending physician!
Sea-buckthorn leaves — the real well of poleznost. They can really cure a set of diseases. And still it is good to apply them as prevention. But, of course, only they some will not be able to solve all your problems. It is the best of all to accept them together with medicines which were appointed by the doctor.