Alychovye fruits - small in size, reaching 30 mm in diameter, rounded fruit. Coloring them is diverse. Fruits can be yellow, pink, orange, green, purple, dark purple. Inside the fruit is a conical bone. The skin of the cherry plum is velvety, thin, with a light coating reminiscent of wax. The flesh of these fruits is fleshy, juicy. Its color is greenish or yellowish. The taste is sweet or sweet and sour. Alycha has a wonderful aroma. Its bone is flattened and pointed at the tips. It is rather poorly separated from the cherry plum.
Alychu is eaten both fresh and in recycled. From cherry plums make jams, various jams, jellies, cook compotes, it is used in the production of marmalade. And also cherry plum is used in the wine and vodka industry and at home making wines.
Alycha: chemical composition
In the fruits of plum, up to 5, 7% of sugars, up to 3, 75% of organic acids, many tannins, vitamin C, provitamin A, other important compounds. Vitamin C in cherry plum, at least in most of the studied varieties, is slightly less than in plums. Some species of cherry plum varieties, especially for trees grown in the southern parts, contain this vitamin up to 17 mg.
Alycha: medicinal properties and application
Plum fruits are used by healers in folk medicine. They are an excellent dietary and therapeutic remedy for diseases of the throat and coughing. They are used baked and raw. Cooks make them compotes, jam, jam, add to the production of marmalade. Properties of cherry plum will help cure cough, because it is a good expectorant natural remedy. It is used in the treatment of viral respiratory tract infections.
The compote from dried plum is also very useful. It can increase appetite, improve digestion. It helps with gastritis, if the acidity is lowered. Decoctions, compotes of plum are used and as a laxative.
Many people know such a problem as constipation. From it you can get rid of it with just the alychic broth. In cooking, they are simple. We need to get a table. a spoonful of dried fruit, pour a glass of boiled water, wait until it boils, and in a thermos to withstand hours. Then the broth must be filtered through gauze and drank a third cup three times a day on an empty stomach.
Possessing a laxative effect, folk healers consider not only fruit broths, but also infusions of cherry blossoms and leaves. Especially they are useful if you suffer from chronic colitis.
Alychovye tinctures and decoctions are used in the treatment of viral, colds, acute respiratory infections. They are an excellent anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and diaphoretic. Transparent liquid that flows if a tree (gum) is injured is recommended by doctors as an antitussive drug.
In the treatment of diseases, alych fruit is used; in prophylactic purposes and for healing from scurvy, avitaminosis, night blindness, constipation - fruits and leaves of a cherry tree. Mountain plum well stimulates intestinal peristalsis. If you mix the juice of mountain plum with camphor alcohol, then this tincture can be used to treat wounds that do not heal for a long time. This is an excellent remedy for coughing and reducing heat.
Tincture of cherry blossoms on water is an effective remedy for renal, hepatic diseases and impotence. A remedy made from mucus gum is used in the fight with ulcerative lesions of the stomach, as an anti-emetic and antitussive. In the fruits of plum, a large content of pectins and natural fibers, due to which it helps to remove radionuclides from the human body.
Unripe fruit is used for cooking a wonderful jam. Bones of these fruits also benefit. They go to make butter, which in its composition resembles almond. In cherry plums, butter up to 43%, except for the shell. Both plum and almond oils contain amygdalin - a substance that, in the presence of water and emulsion (enzyme), can be transformed into glucose, hydrocyanic acid and benzoic aldehyde. But the main consumer of cherry plum oil is the perfume industry and manufacturers of medical types of soaps.