Kalina is a berry spread over the flat territory of our country. You can meet her in the moist shady forests, on clearings, in thickets of bushes, along the banks of water bodies. Grow this berries in the gardens.
Kalina is usually harvested in October. The taste of its berries is similar to that of currants. At first it is a bit bitter, but, as the first frosts strike, it becomes bitter and sweet. To remove the bitter taste of the viburnum, you need to hold the berries in boiling water for about 6-7 minutes. From berries prepare jams, compotes, marmalade, pastille, jelly.
Kalina is widely used in folk medicine, since it has useful and healing properties. Its fruits are rich in valerian, acetic and ascorbic acids, vitamins A, E. Rich in viburnum and phytoncides that kill pathogens. Useful properties of viburnum are suitable and in cosmetology. It makes tonic, restorative and rejuvenating agents, creams, face masks.
Fruits, bark and flowers of viburnum are used in folk medicine. Viburnum berries are an effective remedy for the treatment of many diseases. They have a diuretic, choleretic, anti-inflammatory and wound-healing properties. Infusion of fruits tone up the work of the heart, useful for neuroses, hypertension. The way of preparation of the present is as follows: take 20 g of fruits and grind, brew in 250 ml of hot water, let us brew for 4 hours, filter. Drink follows before eating 100 ml approximately 2 or 3 times a day. External infusion is used for nasal bleeding.
Especially popular is the decoction of the berries of viburnum with honey. It gives a very good effect in gastrointestinal diseases, liver diseases, with hoarseness and with a strong cough. The broth is prepared a little differently: 40 grams of mashed fruit pour 200 ml of hot honey. We let him brew for about two hours. Take should be after eating 1 tablespoon 4 times a day.
Preparation of the viburnum in its own juice is widespread. Prepare it this way: one third of the volume of a glass jar is covered with berries, and the rest is sugar. So the bank is stored for 6 months in a cool place with a slightly covered lid. Six months later the viburnum in its own juice is ready for use.
Often the juice of fresh berries of viburnum is used as a cosmetic product: it promotes skin whitening, removing freckles, treating acne. To achieve maximum effect, mix fresh juice in equal parts with sour cream. Apply this mask to your face for 20 minutes, then rinse with water. Fresh juice is taken with headaches. And with a low acidity of gastric juice, as a vitamin remedy prescribe Morse from Kalina.
The calyx bark has no less high therapeutic efficacy than its fruit. In early spring, the bark is harvested, pulverized. It is used in painful menstruation, and also as a hemostatic: 4 teaspoons of the chopped bark of Kalina pour 1 cup of water, boil for 30 minutes, strain and add water. Take preferably 3 times a day for 1 tablespoon before eating. With internal bleeding appoint a tincture: 4 tbsp. spoons of bark pour 200 ml of 70% alcohol, for 10 days insist in a dark place. It should take 1 tablespoon 2 times a day.
Decoction of the bark is drunk when coughing, colds, choking: 1 tbsp. Spoon dry crushed bark pour 1 cup of water, boil for 10 minutes. Wait 2 hours, until the broth is infused, then strain. Take it 3 times a day for 1 tablespoon. To treat scrofula, insomnia, seizures, hysteria use a decoction of the roots of the viburnum. The recipe for preparing the broth is: the root of the Kalina is finely chopped. 3 tablespoons root pour for 30 minutes with 1 liter of cold water. Then they boil for half an hour on the weakest fire and filter. After pour into a bath with a water temperature of 36-37C. This bath should be taken before bedtime. The course of treatment is 15-17 baths. After a break, with a duration of one and a half months, the course is repeated.
During the flowering period, plants collect flowers of the Kalina. They contain organic acids, essential oil and vitamin C. Rinses infusion of flowers or infusion of berries and leaves of the viburnum help with tonsillitis, gum disease. Even with rashes and acne they are wiped with facial skin. To prepare the infusion, wash the berries in cold water, dry and squeeze the juice. Skins of berries do not need much pressure, because they are the most bitter. The juice, which turned out, mix in a ratio of 1: 1 with sugar. For storage, pour into cans, close and put in a cool place. While the juice is stored, the bitterness will gradually disappear. It should also be noted that the berries of the viburnum are contraindicated in such diseases as hypotension, arthritis, gout.
Now you know how red viburnum, healing properties can help you in life.