Lime tree - what kind of tree is this? How does it grow? Lime tree is a tree, its height reaches up to 30 meters, is not it high? And the diameter reaches up to 1 meter. Leaves are cordate, 4-8 cm long, green on top, light underneath. Inflorescences are located in semi-zentikami from 5-10 flowers, flowers of yellow color, with a very pleasant aroma. Blooms in summer, in June, July, and fruits ripen in August - September. Lime grows in the forest zones of Europe and the Caucasus, in the western regions of Western Siberia. It is with lindens that the most famous in Russia and abroad "Bashkir" honey, either lime, or lime, which is distinguished by its high quality, is assembled. It has a light cream color shade, and is very delicate in taste. The linden can exist for 300-400 years, grows very long, it takes years before it reaches a couple of meters. Lipa is widely known in medicine, including in folk medicine. It is resistant to polluted air, leaves fallen to the ground, improves the soil and increases its fertility. Also, the lime tree is very valuable in carpentry, and they make wooden utensils from it, bast from young trees. And its useful properties are amazing.
In medicine, mainly use linden flowers, and in folk medicine everything is used - flowers, leaves, kidneys, fruits, bark. Collect flowers better in sunny weather, and dry it only in the shade in the air. When collecting, make sure that the flowers were dry, since the moist flowers darken and deteriorate during drying. Shelf life 2 years. The flowers contain essential oil, tannins, wax, hyperspedin, sugar, mucus, vitamin C, carotene, ascorbic acid. In folk medicine, lime flowers are widely used as a diaphoretic. Infusion of flowers is useful to rinse the mouth with various diseases of the throat, coughing. Hot tea from lime flowers is recommended for drinking with headaches, frills, rheumatism and other pains in the formulations. Lime infusion well helps with inflammation of the lungs, with problems of the gastrointestinal tract. Also, the broth facilitates and treats the urethra. If you brew a young bark of linden, then it gives a certain mucus, which effectively helps with burns and hemorrhoids. From the flowers of linden trees not only make broths, but they are also eaten for getting rid of measles, mumps and convulsions. Shredded buds and leaves are used as an anti-inflammatory and analgesic. Lime helps even with tuberculosis, for this you need linden charcoal from dry wood to drink with goat milk for 1 teaspoon. Lime buds are used for bleeding from wounds or nose in the form of a powder. The leaves of the linden suck out the chiri, if the leaves are applied to the sore spots.
Here are a couple of recipes from my granny, how to use and apply a lime tree to get her useful properties. In order to rinse the mouth with various inflammations need 1 tbsp. a spoon of finely chopped lime flowers is brewed in a glass with boiling water, and insist for 30 minutes, and then filtered, then add a little bit of clarified soda to a glass of broth. In order to use the decoction as a diaphoretic, you need to brew the same broth, without adding soda and drink 1 glass at night. The following recipe helps with cramps, with mumps, measles, with the presence of sand in the urine. 2 tbsp. Spoons of dried flowers are brewed with 2 glasses of boiled water, and then boil for 10 minutes, filtered and drunk hot over night for 2 cups, as this decoction acts as an analgesic and soothing agent. Inflorescences of lime reduce the viscosity of the blood. In pharmacology, the lime flowers are used to obtain various effective drugs, some of them improve pancreatic function, increase bile formation and improve the flow of bile into the duodenum, thus improving the digestive system. Inflorescence also has a calming effect on the central nervous system.
Now you know what kind of tree it is - a linden tree, as its useful properties grow.