Blueberry is a small shrub or half-shrub growing on peat bogs or in boggy forests. The juicy sweet fruits of this plant have a rounded shape and a bluish tinge. They are somewhat similar to the fruits of blueberries, but blueberries have larger berries (approximately 9 - 12 mm in diameter). Blueberry berries are due to the high content of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), available for assimilation by the body of monosaccharides, free organic acids, tannins. Blueberry leaves contain flavonoids and glycoside arbutin, which has a bactericidal effect. At what diseases are blueberries used for medicinal purposes?
Freshly picked blueberries are an effective antiscorbutic agent (this therapeutic effect is due to the high content of vitamin C in fruits). Fresh juice of blueberries is given to patients who are in fever states, as well as for the prevention of avitaminosis. The healing properties of blueberries are also expressed in the ability of these fruits to increase gastric secretion and increase the digestive capacity of gastric juice, which is used for enterocolitis, gastric catarrh, pyelitis. The use of fresh berries in blueberries is recommended for dysentery.
Blueberry leaves are used to prepare medicinal broth, used as a laxative. Broth of twigs together with leaves is useful in heart diseases.
How to prepare folk remedies from blueberries?
In order to prepare a curative decoction of blueberry leaves, proceed as follows: take two tablespoons of leaves, pour them one glass of boiling water and boil for 10 minutes. After settling for an hour, decoction is filtered. To achieve a therapeutic effect, the decoction of blueberry leaves is taken one tablespoon from 4 to 6 times a day.
To prepare a berry extract, a spoonful of dried blueberry fruits is poured into a glass of boiling water, insisted, and then filtered. Take infusion every two hours for one tablespoon.
The fruits of blueberries are consumed both in fresh and processed form. Of these, jam, juice, compote are prepared.
Why is blueberry in people called "drunkard"?
Sometimes you can hear the statement that blueberries have a heady effect, and ostensibly when you use her berries in food, the head begins to hurt. This misconception is based on the fact that in the places where blueberries grow, the Ledum is often found, the essential oils of which have a stupefying effect. During the harvesting of blueberries people can really feel worse, but not because of medicinal berries, but because of the smell of Ledum.
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