The healing properties of the viburnum berries

Kalina - a real Russian folk beauty, which is devoted to many poems and songs. She participates in many Russian folk tales. Even in old Russia, the fruits of the vine were considered the main dessert and served in any Russian house. I remember, even in my childhood my grandmother used to bake pies and cheesecakes with Kalina. The mouth felt a sweet sourness, which was washed down with strong sweet tea. Kalina was added to butter, sauerkraut, made kvass, pastille and marmalade. Previously, there was no house where the harvested dried bunches of viburnum hung, or there was not a house, where some dessert from the viburnum was not served. The fruits of the viburnum still hang on the trees in clusters even after the snow falls, and the tits feed on the sweet fruits of the viburnum. Consider the medicinal properties of the berries of viburnum, and also disclose the beneficial properties of these berries.

Benefits of the viburnum

To date, it is rare where you will meet a pie with kalina or cabbage with kalina. It has already been replaced by overseas fruits, in which there is little that is useful. But viburnum is famous for its many useful properties. It was not in vain that they used to eat Kalina and did not get sick, because viburnum strengthens immunity and rejuvenates the skin and body.

So, what does the viburnum carry in itself? First, let's talk about the composition of the viburnum. It consists of acetic, valerian, isovaleric, oleic, formic acids, vitamin C, carotene, pectic substances. Kalina contains mineral salts: phosphorus and magnesium, potassium, iron, manganese and copper, strontium, iodine. The berries of the viburnum are harvested after the first frost, when the berries become sweet.

Healing properties

The healing properties of the Kalina are that they help against various kinds of ailments, for example, fresh berries or with sugar help with spasms of blood vessels, hypertension, soothes nervous excitement. Cooked with honey Kalina use for coughs, bronchitis, sore throat, shortness of breath, liver disease, jaundice. The juice of viburnum with honey is drunk for the treatment of breast cancer, for the prevention of stomach and intestinal diseases. It is generally believed that the constant use of guelder rose improves the health of the digestive system in cancer patients. Kalina helps with liver disease. Tea from the viburnum or broth cleanses the blood. The calf bark acts as a hemostatic, expectorant, soothing and firming remedy.

Tincture of berries viburnum drink against furuncles, eczema, as a diaphoretic and laxative, diuretic. Tincture of viburnum is drunk for strengthening of immunity and increase of a tonus. Kalina helps with various diseases of the cardiovascular system. Tincture of viburnum helps against gastritis, hemorrhoids, with constipation and diarrhea, diseases of the respiratory system, with painful menstruation, diabetes.

Application of the Kalina

Here are a couple of recipes, how to properly use the viburnum in order to get rid of these or other ailments. For the prevention of stomach ulcers should be moistened berries and take half an hour before meals for 1 tablespoon. Kalinovy ​​juice rub with sugar and take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for hypertension. With heart diseases, brew 1 cup of boiling water, insist 4 hours and strain. Drink during the day in 3 divided doses. When hypertension drink the juice of the viburnum with honey, in order to properly prepare, you need to do the following: for 1 kg of viburnum take 200 gr. water, sugar, 2 tbsp. spoons of honey. Squeeze out the juice from the berries, pour the mixture into the water and boil for 5-10 minutes, then drain the broth. In the broth add the juice, sugar, mix and chill. Then add honey and mix again. Drink 3 times 1-2 tablespoons. spoons before meals.

With ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, you must drink a decoction of the following ingredients. Take 20 g of chopped bark of the viburnum, 40 g of dried and chopped wild rose berries, 40 g of a mixture of crushed leaves, flowers and herbs of St. John's wort, 20 g of motherwort, 10 g of Valerian root, 30 g of leaves and blackberries, 10 g of Veronica officinalis. All this pour boiling water 500 ml and insist 15 minutes.

When painful menstruation helps tea from the bark of the viburnum .2 tbsp. spoon the bark of Kalina pour cold boiled water, insist 4-6 hours in a sealed container, drain, and a few days before the start of menstruation take 0.5 cup 2-3 times a day.

How to store Kalina in winter? Everyone remembers, probably, as our grandmothers collected Kalina in clusters and hung from the ceiling, or can be stored as a jelly in the refrigerator or even at room temperature.

The properties of the viburnum are also used in cosmetology. They use everything in cosmetology: from berries to bark. From infusions of viburnum it is possible to make lotions and masks from berries. Kalina helps with acne and acne, it is useful for oily skin. It is the fresh juice of the viburnum that helps to get rid of fatty gloss and acne. Has a whitening effect, whitens freckles, pigmented spots, if you wipe your face with juice every morning and evening.