Medicinal birch sap
In early spring, juice is extracted from the birch trunk cuts, which is a medicinal and excellent preventive agent for various ailments.
What explains the healing properties of birch sap?
Birch juice contains many vitamins, microelements, tannins, organic acids. Fruit sugar and other substances necessary for the body. Thanks to all this, it has an anthelmintic and diuretic, tonic, restorative effect, promotes hair strengthening, cleansing the skin, secreting oxalic acid. In addition, birch juice has antitumor and antioxidant activity. Birch juice (birch bark) in the old days was taken with shin ulcers, used as an external remedy, and was taken as an external remedy.
It is proved that birch sap is a vitamin and fortifying, excellent blood cleansing agent (it cleans the blood of other substances and of uric acid). It is taken in diseases that are accompanied by high fever, has a curative effect in tuberculosis, bronchitis, has an easy diuretic effect. It is used for metabolic disorders and with scurvy, rheumatism, arthritis, gout, venereal diseases.
With eczema, joint diseases, gout, kidney stones and bladder, diathesis and lichen, juice is taken ½ cup or 1 glass 3 or 4 times a day for 3 or 4 weeks. It is useful to use birch juice with loss of appetite, increased fatigue, when we feel spring fatigue.
As an external remedy, birch juice is used for skin dyspepsia and eczema. Birch juice is washed face with acne. As a vitamin remedy, juice, mixed with blueberry juice, cowberries, chokeberry, is useful. In apple juice, apple, rowan, cranberry juice, pine needles, mint, St. John's wort, a drink from currants, strawberries, cherries and other plants can be added. All this enriches it with biologically active substances, microelements, vitamins, imparts a peculiar and pleasant taste.
In Russia you will not find another tree like a birch, many songs are sung about it, many sayings and proverbs are composed, every person knows the birch. In the world there is no such tree with such a dazzling white bark, for this white bark the tree got its name. In the spring, the birch, as it were, spills out into the leaves, all the vital forces that she accumulated throughout the winter. Useful biological compounds, minerals and salts, dissolve in juice and form a universal medicine. It is rich in vitamins, contains 0.5 or 2% of sugar. The composition of the juice includes salts of glucose, plant hormones, iron, potassium, calcium. And also tannins, organic acids, enzymes, phytoncides.
Birch juice begins to go in March, and ends in late April. When the water begins to flow into the birch root, the starch stocks that are deposited in the trunk and roots become sugar, it begins to dissolve in water, and rises along the tree to the kidneys. A month before the appearance of the leaves, when melting snow occurs, the birch appears with juice, it is called "the weeping of the birch". Within 15 or 20 days, the birch gives sweet birch sap. Those birches that grow on open solar elevations give more useful and tasty juice.
Birch juice is effective in the treatment of cough, bronchitis, scurvy, headache, gall bladder, liver, duodenum, in the treatment of stomach ulcers. Birch juice destroys urinary stones, is effective for rheumatism, removes harmful substances from the body and harmful ballast in infectious diseases. Birch juice is useful in inflammatory processes and skin diseases. Birch bark stimulates metabolism, has a regenerating and hematopoietic effect, cleanses the blood, and is also a refreshing and dietary drink. Recently discovered one feature of birch sap, it is a good remedy for impotence. For women, birch juice works well during the menopause. Doctors advise to drink 1 glass of juice a day, then irritability, a feeling of fatigue, disappear drowsiness and other phenomena that accompany the climax.
If you regularly use birch sap, it has a toning and restorative effect. Birch juice is used for anemia, colds, scurvy, scrofula, bladder, kidney stones, allergic diseases, beriberi. It is useful for patients with angina, pulmonary tuberculosis. In addition, birch sap is a valuable cosmetic product that tones up the skin. Finnish doctors have found that syrups made from birch sap prevent dental caries and stop its development. Lozenges, syrups, birch juice are recommended for children to prevent dental disease.
Birch juice tastes sweet, slightly sour. It can be evaporated and made with a syrup that will contain 60% of sugar. This syrup has a thick honey and lemon-white color.
It can be prepared for future use, bottled, put 2 teaspoons of sugar in each bottle and place it in a dark and cold cellar. In the industry, per liter of birch juice is added 5.5 grams of citric acid, 125 grams of sugar, filtered and poured into cans, pasteurized and tightened with lids.
For medicinal purposes birch juice is drunk fresh, stored in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days. In a day, take 1 glass for 20 or 30 minutes before meals, 3 times a day. The course of treatment 2 or 3 weeks.
When skin diseases (rashes, lichen, eczema), in diseases that occur with a high fever, with maternal fever, take 3 cups of birch juice a day.
Birch sap is a firming, refreshing, pleasant drink, juice of bilberries, cowberry, black mountain ash is added to it. Birch juice can be insisted on hips, linden flowers, caraway seeds, chamomile, thyme. To it can be added currant juice, apples, cherries, pine needles, melissa, mint, St. John's wort and others.
Birch juice can be prepared in Belarusian. We pour the juice into a large bottle, put it for 2 or 3 days in a cool dark place. Then add to it roast crushed biscuits, malt from barley. 5 liters of birch juice will require 30 grams of biscuits or barley malt.
We prepare balsam from birch sap. On a bucket of juice you need 4 finely chopped lemon, 2 liters of wine, 3 kg of sugar. All this we put in the cellar for 2 months, then we pour into bottles and we will stand for 3 more weeks.
It's good to make honey from birch sap. Take for every 400 grams of molasses 12 glasses of birch juice and cook for 1 hour on low heat, then cool, pour into a barrel and add the yeast. When fermentation ceases, we will pour into bottles.
We make kvass from birch sap. In a barrel of birch juice, let's drop on the string a small bag with burnt crusts of rye bread. After 2 days, yeast from the crusts will pass into the juice, and fermentation will begin. Then in the barrel pour a bucket of oak bark, as a tannin, and for the aroma stalks of dill and leaves and berries of cherries. After 2 weeks kvass is ready, it is stored all winter.
In the old days, the birch sap was harvested from the birch bark in the cow, and it was believed that it retained its properties better in them. But you can collect juice in plastic bottles, glass jars. Do it right, so as not to harm the tree. The juice should be taken from trees with a diameter of 20 or 30 centimeters, it is better not to touch old and young trees. One tree can take no more than 1 liter in 2 or 3 days. Juice is most abundant from 12 to 18 hours. You can pierce the bark with a chisel or knife, not very deep. In the slot, we insert a groove made of plastic or thin aluminum, on it the juice will run into the container. When the juice is collected, do not forget to seal the hole with wax, plug it with a piece of moss, or cover with a garden sauce.
There is also a sparing way, on the birch only one branch is cut on a bough, on a stump we hang a bottle.
Using this method, you can hang several plastic or glass bottles. The knot, cut in this way, should be lowered slightly downward. When the sun warms the juice runs fast, you need to check in time, the filling of the container. In this way, professionals are used. They collect the juice in one place for years, and keep the trees healthy. They saw off part of the birch bough, hang plastic bags on it. When they are filled with juice, they are poured into cans.
Birch juice in cans is similar to natural juice, but hydrochloric acid, which is used for preservation, neutralizes the useful properties of the product.
Now we know about the medicinal properties of birch sap, taking birch sap, you can significantly improve your health.