What vitamins contain birch sap?

Birch is not only one of the universally recognized symbols of Russia. From ancient times the image of a light-chested slender tree was associated with a beautiful young woman, full of strength and health, a true Russian beauty. No wonder so widely its parts are used in folk medicine. And the kidneys, and earrings, and leaves, even ash are used to maintain beauty and health. But the birch sap, the true elixir, donated by nature itself, is especially appreciated. What vitamins contain birch sap? You will learn about this from our today's article!

Birch sap smells of freshness is collected in early spring, during the beginning of sap flow. The unique biochemical composition (natural sugars, and organic acids, amino acids, vitamins, valuable proteins, calcium, sodium, magnesium, natural antibiotics-phytoncides) proves the scientific necessity of using it both for curative and for curative-prophylactic, everyday purposes.

What vitamins contain birch sap? Where is it applied?

First , it is a wonderful cosmetic for hair and face skin care. For the hair should be prepared a special mixture of two liters of birch juice, one tablespoon of pure honey and a teaspoon of shallow salt. After dissolving the salt it is necessary to pour the balm into a clean glass bottle of dark glass, add a glass of vodka and leave in a dark place for 10 days, tightly closing the stopper. The mixture is applied before washing the hair with a cotton swab, lightly rubbing into the scalp. Then wrap the head with a towel and after an hour wash the head with shampoo for greasy hair. For best effect, it would be good to rinse the hair with acidified water - a teaspoon of vinegar or citric acid to the water basin. So, this course of treatment ten days with interruptions of ten days, repeat until the end of the balm in the bottle.

Face and neck are well wiped with ice cubes from birch sap. It tightens the skin, refreshes and relieves fatigue. Your skin is taut, will please with a tonus and healthy radiance.

Secondly , from birch sap you can make incredibly tasty and healthy drinks. With reduced immunity and with colds, it is recommended to mix it with milk and a small amount of starch, and replace black tea with birch and strawberry leaf infusion. Birch sap, as the ancestors said, will help restore male power. Recent studies of scientists have confirmed this. In addition, it helps to soften menopause.

This valuable natural product excellently removes heavy metals from the body, is useful in general overwork. It dissolves kidney stones, promotes the healing of stomach and duodenum ulcers, is useful in scurvy, gout, rheumatic diseases, stimulates blood and regeneration, helps with many skin diseases - echinacea, eczema, furunculosis.

If you insist on mountain ash birch sap, the resulting liquid has a diuretic and laxative properties, which will also help with urolithiasis. And you can change the mountain ash on pine needles from young shoots, add a little mint. Then, after filtering and sterilizing the drink, you will get a pleasantly smelling liquid medicine to improve digestion and stimulate appetite.

If you mix birch juice with cranberry juice, curative berries, then in the resulting mixture, the amount of vitamins, pectic acids and sugars is almost off scale. This kind of feeding is just necessary for the body in a difficult period of the off-season, will add vivacity and refresh you.

Birch leaves and kidneys are also widely used in folk medicine. They are collected in the same period as the juice, the kidneys - in the early spring, the leaves - a little later. They contain valuable for health components - vitamins A, B and C, grape sugar, essential oils. They can be consumed, replacing tea with their infusion, as an additive to broth or meat.

If one and a half tablespoons of dry birch leaves boil in a glass of boiling water for half an hour, let it sit under the heating pad or towel for three hours, and then take in the morning and evening before meals for 30 minutes in a glass, then it will help with cholelithiasis as a diuretic, nervous disorders and overwork. Take the drug better for a long time, it acts very gently.

If one and a half tablespoons of birch leaves brew 500 ml of boiling water, add a baking soda on the knife and insist an hour, then after filtering this infusion is valuable for liver diseases. Take half a glass four times a day before meals.

Vodka tincture of the kidneys in folk medicine is treated with heart disease. The dose is individual and is determined by the phyto-therapist whenever possible - from twenty drops to a teaspoonful.

Decoction of leaves is good to rinse the head, very stimulates hair growth.

Fresh leaves of the birch are treated with tenderness of the joints. Baths, kadushki or simply bags are filled with leaves, so that a dense layer of leaves would cover the diseased joints for an hour. The optimal time for the procedure is the end of May.

Ointment from birch buds is cooked on natural butter, spreading into the pottery layered buds and oil. The layers are optimally done thick with a finger. Cover the cover with dough, leave the pot for 24 hours in moderate dry heat, not above 90 degrees temperature. After careful squeezing out the ointment applied overnight to the sick joints, fixing the bandage with a dense tissue. Unfortunately, the drug is not stored for a long time.

Pulled fresh young leaves in the porridge - the right remedy for heel spurs. Bandages with leaves keep for an hour three times a day for about a month.