Chokeberry (chokeberry) is a tree or shrub of one of the types of mountain ash. This plant is native to North America. In temperate countries, chokeberry became known only at the end of the nineteenth century. This tree is very popular among gardeners due to its excellent yield and unpretentiousness. The plant bears fruit with small berries. They have a pleasant aroma and tart taste. Aronia has long been in service with official and traditional medicine.
The benefits of the berries of this plant, ripening at the beginning of the autumn season, last until spring. The composition of dark fruits contains a large number of components useful to humans. There are vitamins A, P, E, C and K in the chokeberry. The fruits of the medicinal plant are saturated with folic acid, valuable thiamine, and also active riboflavin. Aronia berries are rich in iodine and iron, magnesium and manganese, phosphorus and organic acids, pectin and tannins.
The benefits of chokeberry are manifested in its beneficial effect on the digestivetract. This is made possible by stimulating bile secretion, increasing the activity of gastric enzymes and increasing the secretion of gastric juice. Healing berries are useful for diseases of the heart and blood vessels, as well as for nervous disorders. Aronia fruits help to increase immunity and remove pathogenic microorganisms from the body.
The benefit of chokeberry is manifested in its ability to reduce the permeability and fragility of capillaries. Aronia fruits are recommended for diabetics and people suffering from liver pathologies. Helps chokeberry with a tendency to bleeding. Its use allows you to expand blood vessels. Chokeberry fruits help hypertensive patients restore normal pressure. The benefits of chokeberry lies in its ability to improve oxidative and reduction processes in the body. Healing berries help with atherosclerosis and thyrotoxicosis.
Folk healers often recommend drinking chokeberry fruit juice. It brings invaluable benefits in the treatment of various skin diseases. It is recommended for patients with hemorrhagic diathesis, rheumatism and allergies. The benefits of chokeberry, contained in the juice of its fruits, are simply priceless for radiation exposure and viral infections, glomerulonephritis and septic endocarditis, arachnoiditis and diabetes. Among other things, this remedy is prescribed for patients with measles, scarlet fever and typhus.
Help the fruits of chokeberry and infight extra pounds. They contain a special substance that prevents the accumulation of fat in the body. Especially its action is manifested in the abdomen.
Chokeberry, the benefits and harms of which have been known for a long time, has a number of contraindications. Due to the fact that the fruits of chokeberry contain a lot of ascorbic acid, their use in large quantities is not recommended for patients suffering from angina pectoris and hypertension. Also, the abuse of chokeberry berries is prohibited with the existing tendency of a person to thrombophlebitis. It is not recommended to take chokeberry fruits in the presence of a duodenal ulcer or stomach ulcer, high blood clotting and gastritis with high acidity.
