The healing properties of viburnum have been known since ancient times. This berry is harvested with the advent of frost, when other plants go to sleep. But if the berries are harvested after the first frost, then the bark, leaves, flowers - throughout the growing season.
Description of the plant
Kalina is a common plant that grows almost everywhere: in Russia, Europe, America, North Africa. The medicinal properties of viburnum are valued all over the world, and it also fits well into any landscape, complementing it, which is why it began to be grown in household plots.
Kalina belongs to the Adox family. It is a shrub with red or black berries. The height of the plant can reach four meters. The bark is gray-brown, the leaves are long, on average eight centimeters. From above they are dark green, and from below - grayish-green, wrinkled. The plant blooms with white or white-pink flowers, collected in inflorescences. The flowers are small, fruiting. The fruits are spherical or oval, may be red or black with a large stone, juicy, with a bitter taste.astringent taste.
The plant blooms in late May - early June. The fruits begin to ripen in early September.
Chemical composition
The healing properties of viburnum are determined by its chemical composition. Berries contain many vitamins and minerals. They contain carbohydrates, tannins, organic acids. They also contain tannins, resins, phytosterols, pectins, essential oils.
The berries are rich in vitamin C, E, A, P, K, magnesium, iron, zinc, potassium.
The bark is rich in tannins, palmitic, formic, caprylic, linoleic acid. It contains vitamins, phytoncides.
Healing properties
Due to the unique medicinal properties of viburnum is used in the treatment of almost all ailments. This plant helps fight pathologies of the cardiovascular system, including coronary artery disease. It helps to cope with sore throat, asthma, pneumonia. Infusions and decoctions are recommended for skin pathologies: boils, eczema. Well helps to fight the pathologies of the nervous system, including hysteria, insomnia, neurasthenia. Berries and other parts of the plant are used in the treatment of diseases of the digestive tract, SARS, bronchitis, whooping cough, tonsillitis, pharyngitis.
The use of viburnum helps to reduce cholesterol levels in the blood, stimulates sputum discharge when coughing, increases the tone of the uterus, is used as a diuretic, decongestant. Folk remedies made from viburnum help to fight violations of water-s alt metabolism. The plant also stimulatesbile production. Proper use helps to boost immunity, tones up and fights beriberi.
Centuries ago, viburnum was used as a diuretic, wound healing, tonic, astringent. According to popular belief, there is not a single disease in which viburnum would not help.
Contraindications
Before you start treating diseases, you need to know the contraindications and medicinal properties of viburnum. This plant contains a lot of vitamin C, due to which overdoses can occur, manifested by the appearance of a rash. For the treatment of ailments, only red viburnum is used, but black is considered poisonous and is used only as a garden decoration.
For some people, the bitterness of viburnum causes a feverish state.
You can not use folk remedies for violations of blood clotting, a tendency to thrombosis, arthritis, gout, high acidity of gastric juice.
Baking bark
The healing properties of the red viburnum bark allow you to fight a variety of ailments. Harvesting of raw materials is carried out in the spring, when the movement of juice begins. To remove the bark, you need to remove the side branches. Then the bark is carefully removed. The workpiece is dried in a ventilated room until the bark begins to crumble when pressed. Dried raw materials are stored in a glass container in a dark place.
Decoctions are prepared from the bark, used to stop bleeding, rinse the mouth with sore throat, stomatitis, drink for headaches, insomnia.
Preparation of flowers andleaves
The healing properties of viburnum red allow the plant to be used as an anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, diaphoretic. To do this, use the flowers and leaves of the plant. They are collected in May-June. The workpiece is dried in a ventilated area. As soon as the raw material is dried, it is placed in paper or fabric bags, glass containers.
Berries harvesting
The healing properties of red viburnum berries are not inferior to many pharmaceutical preparations. Harvesting is carried out after the first frost, around October, but the collection time depends on the region. Fresh berries are of the greatest value in the treatment of pathologies. From them you can make juice, grind, eat whole, put in tea.
Benefits of viburnum
Knowing the medicinal properties and contraindications of viburnum, we can say with confidence whether this plant is suitable for you or not. Undoubtedly, viburnum brings many benefits, but in order to be successful in the treatment of ailments, it is important to know which parts of the plant help what.
- Pathologies of the respiratory system. When coughing, pneumonia, bronchitis use juice, a decoction of berries. They contain substances that help activate the process of sputum discharge.
- Diseases of ENT organs. With tonsillitis, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, it is recommended to use a decoction of flowers. It can be taken orally, used as a gargle. After a course of treatment, viburnum helps to restore the voice.
- In violation of the functioning of the digestive system. Viburnum contains pectins, tannins. Berryviburnum is useful for gastritis with low acidity. With a feeling of heaviness, nausea, it is recommended to eat a teaspoon of pureed viburnum.
- Decoction of viburnum bark is used for bleeding.
- All parts of the plant help fight beriberi. Berries, bark, flowers contain many vitamins, which helps to strengthen the immune system. This plant serves as a good prophylactic against influenza epidemics, SARS.
- The healing properties of viburnum fruits help to cope with metabolic disorders.
- Kalina helps with swelling, is used as a diuretic.
- Fresh berries are recommended for hypertensive patients.
Eating a tablespoon of fresh or frozen berries every day can help prevent heart problems. The process of blood renewal is also activated.
Recipes
Knowing the medicinal properties and contraindications of viburnum bark, as well as other parts of the plant, you can decide whether it is suitable for treatment for you. To make medicine from the bark, you need ten grams of crushed raw materials, which is poured with a glass of boiling water. The remedy is infused for an hour and a half. A tablespoon is taken four times a day.
The medicinal properties and contraindications of viburnum berries help determine whether this plant can be used. An infusion is made from the fruits, which is used as a diuretic, anti-inflammatory agent, and also as a means to increase immunity. To prepare the medicine, you need to grind two tablespoons of viburnum and pour water. Decoctionboil for fifteen minutes, after which it is allowed to cool. The remedy is taken in a third of a glass three times a day.
The healing properties of viburnum berries help fight hypertension. To make medicine out of them, you need to take a three-liter jar in which three glasses of berries are placed. They are poured with two glasses of boiling water. The container is tightly closed and insisted overnight. In the morning, the product is filtered through a sieve. The filtered mass is ground with half a kilogram of honey. This slurry is taken in a spoon three times a day. You can pour the gruel with the resulting infusion and take a third of a glass.
With neurasthenia, the following remedy helps: a spoonful of bark is poured into a glass of water and boiled for half an hour. A decoction is taken in a third of a glass three times a day.
For colds, five hundred grams of mashed viburnum berries, a spoonful of currant leaves and mint are taken. Everything is mixed, honey is added. The composition is heated and infused for an hour. Taken for colds.
The healing properties and contraindications of red viburnum allow you to find out if it can be taken to treat ailments. However, in order not to harm, it is better to consult a doctor.
To cope with sore throat, cough, fever, use a decoction of viburnum bark. To prepare it, you need to pour a spoonful of bark with a glass of water and boil for fifteen minutes. Then the remedy is infused for two hours. Taken one tablespoon no more than four times a day.
For chronic cough, take a remedy prepared from one glass of berries, poured with a liter of water, and boiled for ten minutes. The remedy is taken in a third of a glass inwarm look. You can add honey to taste.
In case of pneumonia, an infusion is prepared from two tablespoons of crushed berries mixed with a glass of honey. The composition is taken in a spoon no more than five times a day.
Viburnum helps with headaches. To make medicine out of it, you need to grind a spoonful of berries with sugar in equal proportions. This sweet remedy is then taken as a tea no more than twice a day. You can use viburnum flowers for headaches. They are poured with boiling water and insisted for about an hour. The infusion is taken in a spoonful twice a day.
Folk treatments for viburnum
Useful properties of red viburnum berries, medicinal properties help to cope with uterine bleeding, pain during menstruation. To overcome these pathologies, it is necessary to prepare an alcohol tincture from the bark. To do this, one hundred grams of bark is poured with a liter of alcohol. The remedy is infused for a week. Thirty drops are taken twice a day.
Viburnum berries help relieve stress, cheer up. To prepare a he althy tea, the berries are kneaded, mixed with honey or sugar, then the mixture is added to the tea in a spoonful. To give the drink a better taste, you can add cinnamon to it.
To increase the tone of the uterus, drink a tincture of bark, prepared from ten grams of bark and a glass of boiling water. The remedy is infused for five hours. Such a medicine has an antiseptic, analgesic, vasoconstrictive effect, and also increases the tone of the uterus.
During epidemics, it is recommended to drink vitamin tea, which helpsboost immunity. To prepare it, you need to take a spoonful of fruits and brew them with a glass of boiling water. Tea is infused for two hours. One hundred milliliters is taken in the morning and evening.
Kalina helps relieve irritability, insomnia. From these ailments, a folk remedy is prepared by mixing a spoonful of viburnum bark and a teaspoon of lemon balm. Then a spoonful of the mixture is taken and poured with a glass of boiling water. The composition is boiled for half an hour, and then removed from the fire and infused for the same amount. Taken one spoon four times a day.
Preparing berries for the winter
Viburnum berries can be prepared for the winter with sugar. To do this, take half a kilo of viburnum and the same amount of sugar. The berries are crushed, then sugar is added. To preserve all the beneficial properties, bones and skins are left in raw jam. Then the mixture is left aside for a while to dissolve the sugar. Ready jam is laid out in jars and stored in the refrigerator.
If desired, you can remove the bones. In this case, raw jam will have the appearance and consistency of jelly.
Compotes are prepared from viburnum berries and closed for the winter. They are drunk as medicine. To make compote, you need to take two glasses of berries and the same amount of sugar (for a three-liter jar). Sugar is best added directly to the jar to remove the sour taste of compote. The berries are boiled for five minutes. Then the broth is poured into a jar, sugar is added and rolled up with an iron lid.
Five-minute jam is made from berries. To make it, you need to take a kilogram of sugar and a pound of viburnum berries. Fall asleep with sugarberries, and after its dissolution, put on fire and boil for five minutes: laid out in jars and rolled up. You can grind the berries with sugar and boil for three minutes.
Kalina on the garden plot
The great value of the plant makes it indispensable in the treatment of almost all diseases. Because of this, people often plant bushes on their property.
The plant can grow both in the shade and in the sun. It loves water very much, so it needs frequent watering. The best planting time is spring and autumn. For the plant, pits 40 x 60 cm in size are prepared, humus, wood ash are placed in them. After planting, the bush is watered.
The plant is fed three times per season: in early spring, during flowering and when fruit is pouring. For this, either organic or mineral fertilizers are used. Top dressing is carried out in spring with nitroammophos, in summer with phosphorus, and in autumn with potassium. The granules are mixed with soil.
When caring for a plant, it is important to water it at least twice a week.
In order for viburnum to grow into a lush bush, it must be shaped. Pruning is carried out in the spring.
Following the rules for taking viburnum, you can forget about colds and many other diseases. But before using folk remedies, you need to consult a doctor.
