Chanterelles (mushrooms): medicinal properties. Application in folk medicine

We all know about the benefits of medicinal herbs, forest berries and roots. But who knows that mushrooms are also successfully used in folk medicine? Chanterelles are mushrooms, the medicinal properties of which have been scientifically confirmed.

Chanterelles ordinary

A beautiful mushroom with a bright yellow to pale yellow hue has a hat that looks like an inverted umbrella, with wavy edges, 10-12 cm in diameter. The chanterelle cap with thick and dense plates smoothly passes into a large stem.

Grow these mushrooms always in groups, settle in coniferous and mixed forests, especially like spruce-birch. "Quiet hunting" on them begins from the middle of summer and lasts until the end of October.

The description of the mushroom chanterelle will be incomplete, if not to say about its main feature: it is never wormy, unlike other species of mushrooms.

How to distinguish a real chanterelle from a false

Each edible mushroom has a double - conditionally edible or poisonous. Chanterelles - mushrooms, the medicinal properties of which will be discussed below, also have their own double. False chanterelles, or orange govorushki, refer to conditionally edible fungi. This means that they can be used for food, they will not be poisoned, although they will not benefit the body and are characterized by an unpleasant smell and bad taste.

The table shows the description of the mushroom chanterelle in comparison with the orange govorushka.

Such a comparative description will help to distinguish false and real chanterelles - mushrooms, the medicinal properties of which help get rid of serious ailments.

Chemical composition and properties

Chanterelles are very rich in vitamins PP, E, group B, ascorbic. Carotene (vitamin A) in them more than carrots. These mushrooms contain valuable amino acids, minerals (iron, potassium, calcium, cobalt, magnesium, manganese, copper, sodium, sulfur, fluorine, chlorine, zinc), trametonolinic acid, which destroys the hepatitis C virus, ergosterol, Improvement of the liver. A very important and unique component of mushroom fungi is quinomania. This substance destroys adult helminths and their eggs, therefore chanterelles are used to get rid of worms. Hinomanoza - a natural natural substance that does not cause side effects, does not poison the human body.

Also, the medicinal mushrooms of chanterelles are used to heal from angina, abscesses, boils, to enhance immunity. They are able to restore the moisture of the mucous eye and cure night blindness and some other eye diseases. It is useful to include them in the menu in order to prevent oncology. They are also useful in anemia, dysbiosis, osteoporosis and rickets. Caloric content of chanterelles is only 19 kcal per 100 grams of product (roasted slightly higher - 70 kcal per 100 g), but the chanterelles perfectly satiate, so dieticians recommend them for fighting obesity.

Traditional medicine practices the treatment of mushrooms with chanterelles of the cardiovascular system, musculoskeletal system, pancreas. They are used in the complex treatment of psoriasis, tuberculosis.

Use of chanterelle mushroom in folk medicine

In order for the chanterelle to be useful in fungotherapy (treatment with mushrooms), the raw material should be properly harvested. It should be taken into account that the valuable substance of quinomania is destroyed already at a temperature of 60 ° C, and also under the influence of sodium (table salt). Therefore, chanterelles - mushrooms, the medicinal properties of which can restore health to a person, - after harvesting they are cleared of soil and rubbish, then dried. Ideally, the chanterelles should be dried naturally - in a well-ventilated place, not under direct sunlight at an air temperature of no higher than 40 ° C. A dryer can also be used, and the temperature is also not set above 40 ° C.

After the mushrooms are ground in a coffee grinder. The powder is stored for not more than one year in a dry place in a tightly closed glass container or canvas bag. From this powder and prepare a medicinal water or alcohol tincture.

In addition, it should be noted that chanterelles must be collected in ecologically clean places, as far as possible from the industrial center, road and agricultural fields, on which pesticides are used.

In addition, the chanterelles, even after drying, often remain soft, so if you can not grind them, then you can just chop it very finely.

Preparation of medicinal vodka infusion

One tablespoon of mushroom powder pour 200 ml of vodka, insist 10 days in a dark place at room temperature. Every day tincture should be shaken.

Tincture before use is shaken. Accepted:

• For the purification of the liver - every night for 2 weeks to 2 teaspoons an hour before bedtime,
• To get rid of worms - 2 teaspoons before going to bed for 20 days,
• For the treatment of hemangioma, cirrhosis, obesity of the liver, pancreas - 1 teaspoonful every night before going to bed for 3-4 months,
• For the treatment of hepatitis - 1 teaspoon daily in the morning and in the evening for 4 months.

Preparation of medicinal water infusion

Pour a teaspoon of boiled water at room temperature, pour 1 teaspoon of mushroom powder, persist for one hour, then shake and drink with sediment overnight. Drink within 20 days. Perfectly helps with helminthiasis.

Increases the effectiveness of the treatment of adding powder to the powder of chanterelles powder of white fungus. They are mixed and 1 teaspoon of mixture is taken to prepare the water infusion.