Cowberry leaf: application of a unique healing agent

Not only such giants as spruce, fir and pine can boast evergreen "titles", but also such a modest shrub (only 5-30 cm tall), like cranberries. And stretches for coniferous giants: for the winter period, its leaves (leathery, with wrapped edges, glistening, dark green, and at the bottom - matt, light green, with a lot of brown dots) do not shed their leaves (leaves under snow with them, Where they are very well preserved and successfully continue to live in the spring, after the descent of the snow cover. Just at the time when the leaves look out "to bask in the sun" until the beginning of the flowering period of the plant, they must be harvested. If this moment is missed, then the event should be postponed until the autumn, when the fruiting process is completed. If you collect the sheets in the flowering period, they will quickly turn black, quality raw materials will not work. Dry the leaves under the iron roof, in attics or under a canopy with good ventilation, always protecting from direct sun rays. Dry leaves as they are ready are selected, removing in passing blackened. Raw materials are stored in paper or fabric bags.

Composition of a cranberry leaf - the reason of useful properties of a bush

In cranberry leaves contains about 9% of arbutin glycoside. With him something is in many ways connected with the healing effect of the plant. In the human body, this substance is split into sugar and hydroquinone, which is a potent antiseptic. In addition, the leaves contain quinine, wine, acetic, ursolic, citric, ellagic, malic, benzoic acids, 10% tannins, tannin, flavonoids, B vitamins, a lot of vitamin C, minerals (phosphorus, calcium, sodium, potassium , Iron, manganese), phytoncides, many proteins and other useful substances.

Cowberry Leaf - application and useful properties

Cowberry leaf, the use of which is very common in medical practice, has antimicrobial, diuretic, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, antipyretic, astringent, hemostatic, antiscorbutic, wound-healing, anthelmintic effect. Cowberry leaves are also an excellent tonic. Infusions and decoctions from the leaf strengthen bile secretion, they are used for prostatitis, pyelonephritis, gonorrhea, arthritis, swelling or deposition of salts, cholelithiasis or urolithiasis. A tincture on cranberries will help with catarrhal diseases, with back pain.

The available glycoside arbutin, phytoncides and ursolic acid inhibit the growth of staphylococcus aureus. Preparations from cranberry leaves also have a demineralizing effect, act as a kind of catalyst, increasing the effectiveness of antibiotics, strengthening capillaries, stimulating phagocytosis, activating the body's defenses, regulating nitrogen metabolism.

A large number of vegetable proteins found in leaves are especially important to people on a diet to make up for the loss of protein by the body.

And now we will describe how it is necessary to prepare broths and infusions, the main active ingredient of which is a cowberry leaf. Application of them is possible and internal, and external, and in the form of inhalations. Along with adults, often give cowberry leaves to the child (especially suffering from enuresis).

Decoction of cowberry leaves is prepared as follows: brew the table. Spoon leaves 300 ml boiling water, 5-20 min. Cooked on low heat, half an hour allowed to brew, decant and eat inside three times during the day at 1/2 st. before meals. The area of application of this broth is wide: articular rheumatism, gout, osteochondrosis, fever, respiratory catarrh, enteritis, neurasthenia, dysentery, stomach tumors.

With gastritis, hypertension, cystitis, colitis, liver and kidney disease, cowberry broth is prepared differently: 20 g of leaves are poured into 500 ml of boiling water, 10 minutes. Cook and filter. Infuse the broth for an hour, decant and drink thrice a day for 2/3 tbsp. Before eating.

Infusions of cranberry leaves are used with efficiency in inflammations of renal pelvis, urolithiasis, gastritis with low acidity, enuresis, cystitis. Pour 2 table. Spoons of leaves with two glasses of boiling water, heated for a quarter of an hour in a water bath, 45 minutes. Insist, put and volume is brought to the source. Drink three times a day for a quarter cup before meals.

With hypertension, colitis, kidney disease, liver, cystitis, with cough and cold, it is useful to drink the following broth: 25 g of cranberry leaves are poured with three glasses of water, 10 minutes. Boil and set. Drink a decoction in 3 sets before eating 200 ml.

As a diuretic, decoction 1:10 take three times a day for 1-2 tablespoons.

And such a decoction is prescribed in complex therapy in the form of aerosols and inhalations for chronic pneumonia, bronchiectasis, bronchitis.

The same broth is good for tonsillitis, gingivitis, periodontal disease, tonsillitis, stomatitis, ulcers of the mouth. They rinse their mouth (with chronic diseases three times a day after eating, with acute - every 3 hours).

With diabetes mellitus in pregnant women for the removal of edema in future mothers are prepared such a decoction: pour 2 teaspoons of leaves with 200 milliliters of boiling water, 15 minutes. Boil, cool and decant. Drink during the day for a couple of sips.

Often to achieve a greater effect, a leaf of cranberries is used in combination with other berries and herbs.

In chronic pyelonephritis, such a collection is recommended: leaf cranberries, flax seed, nettle grass (20 g each); A leaf of bearberry, birch, a grass of a field horsetail, a root of a dandelion and licorice, fruits of a juniper (all on 10 g). Take 1 table. Spoon from the whole mixture and prepare a decoction in 200 ml of water, drink three times a day for 1/2 st.

In acute illnesses, when it is necessary to lower the body temperature and mobilize immunity, such a means is excellent: take 2 table. Spoons of dried crushed leaves of cowberry, mother-and-stepmother, anise and raspberry fruit, linden flowers, mix all the herbs, then they take a teaspoon of the mixture and pour 200 ml of boiling water for 30 minutes. Insist on a water bath, decant and take in a warm form.

With cholelithiasis: to a mixture of leaves and berries cranberries (2 tablespoons of the mixture) add two tablespoons of St. John's wort, brewed with three glasses of boiling water, 10 minutes. Boil, filter. Take three times a day for 1 item, starting from the second half of the day. Before bedtime - the last reception.

As we see a cowberry leaf, the application of which is so widespread, is a unique remedy that helps a lot of diseases. The most important advantage in this case is the absence of contraindications to use (excluding individual intolerance).

So you are treated with this folk remedy, and you can say goodbye to annoying diseases without using expensive chemicals!