Home remedies: tincture of viburnum. Cooking recipes. Indications for use

Kalina is a two-meter long perennial shrub that grows in forests, on the banks of rivers, marshes, lakes and felling areas. Long since it was in demand on the farm: hardwood of the Kalina goes to small crafts, baskets are weaving from the branches, and the decoction of bark with a solution of iron ammonite alums is used as a black-green dye.

Decoction, tea and tincture on Kalina: useful properties

Curative properties of the viburnum have long been used by folk healers. Decoction and juice, prepared from its fruits, are good for coughing, colds, stomach ulcers, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, colitis, nasal and internal bleeding. Tincture of calina calms headaches, migraines, relieves the condition with bronchial asthma, and if you make a 15-20% solution, then the juice can be used for acne, ulcers, skin diseases. The berries of Kalina improve the work of the heart and tone, have diuretic properties. They are useful in vascular spasms, neuroses. Vitamin tea, made from them, acts soothingly and generally fortifying. With these medicinal properties, the fruits of the viburnum owe their composition: they contain a lot of vitamin C and P, sugar, iron, tannins, carotene and organic acids.

How to prepare a healing tincture of viburnum?

Tincture of dried fruits well helps with gum disease, acts as a soothing agent, accelerates recovery for a cold. To make it, you need to grind 2 tablespoons of raw materials, pour one cup of boiling water and insist in the thermos for about 4 hours. Use twice a day inside or for rinses.

Still helps tincture of the viburnum from the pressure. To do this, you must mix in equal quantities the herb of the motherwort, mint and cucumber, the root of valerian and Baikal skullcap, and, naturally, the fruits of the viburnum, pour one spoonful of the mixture with boiling water and insist for about 20 minutes. Take twice a day.

If you have vitamin deficiency, vitamin vitamin tea will help you. To make it, you have to brew 1 tablespoon of dried berries in a glass of boiling water, insist for about 2 hours, and then strain. Drink two or three times a day with honey. This tea acts as a soothing and restorative.

The use of roots, seeds and bark of viburnum in medicine

Useful not only fruit tincture of viburnum. Other parts of the plant also have medicinal properties. For example, a good remedy for cramps, scrofula, insomnia, hysteria and suffocation is a decoction of the roots of the viburnum. Decoction from the flowers of the plant improves digestion, well helps with diarrhea and intestinal diseases, it is used as a diaphoretic and expectorant. The seeds have toning properties, so they can be added to coffee. The bark, which is better to harvest early in the spring, is dried, ground and used for decontamination of bleeding. But the flower tincture of viburnum well helps with gastritis with low acidity. For its preparation, two spoons of flowers are brewed with a glass of boiling water and insist. The filtered liquid is taken twice a day inside. Also this broth can be used for rinses with loss of voice and sore throat.