Dogwood is a fruit plant with valuable medicinal properties. Its fruits are enriched with vitamin C, as well as other substances. Berries can save a person from the smell of alcohol. But not only in this is its usefulness. Dogwood tincture on vodka, the recipe of which is given below, has an amazing color, excellent aroma and healing properties. It is also prepared on the basis of moonshine, alcohol, water and cognac.
Dogwood Utility
The berry of the plant is enriched with fructose and glucose, vitamins E, C, P, simple carbohydrates, provitamin A, pectin, tannic and nitrogenous substances, flavonoids, organic acids, essential oils, magnesium, potassium, etc.
Many are familiar with tincture of dogwood on vodka. Its useful properties are as follows:
- restores metabolism and improves appetite;
- strengthens the immune system, allows you to quickly cope with the flu, acute respiratory viral infections, bronchitis and other colds;
- prevents the development of infections and infections;
- normalizes metabolism, regulates fat metabolism;
- removes toxins, metabolic products and heavy metals, oxalic and uric acid;
- successfully increases hemoglobin, normalizes pressure and strengthens the walls of blood vessels;
- tones up the body.
Berries are used to replenish vitamins in the human body. They make very useful and tasty tinctures.
Legends
Cornel tree is so useful that legends have been formed about its properties in ancient times, which have survived to this day.
The first of them says that before it was a huge tree, which was famous for its wood, while it was widely used in everyday life. Thus, it is indicated that the cross of Jesus was made of dogwood. After the resurrection, the saint limited the growth of the plant, added spikes that resembled nails, and made flowers similar to a cross. The berries turned red like blood. From this moment, the dogwood became low, with four petals and spikes.
The second myth says that the Devil persuaded dogwood to bloom all winter, while the bush did not agree for a very long time. As a result, he surrendered and in early spring blossomed. From this moment, dogwood became the first spring-growing shrub.
Plant myths are also found in Muslim scriptures. When Allah told everyone to choose their bush, Shaitan chose the dogwood, believing that if he blooms first, then he gives the fruits before everyone else. Only he was mistaken. Pears, apples, peaches, plums ripened in the orchards, but the dogwood did not ripen. Shaitan waited a long time for a fertile harvest, but in vain.
Then he got very angry, allowed people to pick up small unripe fruits, and after the berries ripened in late autumn, they had a sweet and sour wonderful taste. People took its fruits, after which they made wonderful winter preparations. Shaitan cursed the bush and sent an incredibly cold winter. After this, a sign appeared that after a rich harvest of dogwood, a harsh winter is coming.
Tincture Recipes
Now consider how to make tincture of dogwood on vodka, moonshine, cognac, alcohol and water. You will see that all the recipes for creating this delicious drink are very simple.
Vodka drink
Dogwood tincture on vodka with honey is prepared quite simply. Take berries (0.5 kilograms), 700 milliliters of vodka, and honey to taste.
Cooking:
- wash the berries and mash with a rolling pin. Put the finished mashed potatoes in a jar. It is worth noting that if you use dried dogwood, then you do not need to knead it;
- pour berries with vodka and mix thoroughly. Close the lid tightly, put in a dark place for 20 days. Shake the jar every 2 days;
- then strain the tincture with gauze, which you first fold in several layers;
- add honey to the resulting tincture and mix thoroughly;
- cork the can again for one week.
If the tincture of dogwood on vodka, the recipe of which you just read, turned out cloudy, you need to filter it with cotton wool. The result is a drink with a strength of 25 degrees. It can be stored for 5 years.
Dogwood tincture for vodka indications for use are as follows:
- skin diseases;
- gout;
- lower back pain.
In addition, the drink normalizes the metabolism of salts in the body.
Water tincture
Chopped dried flowers and cornel leaves pour hot water (30 g, take 250 ml). Cover and let stand for 40 minutes. Then strain and consume as tea.
Dogwood tincture on vodka, the recipe of which is given above, like water, lowers the temperature, and also acts as a disinfectant for colds, tuberculosis and typhoid.
The second recipe: pour 15 g of dry leaves of the plant with a glass of boiling water, then let stand for 30 minutes in a water bath. Consume 50 g 3 times a day. Such a tincture as an effective astringent and diuretic.
The third recipe: 35 g of leaves and the same number of berries pour 500 ml of water. Cook for 10 minutes. Send insist 8 hours and drink this water three times a day for half a glass for any indigestion. In order to prepare the tincture faster, you need to boil the raw materials in a water bath for 30 minutes, then let stand for another half hour.
Moonshine
We just figured out how to prepare tincture of dogwood on vodka. Now consider how to make a moonshine. To do this, take 500 g of dogwood berries, 100 g of sugar and 750 ml of quality moonshine.
The recipe is as follows:
- wash the dogwood well and place it in a 2 liter jar. Crush thoroughly with a mortar or rocking chair;
- Pour berry puree with moonshine and remove to insist for one month;
- after this time, filter the drink and add sugar.
Let the tincture stand for a couple of days and remove the sediment with cotton wool. The result is a 25 percent drink with excellent taste and berry aroma.
Alcohol drink
The method of preparation of this tincture is similar to a recipe for a drink with moonshine. The difference is that it is prepared without sugar, while moonshine in this case is replaced by alcohol. At the same time, it turns out to be stronger with a sour, even berry taste. This tincture is very easy to drink and guests will definitely like it.
Another one way to make a drink:
- fill 1/3 of a 3-liter jar with cornel berries. In this case, the fruits must remain intact;
- then pour 1 liter of undiluted alcohol;
- after a couple of days of insisting, you need to drain 850 ml of the resulting ruby drink;
- make in a separate container syrup from 300 g of sugar and 1 liter of water;
- pour the syrup into the tincture, so that as a result you get 2 liters of the drink;
- let stand for another 2 hours.
Dogwood tincture with vodka, alcohol and moonshine is obtained in a beautiful color, sweet and sour taste and pleasant smell.
Alcoholic drink for hypotension
With reduced pressure, tincture of dogwood on vodka will help you. To do this, mix 100 g of cornel with finely chopped garlic (head). Pour the mass of 200 g of vodka. Leave to insist for 10 days in complete darkness.
The finished product should be drunk before meals, 2 drops for 7 days. To improve the effect, it is better to drink tincture with warm milk.
Cognac drink
Now consider the recipe for brandy tinctures:
- take 400 g of berries, honey to taste and a liter of cognac;
- wash and cut the fruit in half or pierce with a needle;
- put the berries in a jar, then pour cognac;
- add honey to the dogwood, close the jar with a lid and remove to insist for 3 months;
- After a while, filter the drink and bottle it.
If you did everything right, the drink will turn out to be tart in taste and ruby in color.
Dogwood liquor
To do this, take 2-liter cans. They need to be filled in 2/3 with cornel berries, originally well washed. Pour sugar on top to completely cover the berries. Close the container tightly. Take it away for 40 days in the sun. Turn and shake every day. After a while, add cloves and cinnamon to the drink. Top with aniseed brandy.
Store the finished dogwood liquor in the refrigerator. After you drink it, do not abuse - only in this case you will not harm your health.
By choosing any of the recipe options proposed above, you can make yourself a healthy and tasty drink at home. But before using it, be sure to consult a doctor, since the tincture has contraindications.
Contraindications
Dogwood tincture on vodka is prohibited for use in gastritis with high acidity, individual intolerance, with chronic or acute duodenitis, disturbed sleep, peptic ulcer and nervous excitations. In addition, berries should not be used for constipation in any form.