It is well known that most medicinal plants are a treasury of nature. Several centuries ago, our ancestors used them for medicinal purposes. The nutritional properties of many herbs and rhizomes, which have been widely used in cooking, are also known. Thanks to the accumulated body of knowledge, modern healers and official medicine are actively using them for good purposes.
So, for example, the well-known black poplar tree (sedge) is associated with light fluff and summer days. This long-lived is famous for its phytoncidal properties, since it cleans the air of pollution and pathogens. Almost every part of it is appreciated in this tree. We will talk about this and not only today.
Plant Overview
The black poplar tree (photo presented in the article) of the Willow family sometimes reaches 25 meters in height. It has a fairly wide crown and a yellowish bark, which acquires a dirty gray shade with age. Rhizomes are long, extending deep into the soil for several meters. The flowers of the tree are small, collected in beautiful inflorescences, similar to earrings.
The leaves of the tree are triangular in shape. Fruits are like small boxes containing seeds. They begin to ripen from April to June, and then fly away in the wind far from the mother's "nest". The tree prefers environmentally friendly territorial zones: forest thickets, edges, floodplains of rivers and low mountains. Grows in China, European countries, Central Asia and North Africa. Black poplar tolerates frost well, loves a lot of light, moist silty and sandy soils.
Biochemical composition
A number of valuable substances are found in the kidneys of this tree. In the course of scientific research, experts found in them such biological components as tar, flavonoids, leukoanthocyanins, fatty and essential oils, tannins, salicin, populin.
The kidneys of black poplar are also rich in malic, ascorbic and gallic acids. No less useful elements are found in the bark and leaves of the plant: phenolcarboxylic and organic acids, alkaloids, carotenoids, isoprenoids and higher hydrocarbons.
Medical use
It is scientifically proven that anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, diuretic, bactericidal, antiseptic and analgesic properties are endowed with black poplar buds. The use of drugs based on this natural component is indicated for chronic bronchitis. It has been experimentally proven that internal use helps to ease sputum discharge.
Health professionals value the antimicrobial and soothing qualities of the tree that it inherited from willow. Due to the presence of so many medicinal properties, infusions from the kidneys restore intestinal activity and relieve unpleasant symptoms of an upset stomach. Folk healers widely use liquid extracts for urinary incontinence, cystitis, pathological processes of the genitourinary system, as well as for spermatorrhea and kidney diseases.
Poplar leaves and buds are known to help relieve excessive sexual arousal. In addition, drugs from parts of this plant are prescribed to patients suffering from cervical cystitis and chronic urethritis. For maximum therapeutic effect, it is recommended to perform instillations with an oil solution of the urethra using a catheter.
Natural remedy relieves fatigue, weakness, nervous excitability well. Also used for diarrhea, arthritis, intestinal atony, hemorrhoids and colds. Anchor (black poplar) helps regulate the menstrual cycle in dysmenorrhea and strengthen weakened immunity. It has proven itself in the treatment of malignant tumors (together with other phyto- and medicinal products), rheumatism, scurvy, tuberculosis and gout.
The range of indications of the drug is quite wide due to the presence of valuable substances. Practice has shown that the plant's kidneys have a sedative, hemostatic and expectorant effect. A highly effective ointment is obtained from them, which is used as an emollient, disinfectant and antipyretic. It can treat staphylococcal and fungal skin diseases, various wounds and boils, as well as herpetic eruptions, ulcers, burns and even alopecia.
An infusion of kidneys is recommended as the best cure for the common cold. A steamed kidney attached to the affected area will also help get rid of toothache. Experts say that tea from this raw material will relieve vitamin deficiency and restore strength. The diverse therapeutic orientation of the tree allows you to call it one of the best homeopathic remedies.
Other application
Black poplar is widely used in industry, construction, protective afforestation, land reclamation to strengthen ravines, slopes and shores. Of course, the tree is especially popular in forestry, from it inexpensive wood is obtained, which is subsequently used for the manufacture of cooperage, turning and joinery, as well as plywood, containers, sleepers, matches, paper, viscose and cellulose. Bark, leaves and buds are used for dyeing leather materials and tanning. Essential oils are suitable for soap fixative and fragrance.
Effective Recipes
Excellent anti-inflammatory properties have sedge (tree and its parts). For the treatment of gout, respiratory tract, polyarthritis, urethritis and cystitis, the following recipe, tested over the years, is used. For 10 grams of kidneys, two glasses of boiling water are taken. The solution is infused for 120 minutes. It is used in the filtered state of one hundred grams.
For this purpose, alcohol tincture is prepared. It is necessary to fill in 50 g of kidneys with half a liter of pure 40% alcohol. Leave the product for exactly 14 days in a dark place. After this, shake and strain with a sieve. Drink 30 drops before meals three times a day.
We treat prostatitis
Fill a glass of purified water with 20 grams of poplar buds, put on fire and let the liquid boil. The mixture should be infused and filtered. Eat two large spoons before meals three times a day.
Healing drug for adenoma and giardiasis
The following components will be required: five hundred grams of vodka or alcohol, 20 g of kidneys. Pour the infusion into a glass container and close tightly, store for two weeks. Take the prepared mixture once a day in a filtered form with a dessert spoon. The duration of therapy is 30 days.
With giardiasis, 40 drops of an alcohol solution in a glass of milk or water should be diluted and drunk one hour before a meal (three times a day). The course is no more than a month.
Medicinal infusion
We take poplar buds and vegetable oil (any) in the proportions of 10: 1. Boil the mixed mass over low heat for ten minutes. As a result, you will get a thick homogeneous mixture (extract), which should be taken on a dessert spoon three times a day. It has analgesic and anti-inflammatory effects.
Use oily liquid with sinusitis and runny nose, instilling two drops in each nostril. It is recommended for erosive gastritis and gastric ulcer: drink 5 g four times a day before meals. Tampons are also made from the solution, which help to heal Trichomonas colpitis and cervical erosion.
Black poplar will relieve insomnia: we prepare a decoction
Two dessert spoons will need a glass of water. Boil the mixture for 10-15 minutes. Consume 100 ml three times a day.
Cooking Ointment
Now the turn came to the miracle ointment of natural origin. Let's make it with our own hands from three large spoons of kidneys, ground in a blender or coffee grinder and mixed with the same amount of fat mass. It can be palm oil, goose or pork fat. The finished product should be stored in the refrigerator, used for varicose veins, joint diseases, gout, purulent lesions, nipple cracks and burns.
We remove the symptoms of hemorrhoids
30 g of kidneys should be boiled in half a liter of water, and then insist for about 3-4 hours and pour into a bath, which then should sit down. The procedure is carried out for 15 minutes.
We strengthen hair
For 4 large tablespoons of corn or sunflower oil, take two tablespoons of the kidneys and insist for three weeks. Rub the head with a filtered solution (it is better to rub it). The drug is suitable for the treatment of seborrhea.
Contraindications
Restrictions on the use of a little has black poplar. Description of medicinal properties and scope we presented above. As for contraindications, they are as follows: it is undesirable to use drugs based on acorn for chronic gastrointestinal pathologies, during pregnancy and breastfeeding.