Almost everyone knows that colds, flu, and fever can be controlled with raspberries. Absolutely unpretentious plant we fell in love with the amazing taste of berries, as well as their beneficial effect on the body. But raspberry leaves also have healing qualities. Useful properties and contraindications should be known to all adherents of alternative medicine. Indeed, the ripening period of berries is very limited, and the ability to use the leaves of the plant for medicinal purposes makes it more valuable to us.
Raspberry leaves: medicinal properties
It turns out that the leaves of the plant are not much inferior to berries. Naturally, we are not talking about culinary features, but about healing properties. Almost identical composition of nutrients: mineral salts, a large amount of vitamin C, organic acids, flavonoids contain both berries and raspberry leaves . Useful properties and contraindications have been fully studied to date, since they have been using the plant for medical purposes for a long time. Even traditional medicine does not deny a mild antipyretic and diaphoretic effect on the body of a sick person. Raspberries contain a substance called salicylate. It has an effect similar to an aspirin tablet. Therefore, you can not combine the intake of these drugs, otherwise the body temperature can drop sharply and dramatically.
What are the benefits of raspberry leaves, in addition to the antipyretic effect? Due to the fact that the composition includes tannins and astringents, decoctions are successfully used for disruption of the intestines. Take a decoction or tea is recommended for bleeding (as an expectorant), as well as to relieve intoxication. Among other things, the enzymes that make up the body, allow you to strengthen the protective functions of the body in anticipation of various epidemics of a viral nature.
However, it is worth noting that you need to be able to properly harvest and use raspberry leaves. Useful properties and contraindications to the use of decoctions from the leaves of the plant are not the same. Compared with the medicinal properties, cases that exclude raspberries are recorded in a modest list: individual intolerance, chronic constipation and pregnancy up to the 8th month. When a pregnant woman is already preparing for childbirth, decoctions of raspberries (provided that the attending physician has not forbidden) can be taken to maintain uterine tone and stimulate labor.
To preserve the maximum amount of nutrients in raspberry leaves, they must be collected after May 20 and the collection process should be completed on June 10. The grass is dried in the shade in the open air, and then laid in paper bags. You can prepare a decoction in the following proportion: 2 tbsp. l for 2 stacks. water. When the broth boils, it needs to be insisted for about three hours, after which it should be taken strained half a glass 2-4 times a day.
As you can see, many drugs from the pharmacy are able to replace ordinary raspberry leaves. Useful properties and contraindications for the use of decoctions and teas from this medicinal plant are simple and allow you to use them even in the treatment of young children.