Kalina is a two-meter long perennial shrub that grows in forests, on the banks of rivers, marshes, lakes and clearings. It has long been in demand on the farm: solid viburnum wood is used for small crafts, baskets are woven from branches, and a decoction of the bark with a solution of iron-ammonite alum is used as a black-green dye.
Decoction, tea and tincture on viburnum: useful properties
The healing properties of viburnum have long been used by traditional healers. Decoction and juice prepared from its fruits help well with coughing, colds, stomach ulcers, diarrhea, hemorrhoids, colitis, nose and internal bleeding. Viburnum tincture calms headaches, migraines, relieves bronchial asthma, and if you make a 15–20% solution, then the juice can be used for acne, ulcers, and skin diseases. Berries of viburnum improve heart function and tone, have diuretic properties. They are useful for vascular spasms, neurosis. Vitamin tea made from them has a calming and restorative effect.
Viburnum fruits owe their healing properties to 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 helps well with gum disease, acts as a sedative , accelerates recovery from colds. To prepare it, you need to grind 2 tablespoons of raw materials, pour one glass of boiling water and insist in a thermos for about 4 hours. Use twice daily orally or for rinsing.
Still helps tincture of viburnum from pressure. To do this, mix equal amounts of motherwort, mint and dried grass, valerian root and Baikal scutellaria, and, of course, the fruits of viburnum, pour one tablespoon of the mixture with boiling water and leave for about 20 minutes. Take twice a day.
If you have vitamin deficiency, then vitamin V viburnum tea will help you. To prepare it, you need to brew 1 tablespoon of dried berries in a glass of boiling water, leave for about 2 hours, and then strain. Drink two to three times a day with honey. This tea acts as a sedative 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 healing properties. For example, a decoction of viburnum roots is a good remedy for seizures, scrofula, insomnia, hysteria and suffocation. A decoction of the plant's flowers improves digestion, helps with diarrhea and intestinal diseases, it is used as a diaphoretic and expectorant. Seeds have tonic properties, so they can be added to coffee. The bark, which is best harvested in early spring, is dried, crushed and a decoction is used to stop bleeding. But the floral tincture of viburnum helps with gastritis with low acidity. To prepare it, 2 tablespoons of flowers are brewed with a glass of boiling water and insisted. The filtered liquid is taken twice a day by mouth. Also, this decoction can be used to rinse with loss of voice and sore throat.