Blueberries have a lot of healing properties. She has useful not only berries, but also leaves, as well as stems. Blueberry shoots, like other parts, have medicinal properties. The plant is wild-growing, it is a shrub about 50 cm high, with thin, oval fine-toothed leaves. It blooms in May, and in July the berries begin to ripen. In the wild, the plant is found in moist swampy areas, in spruce and pine forests.
Plant features
Blueberry shoots, leaves are collected from the plant during the flowering period. The collected material is dried under a canopy or in a well-ventilated area. Berries are used fresh, dried, jam is prepared, frozen.
Dried blueberry shoots, harvested in accordance with all the rules, can be stored for about two years without losing their beneficial properties.
The plant contains a large amount of vitamin C, tannins. No less important role is played by glycosides, flavonoids and other substances that determine the benefits for the body.
Blueberry shoots and leaflets contain phenol glycoside arbutin. The berries have a lot of natural sugars, pectin, trace elements, vitamins, tannins, anthocyanin glycosides.
The properties
The composition of blueberry shoots determines their properties. This plant has:
- astringent property;
- hemostatic;
- antispasmodic effect;
- antiseptic;
- choleretic;
- anti-inflammatory property;
- diuretic;
- cardiotonic, vasodilating action.
In addition, blueberries increase immunity, normalize metabolic processes in the body. Beneficial substances inhibit the growth of pathogens, including those that cause typhoid fever, diphtheria. It was found that berries and other parts of the plant help to fight against tumor pathologies and diabetes.
Application
For the treatment of various pathologies in medicine, ordinary blueberries are used. Its shoots are used to treat type 2 diabetes. Long-term use of the infusion safely affects the pancreas, helps to normalize blood sugar. This is possible due to a special substance that is part of it - the neomyrtillin glycoside. For the treatment of diabetes, both separately used blueberry shoots and fees are used.
In severe cases of treatment of pathologies, phyto tea is used in combination with pharmacological preparations.
Patients with diabetes often have vision problems. In this case, fruits and leaves, which contain a large number of anthocyanins, carotenoids, help. These elements are able to accumulate in the retina, strengthening blood vessels and reducing their fragility, which leads to angiopathy.
Blueberry shoots and its other elements help fight cataracts, as well as improve the nutrition of eye tissues. As a result, an increase in the photosensitivity of the pigment in the retina is noted, vision improves, eye fatigue decreases.
To whom and why is blueberry useful?
Blueberry shoots are used for diabetes, as well as for the treatment of many other diseases.
Blueberries help fight bowel diseases, stool disorders. The substances that make up normalize the work of the intestine, have an antimicrobial effect. Also, the plant helps to combat reduced acidity, inflammatory diseases of the urinary system, including the kidneys.
It is recommended to take plant infusions for gout, cholelithiasis and ICD, pharyngitis, gingivitis, acute respiratory viral infections, pathologies of the upper respiratory tract, anemia.
Recipes
Knowing the benefits and harms of blueberry shoots, you can prepare medicinal infusions and apply them for a variety of diseases. The proportions of water and raw materials depend on the pathology.
A classic recipe is brewing a tablespoon of raw materials with a glass of boiling water. The composition is infused for an hour, then filtered. If necessary, the medicine is diluted with boiled water. Take one hundred grams three times a day. Blueberry medicine is drunk warm.
You can use blueberry medicinal infusions to treat pathologies in children. The dosage and course are prescribed by the doctor. Usually they are recommended to take no more than 50 ml of the drug.
It is useful to drink a decoction of shoots. It is prepared as follows: fifty grams of shoots are poured with a liter of water and boiled for five minutes. Then the tool is allowed to cool for an hour. The composition is recommended for use as regular tea.
More recipes
Dried berries are used to treat diarrhea. They contain tannins, pectins, which normalize the intestines. For cooking, you need to take a pan, pour 0.5 liters of water into it and add one hundred grams of fruit. The composition boils for ten minutes. It is taken in the form of tea three times a day in a glass.
In diabetes, it is recommended to use a decoction of cuttings and leaves. To prepare it, you will need 50 g of raw materials and 0.5 l of water. The broth is boiled for 15 minutes. It is taken hot. The collection prevents the development of pathology, and also helps to lower the level of glucose.
Blueberries help to cope with high blood pressure. To prepare the composition, it is necessary to take motherwort, lemon balm, arnica and blueberry leaves in equal parts. Everything mixes up. Then two tablespoons of the mixture are poured with two glasses of water, boiled for ten minutes. Take in the form of tea twice a day, 50 grams. Do not take the composition during pregnancy.
With urolithiasis, it is recommended to use blueberry fruits. They contribute to the removal of stones. To prepare the product, you need to take one hundred grams of berries and pour them with a glass of boiling water. Composition infused overnight. It is taken three times a day, 50 ml. The duration of treatment is a month, then a break is made for two weeks.
Blueberries have proven themselves in the treatment of colds. It contains many useful vitamins, trace elements that help to cope with SARS. To prepare a therapeutic agent, two hundred grams of boiling water and 50 grams of blueberries are taken. The composition is infused for an hour. The finished product is taken one hundred grams up to five times a day. The treatment lasts two weeks.
Contraindications
Knowledge of the beneficial properties and contraindications of blueberry shoots help determine whether it is possible to take infusions and decoctions in a particular case. The remedy from the plant can not be taken with hypersensitivity, allergies to blueberries. It manifests itself in the form of itching, rashes on the skin. When a similar reaction occurs, treatment with blueberries is stopped.
It is forbidden to give preparations based on blueberries to children under three years of age. Also, do not use a collection with blueberry shoots for pancreatitis and other diseases for people prone to constipation, as this can aggravate the situation.
Do not take a blueberry remedy for biliary dyskinesia.
During pregnancy and lactation, plant-based preparations are taken only after the doctor’s permission.