Even people who are skeptical of traditional medicine sometimes use methods of treatment familiar from childhood - tea with raspberries, warm milk with honey, black radish for cough, viburnum with honey ... All these funds were used by our mothers and grandmothers when they treated us for the flu and colds. But today we want to talk about the unique properties of viburnum, which is used to treat many diseases.
In the pharmacy today you can offer a lot of medicines created on the basis of this amazing berry. Does viburnum help with colds? How to cook berries to get rid of cough? Can I use drugs based on it to treat children? We will try to answer these questions in this article.
Beneficial features
A beautiful scarlet berry contains a lot of vitamins and minerals that help fight viruses and bacteria in the body:
- Vitamin C - strengthens the immune system.
- Vitamins A, K, E, P give elasticity to blood vessels.
- Anthocyanin - a natural antioxidant that removes toxins and toxins from the body, harmful substances.
- Zinc and iodine, iron and manganese prevent anemia, support the immune system.
Healing properties
With a cold, viburnum is used due to its medicinal properties:
- Antitussive and expectorant - helps to cope with dry cough.
- Antipyretic - without the use of medications, viburnum lowers the temperature.
- Anti-inflammatory - relieves inflammation in bronchitis, tonsillitis, pneumonia, acute respiratory viral infections and laryngitis.
- Sedative - calms the nervous system, gives a strong and calm sleep.
Indications for use
Despite the many useful substances and vitamins contained in the plant, viburnum-based preparations for colds, like many other diseases, must be used with caution. The use of red berries is recommended for:
- laryngitis;
- sore throat;
- coughing
- sore throat.
Viburnum-based preparations are recommended for prophylaxis to strengthen the body and increase tone. Quite often, pregnant women are recommended to use viburnum for colds. Women carrying a child, even doctors try not to prescribe potent drugs. The use of berries during this period is especially important.
Harvesting raw materials
Today, viburnum berries can be purchased at the pharmacy or in the market. However, many gardeners and summer residents prefer to grow and harvest healthy fruits themselves. True, not everyone knows how to do it right.
Tear should only ripened red berries with stalks. It is advisable to do this after the first frost: the fruits will lose their bitterness and acquire a pleasant piquant taste. Unripe viburnum is not only very bitter, but can also cause poisoning.
How to save viburnum?
Torn berries (with stalks) can be tied and hung in a cool room. If this is not possible, separate the stalks and put the berries in a plastic bag and put in the freezer.
Viburnum bark is collected in the spring, before the leaves appear. Then it is dried away from sunlight in a draft. Store raw materials in the dark in a glass container.
Viburnum for colds and flu: a folk remedy, time-tested
Two tablespoons of viburnum berries, the same amount of bark and one spoon of chopped young twigs cut from the bush, pour boiling water and boil for five to seven minutes. Filter the slightly cooled broth and drink in a warm form ½ cup six times a day. To the broth, you can add dried raspberries and honey to taste.
How does viburnum cough?
Traditional healers and representatives of traditional medicine use red berries to treat cough and other unpleasant symptoms of a cold. The cough is sometimes lingering, requiring prolonged treatment. Recovery will help accelerate preparations based on viburnum, which has antimicrobial and antiflogistic effects.
Viburnum juice
Pass the fresh berries through the juicer and take the juice, after diluting it with water in equal proportions. You can add it to tea, use it for making fruit drinks, jelly, and jelly. For colds, children can give viburnum in the form of juice by diluting it with warm water (1: 1) and adding honey or sugar syrup.
Viburnum with sugar
After sorting and washing the berries thoroughly, dry them and fill them with sugar in equal proportions. The mass is infused at room temperature for four days. Stir it periodically. Drain the syrup that has stood out during this time and take it with a dry cough in a tablespoon four times a day.
Tea Vitamin Supplement
Sprinkle the viburnum berries with sugar, wait until the juice stands out. Then put the container on a slow fire, bring to a boil and boil for no more than five minutes. Put the vitamin mass in jars and tightly close the lids. Use viburnum prepared in this way for colds and coughs, adding to hot tea. From this composition, you can prepare infusions and fruit drinks.
Decoction of leaves, bark and flowers
How else can you cook viburnum? For colds and coughs, medications are prepared not only from berries. The bark, leaves, flowers of the plant, as well as berries, have an expectorant and anti-inflammatory effect. To prepare a therapeutic drink, grind the bark and twigs with leaves, add a handful of berries, fill the composition with water. If boiling is weak, boil it for a quarter of an hour. Remove from heat, wrap well in a container and let it brew for two hours. Take Viburnum infusion for colds, ½ cup 4-5 times a day after meals.
With coughing fits
This effective remedy can be used to relieve coughing attacks in children. Thoroughly rub the berries of viburnum and pour them with boiling water (1: 4). Warm the resulting puree in a water bath for a quarter of an hour, strain and dilute it halfway with warm boiled water. Give a child older than five four times a day in a third of a glass.
Viburnum with honey
Even a long exhausting cough will recede if you take viburnum with honey. Berry-honey formulations improve sputum discharge, relieve sore throat, and restore a hoarse voice. Such compounds, used in the treatment and prevention of tracheitis and bronchitis, pharyngitis and laryngitis, help to avoid the development of complications, which usually cause a protracted cough. Below we bring to your attention several recipes for effective medicines:
- Mix in equal parts honey and viburnum berries (previously washed and dried) and place the container in the refrigerator. After three days, the composition should be mixed and heated to a boil. Then turn down the heat and simmer for three minutes. Cool and consume as a standalone remedy for a teaspoon three times a day or as an additive to tea. This product has a pleasant taste and softens cough. Children like it and can be used in moderate doses by pregnant women.
- Pour boiling water (250 ml) in a spoon (tablespoon) of dry viburnum fruits and let it brew for an hour. Strain the infusion and add to it 2 tablespoons (tablespoons) of honey. Take the drug in a third of a glass four times a day.
- Another great folk remedy for colds and flu. Scald viburnum (berries) with boiling water and wipe through a sieve, separating the peel and seeds from the pulp. Add pureed natural honey (1: 1). The mixture must be kept in the refrigerator for a week. Such a composition perfectly helps in the treatment of lingering cough. It is taken in a spoon (tablespoon) after a meal.
- Dilute with a liter of warm water 100 g of natural honey, add 100 g of viburnum juice. Stir and take ½ cup three times a day after meals.
- Pour the leaves and inflorescences of viburnum in equal parts with boiling water at the rate of a liter of water per 50 g of raw materials. Boil the mixture over low heat for seven minutes. The broth should be infused for at least half an hour. Add honey to it and take up to three times a day, ½ cup.
- There are many ways to prepare viburnum. For colds and flu, traditional healers recommend making jam from berries and consuming it with hot tea from coltsfoot, dogrose and linden. To prepare it, wipe the berries through a sieve. Sugar (1: 1) is added to the resulting mass. Stir the mixture thoroughly, put on low heat and boil for five minutes. Jam is stored in a dark and cool place in a glass container. Such a tasty medicine can be used as a treat for the prevention of acute respiratory viral infections and flu, or taken with a cold from a cough. Children love him very much, but for them the dosage is no more than a tablespoon 1 time per day. For adults, the reception can be increased up to two times.
Viburnum for flu and colds: recipes for adults
All the aboveground parts of the plant stimulate the protective mechanisms of both the adult and the child's body, providing an antipyretic, anti-inflammatory and diaphoretic effect. Drugs based on it have found wide application in the treatment of influenza and complicated SARS. If desired, and after completion of treatment, you can continue to take home remedies based on viburnum to maintain immunity.
Among the many recipes of traditional medicine aimed at treating a viburnum cold and flu, decoctions and alcohol infusions are especially effective. Last resort should not be used to treat children, pregnant and lactating women. In severe colds, you can use a decoction of viburnum bark. The crushed raw materials are poured with boiling water (1:10) and boiled over low heat for no more than three minutes. Then, for two hours, the broth is insisted. Take the medicine 30 ml before meals.
At the first signs of malaise - subfebrile temperature, headache, runny nose - the viburnum tincture prepared on Cahors will help stop the symptoms. For it, it is necessary to prepare 100 g of honey, cahors, viburnum juice. Combine the ingredients and add ½ pod of pre-ground hot pepper to them. Place the mixture in the earthenware, cover and simmer in the oven for three hours at +170 ° C. Then cool and take 50 ml half an hour before meals in the morning and evening.
Against the manifestations of influenza, weighed down by attacks of dry cough, tincture for alcohol is no less effective. Pour berries and pieces of bark with alcohol (1: 1) and insist for a week in a dark place, shaking the container periodically. Strain the tincture and take it before meals, 20 drops.
Contraindications
With a cold, viburnum has a beneficial effect on the body. It can be used to treat flu, as well as a protracted cough. However, drugs prepared according to folk recipes have some contraindications. Treatment should be abandoned for people suffering from chronic hypotension, thrombosis and thrombophilia. The high acid content in the berries does not allow patients with hyperacid gastritis and gout to use them.