Modern medicine offers medicines for almost all diseases. However, more and more people tend to use not pills and medicines made in laboratories, but alternative traditional medicine. As you know, there is nothing more effective than what is created by nature itself. It is not for nothing that animals at the instinct level help themselves from diseases by eating certain products of plant origin.
So, American scientists have noticed one feature. In winter, many animals dig pine cones from under the snow and eat them. The logical conclusion from this observation led to the fact that the composition of such plant products was carefully studied.
The results were not long in coming. It turned out that pine cones accumulate a large amount of volatile products, essential oils, bioflavonoids, antioxidants, anti-inflammatory and antiviral substances during the summer and part of winter. Also in their composition in a small proportion include resin acids, ascorbic acid, tannins and anthocyanins. What makes cones very attractive for human use in the fight against various ailments.
Not only ripe, but also green fruits are used in folk medicine. The best option for their use is the means for the manufacture of which you need to pour pine cones with vodka.
Areas of use
There are many diseases for the treatment of which pine cones on vodka are used. Their use is based on the ability of the beneficial substances in their composition to dissolve in alcohol and acquire even better functional properties as a tincture.
The effect of this infusion is as follows:
- restoration of brain cells and nervous system functions after a stroke;
- treatment and prevention of pulmonary diseases;
- elimination of disorders of the cardiovascular system;
- oral treatment;
- arthritis;
- rheumatism and muscle cramps;
- gastrointestinal tract treatment;
- diaphoretic ;
- anemia treatment;
- gout.
In addition to a wide range of therapeutic effects, like any medicine, pine cones on vodka also have disadvantages. Contraindications to their use are based on the individual characteristics of each organism and are reduced to the following points:
- Intolerance or inability to take alcohol.
- Age limits: before 7 and after 60 years.
- Diseases of the kidneys and liver (in violation of dosing).
- Pregnancy.
- Lactation period.
Let us consider in more detail the spectrum of action and the main ailments in which green and mature pine cones on vodka are used, contraindications to their use.
Green cones: human use
Young, immature pine cones have a beautiful green color and look very dense and strong.
They contain a large number of phytoncides, which from time immemorial are considered the most effective antibacterial substances. In addition, there are a lot of tannins in the cones - substances that stimulate the production of hormones of good mood and the appearance of a feeling of freshness, clarity of thought. Therefore, baths with infusion of these fruits tone and relieve fatigue.
In addition, tannins can stimulate the restoration of cellular structures, which is used as the basis for therapy after a stroke. Vitamins and essential oils of green cones help strengthen the immune system, increasing vitality and providing a surge of strength.
It is recommended to collect them in June-August. It is at this time that they contain many nutrients for the ripening of the inner seed. The maximum benefit is obtained from them, using such an infusion as green pine cones on vodka.
What diseases use alcoholic infusion of green cones?
The infusion of pine cones on vodka (green) is used to treat diseases of the liver and kidneys. Also, long-term use in small doses allows you to get rid of fatigue, chronic drowsiness, headaches and bad mood.
Very good green pine cones, infused with vodka, with atherosclerosis, to cleanse the vessels.
Solution recipe
To prepare a healing infusion, we need:
- enameled pan;
- collection of green cones;
- moderately warm room;
- vodka.
We fill the prepared dishes one third washed in warm water and cut into pieces green cones. Then pour vodka so that the ingredients are immersed in a liquid. We cover and put in a room with a temperature not lower than 20 0 C. We insist for about 40 days, and the readiness is determined by color. The color should be dark brown.
This is the first recipe that uses green pine cones. Tincture on vodka allows all useful components to go into solution and become more digestible.
Another recipe for which you will need:
- glass;
- green bumps;
- vodka;
- the lid is tight on the glass;
- warm place;
- fine sieve.
Pour the crushed cones into a glass and pour vodka to the brim (cones and vodka equally). Tightly close and remove to a warm place for insisting. Leave for 10 days. Then we filter the tincture through a sieve and take the resulting solution 20 drops before meals. It is advisable to breed with warm water.
Green pine cones on vodka: contraindications
The main contraindications for the use of alcohol infusion from green cones are the same as for remedies from ripe pine cones on vodka. These are pregnancy and lactation, old age, intolerance to components (atopic dermatitis, allergies), renal or liver failure.
The only thing that can be highlighted here is a violation of the dosage of tincture. It is absolutely impossible to do this. The consequences can be severe disruption of the stomach, damage to the walls of the digestive tract. Perhaps even poisoning. Malaise, nausea, dizziness. Since the tincture is alcohol, its use in large doses and often for a long time can provoke the formation of alcohol dependence.
Ripe pine cones: characterization of components and application
Ripe pine cones are very easy to distinguish from young ones in appearance. They are brown, loose, almost completely open. In many, ripened seeds can be observed.
In addition to the components that have already been listed for young fruits, mature pine cones also contain an increased amount of tannins. It is this feature that determines the direction of their use in alternative medicine.
The main thing is, of course, the treatment of stroke and post-stroke conditions. Therapy with this infusion promotes the renewal of brain cells, their rapid regeneration and normal functioning. The infusion of pine cones on vodka ensures the restoration of cellular structures of the higher part of the nervous system, and also blocks the enzyme that causes their death in stroke.
If young cones can be used for a very wide range of diseases, then the use of mature ones is limited today by treating a stroke condition. Thanks to the American scientists who proved that pine cones (tincture of vodka) are a way to get to your feet after a serious illness.
Consider how best to collect the material, prepare it and according to what recipe to make a healing infusion.
Harvesting Mature Cones
Such cones are best collected from December to March. During the summer and autumn period, they manage to accumulate a lot of useful components. Like canned food, which consists of exclusively useful and biologically significant substances for the body.
Phytoncides and tannins, bioflavonoids and anthocyanins, essential oils and tannins, resins and carotene, vitamins C and A, antioxidants - all this is stored in mature pine cones safely covered by snow. That is why animals in zoos and nurseries love to chew them so much.
A special treatment of the collected material consists in the removal of foreign components and dust. To do this, you just need to rinse the cone crop with warm water. Subsequent drying will complete the pre-treatment step and the product will be fully prepared for infusion.
Recipe: pine cones on vodka (mature)
To prepare the infusion you will need:
- a small bowl with a tight-fitting lid;
- vodka or alcohol (70%);
- 5-6 mature cones, washed and prepared;
- cool place to insist.
We take the cones, grind and place in the dishes. Pour 200-250 ml of vodka or alcohol, cover with a lid and remove to a cool place for insisting. After half a month the medicine is ready. Use should be a teaspoon after eating once a day. The course of treatment is from 3 months and longer. With proper admission, it is practically unlimited.
Negative effect, contraindications
Categories of persons who are forbidden to use such an infusion are the same as for infusion of green cones.
With proper use, without violation of dosing and without abuse of the components, as well as with the correct preparation of the infusion, in which the basis is mature pine cones on vodka, no contraindications to its use have been identified.
In case of violation of any of the points, the consequences can be gastrointestinal diseases of varying complexity, poisoning, alcohol dependence.