They have known about the healing properties of viburnum since ancient times. This berry is harvested with the advent of frost, when other plants fall into sleep. But if the berries are picked after the first frost, then the bark, leaves, flowers - throughout the growing season.
Plant description
Viburnum is a common plant that grows almost everywhere: in Russia, Europe, America, North Africa. The medicinal properties of viburnum are appreciated all over the world, it also fits well into any landscape, supplementing it, because of which it began to be grown in personal plots.
Kalina belongs to the family of Adoksy. It is a shrub with red or black berries. Plant height can reach four meters. The bark is gray-brown, the leaves are long, an average of eight centimeters. Above they are dark green, and below - grayish-green, wrinkled. The plant blooms with white or white-pink flowers, collected in inflorescences. The flowers are small, fruitful. Fruits are spherical or oval, can be red or black with a large bone, juicy, with a bitter astringent taste.
The plant blooms in late May - early June. The fruits begin to ripen in early September.
Chemical composition
The healing properties of viburnum are determined by its chemical composition. Berries contain many vitamins and minerals. They contain carbohydrates, tannins, organic acids. They also contain tannins, resins, phytosterols, pectins, essential oils.
The berries are rich in vitamin C, E, A, P, K, magnesium, iron, zinc, potassium.
The bark is rich in tannins, palmitic, formic, caprylic, linoleic acid. It has vitamins, volatile products.
Healing properties
Due to the unique healing properties, viburnum is used in the treatment of almost all ailments. This plant helps to combat pathologies of the cardiovascular system, including coronary heart disease. It helps to cope with tonsillitis, asthma, pneumonia. Infusions and decoctions are recommended for skin pathologies: boils, eczema. It helps to deal with pathologies of the nervous system, including with hysteria, insomnia, and neurasthenia. Berries and other parts of the plant are used in the treatment of digestive tract disease, with SARS, bronchitis, whooping cough, tonsillitis, pharyngitis.
The use of viburnum helps lower blood cholesterol, stimulates sputum discharge during coughing, increases uterine tone, and is used as a diuretic, decongestant. Folk remedies made from viburnum help to combat violations of water-salt metabolism. Also, the plant stimulates the production of bile. Proper use helps boost immunity, tones and fights vitamin deficiency.
Centuries ago, viburnum was used as a diuretic, wound healing, general strengthening, astringent. According to popular belief, there is not a single disease in which viburnum would not help.
Contraindications
Before starting treatment for diseases, it is necessary to know the contraindications and medicinal properties of viburnum. This plant contains a lot of vitamin C, which can cause overdose, manifested by the appearance of a rash. For the treatment of ailments, only red viburnum is used, but black is considered poisonous and is used only as a garden decoration.
In some people, the bitterness of viburnum causes a fever.
You can not use folk remedies for violation of blood coagulation, tendency to thrombosis, arthritis, gout, increased acidity of gastric juice.
Harvesting bark
The healing properties of red viburnum bark allow you to fight a variety of ailments. Harvesting of raw materials is carried out in the spring, when the movement of juice begins. To remove the bark, it is necessary to remove the side branches. Then the bark is carefully removed. The workpiece is dried in a ventilated room until the bark begins to crumble when pressed. Dried raw materials are stored in a glass container in a dark place.
Decoctions are prepared from the bark, used to stop bleeding, rinse the mouth with sore throat, stomatitis, drink with headaches, and insomnia.
Harvesting flowers and leaves
The healing properties of red viburnum allow the plant to be used as an anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, and diaphoretic. To do this, use flowers and leaves of the plant. They are collected in May and June. The workpiece is dried in a ventilated area. As soon as the raw material is dried, it is placed in storage in paper or fabric bags, glass containers.
Harvesting berries
The healing properties of berries of red viburnum are not inferior to many pharmaceutical preparations. Harvesting is carried out after the first frost, around October, but the collection time depends on the region. Fresh berries are of the greatest value in the treatment of pathologies. You can make juice from them, grind, eat whole, put in tea.
The benefits of viburnum
Knowing the medicinal properties and contraindications of viburnum, we can say with confidence whether this plant is suitable for you or not. Undoubtedly, viburnum brings a lot of benefits, but in order to succeed in treating ailments, it is important to know which parts of the plant help.
- Pathology of the respiratory system. When coughing, pneumonia, bronchitis use juice, a decoction of berries. They contain substances that help activate the process of sputum discharge.
- ENT diseases. With tonsillitis, tonsillitis, pharyngitis, it is recommended to use a decoction of flowers. It can be taken orally, used to gargle. After a course of treatment, viburnum helps to regain voice.
- With violations of the digestive system. Viburnum contains pectins, tannins. Viburnum berry is useful for gastritis with low acidity. With a feeling of heaviness, nausea, it is recommended to eat a teaspoon of mashed viburnum.
- A decoction of viburnum bark is used for bleeding.
- All parts of the plant help fight vitamin deficiencies. Berries, bark, flowers contain many vitamins, which helps to strengthen the immune system. This plant serves as a good prophylactic for an influenza epidemic, SARS.
- The healing properties of the fruits of viburnum help to cope with metabolic disorders.
- Viburnum helps with edema, is used as a diuretic.
- Fresh berries are recommended for hypertensive patients.
By eating a tablespoon of fresh or freshly frozen berries every day, heart problems can be avoided. The blood renewal process is also activated.
Recipes
Knowing the medicinal properties and contraindications of the viburnum bark, as well as other parts of the plant, you can decide whether it is suitable for treatment for you. To make a medicine from the bark, you will need ten grams of crushed raw material, which is poured with a glass of boiling water. The remedy is infused for an hour and a half. The drug is taken in a tablespoon four times a day.
The medicinal properties and contraindications of viburnum berries help determine whether this plant can be used. From the fruits make an infusion, which is used as a diuretic, anti-inflammatory agent, and also as a means to increase immunity. To prepare the medicine, you need to grind two tablespoons of viburnum and add water. The broth boils for fifteen minutes, after which it is allowed to cool. The drug is taken in a third of a glass three times a day.
The healing properties of viburnum berries help fight hypertension. To make a medicine out of them, you need to take a three-liter jar in which three glasses of berries are placed. They are poured with two glasses of boiling water. The container is tightly closed and insisted night. In the morning, the product is filtered through a sieve. The strained mass is ground with half a kilogram of honey. This slurry is taken in a spoon three times a day. You can pour the gruel with the obtained infusion and take a third of a glass.
With neurasthenia, the following remedy helps: a spoonful of bark is poured into a glass of water and boiled for half an hour. A broth is taken for a third of a glass three times a day.
With a cold, five hundred grams of mashed berries of viburnum, a spoonful of currant and mint leaves are taken. Everything mixes up, honey is added. The composition is heated and infused for an hour. Accepted for colds.
The medicinal properties and contraindications of viburnum red make it possible to find out whether it can be taken to treat ailments. However, in order not to harm, it is better to consult a doctor.
To cope with tonsillitis, cough, fever, use a decoction of viburnum bark. To prepare it, you need to pour a spoonful of bark with a glass of water and boil for fifteen minutes. Then the remedy is infused for two hours. It is taken in a tablespoon no more than four times a day.
In case of chronic cough, take a preparation made from one glass of berries, poured with a liter of water, and boiled for ten minutes. A remedy is taken for a third of a glass in a warm form. You can add honey to the composition to taste.
With pneumonia, an infusion of two tablespoons of mashed berries mixed with a glass of honey is prepared. The composition is taken in a spoon no more than five times a day.
Good viburnum helps with headaches. To make a medicine out of it, you need to grind a spoonful of berries with sugar in equal proportions. Then this sweet remedy is taken as tea no more than twice a day. You can use viburnum flowers from headaches. They are poured with boiling water and insisted for about an hour. The infusion is taken in a spoon twice a day.
Alternative treatments for viburnum
Useful properties of red berries of viburnum, healing properties help to cope with uterine bleeding, pain during menstruation. To overcome these pathologies, it is necessary to prepare an alcohol tincture from the bark. For this, one hundred grams of bark is poured with a liter of alcohol. The remedy is infused for a week. Thirty drops are taken twice a day.
Berries of viburnum help relieve stress, cheer up. To prepare healthy tea, the berries are kneaded, mixed with honey or sugar, then the mixture is added to the tea in a spoon. To give the drink a better taste, you can add cinnamon to it.
To increase the tone of the uterus, drink a tincture of bark made from ten grams of bark and a glass of boiling water. The remedy is infused for five hours. Such a medicine has an antiseptic, analgesic, vasoconstrictive effect, and also increases the tone of the uterus.
During periods of epidemic, it is recommended to drink vitamin tea, which helps to increase immunity. To prepare it, you need to take a spoonful of fruits and brew them with a glass of boiling water. Tea is infused for two hours. It is taken one hundred milliliters in the morning and evening.
Kalina helps relieve irritability, insomnia. From these ailments, a folk remedy is prepared by mixing a spoonful of viburnum bark and a teaspoon of lemon balm. Then take a spoonful of the mixture and pour a glass of boiling water. The composition is cooked for half an hour, and then it is removed from the fire and infused for the same amount. It is taken in a spoon four times a day.
Harvesting berries for the winter
Viburnum berries can be prepared for the winter with sugar. To do this, take a pound of viburnum and the same amount of sugar. The berries are ground, then sugar is added. To preserve all the beneficial properties, seeds and peel are left in raw jam. Then for some time the mixture is left to the side so that the sugar dissolves. Ready jam is laid out in jars and stored in the refrigerator.
If desired, you can remove the bones. In this case, the raw jam will have the appearance and consistency of jelly.
Compotes are made from viburnum berries and covered for the winter. They are drunk as a medicine. To make compote, you need to take two glasses of berries and the same amount of sugar (in a three-liter jar). Sugar is best added directly to the jar to remove the sour taste of compote. The berries are boiled for five minutes. Then the broth is poured into a jar, sugar is added and rolled up with an iron lid.
Five-minute jam is prepared from berries. To make it, you need to take a kilogram of sugar and a pound of berries of viburnum. Berries are poured with sugar, and after its dissolution they are put on fire and boiled for five minutes: they are laid out in jars and rolled up. You can grind the berries with sugar and boil for about three minutes.
Kalina in the garden
The great value of the plant makes it indispensable in the treatment of almost all diseases. Because of this, people often plant shrubs in their area.
The plant can grow both in the shade and in the sun. It is very fond of water, so it needs frequent watering. The best planting times are spring and autumn. For the plant, pits with a size of 40 x 60 cm are prepared, humus, wood ash are placed in them. After planting, the bush is watered.
The plant is fed three times per season: in early spring, during flowering and when pouring fruit. For this, either organic or mineral fertilizers are used. Top dressing is carried out in spring with nitroammophos, in summer with phosphorus, and in autumn with potassium. The granules are mixed with soil.
When caring for a plant, it is important to water it at least twice a week.
For viburnum to grow in a lush bush, it must be formed. Pruning is carried out in the spring.
Observing the rules for taking viburnum, you can forget about the common cold and many other diseases. But before using folk remedies, you need to consult a doctor.