Bearberry. Medicinal properties and contraindications for women, men and children in folk medicine

An interesting plant - the treasure of the Far North, the Caucasus, Siberia, the Far East and the inhabitants of Ukrainian Polissya is bearberry, interest in it is great, and medicinal properties, as well as contraindications, have been studied and medieval medicine, and modern pharmacology.

Descriptions of medicines produced on its basis, there are treatises dating from the VII and XII centuries. Breathtaking ode of praise and admiration, dedicated bearberry famous Arctic explorer, artist and poet Ernest Thompson Seton in his book "The Prairie in the Arctic."

Characteristics of bearberry

Bearberry, or bear grapes - a heather ground cover shrub, which grows in wet, populated mycorrhizal fungi soils.

In areas of growth, it forms a picturesque, evergreen, dense area, sprinkled liberally in the fruiting period from August to September bright red small fruits - drupes, resembling in appearance a shallow timber berry (size diameter of 5 to 8 mm). The seed chamber 5 seed.

Height separate bush bearberry determined by the length of 5 to 30 cm. shaped leaf resembles mullein, remains evergreen and timeless to an average of 3 years, and then fall off and dries up.

Flowering time - March - June, depending on the place of growth (tundra, mountain Alps or the central part of Europe or the United States). In nature, depending on the place of growth, it is described to 30 species, all of which greatly fits the description of bearberry.

Like the people who live far from the cities, representatives of the fauna: bears, hares, squirrels, birds, living in the wild are found in oatmeal powerful source of survival and treatment of a wide range of diseases.

The composition and caloric content of bearberry

Bearberry, medicinal properties, and contraindications plant material associated with a complex chemical composition and low calorie. The food is preferably used for fruit with somewhat dry, starchy texture, tart, astringent taste with a pronounced acidity.

Studies have shown that a small amount of sugar in the bearberry still contained. Advantageously, it is localized in the flower nectar, which is probably for the insects pollinating plants, well-deserved prize and concern on the part of the plant.

In general cases bearberry calorie fruit is at a level of up to 40 kC. The number of leaves and shoots kC. does not exceed 0.1.

By mineral content, tannin, essential oil materials, as well as vitamins and organic compounds bearberry is at leading positions, compared with other herbs corresponding group. The greatest therapeutic effect among the reactive components bush create phenols, and derivatives of either

The leaves are present ascorbic acid, anthocyanins, and manganese. The shoots focuses more than 32% highly tannins

Useful properties of bearberry

Bearberry, being highly aesthetic decoration of the environment (in appearance has a great decorative potential), more valued and food, healing properties and the presence of a part of a record number of tannins, which creates conditions for contraindications for certain types of diseases.

At the same time, Russia and Sweden, its leaves and shoots are still used for the manufacture of thin skin under morocco.

However, it still remains primarily a potent phytotherapeutic agent capable of effectively treat complex ailments of mankind. The greatest interest of the modern society is due to the bearberry pharmacological activity, therapeutic and cosmetic effectiveness.

Tibetan physicians used dried leaf as a wound healing agent. Appointed interior with gastritis to reduce acidity. Modern pharmacology based on leaves, fruits and shoots produces a series of highly effective anti-inflammatory drugs urological orientation.

Bearberry in ready pharmacy forms:

Name and Form	Structure	Application area
Uriflorin. Pills.	A pressed sheet.	Cystitis. Urethritis.
Lessons. Syrup.	Extracts of the leaves.	Inflammation of the bladder and ducts
Uriflan. BAD. Capsules.	dry extract	Pyelonephritis. Stagnant processes.
Ursul. BAD.	The multi-component composition.	Restorative Urology.
bearberry leaf dry.	Phyto drug.	Anti-inflammatory in urology.

At home, broth fruit bearberry milk treat diarrhea and chronic gastritis, diathesis.

take:

1. The fruits of bearberry - 20 g
2. Cow's milk or goat - 1 tbsp.
3. Sugar - 1 hour. l.

Prepare: sugar and fruit added to the milk and boil for 5 minutes. stirring occasionally. The mixture is left to infuse 15 min. Decanted. Consumed slowly, drink small sips at a time all the amount. Daily dose: morning and evening on an empty stomach.

For the female body

Bearberry medicinal properties and contraindications actively manifests in gynecology. Well proven in this direction alcoholate of bearberry. In particular, it is recommended inside with vaginitis and cervicitis.

take:

1. Dry leaf bearberry - '30
2. Vodka 40% - 250 ml.

Prepare: Place the ingredients in a glass bowl, close lid. Shake. Insist 14 days. Filter. Use: 15 drops after meals, 3 p. in a day. The medicine is useful in cystitis

For the male body

A specialist in the field of herbal medicine from France M. Leclerc recommends bearberry, not only as a diuretic, but also as an anti-inflammatory agent for the treatment of prostatitis.

Healers of Siberia and the Russian North bearberry successfully used in the treatment of syphilis, gonorrhea and other pathologies of the urogenital system in men and, as it became known, continue to prescribe this treatment and Today.

To prepare:

1. Providing 1 handful of dry leaf of bearberry and mulled in a mortar to a fine powder.
2. Raw poured 1 liter. water and left to languish in a water bath of about 1 hour.
3. Filter.

Use strictly after meal. Diet during treatment - gentle (without alcohol, protein and fat). Daily rate: 150 ml. (At 50X 3 r. in a day). The course is 1.5 months.

For children

The modern children's dream therapy bearberry successfully used for the treatment of urinary incontinence (author technique A. Nosal. Ukraine).

1. A cold infusion

Advantages medicine is a special method of obtaining an extract containing no concentrated tannins causing gastrointestinal irritation.

take:

1. Bearberry (dry sheet) - 20 g.
2. Cold water - 500 ml.

prepare:

The sheet is ground, water is poured and allowed to infuse for 12 hr.

1. In a water bath composition was heated for 5 minutes. (Not boiled, is not brought to a hot state).
2. Filter.

use:

1. Inside of 30 ml after meals 3 p. in days. The course of 2 weeks. A break of 7 days. The repetition rate - after 2 weeks.
2. Externally lubricated children's bruises, wounds and abrasions.

Japanese scientists in 2001 confirmed the findings of Dr. Nosal method and proved that the extract prepared according to the recipe has inhibitory effect on staphylococcus group and increases the sensitivity of some strains of St. aureus to antibiotics.

According to open sources in the Middle Ages in Armenia medicine from bearberry treated at home children's diarrhea.

Bearberry benefit in the treatment and prevention

Bearberry, medicinal properties, and contraindications it into account when drafting charges which are suggested below for the treatment of diseases.

In drawing up the treatment schemes take into account age features and purpose of preparation of extracts. So in cosmetic recipes and in medicines for the elderly, the extraction is advantageously performed Cold, intercepting the possibility of getting a therapeutic mixture of undesired components soluble at high temperatures.

Water infusions, obtained by hot extraction with care taking, adhering sparing diet. Patients are recommended to avoid sharp, pungent and sour dishes.

To alleviate bearberry effects on the digestive organs, its use in medicines is not in pure form and in combination with other herbs.

From nervousness and poor sleep

The proposed procedure below gives a good calming effect.

Would need:

1. Bearberry - 20 g
2. Motherwort - '10
3. Water - 750 ml.

How to prepare.

1. The raw material was placed in a saucepan with water.
2. Put on low heat and cook for 15 minutes.
3. Cooled. Filter. Poured into a bottle with a tight lid.

reception OK: 50 ml. 3 p. a day before meal reception for 15 days. Make a break week. Repeat the treatment for another 15 days.

cystitis treatment

The effectiveness of the treatment will increase if combined with steam baths on the basis of bearberry with taking into infusions of the following charges:

1. Gryzhnik - '20
2. Bearberry - 20 g
3. Dry parsley - 5 g
4. Celandine herb - 5 g
5. Water (hot water) - 1 tbsp.

How to prepare:

1. Raw materials are mixed.
2. Pour 1 tbsp. the boiled water.
3. Insist under a warm towel for 1 hour.

Take 50 ml after meals. 3 r. in a day. Steam baths should be performed every night before bed.

For them, the need to:

1. birch leaves - 200 g
2. Celandine grass -100 g
3. Water - 4 - 5 liters.

How to prepare:

1. Plant material (fresh or dried) is placed in a bucket.
2. With cold water, covered with a lid, put on fire, and bring to a boil.
3. Remove from heat. Wrapped a blanket. Brew yield 10 minutes. at room temperature.

How to take bath:

1. With the bucket remove the cover.
2. Served it on top of the toilet seat.
3. The patient removes the underwear and sits on the ferry.
4. During the warm-up appear the urge to urinate, they do not suppress the need - it is also beneficial for the treatment.
5. In 20 minutes. you can finish the procedure.
6. Getting up from his seat, the body wiped dry.
7. The area around the lumbar wrapped necessarily wool thing (blanket or sweater).
8. The patient gives a soothing warm drink (herbal tea with honey or raspberry) are placed in a warm bed.

diuretic fee

To take diuretic collection:

• bearberry leaf - '30
• Licorice root - 10 g
• Flowers of cornflower - '10
• Boiling water - 500 ml.

How to prepare:

1. The raw material is poured boiling water.
2. Insist 25 min. and filter.
3. Consumed 50 ml. 3 p. per day between meals.

gout

For this recipe from gout take:

• Bearberry - 3 tbsp. l.
• Cold water - 500 ml.

How to prepare:

1. The cold water is placed raw materials.
2. Heated to boiling Bates heat to low and tantalized another 20 minutes.
3. Decanted while hot.

receiving Standards: use inside of 100 ml. 3-4 times a day before meals.

Externally applied to problem areas of application of desks cotton soaked in broth and fix them bandages.

from pyelonephritis

chopped ingredients are placed in a thermos:

• 10 g leaf birch and bearberry
• Licorice root, flax seed for 1 h. l.
• Pour boiling water. Insist night.

Hour OK: 100 ml. 3 r. in a day. 1 month.

treatment of tuberculosis

For drug taking:

1. 2 tbsp. l. dry bearberry (leaf, flower, fruit).
2. Pour 200 ml of alcohol (Vodka, Pharmacy alcohol).
3. Insist in a dark place 14 days. (Periodically shaken for uniform extraction).
4. Filter.

Admission Normal: 1 tbsp. l. 3 p. a day after meals. The course of treatment 3 months.

rheumatism

For this recipe from rheumatism take:

1. Bearberry - 50 g
2. Leaf green beans - in '30
3. Corn stigmas - '30
4. Highlander bird - '30
5. Kidneys birch - '50

How to prepare and take.

1. Raw materials are ground and mixed.
2. Article 1 is taken. l.
3. Pour 250 ml. cold water.
4. Bring to the boil.
5. Insist 30 minutes, filtered.

During the day, drink 100 ml, after 1 hour after meal. The course of treatment is 21 days.

treatment of atherosclerosis

For this recipe takes:

1. Bearberry - 20 g.
2. Linden flowers - 20 gr.
3. Oregano - 20 gr.
4. Peppermint - 20 c.
5. Crushed rosehips - 20 gr.
6. Horsetail - 20 g.
7. Water (hot water) - 1 liter.

Remedy is prepared daily in the evening according to the following formulation:

1. Place the raw material into a thermos.
2. Pour boiling water.
3. Insist night.
4. Use 1 tbsp. 4 times a day, every 1 hour. 30 minutes. after meal.

The use of bearberry in cosmetology

Bearberry - a recognized leader in content of hydroquinone - organic compound has on the skin anti-aging, cleansing and whitening effect.

for the skin

When applied topically extract from the leaves, flowers and fruit plants there is a pronounced reduction wrinkles, hyperpigmentation fade effects, stop inflammation, eliminates black point. On the basis of bearberry produce effective cream - Kredo Natur, deep cleansing pores in just 7 days.

Estheticians Russian TM "Clean Line" created for those with sensitive and dry skin cream "bearberry", which, judging by the reviews, perfectly copes with problem skin.

In beauty salons and clinics bearberry used in procedures aimed at the regeneration and rejuvenation of the skin and for the healing of injuries or operational seams. In a domestic environment this purpose are water extract, the recipe which the reader is provided below.

For hair

Bearberry recommended for hair loss. To stimulate the state of the hair follicles are an external means and alcoholic extracts for internal use:

To prepare the medicine needed:

1. Dry leaf bearberry - 100 g
2. Vodka or ethyl alcohol Pharmacy - 500 ml.

How to cook:

1. Available volume of vodka is divided into 3 parts in the ratio 3: 1: 1.
2. The tinted glass jar with a tight-fitting lid is placed bearberry leaf and pour it 300 ml. vodka. Allow to stand for 4 days at room temperature.
3. The liquid fraction was decanted content, press the sheet and it is filled with 100 ml. vodka. On the shutter is left for 2 days. Then poured tincture, and the sheet is drained.
4. Sheet pour the remaining 100ml of vodka, aged only 24 hours. Decanted. Raw materials squeeze.
5. All three fractions were mixed extract.

Fasting and half an hour before meals with 30 ml. for 1 month. Pursuing a course of 4 times per year. The aqueous extract was prepared in the same manner, except that instead of using alcohol water at room temperature.

1. Outwardly they treated hair follicles, wetting the scalp 1 times a day. Air-dried without dryer.
2. Is the inside of 1 tablespoon. l. 5 times a day before meals.
3. Put on the face cloth soaked in the aqueous extract, and rest for 20 minutes. 2 times a week, for leveling of wrinkles.

Harm and contraindications bearberry

Bearberry medicinal properties and contraindications able to be in a negative way only if non-compliance with the rules of its secure reconciliation.

For example, showing the rush treatment, some are taking concentrated extracts and do not adhere to the formulation and dosage, so are at risk to experience acute pain in the kidneys and urinary organs as a result of sharpening processes in thin areas ducts.

Doctors do not recommend the use of bearberry without prior consultation at:

• acute pain in the kidneys;
• glomerulonephritis;
• Hypersensitivity to the flowering or fruiting plants.

Those who are treatment is indicated, it should be remembered that the increase in the intensity of reception of preparations of bearberry can sometimes cause stomach disorders, vomiting and diarrhea. Equally important in the treatment means, made from bearberry is diet.

The period of treatment is necessary:

1. Temporarily enter the taboo on protein foods because they tend to oxidize the liquid.
2. In order to alkalization of the organism, prior to dosing is recommended to use alkaline products, drinking water, mineral or soda.
3. Avoid the proposed combination of medicines with other drugs containing alkaloids and acid.

Warnings for pregnant women

Medicine from the bearberry tonic effect on the pelvic organs, so it is not indicated for the treatment of pregnant women. However, in comparison with the drugs, chemically synthesized, it is considered as a safe means of treating inflammation of the urogenital area and administered in sparing concentrations.

How to choose and store medicinal herbs bearberry

The difficulty of choosing bearberry is that enterprising merchants replaces it with raw dried cranberries. Such fraud is not harmful to health, but to get the expected response is unlikely to treatment. As it turned out, the problem is not new. Method for checking compliance bearberry described in dated VIII in sources.

For analysis in the home need:

1. Prepare the infusion of 2 tbsp. l. feedstock in ½ liter. boiling water and take it: -10 ml.
2. Cold distilled (boiled) water: - ½ liter.
3. Grain of ferrous sulfate: 1-2 pieces.
4. Half-liter jar of transparent flogged: 1pc.

Methods of analysis:

1. 10 ml. bearberry aqueous infusion is poured into an empty jar.
2. Add water to the corolla.
3. To a solution of ferrous sulfate added grain.
4. Stir, observe the results.

If the infusion is prepared from the bearberry really, the solution is first acquire the red color, in the continuation of the reaction it becomes purple. Finally inky purple dregs settle to the bottom. If the test materials will cranberry leaf, then a similar color extravaganza will not have to watch the solution.

Instead of ferrous sulfate can be applied 2 drops of ferric alum. The solution with bearberry painted in black with blue tinge. The cranberry infusion is a dark green liquid. Store raw materials in cardboard boxes, paper bags or canvas in a well ventilated and protected from light, for 5 years.

Rules of the collection and storage of raw materials. Season green sheet blanks, shoots and flowers open spring before and during intensive end of flowering. The fruits are harvested in autumn after the ripening and shedding up to them on the ground. For the forest area is divided into sections.

Preform on each of them carried out under the schedule with a five year interval between charges. Electric driers dried raw material (50'C) and ventilated conditions.

In conclusion, it is necessary to clarify that information bearberry, presented in the article about its medicinal properties and contraindications derived from reliable scientific sources.

It is intended for informational purposes only, because they do not take into account the individual characteristics of the patients at the dosages and recipes. medical consultation will help eliminate the risks and to optimize the effectiveness of the treatment bearberry.

Author: hope Lyutova

Registration of the article: Vladimir the Great

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