Viburnum shrubs can be found in the woods and in gardens and garden plots. Its berries, bark and leaves have long been used in folk medicine in the treatment of many diseases. Medicinal properties of red Viburnum with hypertension proven by numerous studies and patient experience.
Medicinal properties and impact on the pressure
To reduce the Kalina blood pressure is used not only fruits, but also flowers, leaves, seeds and bark of the plant. All these components have a vasoconstrictor, anticonvulsant and sedative effect. The healing properties of the plant are used to treat respiratory diseases, gastrointestinal infections, ulcers and cardiovascular diseases.
Juicy red berries contain a lot of nutrients: vitamins, organic acids and fatty acids (in including ascorbic and isovaleric), pectins, potassium salts, sugars, tannins, triterpenoids. The leaves are alkaloids, coumarins, steroidal compounds, phenol carbonic acids.
Bark Viburnum contains organic acid (formic, linoleic, palmitic, and others.) And bitter glycoside virbunin, tannic and resinous substance. It helps to stop the bleeding and has antispasmodic properties, is used in the treatment of diabetes and the common cold. The seeds contain about 21% fatty oils.
Useful properties of berries in hypertension:
- diuretic action, which allows to use broths and juices to reduce edema and fluid outflow;
- broth Viburnum useful as sedative and sedative uses its anticonvulsant effect in the treatment of neuroses, insomnia, hysteria;
- are part of the berry antioxidants help clean vessels from cholesterol and dissolve the plaques on the walls, ie have anti-sclerotic effect;
- vitamin E helps to reduce the permeability of blood vessels, improving their elasticity and helps to strengthen the walls.
Due to its composition red viburnum lowers blood pressure and is therefore recommended for the treatment of hypertension. In addition, experts advise to use it as a preventive tool for reducing the risk of stroke onset.
However, be aware and its contra-indications: the use of plants prohibited in hypotension, pregnancy, the tendency to form blood clots in the blood, kidney diseases, allergic response and high acidity stomach.
Therefore, before you begin treatment, you must take into account the properties of Viburnum, its benefits and harms for hypertensive patients.
When and how to harvest Kalina
For the treatment of hypertension is best suited common viburnum, which is most common in Russia. viburnum berries harvested from bushes with their foot after ripening in the autumn (September-October), as During this period they contain the maximum amount of nutrients accumulated during the summer months. After the onset of the first frost berries lose their bitterness, which can be removed and at home, if you douse them with boiling water or freeze.
The bark is recommended to harvest in April when the sap flow begins, and the leaves can be harvested throughout the growing season.
For drying fruit laid on the sheets in a single layer in a cool, well-ventilated area for a period of 5-9 days. Keep raw best in pouches made of natural fabric (linen, gauze) or in a cardboard container. Berries, seeds, flowers and leaves retain their useful properties of not more than one year, and the bark - a lot longer, for 4 years.
With increased pressure it is recommended to eat fresh berries Viburnum, drink juices and fruit drinks from the fruit. Pectin contained in them allows you to keep cooked juice or ground with sugar, berries in the refrigerator, and their therapeutic properties will not be degraded. Berries can also be frozen, which will allow in the winter of their use in the treatment of hypertension, for the prevention of stroke, strengthen the immune system.
Popular recipes
Delicious berries Viburnum may have both fresh and after special processing. For patients with heart disease, experts advise to eat berries with seeds.
Using popular recipes for cooking broths, juices and teas are not only beneficial to health, but also a pleasure for its taste and aroma. Use the following recipes:
- Vitamin tea may be prepared from any sort of welding (black, green, herbal) supplemented with 1 tsp mashed berries. If desired, the tea add lemon juice and honey - a great benefit for the health drink has winter, removing fatigue and maintain overall body tone.
- The broth is prepared on the basis of bark and young twigs - ½ cup of raw pour 1 liter of water, bring to the boil and maintain for 30 minutes. The liquid is then necessary to filter and pour water to 1 liter. Take 1 tbsp 3 times a day on an empty stomach. With regular use viburnum hypertension helps normalize blood pressure (BP) and soothe the nerves, relieve cardiac edema.
- Berries are stored in a candied, which is prepared from a mixture of 1 kg of fruit and 2 kg of sugar, which twist in a meat grinder, and then are placed into glass jars for keeping in a refrigerator or cellar.
Viburnum and honey
One of the most delicious recipes using from the high pressure Viburnum - mixture Kalinovoye juice with honey. Pre scalded with boiling water berries must grind using a blender, and then mixed in equal proportions with honey. Eat delicious mixture should be 1 tablespoon three times a day. Keep weight better in the refrigerator.
Marmalade of Viburnum is made from fresh berries, which crumbled into the pan in the oven and tantalized 2-3 hours. After cooling, they should rub through a sieve, add sugar and honey, mix well. Delicacy eat 1 tbsp 1 per day.
frozen juice
For patients who are being treated for hypertension, suit and other recipes from the berries of Viburnum. One way to preserve the useful qualities of the fruit is to freeze them and making juice. During freezing the bitterness inherent in the fruit disappears and they become more palatable and sweet, and medicinal properties are preserved.
Cooking viburnum juice in two ways:
- With the addition of sugar (based on 1 kg berries 200 g of sand and 200 ml of water). Prepared after squeezing juice from berries, the remaining pulp is poured water, and boiled for 5-10 minutes, then combined with the juice broth, put sugar, poured into jars and pasteurized.
- Juice without sugar is preparing even easier: after squeezing berries can be stored in the refrigerator or freeze in special molds. After thawing, it can be added in portions in the tea used to prepare jelly, fruit drinks or for making cosmetic procedures.
fruit-drink
In the treatment of hypertension Kalina, experts advise to prepare juice from fresh, dried or frozen berries. In any kind of fruit lay up a large part of beneficial properties for the human body.
For manufacturing Kalinovoye fruit drink must take 1.2 kg berries, washed and rubbed through a sieve, 600 g of the juice obtained, which must be set aside for a while. The resulting cake with pits folded into the pot, add 100 g of sugar, 2 liters of water - together boil and to hold heat for 3 minutes. The resulting broth through a sieve now cake can be discarded (some prefer to leave it in liquid).
Then pour the juice broth, add 150 g of sugar and honey taste, bring to the boil. Eat fruit drink can be either hot or chilled. In the treatment of hypertension to lower blood pressure should drink 50 ml to 5 times a day at regular intervals.
Tincture
Infusion helps improve heart function and reduce blood pressure, acting as a sedative, diuretic and tonic.
Snowball tincture is preparing several recipes:
- Of dried fruit: 2 tablespoons raw materials need to grind and pour 1 cup boiling water, leave at least 4 hours. Drink infusion of viburnum with high blood pressure is recommended for ½ cup 3 times a day.
- With wine or vodka (0.5 liters): 500 g of berries wash, fill into the bottle and pour alcohol withstand day. Then add the remaining liquor and infuse for 3-4 weeks in a cool dark place. The finished tincture filtered with spin berries and place in the refrigerator to use it should be 1/3 cup 3 times a day after meals.
How to use
Application Viburnum hypertension is not only sufficiently effective in the treatment, but also for the prevention of blood pressure surges or crisis. As useful is the use of fresh berries, frozen and should not be stored too long to raw material quality is not decreased.
Drink and receive at high pressure Kalina folk medicine advises as juice or milled together with sugar. However, it should comply with the dosage - no more than 3 tablespoons 1 times. If high blood pressure is accompanied by disturbances in the cardiovascular system, it is best to eat fruits with seeds.
In combined treatment of atherosclerosis useful infusion on 2 Art. l. fresh berries and 1 cup of boiling water. After infusion of fluid at least 2 hours is required to use it in 1/3 cup three times daily before meals.
In an emergency, if there has been a sharp increase in blood pressure, to reduce it need to eat a handful of fresh berries Kalinov. Experts advise all patients with hypertension to keep handy tincture viburnum - its regular use can help prevent worsening of the disease.
