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Velvet Amur

Useful properties and application recipes velvet Amur


Velvet Amur

The Amur cork tree is dioecious, perennial and deciduous tree that has unusually beautiful openwork crown with pinnate leaves. The tree is 25-28 meters in height, and the diameter can reach 1 meter. The leaves of velvet have a specific aroma, which can be easy to feel if you just RUB them in their hands. The tree trunk has a cork-soft cover – bark, which to the touch velvety, the colour is a light grey and has wrinkles.

This plant has the leaves pinnate, 3-6 pairs have petiolate leaves. These leaves in the form of the Lancet to the apex, they begin to lengthen.

Each sheet velvet contains from 10 flavonoids, various vitamins, tannins and essential oil. Phytoncides, contained in the leaves have antimicrobial activity and essential oil use not only as antimicrobial agents but also it has antiseptic and antihelminthic properties.

The flowers of the plant are small, unisexual, collected in inflorescence. Petals greenish color. The fruit of the Amur velvet – black color, like the ball a little bit shiny.

The velvet begins flowering from early summer and ripens its fruits from late summer to early autumn.

The Amur cork tree – a plant that is demanding to the fertility and soil moisture. This tree is resistant to wind and drought, and its root system is very strong, reaching far into the soil.

Velvet can easily endure the winter, and even transplant him uneasy.

This plant reproduces only by seed, that have just been collected. If seeding is planned for spring, before planting you need to stratify seeds for three months. Seeds will sprout in about a year.

The velvet can grow up to 300 years.


The fruit of the Amur velvet

Velvet fruits are painted black, so the Chinese gave it the name "tree of the black pearl." If you look closely, the velvet fruits do resemble black pearls.

Consumption of fruits velvet leads to lower sugar levels in the blood. Fruits contain about 8% essential oils. Eating the fruit of the Amur velvet leads to normal metabolism, normalizes the work of the pancreas. As well as the fruits used in the treatment of flu and colds.

before bedtime need to take 1-2 of the fruit of velvet. Fruits you need to chew and hold in your mouth for a few minutes. When he took the fruit velvet for half day (6 hours) it is prohibited to drink water. Thisone time will be sufficient only if the disease has just begun, and if the disease it has long lasting, this technique should be repeated several times.

Before meals for half an hour, you need to take 1-2 of the fruit of the Amur velvet daily.

But despite so many advantages from the use of the fruit of the Amur velvet, yet there are contraindications to its use:
– in the fruit of the plant contains such substances, which in large quantities can harm human health, so more than five fruits you should not accept;
little kids do not take these fruits;
– the fruit of velvet may be allergic;
– in applying the fruits of the velvet should not drink alcohol, coffee, strong tea is contraindicated in and Smoking.


The use of Amur cork tree

The Amur cork is a traditional medicine used in the form of tinctures and decoctions of flowers, leaves, and bark. A decoction of the bark and fruits are used in pulmonary tuberculosis, pleurisy, diabetes, and pneumonia. Herbal teas have an astringent, deodorizing, anti-inflammatory and antipyretic actions. Various types of skin diseases used a decoction of the inner bark and bark of the Amur cork tree.

In dysentery, diseases of the oral cavity and gastric infusion of the fruit plants. Leprosy and jade helps a decoction of the bark of the young velvet.

Scientists have conducted a lot of experiments and found that all preparations made from velvet Amur, lower blood pressure, have a fungicidal action, as well as the velvet increases the resistance to sarcomas, tumors and hematomas.

In addition to the use in the folk medicines of various countries, velvet is also used as ornamental plants for outdoor areas in hospitals, sanatoriums and recreation areas.

The bark of Amur velvet

Bark velvet has a thickness of not more than 7 see Through this thick layer of cork bark velvet is used as the source of natural cork.

When the tube Matures, it is removed, and already from it will make in the future of the cork plate. These plates can be used for various purposes.

Cork is a valuable material for many industries (e.g., footwear). I'm sure many have seen that the best wines are sealed with cork that is of plant origin.

Tube used in the manufacture of tropical helmets, floats tofishing, life jackets and belts. As well as its use in the manufacture of linoleum.

Tube used in almost all industries, is widely used it is found, because the tube is elastic, flexible, waterproof, resistant to the action of chemical reagents. In contact with the crust velvet products, it does not change their scent.

Bark velvet is used as an antipyretic and anti-inflammatory agent in various diseases. It helps with the inflammation of the colon and dysentery. Exhaustion, lung disease, diseases of the pleura and infectious hepatitis are used infusion of bark velvet with leaves of the same plant.

A decoction of the bark of velvet are used in Tibet folk healers. There they recommend that people with lymphadenopathy, kidney disease, arthritis, allergic dermatitis. When ascites apply tincture of the bark of velvet.

In the presence of surgical wounds instead of rivanol used the bark of the Amur cork tree. For preparing this medicine need to take 100 grams of bark of velvet and infuse it in a half liter of distilled water. When will the 2 day, you need to put this infusion to fire and heat. Next, pour the infusion into the bottle, put it into a large pot and boil for half an hour. After this composition, you need to add 15 grams of boric acid and 5 grams of novocaine. All this boil for about 10 minutes. Infusion is ready. Now you need a simple gauze, which need to soak this infusion. This impregnated gauze, apply on the wound and soon the wound will heal.


The Amur corktree

In the middle of the first month of summer begins to bloom velvet, and its flowering lasts until the end of June. First, what you can see is a paintbrush flowers. Some trees have only female flowers and others only male. From these flowers come the fruits of velvet. Male trees velvet more in the woods than women.

Bees are the main pollinators of velvet, but it happens that the function of pollination takes care of the wind. Velvet is very free-flowering and nectar with the pollen he also has a lot that attracts many bees.

Honey velvet has excellent properties. It is a dark yellow, slightly greenish tinge. This honey is very fragrant and pleasant to taste. The weather depends on the quality of honey: if the weather is good, then velvet is the best honey plant, but if cold, and rainy – from the flowers nectar is not.

The honey of this plant is not kristallizuetsya, long shelf life (because it contains a small amount of glucose). Very often the corktree used for the treatmentTB.


Preparation of the decoction and tincture of the Amur velvet

It is used as cholagogue. To prepare the broth take 10 g of dry bark velvet (crushed) and pour 200 ml of boiling water, put on fire and boil for 15 minutes. Then cool and strain. Everything is prepared, you need to drink per day in 3 divided doses.

Apply this infusion to improve digestion. So, you need to take 30 grams of dried leaves and pour 200 ml of boiled water, then infuse this mixture for two hours, then filtered and squeeze. Take this infusion three times a day before meals for 3 teaspoons.

It helps with the chronic form of hepatitis and cholecystitis. You need to pour 30 grams of dried leaves with one glass of alcohol (70%) and leave for about 14 days. Then do not forget to drain. This tincture should be taken before meals 15 drops 3 times daily.