Crowberry

Useful properties and applications crowberry

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Useful properties of crowberry

Crowberry is an evergreen creeping shrub of the family Ericaceae. Its chemical composition is represented by organic acids, sugars, coumarin, vitamins A and C, minerals. The plant also contains essential oil, tannins and resin. Crowberry berries can be collected from late July until spring: out frozen old fruits are also useful. Better to pick berries in the morning, putting them in buckets or baskets. Fresh berries should be stored in cool place in sealed glass jars.

To freeze berries are harvested in late autumn. Vodenica poured into a clean cloth out, removing debris, and frozen in bulk. Frozen fruits are placed in packets and stored in the freezer. In addition to the berries, in folk medicine used grass and crowberry shoots. The branches are cut in the flowering period, dried in a warm ventilated area, laying a thin layer and occasionally stirred.

Application crowberry

The juice of the berries of crowberry soothes nervous system, relieves headache, improves metabolism and relieves scurvy. The berries have a strong diuretic effect. The infusion of herbs helps against diarrhea and other problems of the gastrointestinal tract. A decoction of the root is effective in eye diseases. Vodka tincture from the stems and leaves of crowberry treat epilepsy and paralysis, it can also be prescribed for metabolic disorders. A decoction of the leaves is used for strengthening roots of hair.

Herbal tea is recommended for kidney disease, it has a tonic effect. Crowberry twigs are used as wound healing remedy. Preparations made from plants, prescribed to block convulsive state, they also have a protective effect in damage to the Central nervous system.

Lotion for healing wounds: crowberry twigs two hours dipped in warm water, then applied them to the sore spot and tie. After two or three hours the bandage is replaced by a fresh.

Tea from twigs: 3-4 tablespoons finely chopped sprigs crowberry need to pour a liter of water, bring to boil, cool. Drink the medicine only in the morning one glass.

Berries crowberry

Crowberry berries are not very pleasant to the taste, they are almost fresh, but good to quench thirst, improve metabolism, relieve headaches. They are used also as a diuretic and antiscorbutic means. Fresh vodenicaeat with milk or yogurt, cooked from it jam, jam, marmalade and used as a condiment. The collected berries should not be stored in barrels made of softwood, it is better to do it in a simple glass container.

Crowberry black

This kind of crowberry is a small, evergreen, creeping shrub with dark red branched stems and small, oblong, twisted leaves. Flowers are unisexual, purple, with three petals. The fruit is gray-black round berries with bright red juice. Black crowberry is growing in the European part of Russia, the Urals, Western and Eastern Siberia, in the Western regions of Ukraine and Belarus. This species grows in coniferous forests, on rocks, sphagnum bogs.

The chemical composition of crowberry include polysaccharides, pectins, essential oil, resin, sugar, tannin and other nutrients. The fruit contains glucose, sucrose, fructose, fatty oil and wax. Fruits and aerial part of the plant used for medicinal purposes. It is known that the plant has antispasmodic, choleretic, and hypotensive properties, it has a calming effect on the nervous system. It is used in hypertension, headaches, epilepsy and other convulsive States. From the aerial parts of the plant presently established antiepileptic drug that is tested in the clinics.

Broth: 15 g of dried, finely chopped twigs and leaves of the plant should cook for 6-7 min in 250 ml of water, keep it for 2 hours, then strain. Make the tool recommended is 50 ml three times a day before meals.

Contraindications to the use of crowberry

Vodenica can be used for both adults and children. Contraindications can be in the case of individual intolerance. It is undesirable to use the berries pregnant and lactating women. Before applying best to consult a doctor.