White willow

Useful properties and recipes of the use of white willow

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Botanical characteristics of white willow

Willow – willow family tree, about 30 meters in height, with a thick trunk. The plant has a beautiful spreading crown with hollow branches. In young trees the bark is light gray, but the old trees have almost black bark cracked. On the thin yellow branches of a tree has long, silvery-silky leaves on short stalks. Small flowers willow collected several pieces in the earrings are of two types: female catkins are short and thin, but masculine, on the contrary, long and cylindrical. Along with the leaves bloom and earrings.

The fruit of the willow – the box made from the same nest of two valves. Inside the fruit has many small seeds on the surface of which there are hairs. Flowering willow falls in April, and a month later you can observe the ripening of the plant.

CIS IVA is a very common tree. It can be seen on forest edges, near buildings, and roads in floodplains and on moist soil. Willow prefers fertile soil.

Useful properties of white willow

The bark and leaves of the plant contain organic acids, tannins, ascorbic acid and flavonoids. IVA has antipyretic and antiseptic effect on the human body.

For medicinal purposes is usually applied to the bark of the plant, but the male catkins are also used in folk medicine. Willow bark has astringent and anti-inflammatory properties. In addition, preparations of willow bark have choleretic, diuretic and anthelmintic effect. Infusion and decoction of the bark help excrete uric acid, which is why they and is used in gout and arthritis.

IVA – plant, collecting energy, and instead of giving calm and relaxing. With a decoction of white willow can help to remove the headache.

The preparations of the white willow is used externally. For example, infusion of the bark is used in skin diseases, ulcers, and athlete's foot. As a means for rinsing the infusion of the bark is recommended for inflammation of the mouth, nose and throat.

The reproduction of the white willow

Willow is propagated by seeds, cuttings, shoots of the trunk and layering. For breeding more suited to sandy soil and wet soil.

Propagation by cuttings is done in the following way. You need to cut willow branches, to support themin the water until you see roots. Once formed roots, you can plant the plant in the soil. To get the elastic shoots, the process necessarily need to be watered.

IVA does not require special care. The soil must be moist, fertile and fresh. If the time between dry willow need only watering and spraying. Spring time is a time for the cultivation of young plants and mulch them with peat. Given the fact that willow responds well to pruning, you can give it a beautiful shape. Too long or dead branches need to be cut off.

The use of white willow

A decoction of willow bark as an antipyretic. Take 1 tablespoon of the bark and chop it . Raw materials pour a glass of boiling water and put it on small fire for 20 minutes. The broth is ready. After straining, you can take 1 tablespoon three times a day.

A decoction of willow for prostatitis. For its preparation you need to take 1 tablespoon of willow branches and chop them finely. Shredded branches pour 200 ml of boiling water. Put on the fire for 5 minutes. Strain, take 100 ml three times a day.

The medicine of willow for removal of warts. Take the ash of the willow wood and add to it vinegar. Should get a mass similar to mush. This slurry is applied to the wart until, until they are dry and start to fall away.

A decoction of willow with hair loss. Take 1 tablespoon of willow bark and as much of the roots of burdock, pour 500 ml of water. Put in a water bath for 20 minutes and leave for about two hours. Once ready strain the broth, they need to wash your hair no more than twice a week.

Tool of the willow for the treatment of goiter. Take shoots of willows and burn them. Coals from the burning need to crush and mix with honey. Mixing ratio is 1 part charcoal to 2 parts honey. Ready means take 3 times a day 20 minutes before meals. Single dose – 50 grams.

Tincture of tachycardia and arrhythmia. You need to take 100 grams of male inflorescences of willow, pour 500 ml of vodka and leave to infuse for 1 month. The finished tincture take 30 or 35 drops of no more than four times a day before meals. But before taking drops of the tincture should be mixed with a spoon of water.

Contraindications to the use of white willow

For bradycardia it is impossible to use preparations from the flowers of the willow. Medicines on the basis of the willows should not use children under the age of 16 with symptoms of the flu or a cold. The ban stems from the fact that due to the supplementation of willow, which contain salicylates, the childyou may receive a Reye's syndrome – a disease that can lead to the death of a child. Ulcer is also impossible to apply the tools of willow.