Turn

Useful properties, recipes, and the root of the turn

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The beneficial properties of turn

Sloe, or blackthorn, is a shrub of the plum family. Fruits it berries rounded, black or dark blue, the surface of which is covered with a waxy bloom. Flavor of pulp sweet-sour and tart. Frozen fruits are more sweet. They contain sugars, organic acids, pectin, coloring matter, essential oils, vitamins C and R.

Due to the presence of tannins blackthorn has astringent properties. And the presence of pectins provides the adsorbing effect. Decoctions, infusions and juice turn have anti-inflammatory, diuretic, laxative, expectorant properties.

Recipes based on Terna

The juice of the sloe: the fruit must be cleaned from stones, heated to a temperature of 60-70 degrees, mash, squeeze juice, pour into jars.

A decoction: 1 tablespoon of fresh or dried material, pour 1 Cup boiling water and insist 1 hour. Drink the tool recommended in the morning on an empty stomach for 4 days.

Tincture of turn No. 1: 2 teaspoons lavender blossoms (dried or fresh) is required to insist in a glass of cold water for 8 hours. Take the drug 1-2 tablespoons 4-5 times a day as a diuretic in diseases of the kidneys, liver, to clean the skin with allergies, acne and boils.

Tincture of turn No. 2: you need to insist 1 tablespoon of flowers in 1 Cup of warm boiled water, 40 minutes and drink 1 Cup a day as a laxative.

Infusion of the leaves thorns: 1 tablespoon of crushed leaves, pour 1 Cup of hot water, boil 15 minutes, cool, drain, squeeze. Take the infusion of 1/2 Cup 3 times daily before meals.

Tea from flowers and leaves of blackthorn: 2 teaspoons of raw materials, pour 1/4 liter of water, slowly bring to the boil and strain. It is recommended to drink 2 cups of tea a day.

Berry thorns

Sloe berries used to prepare various beverages, wines, liqueurs, compotes, syrups, featuring a pleasant aroma and excellent taste. The best time of harvest after the first frost. Drying produce in the sun or in a kiln. Fresh and dried berries can help in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. Especially valuable juice of sloes in the period of exacerbationdiseases, inflammation of the kidneys and liver, metabolic disorders, and vitamin deficiency.

The fruit juice resists microbes and infection, so drink it for indigestion caused by microbes and parasites. Consumption of fruits is recommended when dysenteria, food poisoning. Berries promote excretion of sodium salts. Due to the high content of vitamin C the turn is indispensable for colds. Healing properties can be obtained from within the wine, get rid of infectious intestinal diseases. Juice treated some skin diseases, lotions and applications will benefit in eczema.

Flowers thorns

The flowers are harvested during the emergence of buds, leaves after flowering. Infusion strengthens the immune system, has diuretic and diaphoretic action, is useful in hypertension. Decoction cures constipation, liver disease. Antimicrobial properties help eliminate suppurative processes on the skin, the decoction also relieves nausea and shortness of breath.

Herbal teas have a positive effect on vascular permeability, for the treatment of BPH. Their soothing properties to help with neuralgia.

The root of the turn

The roots of the thorns dug in autumn. After the roots will manifest in the sun, they are placed into the drying unit or oven. Means from the roots have diaphoretic and antipyretic action, used in diarrhea, in the period of respiratory diseases, improve the General condition with malaria.

A decoction of bark and roots. Method 1: taking 1 part of the bark and roots of 20 parts water to make the composition 1-2 tablespoons 4-5 times a day as a diaphoretic and antipyretic. Method 2: pour 200 ml boiling water 5 g of bark or root, put in a water bath, boil for 30 minutes and drink 1/3 Cup 3 times a day after meals. The bark is cut before the flowers.

Tincture of turn

There is a great recipe for tinctures this unique berries. For the preparation of medicinal products harvested berries it is advisable to wash away intact and cover in a jar, and then pour 70% vodka, covered with 5 cm more than the level of the fruit. As the vodka will be absorbed, it should be refilled. Three months later, the fluid must be drained, pour the berries with sugar. If fruit 10 kg of sugar for 1.5 kg.

Berries to last another month until it forms a syrup, then they need to filter and mix with the liquid that we have separated from the berries at the beginning. The incredible aroma of the tincture will appear in six months.

Blackthorn

Turnprickly grows in Asia, in the West of Europe, in the European part of Russia, in the Mediterranean lands in Siberia and the Caucasus. It's stone fruit culture, which is specially grown on the plot of those who know about the healing power of berries. The fruit juice is prescribed not only for adults but also for children to solve problems associated with the stomach, loss of appetite, in case of poisoning. Candidiasis, leucorrhea in women can be treated with the decoction.

A decoction of the berries: 200 ml boiling water, 5 g of bark or root thorns should be placed in a water bath, boil for 30 minutes to Drink the recommended medium 1/3 Cup 3 times a day after meals. You can do the douching, diluting the broth with water in a ratio of 1:1.

Turn wild

Sloes growing wild in abandoned land, good fruit. He is the ancestor of the cultivated varieties, there are about 200 species. In the spring the crown of the plant is covered with white color, there is a fragrant smell. Naitives living SAP of the soil, the shrub bears fruit that ripens under the sun in late September, they acquire the power of solar energy and give it to people.

Contraindications to the use of Terna

Remember that only the edible pulp of the berries. They can be contraindicated if you are hypersensitive. It's minor shortcomings turn, he merits much more.