To publications there is a speech about medicinal properties of a barberry.
The ornamental shrub a barberry doesn’t need representation. It often put as a live fencing on site border. And taste of its fruits is familiar to us since the childhood – with pleasure – sour Barberry sugar candies once were out of competition.
Leaves of a barberry prepare during the whole vegetative period. Keep in mind, dry leaves very easy therefore they should be prepared in a large number. After drying they should keep green color.
And now, when we feel bitterness in a mouth, we hurry up to jam it a kislenky candy; Though in this case it is much more useful barberry leaves. Infusion from them – preyokrasny zhelchegonny means.
Leaves of a barberry contain rare substance berberin which is impossible poluchit a synthetic way. It facilitates pains at cholecystitis, dilutes bile, removes stress of a gall bladder and eliminates an inflammation.
To prepare broth, take 1 tablespoon of the crushed dry leaves, zalejte a glass of hot water and heat up on a water bath of 15 minutes. Give to broth even minutes 40 to be insisted, filter and accept on 1 tablespoon 3-4 times a day.
To the people suffering from furuncles, traditional medicine recommends to accept broth from barberry fruits. They contain the substances clearing blood of an infection. About this property of a barberry it was known still to doctors of Ancient India, Japan, China. On the clay plates made for 650 years B.C., data on the berries of a barberry clearing blood contain.
Modern researches showed that in barberry fruits there is a lot of alkaloidov, tannins and vitamins. So, vitamin C in them more than in lemons. Here poyochy from a barberry doctors recommend broths and compotes as all-strengthening means for prevention of catarrhal diseases and flu. Barberry broth very much polezen at avitaminosis.
It is known also that it reduces arterial pressure and removes a nervous napryayozheniye. However to pregnant women to drink it doesn’t follow. Containing in a barberry berberin vyzyvaet uterus reduction also can lead to an abortion.
At us about fifty types of a barberry grow, and all of them are curative. If you want to plant this bush on a site, choose for it a place far away from doma. The matter is that at its flowers very unpleasant smell reminding a smell zadoxnuvshejsya of a sexual rag. But also, they with pleasure are pollinated by flies. Have also in a look that the barberry is the intermediate owner for the causative agent of a dangerous disease grain – rusts therefore it can’t be put near grain fields.
(On Hozyain newspaper materials).