Birch brunki useful properties. Birch tinctures on brunki and not only What are birch brunki

Tinctures based on certain birch components are considered one of the most useful. They are, in fact, a ready-made vitamin complex and in small doses can easily help improve health. Everything is used to prepare such tinctures: brunki, juice, kidneys, earrings.

Birch tincture on brunki

Brunki are called birch buds. A tincture prepared on their basis helps with kidney diseases, colds, sore throats, stomach ulcers, and also alleviates the course of tuberculosis. Collect buds suitable for infusion should be in the spring, when they are already swollen, but have not yet opened. Too early kidneys have not yet acquired useful substances, and there is no point in using them. Before use, the kidneys are usually dried in the open air or in a dryer, keeping the temperature at about thirty degrees, and then stored in glass jars or bags.

There are quite a few recipes for making birch tincture on brunka.

Recipe? 1 (Tincture is more medicinal than for direct drinking)

Ingredients:

• dry brunki? 20 g;
• 70% alcohol or vodka? 100 ml;

This tincture is left in a dark, cool place for three weeks, stirred regularly, then filtered and taken before meals in the amount of 20 drops per tablespoon of water.

Recipe? 2. Vodka based on birch brunek

Ingredients:

Pants are placed in glass jar and filled with alcohol. The settling period is 10 days, after which they must be filtered.

Recipe? 3

Ingredients:

• fresh brunchi and birch leaves (you can do without the leaves, but they allow you to add richness to the taste) ? 200 g;
• vodka or moonshine? 6 l.

Brunki and leaves are placed in a glass container and poured with 2 liters of alcohol, after which they are infused for 3 days in a dark, warm place. After filtering, they are poured again (the liquid from the first infusion at this time is in a cool dark place) and infused for another 3 days. This liquid is also separated, after which the third stage begins, similar to the first two, but it is necessary to insist for 10 days, after which all three liquids obtained are mixed and filtered.

Birch sap tinctures

Birch juice? one of the best foundations to make a tincture? it has a pronounced peculiar taste and the same smell. Therefore, it is no coincidence that a large number of relevant recipes have appeared. Not only tinctures are prepared from it, but also moonshine, wine, mash and some other types of alcoholic beverages.

Recipe? 1. Tincture with propolis

Ingredients:

• propolis? 200 g;
• vodka or moonshine? 1 l;
• Birch juice? in the desired amount.

Propolis is crushed, poured into a bottle and filled with vodka, after which it is mixed or shaken for half an hour. It takes three days to insist it, regularly shaking and stirring, after which the resulting tincture is diluted with birch sap.

Recipe? 2. ?Princely? moonshine on birch sap

Ingredients:

• sugar? 3 kg;
• dry yeast? 40 gr (you can use 200 gr of pressed bakery);
• Birch juice? 10 l;
• milk or kefir? 1 st. l.

Birch sap is heated up to 30 °C? hot is not recommended? and mixed with sugar. Yeast is bred in warm water. The container intended for fermentation is filled with the resulting birch syrup and diluted yeast so that it remains empty by another third (this place will be occupied by carbon dioxide during the fermentation process). Poured spoon dairy product or milk itself, which allows to reduce the amount of foam, and the mash is placed in a warm place under a water seal, where it settles for 10-12 days, until it acquires a lighter shade and becomes bitter. After that, it can be drained and overtaken in one of the convenient ways. You can improve the resulting moonshine based on birch sap by cleaning with charcoal or after re-distillation.

Birch catkin tinctures

For the preparation of such a drink, only male types of earrings are used. These tinctures are more of a medicinal nature and are almost never used on their own, outside medical advice.
goals? primarily because they require very small doses. Birch catkins in tinctures help against heart disease, as well as stomach ulcers and tuberculosis. Their collection is carried out in early summer or late spring, shortly after the collection of buds ends.

Recipe? 1

Ingredients:

• birch men's earrings in an amount sufficient to fill the intended glass jar or bottle by 2/3;
• vodka or moonshine in the volumes of the remaining 1/3.

Glass containers are filled with earrings, which are then filled with alcohol. It is clogged and left for 21 days in a dark, cool place to settle. For medicinal purposes, the tincture can be consumed without filtering, but it is still better to do it, otherwise over time it can acquire an unpleasant bitter aftertaste, which will be extremely difficult to get rid of.

This tincture is taken in an amount of not more than a teaspoon, slightly diluted with water, half an hour before meals. This should be done no more than two months in a row and no more than a couple of times a year.

Recipe? 2

Ingredients:

Earrings are placed in a glass container and filled with alcohol, after which they are infused in a dark, cool place for 10-15 days. Reception of such a tincture should be carried out in an amount of not more than 40 drops three times a day. The course should not last more than two months in a row.

Before preparing birch tincture with any base, you should pay attention to the fact that pollen and birch resin (especially its buds) are quite allergenic and it is better to carefully check everything before the slightest suspicion of a reaction.

Another important point is that most birch tinctures are intended to be consumed in small doses, and only in this case they will be useful to the body, but in general they are ordinary, rather strong alcohol. Therefore, you should drink them carefully and in moderation.

Dear doctors and healers! Usually, when it comes to treatment with traditional medicine, they mean tinctures and preparations from medicinal herbs. I myself make their stocks for the future and look forward to the onset of summer. I recently learned that in the spring months you can get a "panacea" used to prepare all kinds of healing potions. These are birch buds. I would like to know about what diseases they heal and how to use them in home treatment?

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THE KIDNEYS HELP YOU FIGHT ILLNESS!

Due to the presence of a unique complex of medicinal components, birch buds can be successfully used to treat diseased joints, as a diuretic, choleretic and diaphoretic, simultaneously providing an analgesic effect ...

ABOUTThe healing properties of birch have been known for a long time.Especially popular among traditional healers was an alcoholic infusion on birch brunkas. (as the kidneys were called at that time). The people appreciated it for its ease of preparation and velvety-soft taste, using it as a prophylactic, anddoctors prescribed tincture fordiseases of the kidneys, stomachand for rapid wound healing.

“A white birch under my window...” The poet who wrote these lines seemed to be visiting me, because in my front garden there really grow a birch planted once by my grandfather. She has grown decently over the years, which is why a neighbor from time to time tries to convince me to cut down a blond beauty. “It’s dangerous,” he says, “to have such a tree near the house - suddenly a heavy wind will fly in, break off the branches, and if the broken trunk falls on the roof, it won’t seem enough for you!”

Only my hand does not rise to take an ax or a saw and destroy such beauty. So I get off with general promises. Like, let the beauty live, please the eye. After all, cutting it down is a matter of minutes, and growing it takes years and decades.

And recently a friend from the Crimea came to visit me. I saw a birch, and threw up my hands:

— Yes, you have, - he says, - under the window a real living pharmacy!

I did not immediately understand what was at stake. I grow greenery in the front garden, but its price is a penny in the marketnyday. There is nothing to be excited about this. And the fact that the acquaintance had in mind a birch, could not have occurred to me.

— I, - he says, - came to you in time. Soon the time will come to collect birch buds - so I go to the forestno need to go. You have enough of this goodness. Hope you don't mind?

So, quite by accident, I found out that in the family of my friend,birch buds are called a real panacea. They have been treated since ancient times, and are considered the best alternative to many medicines.

True, in order to procure this raw material in the spring, one has to work hard - to go to the forest where blond beauties grow. And here is a birch - right in the yard.

— Of course, I say, take as much as you want, I don’t mind. Just explain why you call birch buds a panacea?

Asked a question and expected to hear a short answer. And as a result, I listened to a real lecture thatonly these spring days provide an opportunity for true experts in traditional medicine to procure raw materials that cure hundreds of diseases

Panacea for the party elite

Modern research has confirmed the wisdom of the ancestors. It turns out that due to the presence of a unique complex of healing componentsbirch buds can be successfully used to treat diseased joints, as

Russian beauties

diuretic, choleretic and diaphoretic, simultaneously exerting an analgesic effect.

And in the essential oil contained in the kidneys, betulin, betulol, betulenic acid were found, which allows them to be usedfor the treatment of diseases of the upper respiratory tract .

Besides,alcohol infusion on birch trees is an excellent anti-inflammatory agent, normalizes the activity of the kidneys, removes toxins and harmful substances from the body. And tea from the kidneys is indispensable in case of obesity, as it improves the metabolic process.

In the West, they were well aware of the healing properties of birch trees (buds). Western pharmacologists were particularly interested inrejuvenating effect of alcohol infusion on birch buds and the possibility of their wide application in cosmetics. The main obstacle to the transition to mass production and use of preparations from birch buds was the lack of a sufficient amount of raw materials. As it became known from the recently declassified archives of the Soviet era, a way out of this impasse was found.

In the early 1960s, several meetings of the party leadership of the Soviet Union with the heads of the largest pharmaceutical enterprises took place, at which an agreement was reached on the conditions for the supply of birch buds, which became one of the articles, albeit tacit, of foreign exchange earnings in the country long before active exports abroad oil.

To fulfill the obligations undertaken, a special order was issued on the planned harvesting of birch buds (the word "brunki" was also used in the title). At the end of December, special groups were formed, which for three months - from January to April - were engaged in collecting swollen, but still unblown brunkas.

The cut branches were tied into bundles. The next step was drying and packing the material in special containers. But only part of the collected raw materials was exported, since the party leadership of the Soviet Union was itself well aware of the healing properties of birch buds. Raw materials were sent to special pharmacies, where a unique infusion was prepared from them.

From a hundred ailments

Every year in April, the family of my friend goes to the forest to have time to collect white birch buds that have not yet blossomed, as a very valuable medicine.

Birch buds are harvested during the period of sap flow, when they are especially resinous and fragrant, but have not yet opened.Too early collection of buds, before they swell, is irrational, since there are still few resinous and aromatic substances in them at this time. .

Buds are harvested by hand or cut branches with buds. After drying, the branches are threshed, and the remaining buds are cleaned of fragments of branches and other impurities. Dry the kidneys in the open air or in dryers at a temperature of 25-30 degrees. Store them in cloth and paper bags or in glass containers.

Both ointments and tinctures

In folk medicine, birch buds, young twigs are used in the form of water infusions, alcohol tinctures, ointments, as diuretics, diaphoretics, for gouty and rheumatic diseases.

In scientific medicine, birch buds are usedwith edema of cardiac origin, with diseases of the liver and biliary tract, and also as an expectorant.

Preparations from birch buds and leaves are usedwith hypo- and beriberi, with edema, atherosclerosis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, with chronic diseases of the kidneys and bladder, with kidney stones, with intestinal spasms and as an expectorant for laryngitis, bronchitis and tracheitis.

Water infusion of birch budsused in chronic kidney disease, especially in the formation of kidney stones and bladder stones.

Water infusion of birch buds is usedin the treatment of diabetes mellitus: 2-3 tbsp. spoons of kidneys are poured with 2 cups of boiling water, insisted in a warm place in a tightly closed container for 6 hours, then filtered and taken this dose during the day in 3 divided doses.

A decoction of birch buds is usefulfor inhalation in inflammatory processes of the upper respiratory tract, externally in the treatment of arthritis (inflammation of the joints) and as a wound healing agent . To prepare the decoction, take 2 teaspoons of birch buds, pour a glass of boiling water, insist on a boiling water bath in a tightly closed container for 30 minutes, cool at room temperature for 10 minutes, filter and take in 3 divided doses 20-30 minutes before meals.

To prepare alcohol tincturebirch buds are ground in a mortar and poured with alcohol at the rate of 1 weight part of 5 parts of alcohol (alcohol can be replaced with vodka). A week later, the tincture is ready for use.

As an external pain reliever and anti-inflammatory agentalcohol tincture of birch buds is used for rubbing and compressesfor rheumatism, gout, joint pain, lumbago and bedsores, for wound healing, for skin irritation with purulent secretions, for the treatment of acute and chronic forms of eczema, poorly healing ulcers, for myositis and arthritis, toothache, for rinsing the mouth with gum disease .

Alcohol tincture of birch buds (1 Art. a spoonful of tincture in a glass of cold boiled water) is used for douching with whites in women.

With various lesions of the limbs (eczema, for example ) hot baths are very helpfulwith the addition of alcohol tincture of birch buds at the rate of 10 ml of tincture per 1 liter of water. Hands or feet are immersed in a hot bath once a day. The temperature of the water is the highest that the patient can withstand. The duration of the procedure is at least 30 minutes. After the bath, do not wipe the affected areas of the skin, but allow them to dry. The course of treatment is 15-20 days. In most patients, after taking the first 3-4 baths, itching disappears. The rapid cessation of itching has a beneficial effect on the general condition of patients with eczema.

As a local anti-inflammatory agentyou can cook birch cakes: for 1 part of honey, take 2 parts of powder from birch buds and mix until a thick, uniform mass is formed. If honey is very liquid, you can increase the amount of powder.With furunculosis and the formation of carbuncles these lozenges are used as a concomitant therapy. They can be applied under a bandage for 3-4 hours, followed by replacement. It is recommended to leave this bandage on all night.

For various coughs helps a mixture prepared from 2 tbsp. spoons of birch buds and 50 g of unsalted butter. Put the mixture on fire, bring to a boil (but do not boil), simmer over low heat or in the oven for 1 hour, then remove from heat. When it cools down, but is still warm, strain, squeeze, discard the kidneys, add 200 g of honey, stir well and take 1 tbsp. spoon 4 times a day.

Preparations from birch buds are usefulwith functional disorders of the gastrointestinal tract, pain in the stomach and intestines, with stomach and duodenal ulcers, with dysentery and dyspepsia in children.

Proven Recipes

Healers prepare an ointment from birch buds, which is usedin diseases of the joints, both rheumatoid and gouty. 1 glass of birch buds is ground into powder (or freshly ground into a slurry) and ground into 0.5 kg of fresh interior fat. Put in the oven at clay pot and languish for 3 hours a day (in the absence of an oven

— over low heat in a water bath) for 7 days. After that, hot fat is poured into jars. Raw materials are strained and discarded.

Apply this ointment externallyWith inflammation of the glands, eczema - with any skin diseases. And with tuberculosis on a teaspoon of ointment in 50 ml of warm (45-50 ° C) milk, 3 times a day before meals - inside. This drug has a good effectwith lupus erythematosus especially when taken internally and externally at the same time - for lupus ulcers, as well aswith nodular erythema, vasculitis, dermatoses, dermatomyositis; with bedsores, varicose ulcers, lichen.

With cholecystoangiocholitis with high acidity 2 teaspoons of birch leaves pour 200 g of boiling water, leave for 1 hour. Strain. Add to the infusion of drinking soda at the tip of a knife. Drink 50 g 3-4 times a day 10 minutes before meals. The course of treatment is 40 days.

With acute cholecystitis, accompanied by hepatic colic (but without gallstones) Infuse 10 g of birch buds in 0.5 liters of vodka or 90% alcohol diluted 1:1 with water for 12 days in a dark place in a well-closed container. Strain on the 13th day. Use 1 tbsp. spoon every 3 hours, regardless of food, from eight in the morning to eight in the evening. On the area of ​​the liver — a compress from a steamed birch broom (leaves and branches) 3 times a day for 45 minutes.

He was treated with birch buds - and returned his hearing!

Some time ago I succeeded with the help of vodka infusion of birch budsget rid offrom hearing loss second degree. When a relapse occurred a year later, I again resorted to the help of birch buds and my hearing returned. Many of my friends became interested in this experience and asked for more details about the recipe and how to use it.

I will say right away that the idea of ​​being treated is The well-known phytotherapeutist Dr. Dannikov suggested to me with cutting kidneys. In one of his articles, he writes: “Alcohol tincture of birch budssuccessfully curedchronic purulent mesotympanitis - acute inflammation of the middle ear without perforation of the tympanic membrane.

Birch buds insist on 70% alcohol in a ratio of 1:10 for two months, periodically shaking the contents. Alcohol drops are applied in the usual way. After a thorough toilet of the ears, the tincture in a warm form (+ 37 degrees), 3-5 drops, is instilled three times a day.

Once a day, in patients with chronic otitis media, this tincture should wash the ear. Treatment is carried out within 10-15 days.

Ten percent alcohol tincture of birch budscan be successfully applied tootitis treatment. It does not have a toxic, allergic effect and at the same time has a pronounced disinfectant, anti-inflammatory effect.sedative and anesthetic action.

In addition to ear diseases, birch buds treat anydiseases of the genitourinary system, malignant ulcers, oncological diseases. With the help of alcohol on: kidney racks save even hopeless patientswith peritonitis - postoperative inflammation of the abdomen

noah cavity. When no anti biotics no longer work, the tincture kills pathogens.

Birch buds

Water or alcohol infusion of kidneyshas diuretic, choleretic, blood-purifying, analgesic, wound-healing, anti-inflammatory, disinfectant actions. They are cureddiabetes mellitus, thrombophlebitis, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, etc.

Dr. Dannikov lists the healing properties of birch buds on twenty pages. Evenjoint diseases, rheumatism folk healers healed with the help of birch buds or leaves. Why is this miraculous remedy forgotten today?People very rarely buy birch buds in pharmacies. The answer is simple - general ignorance in the field of traditional medicine. Doctors for the most part also do not know what miracles our simple birch is capable of. I can assume that pharmacists deliberately keep silent about the universal effect of birch preparations - they are too cheap, you can’t make millions of dollars.

That is why the market is overstocked with expensive synthetic drugs, although the chemistry is far from safe for the body.

I'm five minutes to seventy. I am a deep pensioner and I watch with regret how my “colleagues” rush around pharmacies, worry about the fact that they do not get preferential expensive medicines. All these worries only shorten life. Yes, you spit on these preferential medicines, go to the forest in April and collect more birch buds so that it is enough for a whole year.

Prepare a tincture based on birch buds. This is how you heal. There will be more sense. Trust my years of experience .

Birch buds helped cure the stomach!

This remedy for stomach pain is much better than all the advertised pills. It not only relieves a spasm that does not allow you to live in peace, but it also makes a lazy stomach work normally, produce the necessary enzymes and not be “naughty”.

However, many treat the vagaries of their stomach with disdain. I ate something spicy or sour, I felt discomfort in my stomach, and instead of thinking about its reasons, I immediately reached into my pocket for pills.

Apparently, the years of intrusive advertising have not gone unnoticed for many of us. And how could it be otherwise, when on TV almost every day you see a person who has “noise and din” in his stomach and who, after a pill of a magical remedy, is even ready to eat “fried nails”.

Many of us tend to believe in miracles. And advertising "healings" impress us more than the advice of doctors and healers. Perhaps that is why there are more miracle cures, but for some reason the disease has not become less. And then, after all, it is known that all these “quick” means help for the time being,- until the time, and then the stomach just goes out of control. And then what to do?

I myself fought with this body for a long time, for a long time and without success. They did not shake either medication or diet. I was envied by full friends, they say, it’s necessary that she retained such a figure both after marriage and after the birth of two children.

How can I explain to them that it's my fear of food, which causes wild pains in the stomach. You can’t not eat either - this makes it even worse. So I suffered on dietary products, from which my stomach also often hurt.

I found out about the tincture of birch buds by accident. I had heard before that they were very useful, but I did not think that they would help me specifically. It's always like that. You hear about a healing remedy, nod and immediately forget, thinking that it will definitely not help you.

But then my mother took over my treatment. Her stomach began to churn with age. She increasingly complained of pain, nausea appeared, her appetite disappeared. It is always easier to be treated together, so we got down to this business.

From birch buds for the treatment of the stomach, it is necessary to prepare a tincture.

A teaspoon of dry kidneys is poured into 100 ml of 70-degree alcohol and infused in a dark place at room temperature. The tincture will be ready in3 weeks. It must be filtered and begin to regularly take 20 drops three times a day.day. This dose was enough for me to forget for a long time what a sick stomach is.

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I think you have heard more than once about this recipe for the Tibetan elixir of youth, found by the UNESCO expedition in 1971. in Tibetan monasteries, which was written on clay tablets as early as the 5th century BC.

Today it has been translated into all languages ​​and tested by more than one thousand people, and by me personally too. But, I will not delve into this, I described everything in detail in the picture, it increases and everything can be read.

Birch buds medicinal properties

Birch is one of those trees whose medicinal properties are recognized by any medicine.

(folk, official, Chinese, Indian, etc.)

Particularly valuable medicinal raw material in birch are birch buds collected during their swelling from late April to early May, during sap flow, while they have not yet opened, which is very very important!!!

It is in these kidneys that the most important healing component is contained, which has a phenomenal healing power - this is an essential oil, which is a thick balsamic liquid with a very pleasant smell and contains a large number of biologically active components

It is this oil that has a huge number of useful medicinal properties that can restore the functioning of damaged organs and systems of the human body.

I read in one source that

birch bud oil can turn any skin into velvet!

You will hardly find a ready-made herbal balm or elixir, wherever it is in the composition of birch buds.

Traditional medicine endows them with a wide range of medicinal properties that really prove their effectiveness.

Let's look at some recipes for using birch buds.

BIRCH BUDS APPLICATION

BIRCH BUDS - DIURETENT

Birch buds are effectively used as a diuretic for various diseases of the genitourinary system and edema of cardiac origin.

BIRCH BUDS

An infusion of birch buds is used for diseases of the liver, biliary tract, cholecystitis

BIRCH BUDS - FOR DISEASES OF THE STOMACH

The effectiveness of the use of infusion of birch buds in various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract has been proven.

BIRCH BUDS - IN INFLAMMATORY PROCESSES OF THE UPPER RESPIRATORY WAYS

To do this, make inhalations with an infusion of birch buds and use them to gargle

BIRCH BUDS - FOR SKIN DISEASES

Birch buds are a very effective remedy for various skin diseases: eczema, furunculosis, acne, dermatitis, erosion, wounds, burns, bedsores, etc.

To do this, use therapeutic baths with an infusion of birch buds and prepare an ointment that is rubbed into diseased skin areas.

BIRCH BUDS - IN DISEASES OF THE JOINTS

Alcohol tincture of birch buds very effectively relieves inflammation and pain in the joints and can be used for:

rheumatism, gout, lumbago, arthritis, joint pain

BIRCH BUDS-IN DIABETES

BIRCH BUDS - GENERAL STRENGTHENING

Birch buds can be used as an infusion during the period of weakening of the body after serious illnesses, during the period of a cold accompanied by bronchitis and fever, with a decline in strength and energy, overwork.

BIRCH BUDS IN ORIENTAL MEDICINE

According to Eastern medicine, birch buds harmonize the state of hollow organs: stomach, small intestine, large intestine, gallbladder, bladder, three heaters. Affect the endocrine system: pineal gland, pituitary gland, thyroid gland, pancreas, adrenal glands, ovaries, testicles. And also on all properties and pathological states of systems.

BIRCH BUDS IN COSMETOLOGY

An infusion of birch buds can replace a tonic for dry skin, it is very useful for acne and helps to treat age spots.

HOW TO COLLECT BIRCH BUDS

Very well described in this video about birch buds

HOW TO PREPARE THE INfusion OF BIRCH BUDS

Since the kidneys are soft plant materials, it is best to prepare an infusion from them.

To do this, half 1 tsp. crushed birch buds pour half a glass of boiling water and insist in a boiling water bath, in a sealed container for 15 minutes. Refrigerate for 45 minutes at room temperature, strain and take 3 times a day

With this method of preparing infusions (applies to any herbs), all useful substances are completely transferred from medicinal raw materials to infusion, which makes it possible to obtain a full-fledged therapeutic effect.

Store 1 day in the refrigerator.

HOW TO PREPARE ALCOHOLIC TINCTURE FROM BIRCH BUDS

Birch buds insist in a ratio of 1:10 for two months on 70% alcohol, shaking occasionally, in a dark place. Then filter. Store in a cool place away from light

Tinctures from birch buds as useful as propolis tinctures.

HOW TO PREPARE HOMEMADE OINTMENT FROM BIRCH BUDS

You need to take unsalted butter and kidneys.

Spread in a small saucepan in layers: a layer of oil, a layer of kidneys (layer thickness 1 cm) and so on until it is filled. Close the lid. Put it all in a warm place for 14-18 hours (you can use the oven, oven or hot battery). Then you filter it all and squeeze it through gauze. Keep the finished ointment in a cool place. Apply by rubbing into the affected areas of the body in the evening before going to bed, once a day.

CONTRAINDICATIONS TO THE USE OF BIRCH BUDS

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1. Contraindications for use

After all, birch is one of the most common trees in the temperate climate zone.

The healing properties of birch buds were valued in antiquity, as soon as the sap flow began in the spring, and the buds began to swell, they were carefully cut from the branches and dried, later used to prepare healing decoctions and infusions.

In the same period, they also collect healing birch sap, which brings great health benefits.

Collection of birch buds

Birch buds are harvested in the spring during the swelling period. Mid-April - early May. They collect birch buds while they are not yet open, while birch sap moves along the tree trunk.

This is very important, because picking birch buds too early is useless. They still have too few nutrients. The buds are harvested by hand or cut off along with the branches.

The color of the kidneys is brownish-brown, sometimes greenish at the base. The smell is balsamic, aggravated by rubbing. The taste is slightly astringent, resinous.

It is better to collect birch buds outside the city, away from roads and factories, then it will be an environmentally friendly raw material.

Dry them in the open air or in dryers at a temperature of 25-30 degrees. Store them in cloth or paper bags or in glass containers.

Healing and beneficial properties of birch buds

To fully appreciate the benefits and healing properties of birch buds, you need to consider their biochemical composition. Those who like to take a steam bath with a birch broom know how pleasant the air becomes. So - the same fragrant essential oils, as in the leaves, are also found in birch buds.

Birch buds contain essential balsamic oil, which includes betulenic acid, betulol and betulen, resinous substances, alkaloids, flavonoids, fatty acids, vitamin C, PP, carotene and saponins, tannins and minerals (magnesium, calcium and iron).

Pesnyary - Birch sap

The oil obtained in the amount of 5-8% by steam distillation of the kidneys is a thick yellow liquid with a pleasant balsamic smell.

The beneficial properties of birch buds are known not only to folk, but also to traditional medicine. They have a diuretic, choleretic, diaphoretic, blood-purifying, analgesic, disinfectant, wound-healing effect.

This is an excellent anthelmintic, birch buds relieve inflammation, have a strong antibacterial effect, killing enteric-typhoid microbes. Tincture of birch buds (1:5) exhibits antimicrobial activity against antibiotic-resistant forms of 144 strains of staphylococci isolated from patients with various forms of purulent infection.

This allows you to treat various purulent infections such as phlegmon, furunculosis, peritonitis and mastitis. The essential oils contained in birch buds have a destructive effect on invasions.

Preparations prepared from plant buds are prescribed for edema of cardiac origin.. Birch buds increase diuresis and quickly reduce swelling in the periphery, even when traditional diuretic drugs do not have the desired effect. With edema caused by functional disorders of the kidneys, such treatment is not recommended, since resinous substances can irritate the kidney tissue.

The choleretic properties of birch buds are used in diseases of the liver and biliary tract.. In addition, they are used in the treatment of bronchitis, tracheitis as a disinfectant and expectorant. Birch bud preparations are also used for hygienic and therapeutic baths.

As can be seen from the above, there are a lot of medicinal properties in birch buds.

The use of birch buds

As mentioned at the beginning, this medicinal raw material is mainly used in the form of decoctions of infusions. It is also widely used in folk medicine in the form of alcohol tinctures and ointments.

Infusions and decoctions of birch buds are used in otolaryngology and dentistry as an anti-inflammatory, decongestant and epithelizing agent for stomatitis, gingivitis, periodontal disease, glossitis, tonsillitis, chronic tonsillitis, acute respiratory diseases in the form of rinses and applications of gauze napkins moistened with infusions or decoctions.

In folk medicine, birch buds are used in the treatment of gout, rheumatism, and joint pain. They will help in the treatment of burns, eczema, the appearance of acne. Compresses made from a decoction of birch buds will have a wound healing effect.

Due to their regenerating effect, birch buds contribute to faster cell regeneration. In the treatment of arthritis, trophic non-healing ulcers, edema, a decoction of birch buds will have a diuretic and strengthening effect on the body.

In case of diseases of the oral cavity and throat, it is recommended to gargle with a decoction, which includes birch buds.

Decoction of birch buds - recipe

10 grams of kidneys (this is about 5-6 pieces) is poured into 0.2 l hot water, after which they boil for 15 minutes, cool and filter. Such a decoction is recommended to be consumed every day for half a glass between meals. It will help to restore the body with colds and flu, will give the necessary vitamins in the spring. They can gargle with sore throat, stomatitis or periodontal disease, it reduces swelling, having diuretic and choleretic properties.

Alcohol tincture of birch buds

Alcoholic tincture of birch buds is recommended for colds, laryngitis, bronchitis, tracheitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, indigestion, poor appetite, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, gastric and duodenal ulcers, dysentery and dyspepsia in children, pinworms and roundworms, as choleretic and diuretic, with nephrolithiasis and diseases of the bladder, with headaches and migraines, with atherosclerosis.

It is useful to give the tincture to seriously ill patients after stress, especially women after an artificially interrupted pregnancy, during a difficult menopause, with edema of cardiac origin, with liver disease.

Preparation of alcohol tincture (internally)

Pour 20 g of dry crushed birch buds with 100 ml of 70% alcohol or vodka, insist in a dark, cool place for 3 weeks, shaking the contents from time to time, strain, squeeze out the rest.

Take 20 - 30 drops per 1 tablespoon of water 3 times a day 15 - 20 minutes before meals.

Alcohol tincture for external use

As an external analgesic, anti-inflammatory agent alcohol tincture birch buds are used for rubbing and compresses for rheumatism, gout, joint pain, lumbago and bedsores, in the treatment of minor wounds, skin erosions, skin irritation with purulent secretions, in the treatment of acute and chronic forms of eczema, poorly healing ulcers, in the treatment of myositis and arthritis , with toothache in the form of rinsing the mouth.

Preparation of tincture for external use

Birch buds are ground in a mortar and poured with alcohol from the following calculation: for 1 part by weight of the buds - 5 parts of alcohol. In the absence of alcohol, you can use high-quality vodka. A week later, the tincture is ready for use.

Ointment from birch buds

There are two ways to prepare an ointment from the kidneys:

The first method requires 700-800 grams of unsalted butter and birch buds as needed. An enamel pan is taken and oil and birch buds are alternately applied to it in equal layers a finger thick. After that, the closed pan is wrapped in foil and put in a preheated oven for a day. Camphor can be added to the resulting ointment to enhance the therapeutic effect (a little, five grams).

The second method is simpler - pour birch buds with boiling water, filter this liquid and mix it with melted lanolin. After solidification of the resulting mass, we drain the liquid formed on the surface. The ointment is ready to use.

The ointment obtained by these methods can be rubbed into sore joints every evening. In addition to rheumatism, it will be useful in eczema.

Birch buds. Contraindications

There are birch buds, albeit minimal, but contraindications for use. Women should not use birch buds for medicinal purposes during pregnancy and lactation..

It is also very carefully advised to use them in acute diseases of the urinary system and renal failure.

Ideally, a doctor should be consulted before ingesting birch buds. This is not always possible, but will avoid many troubles.

Birch buds - the benefits and beneficial properties of birch buds

Birch buds are a unique natural remedy that helps get rid of a whole bunch of diseases, it is noteworthy that this is a very effective and environmentally friendly medicine that is available to most people. After all, birch is one of the most common trees in the temperate climate zone. The beneficial properties of birch buds were valued in antiquity, as soon as the sap flow began in the spring, and the buds began to swell, they were carefully cut from the branches and dried, later used to prepare healing decoctions and infusions. In the same period, they also collect healing birch sap, which brings great health benefits.

What are the benefits of birch buds

To fully appreciate the benefits of birch buds, you need to study their biochemical composition. Birch buds contain essential balsamic oil, which includes betulenic acid, betulol and betulen, resinous substances, alkaloids, flavonoids, fatty acids, vitamin C, PP, carotene and saponins, tannins and minerals (magnesium, calcium and iron).

Folk medicine has been using beneficial features birch for the treatment and prevention of various diseases. According to Russian legends, epic heroes drank a decoction of kidneys to restore strength after battles and long campaigns. And modern medicine recommends the use of birch preparations for the treatment of tonsillitis, gingivitis, stomatitis, periodontal disease and other diseases of the throat and oral cavity. In addition, birch buds have an expectorant, diuretic, antifungal, anti-inflammatory and diaphoretic effect.

The use of a decoction of birch buds

Preparations prepared from the buds of the plant are prescribed for edema of cardiac origin. Birch buds increase diuresis and quickly reduce swelling in the periphery, even when traditional diuretic drugs do not have the desired effect. With edema caused by functional disorders of the kidneys, such treatment is not recommended, since resinous substances can irritate the kidney tissue. The choleretic properties of birch make it possible to use it for diseases of the liver and gallbladder.

Birch buds are used in pulmonary tuberculosis as an antibacterial, expectorant and hemostatic agent. Patients with oncology include decoctions of the kidneys as part of complex treatment. The benefits of birch buds are also great for atherosclerosis - they quickly remove harmful cholesterol from the body. Due to the content and beneficial properties of vitamin PP, birch buds are used for weight loss (this vitamin promotes the breakdown of fats).

Tea from birch buds can be used as a remedy against seasonal beriberi. It will compensate for the deficiency of carotene and vitamin C, help to cope with weakness, drowsiness, chronic fatigue and irritability.

It is worth noting the cosmetic benefits of birch buds, decoction strengthens hair, gets rid of dandruff. Other folk recipes for hair growth will also help improve hair growth.

Contraindications:

Any medicines containing birch buds should not be used for chronic and acute diseases of the urinary tract, kidney failure, and during pregnancy.

By the way, it starts quite early - when the snow has not yet left the ground. Then, in March, connoisseurs and connoisseurs of the healing powers of nature begin to collect miraculous birch buds or, as they are popularly called, birch "bruneks" ... Every year there are more and more collectors of medicinal raw materials in Ukraine.

Pantry of our Nature

"Komsomolskaya Pravda" asked what exactly was collected in Ukraine this year.

Of course, traditionally alder buds, birch leaves and brunki, oak and birch bark, sorrel, sage, wild rose, celandine, yarrow, fennel, licorice, - Piotr Nagirnyak, a collector of medicinal plants, shares with us. - And also tansy, motherwort, cinquefoil, iris, St. John's wort.

According to Peter, the most laborious has always been and remains the collection of brunek birch.

Collecting "brunki" is like washing gold, he admits. “Imagine that before we cut brunki from branches one at a time. Over time, they began to bring branches of birches cut by foresters from the forest. But that didn't make the job any easier. After all, first you need to take the bundles out of the forest on yourself, reload them into a cart and take them home. Then dry properly - so that the brunki do not dry out, but also so that mold does not form on them. Branches thresh like ears of corn. To do this, a canvas is laid out on the floor, where, when threshed, the brunki are poured. Then you need to select them one at a time and collect them in canvas bags. Well, why not golden sand!

What bees know

By the way, bees use birch buds for propolis. So birch bud tincture healing properties differs little from propolis tincture, but it is more accessible and widely used in the treatment of various diseases.

Experts say that in terms of the impact on the human body, ordinary birch trees are not inferior to the widely advertised garden ginseng, which has been cultivated artificially for a long time. And brunki in Ukraine are harvested in the wild, and only in ecologically clean areas. This means that they have time to absorb and retain a maximum of useful substances. That is why our domestic phyto-raw materials - including birch brunki - are especially valued abroad.

Studies have shown that unblown brunki are rich in flavonoids, essential oils, contain vitamins C and PP (improves metabolism), carotene, as well as minerals: magnesium, iron and calcium. Due to this, brunki have a strengthening, anti-edematous, choleretic, anti-inflammatory and tonic effect.

cold remedy

Now, when it is damp outside, it is difficult to overestimate the healing effect of the tincture on brunka, says phytotherapeutist Boris Skachko. - You can buy it in a pharmacy, or you can cook it yourself at home. Take 1 part of the kidneys, grind in a mortar, pour 5 parts of alcohol. Insist in a dark warm place for 7 days. At a temperature and symptoms of SARS, you first need to rub your body with it, and then wrap yourself in a blanket and drink tea - also from birch buds. Such therapy can warm, reduce aches, relieve fever - and the cold will recede!

Phyto raw materials in industry

And yet, as it turned out, medicinal plants today are widely used not only for the preparation of preventive or therapeutic agents - all kinds of ointments, tinctures, decoctions and extracts. On the basis of phyto-raw materials in the food industry, a wide variety of infusions and aromatic spirits are made.

To create a certain recipe, medicinal raw materials, for example, birch brunki, are poured with a water-alcohol mixture, - said Sergey Grigorenko, chief technologist of the Crimean Vodka Company. - When infused, aromatic and biologically active substances pass into the liquid. And for the preparation of vodka, the finished infusion is distilled in a special installation to obtain aromatic alcohol.

Note (about methods of dealing with a hangover):

It has long been noticed that natural remedies help a drunk person perfectly. For example, such a recipe: pour birch brunki with boiling water - 1 teaspoon per half liter of water. Let them soften, then mash so that more active substances stand out, and the leaves turn around, - the phytotherapist Boris Skachko also shared with Komsomolskaya Pravda. - It is necessary to drink such an infusion during the day: 3-4 sips every half an hour. Thus, the excretory system is activated, the blood is being cleansed. In addition, birch buds have a mild tonic effect, stimulate the brain. By the way, when fighting a hangover, you can’t drink tea, coffee or energy drinks. An overdrinking person already has cerebral vascular edema, and caffeine consumption only enhances blood circulation. The risk of stroke increases.

Alcoholic drink moonshine is made at home. Fans of strong drinks appreciate it for the fact that I have the opportunity to create a product with my own hands, adding only high-quality ingredients. In addition, moonshine can be given unique tastes, color, smell. There are many recipes with which to make a variety of drinks. Moonshine on birch logs is made in the spring, when sap flow begins and the buds swell. Such a tincture in small quantities is considered good for health, has a spring, fresh taste and a pleasant, straw shade.

Moonshine on birch trees

Recipes for making moonshine on birch buds

Moonshine makers have many recipes and secrets with which they give zest to moonshine. Birch brunki will help create a quality product if they are skillfully used.

For such a drink, you will need barely swollen buds that have not yet blossomed. Pluck them from the tree together with young branches. Then the kidneys need to be dried in heat and threshed. There is no difficulty in this, take a twig and hit it on the ground until the buds crumble. You can think of other ways to thresh branches, the main thing is to get the result. Birch buds can also be bought at a pharmacy, or moonshine can be infused on fresh, only plucked brunkas.

1) Recipe 1.

For classic recipe prepare birches:

• moonshine - 0.5 liters;
• kidneys - 50 grams;
• honey - one teaspoon.

Mix all the ingredients and put in a dark place for ten days. During this time, the drink will acquire color and a pleasant taste. After you strain the tincture, you can try it. The number of kidneys can be reduced. Some add 50 grams per three liters and get a beige, aromatic drink.

2) Recipe 2.

If you want to give the drink a spicy taste, then the second recipe is perfect for you:

• 40 grams of birch buds need to be crushed in a mortar.
• Kidneys, five grams of ginger, three grams of ground galangal, two grams of ground cinnamon, pour 350 ml of moonshine and leave for about a month.
• We carefully filter. So we get the essence we need. It is suitable for ten liters of tincture.
• We make a drink. To do this, add 30–35 ml of essence and a little sugar per liter of moonshine.
• Thaw for three or four days.

The tincture will acquire a yellowish color and a sharp, pleasant taste.

3) Recipe 3.

Another recipe will make a nice tincture. Here you will need six liters of moonshine and 200 grams of fresh birch buds and leaves. The leaves will add richness to the taste.

The tincture is prepared in three stages:

• First, fill the brunki and leaves with two liters of moonshine, leave for three days in a dark place.
• We separate the liquid, and pour a new portion of moonshine into the kidneys. After three days, filter, separating the liquid.
• We fill it for the third time, only for 10 days. After that, mix all three liquids and filter them. Tincture on birch trees is ready.

Birch with a mild spring flavor can be prepared using the following ingredients:

• a liter of moonshine;
• 30 grams of fresh birch buds; if the kidneys are dry, put half as much;
• two teaspoons of honey;
• 50-150 grams of birch sap.

Mash birch buds in a mortar, add honey. After half an hour, fill the raw materials with moonshine and mix thoroughly, put the liquid in a jar in a dark place for ten days. Shake the jar periodically. After that, strain the tincture. If the moonshine turns out to be cloudy, strain it through cotton wool. Do not use immediately, keep the tincture in the dark for another two days.

The kidneys will give moonshine aroma and specificity, and the juice will remove the pungent odor.

Useful qualities of birch brunek

Birch buds have a positive effect on the human body, they treat many diseases. They increase immunity, have antiviral and antimicrobial properties.

Tincture on birch brunkas will help cure bronchitis, intestinal diseases, liver, migraine, has diuretic and choleretic properties. In order to prepare it, take 20 grams of dry birch buds and 100 grams of moonshine or alcohol. Mix, leave for about three weeks in the dark. Shake the liquid periodically. After the mixture is infused, strain it. This tincture is used orally in the form of drops.

In order to make a tincture for external use, take birch buds, crush them in a mortar, pour moonshine or alcohol in a ratio of 1:5. Leave them on for about a week.

This tincture is taken for such problems:

• As a rubbing agent. The tincture is rubbed into the skin for rheumatism, back pain, joint problems.
• For the treatment of certain types of eczema, purulent discharge, minor skin lesions.
• To relieve toothache, rinse your mouth with tincture.

Skin diseases, hemorrhoids, infections can also be treated with tincture of birch brunches. For this, 20 grams of dry kidneys are infused in 0.5 liters of moonshine. In order to cure a disease of the middle ear, insist birch buds on 70% moonshine or alcohol for about two months. Drip the finished tincture into the ear three times a day. This product can also be used for disinfection.

Moonshine, infused with birch brunka, has a pleasant color, spring aroma and useful properties. The tincture is easy to drink and does not have a strong odor. Many different recipes will help you achieve the specificity of taste.

The warm summer is over. And this means that the season for collecting medicinal herbs has come to an end. By the way, it starts quite early - when the snow has not yet left the ground. Then - in March - connoisseurs and connoisseurs of the healing powers of nature begin to collect miraculous birch buds or, as they are popularly called, birch "bruneks". Every year there are more and more collectors of medicinal raw materials in Ukraine.

Pantry of our nature

AiF asked what exactly was collected in Ukraine this year.

“Of course, traditionally alder buds, birch leaves and brunki, oak and birch bark, sorrel, sage, wild rose, celandine, yarrow, fennel, licorice,” shared collector of medicinal plants Petr Nagirnyak. - And also tansy, motherwort, cinquefoil, iris, St. John's wort.

According to him, the most laborious has always been and remains the collection of brunek birch.

“Collecting “brunki” is like washing gold,” he admits. - Imagine that we used to cut brunki from branches one at a time. Over time, they began to bring branches of birches cut by foresters from the forest. But that didn't make the job any easier. After all, first you need to take the bundles out of the forest on yourself, reload them into a cart and take them home. Then dry properly - so that the brunki do not dry out, but also so that mold does not form on them. Branches thresh like ears of corn. To do this, a canvas is laid out on the floor, where, when threshed, the brunki are poured. Then you need to select them one at a time and collect them in canvas bags. Well, why not golden sand!

What bees know

By the way, bees use birch buds for propolis. So birch bud tincture differs little from propolis tincture in terms of medicinal properties, but it is more accessible and widely used in the treatment of various diseases.

Experts say that in terms of the impact on the human body, ordinary birch trees are not inferior to the widely advertised garden ginseng, which has been cultivated artificially for a long time. And brunki in Ukraine are harvested in the wild, and only in ecologically clean areas. This means that they have time to absorb and retain a maximum of useful substances. That is why our domestic phyto-raw materials - including birch brunki - are especially valued abroad.

Studies have shown that unblown brunki are rich in flavonoids, essential oils, contain vitamins C and PP (improves metabolism), carotene, as well as minerals: magnesium, iron and calcium. Due to this, brunki have a strengthening, anti-edematous, choleretic, anti-inflammatory and tonic effect.

cold remedy

“Now, when it’s damp outside, it’s hard to overestimate the healing effect of tincture on brunka,” says phytotherapeutist Boris Skachko. - You can buy it in a pharmacy, or you can cook it yourself at home. Take 1 part of the kidneys, grind in a mortar, pour 5 parts of alcohol. Insist in a dark warm place for 7 days. At a temperature and symptoms of SARS, you first need to rub your body with it, and then wrap yourself in a blanket and drink tea - also from birch buds. Such therapy can warm, reduce aches, relieve fever - and the cold will recede.

Phyto raw materials in industry

And yet, as it turned out, medicinal plants are widely used today not only for the preparation of preventive or therapeutic agents - all kinds of ointments, tinctures, decoctions and extracts. On the basis of phyto-raw materials in the food industry, a wide variety of infusions and aromatic spirits are made.

“In order to create a certain recipe, medicinal raw materials, for example, birch brunki, are poured with a water-alcohol mixture,” said Chief Technologist of the Crimean Vodka Company Sergey Grigorenko. - When infused, aromatic and biologically active substances pass into the liquid. And for the preparation of vodka, the finished infusion is distilled in a special installation to obtain aromatic alcohol.

Note - about methods of dealing with a hangover

“It has long been noticed that natural remedies help a drunk person perfectly. For example, such a recipe: pour birch brunki with boiling water - 1 teaspoon per half liter of water, - shared B. Skachko. - Let them soften, then mash, so that more active substances stand out, and the leaves turn around. It is necessary to drink such an infusion during the day: 3-4 sips every half hour. Thus, the excretory system is activated, the blood is cleansed. In addition, birch buds have a mild tonic effect, stimulate the brain. By the way, when fighting a hangover, you can’t drink tea, coffee or energy drinks. An overdrinking person already has cerebral vascular edema, and caffeine consumption only enhances blood circulation. The risk of stroke is increased.