Buckthorn olhovidnaya

Of deciduous shrubs in the northern forests of the greatest medicinal value has buckthorn Unbreakable (olhovidnaya). Its Latin name "Frangulov" comes from the verb "frangere" - to break and due to the fragility of the wood shrubs. Russian name "buckthorn" similar to the Latin: from the verb shatter, break ... Buckthorn grows brittle in mixed forests, forest edges and clearings, river valleys, along the margins of lakes and marshes, the overgrown cuttings and the heather kustarnikov.Krushina Unbreakable has about 50 close "relatives", of which 3 species native to our country. Preparations buckthorn used as a mild laxative, but with prolonged use develops addictive, and therefore, it is necessary to gradually increase the dose.

Buckthorn bark contains antroglikozidy close to antroglikozidam rhubarb, as well as saponins, tannins and other substances. Freshly picked and dried bark is not suitable for consumption as it causes nausea and vomiting, but, after what a year it loses these properties, buying at the same healing qualities. This feature of the buckthorn was known not to everyone, so she immediately gained recognition as a laxative. They say that in Tsarist Russia used the bark only American buckthorn and discharged her from abroad, while domestic bark in large quantities were exported to European countries. Enterprising businessmen kept Russian buckthorn in warehouses, and a year later under the guise of an American again sold to Russia, but much more expensive. This maneuver was accidentally opened a longshoreman, who, when loading Russian buckthorn dropped into the hold with bales of tobacco pouch, and a year later, unloading the "American" buckthorn, discovered her in one of them. Destroy the nauseating effect of fresh bark and can be heat-treated: crust for 1 hour, must be heated at 100 œ C. Raw buckthorn can be kept 3 years.

Buckthorn is used in cosmetics as an adjuvant to general regulating the digestive process and exchange action. As practice shows, it is a violation of these processes leads to rashes of various etiologies, acne and dermatitis.

Bark harvested in the spring, during the sap flow.

How do you know buckthorn among other leafless shrubs at this time and from which branches to remove the bark? The surface of the cortex in buckthorn smooth, dark brown, with whitish lenticels in the form of transverse dashes; on older branches are wreathed in gray spots, and if the crust lightly scrape your fingernail, will be visible characteristic only for breaking buckthorn, purple-red layer of cork.

Zagotavlivaya bark, you should chop down all the individual stems and shoots, and then completely removed from their bark. Partially remove the bark from live shoots on the vine can not be so in this case under the canopy of healthy growing plants are damaged, a substrate for numerous phytopathological diseases. This creates unsanitary conditions in the forest phytocenosis. Repeated harvesting bark on the same site are possible in clearings; under the canopy allowed only one-off piece. Unlike many other tree and shrub species of buckthorn bark is removed well, not only in early spring during sap flow, but also throughout the growing season. In this regard, the bark of the summer collection can be dried conventional air-way shadow, and spring - with thermal heating. For drying the bark is spread a thin layer of loose and all the while watching, so that tubular pieces of bark are not nested. During drying it 2-3 times ted. Properly dried bark noisily breaks.

Sometimes buckthorn occurs in the form of tree, height up to 7 meters. Relatively easy (under favorable conditions) can reproduce by seed, but usually settles root suckers, pneumatic shoots, layers. On vegetative shoots shoots fill seized and should be calculated zagotavlivaya buckthorn bark, which has a slow-laxative properties.