Birch
Birch grows on dry and wet sand, loam, black soil and rocky-gravelly soils. Makes a variety of climatic conditions and therefore grows from tundra to steppe zone. Forms a time derivative of the forest, emerging on-site cut or burnt pine, spruce, oak forests, larch, and later superseded by bedrock. Stable form stands in the forest-steppe and steppe areas. Often found in different forest types as undergrowth.
leaves, buds and sap of this tree have been used in treating many diseases. Wood received activated charcoal and tar. Applied and birch mushroom - chaga. Russian doctors a hundred years ago found a diuretic effect of birch buds, which are harvested from birch. Birch buds and leaves contain essential oil, tar, nicotine and ascorbic acid, flag-vonoidy, tannins, saponins, carotene and hyperoside.
Infusions and decoctions of birch buds are used as a diuretic and disinfectant for minor injuries and occupational injuries - both anti-inflammatory, with bedsores and trophic ulcers - as ranozazhivlya-yuschee. The leaves are used as infusions and decoctions as a diuretic, and diaphoretic. Before infusion of the leaves are often used as a restorative remedy for beriberi.
Birch sap - this is truly life-giving moisture, blood, wood ... It minerals, vitamins, sugars, proteins, acids, aromatics and tannin. It is very useful as a fortifying agent. Has the ability to dissolve urinary calculi phosphate and carbonate origin. Apply fresh juice and lung diseases. And our great-grandmother washed birch sap and brought dark spots and acne ...
for many centuries served as the Birch people faithfully, benefiting not only the soul but also body. This is the famous birch broom in the bath, and tar, the same one spoon which spoils the whole barrel of honey, but doctors have skin diseases, wounds, ulcers and burns. Tar, and is now widely used in medicine and dermatology for the same purpose, is a member of the famous ointment Wisniewski. "Herbalistsť XVI-XVII centuries contains numerous tips on how to treat internal and skin diseases tincture and decoction of the leaves and buds of birch, in any hvorobah drinking birch sap.
with cosmetics to use buds, leaves, juice of birch and birch tar. Modern cosmetics recommends broths kidneys to stop the inflammation, itching, or irritation of skin, to improve skin tone and against acne. Decoction of the leaves are washed my head to improve hair growth. Beauticians say juice useful for the treatment of eczema, lichen, various rashes and boils, as well as appoint him as a means of relieving oily skin and removing pigmentation.
long been used birch, not only in the domestic cosmetics, but also for abroad. In Bulgaria, for example, birch drugs in vogue in acute and chronic eczema and denies, in the form of compresses and baths are used as a disinfectant, birch sap can wash your hair to strengthen hair and stimulate their growth. France, Austria and other countries are widely used in cosmetics leaves and buds of birch.
feedstocks birch buds and leaves are almost unlimited, but they should procure only during cutting. Kidney harvesting can begin in February. Cut the branches hold until the spring, warm in the sun, so they swelled, and threshed on the mat. When harvesting the spring, during the sap flow, threshed immediately. Obmolochennye kidney sieved, remove earrings and balances twigs and other impurities. Dried in the open air, laying on a bed with a thin layer so that on 1 square meter is not more than 2 kilograms of raw materials. Can be dried in a cool, dry place. After drying, re-purified from impurities. Loss in weight on drying is not more than 10 percent. Shelf life of raw materials for 2 years.