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Noble grapes - Vitis vinifera L.

Noble grapes - Vitis vinifera L.

GRAPES NOBLE Vitis vinifera L.
Family Vitaceae - Vitaceae .
Grapes noble - woody perennial vine, usually - curly bush 150 - 400 cm tall, with a mustache stem origin. The leaves are alternate, three to five-lobed, toothed with stipules. Flowers small, greenish-yellow, fragrant, have a rudimentary cup and the Five-grown corolla (in cap). The berries are juicy, green or dark red, ripe in August - September. There are many varieties of grapes.
Flowering vines in May and June.
Wild grapes found in southern Ukraine, in the Rostov region of Russia, in the Carpathians. You can grow as a cultivated plant in almost all the territory from the Crimea to Moscow, but the most common plant in the steppe and forest-steppe areas, in Transcarpathia, and particularly in the Crimea, Kuban and the Caucasus.
gather leaves in May - June, berries - in August - September.
Apply as a tool which enhances metabolism and increases the tone of the patient man. Berries (you can also pasteurized juice) consumed in the gastro-intestinal diseases, with the functional neuroses with acidity of gastric juice, with spastic and atonic constipation, hemorrhoids , as eccoprotic, diaphoretic , as a diuretic in jade and urolithiasis , with the liver.
Use with anemia and exhaustion of the nervous system, chronic bronchitis, with emphysema, to increase appetite and as a tonic remedy in the initial stage of pulmonary tuberculosis. Grapes improves blood circulation , lowers blood pressure. The chemical composition of grape juice like milk. High content of sugars, vitamins, salts and organic acids determines the therapeutic effect for different diseases. Begin treatment with a daily amount of 1 kg, which is divided into three portions: the first eaten in the morning on an empty stomach, the next - an hour before lunch and the third - in the evening. Gradually increase the daily quantity of grapes to 2 kg. Course of treatment is 4-6 weeks. At this time, not recommended to eat fatty meat and drink milk, beer, alcoholic drinks and mineral water.
Broth dried grapes with the addition of a small amount of onion juice drink as a remedy for cough and hoarseness. Grape leaves are rich in vitamin C, go to the food (salads, stuffed cabbage, etc.). Powder of dried leaf into use (2-4 g per day) as haemostatic , in particular in the uterine bleeding. The crushed leaves are applied to the purulent wounds and ulcers. Decoction or infusion of grape leaf rinse the throat with tonsillitis and turn them into a lotion for skin diseases. Contraindicated in the treatment of grapes diabetes , ulcers in the mouth and caries , as well as in chronic diarrhea, severe form of tuberculosis, and obesity. There is a special section of medicine for the treatment of grapes, which is called ampeloterapiya .
AMPELOTERAPIYA (from ampela ... and Greek. Therapeia - treatment), botryotherapy, the use of fresh grapes and grape juice for the treatment of various diseases, mostly chronic. He is one of the methods of diet therapy and is used by a doctor in combination with other treatments. On the dietetic and therapeutic properties of grapes wrote in antiquity Hippocrates and his disciple Asclepiades, Pliny, some Arab doctors (Celsus, Avrellon, Abu Bakr al-Razi), and in the Middle Ages - Riverius etc. botryotherapy used empirically (based on experiments).
In Russia questions ampeloterapii were first described in a paper by VN Dmitrieva Treatment of grapes in Yalta, on the southern coast of the Crimea "(1878). Scientific-theoretical basis of treatment of grapes, confirmed by the chemical and physiological studies were laid later, when the 20-ies. group of physicians has developed and implemented in their practice of sanatorium treatment on the southern coast of Crimea (Yalta).
Grapes contain glucose, fructose and other simple digestible sugars. These carbohydrates 1 kg of grapes (with sugar content 16-18%) provides 700-900 calories. In addition, the berries contain various organic acids (malic, tartaric, silicic, citric, succinic, gallic, formic, oxalic, salicylic, pectin), mineral and tannin, trace elements, vitamin C, vitamin B, provitamin A (carotene) , bioflavonoids, some enzymes (invertase, protease, pectinase, etc.), phytoncides. Skin berries contain dyes, wax (pruin) and others
Effects of grapes on the body due to their content of the whole complex of the above substances, but the main therapeutic effect is glucose, potassium salt (about 250 mg%) and water (an average of 70-80%). When ampeloterapii activated exchange processes, particularly water-salt, enhanced secretory ability of the kidneys, more rapidly eliminated from the body of toxic products of metabolism, increases motor function of the intestine, normal secretory function of the stomach, improves appetite. As a dietary product having high nutritional value, can be used in almost all grape varieties in a state of full maturity. The most famous among them still got the following dining varieties:
Pearls Saba, Irsha Oliver, Queen of vineyards, Cardinal. Early Magarach, Chasselas, Chavush, Muscat Hamburg, Senso, Karaburnu, Koarna Neagra, Moldova, etc. Very rich assortment of grapes for ampeloterapii in the Crimea, Stavropol, Kuban, and others, the southern regions. You can not use ampeloterapii hybrids obtained by crossing American and indigenous grape varieties (hybrids-direct producers) - Isabella, Russian Concord, Lydia and others
Applied botryotherapy resorts of the South Coast of Crimea and other Black Sea resorts of Ukraine, on the southern resorts of Russia. Application ampeloterapii recommended for diseases of the heart, bronchus , kidney , liver . Grapes appoint at the gastro-intestinal diseases, accom-ments, varying atonic and spastic constipation, with anemia, gout , chronic forms of pulmonary tuberculosis, with the exhaustion of the nervous system as a means of fortifying after a long debilitating disease.
When ampeloterapii necessary to limit the use of other fruits. You should also avoid consumption of raw vegetables, milk, fatty and salty foods, kvass, mineral waters, alcoholic beverages, because with joint use of increased unrest and disorder can occur in bowel function.
Number of grapes or grape juice, as well as the duration of treatment is assigned individually. Ampeloterapiya contraindicated in diabetes, obesity, ulcers, colitis, accompanied by diarrhea. Also in enteritis and enterocolitis, acute pleurisy, stomatitis, gingivitis, glossitis, acute stage of tuberculosis, etc.
As a concentrated dietary product with high nutritional value and pleasant taste, use dried grapes (raisins, currant and raisin), which contains up to 73% sugar and potassium salts. Pischelekarstvennoe value ampeloterapii are also leaves, young shoots, seeds and husks of grapes.

Black Sea Rhubarb - Rheum rhaponticum (L)

Black Sea Rhubarb - Rheum rhaponticum (L)

Rhubarb Black Sea - Rheum rhaponticum (L) .

perennial herb of the family grechkovyh ( Polygonaceae ).

divorce as horticulture. Apply as a light laxative , which improves digestion, with tuberculosis light, anemia ; as binder , fixed, choleretic , depending on the dose, means. The broth 2 tablespoons chopped rhizomes with roots in 1 cup water, if you drink it at once, acts as a laxative. Powdered rhizomes in a dose of 0,05-0,2 g shows binder effect, helps with nesvarimosti of the stomach, effectively acting against the Cathars with the lack of secretory function and choleretic. In early spring, when there is no uniform berries, regulate digestion compotes rhubarb leaf cuttings.

Norway Spruce - Picea excelsa Link

Norway Spruce - Picea excelsa Link

Norway Spruce (white spruce, Norway Spruce) - Picea excelsa Link .

Pinaceae.
Evergreen tree 20-50 m tall, with a conical crown and peeling reddish-gray bark. The needles are flattened-quadrangular, pointed, dark green. Men staminate cones oblong-cylindrical, greenish-yellow. Female seed cones hanging, oblong-cylindrical, up to ripening purple, then green, mature - brown. Seed scales convex, sinuate-toothed, woody. Seeds are dark brown, with long wings.
Blossoms in May - June.
It grows in wet places on the rich loamy soils, rising to the mountains to an altitude of 1800 meters above sea level (forms pure spruce). Occurs in a mixture with other tree species in northern and central European part of Russia. Is used for landscaping parks and human settlements.
Harvest the tops of young branches with buds during flowering, unripe cones and resin - from June to September.
Contains essential oil , tannin , resin , vitamin C (in the needles of up to 40 mg%), carotene , iron salts, chromium , manganese , Aluminum , phytoncides . In pollen are flavonoids , resinous substances, essential oils, phytoncides ; cones found in the seeds and fatty oil.
Has antiscorbutic, diuretic , sudorific , choleretic , pain and wound healing action.
Broth: 40 g of crushed cones eaten per 200 ml of water boiled for 30 minutes, filter. Apply to gargle 5-6 times a day, or bury, 4-5 drops in both nostrils with angina , tonsillitis , laryngitis , tracheitis , sinusitus , rhinitis , for the prevention of childhood infectious diseases, 2) 100 g of the tops of young spruce branches with buds on 500 ml of water, boil 30-40 minutes , filter. Apply in a bath at gout , rheumatic lesions of the joints.
Infusion: 40 g coarse needles of spruce to 250 ml boiling water for 20 minutes, filter. Accepted 50 ml of 5 times a day with a deficiency of vitamin C , as expectorant tool, as well as in diseases of the kidneys and urinary ways.
Ointment: Mix equal amounts of rubbing and pine-resin , beeswax and butter . Apply in furunculosis , wounds and abrasions, ulcers , ulcer.
From the fir wood are activated charcoal.
In food uses fresh spruce needles, buds and inflorescences (instead of tea).
Preparations spruce contraindicated at giperatsidnom gastritis , ulcer stomach.

Polemonium coeruleum L.

Polemonium coeruleum L.
Polemonium coeruleum L.
Polemonium coeruleum L.

Polemonium coemleum L.
Family Polemoniaceae - Polemoniaceae
Sinyukha Lazorevaya - a herbaceous annual plant up to 120 cm tall. Rhizome her thick, up to 3 cm in diameter, short - no more than 5 cm, creeping, with fine fibrous roots; first bitter taste, then sweet, with a feeling of mucus. Stems mostly solitary, simple, erect, uniformly leafy.
The leaves are alternate, imparipinnate, with numerous oblong-ovate leaves, Bottom - at the outlet. Flowers blue, purple or blue, collected in the apical long or kistepodobnuyu panicle. Fruit-almost spherical capsule, which are easy to crack.
Flowers in June - July.
Grows in Polesie, the forest-steppe, except Pokuttia and Podolia, in the steppes in the north-east, forest clearings, on wet ground, on the banks of rivers, on the forested slopes of the mountains and among the bushes. Distributed in Belarus, is found in South-East European part of Russia, more often - in a northern forest zone. Divorce as a cultivated plant. Gather rhizomes with roots in the autumn, they were quickly washed and cut lengthwise. To dry in the sun and can be.
Apply as expectorant tool for acute and chronic bronchitis, pertussis , tuberculosis light, in particular, even with hemoptysis (action saponins), and as sedative for various nervous and mental diseases, calms the central nervous system and reduces its reflex excitability is 8-10 times stronger than valerian . This explains the useful effect of cyanosis in a mixture of dried flowers from the marsh in the treatment of peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum (the action of resins, organic acids, fatty and essential oils, and others not yet studied, substances which have an effect on the nervous system). Patients disappears symptom burden, diminished dispepsichnye phenomenon, the general condition improves, increased body weight.
Atherosclerosis triterpene saponins cyanosis reduce the amount of cholesterol in the blood.
Use . In 1 cup of water boil for 30 minutes 1 tablespoon minced root cyanosis and drink three times a day and 1 tablespoon broth in 2 hours after meals.
In the treatment of peptic ulcer in half an hour before a meal consume an additional share for 1 tablespoon of broth of dried flowers of marsh (1 tablespoon of herbs to 1 cup of boiling water). The course lasts 3 weeks. Instead of broth can be served liquor in alcohol - taking 25 g of crushed rhizomes with roots in 100 g of alcohol. Drink three times a day, 15 drops per teaspoon of water 2 hours after meals.

Lineups possible preventive teas with diabetes mellitus.

Leaves blueberries - 4, the fruit hips - 3, leaf beans - 4, the leaves of strawberry pine - 3, grass Yarrow - 1. Root of burdock - 3, nettle leaves - 4, dandelion root ordinary - 2, the upper part of flowering oats - 4, blueberry leaves - 4, rose hips - 4.
Teas from these formulations herbs taste good and have a positive effect in diabetes .
In addition, when the disease is well to take hygiene ¬ cal bath regulating metabolism.
If obesity can drink every day and everyday and prevention ¬ cal, multivitamin and regulating metabolism teas. Composition of their varied, which allows to make a choice as recommended by a doctor, based on the availability of medicinal plants.
Cardiovascular Pathology - the most important part of modern medicine, where possible an effective herbal medicine and household fitoprofilaktika. And prevention is to be comprehensive. It is necessary to establish strict control over tobacco , alcoholic and non-alcoholic caffeine-containing beverages.
Should be limited or, if necessary, a complete ban of these drinks, especially children, the elderly and persons with cardiovascular pathology. First, they can replace the drinks do not contain the alkaloid caffeine, and having a physiologically active substance has a beneficial effect on the cardiovascular and nervous systems, and secondly, you can mix tea with different plants operating in the same way.
negative influence caffeine drinks on the central nervous and cardiovascular systems as demonstrated by classical studies by Russian scientists, and modern research. In addition to direct negative impact that these beverages have a significant indirect and, above all, because their complete dominance in the home and an uncritical attitude towards them interfere with search and receive other more valuable to health drinks. In addition, the reception, for example, tea daily volume of 1 liter is not physically able to receive the same herbal tea.
Search options beverages to the following groups of plants:
multivitamin regulating metabolism, protivospazma-cal and soothing. We mention only the most prominent and promising for the use of plants from these groups.
Multivitamins. Numerous types of wild roses, and, above all, such sweetbrier rose: cinnamon, echinated, Alberta, Beggera and others; buckthorn, black currant, mountain ash, primrose, nettle, and many others.
Regulating metabolism. The large group of plants, which along with the multivitamin includes species with a somewhat lower content of vitamins, but have a rich chemistry and in traditional herbal medicine known as regulators of Maine & materials: wood strawberry, blackberry, stone berry, cloudberry, knyazhenika, raspberries, mother-and -stepmother, mantle, clover field, Argentina anserina, oats, wheat grass ordinary waybread, asparagus, knotweed, series, bilberry, horsetail Field and others.
spasolytic . We say that only some of them: avens city, Melilotus officinalis, marjoram, Argentina anserina, lime, lemon balm, mint field and pepper, thyme, cumin, dill, fennel, Lamium album, and others. Calming the central nervous system. Here are the most known, used in domestic plants: black elder, marjoram, lemon balm, Artemisia vulgaris, asparagus, dropwort, creeping thyme, dill garden, hop ordinary. Other species, such as valerian and motherwort, although they can be used for preventive purposes, we refer to treatment - more potent.
With specific regard to cardiovascular disease, it is obvious that her heart belongs to the prevention fitoprofilaktike atherosclerosis and hypertension. In this direction considerable experience, although it is known that the disease occurs much less frequently before. In terms of household Prevention, can bring great benefit to the reception in the food fresh plant foods, especially fennel , juice of fresh plants, and from drinks - of everyday teas: multivitamin, regulating metabolism, sedatives, to a lesser extent - the universal.
When sclerotic changes in vessels greater role Drugs, expands blood vessels, relieves spasms and strengthens the walls of blood vessels. These primarily include plants that contain large amounts of vitamins, especially vitamin P . This has already listed the plants included in multivitamin (routine and preventive), teas, and then the plants belonging to the tea, regulating metabolism, and, finally, plants, beneficial effects on the vascular system (hawthorn, buckwheat, mint, motherwort), their possible combinations .
Fruits Crataegus sanguinea - 2, flowers buckwheat seed - 3, hips - 4, black currant leaves -2.
Leaves strawberry ordinary - 4, blue-gray leaves blackberry - 3, fruits hips - 5, grass mint pepper - 2, grass motherwort of an ordinary-1.
Both drinks have a pleasant taste and aroma, have anti-sclerotic properties.