Ledum palustre L.
Ledum palustre L.

Rhododendron tomentosum Ledum palustre L. *
Family Ericaceae - Ericaceae
Ledum palustre - a dense evergreen shrub 50-120 cm tall with a strong breath odor, which resembles the smell of camphor. Leaflets coriaceous, lineynoprodolgovatye with curved edges, sharp, regular, top green, shiny, wrinkled, with a bottom with a thick reddish-povstistim pubescence. Flowers collected in multifloral (15-25) clusters, white, rarely reddish, with long, thin stalks.

Blossoms in May - June. is growing in the north Ukrainian Polesie, Belarus, Russia - in the marshes, in damp pine forests on hummocky meadows, basically - the islands. Occasionally the Carpathians and the Carpathian Mountains.
Gather all the plant - during flowering, leaflets and young shoots - in August - September .
Apply with bronchial asthma , as expectorant (acute and chronic bronchitis in a mixture with nettle leaves small (Urtica urens L.), in a 2:1 ratio), also in pertussis , scrofula , gout , rheumatism in spastic enterokolitah , incontinence , influenza (as prophylactic during epidemics), with eczema . It acts as a diaphoretic and drug .
Use in tea as well. For 1 cup of boiling water give a 1-tablespoon of leaves or young shoots, and insist 10 minutes. Drink half a glass of 5-6 times a day. Children with strong attacks pertussis give 1 teaspoonful several times a day. How expectorant use broth from a mixture of herbs ledum marsh and butterbur root Althea in the ratio 1:2:2, 2 teaspoons of the mixture up in 1 glass of boiling water, cook 1 minute, insist 20 minutes, strain off and drink half a glass of 3-4 times a day. Externally, use broth from fresh flowers or sprouts in olive oil (1:9), who insist 12 hours in the oven, and let in the form of droplets in the nose with acute rhinitis, influenza.
When rheumatism , hunk , as in scabies , lice apply ointment, which is manufactured as follows: 1 part finely chopped flowering plants and 1 part of finely chopped root hellebore white mixed with 3 parts melted lard and insist on for 12 hours (not boiling) in a warm oven. Then filter into a jar, cover and with the needs of rubbing the skin. Powdered leaf Rhododendron tomentosum and its branches acting as insecticidal tool against moth and klopov5 (also in a mixture with oregano). Envelop with smoke him home to fight against flies.

White Birch - Betula alba L.

BIRCH WHITE (furry) - Birch Bila (puhnasta) Betula alba L.

Family Betulaceae - Betulaceae
White Birch - slender tree to 20 m tall, with drooping branches and gladenkoy white bark. The old birches at the bottom of the trunk is dark gray with cracks. Leaflets rhombic-ovate or triangular-ovate, near the base shirokoklinovidnye, sometimes almost sertsevidnye. Flowers male, pubescent, gathered at the ends of branches in catkins 5-6 cm long (2-3 earrings), the fruit - nut with two wings, which are 2-3 times wider than the fruit. Blossoms in May, seeds ripen in July - August .
growing for almost the whole territory of Russia, Ukraine and Belarus. Usually forms the arrays in the forest and steppe zones, grows snowdrops, wet meadows.
gather buds in spring, when they have not disbanded and sticky from the resinous substances. Dried in the cold at a temperature no higher than 15-20 °. Later (in June - July) collect the sheets. Early spring collect birch sap (birch). Apply in avitaminosis Infusion of leaves. When gout , rheumatism , to cleanse the blood at eczema , deprives , eruptions on the body , with itching of the body . Also, when stomach ulcer , are hard to swallow it, when bronchitis and tracheitis , as expectorant and disinfectant . Used against small * roundworm ( pinworms and roundworm ); in postpartum (starting from 12 th day ) to accelerate the purification, with obesity , to increase metabolism ; with edema of renal origin and with stones ( diuretic and choleretic action ) - kidney , of which prepare tea or alcohol tincture. Use in the form of tea. In 1 cup boiling water 1 teaspoon taking kidneys, a little boiled and insist 2 hours. Drink 2 cups a day sips. Instead of tea you can drink alcohol tincture, 15-20 drops three times a day on the spoon of water (half a liter of 70% alcohol poured half a cup of kidney and insist on them for 14 days, then run off, filtered and poured into the bottle). Use when atherosclerosis , edema , are hard to swallow , even if cholera (against vomiting). Alcohol tincture of birch buds are very effective in the treatment of gastric ulcers. To do this an hour after meal drink a tablespoon of liqueur, Fiz 20-30 gr. pure butter. After this 4 hour will consume food and liquids.
Infusion from kidney sear mosquito bites, and then passes decreases itching and redness and swelling.
Infusion of young birch leaves drink at heart swelling as diuretic and diaphoretic means the allocation of protein in the urine, mochevokislom diathesis , as well as rheumatism . Fresh sheets washed with cold boiled water, the water is drained, flyers pour hot boiling water at a temperature of 40-50 °, and insist on for 3,5 hours. Leaflets squeeze, infusion give stand for 6 hours, separated from the sediment. Then there is the infusion of up to 155 mg% vitamin C . Use of 50, 100, 200 ml infusions three times a day, usually before a meal.
Birch juice drink to 3 or more cups a day for "recovery" of blood at skin diseases - deprives , eruptions on the body, with furunculosis , angina . Also, when anemia after the injury, with poorly healing wounds, ulcers , diseases that are accompanied by high temperature. When bronchitis , bronchiectasis , pulmonary tuberculosis, rheumatism , gout , arthritis , scurvy . It acts as an expectorant , diuretic , displays the body of harmful substances, helps with cardiac edema .
Externally use with eczema (compresses) and in cosmetics: in acne and pigmented spots face wash them.
Abraded in powder birch charcoal used in poisoning poisons and bacterial toxins, with flatulence , colitis , increased acidity of gastric juice - 1 teaspoon of powder three times a day, drinking water (or stirred with water).
The tar kills scabies mites in the skin - rub on the body at night for 3 days (before bedtime). At the 4 th day take a bath and change his clothes and linens.
alcohol tincture is used for rubbing and compresses when rheumatism , pains in the joints, at bedsores , scratches , wounds that do not heal. Externally use sheets for hot tubs in the treatment of acute and chronic eczema, herpes , with sweating feet, as well as rheumatism . A handful of leaflets cook 10 minutes in 4 liters of water, broth is used for baths. Steaming fresh leaves are used for compresses and poultices. In the first case imposes a deep tub of fresh birch leaves, cover it and when it is warmed by heat allocated, the patient buried in it for an hour or more (how many survive) on the neck or belt ( "dry" bath). In another case, the dried leaves, scalded with boiling water (or powdered raw) obkladyvayut affected sites of hands and feet ( hydrocephalus , rheumatism , gout , paralysis ), pulled on them stockings and tape up on the possibility of denser ( "sogrevatelnye stockings »).

Lingonberry Common - Vaccinium vitis idaea L.
Lingonberry Common - Vaccinium vitis idaea L.

Lingonberries ORDINARY (gogoza) Vaccinium vitis idaea L.
Family Brusnichnoe - Vacciniaceae
Lingonberries Common - a long-term evergreen shrub 30 cm tall. The branches of his round, with a gun, aimed upward. The leaves are alternate, leathery, very short, fluffy scion. Above dark green, below light green, with blackish, dimpled, covered with spots, obovate or elliptic, obtuse, with curved, sometimes jagged edges, with inexpressive veins.

Blossoms in May - June .

flowers drooped in close axillary racemes, on short pedicels, with white or pale pink aureoles in the form chetyrehzubchatyh bells. The plant is the honey. Sour-sweet red berries ripen in late August. It grows in damp coniferous and beech forests, occasionally in peat bogs, along with blueberries.
Provides the leaves in the winter from the snow and autumn. There are a diuretic (in alkaline medium).
Apply as a means of vitamins, diuretic, astringent, laxative with stone disease, rheumatic disease, pulmonary tuberculosis, catarrh of the stomach with a lack of acidity.
The leaves are used as a diuretic (instead of bearberry leaves), with kidney stones , gall bladder , as astringent at diseases of the stomach , at night incontinence in children , as well as in diabetes (act glycosides arbutin and flavanol , tannins). Use in the form of decoction. When inflammation of the kidneys and bladder 2.3 teaspoons of chopped leaf boiled for 15 minutes in 2 cups of water. Drink sips for 2 days.
When incontinence 1 teaspoon of leaf to take 1 cup of boiled water, 10 minutes and drink up to 3 small glasses a day.
Leaves and berries lower blood sugar levels ; used in diabetes .
Broth of a handful of leaves brewed with cranberries in three cups water and boil for 10 minutes, all of this drink per day in three divided doses.
An effective, clinically proven many times is the following herbs. With long-term (1 year) use this excellent tool not only facilitates the removal of pain and the exit of stones with urolithiasis , but also prevents the possibility of infection complicate restores health disorder of the organism as a whole.
collection with urolithiasis includes (in oz.):
1. Lavender cereals, grass ...... 10,0
2. Blackcurrant , list .......... 10,0
3. Birch , leaf ...................... 10,0
4. Boudreau plyuschevidnaya , the grass .... 10,0
5. Juniper , fruit .......... 10,0
6. Hops , cones ................... 10,0
7. Rose , petals ..................... 10,0
8. bearberry , List ....................... 20,0
9. Drop Cap , grass ..................... 20,0
10. Lingonberries , list ................... 20,0
11. Plantago large sheet ...... 20,0
12. Urtica dioica , leaves ..... 30,0
13. Strawberry , fruits ................. 60,0
14. Equisetum arvense , shoots ............. 60,0
15. Sporýš , grass .................... 30,0
16. Acacia White , buds .............. 60,0
17. Melilotus officinalis , grass ... 50,0
18. Shepherd bag , grass .............. 15,0
19. Cornflower blue , petals ........... 30,0
20. flax seed , seed ..................... 40,0
If not all components of the mixture can be mixed are available without disturbing proportions and brew for 10 g mixture of 750 ml of boiling water. Take 150 ml of warm. When kidney-stones dose can be reduced to 5-6 g of the mixture to 500 ml of boiling water. Well at the time of the withdrawal of stones stock up oat straw and during renal colic, associated with the release of the stone, do hot compresses of its strong decoction of the kidneys. When gout (deposition of salt) is recommended to drink cranberry leaf tea, but some people continued drinking the broth is cystitis (sharp pain when urinating). It is better to mix it in equal shares with chamomile, lime flowers or foliage of raspberry and take, brewing as tea, but drink not more than 800 ml per day.