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.

European silver fir - Picea excelsa Link

EUROPE Abies (Norway Spruce) - Picea excelsa Link .
Pinaceae - Ріпасеае .
Fir European - coniferous evergreen tree 20-50 m tall. Crohn pyramidal, bent low. Bark red or gray, obluschivaetsya thin chips. The leaves (needles) are fragrant, four-sided and spiky bright or dark-green, thickly covered with branches. Monoecious plant. Microspores (pollen) are formed in mikrosporangiyah (anthers), which contains the micro-strobili collected in the oblong-cylindrical strobilus ( "spikes") in the axils of the light-green, scale-like leaves of annual shoots on the ends of branches.
Female seed cones - hanging, oblong-cylindrical, at first red, then green, finally, brown, scaly, 10-16 cm long and 3-4 cm in width. Seeds are dark brown with a wing, which is three times longer than they are.
Blossoms in May.
Growing in the Carpathians, at least - the Carpathians, to form large forests, island groves - in Rostoche, Western and Volyn steppe, West Polesie, very rarely - in the Zhytomyr and Chernihiv Polesie. As an ornamental plant growing in parks, in snegozaschitnyh fence. Is widely cultivated throughout the territory of Ukraine.
Gather green shoots, young cones and needles in the spring.
Apply with pneumonia , coughing, to cleanse the blood during eruptions and deprives the body, with scurvy, for the treatment of rheumatism. Of the shoots, bark, pine needles extract essential oil , required for the manufacture of synthetic camphor, the drugs used for heart disease. In industry, the camphor is also obtained from the Siberian fir.
Use in the form of tea. 75 g shoots are soaked for several hours in 1 liter of water, then boiled and argue for 10 minutes. They drink tea, sweetened with honey or sugar, 1-2 cups a day.
When purulent bronchitis taking 1 tablespoon of the mixture of young shoots of fir or pine, the roots of Althaea, licorice root (licorice root), leaf sage and fennel seeds in the ratio 1:2:2:1:1 and a moment steeped in 2 cups boiling water. Insist several hours in the oven, strain off and drink to 2 tablespoons every 2-3 hours.
In bronchial asthma, bronhoektazah , purulent bronchitis, whooping cough 4 full teaspoons of the mixture (tie), fir or pine young shoots, leaf plantain and butterbur ordinary insist 2 hours in 1 cup of cold water. Cook 5 minutes and drink during the day for 3 times. Or take 4 full teaspoons of the mixture (tie) fir (Smerekova) or pine buds, rosemary leaf , shishkoyagod juniper and the root Althea for 1 cup water. Is prepared and consumed as well.
When rheumatism, gout, nervous excitement 2-3 handfuls of young shoots of silver fir (pine) is boiled for half an hour in 5 liters of water, strain off and add the broth to a full bath. Fonts must be prepared twice a week. Temperature of bath 34 °.
For boleuspokaivayuschih armbands with rheumatism, gout and the nervous excitement can also use needles crushed, sieved and mixed with conventional pharmaceutical wool. Embracation also used pure turpentine.