Barberry is a deciduous prickly bushup to three meters. For medical purposes, used berries, leaves, plant roots and bark. The barberry ordinary and Amur is generally applied. They have almost identical properties, as they are species of similar origin.
The medicinal properties of barberry wereknown even in ancient Mesopotamia. To date, flowers, leaves, bark, roots and berries of this plant are widely used in medicine, in addition, are used as a raw material for the production of homeopathic and pharmaceutical preparations. In medicine, such barberry preparations are used as:
Barberry, therapeutic properties and contraindications of which we consider in detail in this article, contains the alkaloid berberine, which causes the choleretic properties of the plant. It includes:
Barberry, therapeutic properties and contraindications to the use of which have been known for a long time, used in such pathologies as:
In addition, barberry preparations are used as:
Shrub barberry healing properties has a verydiverse, but one of them is unique - it relieves bouts of vomiting and nausea. Due to this, the plant is actively used by pregnant girls with toxicosis, since pharmaceutical preparations, which have the same effect, mainly have different side effects. In addition, he can relieve attacks of cough, especially when the bronchi are filled with phlegm.
Barberry finds its use even in treatmentvarious oncological diseases. So, scientists were able to prove that berberine, which is part of it, has anti-leukemia and antitumor effects. At the same time, berberine cannot be synthesized by chemical synthesis today. Since this discovery was made recently, at the present moment it is used only by rare experts in alternative medicine, who have studied the antitumor properties of this plant.
The green berries of barberry are poisonous, they are capablelead to very strong intoxication. In alternative medicine only ripe fruits are used. Berries help strengthen the immune system. In different regions of our country, it is customary to freeze them in order to defrost them in winter and apply them to food.
Barberry plant medicinal properties andcontraindications has the most diverse. With hypertension and heart pain, a decoction of flowers is used. To do this, pour a spoonful of dry plant ½ cup of water, boil for 10 minutes over low heat, then infuse for 2 hours, drain. Use 2 spoons twice a day. The above broth also eliminates the inflammation of the mucous membranes of the eye, for this washing them up to six times a day.
In order to prepare the tincture on vodkaleaves of barberry, you need to take these ingredients in a ratio of 5: 1, respectively. Ready mixture insist 15 days. Use 25 drops three times a day for 20 days. Then you need a break of 10 days, then repeat the course. This tincture is used in the postpartum period with atonic bleeding, with bleeding that is caused by inflammation, uterine subinvolution, moreover, in gynecological and obstetric practice.
Листья барбариса, лечебные свойства которых help in the treatment of various diseases, are also used for the manufacture of another infusion. To do this, 2 spoons of dried leaves need to insist for an hour in a glass of boiling water. Then the infusion is filtered and consumed in a tablespoon several times a day for one month. It is used in the pathologies of the gallbladder and liver as a choleretic and anti-inflammatory agent.
The root of barberry, the medicinal properties of which have been known in traditional medicine for many years, is the raw material for the manufacture of berberine. It is used in traditional medicine:
The roots of barberry are an important component of the famous Zdrenko mixture.
In alternative medicine for several centuriesused therapeutic properties of barberry. Berries are used for cooking broth. To do this, take 2 spoons of fruit, pour ½ spoon of water, put on the fire and boil for 20 minutes. Then the broth to bring water to its original volume. You need to take 50 ml three times a day. A decoction of the fruit is used as a diuretic, choleretic, diaphoretic, coughing, bronchitis, colds, pneumonia.
Mature fruits mixed with honey are an excellent vitamin remedy that enhances the immune system, the defenses of the human body, and is useful for vitamin deficiency as well.
Нужно взять 15 г листьев, залить их стаканом water, put on the fire, boil for 10 minutes, then insist. Follow the broth with water to its original volume. It should be taken on a spoon 4 times a day. This decoction helps to eliminate nausea, it is used for cramps in the intestines and stomach, diarrhea.
The root of the barberry healing properties has the mostvaried. You need to take a spoonful of crushed plant root, pour 400 ml of water, put on the fire for a couple of minutes. Then the decoction is infused for 30 minutes and taken every hour by tablespoon with diarrhea and spasms in the intestine. The decoction is also used in the inflammation of the gums to rinse the mouth, as an antispasmodic and analgesic. They make lotions for radiculitis and arthritis, spasms of the leg muscles.
Barberry, whose medicinal properties have been describedThis article is widely used in cooking. Its fruits are added to pilaf. In addition, syrup, compote, jam, juice, marmalade, jelly are cooked from the barberry.
In addition, you need to remember that the poisonous unripe barberry. Healing properties and contraindications to the reception of the plant are now known to you! All the best!
