Raspberries: medicinal and beneficial properties
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Useful properties of raspberries: briefly about raspberries
Raspberries grow in glades, ravines and farmstead territories, everywhere they form large thickets. Perhaps this is one of the favorite and healthy berries. The beneficial properties of raspberries can be used for medicinal purposes.
Performance
This bush has an original name - rubus idaeus. The berry is presented in the form of a branchy shrub with thorns and belongs to the Rosaceae family.
About the bush
The above-ground part of the shrub usually does not exceed two meters in height, and the roots are perennial. In the first year of growth, the stem of the raspberry is green, pubescent on top, the lower part has brown spines.
About stems
In the second year, the "stems" become stiff, there are fewer thorns, flowers are formed, and then berries. After the appearance of fruits, the shoot dies, the rhizome grows a new shoot instead of the old one. It turns out that the raspberry shoot lives for two years.
About foliage
The plant has a five-petal flower, they are small in size, usually white or with a slight yellowish tinge. The leaves of the plant are odd-pinnate, complex, have five to seven leaves on the petiole, the farthest, as a rule, are triple and have stipules.
About inflorescences
Flowers are found in inflorescences that form on the axils of the leaves. The berries are red, sometimes with a barely noticeable pinkish tint, the berry itself is called a complex drupe.
About berries
In forest raspberries, under slight pressure, the fruit breaks up into many small ones; in species for growing, the berries grow together, forming one large one about three centimeters in length. The fruit is easily separated from the receptacle and resembles a melting cone.
Raspberries bloom in the middle of summer, berries ripen by the end. The seeds are rather round, hard and yellowish.
Useful properties of raspberries: about harvest and growth in their natural environment
The amount of the harvested crop varies greatly from environmental conditions, because the shrub is pollinated by insects. You can propagate it by a plant in all available ways.
You can find impassable thickets of raspberries in nature. Do not be surprised to see this in a forest, in a clearing or in a ravine.
Raspberries are called one of the most common berries, you can see shrubs and wild nature and not only you can almost anywhere in the world. In Russia, raspberries can be found even on the plot of a summer resident in the Far East.
Useful properties of raspberries: medicinal properties
Raspberries are often used in home medicine, but real doctors recognize its healing potential. For the opportunity to heal, the plant can thank the composition of its cells.
The berry "from the bush" will contain many useful substances, for example, monosaccharides and polysaccharides. Also, raspberries contain organic acids (citric, tartaric, malic, ascorbic, salicylic) and are rich in various substances useful for the human body (carotene, various vitamins, pectins).
Seeds are also rich in nutrients, they include various organic nutrients.
Vitamin C and phytoncides are mainly found in the leaves of common raspberries, they also contain useful chemical elements: 1) Magnesium; 2) Silicon; 3) Aluminum; 4) Chrome; 5) Nickel; 6) Strontium; 7) Boron; 8) Zinc; 9) Copper; 10) Selenium.
Due to the fact that raspberries have a high content of weak organic acids, its use contributes to the excretion of acid salts from the body, it drives away sweat well. This is due to the shift in the acidity level to a more alkaline state. The high content of organic acids helps raspberries to be diuretic and improve the functioning of the digestive system.
As mentioned above, there is a high content of phenolic acid in the berries, thanks to which they like to give the fruits of the bush to children in case of pain in grief, the fruits have a cleansing and anti-inflammatory effect. Leaves and flowers are also used as antitoxin and a means to stop the blood. For the manufacture of preparations, aerial shoots of young raspberries are taken.
It is important to remember that only ripe berries can be picked, they are used fresh, dry, sometimes frozen. With all types of heat treatment, the berries will retain their useful qualities. Raspberry leaves are sometimes used in tea making.
Raspberry-based medicines are applicable for signs of acute viral infections, malaria, colds, joint pain, to facilitate the functioning of the digestive system, with loss of appetite and lack of strength. It is recommended to eat fresh fruits constantly to maintain immunity.
Raspberry infusion can be used in prevention and as a treatment for almost everything, except for the above diseases, it is applicable with excessively strong discharge during menstruation, gastritis, eczema and fever. With eye diseases, pimples and rashes, you can blot the problem areas with a decoction on raspberry flowers, if hemorrhoids are observed, the condition can be improved by taking the infusion inside.
Various remedies based on the leaves of the plant are used for excessive nervousness and as an antipyretic.
With the deposition of urates in the body and various kidney diseases, taking medications with raspberries is prohibited, this can negatively affect the patient's condition.
How to cook raspberries to be transformed into medicine
For the manufacture of medicines, all young raspberries are used, from roots to fruits.
The berries are not picked during rainy times, after the dew has dried. To do this, you need to carefully separate the polystyrene from the receptacle.
Spoiled berries cannot be processed into medicinal mixtures! They should be thrown away. After picking the berries, they are dried. If the process is carried out correctly, the finished berries, when rubbed, will not leave marks on the hand. It can be dried in various dryers with an average temperature of sixty degrees. If black berries appear, they are also thrown away.
Wild berries retain their qualities better, the berries taste a little sour and have a pleasant smell. Such raw materials should be stored in dry rooms and no more than two years from the date of drying.
All other parts of the raspberry are harvested during the flowering period. Flowers, leaves and shoots are laid out in a shady place under a canopy and dried. The roots are carefully washed from the earth and dirt, cut into small pieces. Important! You cannot store any kind of dried raw material for more than two years.
Health Benefits of Raspberries: Medical Uses
For home treatment, common raspberries have been used for a very long time.
Infusions and various mixtures were prepared from collecting herbs and raspberries in Ancient Russia.
For ARVI and influenza, a decoction infused on the shoots of young raspberries is used.
If there is excessive discharge during menstruation, you can drink an infusion of raspberry leaves.
For inflammations, sore throats, rashes and colic, an infusion of leaves is also used. Broths are taken and caress the throat with sore throats and sore throats.
About decoctions
Broths often get wet sore spots, with conjunctivitis, acne, diseases of the oral cavity. Raspberry leaf juice or compote is a good antiseptic and wound healing agent.
About infusions
From infusions on flowers and raspberry leaves I make lotions, and a woman and tampons for corresponding diseases. For the treatment of skin diseases and pest bites, raspberry flowers infused with olive oil are used.
In fact, an infusion on any aerial part of common raspberries is a good anti-inflammatory, antipyretic and high vitamin content. The remedies help well with a wide range of diseases.
Raspberries are often used for colds and this is justified.
As a means of sweating and against ascites, infusions on the roots of the plant are used.
Everyone knows about this beautiful berry, both adults and children love jam. Raspberries are used for colds, tea drinking, but almost no one knows about the correct use of not only berries.
Useful properties of raspberries: drug preparation
Infusion against sore throats and colds: three glasses of water are poured into a container for one hundred and ten grams of dried fruits, infused for about forty minutes, then filtered and drunk.
Useful properties of raspberries: for skin lesions
For skin lesions and diseases, a raspberry-based ointment is applicable. It is required to mix the juice from the leaves with hard oil / petroleum jelly in a ratio of one to four, then anoint the desired place. Can be applied more than once a day.
If you want to clean the vessels, prepare an infusion. Two hundred milliliters of boiling water are poured into two tablespoons of dried berries. Insist for nine hours and drink half a glass four to five times a day.
From colds
For colds, the collection of parts of raspberries is used. Crushed and dried leaves of raspberries, strawberries, cinquefoil, linden flowers, birch leaves, meadowsweet are taken in a ratio of five to four to two in four to one to one. All parts of the collection are mixed and brewed with boiling water, like tea. The broth should be used only warm when eating.
From diseases of the digestive system
For diseases of the digestive system, a collection is also applied. Crushed and dried components: raspberry shoots, galangal root, toadflax, meadow rank, berry, red and burdock roots, blueberries and bird cherry, also heather. Everything is taken in a ratio of five to two to one to two to two to one to one to two to one to one. Two tablespoons are poured into five hundred milliliters of boiling water and infused for about six hours, the entire drink must be drunk in one day, half a glass at a time.
Useful properties of raspberries: conclusion
The only contraindication is individual intolerance to raspberries.