You know perfectly well what a buckthorn is. This is an inconspicuous bush, on which grow black berries, which you in childhood - and someone and until now - called wolves. Surely you did not know that the buckthorn bark has a number of useful properties and certain contraindications to use. And this plant is actually used in traditional - not to mention folk - medicine has been used for a long time. And feedback about its use appears only positive.
Curative properties of buckthorn bark
Medicine has found application to berries and bark of a plant. But as practice shows, the latter enjoys much greater popularity, because it acts somewhat more efficiently.
In the composition of the zoo - in general, this is one of the varieties of the bush, but the name has taken root as an alternative name for the buckthorn - many useful substances:
- anthraquinones;
- essential oils;
- tannins;
- simple and complex sugar compounds;
- acids (in particular, apple and amber);
- alkaloids;
- vitamin C.
All of them in the complex and provide the main curative property of buckthorn - laxative. Moreover, plant based drugs are much softer, but much more effective than many pharmaceutical analogues. Therefore, they should not be abused. Otherwise, the active substances can cause irritation of the mucosa and lead to serious poisoning.
Traditional medicine appeals for help and to antibacterial, decongestant, and also laxative properties of the cortex. Nevertheless, its laxative properties determined the indications for treatment of the buckthorn bark. And appoint a host when:
- constipation;
- Gastrointestinal diseases, which are accompanied by unpleasant sensations in the stomach or intestines;
- fever;
- hemorrhoids;
- atony of the intestine ;
- anal fissures;
- gastritis;
- colitis;
- ulcer of the stomach or duodenum;
- liver diseases;
- helminthic invasions.
Experts repeatedly had to deal with cases when the external application of plant-based products helped with:
- rheumatism;
- eczema;
- radiculitis;
- furunculosis ;
- pustular infections.
Among other things, useful properties of drugs from the buckthorn bark can also be used for the following problems:
- abundant menstruation;
- diabetes mellitus;
- tachycardia;
- dizziness;
- diseases caused by metabolic disorders.
How to cook and take bark of buckthorn?
Preparation of medicines based on the bark of the hopper does not take much time. Just need a tablespoon of dry remedy and a glass of purified water. The components of the drug are mixed and boiled for about half an hour. Drink ready-made broth should be in the morning and before going to bed half a glass.
For those who want to further simplify the process of treatment, and completely sold zhoster in the form of tablets. Take the bark in this form, you need one - two pills immediately before going to bed.
Warnings and contraindications to the use of buckthorn bark
If you take the buckthorn in accordance with all the prescriptions, you can not worry about the side effects. The main contraindications - they, whatever one may say, are even in the most innocuous medicines - the use of the zoster can be considered:
- the presence of malignant tumors in the organs of the gastrointestinal tract;
- spastic syndrome;
- appendicitis and other inflammation;
- pregnancy;
- Crohn's disease;
- lactation;
- uterine bleeding;
- metrorrhagia;
- acute feverish conditions;
- bleeding;
- constipations that are neurogenic or endocrine in nature.
Of course, people who suffer from individual intolerance of certain components of its composition will also have to give up the treatment of the buckthorn bark.