Useful properties of mountain ash - one of the most healing berries
Our ancestors knew that mountain ash can help with various diseases. The beneficial properties of mountain ash make it one of the most popular medicinal plants. In this case, both red and black berries are curative. What is this plant capable of and in what cases will it help?
Useful properties of mountain ash
Due to its rich vitamin composition, mountain ash will help:
- strengthen immunity;
- recover faster from colds, preventing their complications, and relieve pain symptoms (for example, pain when swallowing);
- speed up metabolism;
- to establish the work of the cardiovascular system;
- get rid of gas and constipation;
- cleanse the intestines;
- stop the bleeding;
- stimulate the outflow of urine;
- prevent fungal diseases, such as thrush;
- rejuvenate the skin by removing wrinkles;
- get rid of the toxicosis of pregnant women;
- remove warts;
- clean the vessels.
For medicinal purposes, you can eat fresh or dried berries, brew them or bark to prepare a medicinal infusion. You can also make juice from fresh mountain ash and drink it before eating.
In addition, mountain ash is also valuable as a cosmetic product. Crushed fresh berries are an excellent refreshing mask for the skin.
For what diseases do you need to use mountain ash
Means prepared on the basis of mountain ash help in the complex treatment of such diseases:
- anemia;
- hypertension;
- diabetes;
- gastritis;
- stones in the kidneys;
- bronchitis;
- heart disease;
- anemia.
It should be borne in mind that in the presence of certain problems, mountain ash can do harm. It is not recommended to take it in case of ulcers, high acidity, diarrhea, thrombophlebitis, hypotension and poor blood clotting. You should also be wary of treating red rowan with a tendency to an allergic reaction. Fresh mountain ash juice will not be beneficial for open wounds, both on the skin and in the mouth (stomatitis). A high acid content will only aggravate the situation and increase irritation.
With diarrhea, it is shown to take a decoction of berries. With vitamin deficiency, to enhance the medicinal properties, you can add to the broth rose hip... Rowanberry puree from fresh berries with the addition of a small amount of white wine will increase your appetite. Fresh juice is rubbed with warts or taken orally for gastritis. An alcoholic tincture of berries will help with atherosclerosis, and a decoction of the bark, when taken systematically, will keep the pressure normal.