Blackberry

Blackberry

Blackberry: Description. Prickly shrub with creeping stems. Leaves ternate with rhombic-ovate leaves. White flowers with many stamens and pistils, in racemes. Fruits (berries) - black with glaucous bloom drupes. Height - the length of shoots 60-150 cm
Flowering time June-August.
Habitat along the banks of relays, ravines, precipices, on the edges of forests, shrubberies.
The applied part. Fruits (berries), leaves.
Collection time. The leaves are harvested in June-August during the flowering and berries - in August and September.
Blackberry: Chemical composition. Berries blackberries contain sugar (glucose, fructose, sucrose), pectin and tannins, organic acids (malic, ascorbic), minerals (copper, manganese, potassium lot), fiber, B vitamins and carotene (. Provitamin A). Blackberry leaf contains tannins, organic acids, flavonoid substances, ascorbic acid (vitamin C), B vitamins and carotene.
Blackberry: BlackBerry Action Sheet acts as a wound-healing (outwardly), tonic, astringent, diaphoretic, hemostatic, "blood-purifying" antiseptic (antiseptic). Improves peristalsis, cleans the wound of pus.
Blackberry: Application. In inflammatory processes, gastrointestinal (heartburn, diarrhea, bloody diarrhea, dysentery). When colds and inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, pneumonia, copious menstruation. At various inflammatory skin diseases, herpes, chronic ulcers of the skin, eczema, fungal skin lesions - externally.
Method of application.
1. 4 teaspoons of blackberry leaf 2 cups boiling water, 4 hours in a thermos. Drink 1 / 2 cup 4 times a day for 30 minutes. before eating.
2. Fresh leaves of blackberry pound and applied to the affected area of ​​skin.
3. Berries blackberries in vodka (1:10) insist. Take 2-3 glasses at the reception with chill.