Iva White

Iva White

Iva White: Description. A tree with spreading crown and dark gray fissured bark. Leaves alternate, linear-lanceolate, pointed, hairy beneath. Bright yellow catkins, female - green. Tree height 5-18 m.
Flowering time. April-May.
Habitat. In the valleys, around ponds and lakes.
The applied part. Cora.
Collection time, in early spring with 4.8 year old twigs.
Iva White: Chemical composition. White willow bark contains salicin glycosides, tannic and resinous substances, flavones, vitamin C.
Iva White: Action. Antipyretic, antimalarial, diaphoretic, astringent, hemostatic, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, wound healing, analgesic, sedative, vermifuge.
Iva White: Application. In diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (dysentery, worms, diarrhea), and hypotension, gout, articular rheumatism, various bleedings. For (various pains, including headaches and nervous character neuroses. In stomatitis, tonsillitis, gum - rinse infusion of bark. When leg muscle weakness, sweating feet with an unpleasant smell - do leg injuries (knee), mixed in equal parts willow bark and bark of oak .. When inflammation of the skin, wounds, trophic ulcers - sprinkle the powder from the bark of white willow or ointment to lubricate the affected places of willow powder in butter.
Dosing ..
1. 1 teaspoon of willow bark in 2 cups boiling water, a thermos 6 hours. Drink 1 / 2 cup 3 times a day for 30 minutes. before eating.
2. Willow bark powder and 1 g 3 times a day for 30 minutes. before meals with water.