Kuril tea shrubby - curative strength of broth

Exotic dietary supplements importedalmost displaced from our consciousness medicinal plants growing in Russia. Unfortunately, to such forgotten "folk healers" is cinquefoil shrub, or kuril shrubby tea, a medicinal plant from the Rosaceae family.

The main area of ​​growth of Kuril tea -territory from the Urals to the Far East. It grows in the Kuril Islands, the inhabitants of which from the leaves of the plant brew ordinary tea. Perhaps, therefore, Potentilla shrub and got such a name. This low shrub can be found on the slopes of mountains or in river valleys, it prefers moist places or forest edges. The plant is light-loving enough and only blooms well in the open sun or in light partial shade. In order to obtain medicinal raw materials it is grown in nurseries. Recently, Kuril tea shrubby appeared on the backyards, where it blooms profusely throughout the summer, until the onset of cold weather. True, in dry weather requires watering.

Brewed Kuril tea - light yellowand pleasant enough to taste. But the most important thing is a whole bunch of healing properties, which are manifested in antimicrobial, hemostatic, expectorant, analgesic and sedative effects.

Kuril tea (the photo of which can be found even in some medical reference books) is considered to be a real source of active biological substances important for health and

mineral elements.Leaves, flowers, young shoots and even the roots of Potentilla shrub are used as raw materials for the treatment of viral infections and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. They have antiallergic, choleretic, antidiabetic, and immunostimulating properties. Drugs, the basis of which is Kurilian shrub tea, are taken for lobar pneumonia, tuberculosis and other serious diseases.

The decoction has a special healing power.amazing plants. It is effective in dysentery and diarrhea, is a wonderful expectorant and appetite-improving agent. Doctors prescribe it for fever as a diaphoretic or as a choleretic agent in inflammatory diseases of the liver, in neuropsychiatric diseases as a sedative, as well as in diseases of the blood.

Все полезные вещества в основном вырабатываются в Lapchatka shrub during its intensive flowering, so the raw material is harvested in June. Shoots with a height of 20-30 cm are cut, dried at 50-70 degrees and used to make decoctions. If it is not possible to procure raw materials yourself, then you can always buy Kuril tea in pharmacies. The broth is used externally - for rinsing the throat and in the treatment of wounds and burns.

To prepare it, pour 1 cup of boiling water1 tbsp. spoon of medicinal raw materials and boil for 30 minutes in a water bath. Then filter (without cooling) and bring to the original volume. Broth drink before meals 10-15 days, taking three times a day, 2 tbsp. spoons. You can drink it and to increase appetite, and as a diaphoretic, and to improve the functioning of the heart.

Kuril tea is used as shrubby tea.cooking infusion: pour 0.5 liters of boiling water 2 tbsp. spoons of raw materials, boil for 5 minutes, cool, filter and take half a glass three times a day before meals. This tea is not only healthy, but incredibly tasty.