Rowan bunches - is one of the most useful and rich in vitamins and trace elements useful ingredient used to prepare tinctures and a part of the traditional medicines fees.
When to collect ashberries
It would seem that useful properties haveonly ripe fruit. If berries gather in the fall, then they can protect the human body from most diseases, strengthen immunity and stimulate physical activity and brain function. Rowan bunches contain phytoncides, which disastrously affect such parasites as salmonella, staphylococcus, and also mold fungus. But if you take not ripe berries rowan, they will help against diarrhea due to its knitting action. Therefore tincture of ashberry red was always one of the most widespread and revered in Russia. This medicine for alcohol was considered an effective healing agent. In order to make a tincture of vodka, it is recommended to take the largest and juicy berries, so it is better to collect them in late autumn or early winter, when the first frosts will make them sweetish.
Tincture recipe for red ashberry on alcohol
As mentioned above, the collection of berries must be doneafter the first autumn or winter frosts. After this, they must be separated from the cuttings, thoroughly washed and dried. The raw material from which we will prepare the tincture, you need to fill the bottle 2/3. After rowan berries you need to pour up vodka to the top and put in a warm place for at least 20 days to ripen. At the end of the period the tincture will be a beautiful dark brown color. Then it must be filtered and bottled. The raw material that remains will be used again, the second tincture will be as tasty and no less useful.
Red ashberry: tincture of flowers
No less useful and flowers, although for their healingthey are inferior to the fruits. To prepare this tincture you will need a third of a tablespoon of dried flowers. Raw material is poured with boiling water (not more than one glass) and boiled for 1-1.5 minutes. Then the tincture is left for one hour, and after filtering. The broth is used three times a day for 1/3 cup. It is especially useful for colds, diabetes, goitre, menopause.
Red ashberry: tincture from leaves
To prepare this medicine you need to take 1a tablespoon of fresh leaves, grind them in a blender or meat grinder. They do not need to be boiled, just pour 1 cup of boiling water and insist under a closed lid in a warm place for 1 hour. Excellent properties are red ashberry: tincture of the leaves well helps with anemia, beriberi, scurvy and periodontitis. It is taken orally and for rinsing the oral cavity.
Healing decoctions of mountain ash
What is useful for red ashberry?Tincture on alcohol is not always permitted, for example, during pregnancy or for children. In such cases, prepare and consume decoctions from such parts of the plant as fruits, leaves or bark.
To prepare a decoction of rowan barktake about one dessert spoonful of raw material, pre-chopped, pour 300 ml of water (this is a half cup) and boil for about 15 minutes, then 6 hours to insist in the thermos. Strain and drink three times a day for 2 tablespoons with menopause, atherosclerosis, hypertension.
The same way is prepared and decoction of the fruitrowan, but at the rate of one tablespoon of raw material for 300 ml of water, and boil for 10 minutes. Insisted for a mixture of only 1 hour, and taken three times a day before meals for goiter, diabetes, anemia, beriberi, climax and after radiation exposure.
