Cowberry is useful and very tasty, with it cystitis and cold will go away forever!

"Miracle berry", "the berry of immortality" - this is how people call cranberries. And it's no accident! This plant is endowed with curative power, which has found the widest application in folk and traditional medicine. It helps with inflammatory diseases, normalizes blood pressure and is indicated for use even during pregnancy. Useful properties of cranberries are very valuable and important for human health and are used to treat a variety of diseases.

For medicinal purposes, both berries and leaves of cowberry are used.

Characteristics of the plant

Cowberry is an evergreen shrub. The plant belongs to the cowberry family. The height of the bush reaches 35 cm, rhizome creeping, horizontal. Stems erect, leaves shiny, rounded, on petioles.

Flowering of a bilberry bush is a tremendous sight - on a background of glossy bright green leaves white and slightly pink flowers, collected in a brush are dismissed. The berries appear in July-August. Ripe fruits are painted in bright red color.

How the cowberry looks during the fruiting period can be seen on this photo.

The bush removes its white outfit from the inflorescence and puts on a scarlet robe

Note! Sometimes you can see how a juicy-green plant is adorned immediately with snow-white flowers, and bright red berries. As a rule, these are varietal plants located on private plots, which are excavated specifically for the greening of the territory.

Where the cowberry grows the soil is poor and sour. You can find it near the swamps, in the woods, where it hides among other shrubs. This plant is found all over Ukraine and Russia, the Caucasus and the Far East.

About the benefits of the forest beauty

The healing properties are able to manifest both berries and leaves of cranberries. Leaflets are used to prepare decoctions and infusions, which have the following actions:

• disinfectant;
• is a diuretic;
• choleretic;
• astringent;
• antiseptic;
• is an anti-inflammatory;
• is bactericidal.

Drug consumption, based on cranberry leaves, has a positive effect on capillaries - they strengthen and significantly reduce fragility. With the help of decoctions and infusions, you can cure gastritis and gout, restore liver and kidney function.

What are the benefits of cranberries? They are recommended for use in hypertension and impaired vision. And if you combine them with honey, you get a remedy that can improve the condition with tuberculosis, accompanied by a cough with blood.

In general, cranberries can help in such cases:

• of the genitourinary system;
• bedwetting in children;
• hypovitaminosis and vitamin deficiency;
• gastritis with high acidity;
• blood pressure changes;
• anemia;
• neuroses;
• fever, accompanied by a strong thirst;
• rheumatism;
• cystitis;
• for strengthening of vessel walls;
• chronic fatigue;
• diabetes;
• gout.

Cowberry juice can exacerbate vision

Important! Remember that berryberries have laxative effect, so do not abuse them. Otherwise, diarrhea may develop.

Cowberry fruit cocktails are able to cure the flu, eliminate common weakness and are an excellent prevention of colds. With cholelithiasis, tea is recommended from cranberries, which helps dissolve and remove stones. When you cough, juice helps perfectly, combined with normal sugar. This drink translates dry cough into productive, facilitating the separation of sputum.

With cystitis

Cystitis is a rather unpleasant disease, which brings with it a lot of painful sensations. He is faced mainly in the winter season, when our body is weakened, and as a result, frequent inflammation of the bladder. For the prevention and treatment of cystitis is a better tool than cranberries can not find. Due to the fact that the composition of the leaves includes potassium, manganese oxide, organic acids, as well as a large amount of vitamin C and B2, tea made on their basis, in a short time, will eliminate the inflammatory process.

Cowberry tea with cystitis:

• cranberry leaves crushed;
• a tablespoon of prepared raw material pour a glass of boiling water;
• cover and leave for 1 hour;
• to filter.

Take this drug 100 ml three times a day.

Take a cowberry broth for prevention and cystitis will not bother you

From the pressure of

Quite often the question is - does cranberries lower or increase pressure? This is worth considering. The berries of this plant tone the heart muscle, make it more elastic, and at the same time strengthen the blood vessels. As a result, blood pressure is reduced to a normal level.

Important! It is dangerous to treat hypertension only by folk medicine, in any case, this process should be complex - the use of cranberries must necessarily be combined with the use of appropriate medications. And the treatment itself should only happen under the supervision of the doctor and according to his recommendations.

Drink from cowberries from the pressure is prepared as follows:

• berries rinse and sort, divided into two parts;
• one part of the fruit is toast in the oven until they become soft, squeeze out the juice from them;
• from the fresh part of the cowberry also squeeze the juice, connect them in one container;
• in the container pour a liter of the received liquid, add 15 ml of vodka and honey, mix.

This medication is recommended for 125 ml twice a day.

Cowberry stabilizes the pressure and improves the overall condition of

There is also a decoction of cowberry that will help reduce blood pressure:

• take 50 g of leaves, stems and flowers of the plant, grind;
• pour a mixture of 500 ml of steep boiling water;
• cook on low heat for 20 minutes;
• after the broth to insist for 5 hours, filter.

Take this remedy for half a glass three times a day.

Tip! If you need to normalize the pressure, but there is no desire or the ability to prepare a decoction, then you can simply mix the berries of cranberries with sugar and eat them together with tea. It's fast, useful and tasty!

With colds

Cowberry shoots are very good for colds. In this case, the plant shows its anti-inflammatory properties and promotes a speedy recovery.

You can prepare the healing remedy by the following recipe:

• 2 tablespoons of cranberry shoots to grind;
• pour a glass of boiling water;
• put on a water bath and simmer for 30 minutes;
• cool and resume the initial volume of liquid with boiled water;
• to filter.

Obtained remedy is recommended for use in colds both internally and for gargling.

Cowberry broth is the best treatment for and prevention of upper respiratory tract diseases

Attention - there are contraindications!

Despite the mass of medicinal properties, lingonberry has contraindications for use. These include:

• increased secretory function of the stomach;
• hypotension.

In addition, this plant has an increased ability to absorb and store radioactive substances, which poses a huge danger to health. Therefore, it is necessary to use only the raw materials that were collected far from the factory complexes and automobile routes.