Tincture of barberry - healing medication with their own hands

Sweet and sour berries of barberry are known for their qualities in many industries - they are appreciated for their special taste in cooking, and in medicine and cosmetology for medicinal properties. In small red fruits concentrated a huge amount of biologically active substances, which are really able to support our health and ensure a wonderful state of health. And because of these berries are often prepared compotes, jams, decoctions. But the tincture of barberry is very popular, which can be made with your own hands from different parts of the plant.

. Recipes for the healing remedy

Barberry tincture can be purchased at any pharmacy, and its cost is relatively low. But it is better to cook it at home, especially if the berries you collect and harvest yourself. In this case, the drink will be especially valuable, plus everything, here you can say with full confidence about its ecological purity.

There are several recipes for tinctures on barberry. All of them are very useful, but at the same time each has a certain range of effects on our body. Let's look at it in more detail.

Important! When preparing these tinctures, you can not use metal utensils!

Recipe № 1

This tincture from barberry is prepared on vodka, and the prescription of this drug most often becomes relevant for cholelithiasis, with liver lesions, including in hepatitis. Make the remedy as follows:

• for 200 ml of vodka take 40 g of barberry fruit;
• berries are poured in alcoholic main and leave for 14 days;
• after the indicated time the preparation is filtered and poured into a container of dark glass.

Use the finished product 25 drops before meals three times a day. The course of treatment is three weeks.

Important! Tincture, prepared according to this recipe, you can also drink with chronic cholecystitis, but only if the body temperature is normal!

Recipe № 2

This tincture is made from the leaves of barberry on alcohol and is used only for the doctor's prescription. The recipe for its preparation is quite simple:

• for 200 ml of alcohol should take 30 g of dried leaves;
• fill the raw material with an alcohol base and take it to a dark place;
• after two weeks the product is filtered and stored in a dark container.

Recipe # 3

This is another recipe for tincture from the leaves of barberry, but only as an alcohol base there will already be vodka. Use this tool is recommended for uterine bleeding. So, proceed to the preparation:

• for 100 g of dry raw materials should take half a liter of vodka;
• mix the ingredients and tightly seal the dishes;
• we refer the future tincture to a dark place and leave it for 7 days;
• after a specified period of time several times filtered and stored in a dark glass.

Drink the finished product three times a day. The course of treatment is 3 weeks.

Recipe No. 4

The curative tincture from the root of barberry, which is infused with alcohol, is used mainly for grits. Prepare it according to the following recipe:

• dry roots in the amount of 30 g pour 100 ml of alcohol;
is left in a dark place for 3 weeks;
• after this time is filtered and transferred to storage in a refrigerator.

Scope

In general, each of these barberry infusions has quite powerful healing properties.

• The fruits of this plant contain pectin substances, ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, and also valuable organic acids. All these components contribute to the improvement of intestinal peristalsis and allow tincture of berries of barberry to normalize the digestion process.
  

  Note! Thanks to these abilities fruit barberry tincture is often used for weight loss purposes. In addition, this product has a low caloric value, which is only 35 kcal per 100 g of product, which means that its use is not capable of greatly increasing the total caloric value of the daily ration!

• If we talk about the benefits of alcohol tincture from the leaves of barberry, it is able to improve appetite and positively affects the work of the entire gastrointestinal tract. In addition, in the leaves of this plant is concentrated a large number of alkaloids, the most valuable of which is berberine. This substance softens the musculature and dilutes the secret of the biliary tract, which causes its powerful choleretic action.
• With regard to the rhizome, this tincture of barberry has found the widest application in the treatment of the spleen and liver. It excels in hepatitis, jaundice, as well as in certain skin diseases, for example, with furunculosis and heavily inflamed acne. The same drug can be used to lower blood pressure and with a strong palpitation.

In addition, the fruits, roots and leaves of barberry contain serotonin, which helps regulate the work of the central nervous system. It contributes to mood correction, normalizes sleep and prevents the development of depressive conditions, which becomes especially important with frequent stresses.



Tannins, which are present in all parts of this plant, endow the preparations prepared from it with strong anti-inflammatory properties. In this regard, barberry tincture is used to disinfect the oral cavity. After rinsing with this preparation, inflammatory processes noticeably decrease, bleeding occurs and the general condition of the gums improves.

Barberry tincture is recognized by folk medicine as an effective remedy for tuberculosis, gout, colds, and is also considered a very good drug that, with complex therapy, helps to treat benign and malignant neoplasms.

When applied externally, barberry tincture helps in the elimination of psoriasis and eczema. Can also be used for grits with joint pain and rheumatism.

Contraindications

But no matter how useful barbaric tincture in some cases from its use is better to refuse.

1. This drug is categorically contraindicated for bleeding that occurs when the ovaries are malfunctioning, and because of a placenta retention in the uterus.
   

   Note! Of particular importance here is the composition of barberry - it includes substances that contribute to a decrease in the tone of the vessels.

2. Abuse of barberry tincture can have side effects such as a sharp drop in blood pressure and a general deterioration in well-being. Therefore, drink it should be strictly according to the doctor's prescription, and people with hypotension should be especially careful about its use for medicinal purposes.
3. Do not forget that barberry tincture can increase the concentration of sugar in the blood, which is unacceptable in diabetes.
4. Application of barberry tincture is highly not recommended for peptic ulcer and gastritis in the acute stage.
5. In barberry, there are substances that increase blood clotting, which makes any drugs based on it harmful when tends to clot.

Competent use of barberry tincture can bring huge benefits to the human body. Use it for its intended purpose, pay attention to contraindications and be healthy!