This close relative of raspberry, violet-black blackberries from the family rozovotsvetnyh not only delicious forest and garden berries. Its leaves, fruits and roots of old folk healers used to treat many diseases. Brambles, turquoise, sarabalina, ozhina, chill - so affectionately called blackberries in different regions of Russia and CIS countries. Blackberries in folk medicine because it contains an abundance of vitamins and organic acids, is one of the leading places among the natural medicinal plants.

Use Blackberry

Blackberries - plant of the genus Rubus of the family Pink. As the ripening fruit on the bushes of blackberries, called a drupe, first turn green and then brownish, then - red-brown, ripe berry shimmers in the sun almost black nucleoli fetus. Shrubs, which grow blackberries, completely littered with thorns. Fruit juice sweet and sour, sticky, resinous. Blackberries growing in temperate and warm climates. In Russia and Europe on an industrial scale blackberries do not grow in the United States are bred in vast plantations for harvesting as a raw material processing and pharmaceutical industries.

The structure includes blackberry fruit organic acids, tannins, carotene, tocopherols, glucose, fructose, vitamins, especially rich in this berry vitamin PP and C. The fruits have astringent and sudorific effect. The leaves have a hemostatic, wound healing, astringent, antiseptic effect, the roots - anti-inflammatory and diuretic.

Fresh leaves of blackberry and mush on their basis is applied to wounds, ulcers, which quickly tightened. Of the young shoots and leaves early make broth for a sore throat gargle for sore throat and colds. A decoction is used internally in the treatment of skin diseases, intestinal disorders, stomach bleeding. As a sedative with nervousness and hysteria prepared extracts from branches and leaves of bushes.

Fresh blackberries in season collection recommend to all, without exception, to maintain health, rich in vitamins, as a fortifying agent. Especially useful blackberry patients with diabetes, atherosclerosis, insomnia and heart disease, inflammation of the joints, diseases of the kidneys, bladder, colitis.

Recipes of traditional medicine

Fresh blackberry leaves instead of tea brewed this drink is useful in diseases of the liver and stomach. This infusion resembles the taste of Chinese tea. The broth is prepared by the following recipe: tablespoon of dried leaves pour a glass of boiling water and insist under a cover in an enamel pot or thermos for three hours. When gastric or uterine bleeding can drink this decoction every two to three hours. When pulmonary bleeding in the broth add the root of blackberry and drink two to three tablespoons three times a day before meals. With urolithiasis with curative and preventive purposes, particularly in the preoperative period, when there were no set type of stones, take a decoction of the roots and leaves of blackberry, prepared by the same recipe.

For a gargle for sore throat and tonsillitis decoction of the roots use blackberries. To twenty grams of dry comminuted raw material is boiled in a glass of water for twenty minutes, draw for three hours, filtered and adjusted to the initial volume of liquid boiled water. In diabetes take an infusion of leaves for the following recipe: two teaspoons dried minced raw pour a glass of boiling water and infused for thirty minutes. Drink filtered solution for a day in three divided doses. Too lengthy and heavy menstruation used infusions from the leaves of blackberry, which improve the overall health and normalizes sleep, reduce anxiety.

Blackberries in cooking

From fragrant blackberries in different cuisines are cooked jam and jams, prepared desserts and drinks, syrups and fruit drinks, jellies and fruit sauces Fruit sauces: a low-calorie, sweet, savory Juices and wine, put in pies, sweet toppings, cakes and cheesecakes Cheesecake - a small fire of love . National recipes use Blackberry very exotic. Abkhazian kitchen is unthinkable without hot sauces, one of them - Amaahyr syzbal - sauce adzhika Adjika: passionate seasoning   and blackberry. Preparing this unusual condiment fast: five hundred grams of fresh blackberries rubbed through a fine sieve, add a tablespoon yadrena adzhika, seasoned with a mixture of dried herbs to taste and garlic mashed with salt. Such an exotic sauce served with grilled meat.

It is interesting

The people blackberries styled "stingy grass." There is an ancient legend about a rich man and very greedy. It had two beautiful daughters, who were also stingy, for no one took them married. Then the father agreed with the devil, that he turned into a prickly bush daughters, who would be guarding his treasure. Damn gladly set to work, and soon the eldest daughter turned into a spreading blackberry bush. He flew past angel sounded the alarm and told about the antics of the Mother of God unclean, but the eldest daughter of the rich man and could not be saved, but the youngest was a wonderful raspberry. Blackberries growing on the flood plains, along rivers, drinking the blood of the land, clean water, and gives people the healing leaves, roots and fruits.

Jeanne Pyatirikova

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