Spruce: medicinal properties and contraindications. Needles. Medicinal properties of needles, recipes of traditional medicine. Traditional medicine recipes

Strength of needles - both branches and cones will come in handy

Treatment of needles of various diseases, folk remedies.

Medicinal drinks with pine needles

Fill half a bucket with coniferous branches, pour boiling water over them, add a few drops lemon juice and put in a room in a secluded place, without closing the lid. This will purify the air in the apartment.

40-50 g needles of needles (spruce, pine, fir or juniper), rinse and chop. Pour a liter of boiling water and insist in an enamel bowl for 15-20 minutes. Then add 0.5 l of chilled boiled water, filter and leave to stand for 5-6 hours. Carefully drain the liquid, leaving a sediment at the bottom. The taste of the drink will be more pleasant, and vitamin C will be preserved better if you use a solution of citric acid instead of water (a teaspoon per liter of water).

Sugar can be added to the finished needle extract at the rate of 30 g per liter of water. Drink half a cup 4-5 times a day.
Infusion of needles removes radionuclides, chemical and other foreign inclusions from the body and supplies huge amount vitamin C. And if water extract needles add fruit drink, kvass or cabbage pickle- it will make a wonderful drink. You can also prepare jelly: a tablespoon of potato flour and the same amount of sugar per liter of infusion. Drink this coniferous drink in a glass a day.

Needles and blood purification

To prepare another infusion, only spruce or pine needles are needed. It is better to take branches fresh or stored in the refrigerator (at room temperature, vitamin C contained in the needles is quickly destroyed). Rub the needles with a glass or wooden pestle and pour boiled water over it. Leave the needles for 2 hours in a dark, cool place. Add lemon juice and sugar before drinking. Have a drink on the same day. It is very useful for people who have had a stroke, as well as those who treat kidneys. Coniferous drink cleanses the blood, removes radionuclides from the body.

Folk remedy with needles for immunity

And this folk remedy gives strong effect vitaminization, removes toxins from the body, prevents many diseases, strengthens the immune system.

A handful of pine needles (about 40-50 g) of pine is poured into 2 liters of water in an enamel bowl. Add a tablespoon of crushed onion peel and a teaspoon of chopped licorice root. All this boils for another half a minute. Then put under the covers or poured into a thermos for 10-12 hours. Then it is filtered, brought to a boil, cooled and stored in the refrigerator. During the day, you can drink 1-2 liters.

A bath with pine needles will soothe

With inflammation of the appendages will help therapeutic bath. Brew 5 liters of boiling water needles, twigs, pine cones, hold on a small fire for 30 minutes and leave to infuse for 12 hours. good decoction has a brown color. Pour it into the bath. The water temperature is 38 degrees, the duration of the bath is 20-30 minutes, the course is 10 days. For full bath 1.5 kg of needles are required, for half - 3/4 kg and for sitting or foot - 1/4 kg.

Such procedures have a calming effect on people with painful irritability and strengthen the heart and nerves.

Healing baths help to cope with insomnia, nerve pain, inflammation of the joints, nervous excitement, overwork and have a beneficial effect on the skin. For a bath, prepare an infusion obtained from a glass of chopped pine needles, poured into 1.5 liters of boiling water for an hour. The water temperature is 38-39 degrees, the time of taking is 10-12 minutes. But if you have heart problems, don't risk it.
With lumbosacral sciatica, myositis and lichen, baths from coniferous legs of spruce with salt help well.

Siberian remedies: needles, cones, buds

1. An infusion of pine (or spruce) cones is used for inhalation and rinsing with angina, chronic tonsillitis, laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, sinusitis, rhinitis. The crushed cones are poured with boiled water in a ratio of 1:5, boiled for 30 minutes, stirring, then infused for 15 minutes and filtered through three layers of gauze. It turns out brown liquid pine scent and astringent taste. For inhalation, the infusion is heated to 60-80 degrees and 20-30 ml is taken per procedure (for adults);
2. With pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchitis, bronchial asthma, pharyngolaryngitis helps such a tool. 30 g young shoots or buds coniferous tree boil in a liter of milk, strain and drink in 3 doses during the day;
3. A syrup made from fresh pine buds is very useful for microinfarctions, myocarditis and rheumatic heart disease;
4. Coniferous baths help with spurs. Cut pine branches before visiting the bath, pour boiling water over them in a basin and leave them in the steam room for 20 minutes, let the water cool down a bit. Put an ordinary rolling pin in the basin and roll it with your feet. So get rid of spurs and massage improve overall well-being;
5. Pine resin has healing properties. All treatment is to apply it to the affected area. You can also use hardened, but melted. Add a little pork to the resin interior fat- heal not only fresh, but also chronic wounds. And when festering wounds and skin ulcers equal parts mix pine resin, yellow wax, sunflower or hemp oil, melted over a fire, and use after cooling as an ointment or plaster;
6. Pine cones can also be used for wellness massage. Pour them on the bottom of the bath and walk on them for 5-10 minutes. At first, the legs will hurt a little, but you will get used to it and want to do it again;
7. A decoction of cones is good for rinsing with sore throat, tonsillitis, pharyngitis. With a runny nose and sinusitis, they wash their nose. pine cone pour a glass of boiling water, boil for 15 minutes and strain. For the throat - half a glass for one procedure. And 5-10 drops in each nostril;
8. Cut a spruce twig about half a meter long, about a finger thick, and beat your feet regularly (beat so hard that you can barely stand it) for 3-5 minutes. This ancient Siberian remedy is excellent for helping with bumps, especially if you soar your legs for 2-3 minutes before the procedure and twist them with force (to pain) thumbs legs.

The strength of the needles

What New Year without a Christmas tree? A living Christmas tree in an apartment is not only a feeling of the most wonderful of holidays, but also health for everyone living there.

Few people are able to confess their indifference to the gentle, ephemeral, but at the same time surprisingly stable aroma of pine needles in the house, which takes us back to a happy childhood. However, not everyone knows that needles - this is the biological source active substances.

Wood coniferous greenery contains valuable biological components: chlorophyll, vitamins, macro- and microelements, phytohormones, phytoncides, bacteriostatic and even anthelmintic substances. Spruce needles are fraught with inexhaustible forces that perfectly help restore and maintain health. It has the ability to regulate metabolism, improve blood formation, and have a diuretic effect.

Do not count all the diseases that you can get rid of with the help of needles. These are diseases of the kidneys and the cardiovascular system, retinal detachment, atrophy optic nerve. Indispensable for multiple sclerosis, gangrene, hemorrhoids, convulsive states. Perfectly removes radionuclides from the body, helps to strengthen the immune system. It also successfully fights respiratory diseases, nervous disorders. it effective remedy against arthritis, obliterating endarteritis, sciatica, osteochondrosis and other diseases of the joints and spine. Pine needles have long been used as a tonic.

Needle treatment

1. FROM preventive purpose needles are useful just to chew. But preparations prepared from it, as well as procedures carried out with their use, have a great effect;
2. Since pine (spruce) needles contain a large number of(especially in winter) of vitamin C, which is so necessary for us in the spring, it is used to make a vitamin drink. Freshly picked (preferably one-year-old) needles are washed, crushed with scissors, poured cold water, acidify by adding 2 teaspoons per liter of water apple cider vinegar, then for 2-8 days insist in a dark place, filter and drink a glass a day;
3. And you can boil the chopped needles for half an hour in a sealed container, cool and add cranberry or lingonberry juice to improve the taste. Then bottle the drink. For the manufacture of daily dose vitamin support needs only 25 g of needles;
4. With bronchitis, coniferous inhalations are made: 200 g of spruce (pine) needles are placed in a small saucepan, poured with a glass of boiling water and, covering their heads with a large towel, inhale the steam;
5. With bronchial asthma, pharyngitis, laryngitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, a honey-propolis mixture is prepared with young spruce (pine) branches. A kilogram of spruce branches is boiled for 15 minutes in 3 liters of water, filtered, and a kilogram of honey and 10 g of propolis extract prepared at the rate of 30 g of propolis per 0.5 cup of alcohol are added to a liter of broth. The mixture is heated to 45 degrees, cooled and bottled. Store in a cool place. Take a teaspoon 3 times a day before meals;
6. Even from the needles for the treatment of bronchitis and colds, they cook homemade pine oil. An old, already unused teapot is filled with a quarter of the volume with young fresh chopped needles and filled up to half with water. The kettle is tightly closed with a lid, a drain metal or plastic tube is put on the spout and lowered into a glass of cold water. The teapot is heated, and the water vapor, together with the volatile (essential) oil, passes into the glass, where it cools and floats in the glass on the surface of the water. It is drained or removed with a pipette. About 1 gram of oil is usually obtained from 100 g of needles. This oil is rubbed on the back and chest of the patient.

In winter and early spring, as a result of hypothermia, boils often appear on the body. With furunculosis, an ointment is prepared from resin: mix it with pork fat and beeswax taken in equal amounts. Heat the mixture over a fire and after cooling thickly lubricate the boil.

You can prepare the ointment in a different way. Take in equal parts by weight resin, wax, honey and sunflower oil. Warm up on fire, cool. Helps with abrasions, abscesses, ulcers.
Useful not only needles, but also green cones. They are also considered good medicine in the treatment of diseases respiratory tract, hyperacid gastritis, peptic ulcer stomach.

Step into a new life

Still, it’s very good if your house has a living Christmas tree, or at least fir branches. Then ozonides will be constantly formed in the air.

When phytoncides and ozone interact, ozonide molecules become electronically excited and their energy increases 3.2 times compared to an ordinary oxygen molecule. Spruce phytoncides increase the content of light negative ions in the air and not only disinfect, kill pathogens, but also help defensive forces organism to cope with harmful outsiders.

Evergreen conifers are associated with the New Year, family celebrations, clean frosty air of a coniferous forest, mushroom places. Our ancestors have long known about healing properties conifer needles. A decoction of needles was considered remedy, relieving ailments, which was accepted by everyone - from young to old.

Raw materials collected fresh during travels and campaigns have long been of particular value. Wise nature made it so that in winter time when the body is in dire need of vitamins and minerals, the concentration useful substances in the needles increased several times. Needles in winter contain 4 times more ascorbic acid than in summer. A decoction of needles for use in winter is more appropriate and effective.

Decoction of needles - useful properties

popular recipe traditional medicine is a decoction of pine needles. Unlike alcohol tincture it can be taken by children, the elderly, at work where concentration is required. By simple preparation, you can get a vitamin-mineral cocktail, rich in ascorbic acid.

All decoctions from coniferous plants have three main properties:

• removal of inflammation;
• destruction of pathogenic microorganisms;
• healing of wounds and ulcers.

In addition to these properties, the decoction has a diaphoretic, choleretic, diuretic effect, it is effective in the fight against helminths.

The needles are rich in ascorbic acid, vitamin E, B vitamins, nicotinic acid, a complex of minerals. Among active ingredients- salts of iron, cobalt, manganese.

Very effective decoction colds. A pair of needles kill pathogens. Coniferous decoction for colds can replace citrus fruits and pharmaceutical products, has a great effect on nervous system reduces stress levels. The rest of the broth can be added to the bath.

How decoctions are used

Each type of needles has unique properties which you need to focus on before cooking. The properties of the decoction of pine and spruce needles are somewhat different.

Spruce needles are used to treat:

• joint diseases;
• of cardio-vascular system;
• colds;
• wounds, abrasions, ulcers;
• beriberi;
• weakened immunity;
• disorders in the digestive system;
• fungal skin lesions;
• rheumatism;
• for anesthesia.

Coniferous broth on pine needles - excellent remedy for such violations:

• atherosclerosis;
• frequent colds;
• diseases of the female genital area;
• insomnia;
• stress, overwork;
• herpes;
• furunculosis.

Cooking rules

Coniferous broth how to brew is a method that does not require special knowledge. You just need to stick to the recipe.

For a decoction, it is better to use winter needles, it has a higher concentration of active substances and components. The collected raw materials can be stored at +10°C.

Before brewing needles, it is necessary to sort it out, clean it of debris, rinse with cool water.

How to brew needles classic recipe? This decoction can be used for various diseases, add other components, take orally and externally.

Classic recipe

Compound

• 1 glass of coniferous needles;
• 1 liter of boiled water.

Cooking

1. Measure out 1 cup of needles.
2. Boil 1 liter of water.
3. Mix, cook over low heat for 10 minutes.
4. After removing from heat, let it brew for 20 minutes.
5. Filter the finished broth.
6. Coniferous decoction beneficial features keeps in the refrigerator for a week.

Decoction of needles - recipes

Recipe for boosting immunity

Compound

• 1 glass of boiling water;
• 10 needles;
• 0.5 tsp citric acid;
• sugar and honey to taste.

Cooking

1. Coniferous needles must be placed in a saucepan, pour water, boil for 20 minutes.
2. The mixture is infused until room temperature, filtered through a sieve.
3. To taste, you can add honey and sugar, bring with boiling water to the original volume.

Coniferous decoction recipe at high pressure

Compound

• 5 st. l. needles;
• 2 tbsp. l. onion peel;
• 3 art. l. hawthorn fruit;
• 1 liter of boiling water.

Cooking

1. Mix needles, husks, hawthorn fruits in a saucepan.
2. Pour 1 liter of water, boil for 20 minutes over low heat.
3. Filter the decoction, take 1 cup three times a day before meals.

Liver Recovery Recipe

Compound

• 3 art. l. coniferous needles;
• 1 cup boiling water;

Cooking

1. The mixture is boiled over low heat for half an hour, during which time half of the water will evaporate.
2. After cooling, you will get about 100 ml of decoction, you need to take it once a day, ideally if it is fresh.

Coniferous decoction in milk to relieve the symptoms of a cold

Compound

• 1 liter of milk;
• 30-40 g of coniferous needles.

Cooking

1. The mixture must be boiled over low heat while stirring.
2. Remove from the stove, filter, sue.
3. Divided into three parts, take as a hot drink during the day.

Coniferous decoction - prophylactic (to maintain immunity)

Such a drink can be prepared for the whole family, drink fresh.

Compound

• 10 st. l. coniferous needles;
• 10 cups of boiling water.

Cooking

1. Boil the mixture for half an hour.
2. Leave to infuse, wrapped in a shawl for 3-4 hours.
3. Filter and take 100 ml for each adult family member. For children, the dose should be reduced to 50 ml.

Contraindications

There are practically no contraindications for external use of the decoction. There are restrictions for taking a decoction of needles inside:

• period of pregnancy and breastfeeding,
• liver disease,
• kidney failure,
• pyelonephritis,
• heart failure.

Before the first use, a test should be carried out on the back of the hand, if there is no reaction within 12 hours, then the remedy can be used.

(140731) - Gennady Bukvin, 12/15/2008

The very first sign of the approach of the New Year is the appearance on the streets and squares of almost all settlements our country of spruce markets. Evergreen fluffy forest beauties begin to trade briskly 2-3 weeks before this long-awaited holiday. However, not everyone knows that spruce is not only required attribute new year holiday but also natural natural medicine from so many diseases.

Spruce and its extraordinary healing properties

Spruce is an evergreen tree. In Russian forests, it is one of the most ancient. According to scientists, this tree has been growing here since the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era. Spruce needles have truly wonderful healing properties. Have not yet invented such tablets, which in short term could produce on the human body such a powerful and complex healing effect, which has no side effects. It is such a "pill" that is spruce needles.

It has antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic, analgesic, choleretic, antiscorbutic and diuretic effects. It is in the spruce needles that most amino acids are contained, including essential ones, minerals, as well as salts of cobalt, manganese, iron, copper, chromium. Carotene in needles 140:320 mg/kg, - 350:360 mg/kg, C - 300 mg/kg in winter and 250 mg/kg in summer. If needles are stored at temperatures below +5 °C, then all these substances remain unchanged for the entire storage period.

Needles can be harvested for the future, and do it better in winter(vitamin A FROM more). It is dried and stored tightly closed banks in a dark dry place. One kilogram of dry spruce needles contains the following substances(numbers are shown through the separating line harvesting in summer / harvesting in winter): vitamins R- 900:2300 mg / 2180:3810 mg, To- 12/20mg, RR- 142/29 mg, H- 0.06 / 0.15 mg, IN 1- 8/19 mg, IN 2- 7/5 mg, AT 3- 16/28 mg,
AT 6- 1, 1/2 mg, as well as minerals and trace elements.

Spruce is widely used in herbal medicine. It contains essential oils, natural biological additives(BAA), biologically active substances (BAS) and volatile compounds with a widely expressed antimicrobial and antibacterial action especially against staphylococcus (the causative agent of most broncho lung diseases). If your family and friends often catch colds or they have a lingering cough, put at least for the New Year in your home<живую>Christmas tree. Among other things, the fresh smell of its needles will eliminate possible nervous overexcitation in all households and will cheer you up for a long time.

The use of spruce for medicinal purposes

For medicinal purposes, young tops of branches with kidneys, resin-rosin, immature seed "female" cones, needles and turpentine. Collection times vary. Young tops of branches are harvested after wintering in May, and immature cones and resin in June - September.

How to distinguish "male" (with pollen) spruce cones from "female" (seed)? After all, collect for use in medicinal purposes need precisely immature "feminine." In the spring, both "female" and "male" cones appear on the branches of the spruce. Usually this time falls on the period of flowering bird cherry. "Female" cones are extremely beautiful and very noticeable on the tree: they are bright red in color, the size of a thimble. The usual location of these knobs is at the ends of branches at the top of the crown. They "look" up. An adult "female" spruce cone is large and brown.

"Men's" bumps are even smaller than women's. They are red or greenish-yellow. Pollen ripens in them - a fine powder yellow color. They are not suitable for medicinal purposes. Pollinated "female" cones ripen in the first year. But the cones open at the end of winter, and therefore they must be collected closer to autumn, unripe and unopened.

Folk methods and recipes for treatment

Coniferous baths. They are used to remove severe fatigue, nervous excitement, improve blood circulation internal organs, relieve inflammation different nature, as well as withdrawals pain syndromes with menopause, gastric ulcer, with pain in the joints. To prepare such a bath, two handfuls of needles are poured with one liter of boiling water and boiled for 10 minutes, the broth is filtered and poured into the prepared bath. The bath is taken for 12:15 minutes. The water temperature is 37:38 degrees Celsius. Full course treatment 15:20 procedures. After the bath, you should take a shower.

Infusion fir cones . It is used for diseases of angina, laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, sinusitis, rhinitis and chronic tonsillitis. Immature "feminine" fir cones crushed, poured with boiling water and boiled for 30 minutes with constant stirring. After removing from heat, the mixture is infused for another 15 minutes, then filtered through a three-layer gauze. The result is a liquid Brown color with astringent taste and pleasant smell needles. It is used for mouthwash and inhalation. When carrying out inhalation procedures, at least 20 milliliters of this mixture is used, preheated to 60 degrees Celsius. Inhalation time 10 minutes.

coniferous tea. Extremely useful for beriberi, frequent colds, persistent cough And How natural remedy for supporting normal exchange substances in the human body. It is an excellent expectorant, choleretic, diuretic and diaphoretic. Rinse a tablespoon of pine needles boiled water, pour a glass of boiling water and boil for another 20 minutes. Strain the tea through a three-layer gauze, cool and drink throughout the day. You can add sugar, and honey is even better.

Decoction spruce buds . It is used to improve the processes of hematopoiesis, in articular and muscle pain, with chronic bronchitis, for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. It is prepared and applied in the same way as coniferous tea.

Infusion of spruce buds on alcohol. Applicable for inflammatory diseases upper respiratory tract in the form of external rubbing and warming compresses. This infusion in pharmacies is quite rare, as it is in high demand among a certain part of our population. It is easy to prepare at home. To do this, place 250 grams of young spruce buds in a dark glass vessel and pour half a liter of 40:45 degree vodka into them. Close the vessel tightly and place in a dark, dry place. Ten days later, the infusion is ready for use. In a dark place, such an infusion can be stored for up to a year or more without loss of medicinal properties.

Vitamin infusion from spruce needles . It is used as a tonic and antiscorbutic agent. One tenth of a glass of spruce needles along with a small amount grind cold boiled water in a mortar with a pestle. Pour this pounded needles with a glass of boiling water, add lemon juice or citric acid(slightly acidify) and boil for 20:30 minutes. The ratio of needles and water should always be 1:10. After boiling, insist for 3 hours, then strain. Take 1/3 of a glass twice a day after meals.

Spruce decoction with milk. It is used to treat scurvy, intermittent body aches, skin rashes and inflammatory processes respiratory organs. 30 grams of young spruce shoots or immature unopened shoots are taken<женских>fir cones. They are finely crushed and poured with a liter of milk. Milk is brought to a boil and the whole mixture is boiled over low heat for 10 minutes. The broth is filtered, divided into three equal parts and drunk during one day: morning, afternoon and evening.

spruce herbal medicine. Do you like to go to the bath? So take with you not only a birch, but also a coniferous broom. Well "steamed" coniferous broom does not prick, but in the process of using it in the steam room, almost all active points on the human body are severely stimulated. In addition, the air in the steam room, and even in the bath itself, is filled with the smell of pine needles and has a powerful therapeutic and prophylactic effect.

To achieve a home phytotherapeutic effect and treat pulmonary diseases at any time of the year, use a mixture spruce resin and yellow wax. They are melted in a water bath and thoroughly mixed in a ratio of 1:1. Then, in the process of cooling, balls are formed from the resulting mixture, the size of a large pea. You can store it on any shelf in the refrigerator. For use, the ball is melted in a hot frying pan (when walking on a hot coal from a fire), a light smoke is formed, it is breathed in the treatment of bronchitis, in addition, it disinfects the room in which the ball was melted well.

Spruce ointment. It is applied for fast healing ulcers, wounds, pustules. An equal amount of spruce resin, honey, yellow wax and sunflower or hemp oil is taken. All components are thoroughly mixed, heated on fire. In the process of cooling to a temperature human body a viscous mixture is formed. This is spruce ointment. It is applied to the affected areas.

In addition to spruce, other coniferous trees are also used with great success for medicinal purposes: pine, fir, cedar, thuja. The needles of these trees are widely used in pharmaceutical and pharmacological products in Russia. For example, pine buds can be bought at almost any pharmacy or pharmacy kiosk.

There are also various coniferous balsams and concentrates for taking bath procedures or inhalations. From pine oils manufactures a variety of drugs for the treatment of acute and chronic diseases nasopharynx and nose. From pine resin(resin) by distillation is widely known and respected by the people medicinal product turpentine. Many creams of the series have been developed in Russia Sap for treatment various inflammations skin: fungal diseases, acne, boils, childhood diathesis, burns.

Good health to you.

After all, it is a natural cure for so many diseases. In the forests, it is one of the most ancient trees. According to scientists, this tree has been growing here since the Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic era. Spruce needles have truly wonderful healing properties. They have not yet invented such pills that in a short time could produce such a powerful and complex healing effect on the human body that does not have any side effects. It is such a "pill" that spruce needles are.

Spruce and its extraordinary healing properties

It has antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, diaphoretic, analgesic, choleretic, antiscorbutic and diuretic effects. It is spruce needles that contain most amino acids, including essential ones, minerals, as well as salts of cobalt, manganese, iron, copper, chromium. Carotene in needles 140:320 mg/kg, vitamins E - 350:360 mg/kg, C - 300 mg/kg in winter and 250 mg/kg in summer. If needles are stored at temperatures below +5 °C, then all these substances remain unchanged for the entire storage period.

Needles can be harvested for future use , and it is better to do it in winter (more vitamin C). It is dried and stored in tightly closed jars in a dark, dry place. One kilogram of dry spruce needles contains the following substances (numbers are shown through the dividing line harvesting in summer / harvesting in winter): vitamins P - 900:2300 mg / 2180:3810 mg, K - 12/20 mg, PP - 142/29 mg, H - 0.06/0.15 mg, B1 - 8/19 mg, B2 - 7/5 mg, B3 - 16/28 mg,
B6 - 1, 1/2 mg, as well as minerals and trace elements.

The use of spruce for medicinal purposes

For medicinal purposes, young tops of branches with buds, resin-rosin, immature seed "female" cones, needles and turpentine are used. Collection times vary. Young tops of branches are harvested after wintering in May, and immature cones and resin in June - September.

How to distinguish "male" (with pollen) spruce cones from "female" (seed)? After all, it is precisely immature "female" ones that need to be collected for use for medicinal purposes. In the spring, both "female" and "male" cones appear on the branches of the spruce. Usually this time falls on the period of flowering bird cherry. "Female" cones are extremely beautiful and very noticeable on the tree: they are bright red in color, the size of a thimble. The usual location of these cones is at the ends of the branches in the upper part of the spruce crown. They "look" up. An adult "female" spruce cone is large and brown.

"Male" bumps are even smaller than women's ones. They are red or greenish-yellow. Pollen ripens in them - a fine yellow powder. They are not suitable for medicinal purposes. Pollinated "female" cones ripen in the first year. But the cones open at the end of winter, and therefore they must be collected closer to autumn, unripe and unopened.

Needles are a source of biologically active substances. Coniferous greens contain valuable components: chlorophyll, vitamins, macro- and microelements, phytohormones, phytoncides. You are probably thinking: “Why should collect needles in winter ? But because immediately after the first frosts in green needles, the content of vitamin C rises sharply, and decreases in summer. And one more thing: keep the collected needles in a cool place. Storing spruce needles for a month at temperatures above 10 ° leads to a loss of 35% of nutrients.

Folk methods and recipes for treatment

Coniferous baths . They are used to relieve severe fatigue, nervous excitement, improve blood supply to internal organs, relieve inflammation of a different nature, as well as relieve pain syndromes in menopause, stomach ulcers, and joint pain. To prepare such a bath, two handfuls of needles are poured with one liter of boiling water and boiled for 10 minutes, the broth is filtered and poured into the prepared bath. The bath is taken for 12:15 minutes. The water temperature is 37:38 degrees Celsius. Full course of treatment 15:20 procedures. After the bath, you should take a shower.

Infusion of spruce cones. It is used for diseases of angina, laryngitis, pharyngitis, bronchitis, pneumonia, sinusitis, rhinitis and chronic tonsillitis. Unripe "female" spruce cones are crushed, poured with boiling water and boiled for 30 minutes with constant stirring. After removing from heat, the mixture is infused for another 15 minutes, then filtered through a three-layer gauze. The result is a brown liquid with an astringent taste and a pleasant smell of pine needles. It is used for mouthwash and inhalation. When carrying out inhalation procedures, at least 20 milliliters of this mixture is used, preheated to 60 degrees Celsius. Inhalation time 10 minutes.

Pine tea. It is extremely useful for beriberi, frequent colds, lingering coughs and as a natural remedy for maintaining normal metabolism in the human body. It is an excellent expectorant, choleretic, diuretic and diaphoretic. Rinse a tablespoon of needles with boiled water, pour a glass of boiling water and boil for another 20 minutes. Strain the tea through a three-layer gauze, cool and drink throughout the day. You can add sugar, and honey is even better.

A decoction of spruce buds. It is used to improve the processes of hematopoiesis, with joint and muscle pain, with chronic bronchitis, for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis. It is prepared and applied in the same way as coniferous tea.

Infusion of spruce buds on alcohol. It is used for inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract in the form of external rubbing and warming compresses. This infusion in pharmacies is quite rare, as it is in high demand among a certain part of our population. It is easy to prepare at home. To do this, place 250 grams of young spruce buds in a dark glass vessel and pour half a liter of 40:45 degree vodka into them. Close the vessel tightly and place in a dark, dry place. Ten days later, the infusion is ready for use. In a dark place, such an infusion can be stored for up to a year or more without loss of medicinal properties.

To improve eyesight drink a decoction of pine needles: pour 5 tablespoons of crushed needles of pine needles into 500 ml of boiling water, soak in a water bath for 20-30 minutes, leave overnight. In the morning, strain and drink a tablespoon 3-4 times a day after meals.

Stroke - drink pine tea.

For a three-liter kettle, take a liter jar of spruce or pine needles with sprigs, pour boiling water and boil for 15 minutes. You can add a little different herbs: knotweed, currant leaf, raspberry leaf. Leave the broth until the morning, so that it is infused. You can drink this tea as much as you like: with jam, sweets, honey, sugar, but always with lemon.
This tea cleanses cardiovascular system, removes radionuclides, heals the kidneys, restores the entire body. The full course of treatment is 4-5 months.
Juice from young pine needles
medicinal juice can be obtained from the needles of cedar, pine, fir, spruce, cedar dwarf. To do this, young shoots that are harvested no later than May 15 must be washed well in cold water and lay out on a towel to dry. Then the needles are placed in a glass jar: a layer of needles, a layer of sugar, and so on, to the very top. The last layer should be sugar. A 5-liter jar consumes 1.5 kg of sugar. Leave the jar overnight, and in the morning mix the pine needles and sugar in the jar with a wooden spoon and, tying the neck of the jar with a clean cloth, put it in the sun. The contents of the banks insist 10 days. In this case, the needles will gradually begin to rise up, and the juice will be at the bottom. On the 11th day, the juice is poured into bottles, tightly closed with stoppers, and stored at room temperature.
In folk medicine, such coniferous juice is used to treat asthma, tuberculosis, inflammation of the lungs, bronchi, trachea, weakened blood vessels and the heart.

Folk recipes describe several ways of cooking healing drinks from needles.

Here are just a few of them.
1. Finely chop 40-50 g of needles (spruce, pine, fir, juniper) with a knife, pour 1 liter of boiling water and insist in an enamel bowl for 15-20 minutes. Then add a liter of chilled boiled water, filter and keep for 5-6 hours in the cold. Drain carefully without shaking the sediment. AT
water, you can add citric acid, sugar and drink 0.5 tbsp. 4-5 times a day.
2. Pour 40-50 g of needles into 2 liters of water in an enamel bowl. Add 1 tbsp. chopped onion peel and 1 tsp. chopped licorice root, then boil over low heat for 20 minutes. Add 2 tbsp. mashed rose hips and boil for another half a minute.
The resulting broth insist in a thermos for 10-12 hours. Then strain, bring to a boil again, cool and refrigerate. You can drink up to 1 liter per day. This product will boost your immunity
and make up for the lack of vitamins in the body.

3. Take fresh spruce needles pass through a meat grinder, pack in plastic bags for 1 tbsp. spoon (make sure that the juice does not flow out) and store in freezer.
To prepare a healing potion, take out a briquette with needles, pour a glass of boiled chilled water and leave for 3 hours in a dark place. Then stir, strain, wring out raw materials.
Drink 1/4-1/3 cup infusion 3-4 times a day before or after meals. This coniferous drink is rich in vitamins and microelements, useful for cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, infectious and inflammatory diseases, thrombophlebitis, atherosclerosis, adenoma prostate, prostatitis, diseases of the kidneys, liver, urinary and gall bladders, tinnitus, hernia, urolithiasis and cholelithiasis, helps with weakening of vision, mastopathy and uterine fibroids, treats hemorrhoids, perfectly relieves fatigue.

Recipe for external use : 5 bags of needles pour 0.5-0.7 liters of boiled cooled water, let it brew for at least 3 hours in a dark place. Then stir, strain, wring out the raw material.
Use the resulting infusion for compresses, lotions, washes, rinses for diseases of the oral cavity, larynx and nasopharynx, as well as for rubbing, preparing sitz baths for hemorrhoids, irritation, itching, inflammation and other skin problems, including acne, wounds and abrasions.
For the treatment of paralysis apply recumbent coniferous baths and poultices.
15 frozen bags of pine needles need to be insisted in cool water, stir, strain, squeeze raw materials. Pour the infusion into the bath with warm water. The procedure should be carried out once a week for 15-20 minutes.
To make poultices, take half a glass of coniferous mass (defrost it first), heat it to a hot state, attach it to a sore spot, cover it with polyethylene on top and tie it with a warm scarf.
Treat like this until the appearance positive results. Poultices do at night, remove the bandage in the morning and wash the problem area of ​​​​the body with warm water.
Poultices with needles are effective for hernia, gout, varicose veins veins, osteoarticular and inflammatory diseases.
Hot poultices should not be made on the tumor, in which case only room temperature poultices can be used.
With non-healing trophic ulcer soak cotton swab juice of needles, apply to a sore spot, cover from above compress paper and bandage.
Also with the help of juice they treat psoriasis, boils.

Remedy for a hundred ailments . As a preventive measure for many diseases, including oncology , wash the needles in warm, and then in cold water. Finely cut the needles with scissors and cover with sugar in glass jar 4:1. This spruce "jam" can be stored until the summer. From it you can prepare a coniferous drink: 2 tbsp. "Sweet needles" pour 4 tbsp. cold boiled water, insist for three days, strain and drink 0.5 tbsp. twice a day in courses of three to five days.

Vitamin infusion from spruce needles. It is applied as restorative and antiscorbutic. One tenth of a glass of spruce needles, together with a small amount of cold boiled water, grind in a mortar with a pestle. Pour this pounded needles with a glass of boiling water, add lemon juice or citric acid (slightly acidify) and boil for 20:30 minutes. The ratio of needles and water should always be 1:10. After boiling, insist for 3 hours, then strain. Take 1/3 of a glass twice a day after meals.

Spruce decoction with milk . Used to treat scurvy, intermittent body aches, skin rashes and inflammation of the respiratory system. 30 grams of young spruce shoots or immature unopened shoots are taken<женских>fir cones. They are finely crushed and poured with a liter of milk. Milk is brought to a boil and the whole mixture is boiled over low heat for 10 minutes. The broth is filtered, divided into three equal parts and drunk during one day: morning, afternoon and evening.

Spruce ointment. It is applied for rapid healing of ulcers, wounds, pustules. An equal amount of spruce resin, honey, yellow wax and sunflower or hemp oil is taken. All components are thoroughly mixed, heated on fire. In the process of cooling to the temperature of the human body, a viscous mixture is formed. This is spruce ointment. It is applied to the affected areas.

Recipes

Tuberculosis. Porridge from spruce needles (you can take pine and fir) mixed in equal parts with honey (by weight) and leave in a cool dark place for 2 weeks, stirring occasionally. Drain the honey-pine juice, squeeze out the rest, take 2 tablespoons in the morning on an empty stomach. Store juice in the refrigerator.

at prolonged cough make a mixture of spruce resin and yellow wax (one weight part of each component), melt the mixture, cool, put pieces of the mixture on hot coals, inhale the released vapors.

expectorant for children: 1 kg of young spruce cones, 1 liter of water, 1 kg of sugar, simmer for 30-40 minutes. Pour into jars and roll up. Take 1-2 teaspoons 3 times a day.

infusion of spruce cones: the cones are poured with boiled water (at the rate of 1: 5), boiled for 30 minutes, stirring, infused for 15 minutes, filtered through 3 layers of gauze. A brown liquid is obtained, astringent in taste, with the smell of pine needles. For inhalations, an infusion heated to 60-80 ° C is used: 20-30 ml per procedure for adults.