Veselka

Veselka is the mushroom quite widespread in middle latitudes, from Europe and to the Far East, grows in the deciduous woods, loves the neighbourhood of broad-leaved trees, such as an oak or a beech. This mushroom is unusual in many respects. One of its main features is rapid growth – the veselka grows in conditions, favorable for itself literally in the eyes, adding five millimeters a minute. Because of it the term of life of a veselka is short, only 2-3 days.

Also mushroom germs which are in the earth are unusual, they have the form of egg and in the people and are called mushroom eggs. They reach 60 mm in length and 50 mm width, have whitish-gray or gentle-green color. These mushroom eggs are most of all appreciated in traditional medicine as it is considered that in them concentration of curative substances, and later, at a stage of the ripened mushroom is highest, they are partially lost.

Veselka in a stage of mushroom egg is eaten, and even in the raw, has soft jellylike structure and pleasant aroma of a fresh radish. The ripened mushroom gets a pungent repellent smell of the decaying meat, than attracts to itself flies who carry its disputes, such is the mechanism of its reproduction. It is necessary to mention also a specific fallichesky form of a mushroom for which it was nicknamed an immodest, pudental mushroom, its Latin name - Phallus impudicus, in some areas it is also known under names a morel smelly, vedmino egg, the upstart.

Outside treatment by a veselka

Veselka since ancient times was appreciated the medicinal properties, to this day she is widely applied in traditional medicine.

In a mushroom the content of phytoncides – natural antibiotics and therefore tincture of a veselka has the expressed antiinflammatory effect is big. Locally tincture of a veselka is applied to treatment it is long not healing wounds, trophic ulcers. For example, the historic fact is known that to A. S. Pushkin tincture of a veselka was prescribed for treatment of thrombophlebitis, one of symptoms of which are trophic ulcers. Also tincture of a veselka is recommended by folk healers to outside use for treatment of acne rash, fungal infections on hands and legs, the inflamed hemorrhoidal nodes, rectum cracks.

The veselka is applied to tincture production in a stage of a rudiment, so-called egg. Its recipe is simple: 3-5 fresh-gathered mushroom eggs carefully to wash out, dry, cut on 4 parts, to fill in with vodka or forty-degree medical alcohol in volume 0,3l and to insist several weeks in the dark cool place. To merge the formed liquid, without filtering. In traditional medicine it is used both the turned-out veselka tincture, and the mushroom pieces soaked in alcohol (vodka).

During a season when there is a lot of mushrooms, it is possible to use for external use and fresh mushrooms, in this case the jellylike substance filling mushroom egg is extracted and without any additions or processing it is applied on affected areas of skin.

Veselka tincture for the internal use

In the medical purposes the veselka is applied not only outwardly, but also inside. Along with chagy and a shiitaka, this mushroom is carried to powerful antineoplastic tools. It is established that in addition to high concentration of phytoncides, the veselka contains substances which stimulate a lymphocyte activity, the main cells of immune system. There is it due to the increased development of perforin, special proteins by means of which lymphocytes attack cells, pathogenic for an organism, including atypical, inherent to malignant tumoral diseases. Therefore veselka tincture use as treatment of malignant and benign tumors is quite justified, however it is not recommended to do it uncontrolledly nevertheless.

Regular use of a veselka in the medical purposes promotes decrease in level of cholesterol and normalization of arterial pressure that very well influences cardiovascular system and therefore the mushroom is appointed for treatment and prevention of a hypertension, coronary heart disease, atherosclerosis.

In addition, treatment by a veselka is applied at diseases of circulatory system, digestive, respiratory, musculoskeletal and immune. In fact, thanks to property to stimulate own protective forces of an organism, treatment with a veselka it is shown at the majority of diseases including the caused viruses of herpes, hepatitis A, B and C, papilloma, and even HIV and also as fortifying means at the weakened patients and those who are recovered after the postponed serious illness, volume operative measures, at the people who underwent radiative effects.

Not always use in spirit tincture of a veselka is desirable, for example, alcohol is excluded at diseases of a stomach and liver. In this case recommend to eat or a fresh mushroom, or to use broths and infusions of a mushroom. Use not only the fresh, but also dried-up mushrooms, in the form of powder. They can be made and insisted too, the same as it is done with the dried-up officinal herbs. It is considered that treatment by a veselka does not concede in the dried-up state by efficiency to treatment veselky fresh or prepared in the form of spirit tincture. Broths and infusions of a mushroom effectively kill stomach aches, a liver and joints and have the antiinflammatory and healing effect.

Also such recipe of use of a veselka is known: to fill in a powder teaspoon from a dry mushroom with a glass of just boiled milk, to wait until cools down to a warm state, comfortable for the use inside. Then to stir and drink entirely, together with parts of a mushroom. To use at long dry cough, bronchitis, pneumonia according to the scheme 2 times a day, in the morning and in the evening, within a week. Herbalists claim that treatment by a veselka does not concede in such cases to strong medicamentous drugs by efficiency, but surpasses them in lack of side effects.

Contraindications to use of a veselka

Today some serious contraindications to treatment are not revealed by a veselka. Traditionally are not recommended to appoint a mushroom pregnant women and the feeding women, and also children up to five years as researches about treatment influence by a veselka on a human body during these periods which are characterized by the increased vulnerability were not conducted. As the veselka stimulates immunity, its use for the persons having autoimmune diseases, such as rheumatism, psoriasis, a scleroderma, etc. as it is possible to provoke an aggravation is not recommended.

Also treatment a veselka is not appointed at individual intolerance.