Main > Drugs> The willow is white

The willow is white

Application instruction:

Raw materials preparation

Use of a willow

Harm from use of a willow

Ива белая – дерево семейства ивовые Other names of this tree are the silvery willow, a brittle willow, a white willow or just a willow. The willow white concerns to family of willow and 30 m in height can have, at the same time the trunk in the diameter can make 1 m. Branches at a tree most often drooping, and krone sprawling. Bark of a willow white has a light gray shade provided that a plant young, and also black or dark gray at old trees. The trunk has dark gray bark, and branches on it can be reddish or yellowish, but always flexible and thin. Leaves linearly - lanceolate or lanceolate, on rather short scapes, silvery and silky. Plant flowers small, they are collected in upright ear rings which are dismissed along with leaflets.

The fruit of a white willow represents the small two-fold odnognezdny box having small seeds which are covered with hairs. The tree in April blossoms, and its fruits completely ripen in May.

The willow across all territory of the CIS is eurysynusic, the exception, perhaps, can be considered only Far North. Most often grows along roads, near houses, on coast of the rivers and edges of the woods on wet and fertile soils. The people of Greece devoted this tree to Hecate – the goddess of sorcery and ghosts. White enough often willow became the main symbol of a grief and grief.

Raw materials preparation

Most often bark of a willow white becomes medicine, men's ear rings of this tree can become very rare those. Correctly prepared bark has to be collected from branches or young trees till the period of expansion of leaves, that is in April-May. By the way, at this time it is incredibly simple to collect wood as it very easily exfoliates. Bark most often under an iron roof on attics or in rather well aired rooms where it is scattered very thin layer dries. Also drying of bark of a white willow can happen on special dryers to the established temperature which is not exceeding 40 °C. The ready and correctly prepared raw materials can remain 4 years in dry and cool rooms.

It is the best of all to collect men's ear rings in a blooming period, and then to dry in a shadow.

Use of a willow white

Кора ивы белой Bark of a willow contains up to 7% of a glycoside of salicin which thanks to effect of special enzyme of a salikaza can be split further hydrolytic on tannins, saligenin, glucose, flavonoids, ascorbic acid, pitches and the mass of other substances.

The plant possesses antiseptic, tonic, antiinflammatory, styptic, analgeziruyushchy and febrifugal action.

Bark of branches and trunk of a white willow has the disinfecting, diuretic, knitting, febrifugal and haemo static properties. At colitis, gout, female diseases, gastritis, dysentery, internal bleedings, dyspepsia, neuralgia, migraine, pleurisy, diseases of a spleen and liver, fever, typhus, tuberculosis, decubituses, neurosises, joint rheumatism and cystitis powder, broth or infusion of a white willow is recommended to accept inside. And here outwardly drugs of a willow can be used for rinsing of a mouth which is necessary at an ulitis, quinsy and periodontosis. Also outwardly it is possible to apply a willow to fight against a varicosity, a hyperhidrosis, various skin diseases and even with perspiration. Earlier bark of a willow was used and as effective antimalarial remedy.

Broth from leaves of a white willow in traditional medicine is used at menorrhagias and severe bleedings in intestines. Also it can be a good antipyretic, as well as willow flowers infusion.

Harm from use of a willow white

It is strictly forbidden to use drugs from a willow to pregnant women and patients in whose treatment laxative substances, aspirin, cough remedies and colds, vitamins, antacids and amino acids are used.

Whether you know that:

People who got used to have breakfast regularly have obesity much less often.

Самые полезные бытовые приборы для вашего здоровья

The most useful household appliances for your health

Shops of household appliances offer us the huge choice of various devices for the house. Whether there are among this abundance devices which...