Kuril shrub tea - the healing power of the decoction

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Exotic imported dietary supplements have practically ousted medicinal plants growing in Russia from our consciousness. Unfortunately, such forgotten "folk healers" include shrub cinquefoil, or shrubby Kuril tea, a medicinal plant from the Rosaceae family.

The main growing area of Kuril tea is the territory from the Urals to the Far East. It also grows on the Kuril Islands, whose inhabitants brew ordinary tea from the leaves of the plant. Maybe that's why the shrub cinquefoil got its name. This low shrub can be found on the slopes of mountains or in river valleys, it prefers damp places or forest edges. The plant is quite photophilous and blooms well only in the open sun or in light partial shade. In order to obtain medicinal raw materials, it is grown in nurseries. Recently, shrubby Kuril tea has also appeared in household plots, where it blooms profusely all summer, until the onset of cold weather. True, in dry weather it requires watering.

Brewed Kuril tea is light yellow in color and quite pleasant in taste. But the most important thing is a whole bunch of healing properties that manifest themselves in antimicrobial, hemostatic, expectorant, analgesic and calming effects.

Kuril tea (whose photo can even be found in some medical reference books) is considered a real storehouse of active biological substances important for he alth and

mineral elements. Leaves, flowers, young shoots and even roots of Potentilla shrub are used as raw materials for the treatment of viral infections and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. They have antiallergic, choleretic, antidiabetic and immunostimulating properties. Preparations based on Kuril shrub tea are taken for lobar pneumonia, tuberculosis and other serious diseases.

Decoction of this amazing plant has a special healing power. It is effective in dysentery and diarrhea, is a wonderful expectorant and improves appetite. Doctors prescribe it for fever as a diaphoretic or as a choleretic agent for inflammatory diseases of the liver, for neuropsychiatric diseases as a sedative, and also for blood diseases.

All useful substances are mainly produced in Potentilla shrub during its intensive flowering, so raw materials are harvested in June. Shoots 20-30 cm high are cut off, dried at 50-70 degrees and used to prepare decoctions. If it is not possible to procure raw materialsyourself, you can always buy Kuril tea in pharmacies. The decoction is also used externally - for gargling and in the treatment of wounds and burns.

For its preparation, pour 1 tbsp. a spoonful of medicinal raw materials and boil for 30 minutes in a water bath. Then filter (without cooling) and bring to the original volume. The decoction is drunk before meals for 10-15 days, taking 2 tbsp three times a day. spoons. You can drink it to increase appetite, and as a diaphoretic, and to improve heart function.

Use Kuril shrub tea and for making infusion: pour 0.5 l of boiling water 2 tbsp. spoons of raw materials, boil for 5 minutes, cool, filter and take half a glass three times a day before meals. This tea is not only he althy, but incredibly tasty.