Cowberry. Contraindications exist for any product

Cowberry - an evergreen small shrub with red fruits, living up to 100 years. Its range covers Northern and Central Europe, Asia and North America. In Russia, grows in places such as the taiga North and the forest zone of the middle belt. Cowberry is more frost-resistant than blueberries and blueberries. It is distinguished by good fruit bearing on poor and dry soils.

The flowering period of cranberries falls in May-June. Its flowers are fine honey, and full ripening of tasty and useful berries occurs in August-September.

In a cowberry there is a lot of vitamin C, carotene, vitamins of group B, organic acids, mineral salts and other useful substances and microcells. The berries are stored for a very long time in a fresh form, which is due to the content of benzoic acid in them - a strong antiseptic that destroys microbes.

In the leaves and fruits are powerful healing powers, and this is the famous plant of cranberries. The use of its medicinal properties is even difficult to enumerate, as far as they are diverse and numerous.

Patients who have high fever, give both fresh berries, and infusion from them. They are shown in diseases of rheumatism and gout, with diseases of the urinary tract and kidneys, with gastritis (only with a low acidity of the gastric juice). Cowberry lowers blood pressure, which is important for hypertensives. Cowberry tincture made of soaked berries is used as a laxative, and for diseases of the joints it is used as a diuretic. In the case of edema, not associated with serious diseases, cranberries help dispense with diuretic medications.

For treatment, not only the berries of cowberry are used. The application of the curative strength of its leaves is also quite abundant. They are used as an antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, choleretic, astringent, and also contributing to the effectiveness of antibiotics. Collect leaves usually in the spring before flowering plants. Tincture of the leaves can be prepared by first drying them.

Apply leaves of cranberries in the treatment of diseases such as pneumonia, bronchitis, hepatitis, gastritis, prostatitis, pyelonephritis. When self-treatment is mandatory, you should consult a doctor if cowberry is used as a natural medicine.

The benefits and harms of this berry should be evaluated by a specialist. After all, each product, without exception, may have limitations in its application. Is not an exception, even cranberries. Contraindications to its use relate to hypotension due to the fact that leaves, and especially berry juice, very quickly and effectively reduce pressure. Abuse in this case can result in a sharp decrease in pressure and even loss of consciousness.

The use of berries cranberries in fresh form is contraindicated and those who have peptic ulcer disease . Regardless of the form in which cranberries are presented, contraindications to its use concern cholecystitis. Care should be exercised for those who have exacerbations of this disease are observed frequently. Has cranberries contraindications and with kidney diseases, especially when the stones in them - here you need great care. It will be better if you temporarily refrain from this delicacy.

It is well known that with such a delicate problem, how diarrhea is an effective remedy is cowberry. Contraindications relate to the constant use of berries, so in this case they can be neglected. 1-2 times take cowberry infusion can each. But do not forget that with the aforementioned ailments, lengthy techniques are dangerous.

As for culinary preferences, then bilberry berries are prepared with jams, jams, liqueurs, juices, drinks, various pastries, stewing it with meat and harvested for the winter, using time-tested recipes. A syrup of berries cranberries, as some studies have shown, improves eyesight.

Leaves of cranberries, thanks to the large content of tannins, are used for tanning of the skin. And one small detail - berries cowberries lead in the content of vitamin C compared to cranberries and blueberries.