How is bearberry common?

Bearberry common in its composition contains glycoside, which does not break down even when boiled, tannins, flavonoids, amino acids, essential oils, inorganic salts, vitamin C and microelements: iodine, iron, copper, zinc, manganese.

Bearberry common, whose medicinal properties are associated with arbutin, which has anti-inflammatory effect in diseases of the bladder and kidneys, has been used in folk medicine for a long time. But the action of arbutin only in the case of an alkaline reaction of urine. Therefore, when treating bearberry, one should eat vegetable, and not meat, food. It is advisable to add ¼ teaspoon (tea) of drinking soda to make an alkaline reaction.

For the treatment of preparing infusions, decoctions and tinctures of dry raw materials. It is not allowed to boil the bearberry leaves, so that tannins that leave the liquid during prolonged boiling do not irritate the stomach and intestines. But from berries it is useful to prepare a medicinal kissel for diarrhea and gastritis. Flowers are also used for conjunctivitis and blepharitis, as well as for cardiac edema and coughing.

With cystitis and pyelonephritis it is useful to use broth of bearberry. To make it, take dry grass (2 teaspoons), top it in a mortar and pour a glass of chilled water. On a water bath, the broth should be heated for about 15 minutes. Then it is necessary to insist his hour. After that, the broth should be filtered, add to the original amount and take ¼ cup, strictly 30 minutes after eating, three times a day.

For outdoor use, decoctions are prepared for baths and washings for diathesis and pustules on the skin, for syringing with inflammatory diseases in women.

To prepare the infusion from bearberry, it is necessary to fill the raw material (10 g) with half a liter of cool water and let it brew for a day. During this time, the important active substances will come out into the solution. After that it is necessary to heat it on fire for 5 minutes and carefully strain. The infusion is stored in a cool place for two days. 2 teaspoons are consumed. Every time after eating after 40 minutes.

To make the tincture, the grass (20 g) is poured with vodka (100 ml), insisted for two weeks. Take 15 drops after meals. Bearberry common in folk medicine is used for men with involuntary ejaculation, with prostatic adenoma. Infusions take half the glass, before meals, in the morning and in the evening. Prepare it from grass and cold water for three hours.

Bearberry common has antiseptic properties, hemostatic and cleansing effect, affects the metabolism, the sugar content in the blood, promotes the secretion of bile and tones the body. Therefore, it has found application in folk medicine for night enuresis, cystitis, urethritis, pyelonephritis, prostate adenoma, kidney stones, diarrhea and diabetes mellitus.

At the present time, often began to appoint bearberry for rheumatism and gout, with uterine bleeding, to restore strength after hard work, with ascites and cardiac edema, with gallbladder disease. Used grass for malaria and tuberculosis, with venereal diseases and alcoholism for the removal of intoxication.

Bearberry is an herb that should not be eaten for a long time. It is contraindicated in pregnancy, with acute glomerulonephritis, with peptic ulcer. There are age limits for young children. So, children under 12 years old bearer should not be used in treatment. Improper cooking (boiling) and abuse can lead to side effects such as nausea and vomiting, urine staining green, rarely allergic reactions that quickly stop when the drug is withdrawn.