Benefit from Buckthorn alder.

 Buckthorn alder/fragility/ is spreading in all Europe at Kazachstan and in Siberia , and meeting her in Pine and mixed forests, marsh meadows,edges. High bush with widen dark-green leafs a forms ellipse, with age bark on the trunk is darks till a dark -grey  colour or dark-brown colour.

Here called and rhubarb for poors, taken from far cost very expensive as China s rhubarb, his local changed stayed Buckthorn alder.Effecting substance are antraglycosides as in bark, exciting peristaltic for bowel, affecting as laxative,like in rhubarb, secret stayed in bark, but bark begun used,when secret will solved. Fresh or dried bark caused nausea, vomiting, and kept for year she lowered toxic effects and using for healing goals.   Bark preparing on spring on a juice secretion time as on April-May, on the twigs, doing rings cuts on a size 30 cm from each other and connecting theirs with one or two deep longitudinal cuts, after bark separates from wood, removing with wood scoop, after with hands, and on the bark top meeting are lichens are needing removing.A taking pieces of bark dry on opened air or under canopy, depending from weather, thus rols of bark will not enter on each other , and not enter humidity,thus for night pieces of bark close with tarpaulin, enter in house.They are dry, when in bending bark piece with crack breaking.Fresh dried bark infuse for year, this date is to short, if dried on air bark put in oven and infuse for hour , on 100 C. After this she is matching for using. Of bark cook decoction with one tbl.sp. chopped bark add in glass of the hot water, boil 20 min, filter through gauze and cool. Half glass of infusion use on an empty morning stomach , and on evening before sleep.

Medicine releases exstract of buckthrorn liquid, and pills of dried exstractum, covering with membrane for  camouflaging bitter taste.

By Salo, Candidate for pharmacy science.

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