Birch with braids.

  As a birch on the Russia is beautiful, as popular for love and for her awesome healing effects. Every  year in right approach you can prepare birch as buds from an early spring till theirs opening, juice preparing later on a juice secreting time. Leafs preparing on summer, bark from an autumn till winter , but am share here a detailed info  about right buds preparing and using theirs in healing goals.

Prepare theirs a not much ,  on 200 -300 gr is a hard work, but its idea having always. A cut are a few big low twigs and put theirs in warm for 3 days, for this time they are swelling and increasing in size, after again put on the morning cold  for 2-3 hours , after they are peeling off .Or a how to share foresters are slipping off. Dry theirs to warm sources close, mixing often. And healers manufactured many  recipes of buds for diseases curing, but a better using for curing is birch drooping, which twigs hanging,like  girl's  braids , she is most healing. 

5 gr or 1 tea.sp. buds add in glass of boiled water, lead till boiling, boiling   on weak fire ten min, wrapping, infuse for hour, filter, use on 50 ml. for 3-4 times/day , in a hour after meal in rheumatism, gout, and different damaging of joints. 

1 tbl.sp. of buds add in glass of hot water, boiling 15 min, infuse till cooling, filter, use for lotions, compresses, rubbings in ache joints.

1 glass of buds  add in 500 ml. of vodka, infuse 3 weeks, filter, use 0.5 tea.sp. in 1 tbl.sp. of water for 3 times/day in joints diseases and adding rubbings, compresses, lotions, and manufactured places wrapping with warm scarf.

    Ointment of buds.

1 method.

500 gr of bitter oil salt free, melted nutrition  pig fat and glass of dried buds.And on the bottom of pot ad layer of fat, layer of buds  layer   on 2 cm in fat, and so by order put all  ingredients , close lid and put all for night in warm oven on 100C, cool on the morning and still warm mass to filter.

 2nd method.

500 gr of fat, 1 glass of buds are chopped before till powder. Melt fat, add powder, and ten min to mix good. After cooling, ointment in ready. A second method is easier, but effectivity is first. An ointment use as analgetic, ant inflammatory, in gout,rheumatism, arthritis, radiculitis, osteochondrosis. In skin diseases use insude buds infusion for 3 times/day and additionally rubbing ointment for the night.

Mixing buds of birch with sambucus nigra.

 Sambucus nigra is also ant inflammatory effect having , but flowers of sambucus with birch buds is getting high effect. This phenomenon explaining by mutual reinforcement by data plants. Thus, effective anti inflamed remedy use one tea.sp. of buds birch, and sambucus flowers. Add 300 ml. of the hot water, infuse hour, filter, use on inflammation parts compresses under bandage.

By Kosterov,  Phytotherapeutist, candidate for biological science.