Black currant is a wonderful plant. From her fruits you can cook tasty and useful jam, and from the leaves to brew fragrant, and not less useful tea. The fruits and leaves of the black currant contains a whole set of substances beneficial to humans, the main thing is to correctly use them.

Chemical composition of currant

The benefits of black currant has no doubt. In currant berries, cyanodine and dolphinidine anthocyans are contained, which give them a specific color, antioxidant, bactericidal properties, the ability to suppress influenza viruses.

In addition, in berries, many vitamins A, C, groups B, E, P and N., and ascorbic acid is not only in berries, but also in the leaves, and in flower, and in the kidneys currants.

There are also trace elements - iron, phosphorus, sodium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, glucose, flavonides, fructose, glycosides, pectins, tannins. In the leaves of the plant a lot of carotene, essential oil and phytoncides.

Berries and currant leaves strengthen the immunity, purify blood vessels, strengthen the nervous system, the bone system, prevent the penetration of viruses into the body, help cope with chronic fatigue, aging, inflammatory processes.

Folic acid, or vitamin B is very useful for women's health, especially during pregnancy.

Biotin, or vitamin H reduces blood sugar levels, so the berry is indispensable for diabetes patients. In addition, biotin, along with calcium, strengthen the nails, improve the hair structure, burn fats, normalize the work of the nervous system.

Calcium, phosphorus and potassium strengthened musculina, hair, nails, teeth. These substances are very useful for children, pregnant women and the elderly.

Sodium regulates the digestive system, normalizes the pressure, increases the elasticity of blood vessels and tissues, improves the work of the heart.

Pectines are removed from the body with radioactive substances, toxins, pesticides, salts of heavy metals, cholesterol dissolve, improve the metabolism, blood circulation, and the work of the gastrointestinal organs.

In the complex all these substances make currants an indispensable food product, because not even a large number of Berries contains a lot of valuable elements and substances. Each berry of currant is in its essence - natural vitamin, which is all necessary for a person.

Medical properties

Broth currants can be used to treat a number of diseases, and in general to drink it with pleasure instead of tea, since the taste and fragrance he is just wonderful.

Especially useful black currant in winter and spring, when vitamins and minerals in the body are becoming less and less. The fruits and leaves of black currant will help restore the forces during and after severe illness, increase immunity during the flu epidemic and colds, replenish the body reserves with vitamins and minerals.

A decoction of black currant leaves can be used to treat and process wounds, some skin diseases, conjunctivitis, stomatitis, angina, gum diseases.

Decoction of currant leaves is effective tool In the treatment of respiratory organs, liver. It is used with kidney stones and in bladder bubble, with jade, cystitis, gout and rheumatism. The decoction destroys the harmful microflora in the intestines and the stomach, and removes bile and urinary acid from the body.

Tea from currant leaves can be used as a means of cold and cough, drinking it can both adults and children are a tasty and completely safe medicine. In this case, the drink very effectively reduces the temperature, relieves pain in the throat, acts as a coating agent.

In a decoction from currant leaves, you can bathe a child suffering from dermatitis or gold. In addition, the benefits of the beam are also available for infants with the upset, rash and itching.

A drink made of currant leaves has a light laxative effect, its constant consumption will help get rid of constipation, facilitates the state with hemorrhoids.

In gynecology, currant decoction is used for scriptures when inflammation of appendages

In cosmetology, the decoction is added to masks, creams, shampoos and lotions. The tool cleans the skin well, slightly whitches it and retains freshness and youth.

Homemade recipes

In the spring and summer, young shoots, leaves or fruits of black currant are used for the preparation of infusion and raccara. They are harvested on the winter - the leaves are dried, berries are peathed with sugar, dried, or frozen. But if there is no raw in winter stocks, the decoction is made of twigs, its effectiveness and taste will be no worse.

Recipe 1.

Decoration from cold and cough. 3 tbsp. Dry leaves are placed in a saucepan and pour boiling water in a volume of 400 ml. Cooking on low heat for 5 minutes, insist 2 hours, filter. Drinks need to drink in warm or hot form 100-150 ml several times a day after meals, and then before bedtime, you can with honey or sugar.

Recipe 2.

The decoction of currant branches with a cough and a cough and a runny nose. Cut from the bush 4-5 twigs of a length of 15-20 cm, cut into small pieces, fill 300 ml of boiling water, negotiate 5-7 minutes on a weak heat. Then give a little broken, strain and drink 100-150 ml several times a day in warm or hot, you can with honey or with sugar.

Recipe 3.

Broth of black currant berries from cough, angina, bronchitis. Take 1 cup of black currant berries (fresh, dried or frozen), fill with 500 ml of boiling water, boil on low heat for 5-10 minutes. You can drink as ordinary compote with sugar or honey.

Recipe 4.

Decoction of skin diseases You can use bath cooking, as well as for rings and compresses. At the same time, the blackens use instead of tea throughout the day. To prepare a decoction, take 1 cup of crushed dry leaves, pour 1 liter of boiling water, bailize 2-3 minutes, remove from the fire. When it cools, strain and use on purpose. You need to drink decoction, diluting hot boiled water.

Recipe 5.

Broth with pyelonephritis, urethritis, cystitis, kidney stones. 5-6 tablespoons of currant leaves pour 1 liter of boiling water, taking on low heat for 3-5 minutes, insist for 1 hour. Drink 150-200 ml several times a day instead of tea.

Recipe 6.

Collection of diarrhea. Make a mixture of 1 part of the herb of ninexil, two parts of the raspberry leaves, Aira and strawberries, three parts of black currant leaves, four blueberry berries, trees of vocabulary, alder fruits. Grind components in a coffee grinder, take 2-3 tablespoons of the mixture and fill 300 ml of boiling water. Warm on low heat for 5 minutes, and immediately fill in thermos. You can drink decoction in 10-12 hours, in warm form 100-150 ml, 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

Recipe 7.

Branch for bath with rheumatism and gout. 1 cup of dry crushed currant leaves pour 2 liters of boiling water, pecking for 5 minutes, remove from fire. Insist 3-4 hours, then strain and pour into a bath with water, heated to 37-39 degrees. You need to take a bath for 15-20 minutes, preferably at night so that you can hide and relax in warmth.

Recipe 8.

Bath with rheumatism and gout can be made of a mixture of medicinal herbs. Take a half-table of nettle leaves, elderberry, currant, horsetail, pizzy, turn - pour 2 liters of water. Prepare and use as in recipe number 7.

Recipe 9.

Tea to strengthen immunity. Pour a black or green tea in the woodwinner, add 1 tbsp. Black currant leaves, pour boiling water. Let it breed for 15-20 minutes, drink during the day in warm form with honey or sugar.

Recipe 10.

Infusion for pressure normalization. 3 tbsp. Grinding currant leaves pour 350 ml boiling water, give cool and breed. Drink 100 in warm with honey.

Recipe 11.

A decoction with hemorrhagic diathesis in children. 1 tbsp. Leaf pour 200 ml of boiling water, insisted, drink in warm form several times a day. This decoction is useful as well as radio irradiation, diabetes, decay forces.

Recipe 12.

Infusion against acne. Make an infusion of 1 tbsp. Smorodine leaves and 100 ml of boiling water. Insist 20 minutes, strain, do from infusion compresses for 25-30 minutes for three weeks.

Recipe 13.

Decoction with diabetes mellitus. First, make a mixture of three parts of the black-cormoranodine leaves, five parts of the dandelion flowers, two pieces of black leaves, 1 pieces of mint. Grind components in a coffee grinder, take 1-2 tbsp. The resulting mixture, fill 300 ml of boiling water, cover with a lid. Warm in a water bath for 1 hour. Remove from the fire, let it cool. Fresh water to the original volume, drink 100 ml three times a day before meals.

Recipe 14.

Alcohol tincture on currant leaves to strengthen the immune system, processing wounds, compresses and rubbing during arthritis, rheumatism, radiculitis, gout.

For her cooking you will need 1 cup of dry or fresh leaves, 500 ml of vodka. The components are mixed, insist in a cool place for 20 days, filter, used by destination.

Recipe 15.

Alcohol tincture of black currant berries. 1 kg of black currant berries fill in two liters of purified vodka or medical alcohol (70 degrees) in glass. Add 5-6 carnation hats, 3-4 fresh black currant leaves, Basil Spray. Insist 20 days in a dark place. Then strain, add 1 tbsp. Honey, put in the refrigerator for another 1 month. The drink can be used to strengthen immunity, restore forces, replenishing vitamins.

Contraindications

In general, black currant does not harm the human body. But it is used with caution when gastritis with increased acidity, ulcers in the gastrointestinal tract, hepatitis, stroke and infarction, thrombophlebitis, in individual intolerance and in the last periods of pregnancy.

Smorodine Black Ribes Nigrum L. Some scientists belong to it to the camneur family - SaxiFragaceae. The name from the Latinized Arab "Ribas" - sour taste; Latin Niger - black.

The black currant received its name from the word "grind", which in ancient Russian meant "strong smell" and indeed from all kinds of currants it is black that has the most pronounced fragrance and fruits, and leaves and even branches and kidneys.

A long-term shrub high up to 1.5 m, with lowered yellowish-gray shoots, by the end of the summer brownish. The leaves are regular, cuff, three-, five-pointed, on top of naked, from below - with golden glands over veils, with a fragrant specific smell, up to 12 cm wide. 7-9 mm long flowers, purple or pinkish gray, five-membered, collected on 5- 10 V diluting brushes with a length of 3-8 cm. The fruit is a multiferous black or dark purple fragrant round shiny berry with a diameter of 7-10 mm. Flowers in May - June, fruits ripen in July - August. Completed in the European part of Russia

Black currant is a high-yielding culture. With favorable weather conditions and proper care It fertures annually and abundantly. There are cases when with 1 m2 received up to 25 kg of berries. Black currant is very useful for the health of the body, has a magnificent taste and is one of the most beloved berries and is quite easy to grow.

The Slavic peoples of ancient times knew the currants black as food and medicinal plant. It began to cultivate in the XI century, first in monastic gardens, and from the XVIII century - already everywhere, in many countries of the world. We value black currant for high content in berries of vitamins and biologically active substances.

It is rich in sugars, organic acids and a variety of elements: iron, phosphorus, potassium, manganese. According to the content of ascorbic acid (vitamin C), black currant occupies one of the first places, yielding only citrus and rosehip. It is used in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, hypochromic anemia, with violations of cardiac rhythm, heart defects, atherosclerosis, cardioneering, colds, infectious diseases, hemorrhagic vasculitis, periodontal disease, glomerulonephritis.

Composition of black currant

Black currant is considered a storehouse of useful substances and vitamins, since in its berries contain vitamins B, R, E, carotene (vitamin A), pectins, sugar, phosphoric acid, tannins, essential oil, vitamin K, phosphorus salts, iron and potassium.

In the leaves of black currant, in addition to vitamin C, phytoncides, magnesium, manganese, silver, copper, lead, sulfur, essential oil. In the black currant, so high the content of vitamin C, which in order to ensure the daily need of the body in ascorbic acid is enough to eat only 20 berries daily.

At 100 gr. Berries contains:

water, G.
proteins, G.
fats, G.
carbohydrates, G.	11.5
mono- and Disaccharides, g
fiber, g.
stachmal, G.
pectin, G.
organic acids, g
ash, G.
potassium, mg.
calcium, mg.
magnesium, MG.
sodium, mg.
phosphorus, mg.
iron, μg	1300
iodine, μg
cobalt, μg
manganese, μg
copper, μg
molybdenum, μg
fluorine, μg
zinc, μg
vitamin B-carotene, mg
vitamin E (tocopherol), mg	0.72
vitamin C (ascorbic acid), mg
vitamin B1 (thiamine), mg	0.03
vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), mg	0.04
vitamin B9 (folic acid), μg
vitamin RR (niacin), mg
calorie, kcal

The healing properties of currant.

For the healing properties, black currant is often called "home doctor." It was appreciated and our ancestors. In Russian herbalists and hospitals of the XV-XVI centuries, the black currant is referred to as therapeutic planthealing many ailmentsprevents diseases of the cardiovascular system and cancer diseases.

The use of black currant with therapeutic goal is associated with the presence of vitamins, iron, potassium, pectin, and tanning substances, organic acids in it.

It is used as anti-inflammatory, astringent, hemostatic, coating, diuretic, choleretic, anti-seaterosclerotic, anti-violetic, antihypoxantic, a lining agent. Establish a nitrogen exchange products. It also improves mental capacity in humans.

Vitamin C is contained not only in berries, but also in leaves, kidneys, buds, flowers, where it is almost as much as in the fruits. In addition to ascorbic acid in berries there are many other vitamins: Provitamin A (Carotene), group vitamins B - B1, B2, B6, B9, and vitamins E (tocopherol), K (philloxinone), RR (nicotinic acid), P (citrine ).

The antiseptic properties of black currant are so great that the rinse of the throat of her juice, diluted with water, in a short time helps to get rid of angina.

Currant juice is also effective with a strong cough.

Dried currant is needed round yearSince it is an antipyretic, core and counter-anemic agent (20 berries on a glass of heel, cook on low heat for 30 minutes, cool, take on a tablespoon 3 times a day).

Black currant improves blood formation, blood circulation and is one of best tools For the treatment of anemia.

It perfectly improves appetite, has a relaxing effect (during constipation).

The black currant has the ability to prevent the occurrence of cancer and Alzheimer's disease, to protect against diseases of the heart and blood vessels and diabetes and for a long time to maintain visual acuity.

The decoction of the roots is used as a binder.

Infusion, tincture, extract of roots, branches, branches, kidney, leaf, leaf, fruit is used as a diuretic for kidney diseases, urinary tract. Power, anti-inflammatory in respiratory infections, bronchitis, cough.

Infusion of branches, fruits and juice of fruits are used with headaches. Brigine, tincture of branches, kidneys, leaves applied externally (baths, bulls). With crofulosis, dermatitis, exudative diathesis, venereal and eye diseases.

Buckle kidney, leaves are used as hemostatic.

Currant berries are rich in multiple vitamin, contain vitamins B, p, provitamin A, pectin substances, essential oil, sugar, phosphoric acid, contains salts of iron and phosphorus, etc.

Black currant berries have the ability to prevent the appearance of diabetes. This means that currant has a strengthening and health function for a person with various diseases. This berry also displays radionuclides from the body.

Berries are good in recycling, they are used for cooking jam, jelly, compotes, juices, hots, jam, jam, wines. In domestic canned food in black currant, almost all vitamins are saved.

Juice from berries drink with honey or sugar with a strong cough .

Perhaps no hostess do without its fragrant leaves during the caring and serving. In addition, the presence of phytoncides in them provides best storage Canned products.

Berries are indispensable and black currant leaves for the genitourinary system. This is I. beautiful diuretic : 20 pieces of fresh berries or dry pour 0.6 glasses of boiling water. It is better to do it in a thermos. Insist 4 to 8 hours. Take in warm form 1 tablespoon 5-6 times a day, regardless of meals. Under the influence of pectins, diuresis increases, sleep is improved, blood pressure decreases.

Pectines are adsorbed in the intestines and bind to insoluble complexes of salts of heavy metals (mercury, lead, cobalt, strontium), radioactive elements, as well as cholesterol, then these complexes are derived from the body. Pectins also associate the toxic substances that are formed during rotary processes, the intestinal microflora is normalized, the digestion is improved.

For best use Pectin mature black currant berries wash, give water drain, placed in enameled dishes, add 200 ml of water per 1 kg of berries, heated to 70 ° C, wipe through a sieve, add 600 g of sugar, boil on low heat for 10-15 minutes. Spill in the dishes in the hot form.

Decoration of berries currants

Barrahs from the berries of black currant help with anemia, hypertension, bleeding of gums, ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, gastritis. The infusion of leaves contributes to the liberation of the body from excess of blade and purine acids. Therefore, it is useful in urinary bubble diseases, as well as for gout and rheumatism.

Currant berries mixed with sugar in 1: 2 ratio, useful for the prevention of atherosclerosis and reduce blood pressure in hypertension.

If torments strong cough This is taken a mixture of black currant juice, honey and sugar.

Leaves of black currant.

In addition, when adding a black currant leaves, a wonderful tea having a fascinating action, the leaves have the leaves healing properties Due to their biologically active and tanning substances, essential oils, vitamins and phytoncides contained in them.

Leaves black currant contain vitamin c more than berries Due to which they are used as a toning, antiseptic. IN folk medicine They are used as a diuretic With urolithiasis, cystitis, as well as rheumatism, gout and colds . They contain sulfur, silver, lead, copper and essential oil and of course vitamin C, ascorbic acid, phenolic compounds, phytoncides. In the leaves, kidneys and flowers are vitamins C and P, iridoids, catechins, phytoncides, cyanogenic compounds, tanning and coloring substances, organic acids, phytoncides.

In France and Poland, the infusion of currant leaves during rheumatism, kidney disease, bladder, renal disease - 500 ml per day is used.

From the leaves you can also cook fruit vinegar.

Fresh fresh leaves are put into the jar and pour cold boiled water with sugar (per liter - 100g), closing the gauze chamoque leaves 2 months, after which itching and pouring around the bottle.

From the young leaflets in the spring and at the beginning of the summer you can make a firming vitamin drink, if mixed water with any sour juice and this mixture to pour the leaves of black currant, after which the day insist, then add sugar, to drink half a cup per day.

Under eats of renal origin, stones in the bladder, urine delay (Even if it is associated with prostatitis) Take an infusion of black currant leaves: 10-12 pieces of 1.5 glasses of boiling water. Best to do in the thermos (5-8 hours). Drink at 0.5 cups 4-5 times a day in the intervals between meals.

Use infusion from leaves and as a stiff, light laxative, with bleeding and metabolic disorders.

Baths made of decoction of currant leaves are used for various rashes and skin diseases suffering from dermatitis, eczema, furunculosis.

Black currant leaves are used in diseases of the liver and respiratory tract, as a counter-translucent agent.

The infusion or decoction of the leaves is taken in water, pain in the joints, rheumatism, gout, with stones in the bladder, are used as a coating agent for colds, as an outer anti-inflammatory remedy for gold and as a vitaminer.

In the leaves and deciduous kidneys, carbohydrates are contained, ascorbic acid, flavonoids (quercetin, isokvercetin, kampopherol, rutin, phytosterol), organic acids, mineral salts, Cubilant and coloring substances, iridoid asperulin, cyanogenic compounds, catechins, phytoncides, essential oil, phenolcarboxylic and other carboxylic acids and derivatives: coffee, chlorogenic, non-chlorogenic, P-kumaroic, o-kumarovoy, protocate, fry.

Infusion of currant leaves

To prepare the infusion of currant leaves 5 tablespoons of crushed raw materials poured 0.5 l hot water, boiling 2-3 minutes and insist 2-4 hours.

Take 0.5-1 cup 4-5 times a day before or during food.

With gastritis Take an old agent:

Infusion: 20 fresh currant leaves pour 1 l white wine and insist 2 weeks. Take 100 g before meals.

As a common belt after severe illness, a fee is recommended:

Infusion: Currant leaves, blueberry and birch leaves in equal parts. 2 h. Spoons of a mixture brew 1 cup of boiling water. Drink as tea for 1 cup in the morning and in the evening.

Drink from black currant leaves:

Water - 350 ml, berry juice - 2 tbsp. Spoons, black currant leaves - 50 g, sugar. The leaves of black currant wash, crushed, fold into the glass jar, poured with cold boiled water, diluted with berry juice.

The jar is 24 hours in a warm place to insist. The finished drink is filled, sugar is added, cooled, spilled in cups.

Infusion of currant leaves in a mixture with tricolor violet leaves are used to treat tuberculosis and colds in children.

Broth branches, kidneys and leaves apply for baths and rods in dermatitis, exudative diathesis and eye diseases. To prepare 50 g of the mixture, 1 l hot water is poured, boiled 10 minutes.

Currant leaves are used as a spice when sickling cucumbers, tomatoes and cabbage (due to the content of phytoncides, the leaves protect vegetables from damage and retain their vitamin value).

Kidney currant

The kidneys are removed in winter. They contain the spray oil of branches, kidneys and currant leaves are used for baths and ribs in dermatitis, exudative diathesis and eye diseases. To prepare 50 g of the mixture, 1 l hot water is poured, boiled 10 minutes. Use on one bath.

SOX COVORODINA

Currant juice is used to treat angina, as well as with a weakened organism, for example, after surgery. Black currant berries help with hypertension, gum bleeding, stomach ulcer and duodenal and gastritis.

Drug raw materials are fruits, leaves and kidneys.

Fruits are collected in dry weather as they are matured. When assessing, damage to the bark and breakage of branches should be avoided, as it contributes to the penetration of pathogens of diseases, into the plant.

The berries are sorted, purified from impurities and dried in the attic, spreading with a thin layer on litters or frames, covered with gauze.

Practicing the drying of berries in the furnace or oven 4-6 hours at a temperature of 35 ... 40 ° C, then 55 ... 60 ° C, following so that they do not burned and do not stick together in lumps. The leaves are harvested from the beginning of the flowering of the plant to the leaf fall. Dried in air, in the shade.

Kidney. Berries and leaves are stored in bags or wooden containers. The kidneys can be preserved by vodka. The shelf life of raw materials is 1 year.

Fruits of currant contain vitamins C, P, B1, B2, carotene, sugar, tanning substances, essential oil, pigments, flavonoids, potassium salts, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, phosphorus and sodium.

During the period of leaf fall, vitamin C in the leaves is contained as much as in the fruits.

Preparations of fruits, leaves and kidneys Currant have a diuretic, pithy, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, antifungal, anti-aircraft, anti-airclerotic and light laxative action.

Infusion of branches, kidneys, leaves and fruits are used as a diuretic, core and anti-inflammatory agent for diseases of the upper respiratory tract, cough, inflammation of kidneys and urinary tract, headaches and gout.

Fruits currant, mixed with sugar in a 1: 2 ratio, are useful for the prevention of atherosclerosis and reduce blood pressure during hypertension.

Fruits in the form of infusion are used as multivitamin and dietary products for the prevention and treatment of hypo-and avitaminosis, anemia, bronchitis and ancidal gastritis.

With ulcerative disease, fresh juice (ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, inflammation of the gastric mucosa, at low acidity of gastric juice), metabolic disorders, liver diseases, high uric acid disease and purine bases in the body are gastritis with reduced acidity . Drink at 0.3 glasses of juice 5-7 times a day 20-25 minutes before meals.

Currant with a cold

Currant berries have a positive effect with colds, infectious diseases.

With tonsillitis, pharyngite 1 tbsp. Currant berries crowed, pour 1 glass of boiled water, strain, take 0.5 glasses 3-4 times a day.

With adenoids prepare tea from black currant leaves; Take 0.3 glasses 3-4 times a day for a month; This infusion washed with a nasopharynx 1-2 times a day for 10 days.

The total daily need for vitamins C and R is covered in consumption per day 50 g of berries or a proper cooked jam, jama, etc. Berries of currant are eaten as a valuable multivitamin product.

In folk medicine currant is used as a polyvitamin, pill, diuretic, tonic, anti-inflammatory agent, anemia, diseases of the cardiovascular system, against cough, as a means that contributes to an increase in the body's resistance.

In addition, black currant is an excellent prophylactic agent for radiation sickness.

Black currant juice is still one of the best funds for the treatment of gold in children. - Infusion of black currant leaves. Making the baths, lubricate the body with juice from fresh leaves and wash in water in water, where a series has been added and lomit.

With very running forms, make compresses from leaves. Perfect treatment of rheumatism and feed with the infusion of black currant leaves: 10-12 pieces of 0.5 liters of boiling water. Insist before cooling. Do not chat! Drink at 0.5 glasses 4-6 times a day. An excess of urinary and oxalic acid is excreted from the body, which causes successful treatment.

One of the most unique properties Black currant you can call the stimulation of the adrenal cortex (violation of the adrenal function, Addison disease).

Decoction of stalks and infusion of leaves (can be accepted for the whole period of treatment): 20 g on 2 glasses of boiling water. Adjust to cool. Drink at 0.3 cups 5-6 times a day 30-40 minutes after meals.

Ascorbic acid is well preserved in frozen currant berries. When contacting with metal, part of the vitamins is lost, therefore, blanking the black currant, you need to use enameled dishes and a wooden pestle.

Butter black currant It is used to restore dry, peeling, irritated skin, the restoration of the barrier function of the skin, has excellent regenerating, moisturizing and smoothing properties.

Used with hormone-dependent skin problems, such as acne, as well as for dry skin are obtained from seeds by pressing. The compressed oil has an intense yellow color and typical smell for this type. Through the subsequent neat filtering and refining, the oil becomes clearly lighter, the smell intensity decreases, and the concentration of foreign substances removed from oil with rafination is largely reduced.

The refined black currant seed oil is highly valued in the cosmetic and pharmaceutical industry due to the high content of gamma-linolenic acid, also called GLA, as well as in dermatological formulations (by GLA, the formation of eczema is prevented). It is recommended for intake as a source of natural fatty acids.

Contraindications to the use of black currant

Black currant is contraindicated with increased acidity of the stomach, the ulcer of the stomach and the duodenum, with hyperacid gastritis. Despite the fact that fresh berries and black currant juice are allowed when problems with the liver, they cannot be taken when hepatitis.

The juice of black currant berries is not useful after transferring infarction and strokes, as well as at risk of thrombosis.

100% Black currant juice can cause an allergic reaction especially in children, although in reasonable doses it helps to increase the hemoglobin in the blood.

Some experts believe that during pregnancy from the use of currant juice in therapeutic purposes Better to refuse.

Drug applications, recipes:

Tea:

2-3 tbsp. l. Dry currant leaves for 250 ml boiling water insist in a porcelain teapot 10-15 minutes. Take 100-200 ml 2-3 times a day as a vitamin, a conventional and prophylactic agent for cold and flu.

Fresh currant juice is taken with gastritis with reduced acidity of gastric juice, Ahilia, enterocolite, bronchitis, hemorrhagic diathesis, avitaminosis, small-class, exhausting diseases and (without sugar) during diabetes. The juice of berries, diluted with water, is used for rinsing during angina and inflammatory diseases of the pharynx and oral cavity.

Broth:

2-3 tbsp. l. Crushed currant fruits on 200 ml of water boiled 10 minutes, insist for 1 hour, filter. Take 50 ml 3 times a day with hypertension or 1 tbsp. l. 3 times a day as a campling and diuretic (at edema), as well as with a cold, diarrhea, fever, cough, voices and vitaminosis.

Therapeutic infusion:

1) 20 fresh currant leaves per 1 liter of white wine insist 2-3 weeks, filter. Take 100 ml 3 times a day before meals with gastritis with reduced gastric juice acidity;

2) 3 tbsp. l. The dry leaves of currant per 500 ml of boiling water insist 1 hour in the thermos, filter. Take 100 ml 3-4 times a day 30 minutes before meals with pains in joints, rheumatism, gout, osteochondrosis, stones in the bladder and urine delay.

The water of the infusion of leaves or decoction of leaves and stems of currant is taken under the skin diseases, as a reinforcing tooling agent for diseases of the upper respiratory tract and is used as an outer anti-inflammatory agent. Children with diathesis give drinking dry leaves and at the same time bathe them in the brave of branches with leaves.

3) In medical practice, fruits (berries) and black currant leaves in the form of infusion are used in hypo-and avitaminosis. Infusion of fruits - 1 tablespoon of fruits brew 1 cup boiling water, insist for 1-2 hours. Take 1/2 cup 2-3 times a day

4) 1-2 tablespoons of fruits per 1 cup boiling water, insist 2 hours, strain. Take PC1 / 2-1 Glasses several times a day like tea when avitaminosis.

5) 3 tablespoons of dry crushed leaves with 0.5 liters of boiling water, insist for 2-3 hours, strain. Take 1/3-1 / 2 cup 4 times a day with rheumatism, gout, tuberculosis of lymphatic nodes.

6) 2 tablespoons of berries on 1 cup of water, bring to a boil, boil on low heat for 10 minutes, insist for 30 minutes, strain. Take 1-2 tablespoons 4-5 times a day as a diuretic, pithy, anti-inflammatory agent.

7). Fresh berry juice take 50-100 g 3 times a day with diarrhea.

8) 20 g of fresh leaves per 1 liter of white wine, insist for 15 days. Take 100 g before meals with hypoacid gastritis.

9) 2 teaspoons of the mixture in equal amounts of currant black, blueberries of ordinary and elderberry bearded on the I glass of boiling water, insist for 1 hour. Apply in the morning and in the evening as a lining agent after transferred severe infectious diseases and spring weakness, chronic overwork.

10) 50 g of a mixture of crushed twigs, kidneys, leaf on 1 liter of hot water, boil 10 minutes, insist for 1 hour, strain. Use 1 bath and for a row with dermatitis, exudative diathesis, eye diseases.

11) 2 tablespoons of crushed roots and branches (kidneys, leaves) on 300 ml of water, boil on low heat for 10 minutes, insist for 1 hour, strain. Take 1/4 cup 3 times a day as a diuretic in diseases of the kidneys and urinary tract.

12) 1 tablespoon of crushed branches on 1 glass of boiling water, insist 3-4 hours, strain. Take 2 tablespoons 2-3 times a day with headaches.

13) 1 tablespoon of the kidneys on 1 cup of water, boil on low heat 7-8 minutes, insist 1 hour, strain. Take 1-2 tablespoons as a hemostatic remedy.

As a source of vitamins, the berries of black currant is eaten in any form.

For the same purpose, they drink like tea, the infusion of the leaves of the plant: 3-5 g of dry raw materials are covered with 1 glass of boiling water, insist 10-20 minutes and filter. Reception rate of 1/2-1 cup 2-3 times a day.

With hypertension and atherosclerosis, it is useful to take the infusion of currant leaves for black 1 / 2-1 cup 2-3 times a day.

When hemorrhagic diathesis, it is recommended to take 2-1 a glass of black currant leaves 4-5 times a day. They prepare it as follows: 1 tablespoon of dry crushed raw materials insist for 20 minutes in 1 cup of boiling water.

With anemia and depletion of the infusion of currant leaves, black drink, like tea, 1 / 2-1 glasses 2-3 times a day.

With pain in the intestines and stomach, dysbacteriosis, vomiting, enterocolite, constipation, hemorrhoid is shown in the infusion of ferrous fruits. For this purpose, 20 g of dry raw materials insist for 15 minutes in 1 glacking boiling water. Adopted in a fluid form 1 / 2-1 cup 4-5 times a day. In the same cases, they drink the infusion of the leaves of the plant 1 / 2-1 cup 4-5 times a day.

For the weakening of cough, there is a black currant berries in an unlimited quantity, in addition, you can drink the infusion of fruits of 1 / 2-1 cup several times a day or juice in a mixture with honey.

Infusion of black currant leaves with mouth with stomatitis.

As a diuretic for the infusion of dry fruits of black currant, they drink 1 / 2-1 glasses several times a day.

With inflammation of the mucous membrane ureyeing Canal, cystitis, inflammation of the kidneys, pyelonephritis infusion of black currant leaves take 1 / 2-1 cup 4-5 times a day.

With urolithiasis with therapeutic and preventive goal In the preoperative period, when the type of stones is unknown, it is useful to eat fresh and dry fruits of black currant, as well as take 1 / 2-1 cup 2-3 times a day of the infusion of the plant leaves.

With allergic diathesis, the infusion of black currant leaves is used as a risk. It is prepared as follows: 5 tablespoons of dry crushed raw materials insist in 1 liter of boiling water for 20 minutes, then filter.

Inside, with the same disease, this infusion of 1 / 2-1 glasses is 4-5 times a day.

With malignant neoplasms, fresh and dry fruits of ferrous currant are eaten without restrictions. It is also used by the infusion of the leaves of the plant 1 / 2-1 cup 2-3 times a day.

Berries of red currant significantly exceed black in number

Black currant is different not only with its high taste - this berry is used to treat a variety of diseases.

The unique chemical composition of black currant allows you to use its fruits as useful ingredient For the preparation of healing drugs of traditional medicine. Berries, leaves and sprigs of this plant are used in therapeutic purposes.

The benefits of black currant

Black currant is rich important for the human body substances - these are vitamins A, C, group B, D, E, K, P, sugar, pectins, tannins, phosphorus salts, potassium and iron, essential oil, and phosphoric and organic acid. In addition, the chemical composition of the berries includes such elements like magnesium, silver, manganese, sulfur, lead and phytoncides.

When avitaminosis, you can use both fresh fruits of black currant shrubs and juice or decoction of them. Delicious berries Useful for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract. To increase the level of hemoglobin in the blood, it is recommended to regularly use the black currant berries with sugar (it is also necessary to add buckwheat flour in a 1: 1 ratio).

The main useful qualities of black currant:

• tones;
• cleans blood from toxins;
• expands vessels;
• improves metabolic processes;
• saturates the body with vitamins;
• eliminates inflammation;
• increases appetite;
• creates a diuretic and piling effect.

From the leaf of black currant, you can brew tea, which is useful for its secrets. In the leaves are contained important elementslike essential oils, tannins, phytoncides and various vitamins. In addition, the leaflets are rich in vitamin C - it is even greater in them than in berries!

The fruits of black currant are used to treat not only diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, but also diseases of the cardiovascular system, colds, hemorrhoids, periodontosis, etc. Hot black currant tea has an excellent antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effect. With a strong cough or an angina, fresh berry juice takes the addition of honey.

Black currant is recommended to regularly use those who have a predisposition to diabetes. This berry is also often part of the dietary diet, as it is able to effectively clean, improve and strengthen the body.

In therapeutic purposes, black currant is used to preserve good vision, preventing the occurrence of alzheimer's disease, oncological diseases, heart disease and vessels, stomach and duodenum. In pharmacology, the fruits of ferrous currant are often added to drugs to improve their taste.

Coldness, Hardness of the throat and cough

Pour 1 tbsp. Spoon of berries currant glass boiling water. Capacity to bite and retain for a couple of hours. Ready to strain and consume 1-2 glasses three times a day.

Scurvy

Finely cut down young sprigs of shrub and boil them in water for 7-10 minutes. Drink a decoction as ordinary tea.

Cystitis, pyelonephritis and urolithiasis

Pour the glass of boiling water 5-6 tbsp. Spoons of crushed sheets of black currant. Wrap and insist for 1 hour. Finished infusion to drink on a glass 5-6 times a day. In the medicine you can add honey or sugar.

Gong and rheumatism

Pour a glass of boiling water 1 tbsp. Spoon of crushed leaves. So warm 2 hours and strain. Drink at 0.5 glasses 5 times a day.

Hypertensive disease and prevention of atherosclerosis

Mix fresh fruits of black currant with sugar in the proportion of 1: 2. Before receiving, add water to the mixture - on 1 tbsp. A spoon of berries with sugar take 3 tbsp. Water spoons. Take no more than 3 st. Spoons of medication per day.

Diathesis

Pour 5 tbsp. Spoons of dry crushed leaves 1 liters of boiling water. Insist 20 minutes, after which it is strain. Use as a row to affected places. You can also apply inward - drink a glass of tincture 4-5 times a day.

Contraindications for the use of black currant

With such problems with health as the increased acidity of the stomach, the stomach and duodenal ulcer, thrombophlebitis or hyperacid gastritis of black currant is not recommended.

If there are disorders in the work of the liver, berries and the leaves of black currant can be taken, but hepatitis is contraindicated to use medicinescontaining black currant. It is also necessary to take into account that unlimited and long-term consumption of the fruits of this plant can cause increased blood coagulation.

Incomparable taste quality combined in black currants with useful medical properties and rich chemical composition. If you want to learn more about black currant and learn in your piggy bank useful recipes Another couple, read this article and medcollegia site (www.Site) will try to tell you about this beautiful plant.

In the black currant, a record amount of vitamin C, a lot of group B, vitamin P (indispensable for vessels), vitamin K, and useful for vitamin A. In addition, in black currant berries there are fruit sugars, pectins that are derived from our body All accumulated harmful substances. There are in black currant and trace elements such as iron, potassium and phosphorus. But not only currant berries contain nutrients. In the leaves of black currant, pantry magnesium, there is silver, sulfur, copper and phytoncides protecting us from harmful microbes. In the leaves, too, there is vitamin C, but it is smaller than in berries. More leaves contain quite a lot. Black currant kidneys are very helpful. They have tanning substances, many fruit acids, succinic acid, flavonoids, amino acids and trace elements.

If you consume only twenty berries of the black currant per day, then your body receives enough vitamin C. Black currant is a panacea to prevent many vessels. If you have an old grandparents, be sure to eat it black currant. Scientists have proven that substances contained in black currant help for a long time to preserve the clarity of the mind. If there are diabetics among your relatives and you also threaten this severe disease, eat black currant. It will help to avoid such a terrible disease as.

There are studies proving the effectiveness of black currant in preventing oncological diseases. Black currant is useful for eyes.
Various preparations from ferrous currant are used to eliminate and bladder.

Black currant is remarkably combined with other medicinal herbs, entering a huge amount (biologically active additives).

Black currant is well known to all perennial shrubIn August, pleasing to all dacms with delicious and very useful fruits. Leaves of this shrub often brewing both tea or add to conservation. And how else can this plant be used? What properties does it have?

Useful substances as part of black currant

In folk medicine used berries, leaves, juice, sometimes black currant kidneys. What does this organize give?

It turns out that the plant contains simply a tremendous amount of vitamins and other useful substances for humans! In the shrub berries, such vitamins are contained as A, C, D, E, P, as well as vitamins of groups B and K. In addition, the berry can boast of sugars, tanning substances, essential oils, pectins, carotonoids, organic and phosphoric acid, phosphorus salts . It also has potassium, sulfur and metals, such as iron, magnesium, manganese, copper, silver, lead for normal operation.

It is important to note that vitamin C is maintained in large numbers even in frozen berries of black currant. By the way, this vitamin is very important for. A vitamin P, also available in berry, is necessary for prevention and treatment. No berry has such a wide range useful properties. Only 50 grams of delicious jam made of black currant - and your body has received a daily dose of the necessary vitamins. And tannilic substances and various essential oils in the composition of the plant provide a diuretic and anti-inflammatory effect.

Folic acid from currant helps to withstand the negative effects of radiation, activates the removal of various toxins and such hazardous substances from the body as mercury and cobalt. In addition, the black currant contributes to the removal of excess leads from the body. It is possible to most effectively with the help of decoctions from the dried fetus of black currant.

Fitoncides from currant saves from, as well as from many other microscopic fungi.

What is treated with black currant

Treatment with fresh fetas of black currant

With the help of fresh fruits, the plant can be struggling with. The fruits stimulate appetite with or any other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract.

If you smoke fresh berries of black currant and mix in the same ratio with buckwheat flour, then you can get a great remedy for blood.

A decoction made from berries of shrub treats anemia, gastritis, and stomach, as well as bleeding from gums.

From hypertension saves such a means:

1. take 600 grams of black currant berries
2. thickly frow them to obtain a casual mass
3. then add five tablespoons of honey to this mass and mix everything thoroughly
4. the resulting mass dilute the carbonated water
5. as a result, you will get a drink, the use of which should be divided into several methods
6. drinking it you need small portions

Vitamin Jewelery

1. pretty scatter black currant berries
2. add a large amount of sugar to the resulting mass
3. then approve it for a while - and useful vitamin joy is ready

The dried shrub fruits are used to treat diarrhea.

Treatment with black currant juice

Black currant juice will save you from a strong exhausting cough. For treatment, use such a recipe: Mix the juice juice of plants with honey and sugar and use the resulting mixture inside.

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