How and why use maple leaves, except for herbariums? This powerful tool will help with many diseases of the joints, kidneys and respiratory tract.
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Maple leaf is a gift of nature. In the fall, maple sheets are collected for herbariums, crafts, jewelry. Maple sheets are revered by artists - autumn still lifes are well obtained with them.
But few people know that the maple leaf is remarkably treated. Tinctures, lotions and decoctions with maple leaves can replace you with too frequent going to the doctor.
What treats maple leaf?
If you read this article from the very beginning, then you probably already wondered what the maple leaf treats? Due to the presence of carotene in the maple leaf, tannins, ascorbic acids, the plant becomes a good assistant in the fight against temperature, inflammation, abscess wounds, arthritis, jaundice, tuberculosis.
Attention! The maple leaf treats even advanced forms of osteochondrosis well.
For the treatment of the above diseases, maple is used in the following form:
- decoctions
- tinctures
- lotions
- infusions
In addition to leaves, bark, kidneys, and maple seeds are also used.
Important! For recipes, both very young maple leaves are used, collected in early summer, and already yellowed, collected in early autumn.
The benefits and harm of maple leaves, therapeutic properties and contraindications
The benefits of maple leaves are primarily in their ability to remove even the most powerful inflammations. Therefore, in the old days, this tool was used to treat diseases such as acute and chronic bronchitis, arthritis, diseases of the genitourinary system, consumption and tuberculosis.
To some, the maple sheet helped to cure impotence. To do this, you need to do the following:
- Chop young maple leaves very finely, scroll through a meat grinder or beat in a blender.
- Squeeze the resulting mass through gauze so that the juice comes out.
- 70 ml of finished pure maple juice is brought to 100 ml using ethyl alcohol.
- Take from 5 to 10 drops before meals for a month.
We said about the benefits of the maple leaf, now we need to talk about contraindications.
Contraindications! As such, there were no obvious negative actions in the maple leaf. It acts very softly and delicately. Exceptions can only be cases of individual intolerance to some components. But in general, this tool is suitable for everyone.
In addition to tincture, healing syrup is also made from maple. Such a syrup fights perfectly with inflammation, removes sputum from the lungs and cleans them.
Maple syrup is prepared by evaporation of water and thickening of maple juice. Of course, you can make such a syrup at home yourself, but it’s easier to go to the pharmacy and buy a ready -made product prepared for all norms and standards.
It is interesting! In the United States of America, maple syrup is used instead of honey. Traditionally, it is eaten with American pancakes - pancakes. Every tourist visiting the United States is obliged to try this dish.
To cure a cold or strong cough with maple syrupTake it as a medicine, 3-4 times a day after eating on a teaspoon. Milk lovers can add maple syrup to warm milk. It will also be useful to add warming spices: cinnamon, turmeric, cloves, nutmeg red ground pepper.
How to cook a decoction of maple leaves?
A decoction of maple leaves will help you with urolithiasis or jaundice. To prepare it, do the following:
- A tablespoon of crushed dried or fresh maple leaves is poured with a glass of boiling water and boiled for 30 minutes, avoiding boiling of the decoction.
- Then cooled for several hours and take 50 ml 3 times a day after meals.
A decoction of maple leaves with diseases of the respiratory tract, kidneys, inflammation of the oral mucosa is prepared as follows:
- Take dry seeds and leaves in a ratio of 1: 1, mix.
- A tablespoon of dry mixture is poured with 1 glass of clean water and insisted in a water bath for three quarters of an hour.
- After that, everyone is filtered through several layers of gauze, add hot water to the volume of one glass.
- Take such a decoction of 2 tablespoons before meals, for 20-25 minutes.
In the fight against colds and to increase immunity, tea with maple leaves will come in handy:
- Mix a teaspoon of brewing green or black tea with finely chopped dry maple pure leaves. Usually you need 3-4 pieces.
- Pour the brewing and leaves with boiling water, insist like ordinary tea.
- Drink several times a day. You can add honey, cinnamon sticks, turmeric or other your favorite spices that cooled up to 40 degrees.
Thanks to your healing properties, this tea will help you get to your feet very quickly.
How to cook tincture from maple leaves?
We have already cited one recipe for tincture from maple leaves in this article, but this recipe is far from the only one.
With diseased joints, it is recommended to perform the following:
- 100 ml of vodka and 30 g of dry maple leaves mix.
- Insist within three to seven days. Depending on the severity of the disease. The stronger the pain, the longer you need to insist.
- Take 20-30 drops three times a day before meals.
How to treat joints with maple leaves: recipes
We have already talked about some recipes for decoctions and tinctures for treating joints. But they did not name another effective tool - lotions.
Those who once suffered from joint diseases know very well how hard it is to walk, sit or stand for a long time, when all joints literally “turn” inside out. To avoid this, many years ago a recipe for lotion with maple leaves was invented, which should help relieve inflammation:
- Rinse young leaves of maple with water, it is not necessary to dry. Enough that the water does not drain from them.
- Cut the leaves very finely. Just do not cut them in advance - they can lose some of the useful properties.
- Put the gauze in one layer in a sore spot, lay the crushed maple leaves on top, and put gauze in several layers on the leaves. All this should be recorded so that the bandage falls.
Only a few such lotions and joint pain will bother you much less often.
Video: Maple leaves for joint treatment
Good afternoon! I am 56 years old, the joints were sick for many years. So I decided to share my experience in treating joints, a maple leaf. I drank the course, as it was written in the recipe, what I can say: the pains in the joints have gone, the crunch in my knees stopped, it became easier to walk. The general condition of the body has improved. I recommend a drink to everyone!
He tried to squeeze the juice from green leaves. With the help of a meat grinder and gauze, as written. Not only was the table throughout the kitchen, also a corn on his thumb. Well, okay, these are trifles. Heroically, the first stage has passed. At the second stage, I broke .... To squeeze the juice from this half -dry mass, you need to accomplish the feat of Hercules and write an ancient epic. I squeeze it, I squeeze my hands - the mass only after 4 layers of gauze will climb, and - not a drop of juice! Only a press for pushing sunflower oil will help me! And he decided simply, for lack of the press, to fill this mass with alcohol 90*.
Question: Is it possible to insist green leaves on alcohol? This is chlofill like. And as far as I know, chlofill is poison. How to be? I will poison myself with my own hands ... ..
Absolutely unknown and unnecessary procedure: after the bay with boiling water, a 30 minute cook in non -boiling water. One word is cooking, it is boiling water, and in non -boiling water, cooking is not produced. It is much easier and clearer if the leaves are cooked over low heat in the course of 10-15 minutes and infused for example 5 hours, and not cool for several hours (not boiling water cools for an hour). This is a kind of medicine and approach the recommendation correctly.