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In 1828, the German and French scientists have isolated the main active ingredient in willow - salicin. Ten years later, i it produced from salicylic acid, a chemical relative, the stronger a painkiller and anti-inflammatory medicines - aspirin, better known as aspirin. But some pain today, if not too serious, facilitate the preparations of willow bark. Vrba in times of scarcity also used for food preparation. Young shoots and leaves are cooked as vegetables. The inner part of the bark are dried, milled and added to flour for baking bread. The leaves are used as a substitute for tea.
White willow (Salix alba) grows in Europe, Central Asia and North Africa. Most often grows near water - in bogs and swamps, the paths of rivers and streams. It grows 20 to 25 feet high. Its stem reaches a diameter of 60 centimeters. The bark of the trunk of the gray with age cracking, while the branches of the smooth and the lighter gray. Treetops is large and consists of typical long hanging branches. Young shoots i are reddish in color and are extremely flexible. The leaves are lance-shaped and range from seven to ten centimeters. At both ends they are pointed. On the upper side are shiny green and the bottom covered with dense short white hairs. It is precisely the characteristic white color of the lower part of the leaves of this tree is named Salix alba. The leaf stalks are short and the leaf edge is finely chopped. White willow blooms in March and April. The flowers are grouped in macica. Men macica are about seven inches i long and have two stamens and yellow anthers. Female flowers are smaller and slightly sloping. The flowers appear about the same time as the leaves. i Fruits i of white willow are small roundish formations full of seeds, which have at the upper end bouquets of small white hairs. Goods and slowly
In medicinal purposes used willow bark. The crust should be peeled spring with the young branches of trees, aged two to five years, it should be thoroughly dried and kept in sealed containers. Dry white willow bark has a characteristic aromatic odor and bitter, astringent taste. Willow bark contains salicin, which the body converts into salicylic alcohol and then a well-known anti-inflammatory substance - salicylic acid. It works slower and weaker i than aspirin, but its effects last longer i and have fewer bad effects on the heart.
In addition to salicin in willow bark has flavonoids and protoantocianidini (condensed tannins), which is famous for its miter properties. Pussy willows have estrogenic activity, although it has so far not exploited. Willow bark obtained commercially in the form of capsules, tablets, powder, and dried herb or tea, and as a tincture. If possible, i buy white willow bark extract, which contains 15 percent salicin. Vrba is often mixed with other plants to mitigate inflammation, such as Devil's Claw (Harpagophytum procumbens) and black currants (Ribes nigrum). i Willow wood is soft and suitable for processing. As willows i grow rapidly, today widely cultivated and from gaining pulp for paper-making. From headaches to diarrhea
Among the effects of the white willow most often mentioned inflammation, pain and lower fever. Some believe that its preparation should have in your home vegetable pharmacy mainly in patients with rheumatic problems. Among other things, it recommended: at elevated body temperature. Japanese scientists in 2002 conducted experiments that confirmed that salicylic acid (formed during the conversion of salicin in the gut) lowers fever, without adverse effect on the stomach. for healing i wounds and ulcers, as it is supposed to operate disinfectant for help with diarrhea and intestinal infections against the flu in causing inflammation of the gums and tonsils - we can grgramo tea-based willow bark. osteoartričnih to relieve the problems. In Germany, in 2001, researchers confirmed that willow bark relieves moderate pain in people with osteoarthritis. Second, recent research i has confirmed that the use of White Willow Bark also safe. Among the 41 patients with long-standing arthritis who received two months bark of white willow (and other herbs), only three have unintended consequences, such as headaches or stomach problems, but they also responded to those who took placebo. in uterine cramps, irregular menstruation. Long one-year or two-year plague is the basis for the manufacture i of wickerwork. Manufacture