Pine buds + recipes
Pine buds are a refreshing and healing aroma of the pine forest that can cure many diseases. There is, perhaps, no such disease that the magical evergreen pine does not cure. Everything in the pine - needles, buds, bark, cones, and pollen - has amazing healing power, thanks to its unique composition, consisting of resins, essential oils, tannins and bitter substances, phytoncides, mineral salts, acids. This is a wonderful fragrant means - the most valuable gift of Nature to man.
But let's talk about the healing properties of pine buds. Pine buds are extremely popular due to their unique chemical composition, which easily copes with debilitating colds and coughs in children, bronchitis, pneumonia, tonsillitis, urolithiasis and bronchiectasis. Official medicine has adopted the experience of treating pine buds from traditional healers and successfully applies it in the treatment of various diseases.
Especially often pine buds are used in the treatment of coughs in children, the treatment of protracted colds, bronchitis and inflammation of the upper respiratory tract. Below, I will give recipes for several folk remedies using pine buds to treat these diseases.
Medicinal compositions with pine buds are not only an excellent disinfectant, anti-inflammatory, expectorant, but also a choleretic and diuretic. So what is the secret of such a truly magical therapeutic effect of pine preparations on the respiratory organs? Decoctions, infusions and tinctures of pine gifts have an exciting effect on the secretory activity of the epithelium of the respiratory tract, dilute sputum and therefore are one of the most effective means in the treatment of diseases of the lungs and bronchi. The miraculous healing properties of pine buds are also used in the treatment of gum disease, it is enough to chew the inflorescence of pine buds several times a day and the disease recedes.
Pine buds, use in traditional medicine
Spring, now is just the time to collect pine buds, needles and resin. Female inflorescences look like cones that are located at the ends of the shoots. As a rule, pine blossoms in late May or early June, when the air temperature reaches 22-23 degrees. But this year, the pine blossomed in early May, as it is very warm here and the air temperature reaches 25 degrees.
Collection, drying and storage of pine buds.
For medicinal purposes, pine buds should be collected in the spring, when young shoots are orange-brown in color, and at the break the buds are brown or green. The surface of the kidneys is covered with scales, they are glued together with resin. The smell of pine buds is fragrant, resinous, their taste is bitter. In the spring, the pine is gaining strength, the buds swell, but do not yet have time to open, this is the time to harvest the pine buds, at this time they are most fragrant and resinous. If the scales of the kidneys have opened, then it is no longer worth collecting them, the scales of the kidneys should be tightly pressed against each other. Pine buds are best cut with scissors or plucked with your hands, but be sure to wear gloves, as pine buds are covered with resin, which is very difficult to wash off. The kidneys are dried in a well-ventilated room, spreading them thinly on a cloth or on paper 3 cm long. The fact that the kidneys have dried can be determined by a break, at the break the kidneys should be dry. In good weather, the buds can dry out within 10 days. It is not worth drying the buds in dryers or in attics, as the resin melts and evaporates, and the buds will bloom. Store dry pine buds in a dry, well-ventilated and darkened room. You can store ready-made raw materials for 2 years. But still, pine buds are best collected in early spring, as soon as the snow melts. At this time, they are resinous, green, fragrant and contain the maximum amount of active ingredients.
Pine buds contain: phytoncides, carotene, resins, B vitamins, vitamin C, resins, tannins, starch, bitter substance, essential oil, alkaloids. From pine buds, you can prepare a decoction, infusion, inhalation. A decoction of pine buds, as well as inhalations, are very effective in diseases of the upper respiratory tract, as well as in diseases of the oral cavity and nasopharynx. Pine buds are brewed for coughs, colds, bronchitis. Due to its properties, decoctions and inhalations from pine buds soften coughs, help to remove sputum, make breathing easier, thanks to which the bronchi are cleared much faster. Recovery occurs due to the action of pine buds on the respiratory tract and due to the action of the protective systems of our body. Pine buds are part of the diuretic and breast fees.
Pine buds application:
Flu
Cold
Cough
SARS
Bronchitis
Pneumonia
Angina
Tonsillitis
Pharyngitis
Laryngitis
Neuralgia
Rheumatism
Gout
Dermatitis
Eczema
Hives
Psoriasis
How do pine buds affect the body:
Soften cough
Makes breathing easier
Helps to expel mucus
Relieve pain in muscles and joints
Relieves spasms
Beneficial effect on the skin, improving skin condition
Reduce inflammatory processes
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Recognized since ancient times by folk medicine, pine buds, which have a beneficial effect on the entire body, are used in the treatment of various diseases not only in the form of infusions and decoctions, but also in the form of syrups and alcohol tinctures.
Pine bud syrup: treatment of osteochondrosis with pine buds . Pass the pine buds through a meat grinder, fill a three-liter jar with the resulting gruel, add one glass of sugar or one and a half glasses of honey (preferably honey), mix well. Infuse in a cool place until the syrup that comes out becomes brownish. Drain through capron, squeeze out the remaining raw material, strain again. Take with osteochondrosis, to get rid of stiffness and pain, one teaspoon 30 minutes before meals. The course of treatment is at least three weeks, if necessary, the course of treatment with pine bud syrup should be repeated after a week. Pine bud syrup tastes good, can be added to sweet warm tea, then the treatment will be effective. Successfully treats including broncho-pulmonary diseases.
Pine buds in milk, folk remedy :
pine bud treatment for bronchitis and cough . Brew one tablespoon of pine buds with one glass of milk, leave for 20 minutes, take 1-2 tbsp. spoons, as an expectorant in the treatment of bronchitis, colds and coughs, 3-4 times a day 30 minutes before meals. The duration of admission is not limited.
Pine honey on pine buds: a folk remedy in the treatment of coughs, bronchitis, colds, asthma.
Pour freshly picked pine buds with water at room temperature, leave for 4-6 hours, cook on low heat for 20-30 minutes, drain, squeeze, strain through 2 layers of gauze or nylon, add hot water to the original volume, add sugar and boil for another 10 minutes, Remove from heat and pour into jars. For 1 kg of pine buds 1 liter of water, 1.5-2 kg of sugar. To prevent pine honey from the kidneys from being candied before the end of cooking, for 10 minutes, add a quarter of a teaspoon. citric acid, store in the refrigerator.
A decoction of pine buds: a folk remedy for the treatment of diseases of the bronchi and lungs.
Pour one tablespoon of pine buds (10 g) with one mill of water, cover and boil in a water bath for 30 minutes, remove from the bath, leave for 10 minutes, strain through 2 layers of nylon or gauze, squeeze out the remaining raw materials and add boiled water to the original volume (up to 200 ml). Take 1 tbsp. l. after meals 3-4 times a day in the treatment of diseases of the lungs and bronchi.
Tincture of pine buds on vodka: a folk remedy in the treatment of diseases of the upper respiratory tract, for the treatment of tonsillitis, colds, bronchitis .
It will take 150 g of pine buds, a bottle of vodka, one glass of honey and one lemon. Pine buds are divided into two parts. Fill one part with vodka and put in a dark place to infuse for two weeks. Pour the second part of the pine buds with a glass of boiled water, add the juice of one lemon and a glass of bee honey - we also set it to infuse for two weeks, the infusion must be stirred occasionally. After two weeks, strain both components, drain together, close tightly and put in the refrigerator for aging for a month. Use tincture of pine buds for the treatment of diseases of the upper respiratory tract and lungs 3-5 times a day, 1 tablespoon, the duration of treatment is not limited
Pine bud treatment for asthma.
Take one tablespoon of plantain leaves, pine buds and coltsfoot leaves, pour a glass of boiled water, insist at room temperature for 2-3 hours, then put in a water bath and heat for 15 minutes, remove from the bath, insist at room temperature for 10-15 minutes, drain. Consume during the day in small sips in several doses.
For the treatment of catarrh of the upper respiratory tract and angina,
prepare - an infusion of pine buds and use it as a rinse: pour 10 grams (1 tbsp. L) of crushed raw materials with boiling water (200 ml), wrap it warmly and leave for 15-20 minutes, then strain. Gargle by adding two to three teaspoons of kidney extract to a glass of warm water.
Treatment of urolithiasis with pine buds :
Pour 50 g of finely chopped pine buds (about 5 tablespoons) with milk, take 0.5 liters of milk. Put on fire and bring to a boil, simmer on low heat for 20 minutes, leave to infuse until the composition has cooled to room temperature and drink throughout the day in small sips.
Pine bud jam can be prepared like this:
take a handful of pine buds and pour them with one glass of water, cook over low heat. After some of the water boils away, you need to add 1.5 cups of sugar, cook until the sugar dissolves. Strain the jam and pour into jars, put in a dark and cool place. Pine bud jam is useful for colds.
Another recipe - jam from coniferous shoots : Pour 1 kg of washed raw materials with 3 cups of boiling water, keep on low heat for 30 minutes. After a day, we filter the infusion, squeeze it, bring it to a boil again, add 4 cups of sugar and cook for 7-10 minutes until the sugar dissolves. Jam is stored in glass jars in the refrigerator.
Recipe for jam from young pine shoots
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It is necessary to cut young pine shoots (they can be found in the spring in a pine forest). sort them out at home, wash them with water, peel them from the husk (if any).
Shoots can be cut into small pieces, put in a bowl and covered with sugar. per 1 kg. young pine twigs consume 1.5 kg. Sahara. the shoots are sprinkled with sugar and allowed to stand for 8 to 10 hours. (or you can just leave it overnight)
after 8-10 hours, add 1 liter of water to the dishes and put on fire. stir and let the syrup boil, reduce the heat and cook for 5 minutes. and then set aside the dishes with pine shoots for 5-8 hours. then put on fire a second time, the mass boils and boil it for another 5 minutes. set aside for 5-8 hours.
for the third time we repeat the procedure for cooking jam. at the end of cooking, add 1 teaspoon of citric acid to the jam. Pour into sterilized jars and close with lids. such jam can be stored under the layer. lid in the refrigerator. thus, in the spring you can cook pine jam.
To strengthen immunity pine needles are washed, sugar is added in a ratio of 4: 1, 2 table. spoons of the mixture are poured with 4 glasses of cold water, insisted for 3 days, filtered. Take a healing elixir of 0.5 cups 2 times a day.
For skin diseases
are treated with a decoction of 150 g of needles and 0.5 liters of milk: boil the decoction for 20 minutes, drink a little during the day.
For chronic hepatitis
- insist 1 kg of chopped pine needles in 2 liters of boiled water, add 1 kg of sugar.
Insist in warmth for 10 days, drink a glass 3 times a day before meals. 
"Prickly" cosmetics
Pine is a wonderful remedy for self-care. For example, with oily skin, it is useful to wash with decoctions of bark, buds and needles.
For dry skin 1 tsp. pour a spoonful of infusion of needles with 50 ml of vodka and 50 ml of boiled water. Apply this lotion to your face morning and evening.
You can also make a cream for mixed skin: in 3 tables. spoons of almond or olive oil add 3 drops of pine essential oil.
For acne, pour two handfuls of pine needles into 1 liter of boiling water, boil for 10 minutes, wash with hot decoction.
The syrup is an excellent cough remedy.
It is often used in the treatment of bronchitis and catarrhs of the respiratory tract, and is also good for prevention - it strengthens the body, protecting it from infections. Place young pine shoots in a jar, sprinkling each layer with sugar. Put the jar somewhere on the windowsill and wait for the shoots to release juice. Pine syrup is good for everyone, it is recommended even for babies. Adults can try a coniferous-cahors cocktail - a spoonful of Cahors is added to a spoonful of syrup, you can also take it for prevention (one or two spoons two or three times a day).
With rheumatic arthritis
Pour boiling water over freshly cut spruce branches, let it brew for 0.5 hours. In an infusion with a temperature of 37-38 ° C, immerse your arms or legs for half an hour. Then wrap the sore spot warmer and lie in bed for an hour. The course of treatment is 7-10 baths.
A decoction of pine needles helps with intoxication
, contributes to the restoration of the vascular system and removes radionuclides. Finely ground, preferably young, needles (5 tablespoons), crushed rose hips (2-3 tablespoons), onion peel (2 tablespoons) pour 0.7 liters of water, bring to a boil and keep on low heat for 10 minutes . Insist all night, wrapping in a cloth. Strain and drink throughout the day.
One of the effective ways to treat angina is to gargle with a decoction of pine needles.
Finely chop 40-50 g of needles (spruce, pine, fir, juniper) with a knife. Pour a liter of boiling water and insist in an enamel bowl for 15-20 minutes. Then add chilled boiled water - 10 liters. Filter and leave for 5-6 hours in the cold. Carefully drain, the sediment should remain at the bottom. Well, add citric acid, sugar to the water and drink 0.5 tbsp. 4-5 times a day.
For the prevention and treatment of various diseases , such an elixir of health is often prepared from pine buds: 100 grams of pine buds are taken, poured with 2.5 liters of water and boiled until the volume of the remaining liquid decreases five times (to 0.5 l), filtered through two layers gauze, allow to cool to room temperature and add one tablespoon of bee honey. Take this composition for a quarter cup half an hour before meals three times a day.
For runny nose and sinusitis good results in treatment are achieved by inhalation with pine buds. For ten parts of water, one part of pine buds, bring to a boil, breathe for 10-15 minutes in pairs covered with a towel over the pan.
If you are experiencing baldness, then, before it's too late, pour 500 grams of pine buds with five liters of water and boil over low heat for 30 minutes, insist until cool, strain. Rinse hair after washing, or rub into scalp.
Tincture of pine buds on vodka is used for liver diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, gastritis.
Tincture for bradycardia:
Finely chop the candles, fill two-thirds of the jar with them and pour vodka to the top. Putting the jar on the windowsill - the tincture of the sun is not afraid. You can stand for two weeks, then you can filter it. You need to take 20 drops daily 3 times a day half an hour before meals in a tablespoon of water. For a long time, 1-2 months, sometimes longer - until the pulse evens out and becomes stable. Often it is enough to conduct only one such course.
Pine cone honey:
A lot of baby cones are required: 75-80 pieces per liter of water. And for every liter of water, 1 kg of sugar is required. First, count the bumps into an enameled bucket or pan. Let's say 400 pieces per 5 liters of water. Cook them at a gentle boil until they become quite soft. After straining, discard the cones, and pour 5 kg of sugar into the broth and boil again until all the sugar has dissolved. To prevent it from sugaring, add an incomplete teaspoon of citric acid. Pour honey into jars and put in the refrigerator - it does not deteriorate.
With leukemia, cancer of the lungs, stomach and intestines, and almost all malignant tumors
give the patient a mixture of pine honey and tincture of pine flowers, usually a teaspoon 3 times a day, and in some cases a tablespoon 3-4 times a day before meals, always in combination with the necessary herbal infusions.
On Ivanov's day (on the day of Ivan Kupala) cones can be collected for the second time
- they are already formed, solid, although they still remain green - they are suitable for alcohol tincture.
HYPERTENSION.
10-12 cones collected on Midsummer Day, pour 1 liter of vodka, insist 7-19 days. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day on water or with water for 1.5-2 months - a stable working pressure will be established for a long time. By the way, the tincture is also useful for gastritis - take it before meals.
STOMACH ULCER
. Place the same green cones on a third of the jar, pour vodka to the top and insist in heat for 1 week. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day half an hour before meals for 1-2 months.
Another recipe: dissolve a small pea of resin in a glass of hot milk. Take 3 times a day for a glass half an hour before meals.
CHRONIC HEPATITIS.
Such a remedy is considered to be an excellent remedy: mix 1 kg of fresh chopped pine needles with 1 kg of sugar, pour 2 liters of cold boiled water, mix well, close tightly, insist in the heat for 3-4 days in summer, in warm winter - 10 days. Take 200 ml 3 times a day half an hour before meals.
Infusion in a thermos: Pour 1 tablespoon of pine buds into a thermos in the evening, pour 0.5 liters of boiling water (daily dose). Insist during the night. Take the infusion in a warm form, 30 minutes before meals, in 3-4 doses, during the day.
Infusion of needles, pine buds
: brew 3 liters of boiling water 0.5-1 kg of needles or buds, leave for 4 hours. Apply to baths.
Decoction of pine buds:
brew 1 cup boiling water 2 tbsp. l. kidneys, Warm in a water bath for 30 minutes, drink 1/3 cup 3 times a day After meals as an expectorant, disinfectant and diuretic in diseases of the respiratory system, cardiovascular system.
A decoction is also used for inhalation with angina and catarrh of the respiratory tract. To do this, it is made more concentrated 1:10. In folk medicine, a decoction of pine buds is used for dropsy, rheumatism, as a choleretic agent. Pine buds are also used in combination with other medicinal plants, they are part of breast teas.
Infusion of needles is used to treat and prevent scurvy.
. Fresh needles are ground in a small amount of water, then water is added up to 5-10 times the amount, sugar, citric acid can be added to improve the taste, boiled for 20-40 minutes, insisted in a sealed container for 2-3 hours. Drink 0.5-1 glass a day.
Pine extract is obtained from pine needles, which is used for baths,
necessary in the treatment of nervous and cardiovascular diseases. Brew pollen like tea and drink it for rheumatism, gout
. Take pollen with honey after serious illnesses and operations. Fresh pine sawdust, steamed in boiling water, apply to the lower back, sore joints.
Pine resin is wonderful, curing catarrh and stomach ulcers, cracked lips, wounds, furunculosis, weeping eczema. Tea or a decoction of immature cones is drunk for pulmonary tuberculosis, and tincture of water for pain in the heart. There is no need to list all those diseases, up to terrible cancer, when pine comes to the rescue.
In the spring, in the second half of May, guard the beginning of flowering pine.
Well, if the weather is cloudy and windless - male flowers, like barrels, are chock-full of golden pollen. And the wind will rise - it will blow out half. And the heat is not needed at this time, the pine tree will bloom longer. Part of the fresh flowers with pollen immediately pour vodka
- flowers two-thirds of the jar and pour vodka to the top. Let them insist until autumn. Dry the other part of the flowers, spreading a thin layer under the roof
- they are also useful in decoctions and tinctures, and part of the pollen that has spilled out will also find its use.
MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, MYOPATHY, OBLITERING ENDARTERITIS, DYSTONIA OF BRAIN VESSELS, CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES. Take 5 tablespoons of fresh pine needles, 2 tablespoons of wild rose berries (for thrombophlebitis - hawthorn), add 2 tablespoons of onion peel and pour 0.5-1 liter of water. Bring to a boil and cook for 10 minutes, leave warm overnight. Take instead of water from 0.5 to 1.5 liters per day in a warm form. Prepare daily fresh broth.
PROSTATE ADENOMA, FIBROMIOMA, CYST ON THE UTERUS OR OVARIAN.
Velcro is being prepared: 100 g of pine rosin, 20 g of beeswax, 20 g of sunflower oil. Put in a water bath and stir. The composition is applied to a linen flap and is molded to a sore spot for 2-3 days (for women, apply to the lower abdomen, shaving off their hair). This composition is enough for 4 patches.
For BPH
you need 200 g of rosin, 40 g of wax and 40 g of sunflower oil. Plaster sculpt in the crotch.
It is considered an effective remedy in general for tumors of any etiology and tissue inflammation.
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Contraindications:
However, you can expect trouble from the pine. Preparations from needles, kidneys, pine cones are contraindicated in glomerulonephritis. It would seem that hepatitis can be treated with needles, but only chronic, and in the acute course of the disease, pine will have to be abandoned. Coniferous preparations taken in excessive doses (what, they say, harm from pine!) Can cause inflammation of the mucosa of the gastrointestinal tract, kidney parenchyma, as well as headache, general malaise. Preparations, including turpentine, are contraindicated in nephritis and nephrosis. The resin taken inside may not always be harmless. Caution must be taken with certain pine hypotonic medicines. With pollen and cones, one must be careful with thrombosis.
Walks in a pine forest are considered useful, but not for patients with pronounced heart failure: pine phytoncides, especially in spring, exacerbate angina pectoris and, causing severe attacks, can lead to sad consequences.
Well, that seems to be all, If you have your own recipes with pine buds, share them in the comments. Do not get sick, my good ones, and always be healthy.
