Healing properties of chokeberry: how does pressure affect?

Chokeberry is a universal plant that began to be actively used at the beginning of the 20th century in cooking, medicine and pharmacy. Wise healers, who used the fruits of chokeberry in medicinal infusions, decoctions and compotes, began to use the raw materials of this inconspicuous shrub for the first time. They kept this healing element in secret so that ill-informed patients would not be treated on their own and could not harm themselves.

Chokeberry is a shrub that reaches the height of a person. Sometimes, like a spreading tree. Rowan leaves does not attract much attention, as it has a dark green color with a grayish tinge, which form the villi.

The plant usually blooms late - in late June and early July. The fruits of a small rounded shape, ripening, acquire a dark purple, almost black color, hence the name - "black chokeberry".

The berries are juicy, have small bones. It tastes sweet but tart. They retain their useful properties for a long time. The yield of shrubs is always high. Rowan's birthplace is North America, from there it was brought to Europe as an ornamental plant.

A Chernoplodka, as this shrub is popularly known, has a high frost resistance, and also retains its fruit for a long time on the branches, as birds and other pests are indifferent to this berry.

Propagate this unpretentious plant in the fall with the help of seedlings. For the first time, healers revealed that the black chokeberry perfectly reduces blood pressure, reduces vascular spasm, and has a positive effect on the immune system.

And later, with a more careful study of this unique shrub, the following medicinal properties were identified:

• hypotensive effect;
• cures blood vessels from atherosclerotic plaques;
• reduces heartbeat;
• actively removes inflammatory processes;
• strengthens the heart muscle after illness;
• enriches the body with vitamins and minerals;
• increases weakened immunity;
• perfectly relieves headaches;

• reduces sweating;
• diuretic action;
• normalizes hormonal disorders, especially the thyroid gland;
• enhances the secretory function of the digestive tract;
• reduces blood glucose levels;
• has excellent regenerative ability;
• slows the growth of tumor cells;
• pregnant women, eating black chokeberry, do not suffer from toxicosis.

Black Rowan berries are a storehouse of useful substances.

• Sugar: glucose, fructose up to 10%.
• Sorbitol - cyclic alcohol, due to which the berries get a sweetish taste. It improves digestion and intestinal microflora.
• Vitamins: ascorbic acid, carotene, vitamins of group B, vitamin E. A huge amount of vitamin P, which favorably affects the state of the vascular wall.
• Pectins promote the elimination of toxins, harmful cholesterol and other harmful substances from the body.
• Anthocyanins - These are plant pigments that destroy pathogens and bacteria.
• Trace elements: manganese, iodine, molybdenum, iron, fluorine, copper, boron. They are well restore the lack of minerals.

In order to answer the reader’s main question about whether arterial ash increases blood pressure or lowers, it’s necessary to explain why people suffer from high blood pressure.

First of all, age is the main cause, which is not amenable to any treatment.The aging process occurs gradually, in connection with this, the walls of the heart and blood vessels weaken, and there is an increase or decrease in pressure. The use of chokeberry can enrich the body with substances that it requires for the intensive work of all body systems.

Lifestyle is a factor that can contribute to the full normalization of blood pressure, or vice versa - lead to a chronic condition. Here smoking, drinking alcohol and a sedentary lifestyle are of great importance - if you get rid of these bad habits, the state of the whole organism will improve significantly.

Improper diet leads to the accumulation in the body of harmful cholesterol, which is deposited at the site of inflammation of the vessel wall and leads to a narrowing of its lumen. In this regard, a vasospasm occurs and blood pressure rises. If you change your diet and add medicinal drinks from the black ashberry, the condition of the vascular wall will improve, and the harmful cholesterol will be much less.

Excess weight is a completely solvable problem, which very often leads to an increase in pressure. Applying the fruits of mountain ash, it is possible to improve the metabolic processes that can reduce overweight.

Hormonal disorders - this is a more serious problem, which usually affects women in menopause. The components of this medicinal shrub perfectly restore hormone production.

So, the combination of these major risk factors leads to an increase in blood pressure. In order to cure this ailment, it is necessary to act on these links that cause hypertension.

Chokeberry affects the vessels, while relaxing them, while affecting other processes that provoke hypertension. Accordingly, it is better to use it with high blood pressure, as a highly concentrated drink with hypotension can further reduce it.

Helper rowan helps with the following diseases:

• cardiovascular diseases: prevention of myocardial infarction, hypertension, atherosclerosis, vasculitis, cardiomyopathy;
• frequent colds and viral diseases, hypovitaminosis, reduced immunity, iron deficiency anemia;
• thyroid diseases: as hyperthyroidism and hypothyroidism;
• gastrointestinal diseases: gastritis with low acidity, cholecystitis, cholelithiasis;
• kidney diseases: glomerulonephritis and pyelonephritis, urethritis, cystitis;
• skin lesions: burns, dermatitis, diathesis, eczema.

Contraindications:

• hypersensitivity to the components of mountain ash;
• diseases of the stomach with increased secretory activity - gastritis and peptic ulcer;
• increased blood clotting;
• low pressure;
• chronic constipation, colitis;
• pregnancy and lactation is a relative contraindication, since the composition of mountain ash has a favorable effect on these periods in a small dosage;
• hypervitaminosis.

It is best to collect the fruits of black rowan when the first frost hits. It was during this period, the berries are full of juice and rich in nutrients. It is best to pluck them with whole clusters, so that next year at the same place the shrub will form a new ovary.

After harvesting, at home, separate the berries from the branches. After that, cover with warm water, so that dust and other adhered particles can be washed from the villi.

In order to dry the berries, you will need a baking sheet with parchment paper, on which you lay them, and an oven.The temperature should be about 200 degrees, and the cooking time - 40-60 minutes. It is best to store such raw materials in a paper or cloth bag, but you can also in a glass jar.

And in order to freeze the fruit, you need to wash them thoroughly, and then dry them, put them in a container and put them in the freezer for storage. Store no more than 1 year. For convenience of storage, you can prepare the tincture, canned juice or twist compote for the winter.

There are many recipes for cooking black ash.

You need to pour 1 tbsp. l berries 200 ml of boiling water and let it brew for about 40 minutes. Take a diagnosis of hypertension for half a cup 4 times a day before meals.

For the collection you will need: 30 gr. Valerian root, 20 gr. black rowan berries, 30 gr. Lemon. All herbs need to fall asleep in a thermos and pour 500 ml of boiling water. The drink should be infused for about 60 minutes, and after that - it can be consumed 0.5 cups 4 times a day before meals.

Mix on 30 gr. chokeberry and valerian root, squeeze the juice of one lemon and pour 1 liter of vodka. Keep this tincture you need 3 weeks in a cool dark place. Apply at an elevated pressure of 1 tsp. 4 times a day before meals.

Pour 1 cup of rowan fruit with 3 cups of warm water, and then put on a slow fire. Boil the drink until boiling, then remove it from the stove and cool it. Take 0.5 cups 3 times a day. For better taste, add honey or maple syrup.

Pour in a cup of rowan berries (can be fresh or dry), as well as currant fruits in a ratio of 1: 1. Fill with 0.5 l. boiling water and let the tea infuse for 15 minutes. You can add lemon, honey or sugar - it makes tea more pleasant. You can take up to 5 times a day.

You need to do the following: skip 1 kg of berries through a juicer and add 300 gr to them. sugar and 1 tbsp. l honey After that - carefully grind the formed mass through a sieve. In hypertension, take 50 ml for 4 weeks.

For more recipes from chokeberry, see the following video.