BIRCH EXTRACT 10:1
Product No. P02074
The birch tree, belonging to the Betulaceae family, is a tree or a shrub of small size, with white bark, marked with fine, horizontal lines. It prefers a temperate Nordic climate, growing on hills and mountainsides up to an altitude of 1500m.
The bark is smooth, silverish-white colored, with blackish cracks when more mature. The branches are thin and hang downwards. The leaves have a rhombus shape, or the shape of a sharp triangle and dark green in colour, with a lighter shade on the underside. The flowers have an elongated shape.
The leaves, buds, bark and sap are used from the birch tree. The leaves contain saponin, a bitter substance, mucilage, procatechinic tannin, essential oil, betulin, saccharose, resins. These substances offer the following properties: diuretic, detoxifying, anti-rheumatic, astringent, antiulcer, choleretic, slightly hypertensive, anti-fever.
The buds also have a diuretic and antibiotic effect. The bark is diuretic, digestive and anti-fever.
Birch is renowned for being a good diuretic, without forcing the kidneys. It has the capacity to produce perspiration and to help in treating rheumatism and inflammations of the urinary bladder.
Birch eliminates cholesterol from the blood, and disinfects the body. It is also efficient against liver diseases, diarrhoea, constipation and intestinal parasites. Cardiac edemas, originating in circulatory insufficiency, arterial hypertension, and atherosclerosis are also treated with the help of brews based on birch. It is also recommended in treating the flu, fevers, colds and chronic sinusitis. Used internally, it is helpful for easing headaches produced by hyperzotomy, dizziness, allergies and tonifying the nervous system.
Through diuresis, it eliminates the excess of uric acid, toxins and water from the tissues, playing an important role in eliminating cellulite and obesity.
Externally, it is used for treating affections of the skin - dermatitis, eczemas, and furunculous. The bark, rich in betulin and betulinic acid is used in the pharmaceutical industry.
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