Blackberry - leaf - 1000g (1kg)
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Product characteristics
Contents: dried leaf
Country of origin: EU
Classification: Rubus fruticosus
Weight: 1000g (1kg)
Preparation proposal:
Place two teaspoons of the herb into 250 ml of boiling water and let stand for 10 minutes. Strain.
Description
BLACKBERRY - dried leaf - 1000g (1kg)
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Plant description The species belongs to the family Rosaceae. It is grown in many countries around the world, being a cross of wild blackberry cultivars. Single-seeded drupes, forming a complex fruit, usually ripen from mid-July until October, changing the color from red to black. It generates fruit abundantly. |
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Properties - contains tannins (made of gallic and ellagic acid), caffeic acid, proanthocyanidins and triterpenes - in folk medicine used as a blood glucose lowering effect, astringent on mucous membranes, inhibiting gastrointestinal catarrh
- considered to have anti-bacterial and fungistatic, anti-inflammatory and blood-sticking properties - formerly decoction and infusion of blackberry leaves was recommended in the treatment of catarrh of the throat, stomach and intestines, with hoarseness, cough, peptic ulcer disease and pain, appendicitis, excessive menstrual bleeding and white vaginal discharge - used in mixes with thyme, thyme, leaves of wild strawberry and St. John's wort, and drink infused indigestion and as a substitute for tea - decoction and infusion were used as lichen wraps, wet blemishes and ulcers, throat rinsed with inflammation and thrush - used for angina |
