The benefits for the health of wild cherry

Bird cherry - tree, which is abundant flowering, you can enjoy every year. But in addition to the beautiful fragrant flowers, the plant provides also valuable fruit. Benefits and harms of bird cherry - current issue for those who are not indifferent to traditional medicine and home cooking.

Looks like cherry

Sometimes cherries is a large shrub, sometimes grows as a tree, reaching up to 10 m in height. Dense crown consists of ovoid or oblong leaves, pointed at the edges.

Blossoms in May and June, producing brush white flowers, exuding a strong, sweet scent - in this period, a bird cherry easiest to recognize. Berries in a tree round, black, usually no more than 1 cm in diameter, on the branches they appear in July and August.

Chemical composition and caloric content

Energy value berries birdcherry small as 100 g of fruit contained only 101 calories. But here there is not only in the amount of carbohydrates 16.8 g, but also proteins - their volume is 8.4 g Fats in the fruit plants there.

The use of wild cherry is due to its vitamin content. The berries of the plant contain:

• Vitamin C in considerable quantities;
• basic microelements - magnesium, zinc, iron and copper;
• rutin or vitamin P;
• relatively rare cobalt and manganese;
• tannins;
• malic and citric acids;
• pectin;
• polysaccharides and volatile.

How useful cherry

Due to the saturated composition, cherry benefits for the whole body. In particular, the plant:

• very good for gastro-intestinal disorders because of its astringent properties;
• effectively reduces inflammation;
• quickly stop diarrhea;
• lowers fever, diaphoretic and diuretic properties;
• strengthens blood vessels and the heart;
• eases toothache and helps with angina.

Listed healing effect is all of the plants - fruits, flowers, leaves and bark.

The benefits of berries

Berry - the most valuable part of the plant. Their benefit is that the fruits or infusions based on them:

• soothe toothaches and discomfort in the gums;
• disinfect wounds and abrasions;
• promote healing of injuries;
• diarrhea have a pinning effect;
• eliminate nausea.

Attention! Fruit stones are poisonous - they contain a dangerous substance amygdalin. Eating them in any case impossible - for medicinal and culinary purposes is suitable only pulp.

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