Sumac (tetra): Anti-inflammatory and hemostatic – cures 100 diseases
THE STRONGEST BULGARIAN HERB CURES 100 DISEASES – SUMMER
WHAT IS ANCIENT TETRA (Cotinus coggygria) GOOD FOR?
Sumac is a beautiful hairy plant that is very useful for human health. Sumac is a broad-leaved shrub or small tree that reaches up to 5 meters.
The trunks of the bush are strongly branched, with a gray-brown crown, and the young shoots are green or reddish. The leaves of the bush are egg-shaped.
The tips of the leaves are dark green, and the undersides are grey-green. In autumn, the sumac turns yellow, then turns red and finally turns purple.
The flowers of sumac are small, clustered in an inflorescence like panicles. The inflorescences become fluffy, there are hairs on them that reach up to 30 cm in length.
Each bush can have different colored hairs. Sumac has different colors that are formed separately – the male flowers are in one inflorescence, and the female flowers are in another.
The sumac bush has small drupe fruits that contain a dried pulp. The fruit is green in color and in the process of ripening acquires a red color.
This shrub blooms from May to July, and the fruits ripen in late summer-early autumn.
Sumac is long-lived, growing and bearing fruit for up to 100 years. It grows on stony slopes, likes sunny and warm places that are protected from strong winds.
COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF SUMMER
Sumac is harvested before flowering and dried
The medicinal raw material of the sumac plant is its leaves, collected during the flowering period and before the fruits are formed. At the same time, the leaves are collected whole, without being torn or injured. Branches of leaves are cut off.
Sumac leaves are dried in a natural way – in sunny, windless weather under a shed or in a room with good ventilation. If they are dried in an electric dryer, the temperature should be no more than 50 degrees.
The finished raw material is placed in paper packages, stored for no more than 2 years in dry and dark rooms. With greater humidity, the leaves lose their healing properties.
A popular type of sumac is the Young Lady – a bush 2-4 meters high, resistant to cold, lives up to 40-60 years. The leaves of this sumac are green-yellow, and in autumn they turn red or turn yellow.
Yang Lady begins to bloom in June, during the fruiting period the stems and lengthen, covered with red hairs. This type of sumac loves light, is not picky about the soil, but does not like excessive humidity.
USEFUL PROPERTIES OF SUMMER
The leaves of the bush contain tannin, for which the bush is used as an astringent, anti-inflammatory agent. Sumac has a choleretic, antiseptic effect. In addition, it contains tannins, flavonoids.
The leaves also contain essential oils (linseed, lanolol, myrcene, tertinol), mericitril (dyeing substance). The plant has blood-stopping, expectorant, wound-healing properties.
The leaves of the sumac bush contain a lot of carotene (32 mg per 100 g), organic acids, tocopherol (5.59 mg per 100 g).
When applied externally, the bioactive substances in the plant cause incomplete coagulation of mucosal protein (in contact with a mucous membrane, with a traumatized surface) – they form a thin film that protects the tissue from external influences. At the same time, the pain also decreases, the inflammation decreases, the vessels shrink.
Sumac is part of some pharmaceutical products that are prescribed for diseases of the bile ducts, astringents that stop bleeding, and also products that help with acute, chronic inflammatory processes in the intestinal tract, bleeding from the intestines.
It is included in the composition of some antiseptics, it can be used to treat minor skin injuries.
WHAT IS SUMMER USED FOR?
Sumac treats the following pathological conditions:
Sweating of the feet;
Sumac helps with toothache white discharge, diarrhea, diseased bile, angina, hemorrhoids Tissue swelling;
Hemorrhoids;
White discharge in women;
Diseases of the genital organs in women of an infectious nature;
Purulent pimples, furunculosis;
Bleeding gums, toothache;
Gingivostomatitis, periodontitis;
Lung diseases;
Gallbladder diseases;
Acute respiratory infections;
Intestinal disorders – diarrhea;
Ulcerative processes;
Gastritis;
Poisoning with heavy metals, alkaloids;
Gallbladder diseases;
Burns, frostbite, bruises;
Diabetic foot;
Angina.
RECIPES WITH FUMEL
SUMMER SOLUTION FOR EXTERNAL APPLICATION
Put 50 grams of sumac in one liter of hot water, boil over low heat for 10 minutes and after removing the decoction from the stove, let it stand for 20 minutes.
Filter and use for compresses and bandages as a wound healing, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic agent.
SUMMER IN MYOMA OF THE UTERUS
Sumac can be used to treat uterine fibroids.
A mixture of sumac, honeydew, cuff, thyme, plantain leaves and argymonia; a mixture of St. John’s wort, medicinal rouge, ox tongue, duckweed and 15 grams each are ground, mixed, 4 tablespoons of the mixture are added to 1 liter of hot water and left on a slow fire for 15 minutes.
Let it cool, strain and drink half a cup three times a day. Use for 2-3 months, then take a break and you can repeat the course again.
HERBAL MIXTURE WITH SUMMER AGAINST ACUTE BRONCHITIS
Mix 2 tbsp. sumac, mint and honeydew, 1 tbsp rosemary and icedum, 3 tbsp rose leaves. The components are ground, mixed well and 2 tbsp. of the resulting mixture is boiled in a liter of water. Leave for 1 hour, strain and use ½ cup 5-6 times a day.
SUMMER LEAF OINTMENT
Fresh leaves are ground, crushed until they become a pulp, mixed in equal parts with butter or cow’s butter. used for purulent wounds, non-healing wounds.
This ointment is stored in a cool, dark place, but it is desirable to use it fresh.
TINCTURE OF SUMMER BARK FOR FEVERS
Sumac bark helps with high fever and fever 1 teaspoon of ground dry bark is boiled in 500 ml. water. It stays for an hour and 1/3 cup is used until the temperature drops and the patient’s general condition normalizes.
SUMMER FOR INFLAMMATORY GENDER DISEASES IN WOMEN
You will need leaves of sumac, round-leaved valerian, blackberries, eucalyptus, lemon balm, comuniga; linden flower, sedge root – 10 g each.
Grind, from the resulting mixture you need to take a tablespoon and boil in half a liter of water.
Set aside for a few hours, strain and can be used as an internal flush for a month.
SUMMER: CONTRAINDICATIONS
Sumac has practically no contraindications if it is used according to a doctor’s prescription and the dosage and the correct course of treatment are followed.
With caution, sumac should be taken during pregnancy and breastfeeding. The only contraindications are individual intolerance, hypersensitivity and severe liver diseases.
An enema with sumac should not be given, as it will cause irreparable damage to the intestinal tract, especially if there are wounds in the rectum. If an enema is made with this plant, parietal thrombosis may form.
It is among the most powerful antiseptics in nature, it is highly recommended for women in labor
Sumac is one of the herbs with a strong antibacterial effect.
The healing power of this plant has been known for millennia.
Amazed by its effect on animals, our ancestors began to actively use sumac decoction in their daily lives, because they believed that it cures 99 diseases and rejuvenates.
It is no coincidence that the herb, which is one of the most powerful antiseptics in nature, is highly recommended to women in labor.
Washes with it help to heal the birth wound faster.
For herpes and aphthae
If you are tormented by unpleasant herpes and even more unpleasant canker sores, sumac decoction will save you from them. Gargle with sumac decoction several times a day.
Against fungi and bacteria
Tetra has a strong antifungal effect.
Compresses and herbal baths with this miraculous plant successfully treat fungi of various origins.
You can get rid of unpleasant foot fungus by soaking them in a basin of lukewarm sumac decoction.
Thanks to its properties, it stops the development of fungi and cures their damage.