Cloudberry for cough; useful characteristics, recipes, contraindications

Contraindications for cloudberry healing

How to brew cloudberry leaves for cough

There are a huge number of recipes on how to brew cloudberries for various diseases or conditions.

1. Cloudberry leaves are excellent for treating bronchitis and hemoptysis. Take a tablespoon of dried substrate, brew it in a cup of water and leave for 4 hours in a dark place. Take 3 sips after meals.
2. The leaves along with the roots also have a therapeutic effect. Take a tablespoon of leaves, root and boil in boiling water for 5 minutes. Then turn off the heat and leave the broth to brew for several hours. As a result, you will need to strain the broth and take it 4 times a day, taking 3 sips.
3. Brew cloudberry leaves and take sip three times a day to normalize acidity when it decreases in the stomach.

Recipe for making and method of introducing the infusion

1. If you are in a sad mood and blues, you should add 1 teaspoon of dried cloudberry sepals to the teapot and drink it like regular tea.
2. For diseases of the respiratory tract - with a strong cough, whooping cough, to enhance expectoration of sputum, you need to brew 200 ml of cloudberry tea (you will also need to take 1 teaspoon of dried sepals). After brewing, leave the tea to steep for several hours and then drink.

You can also make jam, syrups, and compotes from the berries themselves, which children will especially like.

How to take for children

Children can be given both infusions and decoctions, as well as other forms made from cloudberries. A particularly exciting option for your baby would be... jelly!

Cloudberry berries are useful for this. Take as many of them as you deem necessary, mash them and put them on fire. Heat for 6 minutes. Later, when a pronounced decoction appears, it will need to be drained.

Add sugar to the broth in a ratio of 2:1, a tablespoon of gelatin or agar. Now all that remains is to boil the resulting mixture for half an hour, pour it into molds and wait for it to harden.

Contraindications to the use of cloudberries

Although cloudberries are virtually harmless, they should not be used for self-medication:

• Suffering from high stomach acidity;
• For gastritis and stomach ulcers;
• For diseases of the duodenum;
• For other diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (the gastrointestinal tract is the digestive system of the organs of real multicellular animals, designed to process and extract nutrients from food) , for example, GERD.

In all other cases, eating cloudberries will have a positive effect on your body!

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Healing properties and uses of cloudberry leaves

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Cloudberry is a frost-resistant plant that can most often be found in the northern regions of Russia, Siberia and the Far East. Bushes are difficult to grow in their own area, for the reason that they are demanding on the soil - most of all they adore wet, swampy areas and cold temperatures. And yet, it can pay off. The article will discuss the benefits of cloudberries.

• Characteristics of cloudberry leaves
  • Beneficial and healing characteristics
  • Contraindications
• How to brew cloudberries for cough
  • Leaves
  • Sepals
  • Cloudberry decoction
• Implementation Individuals
• How to prepare and store

Characteristics of cloudberry leaves

Cloudberry is a perennial herbaceous plant that looks like a raspberry or blackberry bush. The fruits on the bushes are also very similar, differing only in their yellow color.

The use of the plant in medicine is justified by its valuable chemical composition . It is rich in minerals and vitamins A, B1, C, PP, therefore it has a positive effect on the body. The composition contains calcium, sodium and potassium. The leaves contain tannins, phytoncides and fiber.

Beneficial and healing characteristics

Not only the fruits, but also the leaves and sepals of the plant have healing qualities . The leaves are used to treat various diseases: cystitis, gastritis, diarrhea, colds and flu, bronchitis, gout. These are the most common diseases that are treated with their help, but the list is not limited to them.

• The beneficial properties of cloudberry leaves are that they are capable of:
• Prevent venous thrombosis.
• Strengthen blood vessels.
• Restore blood pressure and blood clotting (internal environment of the human and animal body) .
• Improve your metabolism.
• Strengthen the immune system.
• Heal wounds faster.
• Relieve the symptoms (Symptom from Greek - case, coincidence, sign - one separate sign, frequent manifestation of a disease, pathological condition or disorder of any vital process) of a cold.
• Remove swelling from the eyes and limbs.
• Give the skin a healthy appearance and elasticity.
• Prevent vision deterioration.
• Give a good look to your hair.

A decoction of the leaves can help get rid of hair loss and improve skin and nail health . To make it, you don’t necessarily need to take dry leaves; you can take the freshest or frozen in advance. You can prepare it according to the usual recipe: take 1 tbsp. l. greens, pour 1 cup of boiling water over it, let the mixture simmer over low heat for 5 minutes.

To heal skin damage, the leaves are used as follows: take 1 tbsp. l. raw materials and pour 1 glass of boiled water. It is necessary to infuse for 3-4 hours, after which wash the wound with infusion.

Contraindications

A caution for consuming cloudberries is personal intolerance to the product . Its use is contraindicated for diseases of the digestive system , such as high acidity and peptic ulcers.

Even if a person does not have the above contraindications, one should not forget that the product should be consumed in moderation.

How to brew cloudberries for cough

The leaves of the plant have a unique chemical composition. Decoctions can promote rapid healing of wounds, acne and other problems on the skin. In the pharmacy you can find a special ointment with cloudberry leaf extract for these purposes. But the most pressing method of using leaves is infusions and decoctions for coughs .

Leaves

To prepare a medicinal infusion for cough, the following ingredients will be useful:

• 1 tbsp. l. leaves;
• 0.4 liters of boiling water.

The leaves must be placed in a half-liter glass jar and pour boiling water over them. Close the jar with a lid and wrap it well, leave for 3 hours.

There are 2 options for how to take the infusion:

1. Divide the product into 3 equal parts and drink three times a day after meals.
2. Drink 1 tbsp when coughing. l.

Cloudberries will help get rid of cough not only for adults, but also for children. But it’s not so easy to force children to drink decoctions. In this case, you can prepare a tasty and healthy remedy in the form of a sweet treat.

For berry jelly you need:

1. Cut 150–200 g of fruits and fill them with 1 liter of water.
2. Boil.
3. Remove from heat, strain and cool mixture.
4. Add sugar to taste and gelatin, boil for 20 minutes until the gelatin is completely dissolved.
5. Pour into prepared molds and cool.

Sepals

Experienced people who collect medicinal herbs say that decoctions and infusions from sepals are even more beneficial than those from leaves. The remedy can help even with acquired respiratory diseases. The product is universally suitable, so it is suitable for both dry and wet coughs.

For infusion, 3 tbsp is useful. l. sepals and 1 liter of boiling water. You need to fill the leaves with water and leave in a warm place for 4 hours. It is recommended to change the tea with infusion.

Cloudberry decoction

Cloudberry decoction is an antiseptic. It can be used to relieve inflammation (Inflammation (lat. inflammatio) is a complex, local and general pathological process that occurs in response to damage to the cellular structures of the body or the action of a pathogenic irritant and manifests itself in a reaction) , healing colds . To prepare the decoction, you need to pour 1 cup of boiling water and 1 tsp. raw materials and keep the mixture on low heat for 15 minutes. It will take another 1 hour to let it brew. Afterwards, the resulting mixture must be filtered and mixed with boiling water so that the original volume of water comes out.

The product is recommended to be used in an amount of 3 tbsp. l. 3-4 times a day.

Implementation Individuals

Cloudberries can be used in different forms. It is not difficult to prepare various sweets from the fruits, including jam for the winter. The leaves and sepals are used to make decoctions and infusions.

During pregnancy, most medications are prohibited for a woman. But to cure colds, coughs and strengthen the immune system, you can drink cloudberry decoction . To vary the taste and increase the strengthening capabilities of tea, you can add rose hips to it.

• Pregnant women can take advantage of the plant’s qualities in the following cases:
• Heaviness in the stomach.
• Heartburn.
• Helplessness.
• High blood pressure.
• Varicose veins.

How to prepare and store

To get as much benefit from cloudberries as possible, you need to know when to collect them and how to store them. Berries begin to appear in July - August. Specifically, this is the best time to collect fruits . They must be collected with sepals. Then the berries are separated from the greens and dried separately. It is recommended to do this at room temperature, sparingly spreading the raw materials on paper. After it dries, you need to place it in a dry container, preferably a glass jar, and store it in a dry place. The shelf life of dried raw materials is 2 years .

So, cloudberry leaves and sepals are rich in vitamins, so consuming them will help cope with almost all diseases and improve the tone of the whole body. And its fruits, in addition to their healing properties, are not bad in that they can become a good delicacy that all family members will love.

Cloudberry jam

Cloudberry... A berry similar to raspberries, but amber in color. Perhaps this is the most beloved berry of the northerners, despite the fact that due to weather conditions (frosts, powerful winds) the harvest does not happen every year and this berry is obtained with hard work. There is a proverb: “Cloudberries love legs.” To collect it, you need to walk a lot and bow to each berry. And you need to walk through swamps, mossy surfaces, so how does it grow specifically in transitional swamps, large and small pine peat bogs, in the moss tundra. It must be collected when it is ripening or ripe, but not overripe. I managed to pick cloudberries for the only time in my life. One day a friend invited me over for cloudberries. I also took my eldest son with me. Because we are no foresters, and we don’t know distant swamps, so we stopped at the swamps next to the Onega tract. And as the collection time progressed, we were quite late. The cloudberries were almost all collected, and those that were still hanging on the bushes were already overripe. Collecting one is a pain. The berry immediately turns into juice. In addition, it was drizzling lightly, there was a smell of rosemary, perspiration was coming from the swamp... My head was spinning, the berries were choking and there was no way to add more to the can. Between us and our offspring, we barely collected 1.5 liters. But this was already a finished product - pickled cloudberries, with which you no longer needed to create anything. Since that time, I no longer go to the swamps to buy cloudberries, but buy them on the highway or at the market from people who know the places and can collect them just right. Naturally, the berry is financially expensive. But any work must be paid. And if I had not experienced for myself what it is like to pick cloudberries, then its cost would seem very high to me. Last year, a 3-liter jar cost 3.5 thousand rubles. But the berry has such a specific taste, one could say that it is a berry delicacy. It is aromatic in any form, both in jam and in soaked and pickled form.

Cloudberries contain vitamin C (a low molecular weight organic compound of relatively simple structure, essential for all living things) C, pectin, sugar, citric and malic acids, tannins, and trace elements. It has diaphoretic, diuretic and antiscorbutic properties. The berries are taken for heart pain and cough. Also, for coughs and colds, take decoctions of sepals. I remember when I was a child, my grandparents would bring cloudberries, they would ripen in a basin, and we kids would tear off the sepals, which we then dried perfectly. I don’t remember how they helped with a cough, but tea with them was a joy.

I don’t understand whether I’ll be able to buy cloudberries this year. I really hope so. And I would like to share with you recipes on how to prepare cloudberries for the winter. Perhaps you will be lucky enough to purchase this delicious berry.

How to make cloudberry jam:

For 1 kg of berries 1 kg of sugar

Method 1: I like cloudberry jam prepared without adding water, so the cloudberry is juicy, and without the preparatory preparation of syrup.

Prepare the berries. If the berries are not overripe, wash and drain.

Cover the berries with sweet sand and let them sit for 3-4 hours until they release juice. Then cook in one batch until done. Usually 30 minutes is enough.

Method 2: Prepare syrup. When the syrup boils, add the berries. Cook for 30 minutes.

Method 3: Cook according to the second method. But only after 30 minutes rub the jam through a hair sieve and boil for another 10 minutes.

This is for those who don't like it when they come across bones. Cloudberries have small seeds and not everyone loves it when they get stuck in their teeth.

Cloudberry jam

Rub 1 kg of berries through a sieve, mix with sugar and boil until suitable thickness.

Soaked cloudberries

According to the classic recipe, it is recommended to pour cool boiled water over the washed and dried berries. You can create it like this. But I don't fill it with water. Typically, not all berries may be of the same ripeness. Therefore, we lightly crush the ripe berries until the juice appears. Mix with others and place everything tightly in clean, dry jars.

2. You can also add syrup. To do this, prepare the syrup, cool it and pour it over the berries in the jar. Cover with a plastic lid.

Soaked berries must be stored in a cool place.

You can use berries prepared in this way in winter as fresh ones in any dish. Create a compote, use it in baking, or make jam. And I really like eating them with cottage cheese and muesli. Simply magical taste!

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2 explanations of “Cloudberry jam”

Galya, for me this is not just a delicacy, but simply an unheard of product!
I’ve never tried it fresh, and I don’t remember in jam, to be honest. It looks very beautiful, but the taste is something you just have to believe. 🙂 Yes, sometimes we are indignant about why it is so expensive, but when you try to collect it yourself, it becomes clear right away. At the dacha you can pick a couple of currant bushes or gooseberries, and that seems like a lot, but walking through the forest or through a swamp is completely extreme!

Yes, Galya, you can’t even describe the taste of cloudberries. It has a honey taste, and a sweet and sour taste like orange, and a bitter taste, as if absorbing the smell of moss, and something raspberry... In general, the taste of cloudberry. 🙂 Yes, I think it’s hard to buy it fresh in Moscow. If you’re lucky enough to buy it this year, I’ll send you a jar of jam. 🙂