Birch (kidneys) 1 kg, Kharkiv region.

Birch buds are a remedy that has long been used in folk medicine for the treatment of some cardiovascular diseases: stroke, heart failure, edema of cardiovascular origin, etc. Also, this plant is used as a choleretic for various diseases of the liver and biliary tract. With tracheitis and bronchitis, it is taken as an expectorant and disinfectant. Ego is drunk for tumors of the gastrointestinal tract, urinary disorders caused by prostatitis, as well as for the treatment of diabetes and getting rid of worms. Acute respiratory infections, runny nose, gingivitis, tonsillitis, stomatitis, and periodontitis are also included in the list of diseases for which the use of drugs based on birch buds is indicated. External use of the plant - for barley, poorly healing ulcers, festering wounds, bedsores, abrasions, acne, and also for arthritis. Hanging birch is a valuable industrial tree. It is considered a goodfuel, as well as a raw material forproduction of coal, cellulose, plywood production and much more. Birch buds, as well as leaves, are valued as a medicinal drug. Means made from them have many useful properties, they have a choleretic, expectorant, disinfecting, healing, and anti-inflammatory effect. These parts of birch contain a large amount of essentialoil, whose components, in turn, are betulene, betulol, and betulenol. Also, flavonoids, betulinic acid, naphthalene, rutin, myricitrin and other useful substances and microelements were found in the kidneys.