Amur Barberry

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Amur barberry is part of a family called barberry. In the Latin version, the name of this plant sounds like this: Berberis amurensis Rupr.

Description of Amur barberry

Amur barberry is a shrub whose height can even reach two meters. The leaves of this plant will be elliptical and obovate, the length of such leaves can be about ten to twelve centimeters, and the width of these leaves will be about four to five centimeters. It is worth noting that each leaf has finely toothed edges.

The thorns of this plant are rather large, and also tripartite. In the brushes, the flowers of the Amur barberry will be yellow. The fruits of this plant are red and berry-like with two elongated brown seeds, these fruits are edible. In older specimens of this plant, the bark is painted in gray tones.

The flowering of the Amur barberry falls on the period from May to June. Under natural conditions, this plant can be found in the Far East: in the Amur region, in Primorye, as well as on the eastern slopes of the Sikhote-Alin. This plant is found near coastal sea ramparts. It is also important to remember that plant roots, seeds, bark, leaves and branches are used for medicinal purposes.

The healing properties of the Amur barberry

The following useful elements are found in the roots, seeds, branches and leaves of the Amur barberry: berberine, berlamtin, berbamine, berbamunin, bervulcin, palmatine, jatrorricin, magnoflorin. In the branches and leaves there are coumarins and flavonoids, but in the stems such acids as vinylic and ferulic were found.

Actually, the Amur barberry in its action is very close to the common barberry. So, this plant is endowed with antiscorbutic, choleretic, astringent, hemostatic, wound healing, and also stimulating properties.

With dysentery, as well as a wound healing agent, a decoction of young shoots and roots is used. Among other things, this broth also helps with all kinds of bone fractures and dislocations. Fruits and leaves not only have an antiscorbutic effect, but also increase appetite. As for the tincture of the leaves, this remedy can be used as a choleretic agent, as well as for various uterine bleeding, for endometritis and for subinvolution of the uterus. Science has confirmed the high antimicrobial activity of a substance such as berberine: this substance has a tonic effect on the uterus.

It is noteworthy that Amur barberry berries are edible and are often used in a variety of confectionery products.

As an antiscorbutic agent, as well as for cholelithiasis and to improve appetite, you can prepare the following broth: take a little less than two tablespoons of Amur barberry per one glass of boiling water, this mixture is infused for thirty to forty minutes. The resulting mixture is recommended to be taken in half a glass four times a day, about half an hour before meals.

With severe bleeding, with various liver diseases, as well as with disturbances in the activity of the intestines, the following decoction should be prepared: one glass of boiling water is taken for two teaspoons of dry bark or crushed plant roots, then this mixture is infused for four hours. This mixture must be filtered, and then start taking one tablespoon every hour.

The following decoction is used as a choleretic agent: three parts of Amur barberry leaves are poured with five parts of fifty percent alcohol, then this mixture is infused for two to three weeks in a warm cool place. Such a decoction is taken twenty to twenty-five drops three times a day, such a course of treatment should be about two to three weeks.