Hornbeam Elm - Description, Useful Properties And Care Of The Elm. Elm Recipes

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Hornbeam elm

Description, care and recipes for the use of elm

Hornbeam elm: botanical description of the plant

The hornbeam elm is a beautiful deciduous tree, the height of which reaches 25 meters. The tree grows quickly and beautifully, it has a beautiful and spreading crown. On short petioles, in an alternate position, there are large, sharp at the ends elm leaves. As soon as flowering begins, small yellow-green flowers bloom on beautiful and powerful branches, which are collected in a brush of several pieces. The fruit of an elm tree is a nutlet that is covered with a webbed lionfish.

The elm is a long-liver, and if favorable conditions are created for it, then it will live for three centuries. The trunk of the elm is at first smooth, and in places where branches appear, it has roughness. From March to April, the plant blooms, and by the beginning of autumn its fruits will appear.

Elm is very common in Europe, the Caucasus and Central Asia. It can be seen on plains, forest edges, along rivers.

Medicinal properties of elm

Elm has an astringent, antimicrobial and diuretic effect on the human body. Bark preparations help relieve inflammation of the mucous membranes. The plant has diuretic properties. Elm contains many important substances such as carotene, vitamin C, steroids, fatty oil, and Fridelin. Elm bark is used as a cholesterol absorption inhibitor.

Growing and caring for a hornbeam elm

Elm prefers areas that are well lit and that provide good shade. The best soils for elm are loose, fertile and alkaline. Elm is a drought tolerant plant, but despite this it grows best in a fresh and moist substrate.

Elm is a plant that is demanding on the soil, because of this, it needs to be watered in a dry season, fertilized. Lime is very good for elm, so it is added to the soil when planting and growing a tree. It will not be superfluous to prune the elm, with the help of which the crown of the plant is formed. The crown will keep its shape for a long time after pruning.

Elm application

Elm preparations are used for colds, inflammation of the mucous membrane of the stomach and intestines, various kinds of diseases of the skin and blood vessels, for syphilis and gonorrhea. Infusions, tinctures, decoctions, teas and baths from elm are widely used in folk medicine. Rheumatism, gout and arthritis will help treat the elm infusion compress. With gonorrhea, you can use the crushed fruits of the plant, boiled in milk.

Elm bark tea. To prepare it, you need to take 3 teaspoons of elm bark, pour 250 ml of water into a bowl with bark, put on fire until it boils. Next, remove the composition from the fire and filter. We take this tea a cup a day. This medicine helps with diarrhea. You can also use this tea in the form of lotions and rinses.

Infusion of hornbeam elm. It will not be difficult to prepare it. You need to take 1 tablespoon of the leaves of the plant and pour a quarter liter of water. We put the product on low heat for 3 minutes and remove. Leave to infuse for 1 hour. After insisting, we filter, and then you can safely use it as compresses or laxatives, 1 glass per day.

Elm decoction for cancer. To prepare it, take 10 grams of elm bark and fill it with a glass of water. Bring everything to a boil and after 10 minutes remove from heat. We insist the broth in a warm place for two hours. You will see that the volume of the medicine has decreased, which means that now we dilute it with boiling water until the broth reaches its original volume (there should be a glass of the finished broth). Don't forget to strain! Before meals, about half an hour, take 2 tablespoons of this medicine daily.

Elm bark powder. This powder helps with middle ear infections. You need to take the bark of an elm tree and grind it into powder with a coffee grinder. Next, take cotton wool, moisten it in boiling water and dip it into elm bark powder. This cotton wool should be put into the inflamed ear.

Young leaves are applied to wounds that do not heal for a long time.

Elm bark decoction is used for skin conditions such as ulcers, rashes or scabies in the form of a bath.

Contraindications to the use of elm

There were no contraindications to the use of an elm for medicinal purposes, only if a person has a personal intolerance to the components that make up the plant.

The author of the article: Sokolova Nina Vladimirovna | Phytotherapist

Education: Diploma in "General Medicine" and "Therapy" received at the Pirogov University (2005 and 2006). Advanced training at the Department of Phytotherapy at the Peoples' Friendship University of Moscow (2008).