Maple - Useful Properties And Uses Of Maple, Fruit And Maple Flower. Ash-leaved Maple, Japanese, Ginnala, Field

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Maple

Useful properties and uses of maple

Useful properties of maple

The useful properties of maple were known to the Indians of North America, and to this day Americans love to use the syrup made from juice prepared according to a special recipe. Maple sap contains reproduced sugars, trace elements, vitamins, tannins, lipids and unsaturated fatty acids. Young leaves of the plant have tonic and restorative properties. The choleretic, antiseptic and wound-healing features of the plant have been revealed, so the spectrum of its use in folk medicine is very wide.

Maple application

Maple is an excellent antidepressant, it relieves stress caused by stress, reduces aggression, harmonizes, and leads to the restoration of energy. The bark, leaves, fruits and flowers of the maple can always be used for any disease; many recipes have been compiled over the centuries of using the plant. A maple broom, as well as a birch broom, is taken to the bathhouse - this is a useful attribute. Maple sap healed wounds and ulcers. It makes an unusually tasty syrup - a natural, environmentally friendly product containing minerals.

A rich complex of B vitamins is present in maple juice: for example, thiamine affects the metabolic processes of carbohydrates and fats. The sap of the plant is a real storehouse of antioxidants, among which there are polyphenols, which contribute to the rapid recovery of cancer patients. It is recommended to use it for heart problems. The fructose content allows the use of condensed juice for people with obesity and diabetics. By adding syrup to the diet for dysfunction of the pancreas, patients receive help from abscisic acid (phytohormone).

To prepare the syrup, the juice of only several types of maple is used, namely: black, red, silver and sugar. Fresh, finely chopped leaves are applied to damaged skin, decoctions and juice are drunk with vitamin deficiency and asthenia. Viral infections, kidney diseases, hepatitis, bronchitis are more effectively treated if healing remedies from maple are added to the complex of medicines. It is believed that the ash of the bark of a tree, diluted in water, promotes good hair growth.

Maple fruit

Maple fruits fulfill the function of tree propagation inherent in them by nature. Some sources mention their benefits as a diuretic and antimicrobial agent. A decoction of maple seeds is useful for stomatitis or any inflammation of the oral cavity.

Decoction recipe: 1 tablespoon of dry crushed raw materials is boiled for 30 minutes in a glass of water, after cooling, filter and add water to the original volume.

What are the fruits of the maple?

Maple fruit is a lionfish. This is the so-called achene with a leathery dry pericarp, has a flat fibrous pterygoid outgrowth. It is easily carried by the wind, amusingly moving through the air in spiraling movements, thanks to which the plant multiplies, penetrating into the composition of forest stands at long distances.

Maple flower

The greenish-yellow flowers of the maple are collected in corymbose inflorescences located at the ends of the branches. Flowers can be dioecious or bisexual on the same tree. The nectaries secrete a sweet liquid abundantly, which is why insects adore this honey plant.

Ash-leaved maple

It is believed that the ash-leaved maple - a North American inhabitant - was brought to Europe in the second half of the 17th century. This plant is unpretentious and quickly spread. It perfectly tolerates atmospheric pollution and therefore is used for landscaping industrial and industrial centers in the West. Today, this type of plant can be seen not only in Europe: Central Asia and Kazakhstan have also become habitats for these trees, preferring sunny deserts and irrigated irrigated ditches.

This maple is most often used for breeding new, original varieties, such as, for example, the Flamingo variety, which is distinguished by the pink-white color of young leaves.

Red maple

The red maple grows on the east coast of North America, in the north and south of the country. It is used to make maple syrup. This species is more of an ornamental plant, unpretentious, can adapt to wet soils. The leaves are colored red and yellow-orange. The plant looks especially elegant in autumn. Spring shoots are decorated with red buds.

Japanese maple

The Japanese maple is a decorative, attractive, low tree native to Japan, Korea and China. Japanese maples can be called shrubs, they grow slowly, have a bark with a beautiful pattern, a pretty crown with thin twigs and small, graceful, variegated leaves.

Maple Ginnal

The Ginnala maple has been cultivated since 1860, it is an excellent ornamental plant that is used to create group or single plantings. This plant is an excellent honey plant, it blooms in the absence of flowering of other plants. In autumn, the Ginnala maple adorns the landscape with a dense mosaic of fiery red leaves. The plant is a representative of the Far Eastern flora, found on the Amur, on the coast of the Sea of Japan and in the territory of Northeast China.

Field maple

The distribution area of field maple is from deciduous forests of the European part of Russia, Western Europe and to Asia Minor. This is a wonderful spring honey plant, large tracts of which provide good honey productivity. One hectare produces 1000 kilograms of honey. The flowers of the plant are rich in pollen.

Spring juice is obtained from this maple variety. It contains sucrose, you can drink it fresh or as part of soft drinks, maple syrup is tasty and healthy. The seeds contain fatty oils (29.5%). The leaves contain resin and rubber. They are ensiled together with branches for animal feeding.

Contraindications to the use of maple

There are no contraindications for maple: in addition to enriching the body with substances of amazing usefulness, it gives an incredibly tasty product - syrup added to culinary dishes.

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).