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Privet health benefits (Rhamnus frangula - Rhamnaceae fam.)

Popular names: Glossy Buckthorn, Alder Buckthorn, Breaking Buckthorn and Black Dogwood.

Traditionally: it was used to dye cloths yellow. Its bark tea was used as an abstergent. In Apuseni Mountains, in Salciua, the bark decoct was administered to those who fell ill from stress, madness, curses or bad thoughts.

Chemical composition:

Franguloside and franguloside, their aglycones, tannic acid, tannoids, waxes, sterols and various mineral salts.

Pharmaceutical properties:

It is one of the most used plants for its laxative or abstergent effect. It also has a special effect in various liver conditions for its special effect on the bladder - it helps it eliminate all the toxins. It is a cholagogue and a choleretic. Laxative or abstergent depending on the dosage. Its laxative effect is manifested upon 10 hours from its administration.

The bark is used - it is picked, dried and ground, but it is used only one year from the harvesting because otherwise it gives nausea. Attention to those suffering from high blood pressure because using this plant excessively can increase the blood pressure.

Also the fresh bark has very strong effects causing nausea and vomiting. These teas are not indicated for long term treatments.

Preparation:

Prepare a tea from a teaspoon of plant placed in 250 ml water. Boiled for 10 minutes then filter. It has a powerful laxative effect that is to be felt 8 hours from the moment the tea was drunk. In larger doses it has an abstergent effect. Externally a lighter tea or just a teaspoon o f the previously prepared tea are to be used to tip the wounds.

It can be used for the following medical conditions: angiocolitis, chronic skin diseases, constipation even chronic one, biliary dyskinesia, favus, hemorrhoids-both internally through the ensuring of the laxative effect and externally, through the powder that can be mixed with any ointment. Liver failure. Obesity-it contributes to the recipes against it. Various digestive parasitosis, skin eruptions, scabies, skin ulcerations.

If a quicker action is wanted, a tincture can be prepared, from one part ground plant and 5 parts de alimentary alcohol 70C. Keep for 15 days shaking often then filter. It is to be used according to the wanted effect. Take 5 drops - 1 teaspoon, diluted in some water. It is to be consumed only if needed.

Attention! Don't drink in large quantities, because it causes powerful stomach cramps and fluid stools. Don't consume the plant fresh because it causes nausea and vomiting; it is to be used only a year after it was harvested.

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