Birch and Mellow give a help for the summer fitness!

Finally, it is summer! The good weather brings us to change the wardrobe and this deals with the weight watch so the result of our careens on the diet during the long winter! We have to be careful about the weight during winter as this is been recognized by our body as a sort of energy reserve so very difficult to lose!

 For this occasion, I advise a simple and effective diuretic treatment especially for those suffering from hypertension, hypercholesterolemia therefore not recommended for those suffering mainly from hypotension! It is difficult to recommend a diuretic plant for those suffering from hypotension because we must take into account the factors that induce this hypotension so for those interested please contact me so we can discuss and find the suitable one...

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Birch: The tree of the nephrites!

Its properties are due to the presence of glycosides, betuloside, betulin, resin, betulalbine, betulalbic acid, balsam, essential oil that contains methyl salicylates, saponins and tannins that make it astringent, nicotinic acid, flavonoids, antibiotic substances with a high antibacterial activity, vitamin C and sugars which are not particularly risky for diabetics, however, you still need to ask the advice of your specialist!

It was so called in the past for its diuretic properties. It was also believed that if a patient with rheumatism slept on a bed of birch branches, it would have immediate benefits! The most used parts are

 the leaves in the form of tisanes or as tinctures (to combat gout, lower cholesterol, cystitis, arthrosis, rheumatism, diuretic, astringent, it is used as a tonic to clean the oily skin),

 the bark (its decoction is useful for combating fever, as a digestive, for external washes in the case of acute skin and                       hair disorders so against the fall of the hair in this case you prepare a lotion mixing a tea cup of this decoction with a teaspoon of olive oil and make frictions to the hair instead

                                                 for the skin it is useful to fight cellulite mixing a tea cup of this decoction with 2 tablespoons of rice flour.

We prepare the infusion by boiling a liter of water than we take it of the fire and we add

40g of dried leaves and

we leave it to infuse for 10 minutes.

After it is filtered and this water is drunk during the day between one meal and the other before 17 o'clock p.m. because afterwards it is "harmful" for the sleep being diuretic!

 This is done for a week! In the following week we drink the Mellow herbal tea in the same way to restore certain values, especially for the skin that will suffer this drainage! You continue turning one and another for a mounth!

The Mellow: A smoothie for the skin!

 The use of the mallow is very old indeed; it is found in Roman and Greek times and it is still one of the best-selling medicinal plants in herbalists!

Its properties are linked to its components such as mucilage’s (substances that incorporate water and release it depending on the needs that you have of it), potassium (excellent supplement in cases of excessive sweating or diarrhea so in cases when you lose fluids), calcium oxalate, vitamins and pectin’s.

The infusion and decoction are used in the case of constipation (here the mucilage’s leave water in the stool softening them), irritations of the mouth such as mouth ulcers or gingivitis etc., irritations of the stomach, intestines and kidneys (in this case the mucilage’s create a protective barrier also bringing a regeneration of the damaged area)! It should also be used in case of cough and phlegm, in the case of conjunctivitis or inflammation to the eye making in this case a wash with the infusion of the leaf! If added to the bath water, it has an emollient effect on irritated, inflamed or cooperies skin !!

 Not to be forgotten as a vegetable at the table so in salads or risottos exploiting our parks or fields!!

For the preparation of the tea, we follow the same way of the birch so bring to boil 1 liter of water that after it is removed from the fire than we add

40g of dried leaves of mallow and it is

 left in fusion for 10 min.

 After you filter and drink it during the day until 17 in the afternoon because after you risk remaining sleepless as it is like all the medicinal plants diuretic!

To drink for a week in turning with birch for at least a month!