Pine cone tincture

The medicinal properties of vodka tincture made from pine cones are widely used in folk medicine. The strength of the impact of biologically active substances of pine on the human body is also studied by pharmacology, official medicine. Preparing pine cone preparations at home is quite simple. As a result, at low cost, you can get an effective medicine that solves a variety of health problems.

Medicinal properties of tincture on pine cones

Pine has long been revered by our ancestors. They have always believed that there is no such disease that could not be defeated with the help of this tree. Indeed, all parts of the plant contain many useful substances. For medicinal purposes, not only cones were used, but also needles, bark, and buds.

Especially during the ripening period, many useful substances accumulate in the cones. Chemical composition:

• lipids;
• lenoliic and oleic acids;
• iron;
• monoterpene hydrocarbons;
• bioflavonoids;
• vitamins (C, A, K, P);
• tannin.

These substances are able to maintain their activity over a long period if properly prepared and stored pine cone extract. Tannins contained in the preparations prevent the death of brain cells, prevent the development of a stroke or contribute to recovery after it. Cones also have an immunostimulating, tonic effect on the entire body during this period.

How and when to collect cones for pine tincture on vodka

On the pine there are always fruits of different periods of appearance. There are young cones and old, biennial ones. Not all of them have equal beneficial properties. It is important to understand what kind of cones you need to collect to make an alcohol tincture.

green cones

Cones are mainly harvested green, young. They should be closed, easily cut with a knife. Also, do not harvest large, oblong cones. Their length should not exceed 4 cm. When collecting, you need to remember that this should be done in an environmentally friendly and safe place. The benefits of tincture on green pine cones in this case will be many times greater.

Having decided to start collecting young green cones, you need to focus on the region in which it will take place. If in central Our Country, harvesting is usually carried out from the end of June to mid-July, then in Ukraine – from the last days of May and the entire next month.

brown cones

You can also make a tincture on mature brown cones (with seeds), which also have therapeutic activity. They need to be harvested from late autumn to mid-January. From February, they begin to throw out seeds, open up. Among mature cones, not every one can be harvested. You need to take those that are younger, unopened. As a rule, they are strong, heavy, tightly seated on a branch, they can hardly be cut off. 

Old, two-year-old buds have a dry tail that easily breaks off at the slightest pressure on it. Such cones have long opened, lost all their seeds, dried up. Their scales are not pressed tightly to each other, they can be easily moved apart. If the cone can be torn from the branch without the slightest effort, it should be concluded from this that it is either wormy or old, and in any case is not suitable for making tincture.

How to collect

Old buds are very sensitive to the concentration of humidity in the air. In dry weather, they open, and in wet weather, they shrink their scales. In order not to collect useless raw materials, you need to harvest during a stable period of sun and lack of precipitation.

Do not collect cones from the ground. Usually these are old fruits that fall off at the slightest gust of wind. It is better to harvest them directly from the branches. But since pines are usually tall and sometimes it is very problematic to get to the fruits, this can be done after strong hurricane winds or heavy snowfall. As a rule, large branches remain on the ground, broken off from the top and abundantly strewn with young strong cones.

How to dry

Arriving home, the collected cones must be dried for several days, spreading out in a thin layer. To prevent the resin from the cones from sticking to the mesh, it is necessary to lay a cotton cloth. You can find out that the process is running by the characteristic clicks emitted by the cone during its opening. This sound is especially loud at night.

To speed up this process, you can transfer the cones to a cardboard box and leave on the battery. Here they dry much faster. As a result, the cones will open a little, the seeds from them will settle to the bottom of the box. These bumps are suitable for the treatment of patients with cerebral circulation disorders.

Not everyone understands why it is necessary to dry the cones so that they open. The fact is that when you bring them from the forest, they are very tightly sealed and covered with a thin layer of resin so that moisture does not get inside. If you try to extract useful substances from such cones, then nothing will work. With open buds it is much easier in this regard, useful substances are easily extracted from them.

If you fill the cones with a vodka solution, they will still try to close their scales, but there will no longer be a film of resin on them. That is, the process of extracting useful elements can be fully implemented. The time of infusion of such cones is not less than 2 weeks.

Recipes for medicinal tinctures on pine cones

Before proceeding with the manufacture and use of pine tincture, the cones must be carefully sorted out. Remove insects, pine needles, leaves, other adhering dirt and dust. Only after that you can fill it with vodka or a solution of alcohol (70%). During infusion, in order to get a quality drug, you need to shake the jar of cones as often as possible. Due to this, medicinal substances will more fully pass into solution.

The therapeutic dose is 1 teaspoon three times a day. Depending on the patient’s condition, this volume can either be reduced or increased. If we are talking about prophylactic administration, then you can limit yourself to one serving of the medicine per day.

Recipe 1

Raw materials need to be crushed into separate scales with the help of pliers. It is very difficult to do it by hand. If the buds are slightly damp, they should be dried. Do not overdry either, as it will be difficult to crush them. When the tincture material is ready, transfer it to a clean liter jar, add 0,5 liters of vodka. Close the lid, shake well.

Ingredients:

• vodka – 0,25 l;
• mature cones (medium size) – 5-6 pcs.

You can put it in a black bag to protect it from sunlight. Store in a cool place. Every day, the jar must be taken out and shaken. This should be done in order for the cone to better give off its beneficial properties. When 21 days have passed, strain the tincture, pour into a convenient container. It should be tightly closed, stored in a dark cool place.

For prevention, use 1 tsp on an empty stomach. twice a day. Before taking the tincture and after that, you need to drink a few sips of warm water. It happens that the infusion is very difficult to drink undiluted. Then you need to do this: add a spoonful of infusion to 50 ml of slightly warm water, mix the solution and drink. Do this 30 minutes before meals.

With irritated gastric mucosa or with diseases of the intestinal tract, you can take the tincture as follows. In the morning, eat a serving of oatmeal as breakfast, and then after 20 minutes drink a spoonful of tincture diluted in water.

If the family has a patient who has suffered a heart attack or stroke, then take the infusion of pine cones as follows: 1 tablespoon 2 times a day. Also drink on an empty stomach with some water or after a light breakfast. For preventive purposes, such treatment is used for a month every six months.

If someone suffers from high blood pressure, apply the infusion for 30 days with a break of 3 months. For people who have had a heart attack or stroke, the infusion should be used until the condition improves as an additional treatment to the main one.

Recipe 2

It is worth considering a lesser known recipe, but also extremely useful. This tincture will help to recover from sore throat, severe cough, pain in the lungs.

Ingredients:

• green cones – 6-7 pcs.;
• sugar – 5 st. l .;
• gravel

Fill a liter jar with small green cones, fill the voids with sugar. Infuse for 2 days, then pour Cahors. Keep somewhere in a dark, cool place. Take a tablespoon after meals.

Recipe 3

With hypertension, a medicinal tincture on pine cones is prepared according to this recipe.

Ingredients:

• green cones – 1 l;
• honey – 1 tbsp.;
• vodka.

Fill the jar with green pine fruits. Pour a cup of honey, leave for a few days and top up with vodka. After a week of infusion, you can apply a tablespoon twice a day.

The use of tincture on vodka from pine cones

Over time, the human body ages, causing the immune system to wear out. Pine cones contain substances that can reverse this seemingly irreversible process, not only mobilize the body’s defenses, but also rejuvenate and renew it.

Scientists have found that pine cone extract causes the transformation of white blood cells into dendritic cells. Thanks to this process, immunoregulatory functions are activated, the division of cancer cells and the development of other pathological processes in the body are suspended.

Treatment of diseases:

• pneumonia;
• pulmonary tuberculosis;
• bronchitis;
• recovery after a stroke, heart attack;
• cold;
• scurvy;
• cough;
• joint diseases;
• anemia.

Pine cones have all the healing properties necessary to restore dying brain nerve cells, they tone and strengthen the human immune system, improve blood circulation. Pine tincture is useful for blood vessels, restores their elasticity and strengthens the walls, thins the blood, restores blood flow, helps with headaches, and also has a diuretic, mild choleretic and antiseptic effect.

For the treatment of diseases of the bronchopulmonary system, tincture on young pine cones is mainly used. This remedy has antibacterial, disinfectant activity, has an expectorant and tonic effect. It is used for colds, flu, bronchitis, as well as more serious and complex diseases of the respiratory system, such as tuberculosis, asthma, pneumonia. The remedy also helps with damage to the internal mucous membrane of the stomach and digestive tract.

The benefits of tincture of pine cones on vodka are manifested in the treatment of patients with a post-stroke condition, in the prevention of this disease. Official medicine does not yet recognize the beneficial properties of tincture during this period, but numerous reviews and experience accumulated over the centuries by traditional healers eloquently testify to this.

Safety measures

In some cases, in response to taking pine preparations, an allergic reaction may occur. First of all, those people who already had manifestations of a similar nature fall into the risk group. Therefore, at the beginning of the reception, it is recommended to conduct a small test that will help to recognize the presence or absence of an oversensitive reaction of the body.

Before the first intake of the infusion, it is necessary to conduct a control test for allergies and for the general condition after using the medicine. To do this, take 0,5 teaspoon 1 time per day for 3 days. You should carefully monitor yourself, whether an allergic rash has appeared, whether the condition has worsened. Before taking it, it is very important to consult with your doctor.

For persons who are contraindicated in the use of alcohol tinctures, you can prepare a decoction of pine cones. The aqueous extract also has a number of advantages, but is safer due to the absence of alcohol in its composition. In their effect on the human body, decoction and tincture are equivalent. The main active substance is equally soluble both in hot water and in an alcohol solution.

The only difference is that the tincture is more convenient to use. With a decoction, there is always a lot of trouble both during manufacture and during storage. It can only be stored in the refrigerator and, moreover, for a very short time. It must be warmed up before each dose, and also periodically updated, that is, prepare a fresh solution.

We must always remember that pine tincture plays a far from major role in getting rid of a stroke. It serves as an effective addition to the medications prescribed to patients. It is very important to start taking medications from pine cones in a timely manner, preferably on the first day after the onset of acute circulatory disorders. After 24 hours, structural changes begin in the brain, after which it will be problematic or even impossible to recover.

Contraindications to the use of tincture of pine cones

Pine cones preparations in folk medicine are treated as a medicine. It is believed that they can be used only during illness, for therapeutic purposes. Pine preparations have a certain toxicity, they can be harmful even to healthy people with prolonged use.

Contraindications:

• acute hepatitis;
• kidney disease;
• pregnancy;
• lactation period;
• children up to 7 years;
• allergic reactions.

It should also be remembered that in large doses, preparations from pine cones can provoke a headache.

Terms and conditions of storage

Harvested and dried pine cones retain their healing properties for 5 years. The tincture can be stored for quite a long time, at least 3 years. You need to keep the container with the remedy in the dark somewhere in a cool place. It can be a balcony, a basement or just a closet.

Conclusion

The medicinal properties of vodka tincture made from pine cones have been known for a long time. Although official medicine in the fight against stroke has not yet adopted this tool, it helps many people suffering from brain dysfunction who have had a heart attack.

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