What a black poplar looks like, it is popularly known as the "sedum", everyone knows. But few people know about the healing characteristics of this tree. However, its antiseptic, sedative, anti-inflammatory, antifungal and antipyretic effects are spoken in unison not only by traditional healers, but official medicine and pharmacists.
What is special in a poplar, when to apply a potion, and what useful properties it possesses - we will tell about all this later in the article.
- Chemical composition
- Medicinal properties
- Pharmacy drugs
- Preparation and storage of medical raw materials
- Recipes of traditional medicine
- Harm and side effects
Chemical composition
Herbalists say the most beneficial misty kidneys, although in folk medicine there are recipes, in which the ingredients are bark and leaves. But before we talk about the healing characteristics of the plant, find out what they are due to. 
Under laboratory conditions, scientists found that the foliage of black poplar contains significant reserves of alkaloids, tannins, phenolcarboxylic acid, terpenes and carotenoids. Flavonoids and hydrocarbons predominate in the cortex.And the kidneys in their composition accumulate essential and fatty oils, phenol glycosides, tanning and resinous substances, salicin, gallic and malic acids, vitamin C, populin, chrysin and leucoanthocyanins.
Medicinal properties
Despite the indignation of many people who have allergies to black poplar fluff, botanists include him among the most useful trees in our latitudes. This position is due to the wide range of effects of all parts of the plant on the human body. 
In a complex interrelation, the constituents of salmon possess: bactericidal, diuretic, sedative, analgesic, astringent, wound-healing and anti-inflammatory action.
In the process of preparing therapeutic raw materials, the constituents of the active components of the plant enter intochain of continuous physicochemical reactions, resulting in effective antiseptic. Therefore, decoctions, teas, tinctures and osokra ointments are widely used in the treatment of respiratory diseases, bronchitis, cough, purulent sore throats. Herbalists believe that these folk remedies at 40 percent accelerate the elimination of inflammatory processes.
Broths help to get rid of a headache, facilitate hepatic colic (especially in cases when drug treatment is contraindicated), relieve fever in children. The external use of a kidney-based tree potion helps to cope with various dermatitis, relieves itching, and promotes the tightening of deep, poorly healing wounds. Moreover, such a remedy is very effective in cystitis, disorders of the digestive tract, flatulence and colitis. 
With poplar can be cured even depression, insomnia and improve emotional mood with nervous exhaustion. Also, such tinctures and decoctions help with arthritis, neuralgia and hemorrhoids.
Traditional medicine advises black poplar products for the treatment of malignant tumors, tuberculosis, furunculosis, burns and even alopecia. It is believed that regular rinsing hair decoction of the bark of the plant helps to strengthen the hair follicles and heal seborrhea.
Pharmacy drugs
If you have learned about the healing properties of black poplar only now, when the season of gathering raw materials has ended, do not worry. Healing Potion is available in unlimited quantities at any pharmacy.
Depending on what and how you will treat, choose poplar buds, tinctures, phyto balms, liquid extracts.
Often, the kidneys come for sale in plastic or cardboard packaging of different packaging.
Black poplar tincture sold in glass bottles of 100-250 ml. Some manufacturers combine it with birch buds and other herbal preparations.
Also in the pharmacy assortment there is a drug "Adenon", based on the extract of salmon. It is prescribed for the treatment and prevention of prostate adenoma. In this direction, phyto-cylinders and phyto-candles with poplar extract are effective. They are recommended for hemorrhoids and benign prostatic hyperplasia.
For kidneys you can find a special phytobalmbased on poplar. In addition, the price of these natural medicines, compared with foreign substitute substitutes, is available even to low-income categories of people. For 100 g of the kidneys will have to pay about 35-50 UAH, and for 200 ml of balsam or tinctures - in the range of 50-200 UAH.
Preparation and storage of medical raw materials
The process of collecting raw materials differs from the harvesting of other medicinal plants, because it requires cutting branches. Often it occurs when massive felling of these trees. 
The leafy buds of black poplar are characterized by oblong conical shape, greenish or yellow-brown color, specific resinous aroma and bitter taste. They appear in April.Bark and leaves are harvested at the peak of the growing season.
The workpiece is made as follows: with a sharp hacksaw, small branches are cut, after which they are manually cut off valuable material. You need to work in gloves, because the hard surface of the kidneys can hurt your hands.
Then the raw material is sent to drying. Poplar buds when drying need to lay out by a 1.5 cm thick layer. Otherwise they will turn black and lose healing power.
At home, this is done away from dusty roads, on a large sheet of cardboard or a cloth flap in a well-ventilated place. The ideal option for this is the attic. In rainy wet weather as an alternative, you can use an electric dryer. In this case, the temperature timer is set to 35 °. This option takes much less time, but costs more. 
When natural drying, do not forget to go back to the workpiece and turn it over every 2-3 hours, otherwise the thick buds will become moldy and disappear.In a few days the material will be ready for packaging. Pack it in fabric bags and fold in a dry, well-ventilated place. In this form, the black poplar buds do not lose their healing properties for 2 years.
Recipes of traditional medicine
Folk healers offer many variations of poplar therapy in the form of decoctions, ointments, tinctures, compresses, extracts.
At acute respiratory diseases, colds, bronchitis, purulent tonsillitis and gout It is advised to take three times a day for half a glass of infusion of blue-breasted buds. Preparing the drug of 1 tablespoon of crushed raw materials and half a liter of boiling water. You can drink the potion 2 hours after it is infused. Before taking it is desirable to filter.
Relieve stress to work the nervous system, as well as get rid of insomnia, you can use poplar broth. For its preparation will need 2 teaspoons of finely chopped leaf buds and 400 g of boiling water. 
After combining all the components, hold the potion on low fire for 15 minutes, then wrap it in to infuse it. After a couple of hours (when completely cool), strain and can take, dividing the liquid into 3 doses. Drink this tool is desirable during a meal. The daily dose of the drug should not exceed 150 g.
Prostatitis treated with infusion of 2 dessert spoons of crushed raw materials and 200 g of boiled water. All components are brought to a boil, and then insist about 3 hours. Strained drinking take 2 tablespoons before meals three times a day.
At cystitis, prostate adenoma, urethritis Herbalists advise drinking a quarter cup of infusion of 60 g of dry bluff buds and 200 ml of boiling water. It is better to prepare the drug in a thermos. After an hour, when it is drawn, strain and use three times in the indicated dosage half an hour before meals.Such decoctions and tinctures are very effective in hair care. Heated liquid can be rinsed curls after washing or rub it into the roots.
For external use, compresses, lotions, ointments and balms are used. They are made from the improvised ingredients: any fat of animal origin, crushed (to dust) buds and honey. The ratio of ingredients is 1: 1: 0.5. 
Harm and side effects
Black poplar is not at all aggressive, but contraindicated in pregnancy and chronic diseases of the digestive organs. If you ignore the recommendations of phytotherapists, violating these dosages, serious complications and dysfunction of the gastrointestinal tract may occur. If you feel weakness and general malaise after osoracia therapy, stop taking the drug for a few days. And do not forget to consult with your doctor. After all, good intentions can hurt yourself.
Many remember about the blackjack only during its flowering, complaining about the omnipresent fluff. But, according to experts, these indignations are completely unfounded, because in fact the fluffs of this tree are not allergens themselves.Their only fault is that they accumulate in themselves the particles of other flowering plants, spreading them everywhere. However, as it turned out, this harm is compensated by the significant benefits to humans.
