What a black poplar looks like, it is popularly known as the "elder," everyone knows. But few people know about the healing characteristics of this tree. However, its antiseptic, sedative, anti-inflammatory, anti-fungal 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
Herbalists say the most beneficial sore kidney, 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 have 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.
Did you know? Foresters appreciate poplar wood. After all, for 20 years from one hectare of forest you can collect as much cheap and affordable wood material as oak and pine plantings will give in a century.
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 a wide range of effects of all parts of the plant on the human body. 
In a complex interrelation, the components of Osokor possess: bactericidal, diuretic, sedative, analgesic, astringent, wound-healing and anti-inflammatory action.
Did you know? Black poplar leaves are used in industry for tanning leather products, as well as for dyeing fabrics in yellow color. From the bark of the tree contemporaries make fishing gear.
In the process of preparation of therapeutic raw materials, the constituent components of the plant enter into a chain of continuous physicochemical reactions, as a result of which 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 for 40 percent accelerate the elimination of inflammatory processes.
We advise you to read about the healing properties and the use of raw materials from trees: linden, maple, willow, acacia, mountain ash red, bird cherry, thuja, laurel, chestnut.
Broths help to get rid of headaches, relieve hepatic colic (especially in cases where drug treatment is contraindicated), relieve fever in children. The external use of a kidney-based potion tree helps to cope with various dermatitis, relieves itching, helps to tighten 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.
Did you know? XIX century pharmacists managed to create a sedative extract from leaves and buds of salmon, which helped to cope with excessive sexual excitability.
Traditional medicine advises black poplar remedies 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.
Important! In inflammatory processes, the therapeutic effect of Osoxorean therapy occurs over a period of 4-8 days.
Also in the pharmacy assortment there is a drug "Adenon", based on the extract of oxoria. 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 - within 50-200 UAH.
Learn more about the use of medicinal properties of shrubs in folk medicine: raspberries, elder, wild rose, hawthorn, barberry, blackthorn, hazel, hibiscus, silver fox, gumi.
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 an elongated conical shape, greenish or yellow-brown color, specific resinous aroma and bitter taste. They appear in April. Bark and foliage is harvested at the peak of the growing season.
Important! To poplar buds well torn off, proceed to their collection a few hours after cutting down the branches.
The workpiece is made as follows: small branches are cut off with a sharp hacksaw, after which they cut off valuable material by hand. You need to work in gloves, because the hard surface of the kidneys can hurt your hands.
Then the raw materials are sent to drying. Poplar buds when drying need to lay out one and half centimeter 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. 
With 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.
Important! When harvesting raw materials do not confuse deciduous buds with flower. The latter do not represent any value and are large. As a rule, they are located in small scaly leaves.
Recipes of traditional medicine
Folk healers offer many variations of poplar therapy in the form of decoctions, ointments, tinctures, compresses, extracts.
With acute respiratory diseases, colds, bronchitis, purulent tonsillitis and gout It is advised to take three times a day for half a glass of infusion from blue-leaved 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.
For colds, traditional medicine recommends the use of chamomile, nutmeg, cardamom, anemone, cornflower, verbena, sage, clover, onions, and syrup.
Relieve stress to work the nervous system, as well as getting 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. After a couple of hours (when completely cool), strain and can take, dividing the liquid into 3 doses. Drink this tool is desirable during the 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.
When prostate is used funds from yucca, wheat grass, momordiki, chabra, leuzei, alokazii, bee pollen.
With 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 specified 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 themselves are not allergens. 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.
