Birch juice - benefit and harm

Birch juice is an old Slavic drink of natural origin, whose beneficial properties knew many hundred years ago. Drink him and now, but the usual urban resident is easier to buy a packaged product. Let's find out if there are differences between such juices, as well as the benefits and harm of the birch drink.

The use of birch juice is indisputable - it contains various vitamins and dissolved minerals, especially group B. It is useful in the spring, at the same time you can collect most of all the depths, up to 5 liters from the average wood size. To do this, find an adult birch and make a cut on the trunk, inserting a dense groove into it and hanging the container to flow into the liquid. Young seedlings touch not recommended, since the excess fence of the juice is able to destroy the rapid plant. In addition, after the procedure, it is necessary to smear the location of the Garden Warrier, close with moss or wax. A more modern and humane method of mining liquid is the drilling of a small smooth hole in the trunk with an attachment to a dropper. The last period of extraction of the drink is the end of May.

Officially birchy juice belongs to food forest resources, whose receipt is regulated by the Forest Code of the Russian Federation of 2007, as well as some associated documents. According to the latter, individuals are entitled to produce free activities to collect and harvest this product. But commercial companies will require some permits.

In birch juice contains 0.5-2.5% sugar, from which his taste varies. In addition, the beverage includes organic acids, tannins, essential oils, saponins, wood ash. Natural juice greatly wanders, on its basis, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages are made (for example, syrups, kvass and even sparkling wines). Birch juice has its place in folk medicine, where it is used to treat various skin diseases (deprive, eczema, acne) and as a diuretic. Sometimes to save juice for a long time, it is frozen and used in the form of ice. In addition, in different sources, birch juice is used as:

balzam-rinsers for problem hair;
antioxidant with anti-cancer properties;
therapeutic and prophylactic drug with tuberculosis and other diseases of the respiratory system;
an aperitif to improve the appetite and metabolism;
with a bricken disease;
under edema and non-healing wounds.

There are practically no shortcomings of this natural product. Juice is 100% environmentally friendly, as wood serves as the natural and most reliable filter. However, for some, the collection of drink can be dangerous allergic to pollen so-called "birch earrings" - spring inflorescences of a tree.

In Russia, the drink is so popular that every year a birch juice festival is held in the Leningrad region. It is also a nutrient fluid to really extract from other trees, for example, American and sugar maples. Maple syrup is boiled from their own raw materials.