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Birch juices

Birch sap is a health elixir. It is the sap that awakens the birch tree to a new spring, new growth. Birch sap is a genuine, pure natural product, which flows through the birch tree in spring from root to tip. Birch sap embodies Nature’s own renewable energy cycle. The sap is living water, a health elixir whose every component also performs an important beneficial function in the human body.

Birch sap contains sugars, fruit acids, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, zinc, sodium and iron — to name but a few!

Birch sap is extracted from a birch tree. It is often a slightly sweet, watery liquid. When we speak about the Birch we should know that this family contains five species: Betula alba (White Birch), Betula pendula (Silver Birch), Betula lenta, Betula papyrifera, Betula fontinalis.

Birch sap must be collected during a specific time in the winter, depending on the species. The collected sap can be drunk as a tonic and it is a traditional beverage in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and elsewhere in Northern Europe as well as parts of northern China. Birch sap can also be used as an ingredient in food or drinks, such as birch beer.

Latin Name: Betula alba

Family: BETULACEAE

Useful part of the Birch: leaves, leaf buds, sap and inner bark

The main natural herbal remedies of Birch: Antibacterial, Febrifuge, Astringent, Diaphoretic, Bitter Tonic, Antirheumatic, Diuretic, Analgesic, Stimulant, Anthelmintic

The most common applications of Birch: compress for burns, bruises, wounds and eczema. You can use the Birch as a bath herb for skin problems, as a very good cream for rheumatism, for increase the hair growing and against of the dandruff. Lot of toothpaste, shampoos, perfume, contains the effective agents of birch. You can use the diluted oil decrease the inflamed teething gums. The essential oil of birch is used in healthful soaps and salves for psoriasis and eczema.

Culinary uses of Birch herbal plant: You can make wine or vinegar from the sap. Lot of people takes into the sweet syrups the birch sap (but you should use 80-100 gallons from the sap if you want to make one gallon of birch syrup). The Scandinavian and Canadian beer contains several time birch barks.

The main effective agent of the Birch herbal plant: betulinic acid, essential oil which is methyl salicylate, saponins, bitter principle, tannin, flavonoids (luteolin, hyperoside, quercitin), glycosides

Birch sap - the primitive drink of Slavs received from a cut of a tree trunk in the beginning of spring. Birch sap has strengthening and clearing properties for a human body. Birch sap received from a cut of a tree trunk. Then juice filtered, little bit sweetened and with the minimal additive of a citric acid. Juice contains natural carbohydrates, organic acids, mineral salts, structures of potassium, calcium, magnesium and copper, vitamins B (group), vitamin C and other micro cells.

To drink birch sap in the pure state is a pleasure. It is a pleasant, freshening immunity strengthening drink. Since olden days, it has been famous for the curative properties- it is ecologically pure, tasty, curative, freshening soft drink.

While sticky leaflets have not dismissed yet, (approximately one month prior to occurrence of leaves and flowering, during thawing snow), the sap ascent begins, also known as "crying of a birch ". Within 15-20 days, the birch gives us sweet birch sap.

How to extract juice correctly? It is necessary to make a small cut on an external bark and to turn a brace drill on the smoothed out place on the three - four centimeters. Juice will flow. It is possible to attach a small tin trench, it is possible to overtake it in a bottle by means of gauze band.

After gathering juice it is necessary to cover densely a cut with plasticine, wax, a laundry soap or to fill it with moss. It will protect a tree from penetration of bacteria and mushrooms.

Natural birch sap is known for the curative properties

For the medicinal purposes two kinds of a birch are used - hanging and sprawling. Buds, leaves, the juice, the activated coal, the tar are used received by means of dry distillation of wood, xylitol - a sugar substitute for those patients with diabetes, received from wood waste, - and all this is widely applied in medicine.

Useful biological compounds, salts and minerals, being dissolved in juice, form almost a universal medicine. It contains 0,5 - 2 % of sugar, is vitamin-rich.

The structure of juice includes enzymes, organic acids, tannins, salts of calcium, potassium, iron, vegetative hormones, glucose and the substances possessing high antimicrobic activity (phitoncide).

Every year the person should consume not less than 8-10 l of birch sap. Birch sap destroys uric stones, is effective at treatment of stomach and liver ulcer, headaches, bronchitis, cough, and also at rheumatism, radiculitis and arthritis, removes harmful substances from an organism.

Above all, birch sap possesses recycling capabilities and stimulates metabolism, it is also a fine dietary and freshening drink.

Regular consumption of birch sap renders fortyifying and tonic action. Spring birch sap is taken at avitaminosises, allergic diseases, kidney and bladder stones , scrofula, a scurvy, cold, anemia.

Above all, birch sap possesses recycling capabilities and stimulates metabolism, it is also a fine dietary and freshening drink.



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Pharm Girl

fuid retention...obesity. ..arthritis...choles terol...hypertension ...heart conditions...mouth ulcers.....kidney stones...skin abrasions....and the big one...Foot Odour!

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SageTree

Good stuff Pharm Girl.

I'm a little scared of increasing my metabolism right now... I might disappear
But when we get out into the country to live again, where there are some more trees... or any.... at this point.... there is some stuff you get into that'd I'd like to look up and read again.

Like your cedar bark chest cold remedy.

Thanks

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^ that was cedar leaves btw....


here's what to do...seeing as though the tap is only viable for 20 days MAX.

as soon as you see that the sap is coming out cloudy, (near the 15th-20th day)....the tree is telling you to STOP. it's not like a MAPLE....so long as the sap runs on a maple, she's all good.....but not the BIRCH....she's only tastes good when she runs clear.


detoxification takes 28 1/2 days...one should drink 8oz's 3 times a day for 28 1/2 days. ( a moon's cycle) everything bad....kidney stones...drugs...you name it and it will disappear...it's not magic it's just Mother Earth working as she always has and always will.

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SageTree

That sounds beautiful PG


*stares out window at trees and smiles*

I never forget what you told me about your GrandFather leaning against them each day

I think of it often when I'm in the woods.

Surely you walk with me each time I'm out there

Spirits interconnected

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adventure

Do you know where one could order at tap?

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adventure

How to tap a birch tree Video ? 5min.com

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well......here's my white and yellow birchs all tapped-up

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SageTree

Everytime I read this topic this is all I can think of....

Have you....



Driven a Ford, Lately?




sorry

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actually i have and it's not a car....it's a 1950 8N tractor...wanna see?

i use it to collect my sap....

better hurry and collect yours for there's only a few days left...and the sap will turn cloudy.

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SageTree

I wouldn't mind a little tractor pr0n

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in that case, stay tuned.....bear in mind she's brakeless....and quite rusty, but she's trusty!....

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SageTree

That reminds me I still haven't found that tobacco pic yet
I know it's 'round here somewhere.

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^ yer the man....you know i never forgot about that...i'm like an elephant....~

You really should get a nice frame for the picture and Honor your GrandFather for he represents the true GrandFathers...~Ther e's a whole lotta history in the past~

Tobacco originally comes from our Brothers and Sisters down South. The Tobacco came up along with the Corn...to these parts via the Mississippi River.

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Lloydy

Yes. This morning actually.











































In the shower

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Pharm Girl

here's the ford.....

find the tobacco pic yet??

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SageTree

Was in BC all week.
This one I should make it my mission to find,
As I'm back in town.

What you said about the reason for the picture was really nice thanks

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^ time to untap the birch...she's running full speed-but she's now gone sour-so i plugged the hole with a little moss.

now we'll now move on to pussy willows, fiddle heads, wild garlic and golden thread-

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SageTree

Has a nice ring rhyme to it

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^ i forgot to add the dogwood....looks real nice with the pussy willows~

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