Medicinal properties and benefits of pine needles, contraindications

The useful properties and contraindications of pine needles were known both in ancient Russia and in gold prospectors of the century before last. She compensated for the lack of vitamins in the body, not yet suspecting their existence, treated scurvy and strengthened the immune system. It is no coincidence that now the means with the needles of this tree have returned to folk medicine.

What is in pine needles

The beneficial properties of needles are explained by the high concentration of substances in it that strengthen the body and make it healthier. Composition of pine needles:

• vitamin C;
• cellulose;
• carotene;
• vitamins E, B, P, K, H;
• proteins;
• tannins;
• essential oils.

The benefits of pine needles

In herbal medicine, the benefits of pine needles are recognized and preparations from the needles of plants are used as actively as possible, without harming health. Useful properties have an effect on:

• radiculitis, rheumatism, joint pain;
• depression, neurosis;
• hysteria;
• colds, flu, SARS;
• burns, inflammations;
• avitaminosis.

At the same time, pine needles exhibit the following beneficial properties:

• disinfectant;
• immunostimulating;
• calming;
• diuretic;
• antioxidant;
• pain reliever.

In addition, products containing pine needles have a positive effect on the reproductive system of both men and women.

For all the benefits, uncontrolled use of needle-based products, like taking any other medicine, will harm your health. Negative properties are not weaker than positive ones.

Traditional medicine recipes based on pine needles

Folk recipes are based on the fact that the benefits of pine needles are manifested during processing, and harm, with reasonable use, will not be done. Synthetic vitamins are much more dangerous compared to them.

To strengthen immunity

The benefits of pine needles for humans, first of all, in the property of strengthening the immune system. To make an infusion you will need:

• 50 g needles;
• 1 liter of boiling water;
• 1 liter of cold water.

The broth is prepared as follows:

1. The needles are chopped with a knife.
2. Needles are poured into an enameled container, 1 liter of boiling water is poured.
3. Insist for 20 minutes, add 1 liter of cold water.
4. In a cold place, the mixture stands for 6 hours.
5. The infusion is filtered.

It is recommended to take 5 times a day, for ½ tbsp. To improve the taste, honey or lemon is added.

The benefits of pine needles decoction do not end with strengthening the immune system. It is rich in vitamins and makes the body healthier. Properties are preserved most of all in the absence of prolonged boiling.

With a cold

For the treatment of influenza, acute respiratory viral infections and colds, an infusion is made in milk.

1. 0.5 l of milk is boiled, 15 g of chopped needles are added.
2. The mixture is infused for 60 minutes, filtered.
3. Take 4 times a day, warming up before use.

Useful properties of the infusion: expectorant, softening effect, saturation of the body with vitamins.

To cleanse blood vessels

To cleanse the vessels, take a tincture. It is useful to take the product 15 drops 3 times a day, before meals.

1. Pine needles fill the jar to the brim.
2. Pour in vodka.
3. Place in a dark place for 14 days.
4. Shake the mixture every day.
5. At the end of the term, filter.

Pour the tincture into a bottle with a cap, which you can measure out the drops. The medicine should be stored in a cool dark place so that the beneficial properties are not lost.

To improve vision

The benefits of pine needles for the body, including in eliminating eye problems. One of the varieties of infusion improves vision.

1. 5 tbsp. l. pine needles are crushed.
2. Pour 2 tbsp. boiling water.
3. Leave to infuse for 8-9 hours.
4. They are filtering.

After taking 4 times a day 1 tbsp. l. Taking it after meals will not harm your health.

With low hemoglobin

With iron deficiency anemia, only herbalists use pine needles, although the benefits of tree needles are enormous. The infusion is prepared as follows:

1. 2 tbsp. needles are poured with 1 tbsp. warm water.
2. 3 hours insist in a thermos.
3. The infusion is filtered and stored in the refrigerator.
4. Take 15 ml every 3 hours.

Add honey, lemon juice for taste. So the benefits of the infusion increase. Sugar is acceptable if you are allergic to honey.

With kidney disease

For a healthy kidney, the benefits of pine needles are also significant, although prior consultation with a therapist is required. Properties are manifested in a decoction of young needles.

1. Pine needles are poured with water, there should be more liquid than needles.
2. Put on a water bath.
3. Boil for 20 minutes.
4. They are filtering.

The broth is drunk no more than 4 tbsp. l. in a day.

For people with kidney problems, pine needles do more harm than good, especially when taken uncontrollably. The same goes for liver diseases.

For liver treatment

After consulting a therapist, the liver is treated with a decoction of pine needles. It is prepared:

1. 1 tbsp. needles are poured with 0.5 liters of boiling water.
2. 30 min. the mixture is heated in a water bath.
3. The broth is cooled, filtered.

The medicine is taken in 0.5 tbsp. per day. It is permissible to reduce the dose, but this must be decided by the doctor.

Lotions for burns and boils

The reason why pine needles are useful is the wound healing properties of pine needles. Lotions disinfect and reduce inflammation.

1. Fresh needles are thoroughly washed in cold water.
2. Dried, poured over with boiling water, wrapped in cheesecloth.
3. The compress is applied to the affected area of ​​the skin.

According to another recipe, the needles are steamed in boiling water for 10 minutes, after cooling, they are applied to the diseased areas.

Compresses for varicose veins

Such a remedy is made from coniferous paste. For this you need:

1. 2 parts of pine needles are poured with 1 part of water. At 2 st. needles need 1 tbsp. water.
2. The mixture is ground in a blender until smooth.
3. The paste is applied to the varicose veins.
4. The compress lasts 15 minutes.

The procedure is carried out every 2 days, the course of treatment lasts 14 days.

Fungus ointment

Antifungal coniferous ointment is prepared from 2 ingredients. You will need:

• 200 g butter;
• 500 g of chopped pine needles.

You need to prepare foil, glass bowl, jar and cheesecloth. Then you can start preparing the ointment.

1. Needles and oil are laid in layers in a container, tightly covered with foil.
2. The oven is heated to 100 ° C, the mixture is put there.
3. The container is left in the oven for 6 hours.
4. After filtering through cheesecloth.
5. The oil is poured into a convenient jar and allowed to harden to an ointment state.

The tool is used externally, several times a day, lubricating areas of the skin or nail affected by the fungus.A useful quality of such an ointment is to be absorbed to the end.

Remedy for gum disease

To relieve inflammation, a pine decoction is used, the anti-inflammatory, wound-healing properties of needles play a decisive role here.

1. 200 g of raw materials are poured into 1 liter of cold water.
2. The mixture is boiled for 30 minutes. over low heat.
3. Insist 12 hours, until the liquid turns brown.
4. You need to rinse your mouth with broth for 2 weeks.

Diuretic infusion

The tool includes more than just needles. Additionally, you will need juniper berries. The infusion is prepared as follows:

1. 1 tsp juniper berries, 1 tbsp. l. pine needles pour 1 tbsp. boiling water.
2. The mixture is infused for 30 minutes.
3. They are filtering.
4. Take 1 tbsp. l. infusion before meals 4 times a day.

The composition is useful for edema, but it should be taken under medical supervision. Diuretic properties can be harmful.

The benefits and preparation of pine needles tea

Pine needle tea is beneficial during colds, acting as an immunomodulatory drug, replenishing the lack of vitamins. However, you should consult your doctor before taking it.

The presence of lemon, honey, rose hips, herbal infusions does not benefit and harm the tea made from pine needles. Properties are slightly enhanced, supplemented, but nothing more.

The classic way

Traditional pine tea is made from finely chopped needles and the drink is made from freshly harvested raw materials to the maximum benefit.

1. The needles are washed, crushed.
2. It is poured with cold boiled water.
3. The mixture is boiled for 20 minutes.
4. After 10-15 minutes. after removing from heat, tea can be drunk.

Because of the bitter taste, tea is sweetened with honey, sugar, fruit, herbal syrup.

Coniferous Lemon Tea Recipe

To make lemon tea, you need the following ingredients:

• 620 ml. water;
• 2 tsp lemon juice;
• 4 tbsp. pine needles.

In addition to pine needles, cedar and spruce needles are beneficial. If you mix these types of needles with each other, you get a different, but also harmless drink.

1. Pre-washed needles are poured into water and rubbed.
2. Lemon juice is added to the mixture.
3. 30 min. boiled in a water bath.
4. 3 hours broth insist.
5. After cooling, the mixture is filtered.

This type of drink is not consumed with milk. But honey, herbal syrups are useful when you need to improve the taste.

Pine Needle Jam

Pine needles are beneficial in the form of jam. This dish is not really a dessert, but rather a kind of medicinal product. Ingredients required:

• 2 tbsp. pine needles
• 1.5 liters of water;
• 0.5 tbsp. rose hips;
• 0.5 kg of sugar;
• 1 lemon.

Cooking takes place according to the following scheme:

1. The needles are crushed by pouring them into a blender. Add 700 ml of water to them.
2. Place the mass in a saucepan, add 800 g of water.
3. Whole washed rosehip berries are poured.
4. The mixture is left to infuse for 12 hours.
5. The infusion is filtered into a saucepan, sugar is added.
6. The composition is boiled down to the consistency of liquid honey.
7. Lemon juice is added to neutralize bitterness.

The jam is delicious, but uncontrolled use instead of good will bring harm. The dose should be limited to 5-6 tsp. per day.

Coniferous baths

Baths with pine needles are useful for rheumatism, joint pain of other origin, and respiratory problems. Some people use the slimming procedure for the soothing properties of pine needles. Bath preparation takes place in 3 stages:

1. 2 kg of needles are poured into 1 liter of boiling water.
2. Insist 30 minutes, filter.
3. Pour the infusion into a warm bath.

The water level should not reach the level of the heart. It is useful to carry out this procedure before bedtime.

It is permissible to use such a recipe for foot baths against fungus. You just need to calculate the amount of ingredients per pelvic volume. Useful qualities in this case will enhance the effect of antifungal drugs. There will be no harm from a bath in the morning, although its tonic effect may outweigh its sedative effect.

Pine Needle Pillow

Sachets and pillows with pine needles are beneficial and harmful only if there are contraindications. It's easy to make.

1. Pine needles are harvested, about 2 tbsp will go on a small pillow. needles.
2. A suitable size pillowcase is sewn from a thin fabric.
3. Stuff the cover with needles. You can add mint, lavender, oregano.
4. Sew up the hole.

Then the pillow is put in the bed, next to the sleeping place. Sasha helps with bronchitis, colds. In addition, useful qualities are a calming effect, getting rid of headaches.

The use of pine needles in cosmetology

For home remedies for beauty, I use the beneficial properties of pine as successfully as for medicinal preparations. Masks are stronger than rinsing, their beneficial qualities are expressed.

Pine needles for hair beauty

For damaged, dry, weakened hair, a mask with pine needles is recommended. For cooking you will need:

• 2 tbsp. l. finely chopped needles;
• protein of 1 egg;
• 2 drops of cognac.

A strong decoction is made from the needles, filtered and cooled. Then add the rest of the ingredients. The products are thoroughly mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained.

The mixture is applied to the hair, wrapped around the head with foil, put on a warming cap. After 40 minutes, wash off with shampoo.

One of the useful remedies against hair loss is a decoction with pine needles, which rinses the head after washing, and the properties are expressed enough to prevent baldness.

Facial masks

The mask that brings maximum benefit to the face is coniferous with honey. For cooking you need:

• 3 tbsp. l. honey, preferably liquid;
• 1 tbsp. l. olive or avocado oils;
• 3 tbsp. l finely chopped needles.

All components are mixed until a homogeneous mass is obtained. The mask is applied to the face and neck, kept for 20 minutes. Wash off with water without using soap or cleansers.

Harm of pine needles and contraindications for use

Despite the beneficial properties of pine needles, there are contraindications. The list of cases when the use of needles will be harmful is small.

1. A strict contraindication is pregnancy and lactation.
2. Cases when a doctor's supervision is necessary are liver and kidney diseases.
3. Hepatitis and heart failure are also contraindications.
4. With thrombosis of hypertension, pine needles are also not used.

The side effects from uncontrolled use are not serious and will not cause much harm, but they are unpleasant:

• dizziness and nausea;
• inflammation of the digestive system;
• general malaise;
• exacerbation of chronic diseases.

Only an ordinary therapist or herbalist can accurately determine whether a remedy with pine needles will bring harm or benefit.

When and how to collect pine needles

It is best to collect raw materials in the winter in the forest outside the city. You can also collect pine needles in autumn or spring. The rules are simple:

• you can not collect sick branches;
• take no more than 2-3 branches from one tree;
• the cut is made diagonally;
• if the collection does not take place in winter, choose a dry day.

How to store pine needles at home

There are three basic rules for storing collected needles:

• raw materials must be kept dry;
• a dark place is preferable for storage;
• there should be no strong-smelling food nearby.

But it is better, so that the beneficial properties are not lost, first prepare as many drugs from raw materials as possible, leaving a smaller part for storage. There will be no harm from long-term storage, but the benefits will be lost. 3 months is the optimal period.

Conclusion

The useful properties and contraindications of pine needles manifest themselves in different ways, depending on the method of preparation. Which of its qualities the remedy will manifest depends on the state of the person. When taken under the supervision of a specialist, the benefits of pine needles are great and outweigh the potential harm.