Siberian cedar (Siberian pine) is an evergreen tree, reaching a height of 40 m, with a spreading crown. The leaves are hard, needle-shaped, triangular, the needles change after 3-7 years. A bisexual plant, cedar has both female cones and male spikelets. Blooms in June. The fruit is a nut.
Cedar bark, pine needles, cones, nuts and resin (resin) are used as medicinal preparations. The bark is collected from young felled trees. The bark should be smooth. Needles are harvested in winter. Cedar preparations have bactericidal, sedative, hemostatic, antiscorbutic, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, and blood purifying effects.
Energy impact. Gives energy. Helps cleanse the body's energy state and also cleans blood vessels. Helps overcome depression.
Pine nuts restore male potency and are used to treat tuberculosis, lung cancer, kidney and bladder diseases, and female infertility.
A decoction of nut shells is drunk for hemorrhoids, deafness, kidney and liver diseases (V.N. Kortikov, A.V. Kortikov), as well as for prostatitis.
Avicenna also recommended the kernels and husks of pine nuts for treatment. He advised using the kernels with honey or in light wine as a general cleanser, as well as for stones and ulcers. The scales of pine cones along with nuts are infused for 21 days in 70% alcohol or vodka and taken 1 tbsp. 2 times a day for tumors, uterine cancer, leukemia (Vostokov). Nut tincture is taken 1 tbsp. 3 times a day for articular rheumatism, gout, arthritis associated with impaired salt metabolism. The nuts are poured with vodka so that they are covered with a 5-6 cm layer of liquid on top.
Cedar resin and resin have bactericidal properties and are successfully used to treat wounds, chronic ulcers, and boils. During the Great Patriotic War, oleoresin was used to treat wounds and burns, especially severe wounds to the lower leg. The wound-healing properties of cedar resin are still used in folk medicine.
Hands and feet are washed with a decoction of nut shells to remove hair. Chew the resin for stomatitis, sore throat, and ulcers. Pine nuts and pine needles are used against scurvy.
Hyperacid gastritis, gastric ulcer.
Pour chopped pine cones into a 0.5-liter jar, fill it to the top with vodka and seal tightly. Leave in a warm place for 1 week. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day for 1-2 months.
Uterine bleeding.
Pour 1 glass of Siberian cedar nut shells into 1 liter of boiling water, boil for 30 minutes, leave for 2 hours. Drink 1/2 glass 3 times a day before meals.
Gout.
Take 30 g of pine nuts, peel the kernels, pour 0.5 liters of vodka over the nuts. Infuse for 40 days. Take the tincture starting with 5 drops per day, increasing the number of drops by 5 every day. Having brought the number of drops to 25, start taking it in grams: on the first day 5 g, then increasing by 5 g every day. The course of treatment is 1 month.
Fatigue, exhaustion.
Pour 1 kg of washed nuts in shell into a 3-liter glass jar, cover them with 1 kg of granulated sugar, pour in 1 liter of vodka, leave in a dark, warm place, shaking occasionally, for 3 days and drain the resulting brownish-red liquid. Pour 1 liter of vodka over the nuts 2 more times and drain, leaving to steep as before. After mixing all 3 extracts, pour the balm into dark glass bottles and store in a dark place. Drink 1 tablespoon 3 times a day before meals for 3 weeks.
Alcoholism.
Inhaling the aroma of cedar, it causes an aversion to alcohol.
Abscess, mastitis.
Chew the nut kernel and apply the resulting mass to the abscess, apply a bandage on top. Change the dressing every 4 hours.
Rheumatism, gout, arthritis.
Take 100 g of crushed cedar needles and pour 1 glass of alcohol, leave in a dark place for 1 week. Rub your joints.
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Cedar is a pharmacist tree
Cedar pines are pharmacist trees. Many beneficial properties of both the trees themselves and the cedar taiga have long been used by humans for medicinal purposes. For thousands of years they have faithfully served man. The world of cedar is a world of magic and mysteries. And nuts, resin, and cedar needles can be turned into miraculous remedies.
Pine nuts are tasty and healthy
For a long time, oil was extracted from pine nut kernels in Siberia and the Urals. It is significantly superior to the best varieties of Provençal oil obtained from olives.
For a long time, Siberians have been preparing “vegetable cream” from pine nuts, which is twice as fat as cow’s cream. Vegetable cream and lean milk made from it have been used for medicinal purposes for a long time.
The valuable dietary and medicinal properties of Siberian cedar nuts were noted back in 1913 by a doctor by profession F.A. Avtokratov, who worked in the village. Talitsa near Sverdlovsk. He reported that nuts help with high blood pressure and atherosclerosis. He used pine nuts as a dietary and medicinal product and expanded the scope of their use every year.
In particular, F.A. Avtokratov wrote that nuts “were usefully tested... for arteriosclerosis, wrinkled kidneys and in general for pathological conditions accompanied by high blood pressure.” Pine nuts, the author of the article noted, gave a positive effect against increased acidity of gastric juice, against stomach and duodenal ulcers, against belching and heartburn.
Currently, scientists have established that pine nuts contain various substances that help maintain high human performance, improve blood composition, and prevent tuberculosis and anemia. Pine nuts, in addition to their nutritional value, contain a whole complex of vitamins that promote the growth of the human body and improve blood composition. Cedar needles are also healing.
Healing properties of pine needles
The healing properties of cedar needles are also known. It contains many biologically active substances that have a healing and stimulating effect. Siberian cedar needles are rich in ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and carotene. Back in 1786, Academician P. S. Pallas wrote that young cedar shoots “have a very pleasant taste, almost similar to citron peel, and constitute a very good cure for scurvy, even if raw, or boiled in beer or water.” And then he adds that from young cedar tops “one could make a very medicinal anti-scorbutic and fortifying drink.” The anti-scorbutic property of cedar buds was noted by the doctor Espenberg back in 1812, who used them against scurvy while traveling around the world on the ship “Nadezhda” under the command of I. F. Krusenstern. In his report, Espenberg wrote that a decoction of dwarf cedar buds was used to cure scurvy and even eliminate abscesses on the legs. Many expeditions of those distant times saved themselves from scurvy with an infusion of Siberian cedar and dwarf cedar needles.
B. Tikhomirov and S. Pivnik note that the needles of our northern trees (pine, spruce, Siberian cedar and dwarf cedar) can be equated to lemons and oranges in their anticygotic properties. According to V.S. Fedorova, the needles of the Siberian cedar contain from 250 to 350 mg% of vitamin C. According to G.A. Sokolov, from one ton of cedar needles you can get five thousand daily servings of vitamin C. Cedar needles I.I. Thunder is considered a natural concentrate of vitamins. It is especially valuable in winter, when the consumption of fruits and berries is limited. According to A. Skarzhitsky, essential oil is extracted from young shoots of Siberian cedar, “very valued in folk medicine; it is used internally for stone disease, and externally for wounds, abscesses and rheumatic suffering.” Siberian cedar needles are a valuable means of restorative aromatic and hygienic baths.
According to A. N. Pryazhnikov, Siberian cedar needles contain up to 2.18% essential oils, which are successfully used in medicine and perfumery. This is five times more than the essential oils contained in Scots pine needles. The essential oils contained in the needles are recognized as the most important antimicrobial substances. The latter are especially active in the summer months (July and August), as a result of which the phytoncidal activity of this plant significantly increases at this time.
Healing properties of cedar resin
The resin of Siberian cedar, which is rightly called resin for its ability to heal wounds, also has great healing power. Residents of Siberia and the Urals have long discovered the healing anesthetic properties of resin.
There is evidence that back in 1638, the Tobolsk voivode, “according to a state charter,” gave orders to collect cedar resin along with St. John’s wort for use “for wounds and for slaughter.” V. M. Florinsky (1880) reports on the successful use of cedar resin by traditional medicine of the past for medicinal purposes against snake bites and for healing wounds. Currently, scientists have established that cedar resin actually has bactericidal-balsamic properties. It is smaller, but compared to pine it is prone to drying out and is less susceptible to crystallization.
It has been established that cedar resin has a high therapeutic effect. According to doctor I. I. Yukolis, it has powerful bactericidal, epithelializing, anti-inflammatory, adsorbing and deodorizing effects. “Natural cedar resin (turpentine balsam) has a great therapeutic effect in the treatment of chronic leg ulcers of various origins (varicose, trophic, pustular), for pustular skin diseases and as an epithelializing agent for various ulcerative and erosive processes of different etiologies.” During the Great Patriotic War, turpentine balsam was obtained from cedar resin, which was successfully used in military hospitals. He contributed to reducing the treatment time in hospitals for wounded soldiers, returning healthy soldiers to the army, and saved the lives of many. Cedar resin is successfully used in the production of turpentine and rosin. It serves as a raw material for the production of camphor, an immersion oil used in microscopy.
Cedar wood
Siberian cedar wood also has healing properties. “Beautiful texture, pleasant pink color and a constantly released subtle aroma that heals and disinfects the air in the room - these are another number of valuable specific properties of cedar wood,” wrote V.K. Dobrovolsky. Cedar wood wardrobes are valued “for their moth-repelling incense (like cypress”). But hives made from cedar wood are better populated by bees. In Siberia and the Urals, cedar wood is used to make dairy utensils. Due to its disinfecting properties, milk and dairy products are well preserved in such containers.
The wood of Siberian cedar is strong and at the same time soft, making it easy to process. It is also highly valued in the construction industry. In many regions of Siberia and the Urals, people still build houses from cedar logs. Due to its bactericidal properties, wood is very popular in the furniture industry for the manufacture of high-quality, beautiful furniture with good texture. Siberian cedar is the only tree in our country whose wood is used to make a pencil stick. It has completely replaced expensive imported juniper virginiana wood, previously imported for this purpose from the USA. Siberian cedar wood has good resonant properties and is used for making musical instruments. M.F. Petrov, a great specialist in Siberian cedar, a great connoisseur and admirer of this tree, told how he first learned about the use of cedar wood in music production. He wrote that “German trading companies set a condition for Siberian butter producers that butter should be exported to them only in cedar containers...”. The conditions also stipulated that the boards for containers be of a certain thickness. It turns out that abroad the boxes were carefully broken and the planks were used to make musical instruments. This is how the secret of German companies was revealed.
Air in cedar plantations
The air in cedar plantations is clean and healthy. The antimicrobial properties of cedar trees are high. The health-improving properties of cedar plantations were pointed out by I. Ya. Slovtsev, an expert on Siberian forests. He wrote that “the cedar forests always breathe with fragrant freshness.” V. Gomilevsky provides interesting data in his work. Describing Siberian cedar as a valuable tree, the author notes that this type of plant has a repellent effect on harmful insects. In particular, he writes: “Gadflies, horseflies, mosquitoes, mosquitoes, designated by the population by the common name “gnus,” avoid Siberian cedar, probably driven away by the resinous smell, especially strong during the heat and after dusk.”
Thanks to the release of phytoncides, cedar plantations heal the air, destroy pathogenic microorganisms, and give the air healing properties. They have antimicrobial effects against diphtheria bacteria. The number of microbes in the air decreases with an increase in the proportion of Siberian cedar in the planting composition. In addition, if the pine forest has an adverse effect on some heart patients, in cedar plantations “even with a very high saturation of cedar essential oil vapor, no negative deviations are observed in air ionization indicators” (Sverchkov, 1964, p. 80). All this confirms the great sanitary and hygienic and even therapeutic and preventive importance of cedar plantations.
Taking all this into account, we need to plant more Siberian cedar in our suburban forests, resort areas, city squares, gardens and parks, especially since it is more resistant (compared to other conifers) against smoke and gases in urban environments. On a hot day, it can well protect a person from the summer heat. The most important biological feature, which also has great practical significance, is the great winter hardiness of Siberian cedar. This is one of the representatives of nut-bearing plants that is not afraid of harsh winters and spreads far to the north. Among conifers, Siberian cedar is the most smoke-resistant tree and can be grown in large industrial cities. (M.M. Ignatenko “Siberian cedar”, -M., Nauka, 1988)
The healing properties of cedar
The healing properties of cedars have been known to medicine since ancient times. Even the Sumerians used extracts and decoctions of cedar needles in the form of compresses and poultices.
Modern scientific medicine, as well as many ancient teachings about health - Eastern, Tibetan, Vedic - confirms the high healing properties of cedar. Literally everything in it - from green needles to pieces of bark - benefits a person and everything around him. Berries and all plants growing in cedar forests are richer in vitamins and provitamins than those growing in other forests. This is explained by the fact that cedar phytoncides actively promote the formation of vitamins and other biologically active substances in plants and fruits. Phytoncides also have a beneficial effect on humans, primarily on the nervous, cardiovascular and respiratory systems.
The phytoncidal properties of cedar are amazing: the air in the cedar forest is practically sterile from pathogenic microbes. In one day, a hectare of these coniferous colossi releases more than 30 kg of volatile organic substances, which have enormous bactericidal power. According to researchers, this amount of phytoncides is enough to neutralize all pathogenic microbes in a big city. When cedar phytoncides interact with ozone (O2), ozone molecules are activated, and their energy increases 3 times compared to a regular oxygen molecule. Thus, ozonides (O3) are constantly formed in the air of cedar forests, which have high bactericidal and healing properties. In addition, cedar phytoncides increase the content of light negative ions in the air, exerting a regulatory effect on living cells and tissues and entering into harmonious relationships with all processes occurring both in the human body as a whole and in each individual cell.
Also from ancient medical practices (Oriental, Tibetan, Vedic), natural essential oil of Atlas cedar (Cedrus Atlantica) is known as an effective remedy for bronchitis and infections of the genitourinary system.
In modern aromatherapy, natural essential oil of cedar tree is also used for infectious diseases of the respiratory tract, providing an effective anti-inflammatory, softening and expectorant effect on the respiratory system; eliminates bronchospasms (including asthmatic ones), relieves coughing attacks, reduces swelling of the nasopharyngeal mucosa. It is a powerful means of strengthening the immune system: for colds it is effectively used in mixtures for rubbing, baths and inhalations. Due to its high bactericidal properties against microorganisms, fungi, and viruses, natural essential oil of cedar wood is widely and effectively used for infectious and inflammatory diseases of the bladder and ureters, as well as for the treatment of gynecological diseases.
Natural essential oil of cedar wood is an excellent means of maintaining vascular tone and strengthening their walls: it enhances blood circulation, has a stimulating effect on the cardiovascular system as a whole, especially during physical activity, improves conduction processes in the myocardium, and eliminates functional disturbances of heart rhythm. Helps with diseases such as varicose veins, rosacea, hemorrhoids.
In dentistry, cedar tree essential oil is effectively used for toothache, periodontal disease and other diseases of the oral cavity.
For rheumatism, osteochondrosis, arthritis, relieves pain and inflammation of the joints. It is successfully used for neuralgia and muscle strains.
The warm woody-resinous aroma of cedar wood increases a person’s adaptive capabilities to environmental changes - it is recommended to inhale the aroma of cedar when weather dependent, climate change, and time zones change.
The regulating effect of natural cedar tree essential oil on the central and autonomic nervous system is also highly valued: it calms insomnia and neuroses, tones up in case of fatigue and lack of energy, increases mental and physical activity, eliminates psychological discomfort, and restores a sense of self-confidence. This property of cedar oil is especially felt after taking a hot (38 degrees) bath with 7-9 drops of essential oil added to it: after 15-20 minutes a feeling of lightness and youth appears, fatigue disappears, and stress is relieved. Staying longer in a bath with essential drops of cedarwood helps to relax your muscles and fall asleep quickly after a bath. At the same time, sleep becomes calm and deep: with regular use of natural essential oil of cedar wood in aroma baths, aromatherapy baths, inhalations, aroma massage as an adaptogen, a rapid restoration of the activity of the cerebral cortex is noted.
AromaRecipes
Inhalations for the treatment of inflammatory diseases of the respiratory system: per liter of hot water, 2-3 drops of cedar tree essential oil.
Combination of rubbing and inhalation: add 1-3 drops of cedar essential oil to an inhaler or a wide bowl of boiling water, inhale the steam, covering your head. At the end of the inhalation, rub your chest with cedar essential oil mixed with sweet almond oil (5-7 drops per 10 ml) and warm yourself with a blanket.
Sitz baths for cystitis, urethritis: add 5-10 drops of cedar tree essential oil to an incomplete (waist-length) bath with warm water (38-40 degrees). Take 10-15 minutes 2-3 times a day. Course 10 days.
Applications for varicose veins and external hemorrhoids: place a cotton swab soaked in a mixture of sweet almond oil and cedar essential oil (5-8 drops per 10 ml of warm base oil) on the hemorrhoids.
For toothache: moisten a cotton swab or bandage with essential oil of cedar wood and apply to the sore tooth or inflamed gum for 10-20 minutes. Repeat after 1.5-2 hours.
Compress for relieving joint pain and bruises: apply 10 drops of pure cedar essential oil to a damp compress of gauze or any other soft fabric.
Warming massage to relieve muscle pain: aromatic mixture - 3 drops each of cedar and rosemary essential oils and 2 drops of eucalyptus essential oil per 20-25 ml of sweet almond oil.
For cold-related arthritis and rheumatoid polyarthritis: rub pure cedarwood essential oil into joints that have been pre-warmed with a compress of heated sea salt. After rubbing, repeat the compress.
Aroma baths with cedar essential oil are very effective as a pain reliever for arthrosis and colds, and as a diaphoretic.
Cedar beauty
The essential oil of Lebanese cedar, close to Atlas cedar, was most likely the first aromatic oil obtained by man. Its woody, resinous-balsamic aroma with bitter-smoky camphor notes was used in ritual fumigations, and its yellowish-oily amber liquid was used in rejuvenating procedures and for embalming deceased representatives of the most high-born ruling elite of different cultures, be they Egyptians, Celts or Scythians . The day before the bath, Scythian women smeared their bodies with fragrant cedar wood paste, which made them smooth and shiny.
And currently, natural Atlas cedar essential oil is one of the most potent and effective products in cosmetology and dermatology.
This powerful natural antioxidant effectively rejuvenates the skin, increasing its elasticity; helps restore and maintain healthy skin and a fresh complexion; enhances lymph flow and blood exchange, helping to saturate tissues and skin cells with oxygen. In modern cosmetology it is used to care for any type of skin, especially recommended for oily skin prone to irritation: due to increased metabolism, it activates the process of removing toxins.
Cedar essential oil is indispensable for various skin problems: helps eliminate acne, stress spots, rashes associated with hormonal disorders; in dermatology it is considered a radical remedy for neurodermatitis, allergic rashes, age spots and traumatic spots. Promotes rapid regeneration of skin cells in case of all kinds of damage to the skin: wounds, burns, cuts.
Natural essential oil of cedar tree is considered the most wonderful healer for hair, especially damaged by coloring or perm: restores the integrity of the keratin layer, stimulates hair growth; revitalizes and saturates color; gives shine, splendor and a healthy, well-groomed appearance. It also reduces hair oiliness, prevents hair loss and dandruff. Another cosmetic bonus of natural cedar essential oil is that it can be used as a natural deodorant. And when added to hand creams or mixed with sweet almond oil, cedar essential oil is effectively used to treat dermatitis. With the help of pure cedarwood essential oil, you can cure reddened and cracked skin on your hands and heal cracks around your nails, returning your hands to smoothness, softness and velvety, so that a real gentleman would not be ashamed to offer his hand for a kiss...
AromaRecipes
Enrichment of cosmetics (creams, shampoos, balms, hair masks): 3-5 drops per 10 ml of base.
Nourishing anti-aging aroma cream with a light lifting effect: dissolve 2-3 drops of cedarwood essential oil in 5-7 drops of sweet almond oil. Apply to face and neck after cleansing, morning or evening.
Cosmetic remedy for cracks on hands or feet: 15-20 drops of cedarwood essential oil per 10 ml of sweet almond oil. For dermatoses in children: mix cedarwood essential oil in a ratio of 1:3 with baby cream or sweet almond oil and lubricate the redness.
Don’t talk about love - everything has been said about it...
“You will be my husband, I will be my wife!.. Enter our house with the scent of cedar! For you, I anointed myself with oil and the scent of cedar. I am like honey... The fragrant cedar oil on my skin will be for you a path of love, calling you to the caresses that I crave, to bring your smile and happiness."
This is what the goddess of Love Inanna, conquered by the masculine beauty of Gilgamesh, says in the famous Sumerian poem (2,700 BC), inviting him to become her husband.
The subtle aphrodisiac properties of cedar essential oil, noticed by the Sumerians, have been used by people throughout the subsequent millennia.
The biologically active substances of cedarwood essential oil stimulate the production of sex hormones, increasing sensuality in close relationships. And its tart, warm, balsamic resinous aroma with light smoky notes easily allows you to “unload” the subconscious, tune in to a courtly-romantic mood and focus on your own and your partner’s feelings. A piquant and gracefully passionate wave will carry you to the heights of passion of erotic victory, allowing a man to show his active “I”, and a woman to feel a prehistoric hunter and conqueror next to her.
Cedar - energy storage
The Druids - the priests of the ancient Celts - had deep knowledge about the nature of trees, their connection with man and the cosmos. They correlated the fate of people directly with the life and characteristics of certain trees. Having knowledge about the bioenergetic properties of trees, the priests widely used them in medicinal practice. Undoubtedly, trees are unique reservoirs of energy. As a result of photosynthesis, energy-rich carbohydrates are formed in the green parts of plants and oxygen is released. But the process of photosynthesis is impossible without the participation of solar energy. Plants capture the energy of space, transform it, thereby ensuring life on our planet. The healing properties of plants also include energy converters.
Among the many healing trees, cedar stands out. The Lord draws people's attention to these properties of cedar in the Bible. Thus, in the Third Book of Moses, Leviticus, God teaches priests to heal people. Of all the plants, only the cedar tree is mentioned several times as healing and cleansing (including against leprosy).
The famous doctor, professor L.A. Shchennikov, in an effort to understand the secret of longevity and healing a person from illness, turned to the Bible. Realizing that in the New Testament the truth is hidden “behind seven seals,” L. A. Shchennikov tried to understand the meaning, first of all, of the inscribed letters. Thanks to this, he received confirmation of his guesses, which later grew into a discovery, about the method of regeneration of a living cell. The key was the word “fast.” The “Alphabet of Self-Knowledge” was compiled, and then it was possible to calculate the word “post” - “continuation of the movement of the force of birth.” According to the literal interpreter proposed by the professor, cedar is “the root of a new miracle of birth.” Keepers of the knowledge of the primordial origins, they claim that cedar was created by God as an accumulator of the energy of the cosmos. And even in a small piece of cedar “there is more energy than all man-made energy installations in the world.” Earth combined."
But what kind of energy is this, where does cedar come from and what or who is it intended for? Cedar is a long-liver, lives 550 years; the literature also provides information about 800-year-old trees. During this time, millions of its needles catch radiation generated by people from space. A person in a state of love emits light energy, and it goes into space. This is the energy of creation, which is capable of creating worlds; the speed of its movement in the universe is inaccessible to any device. It only takes a moment to reach the planets above the Earth, be reflected from them and return to Earth. The sun, sending its energy, also reflects the light radiation of a person, although not its entire spectrum. Only beneficial radiation is reflected back to Earth. Day and night, cedar with its needles receives this radiation and accumulates the entire spectrum of light energy emitted by people. When there is not enough energy in space or in all life on Earth, cedar gives up this energy.
But a person is not only in a state of love. Unfortunately, people are also familiar with negative feelings: anger, aggression, envy. In this state, a person emits energy of a different kind - dark and destructive radiation emanates from him. They cannot rise into space, but are sent to the depths of the earth and, reflected from the depths, return to man. Black radiation directly affects its creator, increasing his anger, destroying his health and life. Dark radiation, reflected from the deep interior, gives rise to disasters, natural disasters, wars, and conflicts.
Cedar healer
The healing properties of cedars have been known to folk medicine since ancient times. They are not denied by modern scientific medicine and are confirmed by popular science, Christian, and Vedic literature. Literally everything in cedar - from green needles to pieces of bark - has healing powers. If in former times traditional medicine was the only one available to the majority of the Russian population, now they are turning to it consciously, abandoning chemotherapy and artificial drugs. The substances contained in plants can restore health and functional balance to the human body. They have a certain effect on living cells and tissues, while entering into harmonious relationships with all processes occurring both in the human body as a whole and in each individual cell.
“In God’s pharmacy grow herbs that cure any disease,” the Germans say. A person turns to this pharmacy for help in different cases: in search of healing from an illness, wanting to strengthen and heal his body, striving to improve the body and preserve youth and beauty. Treatment with plants is recommended for pregnant women; children susceptible to various inflammations; elderly people who often suffer from colds, suffer from cardiovascular ailments, and liver diseases. And the cedar in God's pharmacy is the most perfect, powerful healer, who has no equal. The power of Siberian cedars is especially great: according to authoritative researchers, the healing properties of cedar increase as the places where it grows move closer to the north.
Cedar needles are rich in vitamin C (ascorbic acid), provitamin A, beta-carotene and other vitamins. Thus, fresh needles contain more than 300 mg% of vitamin C. The maximum amount of ascorbic acid in needles occurs in winter. If the covered branches are stored in snow, then their vitamin C content will not decrease within 2-3 months. But in a heated room (or in summer), the C-vitamin activity of needles decreases to 42% of the original within 5-10 days.
In the Middle Ages, Europe was faced with a disease that struck, like God's punishment, warriors besieging cities and the besieged. It was popularly called the “camp disease.” Later, this disease became the scourge of sailors and travelers. It was scurvy (or scurvy - literally means “sore mouth”). Those with scurvy began to turn blue in their ears, nose, lips, and fingers. The gums swelled, bled, and the teeth became loose and fell out. Characteristic signs of scurvy are pinpoint hemorrhages on the knees, thighs, and buttocks, which turn from bright red to blue-black. In places where the body comes into contact with clothing, as well as with bruises, intramuscular and subcutaneous hemorrhages of the same nature form. Hemorrhages occur in the joints, organs, pleural cavity, etc.
The activity of the gastrointestinal tract is upset: constipation, bloody diarrhea are debilitating... Anemia develops, the immune system is sharply weakened.
The Russian captain Vitus Bering, the discoverer of the strait between Asia and America, died of scurvy. Its victims were polar explorer Bill Barents and polar traveler Georgy Sedov. Because of scurvy, only 65 of Magellan’s 265 satellites returned home. But outbreaks of this disease also raged on land, including in the European part of Russia (in 1849-1958, several tens of thousands of inhabitants died from scurvy in Russia). However, the indigenous population of Siberia did not know scurvy.
The Russian naturalist, member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences Peter Simon Pallas (1741-1811) wrote in “Flora of Russia”: “Young pine and cedar tops collected at the ends of branches are praised by all our industrialists and sailors in Siberia as the best antiscorbutic and balsamic remedy and constitute medical science is a wonderful medicine for scurvy diseases.” The scientist pointed out that the tops of cedar and pine were exported from Siberia to foreign pharmacies in large quantities.
In 1786, in his travel diaries, P. S. Pallas named the bark of young trees, pine trees, and cedars as an antiscorbutic remedy. Local residents scraped it off and consumed it fresh. In addition, fresh bark scraped off in the spring was used in folk medicine as a laxative, diuretic and anthelmintic (“...and causes worms in children...”).
At the beginning of the 17th century, Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich approved the Pharmacy Order. Decrees were sent to different parts of Russia, ordering the collection of medicinal plants by “knowledgeable people”, who were supposed to make medicines from them, describe the methods of preparation, use and effects of medicines on the human body for certain diseases. It was already known at that time that the Siberian flora was very different from the European flora. There is a well-known letter of 1675, sent from Moscow to the Yenisei governor Mikhail Priklonsky with a requirement that the population of a number of cities and forts in Siberia collect herbs “for medicines and vodkas” (tinctures). The local population willingly responded to these decrees and, as archival documents testify, collected medicinal plants, prepared (“sat”) vodka from them, and sent “paintings” about the properties and benefits of many medicinal herbs. Materials on the collection of herbs by local residents for the Pharmacy Order indicate that folk remedies were introduced into medical practice. On the other hand, these materials (“paintings”) prove that traditional medicine used various medicinal plants, based on centuries of experience and observations of the people themselves. Thus, cedar was also introduced into scientific medical practice.
Decoctions and tinctures were prepared from pine needles. Daily consumption of 100-200 ml of pine decoction is enough to satisfy the daily need of the human body for vitamin C. In terms of the content of this valuable anti-scorbutic vitamin, a glass of pine decoction is several times higher than a glass of lemon juice.
A medicine against scurvy was prepared from green young cones, which had to be crushed, ground with chopped radish, then honey and water were added and, after letting it brew for several hours, the juice was squeezed out. It was recommended to drink this juice with milk or whey. Alcohol tincture of cedar pollen is a wonderful remedy for respiratory diseases and tuberculosis.
Juice was squeezed out of young green cones, which was called balm, mixed with “fatty drugs” and used as very useful “for wounds and other inveterate diseases.”
Green cones were crushed, infused in whey, and a “whey decoction made from these cones” was drunk for gout.
This remedy, according to Academician P.S. Pallas, was considered “very healing for the extermination of even old venereal diseases” if you drink several bottles of it every day and wash your genitals with it to relieve itching and rashes.
Green cones were considered a good medicine for the treatment of respiratory diseases, hyperacid gastritis, and gastric ulcers.
The medicine was prepared as follows: fill 1/3 of the bottle with crushed cones and add vodka to the top, leave in a warm place for 7 days. Drank 1 tbsp. spoon 3 times a day for 1-2 months.
Everything in cedar - pine needles, resin, wood - has high phytoncide. In one day, a hectare of forest releases more than 30 kg of volatile organic substances, which have enormous bactericidal power. According to researchers, this amount of phytoncides is enough to neutralize all pathogenic microbes in a big city. Around every branch, every needle, the air is saturated with phytoncides.
It’s very good if you have 2-3 cedar branches in a vase with water in your house. Then ozonides will constantly form in the air. When phytoncides and ozone interact, ozone molecules become electronically excited and their energy increases 3.2 times compared to a regular oxygen molecule. Cedar phytoncides increase the content of light negative ions in the air.
Phytoncides not only disinfect and kill pathogens, they have a beneficial effect on the reproduction of those microorganisms that fight pathogens. Berries and plants growing in cedar forests are richer in vitamins and provitamins than those growing in other forests. This is explained by the fact that phytoncides actively promote the formation of vitamins and other biologically active substances in plants and fruits.
Phytoncides also have a beneficial effect on humans, primarily on their nervous system, cardiovascular system, and respiratory organs.
Essential oil, chlorophyll, vitamin concentrates are obtained from cedar needles; vitamin flour is produced, which is rich in phytoncides, vitamins C, E, carotene, microelements (copper, cobalt, iron, manganese, phosphorus). A kilogram of pine flour obtained from coniferous cedar shoots contains 70 mg of carotene, up to 35 mg of vitamin E, as well as vitamins D, K, B. Pine flour is produced from already spent pine needles, that is, pine needles from which the essential oil and vitamins. First, up to half of the vitamin C it contains is extracted from the needles, and its concentration reaches 500 mg per liter of water. The needles continue to be heated with steam to separate the essential oils. From 500 kg of cedar foot, 2.5 kg of essential oil is obtained.
Essential oil obtained from pine needles is included in some medications used for diseases of the kidneys, liver, etc. Cedar needles in the form of decoctions and infusions are used in the same cases as pine needles. In addition to vitamins, it is rich in tannins, alkaloids, and terpenes.
Healing pine infusions, decoctions
Infusions and decoctions of pine needles are drunk as a diuretic.
Russian folk medicine uses cedar needles in the form of decoctions and infusions for bronchial asthma as an anti-asthmatic agent. Decoctions, infusions and tinctures of cedar needles are drunk for respiratory diseases, both cold and infectious: bronchitis, tracheitis, pneumonia, pneumonia, tuberculosis, etc.
A decoction or infusion of pine needles has an expectorant effect, helps in the removal of mucus and cleanses the respiratory tract.
A decoction of cedar needles is an excellent remedy for gargling with sore throats, the mouth with stomatitis, and the nasal passages with a runny nose.
Rinsing your mouth with pine needle infusion strengthens your gums and teeth.
In the form of a drink with the addition of honey, pine decoction is given to children with rickets.
The pine drink is also useful for scrofula. It is good to bathe scrofulous and rickets children in pine baths.
Drinking pine decoctions and infusions is beneficial for people suffering from cardiovascular diseases.
Cedar needles help cleanse blood vessels, increase their elasticity, improve blood composition, and cleanse it of harmful substances.
A decoction of pine needles was once taken as a hemostatic agent for excessive bleeding in women.
Tincture of cedar needles with alcohol or vodka is an effective wound healing agent. To prepare the tincture, 100 g of crushed pine needles are poured with 200 ml of alcohol and infused in a dark place for 7 days.
Wounds and abscesses are washed with a pine decoction of cedar paws.
In the form of lotions, it is used for pustular skin lesions.
Alcohol tincture of cedar needles is used to rub joints for rheumatism, gout, and arthritis. Drinks made from cedar needles are useful for recovering people who have suffered serious illnesses or surgeries. An infusion or decoction of cedar needles is drunk for some poisoning, for example, smoke, alcohol, exhaust gases.
For headaches and migraines, apply a towel soaked in a strong decoction or infusion of pine needles to the forehead and temples; take the infusion orally. With the constant use of cedar needles infusion, the body's defenses increase, the nervous, immune, and cardiovascular systems are strengthened. In general, there is an improvement in well-being and healing of the body.
When cedar heals
Coniferous baths made from cedar needles are recommended - both restorative and therapeutic. They have a calming effect, relieve fatigue and nervous tension. When oxidized, the essential oil contained in the needles releases ozone - triatomic oxygen - into the atmosphere. Ozone heals the human body as a whole.
Cedar forests differ from other forests in their extraordinary purity and healing air. For patients with tuberculosis, chronic and other lung diseases, such air is recommended as the first remedy.
For radiculitis, it is good to apply steamed crushed pine needles or steamed cedar wood sawdust to the sore spot. Chlorophyll-carotene paste is produced from pine needles. It is used in surgery, dentistry, for peptic ulcers, and also as an external remedy for burns and various skin diseases.
Cedar needles can also have purely practical applications. In the first half of the 19th century, S.I. Gulyaev found a method for producing “forest wool”. His invention was tested in Tomsk, where at that time there was a factory plant for processing pine needles. “Forest wool,” that is, fiber obtained from pine needles, turned out to be an excellent padding material for upholstered furniture and mattresses. Today, in industrial conditions, approximately 5,000 daily servings of vitamin C, about 5 kg of essential oil, 10 kg of pine extract for medicinal baths, and more than 200 g of the finest cellulose threads, which are slightly inferior in quality to cotton fibers, are produced from a ton of cedar needles.
Pine needles were used as medicinal raw materials several thousand years BC. Clay tablets of the Sumerians, found during archaeological excavations of the ancient Sumerian kingdom, confirm that 5 thousand years BC, extracts and decoctions of pine needles were used in the form of compresses and poultices.
Treatment with pine needles - pine, spruce, cedar
Treatment with pine needles - folk recipes
Greetings, dear blog reader " Traditional medicine recipes" Today I will tell you about the healing properties of some coniferous plants.
Useful properties of pine needles
● Since ancient times, when traditional medicine was just beginning to develop, all nationalities used pine needles to treat various diseases. Decoctions and extracts of pine needles were used as medicinal products by the ancient Sumerians five thousand years ago. They knew about pine needles at that time both in Rus' and in Ancient Greece.
● People chewed all winter to avoid getting sick. Moreover, people who constantly chew pine needles do not have any problems with their teeth and gums.
You are amazed when you begin to understand how many diseases can be cured with the help of forest beauties - pine and spruce. What is the secret of these plants?
● Needles contain a lot of biologically active substances that have stimulating and healing properties. These include vitamins, macro- and microelements, chlorophyll, essential oils, phytoncides and phytohormones.
The most important thing is that pine needles are rich in ascorbic acid - vitamin C, the level of which increases to a maximum in winter and decreases slightly in summer.
● As for essential oils, it’s the other way around – their accumulation is much greater in summer and less in winter. Needles are a unique source of carotene, which is absolutely indispensable for prevention.
In our body, beta-carotene is converted into vitamin A - a very important trace element that ensures the body's resistance to infections and normal vision through the synthesis of visual pigment.
● Pine needles contain a lot of vitamin E. A lack of this vitamin leads to rapid aging of the body, miscarriages, painful changes in the heart muscle and skeletal muscles, gonads and nerve cells.
● The needles are rich in phytoncides. These are substances that have the ability to destroy pathogenic microbes, fungi, harmful protozoa: unicellular and multicellular organisms or stop their development.
Have a detrimental effect on pathogens and other diseases; accelerate wound healing, stimulate cardiac activity, stimulate the secretory function of the gastrointestinal tract, purify the surrounding air from harmful chemicals and microbes, and maintain biological stability.
● Phytoncides in their structure contain essential oils - special mixtures of volatile aromatic compounds. That's why the beautiful Christmas tree has such an unusual, long-lasting aroma. New Years is soon!!!
I am sure that a forest beauty will certainly appear in your home by this date. Be sure to pay attention to how the air environment in your home will change.
If a cat lives in it, he will really want to lie under the Christmas tree. Moreover, he will try to climb up the trunk. The explanation is simple - the animal is treated by inhaling the aroma of a coniferous plant.
● To ensure a sound and restful sleep, place a bouquet of fir paws in your bedroom. Pine needles contain many macro- and microelements, for example: aluminum, copper, iron, etc.
These elements are indispensable for human life. When we lack a certain microelement, our blood counts deteriorate, resulting in (anemia), dizziness, digestive difficulties, and respiratory and cardiovascular system disorders.
● Now you are convinced that pine needles are a storehouse of nature, a natural pharmacy containing useful vitamins and substances. Make friends with pine needles: they are always ready to help you fight illnesses and gain good health for many years.
Treatment with pine needles - traditional medicine recipes
- let it brew for half an hour, 500 grams of pine needles in 300 ml. boiling water; Take a piece of gauze large enough to wrap the limb affected by varicose veins.
Distribute the resulting pulp evenly over the limb and wrap it in gauze. Keep for 15 minutes, wrap every other day for two weeks;
- at the same time, take a decoction of pine needles internally: boil pine needles ground in a mortar with a small amount of cold boiled water for half an hour, adding enough boiled water so that the proportion is 1:10 (one part of pine needles to 10 parts of water). Acidify the broth with a little lemon juice, leave for 3 hours and filter; drink half a glass twice a day.
Other pine needle treatment recipes
● Tea that strengthens the immune system. This drink will help you with. Rinse a glass of pine needles thoroughly, chop them and brew with three glasses of boiling water. After an hour, add the juice of ½ lemon and a teaspoon of honey. Then you can drink this healing nectar, but first strain it.
● A unique remedy for bronchitis. Rinse the pine needles thoroughly and fill a liter jar, pour into an enamel pan and cover with two liters of water for 30 minutes.
Add 4-5 potatoes there and place on the stove. After the potatoes are cooked, mash them, wrap them in clean paper or a thin towel and place them on your chest. Keep until completely cool.
● Ointment to kill fungus. Finely chop half a kilogram of pine needles and place them in a one-cm layer at the bottom of a jar with a volume of no more than 250 ml. On top of the same layer - 200 grams of butter.
Fill the entire jar: there should be five layers laid in this way. Cover the full jar with foil and place in the oven at 100-120˚C for about 6 hours.
Remove and cool the jar, strain its contents through a fine sieve or cheesecloth. You should end up with greenish colored oil. Apply the ointment two to three times a day. You will see the result already on the second day.
● We treat. Stuff your mattress with crushed pine needles and sleep on it. Soon your joint pain will leave you.
● Pine baths at home. Place the pine needles in a canvas bag and place it in a bath of hot water. Take a bath - colds and other diseases will leave you.
● Set up your own home sauna. It is well known that essential oils help improve the health of the body. Put on “coniferous clothes”: a robe or an old nightie, boiled in a solution of spruce branches.
It is best to do this before taking a pine bath: while you are in the bath, the clothes will be saturated with the esters and aroma of pine needles. After the bath, wring out the “pine” robe, put it on and go to bed. It helps treat colds and...
● Toning face mask. Mix equal parts (50 ml each) of kefir or cottage cheese and pine needle infusion until a homogeneous mass is obtained. Apply an even layer to your face for 30-40 minutes, then rinse with warm water. This product is an antiseptic and has tonic and whitening properties.
● How to smooth out wrinkles. Apply the following mixture on your face in a thin, even layer: 20 ml of sunflower oil, three tablespoons of honey, 2-3 tbsp. l. chopped pine needles. After 10-15 minutes, rinse with warm water.
Such masks should be done 1-2 times a month, after which you will notice a rejuvenating effect.
● To . Place two cups of pine needles in a saucepan and fill with water until they are completely covered. Cook over low heat for one hour.
After 20 minutes of removing from heat, filter and add the beaten white of one chicken egg and 3-5 drops of good cognac. Apply this mixture to your hair, wrap it in a towel, and after half an hour wash it with shampoo. This mask will relieve hair from brittleness and dryness.
● How to get rid of unpleasant negativity. Popular rumor says that our house is protected from damage by smoke from spruce or pine branches. To do this, place several spruce or pine branches on a hot frying pan.
The branches will begin to smolder, and direct the smoke to all corners of your home - it will drive away all the negative energy that has accumulated over the years.
Contraindications for treatment with pine needles
● Coniferous baths are contraindicated for patients with disorders of the cardiovascular system, blood circulation, severe cancer, malignant neoplasms, infectious skin diseases and the presence of acute inflammatory processes.
● Spruce and pine needles are best collected in winter, when the trees are dormant. Place the broken spruce branches on a cotton cloth and place them to dry in places with air circulation.
The needles will fall off on their own. Collect needles in the forest away from populated areas. Do not pluck the top young shoots with buds under any circumstances - the plant may die due to growth disturbances. Store the needles in closed glass jars in a cool, dark place for no more than 2 years.
Get treatment for your health, and may the Lord God help you with this!!!
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Siberian cedar is a coniferous evergreen plant, famous for its incredible height. Its average height is about 25 m, but representatives whose height reaches 40–50 meters are often found.
Cedar is a beautiful, slender tree that loves sunlight. The plant belongs to the pine family and is the oldest representative of its genus (about 100 million years old).
Cedar is a long-lived pine tree: it is believed that its age can reach 400 years, but on average cedars live from 200 to 250 years. It is worth noting that in extremely favorable conditions a tree can live for 800 years.
The tree trunk is slender, bare below, and begins to branch at approximately 1.5–2 m above ground level. A young tree has a smooth, brownish-gray bark. In adult representatives, the bark is cracked and brownish-red or grayish in color.
The bark is very thin, it does not protect the trunk well from various types of damage, as well as from the penetration of infections caused by fungi.
The needles are needle-shaped, long, triangular, soft, there are 5 needles in one bunch. The lifespan of needles is 9–11 years. The special structure of the needles allows the tree to retain moisture as much as possible due to the possibility of its minimal evaporation.
Cedar pine is a tree on which both female and male individuals develop simultaneously.
Female cones are characterized by a purple hue; they appear in groups of 2–5 on the terminal shoots of well-lit branches (at the very top).
Male spikelets are formed on the lateral shoots of branches located in the middle part of the crown.
Under conditions of good penetration of sunlight, male spikelets and female cones can form on the same branch.
Pollination occurs in June, and fertilization occurs 11–12 months later (from the moment of pollination).
Seed ripening occurs in September of the following year after pollination. Pollen, due to the presence of special air sacs, easily scatters over long distances. It is worth noting that the vegetative and reproductive organs of cedar are not afraid of low temperatures. However, “flowers” and female cones, on the contrary, are very sensitive to temperature changes. They can hardly tolerate frosts, are afraid of drought and prolonged rains, after which a significant drop in air temperature follows. In addition, constant humidity is important for buds.
Cedar begins to bear fruit relatively late: from 15–40 years of age, provided there is a lot of sunlight, and only at 50–60 years of age if it grows in a dense forest. The maximum number of fruits ripens in an adult tree at the age of 160–260 years, after which fruiting begins to gradually decline.
Pine cedar is widespread in Russia, especially in the European part and in Western and Eastern Siberia.
Useful properties of cedar
Cedar is recognized as a medicinal plant. It contains biologically active substances, thanks to the positive effects of which it is possible to recover from a number of diseases.Healing raw materials are considered to be pine needles, resin (resin), seeds (nuts), as well as their shells, branch buds and young tops.
The needles contain essential oils (more than 2%) and carotene (provitamin A). The pine needles also contain useful microelements (phosphorus, iron, manganese, copper, etc.) and ascorbic acid (from 250 to 350 mg).
Cedar resin (resin) contains resin turpentine (about 20%), resin, which contains up to 77% resin acids and approximately 0.3% higher fatty acids.
The kernels of pine nuts contain fats (up to 63.38%), which are well absorbed by the human body, proteins (16.82%), carbohydrates (13.26%), glucose (2.03%), lecithin (1.63%). ), ash (2.57%).
Seed protein is rich in amino acids (especially linoleic), most of which are essential acids. The acid arginine, which is part of the protein, is indispensable for the child’s body.
The seeds contain vitamin D, vitamin E (about 40–60 mg) and B vitamins. Vitamin A, which promotes the growth and development of the body, is of particular value.
Cedar nut shells are also useful due to their composition. It contains macro- and microelements, lingin (52.8%), cellulose (32.4%), fats and resins (5%).
All parts of cedar - wood, pine needles, resin - have the ability to release special volatile substances that perform a protective function and have a detrimental effect on microbes (phytoncidity).
Application of cedar
Due to their amazing composition, preparations prepared on the basis of cedar have a number of medicinal properties.When used correctly, they can have anti-inflammatory, bactericidal, antimicrobial, expectorant, antiasthmatic, hemostatic, blood purifying, wound-healing, sedative, antiscorbutic, and diuretic effects on the human body.
In addition, cedar preparations help improve immunity, strengthen the nervous system and significantly improve the functioning of the cardiovascular system.
Fresh cedar bark is used as an effective diuretic, anthelmintic and laxative, which must be scraped off in the spring.
Due to the high content of essential oil, cedar needles have a pronounced antimicrobial effect. In places where cedar trees grow, ordinary air has a healing effect on the body, positively influencing the cardiovascular, respiratory and nervous systems of humans.
Cedar needles are used as an effective diuretic and are highly recommended for bronchial asthma.
Traditional healers prepare a vitamin drink from pine pine needles, use resin (resin) to treat abscesses and wounds, and from nuts (kernels and shells) they obtain vegetable oil, known for its beneficial properties.
“Lean milk” is prepared from pine nut kernels. This remedy has long been recognized as an effective remedy for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis, disorders of the nervous system, and kidneys.
As scientific research has shown, 100 grams of pine nut kernels satisfy a person’s daily need for amino acids and main microelements, such as manganese, zinc, copper, cobalt.
Pine nuts are beneficial for men suffering from impotence. Daily consumption of nuts significantly improves the immune system, cleanses blood vessels, preventing sclerosis, and normalizes blood pressure.
Activated carbon is obtained from the shells of pine nuts.
An infusion prepared from the shells of pine nuts is prescribed for the effective treatment of neuroses, liver and kidney diseases, as well as hemorrhoids.
For colds, joint pain, rheumatism and gout, rubbing the shell infusion is recommended.
A decoction of the shell is prescribed for osteochondrosis and arthritis. It is an effective means for resolving salts. Lotions and wraps have a positive effect on various skin diseases and burns.
Resin (cedar resin)
Resin is the resin of cedar pine. This name arose for a reason, because oleoresin is one of the most effective means for healing wounds. The resin has excellent antiseptic and bactericidal effects.Traditional medicine especially values oleoresin. Doctors use it to treat purulent wounds, abscesses, burns and cuts of any severity.
It is possible to use oleoresin internally to heal stomach ulcers.
The effect of oleoresin has been scientifically proven. Scientists have found that resin is a powerful antiseptic; it inhibits the bacterial growth of diphtheria, Bacillus subtilis, and white staphylococcus.
Recipes for preparing balms and tinctures
Recipe No. 1The balm is prepared in a ratio of 1:10. One part of cedar resin must be diluted in vegetable oil, after preheating the oil in a water bath. The balm should be used externally. If you dilute resin in a ratio of 1:20, then both external and internal use is possible.
Recipe No. 2
You need to take 200 ml of alcohol, 600 grams of crushed cedar needles and 50 grams of cedar resin, mix and place in a cool, dark place, where to leave for 10 days. Dosage regimen: for rinsing – 10 drops of tincture should be diluted in 100 ml of water. The product is effective for the treatment and prevention of periodontal disease and gingivitis, and is recommended for the disinfection of wounds.
Cedar planting
The presence of cedar pines in a residential (park) area is not just a beautiful landscape, but also a natural disinfection of the air. By planting cedar trees, people thereby create a special, healthy atmosphere.To ensure that cedar planting is not in vain, a number of mandatory conditions must be observed.
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For planting, it is recommended to buy specially grown, selected seedlings, since they are well developed, their root system is reliable and undamaged.
It should be remembered that when planting cedar seedlings from containers, it is necessary to straighten all the roots, since in containers they usually get tangled and twisted.
It is recommended to prepare a spacious hole for the seedling and ensure that the roots are placed freely. The root system of cedar is superficial, so it is important that the hole is wide and not too deep. If clay soil is chosen for planting, it is appropriate to add sand to make the soil lighter.
Cedar essential oil
Cedar essential oil has a positive healing and rejuvenating effect on the human body.The oil allows you to increase blood circulation, thereby increasing the quality of oxygen saturation of tissues. The use of oil helps eliminate unpleasant odor from the mouth and cleanses the mucous membranes.
Cedar essential oil also affects the emotional sphere. When using it, there is a surge of strength and relief from fatigue. People become more confident in themselves and their abilities, they get rid of the feeling of constraint.
Cedar oil is widely used in cosmetology. It gives an unsurpassed rejuvenating effect, significantly increases skin elasticity, effectively fights skin rashes, stress spots, strengthens hair, prevents dandruff, and strengthens nails.
Siberian cedar
Siberian cedar is a coniferous, vigorous, evergreen, beautiful, light-loving tree. It grows in Russia, mainly in the European part and, of course, in Siberia.In addition to its visual appeal, the plant is interesting for its healing properties.
The medicinal raw materials of cedar are needles, nuts (seeds), shells, branch buds, young tops, resin (resin).
Preparations made from Siberian cedar raw materials have amazing healing properties. They are prescribed for the treatment of many diseases, including diseases of the respiratory tract, digestive system, genitourinary system, kidneys, liver, and cardiovascular diseases.
Siberian cedar is also recommended as an effective immunostrengthening, tonic, expectorant, antitussive, antiasthmatic, anti-inflammatory, and antiseptic agent. The plant is also used for sexual impotence in men.
Himalayan cedar
Himalayan cedar is a luxurious tree whose height can reach 50 m or more. Its homeland is the northwestern Himalayas, Pakistan, India, Afghanistan, the plant is successfully cultivated for the purpose of greening streets and purifying the air in Georgia. Himalayan cedar differs from other Mediterranean cedars in a number of characteristic features.The plant has a broadly cone-shaped crown, which becomes flat over time with hanging branches on the branches. The shoots are pubescent. The needles are characterized by a light green color. The length of the needles reaches 5 cm, they are collected in bunches. The cones are ovoid, up to 10 cm long. Young cones have a bluish color, which changes over time, becoming red-brown.
Himalayan cedar tolerates shade well, unlike many of its relatives.
Due to its unique composition, Himalayan cedar is widely used in medicine. Cedar preparations are recommended as an effective antibacterial, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, antifungal, tonic, sedative, astringent, and general tonic agent; they are prescribed to increase immunity, for the treatment of respiratory diseases, pulmonary tuberculosis, rheumatism, various skin diseases, and ulcers.
Himalayan cedar is widely used in cosmetology.
Atlas cedar
Atlas cedar is a monoecious slender tree, the height of which can reach 50 m. The plant has a loose crown of a pyramidal shape. The needles are hard, collected in bunches of 25–40 needles, three-tetrahedral, green in color with a bluish tint. The cones are dense, barrel-shaped, shiny, light brown in color. Their sizes reach 10 cm. The ripening of cones occurs in the third year.The peak of plant growth is observed in youth; it easily tolerates frost, loves light, and does not tolerate excess moisture and lime in the soil.
This species grows in North Africa.
Essential oil is obtained from pine needles and young shoots of cedar. This extract is a valuable remedy; since ancient times, traditional healers have used it as an unrivaled disinfectant, anti-inflammatory, wound-healing, bactericidal, antirheumatic, and sedative.
Cedar oil is used for burns, bruises, cuts, colds, and infectious diseases. In dentistry, oil is recommended for toothache, as well as for all kinds of diseases of the oral cavity and gums, including periodontal disease.
Essential oil has high biological activity, due to which it is especially valued in cosmetology.
Recipes for preparing baths and compresses with oil:
When treating diseases of the respiratory organs, 2-3 drops of essential oil are diluted per liter of water and used as inhalations.To treat bruises (with the exception of severe bruises with acute inflammation) and joint pain, you need to moisten gauze and drip 3-6 drops of oil onto it, then apply a compress to the sore spot.
As an effective analgesic, anti-cold, rheumatic, diaphoretic, foot and sitz baths are recommended, to which 10-12 drops of oil are added, which should first be diluted in a glass of kefir to achieve greater effect.
General baths are recommended as a tonic and sedative, adding 6-7 drops of oil.
"Golden Cedar"
Cedar resin and propolis are natural broad-spectrum antibiotics. The substances included in their composition not only actively fight the pathogens of tuberculosis, hepatitis, herpes, typhoid, etc., but also mobilize the defenses of the human body, strengthen the functioning of the nervous system, increase blood circulation, activate the body’s defenses, strengthen and stabilize the condition and the functioning of the nervous system, stimulate blood circulation.“Golden Cedar” is an oil created on a natural plant basis. Made from a medicinal tree, this oil can have a positive effect on the body, preventing various diseases.
The oil contains healthy fats, vitamins B1, B2, B3, PP, D, E, provitamin A, and unsaturated fatty acids.
Cedar leaves
Scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic in cedar needles that can even affect staphylococcus. Researchers were able to identify 17 bioactive compounds that could cope with the bacterium.In addition to antibacterial properties, anti-cancer substances were found in cedar leaves, which indicates the unique healing properties of the plant.
Cedar needles are used as an effective diuretic, recommended for bronchial asthma, tuberculosis, inflammatory diseases of the respiratory organs, genitourinary system, prostatitis, uterine bleeding, arthritis, rheumatism, gout.
Needles are an excellent means for cleansing blood vessels, it helps to increase their elasticity, as well as improve blood composition. It is also an indispensable remedy for relieving fatigue, increasing immunity, and restoring the nervous system.
Traditional healers prepare a vitamin drink from cedar pine needles.
Cedar fruits
Pine nuts, as well as their shells, have medicinal properties and are widely used in medicine.Preparations from nuts are prescribed for mastitis, gastritis, and ulcers. Tinctures and decoctions are recommended for abscesses, boils, and wounds.
Pine nut recipes:
Recipe No. 1 for stomach ulcers: you need to take crushed pine nut kernels and honey in equal proportions and mix. Dosage regimen: 1 tablespoon before meals 3 times a day.Recipe No. 2 for abscesses, boils: grind the nuts, apply the resulting mass to the site of the abscess, cover with a plastic bag (oilcloth), secure with a bandage.
Pine nut shell– an effective remedy for disorders of mineral metabolism in the body, urolithiasis, rheumatism, arthritis, joint pain, and diseases of the oral cavity.
Preparations prepared from pine nut shells help cope with herpes, osteochondrosis, mastopathy, fibroids, and cysts. They are recommended as an effective immune-strengthening agent.
Recipes for preparations made from pine nut shells
Recipe No. 1(recommended for low immunity, hearing loss, tumors): take 0.5 liters of vodka and 1.5 cups of pine nut shells, combine in a container and leave for 10-12 days in a warm, dark place. After the expiration date, the composition must be filtered. Dosage regimen: 1 tablespoon 20–30 minutes before meals 3 times a day, washed down with water. The course of treatment is about two months, after which a break of 1 month is necessary. The course should be repeated 2–4 times a year.Recipe No. 2(recommended for joint diseases): you need to take 1 glass of cedar shells and pour 1 liter of boiling water, then put on low heat and cook for 3-4 minutes. The decoction should be infused for 3–4 hours, after which it must be thoroughly strained. Dosage regimen: 0.5 cups before meals 3 times a day.
Contraindications to the use of cedar
Cedar has virtually no contraindications for use. The exception is individual intolerance.Many beneficial properties of both the trees themselves and the cedar taiga have long been used by humans for medicinal purposes. For thousands of years they have faithfully served man. The world of cedar is a world of magic and mysteries. And nuts, resin, and cedar needles can be turned into miraculous remedies.
For a long time, oil was extracted from pine nut kernels in Siberia and the Urals. It is significantly superior to the best varieties of Provençal oil obtained from olives.
For a long time, Siberians have been preparing “vegetable cream” from pine nuts, which is twice as fat as cow’s cream. Vegetable cream and lean milk made from it have been used for medicinal purposes for a long time.
The valuable dietary and medicinal properties of Siberian cedar nuts were noted back in 1913 by a doctor by profession F.A. Avtokratov, who worked in the village. Talitsa near Sverdlovsk. He reported that nuts help with high blood pressure and atherosclerosis. He used pine nuts as a dietary and medicinal product and expanded the scope of their use every year.
In particular, F.A. Avtokratov wrote that nuts “were usefully tested... for arteriosclerosis, wrinkled kidneys, and in general for pathological conditions accompanied by high blood pressure.” Pine nuts, the author of the article noted, gave a positive effect against increased acidity of gastric juice, against stomach and duodenal ulcers, against belching and heartburn.
Currently, scientists have established that pine nuts contain various substances that help maintain high human performance, improve blood composition, and prevent tuberculosis and anemia. Pine nuts, in addition to their nutritional value, contain a whole complex of vitamins that promote the growth of the human body and improve blood composition. Cedar needles are also healing.
Healing properties of pine needles
The healing properties of cedar needles are also known. It contains many biologically active substances that have a healing and stimulating effect. Siberian cedar needles are rich in ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and carotene. Back in 1786, Academician P. S. Pallas wrote that young cedar shoots “have a very pleasant taste, almost similar to citron peel, and constitute a very good cure for scurvy, even if raw, or boiled in beer or water.” And further he adds that from young cedar tops “one could make a very medicinal anti-scorbutic and fortifying drink.” The anti-scorbutic property of cedar buds was noted by the doctor Espenberg back in 1812, who used them against scurvy while traveling around the world on the ship "Nadezhda" under the command of I. F. Krusenstern. In his report, Espenberg wrote that a decoction of dwarf cedar buds was used to cure scurvy and even eliminate abscesses on the legs. Many expeditions of those distant times saved themselves from scurvy with an infusion of Siberian cedar and dwarf cedar needles.
B. Tikhomirov and S. Pivnik note that the needles of our northern trees (pine, spruce, Siberian cedar and dwarf cedar) can be equated to lemons and oranges in their anticygotic properties. According to V.S. Fedorova, the needles of the Siberian cedar contain from 250 to 350 mg% of vitamin C. According to G.A. Sokolov, from one ton of cedar needles you can get five thousand daily servings of vitamin C. Cedar needles I.I. Thunder is considered a natural concentrate of vitamins. It is especially valuable in winter, when the consumption of fruits and berries is limited. According to A. Skarzhitsky, essential oil is extracted from the young shoots of Siberian cedar, “very valued in folk medicine; it is used internally for stone disease, and externally used for wounds, abscesses and rheumatic suffering.” Siberian cedar needles are a valuable means of restorative aromatic and hygienic baths.
According to A. N. Pryazhnikov, Siberian cedar needles contain up to 2.18% essential oils, which are successfully used in medicine and perfumery. This is five times more than the essential oils contained in Scots pine needles. The essential oils contained in the needles are recognized as the most important antimicrobial substances. The latter are especially active in the summer months (July and August), as a result of which the phytoncidal activity of this plant significantly increases at this time.
Healing properties of cedar resin
The resin of Siberian cedar, which is rightly called resin for its ability to heal wounds, also has great healing power. Residents of Siberia and the Urals have long discovered the healing anesthetic properties of resin.
There is evidence that back in 1638, the Tobolsk voivode, “according to a state charter,” gave orders to collect cedar resin along with St. John’s wort for use “for wounds and for slaughter.” V. M. Florinsky (1880) reports on the successful use of cedar resin by traditional medicine of the past for medicinal purposes against snake bites and for healing wounds. Currently, scientists have established that cedar resin actually has bactericidal-balsamic properties. It is smaller, but compared to pine it is prone to drying out and is less susceptible to crystallization.
It has been established that cedar resin has a high therapeutic effect. According to doctor I. I. Yukolis, it has powerful bactericidal, epithelializing, anti-inflammatory, adsorbing and deodorizing effects. “Natural cedar resin (turpentine balsam) has a great therapeutic effect in the treatment of chronic leg ulcers of various origins (varicose, trophic, pustular), for pustular skin diseases and as an epithelializing agent for various ulcerative and erosive processes of different etiologies.” During the Great Patriotic War, turpentine balsam was obtained from cedar resin, which was successfully used in military hospitals. He contributed to reducing the treatment time in hospitals for wounded soldiers, returning healthy soldiers to the army, and saved the lives of many. Cedar resin is successfully used in the production of turpentine and rosin. It serves as a raw material for the production of camphor, an immersion oil used in microscopy.
Cedar wood
Siberian cedar wood also has healing properties. “Beautiful texture, pleasant pink color and a constantly evolving subtle aroma that heals and disinfects the air in the room are a number of other valuable specific properties of cedar wood,” wrote V.K. Dobrovolsky. Cedar wood wardrobes are prized "for their moth-repelling incense (like cypress"). But hives made from cedar wood are better populated by bees. In Siberia and the Urals, cedar wood is used to make dairy utensils. Due to its disinfecting properties, milk and dairy products are well preserved in such containers.
The wood of Siberian cedar is strong and at the same time soft, making it easy to process. It is also highly valued in the construction industry. In many regions of Siberia and the Urals, people still build houses from cedar logs. Due to its bactericidal properties, wood is very popular in the furniture industry for the manufacture of high-quality, beautiful furniture with good texture. Siberian cedar is the only tree in our country whose wood is used to make a pencil stick. It has completely replaced expensive imported juniper virginiana wood, previously imported for this purpose from the USA. Siberian cedar wood has good resonant properties and is used for making musical instruments. M.F. Petrov, a great specialist in Siberian cedar, a great connoisseur and admirer of this tree, told how he first learned about the use of cedar wood in music production. He wrote that “German trading companies set a condition for Siberian butter producers that butter should be exported to them only in cedar containers...”. The conditions also stipulated that the boards for containers be of a certain thickness. It turns out that abroad the boxes were carefully broken and the planks were used to make musical instruments. This is how the secret of German companies was revealed.
Air in cedar plantations
The air in cedar plantations is clean and healthy. The antimicrobial properties of cedar trees are high. The health-improving properties of cedar plantations were pointed out by I. Ya. Slovtsev, an expert on Siberian forests. He wrote that “the cedar forests always breathe with fragrant freshness.” V. Gomilevsky provides interesting data in his work. Describing Siberian cedar as a valuable tree, the author notes that this type of plant has a repellent effect on harmful insects. In particular, he writes: “Gadflies, horseflies, mosquitoes, mosquitoes, designated by the population under the common name “gnus,” avoid Siberian cedar, probably driven away by the resinous smell, especially strong during the heat and after dusk.”
Thanks to the release of phytoncides, cedar plantations heal the air, destroy pathogenic microorganisms, and give the air healing properties. They have antimicrobial effects against diphtheria bacteria. The number of microbes in the air decreases with an increase in the proportion of Siberian cedar in the planting composition. In addition, if the pine forest has an adverse effect on some heart patients, in cedar plantations “even with a very high saturation of cedar essential oil vapor, no negative deviations are observed in air ionization indicators” (Sverchkov, 1964, p. 80). All this confirms the great sanitary and hygienic and even therapeutic and preventive importance of cedar plantations.
Taking all this into account, we need to plant more Siberian cedar in our suburban forests, resort areas, city squares, gardens and parks, especially since it is more resistant (compared to other conifers) against smoke and gases in urban environments. On a hot day, it can well protect a person from the summer heat. The most important biological feature, which also has great practical significance, is the great winter hardiness of Siberian cedar. This is one of the representatives of nut-bearing plants that is not afraid of harsh winters and spreads far to the north. Among conifers, Siberian cedar is the most smoke-resistant tree and can be grown in large industrial cities.
(M.M. Ignatenko “Siberian cedar”, -M., Nauka, 1988)