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Bot.: Betula pubescens

Healing power:
Birch leaves tea

- works diuretic and is used

- for infections of the urinary tract. Itīs preventive against urinary calculus.

Birch leaves you find in tea mixings against

- rheumatism and

- gout.

- Birch tar is used as ointment for rheumatism.

Birch water is used as hair water and rubbed into skin

- for dandraff,

- loss of hair,

- and greasy hair.

How to use:
Pick the young leaves from May to June in order to make tea.
Recipe for the Birch leaves tea:
Pour 1/4 litre boiling water on 2 dessert spoons dried Birch leaves, let it draw for 10 minutes, then pass it through a sieve. Drink 1 cup of Birch leaves tea 3 times per day.
The Birch juice you get in spring by splitting the bark. The juice, which comes out, has to be collected in a container.
Alternatively a hole with a diameter of 1 cm can be bored 5 cm deep into the trunk.
Then you put tubes into the holes and collect the juice.
Birch tar is received by dry destillation of young branches and bark.

Young Birch leaves are eaten in spring salads mixed with Bear´s garlic and Dandelion.


Birch rods are processed to besoms.
The white-yellow wood serves for carving. Wooden shoes are made from Birch wood.

Description of the plant:
The Birch tree is a deciduous tree. The bestknown identification of the Birch tree is its black-white spotted trunk.

Propagation:
The pollution happens by wind, through which are also spread the little fruits.
The little seeds are winged nuts. You can sow them in spring or autumn.

Ingredients:
In the leaves: essential oil, bitter constituents, tanning agents, saponins, vitamin c.
In the juice: Proteins, sugar, organic acids, salts.
In the bark: essential oil, birch camphor (betulin), a phytosterin, resins, bitter constituents, tanning agents.
In the Birch tar: Phenoles (Guajacol, Kresol)