ARCHOSTAPHYLOS UVA-URSI (L) SPREG
(Ericacae-fam)
LOCATIONS: It grows in dry, stony and rocky areas, dry coniferous forests and high mountains.
STRUCTURE: It is a creeping shrub that remains green in winter and summer, up to 30 cm high. The leaves are alternate, leathery, entire-edged and rounded at the tip, narrowing towards the wedge-shaped base and becoming a short stem. The upper surface is dark green, the veins are hollow and spider-web-like, the lower surface is light green, the veins are spider-web-like, swollen. The flowers are white or pink, the flower clusters hang like clusters at the ends of the stems. The calyx is fused with shallow sections, the corolla has 5 leaves and the stamens are 8-10. The fruit is red, dry, fleshy, 3-7-seeded flower.
KULLANILAN KISIMLAR:Yapraklar kullanılır.Yapraklar çiçek açma zamanında (Mayıs-Haziran aylarında) toplanır.Tepe dallar kesilir, sonra yapraklar toplanır.Gölgede veya 40 dereceye kadar ısılı fırınlarda kurutulur.Kuru yaprakların üst yüzü koyuyeşil, alt yüzü-solukpembe, kokusuz, azacı ve buruk tattadır.Rutubet payı %12’dir.Kağıt-kenevir torbalarda paketlenir.Kuru ve havadar binalarda muhafaza edilir.
When collecting leaves, they should not be confused with red bearberry (Vaccinium vitisidaea L.) leaves, the leaves of which are oval and have black brown dots on the underside; boxwood (Baxus semperviren L.) leaves have no lateral veins on the main vein; stubby-leafed bearberry (blue) (Vaccinium ulignosum L.) leaves are wider, whole-edged, not leathery; black bearberry (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) leaves are toothed and not leathery. They should not be confused with the leaves of these species.
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: The plant contains arbutin, tannins, gallic acid, gallotannin, elagacid, elagtanine, free hydroquinone, uvaol, hyperoside, quercetin, quinine and carica acid and small amounts of etheric oil.
IN WHICH DISEASES IS IT USED: It has very good disinfection and diuretic properties.
Bearberry is used in folk medicine for inflammation of the bladder and kidneys, sand and stones in the kidneys, bloody urination, urinary incontinence, water retention, diabetes, white discharge, kidney tuberculosis, involuntary semen discharge (ihtilat), etc.
USAGE: Boil 1 tablespoon of crushed leaves in 0.5 liters of water for 10 minutes, strain and take a tea glass 4 times a day before meals.
Disinfection and diuretic effect on the system in the leaves is due to the separation of arbutin into hydricinone and methylhydrocinone. These are strong antiseptics in alkaline urine. For this reason, a small amount of bread soda (bicarbonate) should be mixed when taking bearberry leaves.
