Ash - a storehouse of nutrients. In folk medicine, use all parts of the plant: bark, flowers, fruits and leaves. Drugs, which include ash, save from many diseases.
Description of ash and its medicinal composition
Ash is a powerful tall tree. Its leaves have black dots. Each leaf has seven or smaller leaves. They begin to form after a period of flowering. Flowers - purple or brown, bloom before the leaves.
Inflorescences are formed from several flowers. Usually they do not have a calyx and corolla. In each flower there are many red stamens, with the help of which ash is easily distinguished from another tree. What do ash fruits look like? This lionfish, collected in the inflorescence - a panicle.
Ash blooms in mid-spring. He likes moisture, so most often the tree can be seen near ponds, rivers, and in damp forests.
Did you know? Ash grows quickly and can reach 60 m in height.Ash is rich in beneficial ingredients. Its leaves contain a lot of carbohydrates, organic acids, salts, vitamin C, tar, carotenoids, bitterness, essential oils. The fruits of ash have a large amount of proteins, fats, vitamins P and C. The plant bark contains alkaloids, coumarins, derivatives of phenol and sugar.
Due to its rich chemical composition, ash is able to bring considerable benefits, so its components are used to treat diseases of many organs.
Useful properties of ash for humans
Ash has wound-healing, astringent, antipyretic, hemostatic, laxative, diuretic properties, helps to forget about worms and successfully fights cough and hoarseness.
In order to cure chronic bronchial diseases, they take a decoction of the roots of the ash. When inflammation of the kidneys will be useful decoction of the leaves of the plant, and the infusion of them exhibits antibacterial activity to the stick Koch. Ash essential oils will rid you of fungi and the simplest microorganisms. And also preparations from ash well help with radiculitis and fever.
How to apply the healing properties of ash in folk medicine
Ash has long and successfully established itself in traditional medicine. They are treated for gout, dysentery, diseases of the bladder, kidneys. Ash products are needed for women with gynecological problems, and men are helped to restore and enhance potency.
Ashen decoction puts in order the nervous system, the infusion of the leaves of the plant is indicated for diarrhea and radiculitis. Gorgeous ash tea has prophylactic and healing properties. Most often it is used as a diuretic, which removes excess fluid from the body. Powder from the seeds of a plant can be used as a diaphoretic in the fight against polyarthritis.
Ash bark application
Ash bark and its healing properties are widely used in traditional medicine. In particular, a decoction of tree bark is used to treat colds, fevers, and inflammation of the kidneys.
For tuberculosis, this popular recipe will be helpful: 2 teaspoons of ash powder pour 250 ml of boiling water and cook for half an hour. Then insist, strain and take ½ cup 2 - 3 times a day.
For dysentery (along with other drugs) take the following decoction: 2 tablespoons of ash should be boiled for 40 minutes in a glass of water, then cooled for 10 minutes, strain, squeeze. Take ½ cup 3-4 times daily before meals.
Cooking ash leaves
Preparations from the leaves of ash in folk medicine are used as a laxative, anthelmintic and a remedy for radiculitis. 
Tincture of the leaves of the plant successfully helps with muscular rheumatism. To prepare such a medicine, one tablespoon of the leaves of the plant pour 250 ml of boiling water. Leave to infuse for 10 minutes. Ready infusion drink strained one glass three times a day.
Ash leaf powder is an excellent remedy for pancreatic inflammation. To make it, carefully chop the dry leaves of the plant and take half a teaspoon three times a day before meals.
How are the fruits of ash in traditional medicine
The fruits of ash also benefit in the treatment of many ailments. Infused with alcohol, they help with varicose veins. Lionfish are able to heal even very deep ulcers.
For decoction of the fruits of ash, you will need 20 g of dashes. They need to pour 250 ml of boiling water and put for 30-40 minutes in a water bath. Let stand for 15-20 minutes in the heat, filter the broth and squeeze out the raw material. The medicine is taken 2-3 times a day in a tablespoon.
Sometimes the use of the fruits and leaves of ash effectively produce simultaneously. 
Did you know? In the 18th century, England was taken to preserve the immature fruits of ash, and then use them as a seasoning for meat and vegetables.
Ash: how to procure and store medical raw materials
We collect the bark in early spring, the leaves - in late May or early June, and the fruits - in autumn. The leaves need a little dry in the sun, and then moved to a constantly ventilated room. The bark is collected in the spring, when the movement of the juice has gone. Dry it in the sun, and you can in a slightly heated oven. Store the resulting raw materials in fabric bags.
Contraindications to the use of plants
Despite its healing properties, ash is a poisonous plant, so taking the medicine inside is necessary with caution, especially if the patient suffers from hypertension or atherosclerosis.
In case of an overdose of bark or extract of ash leaves, symptoms of poisoning may appear: abdominal pain, renal colic, dizziness, nausea, vomiting. If you even feel one of these side effects, immediately flush the stomach with potassium permanganate, drink saline laxative and activated charcoal.
Important! Ash pollen can cause allergies.
