Kalina in Medicine
Kalina ordinary. Kalina – Euro-Siberian species, is a shrub 1.5-4 m or small tree. It grows mainly in the European part of Russia, especially abundant in the central zone, penetrates into the West and Central Siberia. It is distinguished by sustained, stable fruiting, crop failures, it is rare. Productivity in the European part of Russia amounts to 100 kg from one hectare and up to 3-4 kg per bush. In Western and Eastern Siberia productivity is around 50 kg / ha. Stocks Viburnum fruits in Western Siberia, tentatively set at 10 thousand tons of fruit cranberry bright red, juicy, with a bone, a bitter-sweet taste, as there was ability to clean the pads on the equipment for cleaning cushions form fruit globose-oval, length – 8-12 mm, weight – 0.76; in mature fruit contains,% of dry matter 16-20, sugars – 6,6-10,5 , titratable acid – 1,4-3,3, pectins – 0.92.
Ascorbic acid in Kalina 10-40 mg%, total content of tannins and pigments – 440-1660 mg%. Most of the P-active polyphenols – flavonols (1540 mg%). Cora plant contains up to 6.5% retinoid esters, and the seeds – up to 21% fat. Of fruit prepare jams, mincemeat, rubbed with sugar. The juice has a gelling properties and get out of it and marmalade candy. Fresh fruits are edible after the first frost, when the bitterness is greatly reduced.
In medicine Kalina is used as a sedative in neurosis, hypertension, vascular spasm. Need cleaning pads. Keep up with snowball in August – September and remains on the long branches. Good transportation. In the raw permissible content,% moisture content – less than 15; unripe fruit – 4 singed and pests – 1.5 Other parts – 2.5, organic matter – 1, and mineral – 0.5. Dried fruits are packed in bags of 30-40 kg. Honeysuckle. Shrub to average of about 1 m. In our country there are over 50 species of honeysuckle, but the fruits of most of them unpleasant to taste and inedible. Edible honeysuckle is common in eastern Siberia, the Far East, Sakhalin and Kamchatka. Berries in her blue, juicy, flavorful, often sweet-sour and sweet and sour, with varying degrees of bitterness during the restoration. The shape of the fruit mostly oblong, 12-33 mm, width 6-14 mm, average weight of berries – 0.8 g. In the berries contain,%: Solids – 13,7-14,7; sugars – 8,1-8,8; acids – 1,8-3, and ascorbic acid – from 21.2 to 38 mg%, and tannins and pigments – 36 to 114 mg%. Honeysuckle berries ripen the earliest of all known berry plants, about 1.7 days earlier on strawberries. Because of their affection for berry picking use small containers for up to 5 kilograms. Honeysuckle berries collected in normal conditions can be stored for 1-3 days. Eat fresh fruits and food industries.
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