Birthplace of cherries is considered to be the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus and the Crimea, whence it came to Rome and spread throughout Europe. Already in the 3rd century BC the doctor mentions Sifinius vishnya (cherry) as a valuable medicinal product. Cherry was the only fruit tree, proizrastavšim during the reign of Yuri Dolgoruky in the neighbourhood of Moscow. In 1569, in Germany left medical compendium titled «Health Garden» where devotes an entire chapter to cherry.

About 130 species has born cherries, one of which is felt cherry or Chinese. Its name it has received for covered with soft hairy gray-green leaves. It bred in Japan and China as an ornamental plant.

In the wild it grows in Northwest China, the Himalayas, Japan, the far East and in the European part of the country. It is frost-resistant shrub or small tree up to 2 m tall.

The fruit is bright red drupe, outwardly similar to berries, cherries on a structure reminiscent of plum fruit. Each hive gives 7-8 kg of berries with sweet refreshing taste. They are rich in vitamin c, the content of which is 1.5 to 2 times more than conventional fruit European varieties of cherries.

Modern geography culture cherries and sweet cherries is vast, and the annual world taxes these fruits represent over 2 million. tons.

Cherry-shrub or small tree up to 7 m of the Rosaceae family. The bark is grey-brown stems, leaves petiolar, simple, elliptic, acuminate, at the edges of pilchatye. The flowers are white and pink, produced in small clusters. Meets and gone wild type of cherry breeding shoots from the root. Its berries are also suitable for consumption as fruit garden of cherry.

Red or dark red fruits cherry Scots have a nice sweet and sour taste, their flesh contains many nutrients: organic acids (Malic, citric, succinic acid, etc.), mineral substances and trace elements (calcium, iron, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, lots of copper), pectin-up to 11%, enzymes, sugar-up to 15%, nitrogen, tanning and coloring substances, vitamins a, c and pp, folic acid, anthocyanins.

In the bones of cherries contains: -25 -35% fatty oil, essential oil, Glycoside amygdalin; in the cortex-tannins, coumarin, amygdalin.

Cherries eaten fresh, dried and conserved. Of it do jam, jam, compotes, syrups, extracts, liqueurs and Cordials, wines and fruit water.

From the leaves of cherry Cook a substitute of tea, they are used in pickling vegetables and put in a jam.

Dried cherries, dark-colored fruits, without peduncles. Berries are sorted, washed. For quality drying cherry Blanch 30-40 seconds in boiling 1-1, 5% solution of baking soda and then washed thoroughly in cold running water. Start drying at a temperature of 40-45° c. When berries and podvâlâtsâ will become wrinkled, temperatures need to increase up to 70-80° c.
Drying lasts 10-12 hours.

Therapeutic use of cherries

* Cherry is a valuable dietary product, improves appetite. Pharmaceutics Cherry Syrup is used to improve the taste of the medicine.

* As a medicine used dried juice cherry wood (glue). It is composed of araban, pentoza and sugar arabinose (56%) and galactose (28%). During inflammation of the gastric mucosa cherry glue believe effective shielding.

* To treat anemia low hemoglobin cherry-effective tool.

* When heavy bleeding in women Cherry is considered one of the best remedies.

* Special value cherry fruit gives the content of coumarins with predominance of oksikumarinov, that help to normalize blood clotting. Therefore, consumption of fruits cherries warns heart attacks related to the formation of blood clots. The most useful varieties-Griot Victory and Cherry Steppe.

* With hepatitis accept broth of leaves. 10 g dry minced raw materials in 1 glass of milk, boil over low heat for 30 minutes, protseerve, take 0.3 cup 3 times a day.

* As a styptic in nasal bleeding and damage to the skin in the form of swabs crushed fresh leaves of cherry or decoction of them.

* In case of bronchitis and traheitah in folk medicine used for cherry juice alleviate coughs and as an expectorant.

* For colds and fever as refreshing and febrifuge in traditional medicine uses cherry juice,

* As a cold beverage in debilitating fevers and inflammation applies Cherry Extract. For its manufacturing into a liquid slurry in ground porcelain mortar freshly picked fruits along with bones. Then a lot of leave in a dark place for 2-4 days until it perebrodit, and filtered through filter paper.

* Decoctions of young cherry branches have good Antidiarrhoeal activity and appointed for chronic colitis and in conjunction with other tools to treat bowel atony.

* Possesses astringent decoction of leaves of cherry.

* Apply the fruits of cherries and as remedy against anaemia (due to significant content of iron and other trace elements).

* Poisoning fish and clams as an antidote to apply broth based on cherry bark: boil 0.5 l of water, add 1 teaspoon cherry bark, fresh grated ginger root and finely narublennogo Bermuda onions, cover and keep over low heat for 7 minutes. Then remove from fire and insist still 20 minutes. Drink the entire broth warm.

* In folk medicine for stomach ulcers using roots cherry.

* The pulp and juice of cherries have antiseptic properties: they inhibit pathogens dysentery and gnoerodnyh infections, Staphylococcus and streptococcus.

* In folk medicine cherry juice with milk to treat inflammation of the joints (arthritis).

* Contained in Cherry salicylic acid allows you to apply it in rheumatic diseases.

* Broth from leaves of cherry, with a strong diuretic action and displays the body of urea and Urata, used for edema, gout, dropsy, kidney stones and urate Diathesis, hypertension and constipation.
For making broth, raw materials 10 boil 1 cup of water over low heat for 20 minutes; drink in several events during the day.

* Fresh fruits cherries are considered gentle laxative medication, especially effective when habitual constipation associated with insufficient physical activity bowel.

* Contained in the fruit cherry pectin help you excrete nitrogenous waste products.

* Cherry-very valuable fruit for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases. This is due to the high content of compounds in it r-vitamin complex. Substances of r-vitamin activity more in those cherries that have darker coloration.
Černoplodnyh cherry varieties have vitamin r reaches 2-2, 5%-almost as much as the Black Mountain ash. When the anthocyanins contained in fruits are more evenly distributed throughout the flesh of the fruit, so readily available for assimilation, and anthocyanins strengthen the capillary walls and possess anti-hypertonic properties.

* Water infusion fruit cherry has anti-inflammatory and soothing effect.

* In folk medicine cherry juice used in epilepsy and mental illness. Sedative effect of cherry explained by the fact that its fruit pulp contains quite a lot of copper, which is soothingly affects the nervous system.

* Cherry leaves contain coumarins, physiological effect which manifests itself primarily in the lowering of coagulation ability of blood and thrombosis vascular delay.

* Thanks to the anthocyanins, flavonol, cathehins and other phenolic compounds Cherry is useful in atherosclerosis, hypertension, and other pathological conditions related to insufficient strength of blood capillaries.

* Fresh fruits cherries, juice and Cherry Syrup drink as an expectorant in catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, bronchitis.

ATTENTION!
Cherry pits and seeds it when used in large quantities can cause poisoning, since they contain Glycoside amygdalin (0.85%), which in the gut decomposes under the influence of putrefactive bacteria with the formation of hydrocyanic acid.