Sumac

Sumac

Sumac

(Cotinus coggygria Scop.)

Residence in Bulgaria:

It grows in dry and stony places and in the bushes on the southern slopes in the foothills.

Description:

Sumac is a shrub up to 2 m tall or a small tree up to 4 m. Leaves are alternate, 3-8 cm long, ovate with long petioles. The flowers are greenish, collected in a panicle. The fruit is dry, one-seeded. Blooms May-June.

Usable parts:

The leaves of the plant, which are harvested during flowering, but never after fruit formation. They are dried in the shade or in a dryer at a temperature of up to 50 °C.

Sumac
Sumac
Collection time:

May-June (The leaves of the plant are harvested during flowering)

Composition of the herb:

Sumac leaves contain tannins, essential oil, etc.

Therapeutic effect:

Astringent, anti-inflammatory, antiseptic. Due to its high content of tannins, sumac is the plant with the strongest astringent and anti-inflammatory effect. In larger doses, it lowers blood pressure. Stimulates the healing of superficial wounds and ulcers in the stomach and colon. It affects anti-inflammatory and when affecting the renal pelvises

Usage:

Internally: При диарии, кървящи хемороиди, язвен колит, възпаление на венците (пародонтоза), зъбобол, ангина, заболявания на бъбреците, язва на стомаха и дванадесетопръстника.

Externally: Употребява се за бани при рани, екземи, хемороиди, при потене на краката, за промивки при бяло течение, за налагане на лапи при гнойни рани и циреи, за компреси при младежки пъпки. В смес със сол и нишадър се използва за гаргара при гърлобол и жабурене за заякване на венците.

Ways of use:

Internally: 1 tablespoon of the herb is infused with 500 ml of boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes. Drink 1 cup of coffee before meals 3 times a day.

Externally: For baths and compresses – boil 50 g of sumac for 20 minutes in 2 liters of water

Bulgarian traditional usage:

In Bulgarian folk medicine, sumac is used for
• vomiting blood,
• inflammation of the intestines and stomach,
• kidney diseases,
• диария,
• heartburn,
• hemorrhoids.

Name in English: Smoketree
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