Benefits of blueberries and misconceptions about the dangers of berries

Blueberry is a small shrub up to a meter high. Blueberry fruits are juicy blue berries, covered with a bluish bloom. The beneficial properties of blueberries have been known for a long time.

Popularly, blueberries are sometimes called a drunkard or a gonobobel for the supposedly heady properties of berries that drive a headache. In fact, as the researchers have found, the culprit of these phenomena is wild rosemary, often adjacent to blueberries. When picking blueberry berries, the essential oils of marsh rosemary fall on the hands of a person, and then on the berries. In the absence of wild rosemary, blueberries did not show any intoxicating properties.

Useful properties of blueberries

In folk medicine, both berries and blueberry leaves are used. The use of blueberries protects against the effects of radioactive radiation, helps to strengthen the walls of blood vessels, and normalizes the functioning of the heart. Pectin substances in fruits, binding radioactive elements, toxins, remove them from the body.

The beneficial substances found in blueberries support the health of the intestines, pancreas, and significantly slow down the aging of nerve cells. In addition, the beneficial properties of blueberries have antiscorbutic, anti-inflammatory, choleretic, anti-sclerotic, cardiotonic, hypotensive effects. Medicines based on blueberries are effective for atherosclerosis, rheumatism, hypertension, sore throat, arthritis, enteritis, gastritis, cystitis. Blueberries are useful as a fortifying and multivitamin remedy, preventing avitaminosis and regulating metabolism, antipyretic and thirst-quenching - in case of fever, anemia, pyelitis. The antihelminthic property of blueberries is also known.