Latin name: Rubus fruticosus
Plant description: Their undergrowth can be impenetrable, their branches and twigs carry curved spines. Berries and flowers are often found on the same shrub. The flowers are white or pale reddish, the berries are initially red and, when ripe, blue-black. Flowering time: Blackberry bushes flower from May to winter. Origin: Grows and proliferates in various species throughout Europe.
Medicinally used plant parts
leaves, juice prepared from the fruit
Ingredients
In the leaves tanning agents, organic acids, flavonoids. The juice contains vitamins and minerals.
Curative effects and use of blackberries
The tanning agent in the leaves has a slightly stuffing effect and as tea (gargling and rinsing) it has a soothing effect on inflamed mucous membranes in the throat and pharynx.
Preparation
However, blackberry leaves are mostly used alone but mostly together with other drugs, less for medicinal purposes, more as a house tea. Blackberry leaf tea: Pour 1⁄4 l boiling water over 2 heaped teaspoons of leaves, let it steep for 15 minutes, strain and drink sweetened with lemon or honey. For gargling without additives.
Combination with other medicinal plants
Blackberry leaves 10.0 g Raspberry leaves 10.0 g Coltsfoot leaves 10.0 g Linden blossoms 10.0 g Prepared as described above, the tea increases the resistance to colds. For upset stomach, nausea, diarrhoea: blackberry and raspberry leaves each 10.0 g camomile blossoms 10.0 g peppermint leaves 10.0 g Prepared as described above.
Side effect
None to fear.
