Birch sap is a unique drink, which contains many valuable trace elements and substances that have a beneficial effect on the human body.

Collecting it is easy, the main thing is to choose the right tree, make a hole and carry out the procedure without the slightest harm to the forest.

Birch sap contains organic acids, fructose, glucose, iron, calcium, phosphorus, potassium and other substances.

Its consumption in its natural form provides:

1. Improving the functioning of the circulatory system.
2. Alignment of hemoglobin levels.
3. Strengthening the nervous system.
4. Increased energy production.
5. Normalization of the genitourinary system.
6. Strengthening bones.
7. Better absorption of glucose.

Interesting fact: there is absolutely no fat and protein in such a drink.

When and where to collect birch sap?

It is advisable to start collecting birch sap when:

• active snow melting is observed;
• the night frosts are over;
• the first buds began to appear;
• thaw began.

From about March 15th, in the middle of the country, you can start collecting. It is advised to finish it after April 20 - 25.

Interesting fact: with the onset of darkness, sap flow in birches is reduced to a minimum.

To collect the most valuable drink, you need to choose the right place, it should be:

• removed from the city at least 3 - 5 kilometers;
• from the carriageway at 300 meters or more;
• away from any landfills and chemical facilities.

Advice: it is ideal to leave the city for 15 - 20 kilometers and go deep into the forest on foot.

How to collect birch sap?

The drink will be endowed with the most important and useful properties if correctly assembled. The main thing here:

• competently make a hole in the barrel;
• prepare a clean juice container in advance;
• choose for this time between 10 am and 4 pm.

Note: at this time, the juice flows as intensively as possible.

How to grow more crops?

Any gardener and summer resident is pleased to receive a large harvest with large fruits. Unfortunately, it is far from always possible to get the desired result.

Plants often lack nutrition and minerals.

It has the following properties:

• Allows increase yield by 50% in just a few weeks of use.
• You can get a good harvest even on low fertile soils and in adverse climatic conditions
• Absolutely safe

Juice collection rules

There are certain collection rules, thanks to which no harm is caused to birches, and the drink has all the declared qualities.

Necessary:

1. Choose the strongest birch.
2. Do not take more than a liter of drink from one tree.
3. Do not use axes to punch holes in barrels.
4. At the end of the collection, process the hole according to all recommendations.

Important: violation of the rules can cause the death of the birch or make it weak and prone to disease in the future.

How to choose a tree?

A suitable tree is a birch that has:

• trunk diameter is more than 25 centimeters;
• developed crown;
• strong and healthy branches;
• there are no obvious signs of infection with diseases;
• age over 4 - 5 years.

Important: a young tree after collecting the drink can dry out, since in the spring it itself needs elements and various substances for growth and development.

How to make a hole in a tree?

Making a hole in a birch tree is important according to all the rules. Recommended:

• Stand to the tree from the south side.
• Decide on the area to be pierced.

It is optimal if it is located 30-40 centimeters above the ground.

• Position the drill at an angle downward.
• Carefully pierce the barrel.

It is better to use an 8 - 10 mm drill for these purposes, which goes 2.5 - 3 centimeters deep.

• Place a bottle, oval bowl or plastic bag for juice.

Important: it is allowed to make 3-4 holes in one barrel, but the main thing is that the distance between them is at least 15 centimeters.

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How to cut a hole?

After collecting the juice, the hole in the birch needs to be processed. To do this, you need to use one of the following tips:

1. Cover it with moss.
2. Cover with wax.
3. Make a wooden cork.

Advice: for making a cork, it is advisable to take a thin twig and cut the required diameter with a knife.

Important: Failure to do this will cause bacteria to enter the barrel.

Birch sap storage rules

It is most beneficial to consume the juice fresh as soon as it is harvested. Later, especially during boiling, its properties are reduced by 2 times.

1. Pour into glass jar.
2. Screw on the lid tightly.
3. Put in the refrigerator.

Important: it must not be consumed 48 hours after collection.

Storage recipes

Several recipes are known to increase the storage time:

With the addition of wine. Required:

• put 10 liters of birch drink on the fire;
• bring to a boil and add 900 grams of granulated sugar;
• cook for 20 - 25 minutes;
• then remove from heat, put 20 grams of zest in the composition and pour in one liter of white wine;

Better to take dry wine.

cool and put 3 grams of dry yeast.

Next, you need to remove the prepared drink in a darkened place for 4 days, then bottle it and leave for one month. Subsequently, the prepared wine is allowed to drink in small quantities for 3 - 4 months.

Conservation. Cooking steps:

• 220 grams of granulated sugar is placed in 2 liters of birch sap;
• after mixing, add 10 grams of citric acid;
• everything is poured into glass jars;
• pasteurized;
• rolls up.

In canned form, the shelf life is six months.

With the addition of yeast and honey. It is taken:

• birch sap - 10 liters;
• lemon - 4 pieces;
• yeast - 45 grams;
• melted honey (natural) - 35 grams;
• granulated sugar - 10 grams.

Manufacturing steps:

1. Lemons are completely squeezed into Birch juice.
2. Honey, yeast, sand are added to the drink and everything is mixed.
3. Poured into banks.
4. It is covered with a lid.
5. Placed in a refrigerator for 10 days.

After this time, the drink can be drunk. Its shelf life, provided that it is kept in a cool and dark place, is 2 months.

Birch sap is a completely natural product that contains many unique and beneficial components for human health. Properly organized collection and storage allow you to enjoy the drink for a long time with benefits for the whole body.

Blitz - tips:

• never make deep and large holes in birch trees;
• for collection, it is optimal to choose the dates from March 15 to 30 and go to the forest closer to noon;
• do not injure thin and young trunks.

Nature is very generous to a person, giving him not only useful, but also extremely delicious gifts... One of them is considered to be a healing liquid extracted from the trunks of slender beauties-birch trees. When to collect birch sap and whether it is suitable for long-term storage, we learn from this article.

When birch sap is harvested

In the language of many Slavic peoples, the name of the month of March is pronounced as "berezen", "berezin". It is in the spring, as soon as the thaw begins, that black and white birches begin to cry, giving off a lively, tasty and healthy juice.

When should you start harvesting this unusual liquid crop? Each region has its own terms: southern - from mid-March to early April, northern - in April-May.

Having determined the moment, it remains to choose suitable trees and start stocking up on juice. The main thing is not to delay, because it stands out for only 1-1.5 weeks. As soon as blossoming leaves were noticed on the birch, the collection must be stopped.

How to properly collect a healthy drink without harm to the tree

Since ancient times, collecting birch sap has been considered the responsibility of women and children. Men regarded this business as fun, but from time to time they accompanied their wives and kids into the forest, inserting thin wedges into the trunks of birches, along which a healing drink flowed down.

Spring has come and it means that soon it will be possible to collect birch sap. Previously, in Soviet times, it was sold in stores. And although there was little that was real and useful there, now, especially residents of large cities, do not know what it is at all. How to collect birch sap with your own hands and why it is needed I will try to describe in as much detail as possible.

What is birch sap

We all know that there are fruit and vegetable juices... Well, yes, when we eat a tomato or if you press on the pulp of an orange, juice drips, so in a juicer you can get the right one from them. What is birch sap? As the name suggests, it is obtained from birch, just don't try to do it in the same juicer, putting pieces of birch there. Exactly, you will be left without it.

Now imagine a water filter. In the spring, when warmth comes, the birch begins to wake up from hibernation, so that leaves appear, moisture from the ground, through the root system, along the trunk, begins to move to the crown. This process is called sap flow and it is at this time that birch sap needs to be collected.

Birch sap is a crystal clear, like a tear, liquid of white color, pleasant to the taste. The taste is different for different trees. The younger the tree, the sweeter the juice. This is a natural, unique healing drink.

Why is birch sap useful?

The moisture that has passed through a living, natural filter has unique and beneficial properties. It contains vitamins, macro and micro elements.

• It is a natural natural complex of vitamins. After winter, they are usually not enough. Birch sap strengthens our body and improves immunity.
• It is rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. Promotes blood purification and regeneration
• Improves metabolism
• Well removes toxins from the body
• Cleans the kidneys from sand, dissolves struvite (infectious stones), consisting of phosphates and carbonates.
• Has a diuretic effect
• Improves performance and cleanses the gastrointestinal tract
• Helps with acne, furunculosis, eczema and wounds that do not heal for a long time
• Strengthens hair
• It is good to drink when thirsty

Contraindications for using birch sap

You need to consult with your doctor if:

• There is an allergy to birch pollen.
• Presence of calcium and urate and kidney stones
• Stomach ulcer

Time of collecting birch sap

In spring, depending on the area of ​​residence, weather conditions, the average daily air temperature, the place where the tree grows (southern or northern slope, lowland), the trees begin to flow sap. Here, in central Russia, in 20011, for example, it began in early April and lasted until Victory Day. This year, now on April 10, it is not yet there, but I think it should start in a few days. Therefore, the start time for collecting birch sap and the collection time itself are always different and must be watched.

Even when sap flow begins, the weather and time of day will affect it. It slows down in cold weather and at night. You can collect birch sap while it is crystal clear, as soon as the buds begin to bloom, it becomes cloudy and its collection is stopped. In our area, the period for collecting birch sap is from 2 to 3 weeks. The most useful juice is collected in the middle of sap flow.

How to correctly determine the start time of sap flow? Do not go to the forest all the time. Find, closer to your home, a birch and look at its buds, while they are dry sap,

but as soon as they begin to swell, it's time to collect birch sap.

Keep in mind that it is warmer in the city and here the sap flow begins several days earlier.

How to collect birch sap

If you find yourself in the forest, I urge you to treat it carefully and with love. It’s not the first year, every spring, with my own hands, I collect birch sap in one forest and more than one tree has not died from this. How to make sure that the collection of birch sap does not become dangerous for trees? It is necessary to strictly follow the rules on how to collect birch sap.

It is impossible to collect birch sap from trees whose trunk diameter is less than 20 cm. They can die from this.

Do not make large notches with an ax, peel off the bark in a circle.

I think the most humane is the use of a drill with a drill. Therefore, when going to an ecologically clean forest for birch sap, take with you:

• Drill
• Drill 6 - 10 mm
• Metal tubes 5 - 8 cm long
• Rubber tubes or cambric
• Plastic bottles
• A hammer

How to preserve birch sap

The shelf life of fresh birch sap in the refrigerator is 2-3 days, then it becomes cloudy and sour. Dirty dishes will shorten this time.

Many suggest heating and preserving it to preserve it, but after that there is little useful in it.

How to make it so that to extend the time of using birch sap. For example, I collect it in one and a half liter, plastic bottles, freeze it and store it in the freezer. Then, as needed, I take it out, thaw it in the refrigerator and drink it. When frozen, birch sap retains its beneficial properties.

There is another way to preserve it, this is the use of medical 96-degree alcohol and adding it to the juice in a ratio of one to ten, that is, for 1 liter of juice, 100 grams of alcohol. Drinking such a birch period will not be pleasant, but suitable for external use.

How to use birch sap

I have no contraindications, and I, birch sap, drink to strengthen and cleanse the body, it replaces water well. It is only important for it to be useful, to drink it for 15-20 days. For adults with no contraindications, 200 g each half an hour before meals. For children, reduce the dose by half. In the first days, the diuretic properties of the juice are very noticeable.

If there are problems with the skin, hair or for a cosmetic effect, in addition, we apply it externally.

IN home cooking you can make kvass from birch juice, mix it with other juices, knead dough on it, etc. I will not repeat how to do it yourself, there are many recipes on the Internet. For me, it is interesting for its medicinal properties, but heat treatment negates these properties of it, therefore, I will not give such recipes for preserving birch sap here. Who cares to find it yourself.

Now you know all the secrets how to collect birch sap and what is it for.

Good walks in the woods, to you!

Birch sap is a clear liquid that flows out of cut or fractured birch trunks and branches under the influence of root pressure. The flow of birch sap begins in spring with the first thaws and continues until bud break.

The exact period of birch sap production is difficult to establish, because it depends on weather conditions. For example, if during the March thaw the juice has already begun to flow and frost has suddenly hit, then it may cease to stand out for some time. However, as a rule, the juice begins to run around mid-March, when the snow melts and the buds swell. To determine the beginning of sap flow, it is enough to go out into the forest and make an injection with a thin awl on a birch as thick as an arm. If the juice has gone, then a drop of juice will immediately appear at the puncture point, which means you can start collecting and preparing it. They stop collecting juice in the second half of April, when the leaves are already blooming.

The most intensive sap flow through the tree occurs in the light half of the day, so start collecting better in the morning, the juice "falls asleep" at night. The best time to collect the juice is between 10:00 and 18:00, when it flows most strongly. The number of holes depends on the diameter of the tree, which is recommended to be made, if 20-25 cm - then only one, with a volume of 25-35 cm - two, at 35-40 - three, and if the diameter is more than 40 cm - it is quite permissible to make four holes.

The collection of birch sap should be started in the places most heated by the sun, where the birch wakes up even if there is still snow around. As the forest warms up, you should move deeper into the thicket, where the forest wakes up later than at the southern edge. Usually 2-3 liters of sap per day is obtained from birch. A large tree can produce about 7 liters of juice per day, and sometimes more. It is preferable to collect the sap where the felling is planned, and it is not recommended to take it from young trees.

Due to the fact that the roots of birch go far into the ground, it does not absorb poisons from the surface layer of the soil. Therefore, all places where birch grows are equally good for collecting birch sap, but it is still better to collect sap only in ecologically clean forests, because the tree itself is capable of absorbing harmful substances and exhaust gases.

The choice of dishes for collecting and storing birch sap must be approached selectively. In the old days, birch sap was collected in special cups made of birch bark, it was believed that in them it retains its properties better. But it is quite possible to collect juice in ordinary glass jars or even in plastic bottles, but remember that chemistry can give the juice its specific flavor, and sometimes it dissolves in it itself.

The sap is usually obtained by incising, notching or drilling the bark of a tree, the diameter of which is at least 20 cm, with a well-developed crown. It is better to make a cut or hole in the trunk from the south side of the tree, where sap flow is more active, at a distance of 40-50 cm from the ground, downward direction, your movement should be from the bottom up, the hole depth is 2-3 cm to penetrate under the dead bark, and if birch is very thick, sometimes even deeper.

An aluminum, plastic groove, birch bark tray or other semicircular device is inserted into the slot, through which the juice flows into the container. Sometimes sap is obtained by cutting off small branches and attaching a plastic bag to the cut. There is no need to strive to drain all the juice from one tree, it compensates for some of it, but if you bleed the tree completely, it can dry out. It is better to take a liter of juice per day from 5-10 trees than from one to take 5 liters, dooming it to death.

After the collection of birch sap is over, it is necessary to take care of the tree itself and tightly close the holes made with wax, cork or moss so that bacteria do not get into the trunk that can pose a serious threat to the life of the tree. After birch felling, sap collection can be organized from the stumps.

If you don't want to drink the juice right away, but want to keep it longer, pour it into a glass jar and refrigerate. So the drink will be less oxidized, that is, spoil. However, it is better not to store the juice for more than 2-3 days, otherwise it will ferment and turn from healing nectar into poison. But if you canned the juice, then it will stand for several more months.

Several recipes for preserving birch sap for long-term storage.

Fresh birch sap is fermented in glass containers of any size. After washing with hot, preferably boiled water, they are filled with fresh juice. For every half liter add an incomplete teaspoon of ordinary or glucose sugar, 2-3 raisins, washed in cold boiled water and a little lemon zest if you like. The container is closed with a stopper or lid and secured with wire or sling.

The pressure of carbon dioxide during fermentation is quite high, and so that the glass does not burst, it is not recommended to put more than the specified amount of sugar. After a few days, you will have a pleasant, sour, highly carbonated drink. For canning, heat the juice in an enamel bowl to a temperature of 80 degrees. Pour into glass bottles and jars. Fill almost to the top and seal with caps, and bottles with corks, followed by tarring. Then soak for 15 - 20 minutes in 85 degrees water for pasteurization.

Making kvass from birch sap.

To preserve birch sap, kvass is prepared from it. Heat to 35 degrees, add 15-20 g of yeast and 3 raisins per 1 liter, you can add to taste lemon zest... After that, the jar or bottle is tightly closed and left for 1-2 weeks. Kvass can be prepared in another way. To 10 liters of birch sap, add the juice of 4 lemons, 50 g of yeast, 30 g of honey or sugar, raisins at the rate of 2-3 things per bottle. Bottle and keep in a cool dark place for 1-2 weeks. Kvass can be ready already after 5 days, but the fact that it will stand longer, the drink will not deteriorate, it can be stored for the whole summer.

Another kvass recipe. A bag with burnt crusts is lowered on a string into a barrel of birch sap rye bread... After two days, yeast will pass from the crusts to the juice and fermentation will begin. Then a bucket of oak bark is poured into the barrel as a preservative and tanning agent, and for aroma - cherries (berries or leaves) and dill stalks. In two weeks, the kvass is ready, it can be stored all winter.

Other methods of preserving and preserving birch sap.

Our ancestors drank birch sap fermented in barrels without added sugar - it was a traditional low alcohol drink at Russian feasts. Birch sap itself is a pleasant, refreshing and body-strengthening drink, but you can add sap to it chokeberry, lingonberries, blueberries or insist on various herbs - thyme, chamomile, caraway seeds, linden flowers, rose hips, in a jar covered with gauze for about 2 weeks.

You can add to it extracts of St. John's wort, mint, lemon balm, pine needles, cherry juice, apples, currants. Birch sap can be condensed by evaporation to a syrup containing 60% sugar. This syrup has a lemon-white color and honey consistency.

Drink in Belarusian - pour birch sap into a large bottle and put in a cool dark place for 2-3 days. Then add barley malt or toasted crushed rusks to it. For 5 liters of birch sap - 30 gr. barley malt or crackers. A balm is also prepared from birch sap. For a bucket of juice, you need 3 kg of sugar, 2 liters of wine and 4 finely chopped lemons. All this must be put to ferment for two months in the cellar, and then bottled and kept for another three weeks.

Medicinal properties of birch sap.

Birch sap contains organic acids, tannins, minerals, iron, potassium, calcium, glucose, fructose, phytoncides. The use of birch sap promotes the breakdown of stones in the bladder and kidneys, purifies the blood, enhances metabolic processes, and removes harmful substances from the body in infectious diseases. It is useful to drink juice for stomach ulcers, diseases of the liver, duodenum, gallbladder, low acidity, radiculitis, rheumatism, arthritis, bronchitis, tuberculosis, scurvy, headache and venereal diseases.

Birch sap increases the body's resistance to colds, infectious and allergic diseases, has an anthelmintic, diuretic, antitumor effect, birch sap is useful to wipe the skin with eczema, acne, to moisturize and cleanse dry skin. Apply the following mask to your face very well: mix 1 tbsp. l. sour cream with 2 tbsp. l. birch sap and 1 tsp. honey. You need to keep such a mask for about 15 minutes, rinse with cool water, the skin after it will acquire a beautiful matte shade.

And it is also useful to wash hair with birch sap for dandruff, to enhance their growth and the appearance of shine and softness (the infusion of birch leaves has the same property). Birch sap is a good remedy for impotence. Birch "tears" have a very good effect on people during menopause, if you drink at least a glass of juice a day, then drowsiness, fatigue, irritability and other phenomena accompanying menopause will disappear.

The systematic intake of birch sap has a tonic and tonic effect. Birch sap is contraindicated for those who are allergic to birch pollen. IN medicinal purposes birch sap should be drunk fresh. It is recommended to take 1 glass 3 times a day 20-30 minutes before meals for 2-3 weeks.

Birch sap (birch tree)- This natural product, which is extracted from birch, which has a beneficial effect on the entire human body.

Useful properties of birch sap. Birch sap is a good general tonic for a variety of diseases. It will help to strengthen health, enrich the body with a large amount of vitamins, and also strengthen the immune system. It is recommended for vitamin deficiency, diseases of the blood, joints, skin, as well as for angina, bronchitis, pneumonia (pneumonia) and other respiratory diseases.

The use of birch sap promotes the breakdown of stones in the bladder and kidneys, purifies the blood, and enhances metabolic processes. It removes harmful substances from the body in infectious diseases.

It is useful to drink juice for stomach ulcers, liver diseases, duodenal ulcers and gallbladder diseases. It helps with low acidity, sciatica, rheumatism, arthritis, tuberculosis, scurvy, headache and sexually transmitted diseases.

Birch sap will be beneficial not only when used internally, but also if used externally, as a home remedy for washing and rinsing hair. Rubbing your face daily with it can easily get rid of acne and blackheads. Rinsing your hair with birch sap diluted with water will help not only strengthen your hair, but also get rid of dandruff. Healing tinctures are prepared from birch sap, which are used in cosmetology.

He is rightfully one of the most valuable gifts of nature.

The composition of birch sap includes: sugars (fructose, glucose, sucrose), organic acids, enzymes and substances with high antimicrobial activity (phytoncides). There is a lot of birch sap and mineral elements that our body, weakened during the winter, needs. After drinking birch sap, we replenish the body with a supply of potassium, calcium, sodium, magnesium, iron, manganese, copper. Taking at least one glass a day for 2-3 weeks (optimally - three times a day a glass half an hour before meals) will help the body cope with spring weakness, vitamin deficiency, absent-mindedness, fatigue and depression. Birch sap is contraindicated for those who are allergic to birch pollen.

When to collect birch sap. As a rule, birch sap starts to run when the snow melts, and swollen buds are the first sign that it is time to collect birch sap. The collection of birch sap stops when the leaves are already blooming. The exact period for the release of birch sap depends on the weather conditions.

Approximately - starting from mid-March, when the snow melts and the buds swell, until the end of April, when the leaves are already blooming.

How to collect birch sap.

• You cannot use a young tree to collect birch sap! Choose birch trees over 20-30 cm in diameter with a well-developed crown.
• Collect sap only in ecologically clean forests, away from roads. Although the roots of the tree take water deep from the soil, the tree itself is capable of absorbing harmful substances and exhaust gases.
• Do not use an ax to collect birch sap. It is better to use a drill with a 5-10 mm drill bit or a gimbal. A hole is carefully drilled in the birch trunk with a downward direction at a distance of 20-40 cm from the ground. The depth of the hole is made 2-3 cm in order to penetrate under the dead bark, and if the birch is very thick, then even deeper. Such a hole in the trunk of a birch is overgrown almost without a trace.
• It is not necessary to make a deep hole - as the sap goes in the surface layer between the bark and the wood. It is better to make the hole on the north side, as there is usually much more juice there. In the hole made, attach a tray or tube through which the juice will drain. Direct the device into a bottle, jar or bag.
• The most intensive sap flow through the tree occurs in the light half of the day, so it is advisable to start collecting juice in the morning. The best time to collect birch sap is from 10 to 18 hours.
• Do not drain all birch sap from one birch. The number of holes that are recommended to be made depending on the diameter of the tree - birch diameter 20-25 cm - one hole, tree diameter 25-35 cm - two holes, at 35-40 cm - three, if the birch diameter is more than 40 cm - you can make four holes. It is better to take a few trees and take a little juice from each of them per day than to collect the whole birch from one birch and destroy it. Sometimes you can extract juice by cutting small branches and attaching a plastic bag or plastic bottle to the cut.
• After the end of the collection of birch sap, cover the hole tightly with garden pitch or fill the wound with a wooden cork or moss.

How to store birch sap.

If you have collected a lot of birch sap and you cannot use it right away, to keep it longer, pour it into a glass jar and refrigerate. But you can't keep the juice for longer than 2-3 days, it will begin to grow cloudy and deteriorate.

The time for collecting juice is very limited; you can stock up on it only in early spring during the first thaws. Get drunk enough, but also have time to preserve birch sap for the winter. There are many recipes to prepare this gift of nature for the future:

• Birch juice with lemon;
• Birch sap with mint;
• Birch kvass;
• Birch sap with needles;
• Birch sap vinegar;
• Birch syrup;
• Birch sap wine

We told what it is: birch sap, when and how to collect birch sap.

Good luck to you!

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