Impressive health benefits of barberry,usages and side effects

impressive health benefits of barberry

barberry has impressive health benefits. Barberry is a red, sour and oval-shaped fruit. It is harvested from a thorny shrub that its length is 1 to 5 meters and grows in moderate and semitropical regions. The shrub of barberry can be planted in the most parts of the earth. impressive health benefits of barberry is benefit for body. that Iranian kind of barberry is unique and Iran is the main producer of barberry by producing 95% of the whole production all around the world. But 97% of Iran’s production is harvested Zirkooh Qayenat on south Khorasan province. The bunch of Iranian barberry is yellow at first and then gets sour and red, finally it changes to wine color. In Iran It is produced completely natural and organically. No chemical fertilizer or agricultural poison is used in culturing so Europeans are infatuated of Iranian organic barberry.

Impressive health benefits of barberry in the body has caused barberry to become one of the most all-purpose medical plants in the diet of many people around the world. All parts of barberry shurb including fruit, leave, root and branch have medical uses and are full of nutrition. Barberry is rich in useful herbal compounds such as berberine. Berberine is an alkaloid that is crystalized in needle-like yellow crystals and it tastes so bitter. Alkaloids have medical proven health effects. Also barberry is a rich source of vitamin C, vitamin B like thiamine and zinc.

Impressive health benefits of barberry

Detoxification and purification property of liver and gallbladder

main duty of the liver in body is to purify blood from poisons and also producing bile for digesting fats, storing all kinds of vitamins and nutrition and also breaking down hormones. The duty of gallbladder is to store cholesterol bile that the liver has released. The berberine in barberry can increase releasing of bile that can exorcise extra cholesterol and waste materials of the body so the liver and gall bladder will be purified and cleaned.

Improve inflammation and gastrointestinal infections

 because of existence of berberine in barberry it has antibacterial, antifungal and antiprotozoal property. It stops bacteria to get connected to cells and prevents infection. Berberine in barberry can increase the release of bile that can regulate gastrointestinal process and works like a laxative. It is effective in inflammation improvement and gastrointestinal infection and also conflicts with infection of urinary bladder and urinary tract.

Positive effects of barberry on heart and kidney impressive healthy

because of having alkaloids and their antibiotic properties and also organic acid, the barberry has beneficial effects on renal patients especially whom have kidney stone. Barberry can change the PH of urine so the possibility of recurrence of some renal stone will be decreased. The disinfectant and purification property of barberry can help the heart to reduce fever, contract the vessels, lower blood pressure and adjust the heart rate. In traditional medicine, berberine is used to quench thirst because of its dry and cold nature.

Barberry the medicine of diabetes and weight loss

barberry has proved influences on blood sugar. The berberine in barberry can decrease the amount of blood sugar in the body of patients who has diabetes and can help to keep it in average rate. The reason of diabetes type 2 is disorder of the function of insulin. According to some researches on berberine which have done by scientists, using 500 mg of berberine 2 or 3 times a day is comparable to influence of using metformin which is used to treat diabetes. Berberine helps insulin to control the blood sugar better. By studying and examining on the rats, the scientists have found that eating barberry while decreasing the blood sugar by helping the function of insulin, can decrease the amount of fat in blood and improve disorders of metabolism of fat and glucose in body and causes weight loss in rats.

Addiction treatment

berberine alkaloid in barberry can treat the addiction to opium and can help addicts to get used to not using it. Effectiveness of this alkaloid has been frequently proven on animals which were addicted to opium artificially.

Side effects of barberry

impressive benefits of barberry on health is helpful for body. but the nature of barberry is dry and cold so over using it can cause poisoning and its signs are nose bleeding, vertigo, diarrhea and nephritis. Pregnant women should not over use it because the berberine can contract muscles so can cause abortion, barberry has positive and proven influence on adult liver but using it a lot in children can cause some liver problems, especially in infants can cause  neonatal jaundice.

Benefits of the leave of barberry

barberry leave is rich source of vitamin C, can reinforce the immune system and be helpful in treating scurvy. The leave of barberry by itself can improve bowel ulcer and treat chronic diarrhea. Chewing barberry leave reinforce gum tissue and teeth.

Normally, barberry is in 2 kinds. With seed and seedless. The barberry with seed is also known as black barberry that is harvested from shrubs which are grown wild in mountainous areas and cold weather. The seedless shrub plays the soil protective role in environment nature cycle because of its resistance and compatibility in hard weather. The color of this kind of barberry is black-colored and juicy so suitable for juicing. Impressive benefits of barberry on health caused besides using it in traditional medicine since many years ago, in recent decades in Iran and all over the world, modern medicine scientists have done many researches on its benefits on health because of berberine alkaloid.

The seedless barberry is also known as POLOEE (can be used in rice), have lots of usages in fresh and dried form. Recently some researches have been done on seedless barberry to produce  a variety of food products like barberry juice, soft drinks, nectar, jam, marmalade, sauce, fruit leather and …

The seedless dried barberry is used in Iranian dishes as seasoning, food additive and to color the food (e.g. ZERESHK POLOO that is a mixture of rice, chicken and barberry and is very delicious, chic and famous in gathering and parties).

The kind of ornamental shrubs of barberry are various in terms of form, size, color of leave and fruit. The kind with red leave can be used massively in grass and rock gardens. The evergreen kind can be used to make hedge in parks and green areas and also it is an ornamental 4 season shrub. Sometimes it can be used as fence/wall around farms because of its prickly compressed branches property.