Birch juices
Birch sap is a health elixir. It is the sap that awakens the birch tree to a new spring, new growth. Birch sap is a genuine, pure natural product, which flows through the birch tree in spring from root to tip. Birch sap embodies Nature’s own renewable energy cycle. The sap is living water, a health elixir whose every component also performs an important beneficial function in the human body.
Birch sap contains sugars, fruit acids, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, zinc, sodium and iron — to name but a few!
Birch sap is extracted from a birch tree. It is often a slightly sweet, watery liquid. When we speak about the Birch we should know that this family contains five species: Betula alba (White Birch), Betula pendula (Silver Birch), Betula lenta, Betula papyrifera, Betula fontinalis.
Birch sap must be collected during a specific time in the winter, depending on the species. The collected sap can be drunk as a tonic and it is a traditional beverage in Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Finland and elsewhere in Northern Europe as well as parts of northern China. Birch sap can also be used as an ingredient in food or drinks, such as birch beer.
Latin Name: Betula alba
Family: BETULACEAE
Useful part of the Birch: leaves, leaf buds, sap and inner bark
The main natural herbal remedies of Birch: Antibacterial, Febrifuge, Astringent, Diaphoretic, Bitter Tonic, Antirheumatic, Diuretic, Analgesic, Stimulant, Anthelmintic
The most common applications of Birch: compress for burns, bruises, wounds and eczema. You can use the Birch as a bath herb for skin problems, as a very good cream for rheumatism, for increase the hair growing and against of the dandruff. Lot of toothpaste, shampoos, perfume, contains the effective agents of birch. You can use the diluted oil decrease the inflamed teething gums. The essential oil of birch is used in healthful soaps and salves for psoriasis and eczema.
Culinary uses of Birch herbal plant: You can make wine or vinegar from the sap. Lot of people takes into the sweet syrups the birch sap (but you should use 80-100 gallons from the sap if you want to make one gallon of birch syrup). The Scandinavian and Canadian beer contains several time birch barks.
The main effective agent of the Birch herbal plant: betulinic acid, essential oil which is methyl salicylate, saponins, bitter principle, tannin, flavonoids (luteolin, hyperoside, quercitin), glycosides
Birch sap - the primitive drink of Slavs received from a cut of a tree trunk in the beginning of spring. Birch sap has strengthening and clearing properties for a human body. Birch sap received from a cut of a tree trunk. Then juice filtered, little bit sweetened and with the minimal additive of a citric acid. Juice contains natural carbohydrates, organic acids, mineral salts, structures of potassium, calcium, magnesium and copper, vitamins B (group), vitamin C and other micro cells.
To drink birch sap in the pure state is a pleasure. It is a pleasant, freshening immunity strengthening drink. Since olden days, it has been famous for the curative properties- it is ecologically pure, tasty, curative, freshening soft drink.
While sticky leaflets have not dismissed yet, (approximately one month prior to occurrence of leaves and flowering, during thawing snow), the sap ascent begins, also known as "crying of a birch ". Within 15-20 days, the birch gives us sweet birch sap.
How to extract juice correctly? It is necessary to make a small cut on an external bark and to turn a brace drill on the smoothed out place on the three - four centimeters. Juice will flow. It is possible to attach a small tin trench, it is possible to overtake it in a bottle by means of gauze band.
After gathering juice it is necessary to cover densely a cut with plasticine, wax, a laundry soap or to fill it with moss. It will protect a tree from penetration of bacteria and mushrooms.
Natural birch sap is known for the curative properties
For the medicinal purposes two kinds of a birch are used - hanging and sprawling. Buds, leaves, the juice, the activated coal, the tar are used received by means of dry distillation of wood, xylitol - a sugar substitute for those patients with diabetes, received from wood waste, - and all this is widely applied in medicine.
Useful biological compounds, salts and minerals, being dissolved in juice, form almost a universal medicine. It contains 0,5 - 2 % of sugar, is vitamin-rich.
The structure of juice includes enzymes, organic acids, tannins, salts of calcium, potassium, iron, vegetative hormones, glucose and the substances possessing high antimicrobic activity (phitoncide).
Every year the person should consume not less than 8-10 l of birch sap. Birch sap destroys uric stones, is effective at treatment of stomach and liver ulcer, headaches, bronchitis, cough, and also at rheumatism, radiculitis and arthritis, removes harmful substances from an organism.
Above all, birch sap possesses recycling capabilities and stimulates metabolism, it is also a fine dietary and freshening drink.
Regular consumption of birch sap renders fortifying and tonic action. Spring birch sap is taken at avitaminosis, allergic diseases, kidney and bladder stones , scrofula, a scurvy, cold, anemia.
Above all, birch sap possesses recycling capabilities and stimulates metabolism, it is also a fine dietary and freshening drink.
It is also especially useful for those suffering tuberculosis, quinsy.
Birch sap is rich in nicotinic, apple and glutaminic organic acids. It contains potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron and tannins. Due to these components, birch sap possesses good tonic cosmetic properties.
I made some research on the web and here is what I found:
I would become a barrel in that case ;D . I drank nearly 10 litres over few days, and only because soon the season of birch juice gatering very short and almost over. 
