Jam is made from barberry, jellies, juices, syrups, sorbets are prepared, and berries are added as a pleasant sour seasoning in savory sauces for game (quite good for goose), roasted beef and veal. For example, try to boil lean veal in lightly salted water with simple roots over low heat, then cool, cover the remaining broth with starch, diluted with a mixture of barberry juice and pomegranate juice and let it harden - lick your fingers! In some cuisines of the peoples of the Caucasus and Transcaucasia, berries are added to horseradish, and in Central Asia they are certainly placed in pilaf and added to the filling for kupat. Unripe berries of barberry are sometimes pickled or salted and served with meat and game. This method was well known in pre-revolutionary Russian cuisine.
Berries of barberry are widely used in dishes of Caucasian cuisine, are part of many national seasonings, and are added to meat dishes. Most of the barberries are very decorative and used in single or group plantings, hedges, and undersized species - on stony hills and in the form of borders. Bright autumn coloring of leaves and fruits, long stored on the bushes, further enhances their decorative effect.
Barberry has long been revered in Russia for its medicinal properties.
Tincture of bark, stems and roots is used to stop bleeding, relieve inflammatory processes, and treat colds. Berries of barberry increase appetite and also have strong antibiotic properties, this is an old Russian remedy for hypertension, it effectively stimulates the immune system, lowers blood pressure, is useful for liver diseases, and in some cases reduces tumors.
According to pharmacological experiments, water infusions and decoctions (1:10), alcohol tincture (1: 5) and liquid alcohol extract (1:10) from leaves and bark of branches, roots of barberry, ordinary are a uterine remedy. By the decision of the Pharmacological Committee of the Ministry of Health, alcohol tincture from the leaves of barberry ordinary was introduced into medical practice as a hemostatic agent for uterine bleeding.
Berberine alkaloid, isolated from the roots of barberry in the form of sulfuric acid salt, proposed by VILR as a choleretic agent, is administered orally at 0.0005 g of Z. per day for 10 days (repeated cycles with an interval of 5 days). Also used is alcohol tincture from the leaves of barberry ordinary and fruit juice for jaundice, with diseases of the gall bladder and liver as an anti-inflammatory agent. The bark also includes the drug cholelitin for the treatment of diseases of the biliary tract. The alkaloid berberine isolated from barberry is used to treat leishmaniasis.
The bark of branches and berries have phytoncidal properties; protozoa die in 18 minutes. In folk medicine, the leaves and fruits of barberry vulgaris are widely used for heart diseases in the form of water infusion. In Sheki, Cuban and Kusarsk districts, a medicine is prepared from the fruits of barberry. To do this, pick the fruits, put them in bottles, add a little salt and water, tightly cover and leave to ferment until the color changes, pass through cheesecloth and drink with jaundice and other liver diseases. For the same purpose, fruit jam is also used. Berries in the form of water infusion are used for rheumatism as a soothing pain, for malaria as a diaphoretic, and also as an acidic drink that replaces lemon. A thick decoction of barberry bark is used for rheumatism and fever. Bark and fruits are used for diabetes. Berries matter sour drink.
It goes well with pilaf, meat and fish dishes, soups, legumes, vegetables.
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