Kora berezy is used in traditsionnoi medicine with drevnosti for active lekarstvennye properties. But in poslednee time in sviazi with vozrastaiushchim interesom to natural'nym, prirodnym istochnikam maintenance health, properties this plants izuchalis' with pomoshch'iu sovremennykh laboratornykh metodov. Takim obrazom eksperimental'no dokazany lechebnye properties extract kory berezy, thanks to content triterpenovykh soedinenii, in particular, betulina and poluchaemoi from nego betulinovoi acids.

IN khode poslednikh meditsinskikh issledovanii vyiasnilos' vazhnoe svoistvo betulinovoi acids – protivoopukholevoe. Ispol'zuemye in sovremennoi protivorakovoi therapy products osnovany on toksicheskom vozdeistvii on opukholevye cells. But this effect not is izbiratel'nym, and zakhvatyvaet and zdorovye cells, therefore tiazhelo perenositsia organizmom. It vyzyvaet very tiazhelye pobochnye iavleniia – toshnotu, rvotu, loss hair, sil'nuiu slabost'. Therefore uchenye iskali product, which budet vozdeistvovat' only on cells novoobrazovanii. Takim property has betulinovaia acid.

It vozdeistvuet izbiratel'no on rakovye cells, pronikaia skvoz' obolochku cells and vyzyvaia neobratimye sboi in their rabote.

Betulinovaia acid pronikaet in mitokhondrii rakovykh cells, zapuskaet process izbytochnoi vyrabotki antioksidantov and vyzyvaet their apoptoz (samounichtozhenie).

Studies also pokazali, which preparat betulinovoi acids helps protsessu restoration after khimioterapii, protects cells liver, kidneys, blood.

Proizvodnaia betulina – betulinovaia acid also helps protivostoiat' razrushaiushchemu vozdeistviiu free radicals, t. to. restores biomembrany cells, as by zalatyvaia their.

Betulinovaia acid shows protivovirusnuiu activity mnogim virusam grippa (tipa AND, ptitsy), and also prostogo gerpesa, gepatita WITH and dazhe VICh-1. This proiskhodit thanks to tomu, which it helps prevent razmnozhenie virusa in body. Tsennost' takogo prirodnogo protivovirusnogo komponenta zakliuchaetsia in that, which mnogie protivovirusnye products have riadom nezhelatel'nykh svoistv: toksichnost', kratkovremennyi period exposure, dorozhnosti, vrednye effekty. TO primeru, interferon with dlitel'nom primenenii vyzyvaet irritation and trevogu.

Betulinovaia acid predstavliaet soboi gepatoprotektor: helps prevent razrushenie cells liver, zashchishchaia their from exposure khimicheskikh and radioaktivnykh substances, stimulates formation zhelchki.