English: Silver Birch.
Content: coffee acid, gallic acid, chlorogenic acid; flavonoids; potassium; calcium; vitamin C, saponins; tannin; methyl salicylate.
Culture: holy tree of the Siberian shamans, with Agaricus muscarius; “brings light in the world, smothers noise, fights sickness and cleans” is an old Russian saying.
Botany: grows on sand, poor soil; pioneers, first trees after earthquakes or radiation accidents.
Source: Vermeulen Frans, Zee Harry van der, Meijer Marcel, Pelt Marguerite, Verheij Jannie,
Betula alba, A nurse dressed in white, Homeopathic Links, 1999.