Rosehip - medicinal properties and contraindications

Many people have the most vivid childhood memories - how a grandmother treated a cold with rosehip infusion. And the care was pleasant, and the medicine was not nasty, and most importantly - it quickly helped. Rosehip really brings a lot of benefits, and all thanks to the amount of vitamins that a person needs to maintain health.

Rosehip is a thorny shrub that grows up to two meters. Otherwise, it is called the dogrose of May and wild rose. Flowering lasts from May to July, but most important for people is the time when the fruits appear. This period falls on August - October. They have a spherical shape, very small in size, and the colors are most often orange-red. It is believed that the largest set of valuable substances can be found in rose hips during full maturity.

For treatment, you need those fruits that are already ripe, but have not yet become soft. It is necessary to have time to harvest before the first frost. Less commonly, healers use roots and flowers, as well as galls - these are special growths located on the fruits.

Autumn cooking processes

When it is time to collect rose hips, you should know some features:

• Bushes should be located away from hazardous industries and highways;
• fruits should not be damaged and soft;
• peeled fruits should be with the stalk and the remnants of the calyx.

Wild rose bushes are found everywhere - in floodplains of rivers and in meadows, in forests and near residential buildings, on chalky slopes and in gardens. It is willingly bred by amateur gardeners.

Rosehips have many species, more than 30. Most are low-vitamin, for example, dog rose. The rosehip brown is especially distinguished by the healing properties.

Before you dry the rosehip, you need to sort out the fruits, but washing them is not recommended. If you want, you can cut each fruit in half, sometimes they do so so that the long drying process does not destroy the nutrients. At home, without a special appliance, the fruits can be dried using one of the selected options:

1. Heat the oven to a temperature of 100 degrees, place the rosehip in it, but only for 5 to 10 minutes, no longer. Then reduce the heat to a temperature of 70 degrees, and dry until tender.
2. Preheat the oven to 40 degrees and place in it a baking sheet, on which the fruits are located, in only one layer. So they will be dried for an hour. Then increase the fire to 60 degrees.

It is imperative that before starting the process, the oven must be warmed up to the required temperature, and not send the fruit to cold. From time to time it is necessary to turn the dogrose and leave the door ajar to provide access to fresh air. You can make sure that everything is done correctly by pressing the fetus. If he springs up, does not bend, then all the rules have been followed. If overdrying occurs, the rosehip begins to crumble.

It is advisable to grind the processed fruits in your hands to remove sepals by such actions. Then they should be washed and dried. Before sending the crop for storage, you need to make sure that there are no unfinished fruits, otherwise they will all quickly cover with mold. Therefore, it is advisable to even the humidity at room temperature for several days holding the dogrose in a paper bag or cloth bag, and only then transfer it to a glass or tin container. It is better to cover with a fabric base so that air can circulate freely.

Fruits retain their value for three years.

Structure

Rosehip is very useful, first of all, in the fact that in the pulp of fruits are:

1. Vitamin C - up to 20 percent. Among other antioxidants, this vitamin is considered the most powerful. It is able to bind free radicals, not allowing them to destroy the body's tissues. It also increases the activity of antioxidants. Vitamin E is quickly restored from the oxidized form, provided that vitamin C is present nearby. Ascorbic acid is necessary for a person to regulate lipid levels, as well as blood coagulability, form connective and bone tissues, regulate carbohydrate metabolism, and help the immune system. Vitamin C is useful in that it stimulates the production of interferon, which prevents viruses from entering the body from developing.
2. Vitamin B2. In order for red blood cells to form, cellular respiration is carried out, riboflavin is necessary. It facilitates the absorption of oxygen into body tissues.
3. Vitamin R. Its task is to maintain the elasticity, structure and functioning of blood vessels, blocking the possibility of sclerotic lesions. Rutin maintains a level of normal pressure by dilating blood vessels. Relieves edema, exhibits a pronounced anti-allergic and anti-inflammatory effect. Rutin reduces intraocular pressure.
4. Vitamin PP It helps to assimilate the quality of protein from plant foods, and therefore nicotinic acid is especially useful for people who exclude meat and fish from the diet, or those who prefer diets or starvation as a method of losing weight. It takes part in the metabolism of carbohydrates, normalizes gastric secretion and increases gastric motility. If the body lacks this vitamin, dermatoses begin to develop immediately, the gastrointestinal tract is disrupted, and as a result, nausea and vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, pain in the stomach, and an upset appetite appear. Often, memory is reduced and weight is significantly lost.
5. Vitamin K. His presence is necessary during the blood coagulation process. Because rosehip quickly heals wounds. If this vitamin is not enough, frequent ruptures of small blood vessels begin. Also, phylloquinone enhances the motility of the intestines and stomach, supports the normal functioning of the heart and liver, is involved, and very actively, in intracellular respiration.
6. Carotene. Thanks to him, immunity is enhanced, the body is protected from colds. As an antioxidant, it prevents the negative effects of free radicals. It is important for the reproductive function of the body.
7. Pectin substances. Reduce dangerous cholesterol and sugar levels, reduce the chance of getting cancer.
8. Linoleic acid. It allows you to reduce weight, supports hormonal and water balances, and prevents skin inflammation and articular inflammation.
9. Tannins. A strong antidote that can mitigate mercury and lead poisoning.
10. Flavonoids. In combination with a large amount of ascorbic acid, these substances acquire antihyaluronidase activity in wild rose. This means that the permeability of the connective tissue, intercellular spaces and capillary walls is reduced. As a result, puffiness is removed, and infections are difficult to penetrate into the body.
11. Fruit acids. Renew and stimulate cells, renewing the skin.
12. Tannins. Their greatest merit is hemostatic and anti-inflammatory capabilities.

A large percentage of salts of potassium, iron, as well as manganese, phosphorus and magnesium.

In the seeds found:

• Vitamin E
• carotene;
• fatty oil.

Leaves, roots, galls and bark contain tannins.

Due to the high content of vitamins, especially ascorbic acid, and bioflavonoids, rosehip has established itself as a powerful antioxidant. Helps the plant better absorb iron. If this element is not enough for the body, the hemoglobin level will catastrophically decrease, which will provoke a disease such as anemia.In this case, the immune system cannot protect the body from the invasion of diseases, and vital energy will be reduced.

What benefits does a dog rose bring to a person?

Long-term use of a wild rose has proven that it has many positive abilities, being such a tool:

• choleretic;
• diuretic and laxative;
• astringent;
• anti-inflammatory;
• soothing;
• anti-sclerotic;
• hemostatic, but not very strong;
• wound healing.

A set of vitamins and other beneficial substances helps the digestion process, metabolism is better. Rosehip is able to stimulate directly the hematopoietic apparatus and even enhances the so-called phagocytic ability of leukocytes, does not increase the fragility of capillaries. Even ordinary decoctions will help restore efficiency and remove different types of overwork - physical or mental.

Rosehip is very useful for schoolchildren, especially in spring, when the body is exhausted, distraction and carelessness appear. To overcome chronic fatigue syndrome, you will need to include a wild rose in your diet.

Doctors use rosehips as a medicine when treatment or prophylaxis for air hypovitaminosis, asthenia, and atherosclerosis is required. Wild rose helps in the treatment of the liver and biliary tract, lungs, including tuberculosis.

Rose hips are included in the composition of many medicines, medicines, vitamin fees.

The famous rosehip oil is made from seeds, and from its fruits syrups, extracts, rather tasty juices, tablets, dragees and even sweets are obtained. Carotoline is produced from the fruit. Most often they use it during the treatment of peptic ulcer and other types of ulcers, hemorrhoids, proctosigmoiditis, dermatosis. Also used when treatment of wounds, bedsores and burns is required.

Traditional medicine is confident that the rosehip has much wider possibilities, because they use it when treatment is needed:

• kidneys and stones in them;
• cystitis;
• worms;
• gall / bladder;
• the so-called anacid gastritis;
• developing peptic ulcer;
• severe bleeding gums;
• dropsy;
• frequent headache;
• diarrhea;
• sleep disorders.

As a good and mild diuretic and laxative, peel and grains are taken.

Rosehip is also widely used in everyday life. Delicious jam and kvass, as well as pleasant dessert dishes and alcohol tinctures, are prepared from young fruits and even flowers.

Recipes

1. To get rid of blepharitis, barley or conjunctivitis, the flowers are brewed and then treated with eye baths. To do this, 10 gr. boil flowers in 300 gr. water. On low heat you need to hold for 15 to 20 minutes. Then you need to insist under a closed lid, strain.
2. If you boil the flowers with honey, it is believed that such a tool is very helpful in erysipelas. After boiling the root, make general or foot baths when paralysis or myopathy has occurred. An ointment is made from the ash of the stems to get rid of psoriasis.
3. Wild rose flowers significantly tone the skin. To do this, their handful is insisted in 0.5 liters of boiling water. You can make ice cubes, pour the mixture into special baths, and then wipe the face.
4. Liver diseases and hypovitaminosis are treated like this. Take 4 teaspoons, this is about 20 g, and boiled in 0.5 l of water only in a closed container. Cook for 10 minutes, and then infused for 24 hours. Then you need to strain and squeeze. To make the medicine tastier and healthier, you need to add honey. You need to drink 0.5 cups or a whole glass 2 to 3 times a day, only before meals. For children, this infusion can also be taken, but a quarter or half a glass at a time.
5. Or you can do the medicine differently. 20 gr. fruit pour 0.5 boiling water and leave in a thermos for 10 hours. Calculate this dose three times, drink 30 minutes before eating.
6. If prolapse occurs, powder from the fruit should be used.It is better to twist them in a meat grinder, preferably large blanks should not be done. Powder is usually taken in a tablespoon after a meal.
7. Flatulence, diarrhea and atony of the stomach are treated like this. Insist a tablespoon of 250 g. boiling water for 10 minutes. It turns out the daily dose.
8. All sorts of colds can be cured if the following remedy is made from rose hip. In a thermos insist 5 to 6 tablespoons of fruit, drenched in a liter of boiling water. To drink during the day.
9. The pharmacy chain sells rosehip oil. But at home, it is also possible to do it. Used 200 gr. seeds, but first they need to be crushed. You can use fresh fruit or already dried. They are boiled in 750 gr. sunflower oil or other vegetable origin. It is permissible to keep the mixture in a water bath. Rosehip oil should be on fire for 5 hours. After the remedy has cooled, it should be wrung out. This process is obtained better with the help of a juicer.
10. Rosehip oil is very helpful for ulcerative colitis. It is used as a microclyster for 10 to 15 days. A single dose is 50 ml.

Chronic pancreatitis, diseases of the biliary tract or liver are effectively treated by the collection of medicinal herbs, in which rosehip is present in large quantities. For a medicinal product you will need:

• rose hips, dry St. John's wort grass - 5 parts;
• Tsmin flowers - about 6 parts;
• mint leaves, dried and chopped yarrow grass - 3 parts;
• shepherd’s bag grass and flax seeds - 2 parts.

It is recommended to drink these infusions twice a day before eating food for a month:

1. Usually, after chopping the rosehip, it is poured with boiling water, boiled for about fifteen minutes, and then left for forty minutes to infuse in a thermos. Another option is to simply pour boiling water over the fruit and leave it in a thermos for 12 hours. You can also add any herbs to your taste, honey or sugar, so that the infusion is tastier, but it is better to strain it before use, because the dogrose hairs irritate the digestive system.
2. Dried rosehips are taken - 2 tablespoons, washed thoroughly and crushed, poured with boiling water - 400 ml and boiled for 10 minutes. Then you need to leave the infusion in a warm place. It is also allowed to add honey or herbs for taste.

Dogrose jelly

Dried rosehips (50 g) are chopped and poured with one liter of water. Boil should be on low heat for 20 minutes, then strain the broth. Add sugar to taste, slices of lemon and pour in the starch, previously diluted in cold water. Bring the whole mixture to a boil.

Contraindications

Rosehip is contraindicated in people with thrombophlebitis, hyperacid gastritis and inadequate blood circulation.

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