Rosehip - medicinal properties and contraindications

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

Dogrose is a thorny shrub that grows up to two meters. Otherwise, it is called the wild rose of May and wild rose. Flowering lasts from May to July, but most importantly for people the time when the fruits appear. This period falls in August - October. They have a spherical shape, quite 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 the dog rose during full maturity.

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

Autumn cooking processes

When it's time to pick a dog rose, you should know some features:

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

There are bushes of wild rose everywhere - in the floodplains of rivers and on meadows, in forests and near residential buildings, on chalky slopes and in gardens. She willingly bred amateur gardeners.

A dog rose has many species, more than 30. Most are low in vitamins, for example, dog rose hips. Especially distinguished healing properties of wild rose brown.

Before you dry the dog rose, you need to sort the fruits, but it is not recommended to wash them. If there is a desire, you can cut each fruit in half, sometimes they do it so that the long drying process does not destroy the nutrients. At home, without a special device, the fruit can be dried using one of the selected options:

1. Heat the oven to a temperature setting of 100 degrees, place the hips in it, but only for 5 - 10 minutes, not longer. Then reduce the heat to a temperature of 70 degrees, and dry until done.
2. Preheat the oven to 40 degrees and place in it a baking sheet on which the fruits are located, only in one layer. So they will be dried for an hour. Then increase the heat to 60 degrees.

Be sure to start the process, the oven must be heated to the desired temperature, and not send the fruit in the cold. Periodically, you must turn the dog rose and leave the door ajar to provide fresh air. You can make sure that everything is done correctly by pressing the fruit. If he springs, does not bend, then all the rules have been followed. If overdrying occurs, the dog rose starts to crumble.

It is advisable to rub the processed fruit in the hands to remove these sepals. Then they should be washed and dried. Before sending the crop for storage, you need to make sure that there are no undiluted fruits, otherwise they will all be quickly covered with mold. Therefore, it is advisable to level the humidity at room temperature for several days to keep the hips in paper packaging or a fabric bag,and only then put in glass or tin containers. Close better fabric base so that air can circulate freely.

The fruits retain their value for three years.

Composition

Rosehip is very useful, above all, the fact that in the pulp of the fruit are:

1. Vitamin C - up to 20 percent. Among other antioxidants, this vitamin is considered the strongest. He is able to bind free radicals, not allowing them to destroy the tissues of the body. He also increases the activity of antioxidants. Vitamin E is quickly restored from the oxidized form, provided that vitamin C is present nearby. Human ascorbic acid is necessary for it to regulate lipid levels, as well as blood clotting, to form connective and bone tissue, to regulate carbohydrate metabolism, to help the immune system. Vitamin C is useful in that it stimulates the production of interferon, which prevents viruses from entering the body to develop.
2. Vitamin B2. In order to form red blood cells, cell respiration is carried out, riboflavin is necessary. It facilitates the tissues of the body absorption of oxygen.
3. Vitamin R. Its task is to maintain the elasticity, structure and functioning of the blood vessels, blocking the possibility of sclerotic lesions. Rutin maintains the level of normal pressure, expanding blood vessels. Relieves swelling, exhibits a pronounced antiallergic and anti-inflammatory effect. Rutin reduces intraocular pressure.
4. Vitamin PP. It helps to assimilate high-quality protein from plant foods, and therefore nicotinic acid is especially useful for people who have excluded meat and fish from the diet, or for those who prefer dieting or fasting as a method of losing weight. Takes part in the metabolism of carbohydrates, normalizes gastric secretion and increases the motility of the stomach. If the body lacks this vitamin, dermatoses begin to develop immediately, the work of the gastrointestinal tract is disturbed, and nausea and vomiting, diarrhea or constipation, pain in the stomach area, and appetite disorder occur. Often, memory is reduced and weight is significantly lost.
5. Vitamin K. His presence is necessary during the blood coagulation process. Because dogrose quickly heals wounds. If this vitamin is not enough, begin frequent ruptures of small blood vessels.Also, phylloquinone enhances intestinal peristalsis 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. Important for reproductive function of the body.
7. Pectic substances. They reduce dangerous cholesterol and sugar levels, reduce the possibility of getting cancer.
8. Linoleic acid It allows you to lose weight, supports hormonal and water balances, does not allow skin inflammations and articulations to develop.
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 the dog 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 enter 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 were 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 the strongest antioxidant. Helps the plant to absorb iron better. If this element is not enough for the body, then the level of hemoglobin will catastrophically decrease, which will provoke such a disease as anemia. In this case, the immune system can not protect the body from the onslaught of diseases, vital energy will be reduced.

What benefits does a dog rose for a person?

Prolonged use of wild rose proved that it has many positive abilities, being such a means:

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

A set of vitamins and other beneficial substances helps the digestion process, the metabolism is better carried out. Rosehip is able to stimulate directly on the hematopoietic apparatus and even enhances the so-called phagocytic ability of leukocytes, does not allow the capillary fragility to rise. Even the usual decoctions will help restore performance and remove various types of fatigue - physical or mental.

Dogrose is very useful for schoolchildren, especially in spring, when the body is depleted, absent-mindedness and inattention appear. To overcome chronic fatigue syndrome, you will need to include in the diet and wild rose.

Doctors use rose hips as a medicine when treatment or prevention of avi-hypovitaminosis, asthenia, atherosclerosis is required. Wild rose helps in the treatment of liver and biliary tract, lungs, including tuberculosis.

Dogrose is included in many medicines, mixtures, vitamin fees.

The well-known rosehip oil is made from seeds, and its fruit produces syrups, extracts, rather tasty juices, pills, dragees, and even candy. Carotolin is produced from fruits.Most often it is used during the treatment of peptic ulcer and other types of ulcers, hemorrhoids, proctosigmoiditis, dermatosis. Also used when the treatment of wounds, bedsores and burns.

Traditional medicine is confident that the hips has much more opportunities, because they use it when treatment is necessary:

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

As a good and mild diuretic and laxative take peel and grains.

Also widely used rose hips in everyday life. From young fruits and even flowers prepare tasty jam and kvass, as well as nice dessert dishes and spirit tinctures.

Recipes

1. To get rid of blepharitis, barley or conjunctivitis, brew flowers, and then treated with eye baths. For this you need 10 grams. Boil flowers in 300 gr. water. On low heat you need to hold for 15 - 20 minutes. Then you need to insist under the lid closed, drain.
2. If you boil the flowers with honey, it is believed that such a tool is very helpful for erysipelas. Boiled root, make general or foot bath, when there was paralysis or myopathy. Ointment is made from the ash of the stalks to get rid of psoriasis.
3. Flowers of wild rose significantly tone the skin. To do this, their handful insist in 0.5 liters of boiling water. You can make ice cubes, pour the mixture into special baths, and then wipe your face.
4. Liver diseases and hypovitaminosis are treated as follows. 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 infuse 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 - 3 times a day, just before meals. Children, this infusion can also be taken, but a quarter or half a glass at a time.
5. Or you can make the medicine differently. 20 gr. fruits pour 0.5 boiling water and leave in a thermos for 10 hours. Calculate this dose three times, drink 30 minutes before meals.
6. If rectal prolapse occurs, fruit powder should be used. It is better to twist them in a meat grinder, it is desirable not to make large blanks. Powder is usually taken in a tablespoon after a meal.
7. Flatulence, diarrhea and atony of the stomach are treated as follows. Insist tablespoon 250 gr. boiling water for 10 minutes. It turns out the daily dose.
8. All sorts of colds can be cured by making the following remedy for rose hips. In a thermos insist 5 - 6 tablespoons of fruit, filled with a liter of boiling water. Drink throughout the day.
9. Rosehip oil is sold in the pharmacy chain. But at home it is also possible to do. Used 200 gr. seeds, but first they need to grind. You can use fresh fruit or already dried. They are boiled in 750 gr. sunflower oil or other plant origin. It is permissible to hold 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. More qualitatively this process is obtained with the help of a juicer.
10. Rosehip oil helps a lot with ulcerative colitis. It is used as microclysters for 10 to 15 days. A single dose of 50 ml.

Chronic pancreatitis, diseases of the biliary tract or liver are effectively treated by collecting herbs, in which large amounts of dogrose are present.For a remedy you will need:

• hips, dry grass of Hypericum - 5 parts;
• Tsmin flowers - about 6 parts;
• mint leaves, dried and chopped yarrow herb - 3 parts;
• shepherd's bag grass and flax seeds - 2 parts.

These infusions are recommended to drink twice a day before eating food during the month:

1. Usually, after chopping the wild rose, it is poured with boiling water, boiled for about fifteen minutes, and after forty minutes is left 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 taste, honey or sugar to make the infusion tastier, but before use it is better to strain, because the rosehip hairs irritate the digestive system.
2. Dried rosehips are taken - 2 tablespoons, thoroughly washed and crushed, filled with boiling water - 400 ml and cooked 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 Kissel

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

Contraindications

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

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