Let's talk about wild rose. This beautiful bush has been familiar to mankind for several millennia. Rosehip grows in the wild, and in urban gardens and parks. It is popular in many countries. And not only because of the beauty of this bush bred. Dogrose is a storehouse of health, a source of vitamins and medications.
What is useful for our health can give us rose hips?
Rose hips are most often used as medicinal raw materials . They contain a lot of vitamins and minerals important to humans. Rosehips have a lot of vitamin C, vitamin P, as well as vitamins B and E.
Vitamin C in rose hips is even greater than in lemon. Vitamin C acts as an antioxidant, promoting cell renewal. Rosehip also has high phytocidal and bactericidal properties.
In modern medicine, rose hips are used very actively. Almost everything is involved: fruits, roots, leaves. However, for home use, fruits are best suited. It is from them that you can prepare delicious and healthy therapeutic and preventive teas and decoctions at home.
The regular use of rose hips promotes tissue regeneration and the synthesis of hormones. Rosehip is useful for people experiencing increased physical and mental stress. It helps to recover from injuries and various diseases. Rosehip is also an excellent way to prevent colds and flu.
Especially relevant is its use in the winter. When we are so lacking in vitamins, the prevention of colds is so important.
Rosehip infusion, rosehip tincture for vodka, rosehip infusion in a thermos are the simplest and most effective ways to prepare rosehips.
Let's look at all 3 of these methods.
Cooking rosehip infusion:
For cooking, whole fruits are taken in the amount of one tablespoon per one glass of boiling water. They must first be washed with cold water. After that, they need to be boiled for 10 minutes, and then insist for 20-24 hours. After insisting, the infusion must be filtered. Prepared in this way, the infusion retains up to 90 percent of vitamin C. It is enough to drink half a glass a day.
Another way to prepare rosehip infusion:
Rinse the cleaned fruits with cold water, grind and pour boiling water, at the rate of 1 cup boiling water per 1 tablespoon of fruit. Then all this must be boiled under the lid for 10 minutes and insisted for 2-3 hours in the same bowl. Then strain the resulting broth through cheesecloth, squeeze, drink half a glass a day.
Rosehip tincture on vodka:
Shredded rose hips are taken - 5 tablespoons and 500 ml. vodka.
The fruits are poured into a jar and poured with vodka. Then the bank should be put in a dark place for 2 weeks. Moreover, every day it must be shaken. After 15 days, the finished tincture should be filtered.
This tincture should be treated as a drug, and not as an alcoholic product. Therefore, you need to drink it a little, about 2-3 tablespoons a day.
Rosehip infusion in a thermos:
This is perhaps the easiest way to cook rose hips. The washed berries should be poured with boiling water and close the thermos. Fruits must be infused for at least 6 hours. As a result, we get a warm, delicious broth that can be drunk instead of tea or mixed with it.
Rosehip teas do not cause side effects, so you can drink them regularly. Due to the high content of vitamin C, rosehip drinks have a sour taste, so add a little honey, then the drink will become really pleasant.
Rosehip is undoubtedly useful to almost everyone. However, there are some contraindications to its use. This is diabetes, thrombophlebitis, circulatory failure.