Each of us is familiar with a small thorny shrub, popularly called a wild rose. This miracle plant is a wild rose, and it has been famous for its healing properties since ancient times.
In Russia, it was used as an excellent tool for recovery from serious epidemics and injuries, and simply as a natural restorative and tonic. In the east, this plant was considered sacred, giving strength and beauty. After all, dogrose is a pantry of substances necessary for the human body. Its fruits contain vitamins C, K, E, A, PP, a number of B vitamins, as well as phosphorus, potassium, iron, manganese, copper, magnesium, antioxidants. It also contains tannins, pectin, and essential oils. Therefore, the tincture or broth of rose hips is an indispensable tool for the prevention of spring vitamin deficiency.
More often for the preparation of all kinds of fees, mixtures, tea, decoction, infusion , it is the fruits that are used. The high content of vitamin C (up to 600 mg, which is several times higher than its content in lemons) helps to prevent atherosclerosis, improve blood quality, and increases the body's resistance to various diseases and infections.
Rosehip broth as a whole improves the activity of the cardiovascular system, normalizes blood pressure, strengthens blood vessels. It helps in the treatment of diseases of the liver, and the digestive system, and even the gallbladder, due to its high choleretic properties. It is used to treat colds, anemia, and many others. It is also believed that the dog rose is able to stimulate and regulate the functions of the gonads, being, as it were, a natural aphrodisiac.
How to make a decoction of wild rose, this magic remedy for all ailments?
Rose hips can be bought at the pharmacy, or you can cook them yourself. It is advisable to pick berries in September-October before the first frosts. At this time, they have a bright red color and are most valuable for their healing properties. Soft fruits are unsuitable for drying. Therefore, they can immediately be used for healing nectar. To do this, fill them with water and let stand for a night, and bring to a boil in the morning - a healthy drink is ready. Harder fruits can be dried to make a rosehip decoction in winter and to fill the needs of all family members for vitamins. Drying should be carried out at a temperature not exceeding 90 degrees.
Here's how to cook a rosehip broth
Rinse dried berries, pour into a saucepan with boiling water. Boil for 10 minutes with the lid closed. Then insist during the day, be sure to in a dark place so that vitamins do not break down, drain and drink.
Miracle drink can be prepared not only from rose hips, but also from its roots, leaves, petals. For example, a decoction of wild rose leaves promotes good stomach function. To do this, pour 2 handfuls of washed leaves pour a liter of boiling water, insist night, preferably in a thermos. The next day, drink in small portions after meals.
A decoction of rosehip roots is effective in diseases of the kidneys, intestines, stomach, urolithiasis. And they cook it like this: chopped dry roots are put in water, brought to a boil and simmer over low heat for half an hour. Insist a couple of hours, strain, dilute with water to obtain 1 liter, take half a glass between meals from 2 to 4 times a day.
Rosehip seed oil is also widely used. They make enemas with ulcerative colitis, drink a teaspoon twice a day as an anti-inflammatory, choleretic, diuretic. It is useful to apply wild rose petals on the face to improve the condition of the skin, as well as chew with anemia, bronchitis, vitamin deficiency, and cardiovascular diseases.
Despite all these miraculous properties of wild rose, you should be aware of the contraindications of its use with a predisposition to thrombophlebitis, thrombosis, with circulatory failure, endocarditis.