Rosehip: beneficial properties for men and women

A descendant of wild rose - wild rose, is considered a pantry of healthy substances.Healers have been using its beneficial properties since ancient times. There is a beautiful legend about dogrose. The goddess Aphrodite and the young man Adonis fell in love with each other, but once a wild boar was killed while hunting Adonis. Aphrodite went in search of a dead lover, and while she was walking, her body was injured by the thorns of the bushes.

Blood dripped to the ground. When the goddess found the slain, she ordered his blood to become anemone flowers and at the time when the boy's blood turned into flowers, her own blood, which dropped to the ground during the search, suddenly turned into wonderful red berries - rosehip. Since those times, anemone and wild rose bloom together every year in spring, and wild rose berries have great healing power.

Surprisingly, wild rosehip contains 50 times more ascorbic acid than lemon. In addition, there is a sufficiently large amount of vitamins of group B, P, PP, K, A, E and mineral components - manganese, iron, potassium, magnesium, fluorine and phosphorus. Dogrose contains polysaccharides, organic acids, pectin, essential oils and lycopene. The plant hips contain useful substances in all their parts - flower petals, fruits, young sprigs, leaves and roots.

Effective preparations made on the basis of wild rose, in diseases of the kidneys or gall bladder - the components of the plant are able to dissolve the stones formed in these organs. Wild rose will help cure joint or muscle pain - arthritis, arthrosis, sciatica, and myalgia. It helps well the course of decoctions during the treatment of infectious diseases of the intestines, with gastritis with a reduced level of hydrochloric acid production, to heal long-cicatrized wounds and skin ulcers, and simply to invigorate the body and strengthen its immunity. Rosehip take at any age, children and adults. Everyone will find for themselves how to apply the beneficial qualities of this medicinal plant.

To restore strength and endurance, men take a decoction of wild rose. Even during the reign of Ivan the Terrible, the royal army in campaigns to strengthen the body and quickly heal wounds were preparing drinks from the most valuable dog rose for those times.

Rosehip preparations are used in combination with the main drug therapy course prescribed by a doctor. Here are the most effective recipes that were made by herbalists specifically for men:

• Prostatitis - Take 5 tablespoons of dried rosehips, add a tablespoon of hawthorn fruit with half a liter of boiling water to them and cook in a water bath for half an hour. Then cover the broth to leave to infuse until cool. Strained through a sieve drink to take a quarter glass a hour before meals at the rate of 3-4 doses per day. The course of treatment is 2 weeks;
• When prostate adenoma - Cook the broth hips, pour a glass of boiling water with a tablespoon of berries, let it brew for 2 hours, then strain. To the resulting infusion add 2 tablespoons of dried leaves of burdock. The mixture is boiled in a water bath for at least 30 minutes, then covered with a lid, let it brew for about 6 hours. Infusion is filtered, and then take two tablespoons an hour before meals 4-6 times daily. The course of treatment is 4 weeks;

• With premature ejaculation - prepare the broth, consisting of two tablespoons of rosehip, one tablespoon of grass three leaf watch, calendula flowers and motherwort.Raw materials are poured with half a liter of water and brought to a boil in a water bath, and then insist in a warm place. Drink the filtered broth 1/3 cup three times a day. The course of treatment is one month;
• To improve potency - squeeze out juice from fresh agave or aloe, it is possible with pulp, it will need 150 milliliters. Add to it two tablespoons of chopped parsley seeds and rosehip berries. Red wine with honey in a ratio of 1: 1 (approximately 250 grams) is mixed with each other and the rest of the crushed ingredients are added to the composition. The resulting drink is infused for up to two weeks, stirring occasionally. The tincture is filtered, then taken in a tablespoon before meals 4-5 times a day. Continue the course of treatment until the remedy is over.

The benefits to the woman's body from rosehip are great - it is able to recuperate, vitamin-mineral balance after pregnancy and childbirth, increases the amount of hemoglobin, helps with uterine bleeding, improves the body's metabolism, being a powerful antioxidant.

Often, women with weight loss use broth hips between meals - The process of weight loss while significantly accelerating, and the body - rejuvenates.

Rosehip copes well with edema, having a diuretic effect, in addition, it perfectly cleans blood vessels from cholesterol plaques. With regular use of hips, nail plates and hair are strengthened. Try for yourself these simple recipes of infusions or decoctions that can be prepared at home:

• Dogrose broth during pregnancy - A glass of dried rosehips brewed with half a liter of boiling water, let it stand warm for 6-10 hours. This is best done in a thermos with a glass flask. Then drink the filter, add to it a bit of natural honey. Take half a glass for an hour before meals three times a day;
• For detoxification - in a thermos placed on a tablespoon of wild rose berries, birch buds, pharmaceutical chamomile and immortelle, then pour 1500 milliliters of boiling water, leaving to infuse for 6-8 hours. It is best to brew the infusion in the evening, so that in the morning it is ready for use. Vitamin drink you need to drink on the dining-room three times a day for at least a month. Such therapy removes toxins from the body, regulates the work of the digestive organs;

• With uterine bleeding - 100 grams of dry fruits brew three glasses of boiling water and leave to infuse overnight in a warm place. Take 5 times a day for half a glass before a meal. Honey can be added to the drink;
• With oily skin - a tablespoon of berries cleared of seeds with needles is kneaded to a puree state (for this, the berries can be blanched in boiling water for 5 minutes) egg white and one teaspoon of lemon juice are added to it. To make it convenient to apply the composition to the face, cosmetic clay is added to it. The resulting mask is applied to the skin of the face, keeping for 30 minutes, then washed off with water. The mask narrows the enlarged pores, tones the skin;
• Rose Hip Scrub - The seeds of the fruit are crushed with a coffee grinder, a teaspoon of raw materials is mixed with a spoon of sour cream and a few drops of lemon juice are added. The resulting mixture is applied in a circular motion on the face and washed off after a few minutes.

Products for ozodorovleniya female body can be taken in combination with medical drugs, but you should always consult with your doctor for the selection of the dose and duration of the course.

Modern medicine uses only the hips. Roots, shoots, and also petals of a wild rose are used to treat healers and herbalists.All parts of the plant can be regarded as an effective therapeutic tool, but its use must be consciously approached, as there are a number of contraindications. Do not use dogrose if:

• there are inflammatory processes of the heart membrane - myocarditis, pericarditis;
• the presence of thrombophlebitis and the tendency to form blood clots;
• gastritis with increased secretion and stomach ulcers or duodenal ulcers;
• hypervitaminosis;
• liver or kidney disease in the stage of decompensation;
• sudden drops in blood pressure;
• the tendency of the body to allergic and atopic reactions;
• damage or thinning of tooth enamel.

In addition, in the preparation of decoctions, infusions, tinctures or other products can not use metal containers, as they will react with ascorbic acid, forming harmful metal oxides.

Before using the fruit and other parts of the wild rose, people do not know exactly how long you can drink the wild rose. Doctors and herbalists are unanimous that it is useful to take it in short courses with a break of 2-3 months, so a year of such health procedures is recruited 3 or 4. Rosehip is taken not only as a medicine, but also as a tasty treat. You can find many interesting recipes for making this unique gift of nature so that it will bring benefit and pleasure:

• Homemade Wine Drink - take one and a half kilograms of dry crushed berries, 20 grams of yeast, 5 kilograms of sugar and 15 liters of water. The ingredients are mixed and infused in the heat for 90 days, periodically mixing the components. Then the infusion is filtered and 200 grams of alcohol are added to it, leaving it to stand for another 90 days. It turns out great homemade vitamin wine;
• Vitamin Jelly - 100 grams of dried fruit pour two cups of water and cook over low heat until half an hour. Broth strain, pour into another container, and chop the berries to a state of mashed potatoes, add a glass of boiling water to the mass and bring to a boil. We filter the mass through a sieve or cheesecloth, and add the resulting liquid to the previously deferred decoction. After that we introduce two tablespoons of starch diluted in boiled water;

• "Coffee" drink from rose hips - hips should not be thrown away during harvesting. If you overcook them, grind and brew instead of coffee, you get a flavored drink with a very interesting taste;
• Vitamin decoction - three tablespoons of pine needles, a handful of onion peel and half a cup of rose hips boil in a water bath for about 30 minutes. After that, remove the container from the heat, wrap it up and let it stay warm for 10 hours. Strain the beverage and bring it to one liter with cold boiled water. Take a small cup three times a day.

Cook broths and infusions should be so that they have enough exactly for one day of admissionand then make a new batch again. So you get all the most valuable from the plant. Tinctures with the use of alcohol or vodka have a much longer shelf life.

Products from wild rose are universal, they can provide invaluable help with almost any problems of the body and improve the general condition of a person. Here are some tips that you can usefully take note of:

• If you have high blood pressure do not take alcohol preparations of wild rose - the pressure will go up even more. You need to drink infusions and decoctions in the water;
• Low blood pressure well stabilizes alcohol tincture of the hips, you can take it with tea;
• It is good for nursing mothers to have rosehip oil with them - by lubricating their nipples after feeding, it will prevent the development of cracks;
• Frozen dogrose decoction is an excellent cosmetic for toning the skin. Wipe your face with an ice cube, and the result will greatly please you;
• Rosehip essential oil when spraying it indoors will help avoid colds, as it is a strong bactericidal agent;

• A decoction of wild rose petals, used as a compress, relieves eye fatigue, eyelid swelling;
• To quickly recover from a long illness, you need to replace the usual tea with broth from the hips - the forces will quickly return to you;
• Remember that rosehip is able to whet the appetite, so those who want to lose weight, you need to take into account this property and not take it after meals;
• Avoid sunlight on raw materials and finished products from wild roses - they lose their healing properties under the influence of ultraviolet radiation.

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