Rosehip - Useful Properties Of Rosehip, Use And Contraindications Of Rosehip Fruits

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Rosehip

Useful properties of rose hips, the use of infusion and decoction of rose hips

Content:

• Useful properties of rose hips
• The use of rose hips for various diseases
• Rosehip decoction
• Rosehip infusion
• Contraindications

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Rosehip is an excellent medicine - primarily due to its high content of ascorbic acid (vitamin C) in an amount of at least two tenths of a percent. It also includes such useful substances as sugars, vitamins P and K and various organic substances.

Usually they use fresh or dried rose hips, the latter are often used to prepare infusions, juices, decoctions, tea and much more. Tea made from rose hips has many useful properties: first of all, it helps to relieve inflammation, serves to tone and strengthen the body, helps with sclerotic diseases, and also normalizes metabolic processes, the activity of the cardiovascular system, liver and gastrointestinal tract, has a positive effect on nervous system.

It is best to use rose hips, harvested before the onset of light cold weather, since even slightly, very slightly frozen berries lose their healing power. Next, the harvested berries are dried using an oven (temperature from 90 to 100 ° C, but taking care not to burn the berries) or using a dryer. If everything is done correctly, the berries will turn yellowish or dark red, burgundy. You can keep the berries in special bags or a jar with a lid for a maximum of two years. You can also apply rosehip flowers by picking them up when in bloom and drying like any other flowers, then infuse. This product improves skin condition.

Useful properties of rose hips

The beneficial properties of rose hips are an indisputable fact. It is known that rose hips contain a large amount of ascorbic acid (or vitamin C), in an amount of four to six percent, and sometimes about eighteen percent, in addition, rose hips contain vitamin E, and berries, in addition to ascorbic acid, include such vitamins like B, K, P (also called rutin), carotene, etc.

The plant contains a large amount of useful substances: up to eighteen percent sugar, up to one point and eight tenths of a percent malic acid and up to two percent citric acid, more than three percent pectins and more than four percent tannins, as well as many other substances - iron, calcium, salts potassium, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, essential oil, lycopene, etc. In terms of vitamin C content, rose hips are even ten times ahead of black currants, and also lemon - fifty times.

In addition, rose hips are an excellent bactericidal agent. The highest content of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is found in the eastern and northern parts of the forest sector, as well as the content of tannins.

Rosehip also serves to relieve inflammation, is a good diuretic and choleretic agent, and improves the function of the gastrointestinal tract. The big plus is that it does not have a negative effect on the kidney tissue. Vitamin C contained in rose hips has a positive effect on most of the body's redox reactions. Another advantage is the ability to inhibit deposits in the blood vessels of atheromatous masses, and thanks to the rosehip, the amount of cholesterol in the blood decreases and the spread of atherosclerosis disease stops.

Carotene contained in rose hips has a positive effect on the body's immunity, vitamin K improves blood clotting and helps in the formation of prothrombin, vitamin P strengthens capillaries, and also helps in the best absorption of vitamin C, vitamins B2 and B1 affect the hematopoietic organs, help in the synthesis of visual purpura and play a role in the formation of the yellow enzyme.

Rosehip application

There are syrups, powder, infusion and rosehip extract. They are used by:

• with anemia;
• with atherosclerosis;
• to get rid of digestive problems;
• with reduced gastric secretion;
• with bleeding of the uterus;
• in case of diseases of the female organs;
• with a failure in hematopoiesis;
• to increase the overall activity of the body due to the large amount of vitamins;
• with slowly healing wounds;
• with general exhaustion or anemia;
• with slow fusion of bones;
• with malaria;
• with chronic or other forms of intestinal or liver diseases, etc.

Rosehip decoction

This broth is an extremely good drug that increases immunity and helps in the treatment of many diseases. In this case, before using it, it is necessary to consult a specialist doctor who will help determine the dose. To create rosehip tea, you will need to add a glass of boiling water to a teaspoon of crushed leaves or fruits, then pour the composition into a thermos and let stand for several hours. You can do it differently: in the evening, pour the leaves or berries with water (cool), and in the morning put on the fire until it boils, then leave for a couple of hours.

The composition itself is useful for atherosclerosis, colds, disruptions in the endocrine system and metabolism, cholecystitis, hypovitaminosis C and P, nephritis, hepatitis, bronchial asthma, bowel and liver diseases, high bleeding, etc.

How to brew rose hips? There are two recipes for making a decoction. For the first, you need to take whole rose hips and place them in a thermos at the rate of two handfuls of five hundred milliliters, add very hot water there and leave for seven to eight hours (sometimes three), then pass through a strainer or gauze (always sterile) and add one teaspoon of sugar. The second recipe is more complicated, but also more effective: you need to take chopped berries, previously rid of the hairs, as they can cause irritation and a negative reaction of the body. For grinding, you can use a meat grinder so that the seeds come out (they also contain many vitamins). Further, without using a thermos, as in the first case, these berries should be poured with three hundred milliliters of water and cooked for about fifteen minutes. After the composition must be filtered. The resulting broth is recommended to drink before meals, half a glass two or three times a day.

Rosehip infusion

It is mainly used at home. The composition has a beneficial effect on the body, reduces or completely stops bleeding, promotes the excretion of bile, as well as strengthening and thickening of the blood capillaries. In addition, it helps the functioning of the gonads, and also heals burns, wounds and frostbite parts of the body, accelerates the restoration of bone and soft tissues due to its regenerating properties. Rosehips also have a slight laxative effect. The beneficial properties of cinnamon rosehip are also known: it promotes the movement of blood in the circulatory system of the vessels of the brain.

Rosehip infusion: you need to pour a liter of hot water into a thermos (or other dish) and add 3-4 tablespoons of berries, and then leave it alone until morning. Then the remedy can be drunk before meals, one glass, like tea, 3 times a day. Before taking, it is necessary to pass the infusion through a strainer or gauze. Rosehip infusion is stored for 2 days, after which it loses all the vitamins in it, nevertheless it will be useful for the digestive tract.

How to store vitamin C?

To guarantee the vitamins are preserved, it is better to chop the rose hips, pour hot water (40-55 ° C) and insist in a thermos for one hour.

However, there is another way. Rosehip needs to be poured into a jar (4 tablespoons are taken for 1 liter), and pour ordinary cool water, not hot! Close hermetically with a lid and leave in a dark place for 24 hours. Although this method is only suitable for fresh rose hips.

Contraindications to the use of rose hips

It is necessary to use this drug quite carefully. The fact is that rose hips contain a large amount of ascorbic acid, which can have an adverse effect on the body of people suffering from stomach diseases, for example, an ulcer or gastritis (with high acidity, with reduced acidity, on the contrary, it is useful). In this regard, the composition must be taken very carefully, observing a low dosage.

In addition, there is an adverse effect of rosehip infusion on teeth and enamel, therefore, after using it, you must rinse your mouth with plain water every time. In no case should you take rosehip-containing funds for those who have a predisposition to thrombophlebitis and thrombosis.

With caution, you need to take rosehips for heart disease, limit intake in cases of various kinds of heart diseases, for example, such as endocarditis (inflammation of the endocardium, or the inner lining of the heart).

Reception of the composition is undesirable for persons suffering from circulatory disorders. There is also a distinction in admission for those suffering from hypotonic illness and high blood pressure. For the former, it is recommended to take alcoholic infusions from rosehip and the intake of water infusion is contraindicated, for the latter, everything is exactly the opposite. That is, a person with increased arterial blood pressure takes an aqueous infusion, and alcohol is prohibited.

In addition, long-term treatment with rosehip-containing agents negatively affects liver function, up to non-infectious jaundice.

Care should be taken to use rose hips in the presence of various diseases of a dermatological nature; before use, patients require prior consultation with a doctor. Given that products containing rosehip root slow down the release of bile, these drugs are not prescribed for persons suffering from constipation, as the progression of the disease will follow. Medicines from parsley, celery or dill are used, which helps to soften the effect on the digestion and stomach, as well as reduce the formation of gas, which can also be a consequence of taking rosehip-containing products.

The author of the article: Kuzmina Vera Valerievna | Endocrinologist, nutritionist

Education: Diploma of the Russian State Medical University named after NI Pirogov with a degree in General Medicine (2004). Residency at Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry, diploma in Endocrinology (2006).