How to brew rosehip

Rosehip is a rather unpretentious shrub of the family pink. Wild and cultural forms grow in our latitudes everywhere. With its name, this shrub is owed to the presence of thorns (spikes) intended to protect against eating animals. The “wild rose”, as the people called the rosehip, captivates with delicate flowers and a pleasant aroma, and is also a natural storehouse of useful substances. Its fruits, petals, roots and seeds have healing power - the wild rose is much superior to many medicinal plants in terms of the concentration of nutrients. Everyone can use such gifts for healing, while it is important to learn how to brew rosehip on their own.

Healing properties of a wild rose

The fruits of this shrub are a rich source of antioxidants, have a pronounced phytoncide and bactericidal effect, include a significant amount of vitamin C, as well as P and K, which contribute to the fastest tissue regeneration and the speedy bone fusion. Due to the valuable polyvitamin composition and the presence of a vast complex of microelements, rosehips can be widely used for healing, as well as for medicinal purposes.

A variety of vitamin extracts and extracts, syrups, teas, infusions and decoctions of wild rose fruits are successfully used in folk medicine as healing support - in exhaustion, anemia, a general breakdown of forces and vitamin deficiency, caused, first of all, the lack of vitamin C. These funds are useful to maintain the normal functioning of various organs, destroy harmful bacteria and help eliminate inflammatory processes in the body, eliminate bleeding, and also reduce increased pressure and saturate the body with iron. Rosehip seed oil oil is traditionally used in folk medicine as a preventive and healing external remedy for healing wounds and cracks, in the treatment of irritation and inflammation, as well as eccentric, ulcers and burns.

With colds, to enhance the body's defenses, it is recommended to brew rosehip fruits - such decoctions of anti -inflammatory and diuretics are almost irreplaceable.   In addition, a healing drink from rosehips regulates carbohydrate metabolism and has a beneficial effect on the functioning of various organs, including liver and kidneys, gall bladder, as well as bone marrow. Rosehip root has a pronounced astringent effect. Decoctions and infusions of the fruit of the wild rose gently regulate the work of the gastrointestinal tract, they can also be used as an antiseptic agent for the oral cavity for gum diseases.

How to brew rosehip: methods

If you are interested in whether it is possible to brew rosehip by preserving its useful action as much as possible, then the following information will be useful. The use of such a drink is found in any case if you take care of your health. Learn how to properly brew rosehip in order to preserve the largest amount of useful substances is quite possible for everyone. To prepare a healing drink, it is necessary to observe the ratio of water and fruits of a wild rose in a proportion of about 1:10, i.e. About 4 tablespoons per liter of water. To brew rosehip, preserving the maximum of useful action in the obtained infusion or decoction, it will be necessary to observe proportions, as well as the temperature regime and the time required to prepare and insist it.

Useful raw materials for the preparation of a drink from a wild rose can be prepared independently. This shrub can be found not only in garden areas, but also in the wild - it grows everywhere in the forest, in glades and in ravines. If you are not too lazy to collect ripe fruits in the autumn period, you can stock up on a delicious vitamin help for a whole year.

It is worth considering that the fruits are first recommended to grind, in which case the preparation time of the useful drink will decrease significantly. You can brew rosehip in a thermos in the form of whole fruits, in which case the process of making a drink will take more time. For insisting the fruits of a wild rose, it is recommended to use a thermos with a glass flask, since these conditions are considered the most suitable for maintaining nutrients. In this case, you can prepare a drink with a soft and pleasant taste, as well as preserving the most useful effect of fruits.

How to brew rosehip fresh

The largest number of substances healthy substances can be removed if fresh rosehip is brewed. The ripening period of its fruits is usually several weeks. Rosehip collected in this period is especially rich in useful substances.

Boil rose hips to save vitamins, can be as follows:

• wash the fruits, open and remove rough “villi” from them, which can cause irritation and sore throat, and then knead fruits and seeds with a fork;
• this mass should be placed in a glass container (best into a thermos glass flask) and pour boiled water with a temperature of about 60 ° C (not higher, since high -temperature processing destroys vitamins and minerals). The optimal cooking proportion is 1 tsp. fruit fruits per glass of warm water;
• cover the liquid with a lid and insist for an hour;
• after the specified time, the infusion is filtered into a separate container and set aside;
• the filtered mass of fruits should be placed in a pan and pour water at the rate of 500 ml per 1 tsp. rosehip;
• this fluid will need to be boiled for a quarter of an hour over low heat, and then strain and cool to room temperature;
• next, mix the infusion with a decoction. If desired, honey can be added to this drink.

The rosehip brewed in this way is very useful, since the freshly prepared infusion retains most vitamins and minerals that react to boiling, and by boiling, the maximum number of other healing substances can be removed from it.

How to brew rosehip dried

Dried wild rose fruits can be used for healing throughout the year. Such rosehips can be brewed as follows:

• rinse under running water, and then grind with a blender, coffee grinder or meat grinder (while removing fibers inside the fruits is not required);
• the resulting gruel should be placed in a thermos glass flask and poured with boiled water with a temperature of about 60 ° C, closed with a lid and insisted for at least 45 minutes, and then strain;
• pour the slurry from the fruits with hot water (at the rate of 1 tsp, a shyprus at 500 ml of liquid), bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for half an hour;
• next, you need to strain the decoction, cool it to room temperature, and then mix it with previously prepared infusion. If desired, honey, sugar or other sweetener from your choice can be added to the resulting drink.

If you want to brew dried rose hips with whole fruits, get ready for the fact that such a process will require much more time - for effective brewing a useful drink, you may need at least 7 hours. It is most convenient to brew rosehip at night to enjoy the pleasant taste of the finished drink in the morning.

How to brew rosehip to increase immunity

With malaise and weaknesses, as well as for healing and strengthening immunity, you can prepare warming tea from rosehips. To do this, you need to grind the fruits at the rate of 1 tbsp. On a glass of water, pour them with boiling water and insist for 10-12 minutes. In such tea, you can also add hibiscus (Sudanese rose), mint, green or black tea.

In addition, to enhance the protective forces of the body, you can brew rosehip in a water bath. To do this, you need to grind 2 tbsp. fruits and pour them 350 ml of hot boiled water. Next, the container with rose hips should be placed in a large container in the form of a metal bucket or pot with boiling water and stimulating for a quarter of an hour. The resulting drink should be cooled to room temperature and strain.

Rosehip petals are also very useful - they can be used in fresh or dried form. To do this, they are brewed like ordinary tea-separately or along with tea tea leaves, flooding with boiling water and insisting for 10-12 minutes. Such tea has a pleasant aroma and taste and is very useful for diseases of the gallbladder.

How to brew rosehip for weight loss

Many people will be useful for information on how to brew and how to drink rose hips for weight loss. Due to the content of vitamins and microelements in the whole complex, a drink from these fruits can be used to reduce weight and maintain the body's strength in the use of various diets. The nutrients included in it contribute to the normalization of metabolism and the further acceleration of metabolism. To do this, use a healing decoction of rosehip fruits several times a day, while the course of effective healing should be at least three to four weeks.

You can brew rosehip for weight loss as follows - put in a thermos and pour 3 tbsp. dried fruits with a liter of hot boiled water, and then leave to infuse for 10-12 hours. The resulting drink is recommended to be consumed 30 minutes before eating several times a day.

When planning a diet, it should be borne in mind that the dried rosehip fruits are quite high -calorie - about 110 kcal per 100 g of such useful raw materials.

How to brew rosehip during pregnancy

It is worth noting that for most medicinal plants there are a significant number of contraindications for their use, especially during pregnancy. Nevertheless, rosehip is not among them - in most cases, a drink from it will be very useful as a means for the prevention of colds and viral diseases, as well as for healing and vitamin support of the body of a pregnant woman. In addition, due to the easy diuretic effect, rose hips is characterized by an unloading action. Thus, the moderate use of this drink (up to 1 liter per day) is the safest method of protecting and strengthening the immune forces of the body during pregnancy.

Contraindications to rosehip

Despite the undoubted utility in most cases, there are some restrictions on the use of a drink from rosehips. These include the presence of individual intolerance in the form of an allergic reaction to a large dose of vitamin C. In addition, a drink from rosehips should be used with caution in the presence of diabetes, as well as gallstone disease. In the presence of a number of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, in particular ulcers and gastritis, a drink, which includes a significant amount of vitamin C, can also be contraindicated, so that before its use it is necessary to consult a doctor.

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