Medicinal and beneficial properties of wild rose flowers. Unusual common rosehip

The wild rose blooms delightfully - delicate petals thin out a delicate floral aroma and create a poetic mood. It’s a pity that the petals fly around quickly ... However, this beauty can be collected and wilted, and then enjoy delicious flower tea all winter. And not just tea. Extracts are prepared from the flowers of a wild rose (this is what the wild rose is called), which embellish the smell and taste of medicines. Dried petals are “stuffed” in fragrant pillows, on which it is so easy to fall asleep. Rosehips are also used to prepare rose oil, rose water for washing, cosmetic ice, infusions, and masks.

Rosehip tea

It is good to combine dry flowers with meadowsweet flowers and mint, you get a delicious drink. Or add rose petals to green tea, which immediately acquires a subtle floral flavor. Petal extract is added to honey, syrups, wine liqueurs and jams are made from flowers.

Rosehip flowers are also part of the tonic, anti-cold, immunity-boosting teas. Petals are useful for the prevention and auxiliary treatment of diseases of the urinary system, they stabilize the work of the pancreas, fight constipation and poor appetite. If rosehip preparations have a number of contraindications, then rosehip flowers are safer and, sometimes, more useful than berries. An infusion of rosehip flowers restores elasticity to the walls of the arteries and normalizes the functioning of the heart muscle, lowers cholesterol levels in the blood, removes sand in the bladder, helps to cope with renal colic and colds, helps to cope with neurosis and insomnia.

If you pour 100 grams of rosehip flowers with a glass of boiling water and boil this decoction for an hour, then you can make compresses for sore eyes. The same decoction (as well as infusion) is also used in cosmetology to combat age spots, asterisks, puffiness, and skin irritations. Washing water is also prepared from rosehip petals, which makes the skin supple.

Rosehip extracts are part of anti-aging cosmetics, and baths with wild rose petals soften the skin and help reduce stretch marks and cellulite.

Benefits of rosehip leaves

Together with rosehip flowers, we often bring leaves, they do not need to be thrown away. The leaves have a lot of tannin, so they are ideal for tea drinks. The leaves also contain catechins, saponins, flavonoids, polysaccharides, carotene, salicylic, coffee and vanillic acids, essential oils, vitamins (rose hips are especially rich in vitamin C, K, B1). Vitamin teas are prepared from the dried leaf to alleviate the symptoms of digestive diseases, because such teas relieve pain and improve the motor function of the stomach. The leaf helps with menstrual pain and rising temperature, high blood pressure and swelling (drinks from the rosehip leaf have a pronounced diuretic effect). Rosehip leaf can be fermented, drunk with honey, added fresh to vitamin green salads.

Rosehip leaf decoction recipe

Pour a tablespoon of the leaf with a glass of water, boil for a minute and leave for 40 minutes. Take half a glass three times a day, after meals. Such a decoction is taken for beriberi, diabetes and rheumatism.

The benefits of the roots and branches of wild rose

Both twigs and rosehip roots are used; in any form, this fragrant plant is useful and beautiful. The roots are harvested in the fall, they are recommended for people suffering from cholelithiasis and salt deposits in the joints. To prepare a decoction, you need to add a tablespoon of crushed rosehip roots to a glass of boiling water, boil the decoction for ten minutes and leave for a couple of hours. Take a decoction three times a day, after meals, half a glass.
A decoction is prepared from rosehip branches, which relieves pain in rheumatism and sciatica.

Attention!
Care should be taken when taking preparations from any part of the rosehip (especially tinctures) for people who have problems with blood clotting and a predisposition to thrombosis. Only under the supervision of doctors can rose hips be taken by those who have diseases of the heart and liver. It is also necessary to remember that preparations from rose hips on alcohol contribute to raising pressure. And water infusions, on the contrary, decrease.

From various herbs and berries. One of the most popular and favorite is rosehip tea. And this is by no means a new word in wellness nutrition.

The benefits of rosehip tea have been known since time immemorial.

Before the advent of the fashion for black tea and coffee in our country, people everywhere quenched their thirst with other drinks. In summer and autumn, in dry weather, people collected useful plants. The traditional infusions of herbs and berries that they drank every day included rosehip tea, the beneficial properties of which have been known since ancient times. For brewing, not only fruits were dried, but also flowers, leaves and even roots. Roots and leaves were used for medicinal purposes, and fragrant flowers and berries were brewed with boiling water and infused in a warm place - such a drink turned out to be especially fragrant. Leaves of raspberries, currants, mint and other fragrant herbs were added to the wild rose. Drinks were made from mixtures of rose hips with blueberries, sea buckthorn, chokeberries, blackberries and others.

Who can drink a decoction of wild rose fruits?

Traditional and folk medicine and in our time without fail recommends that everyone drink rosehip tea. Its benefits and harms depend only on the dosage. In the spring, when we suffer from beriberi, twice a day, a decoction of wild rose, or, as it is also called, wild rose, will only be appropriate. Rosehip tea is harmful only in case of immoderate consumption of the drink. In reasonable amounts, it improves overall well-being, normalizes blood pressure and improves metabolism.

What does a wild rose look like and where does it grow?

Rosehip is a low, up to two meters, thorny shrub. In our country, it can be found almost everywhere, with the exception of the Arctic territories. It is also widely distributed in America and Australia. The wild rose served as the basis for selective breeding of shrubs and breeding of ornamental varieties that are used to decorate parks, gardens, and to create bouquets. The fruits of wild and cultivated roses are very similar.

These are oval berries of red-brown color, up to two centimeters in the longest part. Inside, the fruit is covered with numerous bristles, which, when ingested, cause discomfort. Seeds are white, up to two millimeters in size. For medicinal purposes, only wild varieties are used. Rosehip cannot be confused with any other plant. The fragrance of its flowers is very recognizable. No wonder the essential oils obtained from the petals of its flowers are used in perfumery to create perfumes and to flavor creams and lotions.

Harvesting fruits

Rosehip varieties, it is also called not only a wild rose, but also a cinnamon rose, there are a lot, but not all of them are considered medicinal. For health and medicinal purposes, the fruits are not round, flattened towards the center, but oval and elongated in length. In medicinal species, the sepals are extended forward, like a peak, and in those that do not have vitamin value, they are twisted back towards the berry, and almost lie on it.

The shrub blooms from mid-May to July, and the ripened fruits are harvested in late summer and early autumn. After frost, they lose their healing qualities. And the beneficial properties of rosehip tea are largely due to the high content of vitamin C in the berries, which is quickly destroyed at low temperatures.

Compotes, jams, marshmallows are cooked from fresh rose hips. Fruit processing is a laborious task, since the berries must be cleaned of internal bristles and hard seeds. From one kilogram of freshly picked berries, less than half a kilogram of raw materials suitable for canning is obtained.

Internal bristles - an unpleasant feature of berries

Rose hips for tea can be taken fresh, dried, and also processed into syrup or jam. Since the wild rose has peculiar bristles inside, its processing presents a certain difficulty. These bristles will not cause inconvenience only if the berries are dried whole and have not been crushed to make tea. Sometimes, for medicinal purposes, it is recommended to brew dry berries, after grinding them. This is done if they want to get not only tasty, but also the most saturated with valuable microelements rosehip tea. The benefit of ground berries is that they contain vitamin E, carotene, tocopherol, oleic, linoleic, linolenic and other acids more easily pass into the drink.

What water to use?

One of the primary requirements for a tea drink is the quality of the water used for it. The recognized authority in terms of brewing medicinal infusions - Chinese medicine - divides water into seven types. The best - mountain or key, as well as spring. This water is of the highest quality. River in terms of useful properties follows her. Next on the list is well water. Nikolai Spafariy, who was ambassador to Beijing in the 17th century, recalled in his notes that the Chinese did not take water for brewing tea from nearby reservoirs, but bought it at the bazaar. It was brought from the mountainous regions, and it was very expensive.

The best water temperature for brewing rose hips

The temperature of the water for brewing is also of great importance. The Chinese, as the most authoritative specialists in the preparation of tea drinks, distinguish a great many stages of boiling water. One of the initial stages is bubbles that look like fish eyes and a slight noise, then a splash of water and splashes from a collision with the wall of the dish, then bubbles rising from the bottom and a “daring” seething. It is believed that the water most suitable for brewing tea is when the rising bubbles look like the eyes of a crab. At the first stage of boiling, salt should be thrown into the water, at the second - rose hips, and at the third - a little cold water to precipitate the rose hips and revive the freshness of the water. You should know that water cannot be boiled repeatedly.

10 secrets of good wild rose tea

Chinese medicine has developed ten rules for the proper preparation of medicinal decoctions, in particular, this is how rosehip tea should be brewed. The beneficial properties of the drink will be preserved most fully if you act in accordance with the following recommendations:

What determines the quality of fruits?

Rose hips contain fruit sugar, organic acids. According to the content of vitamin C, rosehip is ahead of almost all plant products. Its quantity directly depends on the place of growth, the degree of maturity and the quality of drying and storage. You should not pick berries from bushes growing in the city. To do this, it is better to go to ecologically clean zones, which are in almost every region of Russia. Dry fruits retain useful properties for two years.

The unique composition and beneficial effects of berries and tea

Fruits contain sugars, organic acids, in addition to the above vitamin C, also B vitamins (B 1, B 2), vitamins P and PP, K, carotene, tannins, flavonoids, salts of iron, manganese, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and etc. Rosehip tea has a multivitamin, anti-inflammatory and anti-sclerotic effect. It is very effective as a choleretic and diuretic. Rosehip stops internal bleeding. Vitamin C helps to increase the redox processes in the body, enhances the synthesis of hormones and the activity of enzymes. In addition, it promotes tissue renewal, increases the body's resistance to adverse environmental influences.

Green tea with rosehip

Rosehip green tea is recommended for hypertension, for the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis. It is very good as a general tonic. It is better to drink it in the morning on an empty stomach. This is a good prophylactic against many diseases. It normalizes the state of the nervous system, enhances potency. Green tea with wild rose berries relieves painful symptoms in gynecological and urological problems, promotes the healing of internal wounds and ulcers.

Rosehip tea: benefits and harms

The diuretic properties of wild rose are used in the treatment of urolithiasis. With inflammation of the gastric mucosa caused by low acidity of gastric juice, patients are also prescribed rosehip tea. Contraindications are diseases accompanied by high acidity. Since rosehip has a pronounced diuretic effect, it should be taken with caution by people with problems in the cardiovascular system.

multivitamin drink

Preventive and multivitamin tea from cinnamon rose berries is brewed as follows. Two full tablespoons of dried chopped fruits are poured with a glass of boiling water and kept in a water bath for about ten minutes. Then insist for half an hour in a warm place. Strain through a gauze filter and drink a third of a glass a day after meals.

Rosehip tea helps with anemia, hemophilia, hemorrhagic diathesis, diarrhea, tuberculosis and colds, it is drunk with neurasthenia as a sedative. Rosehip helps to alleviate the flow of many diseases. This is a universally recognized multivitamin and general tonic with a wide spectrum of action.

An effective decoction for the treatment of diseases of the stomach and intestines

Due to its rich and well-balanced composition, rose hips are widely used in the treatment of a large number of diseases. The fruits of this shrub are part of many medicinal collections. With a stomach ulcer or duodenal ulcer, as well as in the case of prolonged gastritis, the following collection is very effective:

• rose hips, 3 parts;
• cudweed 1 part;
• white rose flower petals, 1 part;
• chamomile flowers, 1 part;
• calendula flowers, 1 part;
• horsetail (shoots), 1 part;
• wormwood field (grass), 2 parts;
• common burdock (grass), 2 parts;
• 7 parts;
• plantain (leaves), 4 parts;
• Hypericum perforatum (grass), 4 parts;
• dill (seeds), 3 parts.

Pour a tablespoon of the mixture with boiling water (0.5 liters), sweat for 30 minutes, filter and drink throughout the day in several doses, 15-20 minutes before meals. The taste of the infusion is bitter due to wormwood and a large amount of yarrow. Rosehip tea, the recipe of which is given above, can be prepared from fresh berries and herbs. In this case, the proportions are preserved.

Rosehip tea is best sweetened with natural flower honey. Only honey should not be put in boiling water. It will lose its useful properties from this. Try making a wild rose berry drink with brown cane sugar. This is delicious.

Rosehip is translated from Latin as a rose.
According to various sources, there are from 300 to 500 species of wild rose, but only 366 species are officially recognized.
The fruits of many types of wild rose are edible fresh, dried is used in the form of tea (decoction). Puree, pasta, jam, jam, marmalade, marshmallow, compote, sweets, jelly, kvass and the like are prepared from rose hips.

Various dishes were prepared from rose petals in China. The flowers of wild rose are edible raw. Cinnamon rose hips are used to make jam, and wrinkled rose hips are used to make jam and jelly.
In the Caucasus, young shoots of roses were eaten as a vegetable.

The flower petals contain essential and fatty oils, organic acids, sugars, glycosides, flavonoids, tannins, anthocyanins, wax and vitamin C.

The leaves of the shrub contain vitamin C, tannins, catechins, flavonoids, phenolcarboxylic acids and their derivatives, the leaves of the rusty-red rosehip contain up to 55% of essential oil.

The fruits of this shrub are a real pantry of vitamins. Most of all they contain vitamin C (ascorbic acid), 10 times more than blackcurrant and 50 times more than lemon. They also contain carotene, from which vitamin A is formed in the body, they contain vitamins B2 (riboflavin), P (citrine), K, E, tannins, citric, malic and other acids, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron and phosphorus .
A choleretic agent, holosas, is produced from rose hips, which is prescribed for cholecystitis and hepatitis; prepare infusions, syrups, powders.
Doctors recommend using them for beriberi, diathesis, atherosclerosis, uterine bleeding, whooping cough, pneumonia, scarlet fever, diphtheria and many other diseases.
Vitamin C reduces the development of atherosclerosis, which usually affects the elderly; lowers the content of cholesterol in the blood, slows down its deposition in the blood vessels. Vitamin A is necessary to maintain normal vision, body growth, protects the skin and mucous membranes from keratinization. Vitamin B2 (riboflavin) promotes wound healing of chronic ulcers.

Vitamin extracts, syrups, tablets, dragees and decoctions from rose hips are used to treat and prevent diseases associated with a lack of vitamins in the body, especially vitamin C, with anemia and exhaustion. Rosehip preparations have a beneficial effect on carbohydrate metabolism, bone marrow, liver, and gallbladder functions. In homeopathy, fresh fruits and petals are used to prepare medicines.
The food industry produces various vitamin concentrates from rose hips, using them to enrich confectionery and other products.
Rose hips are the main vegetable raw material for vitamin plants. For this purpose, there are industrial rose hip plantations in all parts of the world, especially in Europe and Asia.
The canning industry produces jam from rose petals, and in the eastern provinces of France, preserves and jam from the fruits of this shrub are popular.
Of the species growing on the territory of Russia, the essential oil is given by the petals of the wild rose. Rose oil is the most expensive essential oil. During the distillation of the oil, rose water remains. Rose oil and its components are used to make the most expensive cosmetics, to flavor liqueurs, wines, confectionery, and some medicines.
Wild rose is widely used in traditional medicine - steam, decoction, syrup from its fruits are used for pulmonary tuberculosis, inflammation of the kidneys, diseases of the stomach, intestines, infectious and other diseases. A decoction of rosehip roots helps with disorders of the liver, spleen, the formation of sand and stones in the kidneys or bladder. In the beliefs of the Slavs, the red color of rose petals was associated with blood and therefore endowed them with the ability to stop blood. For the same reason, hemoptysis was treated with rose hips, for this they lubricated the teeth and gums with rose oil.


That's how they do it NAPAR OF ROSE HIPS
Pour a liter of water into an enameled pan or clay pot, put 2 tablespoons of sugar and put on fire. When the water begins to boil, half a glass of rose hips (chopped or pounded) is thrown into it, tightly closed with a lid and boiled over low heat for 10-12 minutes, after which they are placed in a cool place. After a day, the steam is filtered and drunk. Thickness can be used a second time, digesting it with sugar, but water is poured three times less. Napar is used for a day or two. It should be stored in a cool dark place.

ROSE HIPS
Two teaspoons (10 g) of crushed rose hips are poured with a glass of boiling water, boiled for a minute, insisted for half an hour, filtered.

Healthy people are advised to drink a glass of steam or a decoction of rose hips daily. This increases the body's defenses. Sick people suffering from metabolic disorders can drink two glasses a day, preferably before meals, and children - a quarter or half a glass.

ROSE HIP ROOT
Two tablespoons of crushed rosehip root are infused in raw cold water (half a liter), boiled for 20 minutes, cooled, filtered. Drink a glass three times a day. With strong urination, reduce the dose by half.

Rosehip or Rōsa is a well-known plant in our country from the Rosaceae family. In official and folk medicine, not only the fruits of this culture are in demand, but also the medicinal properties of rosehip flowers are widely used.

Botanical description

Bisexual flowers with a diameter of 1.5-10 cm can be either single or collected in corymbose or paniculate inflorescences. Some species have bracts. The pedicels are short, 0.55-1.75 cm long. The hypanthium is ovoid, spherical, bottle-shaped or pitcher-shaped, with a narrowing at the throat. Corollas of large size, with five petals, occasionally semi-double. Coloring can be red, yellow, creamy or white.

Sepals of the entire type may have an extended cusp. A pair of sepals has a bilateral dissection, and one has a one-sided dissection. Numerous and freely located stamens are complemented by two-nested anthers. The pistils, most often of a sessile type, adherent to the receptacle, are arranged spirally at the bottom of the hypanthium. Ovaries with hairs, single-nested type, freely located. The ovules are single-coated.

The healing and healing properties of wild rose flowers are used very widely.

Beneficial features

The beneficial qualities of rosehip flowers are easily explained by their chemical composition:

• essential and fatty oils that provide astringent, bactericidal and anti-inflammatory qualities;
• organic acids;
• glycosides and flavonoids;
• tannins;
• anthocyanins;
• wax;
• vitamin C or ascorbic acid.

Rosehip: harm and benefit (video)

The flowers of this ornamental culture are an excellent raw material for obtaining rose oil, which is very actively used in aromatherapy. On the basis of rose oil, Bulgarian manufacturers have launched the production of the famous drug "Rozanol", used in the treatment of diseases of the biliary tract, liver diseases, as well as to improve the condition of people suffering from urolithiasis. Ointments, gels and lotions with rose oil can heal long-term non-healing wounds.

Flower extracts are used to improve the taste and smell of medicines. Dried and ground rosehip petals are a popular addition to herbal fillings and soothing pillows.

The benefits of rose petals also determine their presence in a variety of herbal preparations used in traditional medicine to increase immunity, strengthen strength in colds and flu, and in the treatment of neurasthenia. Means based on rosehip flowers have proven themselves well in getting rid of conjunctivitis, hemorrhoids, and reducing the risk of allergic manifestations.

Medications based on rosehip petals for internal use are used for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, for the treatment of diarrhea, high blood pressure and atherosclerosis.

Contraindications

Expressed contraindications for the use of wild rose flowers are almost completely absent. It is necessary to limit the use of preparations based on rose petals with a tendency to allergies, and also be careful in taking such drugs in case of exacerbation of chronic diseases and individual intolerance to the components.

Indications for use

Decoctions and infusions based on rose petals are used for the preparation of both external and internal remedies. External agents are in demand for the treatment of blepharitis, conjunctivitis, skin ulcerations, burn surfaces, dermatitis and psoriasis, purulent dermatological infections, acne and furunculosis.

Medicines with rosehip petals for oral administration are in demand in the treatment of pathologies of the urinary system, atherosclerotic changes in blood vessels, heart attacks and pre-infarction conditions, ischemia and hemorrhagic strokes. Such drugs are recommended for reduced levels of pancreatic enzyme production and reduced appetite.

Infusions and decoctions of rose petals can heal:

• cholecystitis with the formation of stones;
• exacerbations with hepatic and renal colic;
• disorders in the hematopoietic systems;
• elevated cholesterol levels;
• conditions accompanied by beriberi and insomnia.

A positive effect is observed in the treatment of viral and bacterial infections.

Application methods

On the basis of rosehip flower petals, decoctions are prepared that have a pronounced therapeutic effect in the presence of erysipelas of the skin and eye diseases. To prepare the product, pour 0.1 kg of raw materials with a glass of boiling water and boil for an hour. Then the broth must be cooled and filtered. It is used as a lotion that is applied to the affected areas.

How to make a rosehip tincture (video)

Rosehip flowers are widely used in cosmetology in the form of compresses with decoctions or water infusions, which allow you to rejuvenate the skin, restore its smoothness and elasticity, eliminate puffiness and various defects, help get rid of age spots and spider veins. Cosmetologists recommend taking baths with the addition of rosehip flowers: this procedure moisturizes and effectively softens the skin, relieves skin irritation and inflammation, and also helps to get rid of cellulite and postpartum stretch marks.