Dog-rose fruit

The hips have long been used by alternative healers as a restorative, anti-inflammatory drug. They contain a large amount of vitamin C (more than in lemon), vitamins B2, A, P, E, K, as well as various useful substances.

For the treatment of colds, strengthening of immunity, removal of inflammation, dried fruit is usually used, from which infusions, teas, decoctions are prepared.

Rosehip has a wide range of effects on the body, in addition to strengthening the body, the use of rose hips helps strengthen blood vessels, reduce the risk of atherosclerosis, normalize metabolic processes, improve the work of the heart, liver, digestive system, in addition, fruits have a mild sedative effect.

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Indications of the hips

Hips are used to treat and prevent the shortage of vitamins C and P, with asthenic syndrome, with reduced immunity and immunodeficiency. Low-vitamin varieties are used for diseases of the digestive system (inflammation of the gallbladder, liver), ulcerative lesions of the gastrointestinal mucosa, anemia, normalization of digestion, uterine bleeding, for the prevention of atherosclerosis.

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Release form

Produced in the form of dried fruits in a package, from which you can prepare a decoction or infusion.

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Dosing and administration

The easiest way to prepare a decoction is to pour 0.5 liters of boiling water in a thermos 20 g of fruit, let it last for 12 hours.

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Collection of hips

Harvesting begins from the end of August and lasts until the first frost, it all depends on the plant variety and place of growth. Frozen fruit of dogrose can not be dried, but they are quite suitable for making syrup, juice, compote, etc.

Collect the fruit by hand, very carefully, so as not to damage, and during the harvest the sepal is left on the fruit to prevent the appearance of mold.

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How to cook rose hips?

When brewed correctly, the hips retain their useful properties. Before using the fruit, it is recommended to crush them, in this case they give all the vitamins and nutrients as much as possible.

There are several recipes for fruit from rose hips, most often use decoctions or tinctures, to improve the taste, you can add lemon, sugar or honey.

Decoction of rose hips: 100g of fruit washed, pour water and boil for 10-15 minutes, then remove from heat let it persist for 5-6 hours and strain through several layers of gauze.

Vitamin drink with rosehip: take the fruits of mountain ash, black currant, dog rose (about 200 g), pour boiling water and insist for 15-20 minutes.

Infusion of rose hips: a handful of hips, pour 0.5 liters of boiling water and insist in a sealed container in a warm place (you can use a thermos bottle) for several hours. This infusion should be drunk during the day.

Also from the rose hips you can make a syrup: 1kg of fresh rose hip, rinse well, pass through a meat grinder, pour 1l of water, add 1kg of sugar, put on fire, boil for about 30 minutes, then strain through cheesecloth or sieve and pour in bottles, store in a cool place .

How to brew the hips?

The hips can be brewed in several ways:

100g of dog rose (4 tablespoons), 1l of water. Well-washed fruit pour boiling water and let it brew in a warm place for 7-10 hours. For this recipe it is best to use a thermos, you can also take a jar and wrap it well with a warm blanket.

It is recommended before grinding the dogrose to grind the fruits through a meat grinder or in a blender so that the drink turns out to be saturated and more nutritious.

When grinding fruits, you should be careful, because the fruits have small villi, which cause slight irritation when ingested on the skin or mucous membranes. In addition, a drink with chopped fruits must be filtered through several layers of gauze to remove all the villi, otherwise they can cause irritation of the intestinal mucosa.

Decoction of rosehip is prepared in the same proportions as infusion (1:10).

To prepare the broth, the fruits are poured cold water and boiled over low heat under the closed lid for about an hour (during this time, several times pour water). Then it is recommended to infuse the broth for several hours, after which drain, but you can and use immediately.

Brewing can not only dry fruits, but fresh. To prepare the drink, you will also need 100 g of well washed and chopped fruit, pour 0.5 liters of boiling water and allow to infuse for about 30 minutes. Then drain the resulting infusion into a separate container, pour in 0.5l of pure water, put on fire and boil for half an hour, strain and combine with the prepared infusion, the beverage is ready for use.

Rosehip fruit to children

Rose hips are recommended for children in the form of infusion. For cooking it is better to use a thermos, about 30 berries pour boiling water and insist 7-10 hours. In a day, a child should not be given more than 1/3 of a liter.

Fresh rose hips

Fresh hips are also useful, as are dried ones. Fresh berries are usually prepared compotes, jams, jelly, syrups, tinctures, purees, jellies.

The most common way to use fresh rose hips is to prepare a vitamin compote. For its preparation fresh sepals are removed sepals, villi and cut along. Then, blanch the fruit 2-3 minutes in hot water and spread on prepared containers (jars).

Fill the fruit with sugar syrup (1: 2) with the addition of citric acid (4g per 1L) and sterilize in a "water bath" for a few minutes, roll up. Hot banks before cooling it is recommended to turn the lid down.

Dry rose hips

The hips can be dried whole or cut in half, you need to immediately throw away the crushed, cracked or sick berries, because they are quickly growing mold, which can spoil the whole workpiece. It is also worth noting that you do not need to wash fruits before drying.

Dry fruits in various ways. The easiest is using the oven - warm up to 400C and put a baking sheet with prepared fruits (in one layer) for 1 hour. Then raise the temperature to 600C and dry for about 10 hours.

Also, you can immediately make a temperature of 1000C and dry the fruit for 10 minutes, then lower the temperature to 700C and dry it. In order for the fruit to dry well, periodically mix or dry with the door open.

You can also dry in the attic. To do this, spread the fruits on a tray in one layer, periodically mixing them, and then dry them in a special dryer or aerogrill.

Properly dried rosehip has a springy peel (when pressed, it should not crumble), overdried - it will crumble.

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Broth from the hips

Broth of dogrose is a very effective medicine that helps to increase the resistance of the body, to adjust the work of many internal organs and systems, to fill the shortage of certain vitamins and trace elements, etc.

The broth can be prepared in several ways:

• 2 tablespoons spoonful of dog rose (well washed and chopped) put in a glass container, pour 400ml of boiling water and put in a water bath for 15 minutes, then cool the broth and strain through gauze
• fruit of dogrose (5 tablespoons), chop, pour 1 - 1.5 liters of boiling water and boil for about 5 minutes, then pour the broth into a thermos and insist 3-4 hours.

Syrup from hips

Syrup of rose hips has many useful properties and has a beneficial effect on the body.

Syrup promotes the preservation of youth, rapid healing of tissues, normalizes cholesterol level, increases immunity, stimulates the work of the gallbladder and other organs of the digestive system, has a calming effect, helps to get rid of stress, emotional stress. In addition, syrup with rose hips helps to relieve the symptoms of a hangover.

A syrup can be purchased at a pharmacy or you can prepare a tasty and useful medicine yourself.

To do this, fresh fruit of dogrose is well washed, remove villi, sepals, seeds, grind with a blender or meat grinder, pour boiling water in a ratio of 1: 2 and cook for 10-15 minutes, let it brew 10-12 hours and strain. In the resulting broth, add sugar in a ratio of 1: 1.5, heat slowly until the sugar dissolves, poured over the containers and cork.

You can take this syrup immediately after cooking or store in a dark cool place. By the way, this syrup is suitable as a filling for pancakes or pies.

Hips extract

Hips can be used to make extracts. The most common preparations with rose hip extract are Cholemax, Holos, and Holosas, which are prescribed to stimulate the bile, inflammatory processes in the liver and / or the gallbladder (with the exception of gallstones).

Infusion of hips

Rose hips in the form of infusion are often used in home treatment. Infusion helps to stop bleeding, strengthen the outflow of bile, strengthen the walls of blood vessels.

Thanks to the high regenerating properties of dogrose, infusion contributes to the restoration of bone and soft tissues, it is often used to treat burns, frostbite, long-healing wounds.

The recipe for preparing the infusion from the hips is simple enough: pour 1 tbsp. Fetuses 0,5 liters of boiling water and insist for 10-12 hours (can be left overnight). Cooking tincture is better in the thermos, but you can use another container, for example, take a jar and wrap it well with a warm kerchief.

Before taking, the infusion should be well filtered. Drink half a cup in the morning and in the evening 30 minutes before eating. Prepared in this way, the infusion can be stored no more than two days, then you need to prepare a new one.

Tea from hips

Rosehip fruits are suitable for preparing vitamin tea, which has toning, immunostimulating properties. In tea, rosehip contains flavonoids that help the body resist infection, remove inflammation, have a slight analgesic effect, and also help to maintain youth.

Tea from the hips is recommended to drink with heart and vascular diseases, joints, genitourinary system to reduce cholesterol, digestive problems.

There are several ways to brew tea from the dog rose:

• handful of rose hips (20-25pcs) pour boiling water (about 1 - 1.5 liters) and boil over low heat for 10 minutes. Prepared in this way, tea has a rich, slightly sour taste, but this method of brewing has one drawback - during boiling, most of the vitamin C is destroyed.
• a tablespoon of fruit pour 1 liter of boiling water (for a more saturated taste you can reduce the dose of water), insist about 15 minutes - and the tea is ready. According to experts, this way of brewing tea is the best, since the maximum of useful substances and vitamins remains so.

Jam from hips

Rose hips are also used to make jam, which has unique properties. In the first place, jam from rose hips is an excellent way to strengthen immunity due to the large amount of vitamin C.

Before preparing the jam, you need to remove the bones, otherwise the taste of the jam will deteriorate substantially. Also, the fruits can not be immediately dropped into the syrup, as they will become solid.

To preserve the maximum of nutrients and vitamins in the dog rose it is recommended to try for a few minutes in boiling water, then pour the fruit with prepared syrup and cook until ready. Fruits should be well prepared, before cooking them jam. As already mentioned, it is necessary to remove seeds from them, also it is necessary to remove the stalk, sepals, and hairs. Dog rose must be washed well, it is advisable to change the water several times to finally remove all the dirt.

There are several options for how to make jam:

• rose hips 1kg, water 1.5l, sugar 1kg.

Prepare the syrup - dissolve the sugar in hot water, boil for a few minutes, then in a hot syrup pour the dogrose and leave for a day to insist. After this, pour the syrup into a separate container and boil it and put the fruit back in it, let it brew for another 5-6 hours. After that, put the jam on the fire and boil on low heat until the fruits become transparent. The cooled jam is spread over sterilized dry jars and rolled up, stored in a cool dark place.

• dog rose 2 kg, sugar 1 kg, water 300-400 ml

Peeled and well washed up dogrose to fall asleep with sugar, add water and put on fire and boil for 5 minutes constantly stirring and removing the foam. Then remove the jam from the heat and let it brew for 6 to 10 hours at room temperature, after which repeat the process two more times (boil and let it brew), after the third boil, the jam is hot spread into sterilized jars and rolled up, stored in a cool place.

Beverage from rose hips

The hips can be chopped or left whole before cooking. As already mentioned, in the dog rose a large amount of vitamin C, which is destroyed in the light, so to prepare a drink is better to choose an opaque container (thermos). In addition, a large amount of vitamin C negatively affects the tooth enamel and drink the drink from the dog rose best through the tube.

To make a drink, take 2-3 tablespoons. Dried rose hips, 1 liter of water, if desired, you can add honey, lemon.

To grind the berries, you can use a blender, grinder or chop the wrapped fruits in a towel with a knife or a kitchen hammer to beat the meat.

Shredded (if desired, whole) fruits put in a container, pour boiling water and let it brew for at least 5 hours (best leave the drink overnight). In the finished drink you can add honey, sugar, lemon.

If the drink is not cooked in a thermos bottle, then the container should be insulated.

Compote from hips

Compote of hips - a delicious and healthy drink, besides quite simple to prepare.

For the preparation of compote will need: fruit of wild rose 500g, sugar 500-600g, water 1L.

In the compote should be selected well ripe, fleshy fruits that are not suitable for drying, but are ideal for compote. Peeled from the pedicels, seeds, villous rose hips well rinse with cold water. Prepare sugar syrup (mix water with sugar and boil for several minutes), pour in the dog-rose and boil for 5 minutes. Then add 2 liters of boiling water to the compote and bring to a boil, remove from heat and cool.

Dried fruits are also suitable for compote.

To do this, 250g of dry dog rose, 1.5 cups of sugar, 1 liter of water, a little cinnamon and lemon juice.

Prepare the infusion using a thermos (250g per 1 liter of boiling water), insist for half an hour, then get it poured into a saucepan, add sugar, cinnamon, lemon and bring to a boil, remove from heat. In the finished compote you can add lemon or orange juice.

Hips Roseberry Powder

The hips are also found in the form of a powder. To prepare the powder use whole dried fruit.

This herbal remedy contains a complex of vitamins of group B, vitamin E, P, A, C, etc., and also useful microelements.

From the powder prepare a vitamin infusion (10 g of powder per glass of water, drink half a glass twice a day), which is prescribed with a deficiency of vitamins, as a restorative and tonic.

Fruit rose hips for weight loss

The hips are often found in the recipes for weight loss. But as studies show, completely get rid of excess weight, a drink with a dog rose will not help, but its complex composition can actively contribute to the normalization of weight.

First of all, drinks with rosehip improve the digestive system, remove harmful substances, toxins, and slags from the body.

During the process of losing weight (diet, exercise, etc.) drink with rosehip should be used as an auxiliary, but not basic.

For the preparation of vitamin infusion, you can use a thermos bottle - pour 2-3 tablespoons. Fetuses 1 liter of boiling water, insist during the night and the next day to drink 100 ml 5 times a day.

Hips of Mayan rose

The fruit of dog rose May is a well-known remedy for a long time. Phytotherapists use it to treat various diseases.

Rosehip has a huge mass of useful properties and in the people it was called a plant from a thousand diseases.

In the people this plant is also called the wild or May rose, the thorn, the thorn of the forest, the Terpiguzka, the freedom.

Rosehips grow almost throughout Russia. The shrub grows to 2 meters high, it can be found in the forest, in meadows, in river valleys. May briar is considered the most valuable by the number of vitamins and trace elements.

Cinnamon hips

Cinnamon cinnamon fruits (also May) are used for malnutrition (as a means to help fill the shortage of certain vitamins and trace elements), to strengthen the defenses of the body, to prevent atherosclerosis and strengthen the walls of blood vessels.

Use of the hips during pregnancy

Rose hips are recommended to use with caution to pregnant women, since taking a dogrose can not only have a positive effect. If a woman does not have contraindications to taking, the dog rose will help to maintain a weakened body - for this it is enough to drink one or two cups of wild rose hips a day. In case of abuse, the dogrose can provoke a disruption in the work of many internal organs, which can endanger the life of the pregnant woman and her baby.

Contraindications

The hips, despite all the benefits, should be used with caution, especially for people with stomach diseases (with ulcers or gastritis), with a predisposition to the formation of thrombi, inflammation of the venous walls. Also, rose hips can be consumed only after consulting a doctor for various heart conditions, high or low pressure, with skin diseases

Contraindicated taking a dogrose in blood circulation disorders, cholelithiasis, individual intolerance.

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Side effects of the hips

Since the fruit contains a large amount of vitamin C, it is possible to develop allergic reactions.

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Overdose

Symptoms of overdose are expressed in the manifestations of allergic reactions.

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Interactions with other drugs

When using rosehips, it is possible to increase the absorption of certain antibacterial drugs (tetracycline, penicillin), as well as iron containing agents.

In addition, dog rose can lower the level of oral contraceptives in the blood.

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Storage conditions

Dried rose hips should be stored in a dry dark place. For storage it is better to use glass or tin cans (before putting the dog rose in the cans, it is recommended to keep it for several days in a paper bag, cardboard box or wooden box at room temperature to equalize the humidity).

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Special instructions

The hips have many useful properties. The use of broth helps to strengthen the body, reduce blood pressure, increase appetite, increase the work of the gallbladder, strengthen the walls of blood vessels. Also, dogrose has an easy diuretic effect and helps to cleanse the body.

The chemical composition of hips

The hips include a large number of different minerals and vitamins. Virtually everyone knows that there is a lot of vitamin C in the dog rose, but it also contains vitamins B1 and B2, K, PP, E.

Even in the hips, there are many different minerals (especially manganese, calcium, potassium), sugar, flavonoids, carotenoids, acids and tannins.

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Useful properties of rose hips

The hips have bactericidal, anti-inflammatory, strengthening properties.

Decoctions and infusions with rose hips help to remove inflammation (with colds), stimulate the work of the gallbladder, digestive and urinary systems.

The use of rose hips promotes redox reactions of the body, strengthens blood vessels, prevents the development of atherosclerosis, lowers cholesterol.

The complex composition of dog rose improves the body's defenses, improves blood coagulability, helps strengthen capillaries, has a beneficial effect on the organs of hematopoiesis.

When to collect the hips?

The rose hips should be harvested in autumn, before the first frosts come (frozen fruits lose their useful properties). You can start collecting at the end of summer, when the color of the fruits begins to acquire a bright red color, during this period they contain a maximum of vitamins.

Collect the crop carefully, without damaging the fruit, on the crushed or cracked fruit quickly appears mold.

The healing properties of hips

The hips have bactericidal, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, choleretic, blood-restoring, soothing properties. In addition, the use of decoction or infusion of rosehip helps to normalize blood pressure, increase the level of red blood cells, strengthen blood vessels, improve digestion.

Hips in the pharmacy

Hips are sold in pharmacies. The cost is 10 - 15 UAH, depending on the brand, mass.

Reviews of hips

Rose hips have proved to be a good remedy with a deficiency of certain vitamins, weakened immunity. Most often, rose hips are used in the form of broths and infusions in the period of colds. As people point out, a tasty drink helps to increase the resistance of the body, accelerate the healing process, improve overall health.

In addition, jam and rosehip syrups are used to treat children who are not very fond of taking medicine or pills, besides this treatment is natural and has virtually no side effects.

Shelf life

Shelf life - 36 months.

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