In recent years become very popular teas from different herbs and berries.One of the most popular and beloved - tea from rose hips.And this is not a new word in the health food.
Benefits of Dog rose tea has been known since time immemorial
Before the advent of fashion for black tea and coffee in our country, ubiquitous thirst-quenching drinks.In summer and autumn, the weather is dry, people engaged in gathering useful plants.Traditional infusions of herbs and berries that drinking every day, and treated with rosehip tea, beneficial properties are known since ancient times.For dried tea leaves not only the benefits but also the flowers, leaves and even roots.The roots and leaves are used for medicinal purposes, and scented flowers and berries are brewed with boiling water and insist in a warm place - this beverage is especially fragrant.It added briar leaves of raspberry, currant, mint and other aromatic herbs.Did beverages from mixtures of hips with blueberries, sea buckthorn, aronia, blackberries and others.
Who can drink a decoction of the fruit of wild roses?
traditional and folk medicine in our time necessarily encourages all to drink tea from the hips.Benefits and harms of it depends only on the dosage.In the spring, when we are suffering from beriberi, twice a day, a decoction of rose hips, or, as it is called, wild rose, is only appropriate.Tea made from rose hips is harmful only if binge drink.In reasonable quantities it improves overall health, normalizes blood pressure and improves metabolism.
How looks like and where it grows wild rose?
Rosehip - a short, up to two meters, chaparral.In our country, it can be found almost everywhere except the Arctic territories.It is also widespread in the United States and Australia.Wild Rose served as the basis for selective breeding and breeding of ornamental bush varieties that are used for decoration of parks, gardens, to create bouquets.The fruits of wild and cultivated roses are very similar.This oval berries red-brown to two centimeters in longest part.Inside the fruit is covered with numerous setae, which when placed in the mouth cause discomfort.The seeds are white, up to two millimeters.For therapeutic purposes, use only wild species.Rosehip is impossible to confuse with any other plants.The fragrance of its flowers is very recognizable.Wonder essential oils obtained from the petals of flowers its use in perfumery in the creation of perfumes and flavoring creams and lotions.
Harvesting fruits
varieties of rose hips, it is also called, not only of wild rose, but the dog rose hips, cinnamon and rose, there are so many, but not all of them are considered medicinal.For recreational and medicinal purposes collect the fruits are not round, flattened to the center, and the oval and elongated.Sepals have medicinal uses extended forward, like peak, while the non-vitamin value curled back toward the berries almost lie thereon.
Flowering shrub from mid-May to July, and ripened fruits are harvested in late summer and early fall.After frost, they lose their healing qualities.A useful properties of rosehip tea are largely due to the content of the berries large amounts of vitamin C, which is rapidly destroyed at low temperatures.
Fresh hips cook compotes, jams, fruit candy.Processing fruit - it is time consuming, as the berries should be cleaned from the inner bristles and hard seeds.From one kilogram of freshly picked berries have less than half a kilogram of raw materials suitable for canning.
Inner bristles - unpleasant feature berries
hips for tea can be taken fresh, dried and processed into syrup or jam.Since the wild rose is unique within the bristles, then process it presents some difficulties.These bristles are not delivered inconvenience only if the whole berries are dried for tea and grind.Sometimes medication is recommended to brew dried berries, pre-grinding them.So doing, if they want to get not only delicious, but also the most valuable microelements rich rosehip tea.Use crushed fruits is that they contain vitamin E, carotene, tocopherol, oleic, linoleic, linolenic and other acids pass into the beverage easier.
What water to use?
One of the primary requirements for the tea beverage - is the quality of water used for it.A recognized authority of the brewing medicinal infusions - Chinese medicine - the water divides into seven types.The best - mountain or spring, and spring.This water is of the highest quality.River on the beneficial properties of talking behind her.Next on the list - well water.Nikolai Spafary, in the XVII century, former ambassador to Beijing, recalled in his memoirs, that the water for brewing tea Chinese are not taken from the nearby reservoirs, and bought at the bazaar.It was brought from the mountains, and it cost a fortune.
best water temperature for brewing rose hips
The water temperature for brewing is also important.The Chinese as the most authoritative experts on the part of the preparation of tea drinks distinguish a great many stages of boiling water.One of the initial stages - bubbles, like fish eyes and light noise, then - water splash and spray from the collision with the wall of the dishes, then - the bubbles rising from the bottom and "daring" wildness.It is believed that water is most suitable for brewing tea - when rising bubbles like the eyes of a crab.At the first stage of boiling water should throw salt at a second - rose, and in the third - a little cold water to precipitate the wild rose and revive the freshness of water.Please be aware that the water can not be boiled again.
10 secrets of good tea from the berries of a wild rose
Chinese medicine has developed ten rules of proper preparation of medicinal infusions, in particular so should make tea with wild rose.Useful properties of the beverage remain the most complete, if you act in accordance with the following guidelines:
- herbs or berries should be brewed in a thin-walled glass or porcelain dish.Get a good french press, which will make tea from the hips.Benefits and harms the health of any medicinal product is always related to the conditions under which it was prepared.Improving properties will have only the right brewed beverage.
- medicinal herbs or berries can not be boiled.Rosehip just pour boiling water.The cooled water is not able to extract from it the nutrients.Long seething water is also not appropriate, since prolonged boiling evaporates from it oxygen.Chemical reactions are inferior.
- Water should be fresh, neutral acidity and not too hard.
- carefully approach the selection of a kettle in which to boil water to make tea from the hips.Benefits and harms the beverage directly dependent on the material vessel in which water was boiled.Valid enamel, splinter-free dishes, as well as stainless steel and heat-resistant glass.Other materials will provoke undesired chemical reactions.
- for straining broth, you can use a plastic mesh, and metal is not suitable for this purpose.
- Before brewing tea with wild roses, make sure that the dishes in which you are going to do it, is not used for purposes other than the preparation of herbal concoctions.Get right to sue for herbal infusions stored separately from all other and do not use it for any other purpose.
- Before brewing tea with rosehip, calculate how many cups you are going to drink.Do not prepare for future use.If rosehips brew in a thermos overnight, then the next day he had to drink.Do not re-brew from the same berry tea from rose hips.
- Keep dry rose hips should be in a metal box, laid out inside, on the walls, clean paper.It can be used to store glass dish with a tight-fitting lids.It should cover the fruit from direct sunlight.
- When you drink tea from the hips, the recipe can be any.Even if your broth supplemented with more what some herbs or berries, remember that it can not be re-heated.With therapeutic purposes it is necessary to drink only hot and fresh.
- If the surface of the broth has a film or foam, do not remove them.It's essential oils and resins, which are considered to be the most useful part of a medicinal drink.
What determines the quality of the fruit?
hips contain fruit sugar, organic acids.According to the content of vitamin C rosehips ahead of almost all plant foods.Its amount depends on the place of growth, maturity, and quality of the drying and storage.It is not necessary to collect the berries from the bushes growing in the city.It is better to go in clean areas, which are in almost every region of Russia.Dried fruits retain useful properties within two years.
unique composition and a beneficial effect of berries and tea
fruits contain sugars, organic acids, in addition to the title of vitamin C. More and B vitamins (B1, B2), vitamin P and PP, K, carotene, tannins, flavonoids, saltiron, manganese, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and others. Dog rose tea has multivitamin, antiinflammatory and anti-sclerotic effect.It is very effective as a choleretic and diuretic.Rosehip stop internal bleeding.Vitamin C contributes to the redox processes in the body, enhances the synthesis of hormones and enzymes activity.In addition, he promotes the renewal of tissues, increases the body's resistance to adverse environmental effects.
Green tea with wild rose
Green tea with wild rose is recommended to drink with hypertension, for the prophylaxis and treatment of atherosclerosis.He's very good as a fortifying agent.It is better to drink in the morning on an empty stomach.This is a good prophylactic against many diseases.It normalizes the nervous system, increases the potency.Green tea with wild rose berries eases the painful symptoms of gynecological and urological problems, promotes healing of internal wounds and ulcers.
Tea from the hips: the benefits and harms
diuretic used in the treatment of wild rose urolithiasis.When inflammation of the gastric mucosa caused by low acidity of gastric juice, patients also prescribe tea from rose hips.Contraindications diseases accompanied by high acidity.Since the wild rose has a pronounced diuretic effect, it should be cautious in making people with problems in the cardiovascular system.
Multivitamin drink
preventive and multivitamin tea brewed rose berries cinnamon follows.Two full tablespoons chopped dried fruit pour a glass of boiling water and keep in a water bath for about ten minutes.Then half an hour insist in a warm place.Filtered through a gauze filter and drink a third cup a day after meals.
Dog rose tea helps with anemia, hemophilia, hemorrhagic diathesis character, diarrhea, tuberculosis and respiratory diseases, drink it in neurasthenia as a sedative.Rosehip helps ease the flow of so many diseases.It is a recognized multi-vitamin and fortifying agent wide spectrum of action.
effective decoction for treatment of diseases of the stomach and intestines
Thanks to the rich and well-balanced composition of wild rose is widely used in the treatment of many diseases.The fruits of this shrub are part of many drug charges.In gastric ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcers, as well as in the case of prolonged gastritis very effective next gathering:
- rose hips, part 3;
- Cudweed (grass), 1 part;
- white rose petals, 1 part;
- pharmacy chamomile flowers, 1 part;
- marigold flowers, 1 part;
- horsetail (shoots), 1 part;
- wormwood Field (grass), 2 parts;
- repyashok ordinary (grass), 2 parts;
- yarrow (flowers), 7 parts;
- plantain (leaves), 4 parts;
- St. John's wort (herb), 4 parts;
- fennel (seeds), 3 parts.
tablespoon of the mixture pour boiling water (0.5 liters), then 30 minutes, filter and drink during the day in several stages, for 15-20 minutes before eating.Taste the infusion of wormwood, yarrow and a large number of bitter.Tea from the hips, the recipe of which is given above, can be prepared from fresh berries and herbs.In this case, the proportions are maintained.
Dog rose tea is best sweetened with natural floral honey.Only the honey can not be put in boiling water.It is from this will lose its beneficial properties.Try to prepare a drink from the berries of wild rose with brown cane sugar.This is delicious.
