Few people do not know about the benefits of rose hips, especially about the high concentration of vitamin C in it. However, in addition to the prevention and treatment of colds, rose hips and products based on them have a number of healing properties, as well as contraindications. What exactly, read our material.
Did you know? Rosehip - a plant from the family of pink, has about 400 species and up to 10 thousand decorative varieties. Besides the fact that its fruits (not in all species) have more ascorbic acid in the composition than in lemon and currant, among the fruit and berry crops, the shrub is also famous for having the highest content of vitamin P.
Calorie and chemical composition
The fruits of "wild rose" are very diverse in chemical composition. They contain both vitamins (P, PP, C, B1, B2, K, e), and micro- (iron, calcium, magnesium, potassium) and macronutrients (manganese, phosphorus, sodium, copper, molybdenum, zinc, aluminum, selenium and others.), and organic acids (citric, malic, oleic, etc.), and essential oil.
They also contain sugars, glucose, fructose, pectins, flavonoids, tannins, carotenoids.
100 g of dried rosehips do not contain fats, proteins - 3.4 g, carbohydrates - 21.5 g. 100 g of the product - 110 kcal.
Useful properties of wild rose
As you can see, the composition of the wild rose is very diverse, the fruit contains a large number of nutrients. Therefore, the properties that are able to benefit and help the body fight with various diseases are also many.
Moreover, not only fruits have medicinal properties, but also flowers, leaves, roots. Fruits are used in traditional medicine, folk healers adopt and other bodies. From rose hips make tea, decoctions, tinctures and infusions, ointments, oil, syrup, wine and liquor.
Rosehip is useful because it is able to provide such actions:
- tonic;
- anti-inflammatory;
- diuretic;
- hemostatic;
- astringent;
- bactericidal;
- capillary strengthening.
Rosehip oil: what is the use and how to cook at home
Rosehip oil is actively used in cosmetology - for the face and hair, as well as in medicine as an antiviral, healing and anti-inflammatory agent. It is able to protect delicate skin from the aggressive influence of external factors, slow down the aging process, give it elasticity, relieve irritations and all sorts of inflammation, maintain water balance.
Oil can be purchased at the pharmacy and cosmetic stores in finished form, and you can make it yourself at home. It is prepared from seeds and from fruits.
It is necessary to take one part of dry fruits and pour them with three parts of vegetable oil. Next, place a container of oil in a water bath and keep it there for an hour. After the oil has cooled, it should be poured into a glass jar and placed in a cool place..
It will be ready for use in two to seven days. Before applying to the face means should be drained. The shelf life of the oil will be three to six months.
Seed oil do it in the same way, mixing them with vegetable oil in the proportion of 1:10. You can first insist the oil solution for a week, then boil for 15-20 minutes, cool and insist another six to seven hours. 
Important! The use of rosehip oil is recommended for people with dry and normal skin. Owners of skin prone to fat, it should not be used.There are many recipes for face masks of rosehip oil. Here are just a few:
- Raw egg yolk mixed with 0.5 tsp of oil. Apply to face before bed for 15-20 minutes. Rinse with running warm water without using soap.
- Grind a tablespoon of oatmeal flakes in a coffee grinder or blender, pour boiling water over and insist until swelling. The mixture should be the consistency of thick porridge. Cool mass to 40 degrees and pour half a teaspoon of oil into it. Apply to face for half an hour. If the skin requires clarification, you need to pour a teaspoon of lemon juice.
Rosehip oil also helps to cope with such troubles as dry hair and split ends. It is added to shampoo or balm in the proportion of 1:10.
Rosehip Tea Brewing Recipes
Rose hip tea is advised to drink during colds, because, firstly, it nourishes the body with vitamin C and thus helps it to activate forces to fight the virus, and secondly, it has a diuretic effect, helping to eliminate toxins.
Moreover, with prolonged and regular use, the drink can lower cholesterol levels, has a preventive effect against heart diseases such as heart attack, stroke. Prevents atherosclerosis. Helps with gastrointestinal problems, such as flatulence and diarrhea.
There are several ways to brew rosehip tea - in a kettle and a thermos. Most often use the latter - so the drink can better brew, will be more saturated. It is necessary to insist within two hours. In the kettle brew two tablespoons for 10 minutes. 
Rosehip can be combined, for example, with ordinary black tea or with karkade. Very tasty, if you insist in a thermos three tablespoons of fruit, one teaspoon of tea, sugar to taste.
An indispensable tool for ARVI would be rosehip tea and dry raspberry (jam). It will be necessary to pour a spoonful of ground fruit and a teaspoon of raspberry in a thermos with boiling water. Raspberries can be replaced with viburnum, currants. Also rosehip is combined in tea with medicinal herbs: chamomile, melissa, mint.
With a cold, a wild rose fruit drink, infused overnight, helps a lot.
Important! Rosehip infusion needs to be drunk through a cocktail straw because it damages the covering of the teeth.Rose hip tea is recommended for adults no more than three glasses a day, for children - no more than half a cup per day. If the drink is drunk daily, then after two weeks of tea drinking you need to take a break.
Collection and preparation of wild rose for the winter
Dry raw materials from the "wild rose" can be purchased at the pharmacy, or you can, in the case of a bush home, prepare yourself. Do not forget that the plant has thorns, so you will need to protect your hands with gloves.
Fruit. Fruit harvesting is carried out from August to October (depending on the region of growth). After the first frosts, collecting them is no longer worth it - they will already lose some of the nutrients during this period.
For harvesting suitable orange and dark red berries. You only need to pluck hard fruits.
After collecting the fruit must be dried - in the oven or dryer.
Did you know? More vitamin C is found in orange berries..Leaves. Rosehip leaves have several beneficial properties: antipyretic, diuretic, immunomodulatory and others. Sheets for medical raw materials cut in the summer.
They are also subject to drying. They are laid out on paper (fabric) in rooms where fresh air flows well or sunlight does not get in; on the street, under a canopy. Periodically, the leaves are mixed.
After drying, it is better to cut the leaves into tea leaves with a length of 4 mm so it will be easier to brew them. You can also fry them in the oven.
Flowers As a rule, the plant blooms in June, it is at this time that the wild rose flowers are harvested, which also possess a number of medicinal properties: anti-inflammatory, soothing.
Funds from them have a beneficial effect on the activity of the cardiovascular system, are used in conjunctivitis and blepharitis. They need to be cut with scissors or cut off manually, while leaving a small part of the pedicel. Then the raw material is immediately subject to drying.
Roots. Therapeutic properties are present in the lateral root of the hips: bactericidal, anti-inflammatory, astringent. They are harvested at the end of the vegetative period of the plant - in late autumn, or before it starts - in early spring.
Roots carefully cut off from the main rhizome. Then cleaned from earthy lumps and washed. After drying from water, they are cut into small pieces - 1-2 cm. In the future, the pieces are dried, like sheets, on paper or cloth under a canopy or in ventilated rooms, in attics.
You need to store raw materials in cardboard boxes, cloth bags or in glass containers. Shelf life - two years.
Important! It is not necessary to collect raw materials in places close to industrial enterprises, to highways.
Treatment, rehabilitation and health promotion rosehip
Means based on parts of the "wild rose" are used to treat and prevent a wide range of ailments. In addition to influenza and SARS, wild rose is used to establish blood circulation, with stone formation in the kidneys and bladder, problems with blood vessels, heart, urinary system, liver, gastrointestinal tract, oral mucosa.
Apply funds and externally. Ointments - for healing abrasions, eczema, dermatitis, burns. The oil helps breastfeeding women lubricate damaged nipples.
Here are a few recipes for how to make dogrose-based products.
Infusion of the roots. On the infusion of the fruit, we have already written above. The infusion of the roots is prepared from one teaspoon of crushed raw materials and a glass (200 ml) of water. The roots are filled with boiling water and infused in a thermos for 12 hours. Infusion is used as an astringent, for cystitis and intestinal disorders.
Infusion of petals. Two tablespoons of chopped petals placed in 1.5 cups of boiling water. Infuse in a closed container for 30-40 minutes. Before taking, strain. This infusion is perfect for wiping skin. In order to keep it longer, it is frozen in ice forms and used in the morning toilet.
Dogrose broth cooked as follows. Rosehips in a blender or coffee grinder are ground. Put in boiling water in a ratio of 1:10. Cook one hour under the lid. Then bring the amount of water to its original state and insist 12 hours. Before you drink it, filter.
Below you will learn what other diseases help the fruit, and read about the indications for its use of wild rose.
Strengthening the immune system
To strengthen the immune system and vitamin deficiency for three months, you should take six tablespoons of powder a day with a glass of water.
Very easy to use and effective wild rose syrup. It is put in tea instead of honey and sugar. Adults - one or two spoons, children (depending on age) - from 0.5 to one spoon.
Rose hips help with nervous disorders, depression and insomnia
To improve the tone of the body, it is recommended to drink a glass of infusion every morning, 20 minutes before breakfast.
With strong weakness, such a remedy is effective: mix two small (coffee) cups of ground berries, one cup of St. John's wort flowers and yarrow flowers, butter (300 g), honey (600 g). Take throughout the day in an hour, one spoon (dining room).
For insomnia, traditional medicine recommends anemone, tarragon, garlic, two-leaved lyubka, medicinal vervain, dill, zizifus, uterine honey, pumpkin, safflower, lettuce, cilantro, lemon balm, marjoram, elderberry, irgu, saffron, echinacea, mint, cumin, salina .
Rosehip for treating colds
The most effective remedy for ARVI is tea. However, also in the stage of acute course of the disease, you can take rosehip powder - three times or four times a day for a teaspoon, drinking water.
Treatment of angina and flu
With the flu, it is good to drink the decoction - one glass every two hours until relief. When angina decoction should be three times a day to gargle.
For diseases of the oral cavity
With stomatitis, rinsing with a decoction is also good. Ulcers should be treated with rosehip oil - so they heal faster.
When stomatitis should also carefully look at the princess, maple, cilantro, sour, stonecrops purple, cloves, blackberries, bird cherries, rocambola, bay leaf, rutabwa, Savoy cabbage, acacia and coriander honey.
Treatment of sinusitis
An excellent remedy for getting rid of antritis is rosehip oil. It should be a drop of one drop in each nostril up to five times a day. Such instillations will help reduce inflammation, provoke the fastest healing. Means can not bury children under two years.
In diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and liver
When constipation helps infusion of berries: two tablespoons pour half a liter of boiling water. It is mixed with honey and taken in the morning on an empty stomach until the symptoms disappear.
Brier infusion is taken as a choleretic agent: one-third of a glass is drunk three times a day before meals.
To improve potency
To improve the potency of a strong floor, it is recommended to drink regular rosehip tea regularly.
In case of premature ejaculation, you can try broth of rose hips with herbs: two tablespoons of ground fruits and motherwort grass, a tablespoon of calendula and trifoli. Boil in a liter of water. Drink 200 ml before bedtime. Course: three months. Drink the broth continuously for three weeks, then make an interval of a week.
Rosehip for men is useful for such a malaise as prostatitis. To do this, they recommend regular intake of tea from the peel of the fruit: pour a tablespoon with a glass of boiling water and let stand 40 minutes.
Crimean, melon, scorzonera, periwinkle, maral root, hazel, parsley, common dope, horseradish, asparagus, arrows of garlic, goryanka, ginger, thyme, saffron, walnuts, nutmeg have a positive effect on the potency.
Found application rose hips and in gynecology. For heavy discharge during menstruation, it is advised to use a berry powder that needs to be diluted in water. Dosage - six spoons per day. It is advisable to begin the course of treatment a few days before the onset of menstruation and continue it for a couple more days after it ends.Contraindications and harm
The use of rose hips is not subject to doubt, but the use of any means with therapeutic purposes and in the system should be carried out in doses, not uncontrolled. Therefore, before making a decision on the use of wild rose products as an additional therapy, you should consult with your doctor in order to avoid undesirable consequences and harm your body. After all, even excessive consumption of vitamin C is not useful, especially for people who have problems with the gastrointestinal tract (gastritis, ulcer, pancreatitis), as it can cause exacerbation of these diseases.
Not all the cores of the berries of this shrub will be equally useful. For example, with endocarditis to use them is strictly prohibited. People who are prone to high blood pressure, it is better to abandon the use of alcoholic tinctures - they, on the contrary, stimulate the increase in pressure.
With caution and only after the advice of the doctor advised to take infusions and decoctions for those who suffer from cholelithiasis. In the same way, people should behave with the risk of blood clots.
You should also not abuse dogrose teas and infusions of children - this is fraught with the destruction of very thin enamel of milk teeth and elimination of necessary potassium from the body.
If you do not exceed the recommended dose and consult with experts in time, unwanted reactions can be avoided, and you can get rid of annoying health problems.
