Let's talk about the dogrose. This beautiful bush is known to mankind for several millennia. Rosehip grows in the wild, and in urban gardens and parks. It is popular in many countries. And not only because of the beauty of bred this bush. Rosehip is a whole storehouse of health, a source of vitamins and medicines.

What is useful for our health can give us a dog rose?

As medicinal raw materials most oftenusing rose hips. They contain a lot of vitamins and trace elements important for human beings. In the dog rose a lot of vitamin C, vitamin P, as well as vitamins B and E.

Vitamin C in the fruit of dog rose even more than in lemon. Vitamin C acts as an antioxidant, promoting the renewal of the cell. Also, rosehip has high phytocidal and bactericidal properties.

In modern medicine, dog rose is usedvery active. In practice, everything goes: fruits, roots, leaves. However, home use is best for fruits. It is from them that you can prepare delicious and useful curative and preventive teas and decoctions at home.

Regular consumption of hipspromotes the regeneration of tissues and the synthesis of hormones. Rosehip is useful to people experiencing increased physical and mental stress. It helps to recover from injuries and various diseases. Also, dog rose - an excellent means of preventing colds and flu.

It is especially important to use it in the winter. When we are so short of vitamins, prevention of colds is so important.

Infusion of dog rose, rose hips tincture on vodka, rose hips infusion in a thermos is the most simple and effective ways to prepare a dogrose.

Let's look at all 3 of these methods.

We prepare the infusion of dog rose:

For preparation, whole fruits are taken in the amount ofone tablespoon per glass of boiling water. They must first be rinsed with cold water. After that they need to boil for 10 minutes, and after - to insist for 20-24 hours. After insisting, the infusion should be filtered. Prepared by this method, infusion, preserves up to 90 percent of vitamin C. It is enough to drink half a glass a day.

Another way to prepare a dog rose:

Purified fruit should be washed with cold water,pound and pour boiling water, at the rate of 1 glass of boiling water for 1 tablespoon of fruit. Then all this should be boiled under the lid for 10 minutes and insist 2-3 hours in the same container. Then the resulting broth strain through gauze, squeeze, drink half a glass a day.

Tincture of dogrose on vodka:

Take the crushed rose hips - 5 tablespoons and 500 ml. of vodka.

The fruits are poured into the jar and poured with vodka. Then the jar should be put in a dark place for 2 weeks. In this case, it must be shaken every day. After 15 days, ready tincture must be filtered.

This tincture should be treated as a drug, and not as an alcohol product. Therefore, drink it should be a little, about 2-3 tablespoons a day.

Infusion of dog rose in thermos:

This is probably the easiest way to cookrose hips. Rinsed berries should be poured with boiling water and cover the thermos. Fruits should be infused for at least 6 hours. As a result, we will get a warm tasty broth that you can drink instead of tea or mix with it.

Rosehip teas do not cause side effects,so you can drink them regularly. Because of the high content of vitamin C, rosehip drinks have an acidic taste, so add a little honey, then the drink will become really enjoyable.

Rosehip, of course, is useful to almost everyone. However, there are some contraindications to its use. This is diabetes, thrombophlebitis, circulatory insufficiency.