No wonder the sea buckthorn is called the pantry of health. It surpasses many berry-fruit crops in terms of vitamin C content, and it occupies the first place among them in the concentration of vitamin E in it. Contains
esters of glycerol and higher fatty acids, and other active biological substances. Interest in sea buckthorn is increasing - new varieties of this plant are appearing.
Sea buckthorn oil is the cure for many diseases. It is widely used in the treatment of burns, frostbite, eczema, psoriasis, various dermatitis, colpitis, anal fissures, cervical erosion, lupus. Successfully treats stomatitis, adenoids, tonsillitis, frontal sinusitis, chronic rhinitis. Helps to expel stones from the bile ducts, liver and gall bladder, heal ulcers in the stomach and in the duodenum. Oil inhalations are beneficial for pharyngitis and upper respiratory tract disease. Rubbing the oil restores the hairline during baldness. It facilitates the condition of the patient who received skin irradiation, is used in the course of radiation therapy of esophageal cancer.
How to make sea buckthorn oil
Pure sea buckthorn oil is obtained under industrial conditions from the pulp of berries by separating juice, and then from cake and seeds, pouring them with refined vegetable oil, followed by multi-stage passage through diffusers using special technology. By mixing both types of oils it turns out that which is used in medical practice. It is bright orange, thick with a characteristic aroma and taste. You can buy homemade sea buckthorn oil on the market, but how to check what quality it has? It’s better to cook it yourself - it’s more reliable, moreover, it’s not difficult. How to make sea buckthorn oil at home? There are several cooking methods.
Simplicity and accessibility of methods
The purest oil will be obtained from the pulp of ripe berries by direct cold pressing. It is considered the highest quality. But it’s hard to get a lot of oil in this way. In the pulp of berries it is only 8-9%. Try to process mountains of berries. And yet, how to make sea buckthorn oil at home, albeit a little, but highly concentrated? Juice is squeezed out of the berries (through a juicer or through cheesecloth), filtered and defended. Oil floats to the surface and scoop it up. Juice is used for food needs.
How to make sea buckthorn oil at home using the extraction method using vegetable oil? It must be said right away that refined oils are used for cooking - sunflower, olive, corn or soy. You can not use cotton, which many naturopaths do not recommend consuming even food. Here is one of the methods of extraction (extraction) of oil from sea buckthorn. Dry the berries at a temperature of 60 degrees C, grind them into powder and mix with vegetable oil in a ratio of 1: 2 (by volume). In a dark, warm place, this mixture is infused in a glass bowl for 5 days. After draining the top layer of oil tincture, pour in the cake the same amount of oil that was drained. And so do 3-4 times.
How to make sea buckthorn oil at home as they do in Altai? Sea buckthorn is harvested in November and December. Juice is squeezed out of whole healthy and washed berries through a juicer, after settling of which pressed oil is collected from above (see method one) - the purest. Squeezes (grains and shell of berries) are dried to a loose state. Then dry pulp is poured into glass or enameled dishes and poured with vegetable oil, heated to 60 degrees, so that a thin layer of it appears on top. The mixture is put in a dark place for 14 days. After this, the oil is squeezed out, defended and, if there is sediment at the bottom, carefully drained from the sediment. In order to increase the concentration of carotene, this oil can be mixed with the previously collected pressed oil.
Now you know how to make sea buckthorn oil at home, which you can be sure of. And the cost of manufacturing will require much less than buying from a stranger.
Homemade oil, no doubt, is not as active as a pharmacy, but nevertheless it will have a therapeutic effect, especially with external use.