Cinnamon rose hips, otherwise called "wild rose", is a shrub about 2 meters high. The flowers may be white or pink, and the fruits are smooth, dark red. This plant blooms in late spring and early summer. The fruits ripen by the beginning of autumn. In nature, there are about 50 species of rose hips, but the beneficial properties of all are the same, therefore, in medicine they are used for the same purpose.
It is impossible to overestimate the positive effect on the body, which has a wild rose. Useful properties and contraindications to it can be found even in ancient books on healing. Then our ancestors did not yet know medicine, but they already used the gifts of nature. How to cook rose hips, our grandmothers also know. Surely many remember the unforgettable aroma of tea from its fruits. This unique plant has anti-inflammatory, choleretic, antimicrobial, restorative and vitamin effects. Rose hips - a real salvation for people suffering from a lack of vitamins and low immunity. Thanks to a whole range of useful substances, simple tea from them becomes a real healing drink. It gives strength and helps the body fight infections.
Rosehip, the beneficial properties and contraindications of which are known to any modern doctor, contains such useful substances as rutin, carotene (increases the body's resistance), vitamin E and, of course, C, which is responsible for redox processes in the body.
However, one should be careful when applying any plant. Even if it is as harmless as a dog rose. Useful properties and contraindications - this is the first thing you need to know about the plant before drinking decoctions or infusions. Rosehip can not be used for stomach ulcers, thrombophlebitis, thrombosis and high blood pressure. In a stroke, it can only be used in combination with other herbs.
In other diseases, rose hips are used in the form of infusions, syrups, powders and extracts. The following is a list of diseases in which doctors recommend using them as an adjuvant:
- stones in the liver;
- anemia;
- exhaustion;
- atherosclerosis;
- fractures
- infectious diseases;
- kidney stone disease;
- decreased gastric secretion;
- uterine bleeding;
- for wound healing.
Chinese healers use not only rose hips, but also the roots from which they make a special tool. It improves digestion and eliminates worms. In domestic medicine, these fruits are most often used as a restorative tool that helps to endure the autumn and spring changes in the body. In most cases, this is a simple broth of rose hips, the contraindications of which are unknown.
Rosehip oil is also universally used in medicine for a variety of skin diseases. These are nipple cracks in nursing mothers, pressure sores, trophic ulcers, simple abrasions. And with ulcerative colitis, enemas with the oil of this plant are often used.
Significant improvements in the condition of the body are observed in people who regularly take rose hips. Useful properties and contraindications to this plant can be clarified by the attending physician, since allergies or individual intolerance are possible. And, of course, you need to know the measure in everything, since the abuse of any broth can bring about new health problems.