How many of us have not heard in our childhood about rejuvenating apples, which cured the most insidious diseases of the heroes and gave them a long life? Obviously, the Russian breeder L.I. Vigorov also grew up listening to Russian folk tales. This is evidenced by all his labor activities, because he devoted it to the cultivation of a rejuvenating variety of apples, and he succeeded.
L.I. Vigorov was engaged in the cultivation of fruit plants with medicinal and prophylactic qualities. The choice of direction was not accidental. The scientist followed the covenant of his mentor - Michurin, who wrote in his dying wish that he expects from his students to receive new varieties of apples that can heal people and lengthen their lives.
The first thing Professor Vigorov drew attention to in his work was the presence of natural antibiotics and health-enhancing compounds in apple fruits. As a result of his research, he concluded that the available varieties of apples are very rarely a medicine for people. At that time, and it was the middle of the twentieth century, there were no more than five percent of them. To the scientist's surprise, even the most common of them lack vitamins important for health, and they do not make up for the lack of necessary elements in the body of people who consume them.
Choosing the best apple varieties in terms of nutrients, Vigorov continued to work with them, and soon received new ones based on them, containing as many biologically active substances as needed to strengthen the strength of the person who uses them.
In those years, many scientists conducted breeding work in the field of breeding new fruit crops, but most of them took the path of economic interest. They looked for benefits in the amount of the crop, pleasant taste and the external beauty and attractiveness of the fruit, and not in its usefulness. Vigorov, however, continued to insist that there were many and no need for rejuvenating apples. Where usual you can eat ten kilograms, those that he creates, one or two will be enough. This should be consistent with the English tradition: one apple per day - and the doctor is not needed.
The desired results did not appear soon. For their sake, the scientist works hard his whole life. Not immediately new apples were recognized by the scientific world and the public, it took more than forty years. Only today, when people began to think more about what we eat and whether there will be benefits or harm to us, the rejuvenating apple varieties of Professor L.I. Vigorov became popular not only among gardeners, but also among medical workers.
So, on the basis of their therapeutic effect in the Urals, clinics are now providing health-improving services. Patients are prescribed apples or their juices and oilcakes as medicines. The results of the treatment brought success to the clinics and attracted the attention of gardeners to the work of the scientist. They began to plant multivitamin summer varieties of apples (such as Naliv red, Babushkino and others) in their plots, as they were convinced that their fruits reduce blood pressure. The main fund of their planting stock today is in the Michurinsky and Botanical Gardens of Moscow State University. Winter varieties of apples from the collection of L.I. Vigorova such as Sibiryachka, Olya contain natural antibiotics and prevent the formation of kidney stones.