Rosehip
wonder this prickly bush, covered with shiny curved pair hooked spines, called wild roses: sharp and strong spikes can cause serious trouble to anyone who inadvertently "let's talk" with him. In early summer, large shrub, lavishly decorated with fragrant flowers that look just like a rose. And it is not surprising, for all cultivars of roses are descended from wild rose, and they belong to the same botanical family - Rosa ».
generic name" Rose "is found in Roman writers Varro, Virgil, Pliny, associated with the Celtic language (red) because of color of fruits and flowers. Back in the IX century rose was known as "Rosa Canina", which translated from Greek means "dog rose". Suggest that the name arose due to the fact that the root of the bush helps in the treatment of rabies from dog bites, while others believe that the name of contempt, which indicates the worst sort of wild roses. In various parts of the country contain more than 100 species of wild rose from 300, common in temperate and subtropical zones of the Northern Hemisphere. Grow these shrubs in river valleys, lake shores, on forest edges, glades, among shrubs in sparse forests, the felling and ravines.
Rosehip enjoys wide popularity among all the peoples of the world. Ancient Romans considered it a symbol of morality, the Greeks planted rose gardens around the temple of Aphrodite - the goddess of love and beauty, rose petals decorated the way newlyweds.
But not only famous for the beauty of rose. It has long been considered a remedy for many diseases. Demand for raw materials is so great that the fruits of wild roses collected everywhere, especially appreciated vysokovitaminnye species: rose cinnamon, dauricus, echinate, wrinkled, Beggera etc. And nizkovitaminny dog rose has been used successfully as a choleretic agent. The fruits of this wild rose from time immemorial have used to treat jaundice and other liver diseases; considered medicinal leaves and roots. Decoction of rose hips are successfully cured many diseases: it has a multivitamin, choleretic, anti-inflammatory and regulates the metabolism properties. Water decoction of fruits, flavored with a spoonful of honey and black currant leaves, - pleasant, thirst-quenching drink, and if even add some fruit and a sprig of dill, garden thyme, then get a drink and healing, helps with the inflammation of the liver and kidneys. Tea from the hips with a mountain ash, leaves, Bud and blackberries, wild strawberries and oregano is very tasty and useful. In combination with other herbs briar used to treat and prevent many diseases and in the Middle Ages. Fruits and flowers are rose hips have long been employed people in Siberia to prevent and treat bleeding gums. In the XVI and XVII centuries, the Russian tsars fitted out a special expedition in the Orenburg steppe for billets rose hips, which were revered in Russia as a means of healing the wounds. It was believed that "water color svoroborinnogo wound heals, sverbyazh displays, the wound does not propagate any width, any length." Washed the wounds, to avoid the "gangrene - gangrene. Earlier and rose hips oil use, especially in wounds of the head. Over time, these tools were forgotten, become part of history, but in the middle of this century, once again flared up interest in the hips as vitamin raw materials. It is known that vitamin C promotes wound healing, helps with success to combat pathogens.
Fruits, petals and leaves of wild roses are used for cosmetic purposes. Rose oil extracted from rose petals, is widely used in perfumery in our country and around the world.
In Siberia, the petals of wild roses, cooked with honey, used in erysipelas, and the roots - for foot baths. Due to the volatile production leaves and water infusions have protivomikrob-nym action: they can be applied to the skin with eczema. Decoction of the petals with honey and beauticians are used for eczema, skin diseases. Decoction of leaves and fruits containing a complex of vitamins and other biologically active substances is well to rinse the hair, which strengthens them and gives them a beautiful appearance. Decoction of the fruit to remove various forms of stimulation to the face and body, a decoction is taken orally with pink and juvenile acne, as well as in inflammatory skin diseases.
Very effective remedy is the oil from the seeds of rose hips. This drug is well established in the treatment of pressure ulcers, dermatitis.
Gather rose hips in the autumn, before frost. Collected fruits should be dried immediately at a temperature of 80-90 œ C and finally dried at lower temperatures. Properly dried fruits are ground in powder, they are just breaking up. Cultivated as a medicinal, vitamins and food plant. Many wild species used as rootstock for cultivated roses. Rosehip propagated as seed, and vegetatively - cuttings, stem and root cuttings, root suckers and slips.