Delicious berry raspberries: useful properties and versatile application

One of the most popular drugs in folk medicine is raspberries, whose useful properties and medicinal qualities are beyond doubt. This is one of the favorite berries of the Russian people, people of different ages like it, because it is amazingly tasty, and besides, its aroma is more tender and thinner than other berries, and medicinal qualities have been known since ancient times. And today, like several centuries ago, raspberries are often used to treat and prevent many of our diseases. Surely in our country there are no people who at least once did not escape from the common cold with tea with a delicious raspberry jam.

The berries of the garden and wild raspberries can be eaten fresh, with cream or milk, jam, compotes, jelly, syrups, pastille, juices, marmalade, jams, make liquors, tinctures, wine, liqueurs, soft drinks, kvass, Fillings for confectionery and sweets, etc. Today there are varieties of white, yellow, red and black raspberries.

Berry raspberry - useful properties due to rich composition

The curative properties of the amazing berries are due to the multitude of substances, elements and vitamins that our body needs, which are contained in it. Fruits of raspberries have about 10% of sugars (sucrose, fructose and glucose), a little essential oil, more than 20% fatty oil, organic acids (wine, lemon, salicylic and apple), proteins, fiber, pectins, minerals, tannins, flavonoids and Catechins (substances that provide antioxidant properties), mineral salts (iron, zinc, copper, potassium, magnesium, calcium, cobalt), vitamins C, B2, PP, B1, E, B12, provitamin A, folic acid. And the seeds contain beta-sitosterol and fatty oil, which possess anti-sclerotic properties. The leaves include organic acids and flavonoids.

It's no secret that raspberries are fed by many forest animals and birds, even bears, so they manage to stay healthy and active. The plant is also an excellent medonosom: from a hectare of thickets of raspberries, approximately 100 kg of honey is produced.

In garden raspberries the composition is the same, but it has more salicylic acid than wild, so for colds it is more useful. Dried raspberries have the same healing properties as fresh raspberries.

Therapeutic raspberry: useful properties for folk medicine

Recipes for treatment with raspberries in the people very much. So, fresh berries can treat gastritis and colitis, hypovitaminosis and anemia, atherosclerosis and hypertension. With gastritis, colds and colitis drink fresh raspberry juice, which can be squeezed through gauze and take three times a day for 100 grams, before meals. The syrup of berries improves the smell and taste of many medicines, but it is better to drink it separately or add syrup to the tea - it is very tasty.

Infusions from all parts of raspberries improve the work of the stomach and intestines, have a diaphoretic, antiseptic, antipyretic, antiemetic and anti-inflammatory effect. Therefore infusions of a raspberry appoint or nominate often at catarrhal diseases. For this purpose, you need to brew one or two tsp. Dry raspberries with a glass of boiling water, a few minutes to insist and drink hot. And in case of cold you need not only to drink hot tea with malinka, but also to go to bed immediately, wrapped up properly. If you immediately have time to drink 3 cups of crimson berries in an hour at the first signs of a cold , the disease will pass in a lighter form, and the number of berries can be increased by taking two tablespoons. For one glass of boiling water.

With flu, ARVI, sore throats and any colds, you need to drink a concentrated raspberry infusion: pour 200 g of dry raspberries 600 g of boiling water, half an hour to insist and drink for an hour. With obesity, drink the same infusion and eat dry berries.

Not all women probably know that tea with raspberries can reduce symptoms of PMS, and yet it makes the course of pregnancy easier, helps to recover more quickly to a woman after childbirth. It can also reduce pain and relieve spasm, normalize the menstrual cycle, relieve nausea; Tones and soothes; Very useful raspberry tea with the threat of miscarriage, to increase lactation and with postpartum pain.

Valuable and raspberry leaves. Useful properties of them are used in women's diseases for douching and lotions, as well as for hemorrhoids. To prepare the infusion of leaves and flowers of raspberries you need to pour them (10 grams) 200 g of boiling water, insist half an hour and drain.

Infusion of raspberry leaves is also drunk with enteritis, gastritis, respiratory diseases, as an anti-inflammatory and astringent. Four tsp. 400 gr of boiled water are brewed, pressed, filtered, and then drunk four times a day for 100 grams.

Raspberry leaves can heal wounds, from them prepare broths for lotions at bruises. Inflammation of the intestine and stomach, lungs, pharynx and mouth is also effective infusion of leaves. Raspberries are part of expectorant, antitussive, sudorific and vitamin dues and teas.

Raspberry has an antitoxic and hemostatic effect, it has a beneficial effect on the color and tone of the skin, improves appetite. Copper, found in raspberries, is found in most antidepressants, so berry is recommended for people whose life or work takes place under constant stress.

One of the properties of raspberry is the strengthening of the walls of the circulatory system. If you have a predisposition to cardiovascular disease, you have suffered a stroke or heart attack, try to consume as many berries as possible. Raspberry also reduces blood pressure, cholesterol in the blood, prevents and treats atherosclerosis due to beta-sitosterol and fatty acids in the composition. When treating ulcers of the intestine and stomach, it is recommended to take a tablespoon of raspberry juice a quarter of an hour before a meal. In inflammatory bowel diseases or acute diarrhea, water infusions are taken from the crimson leaves inside (1:20). Even in raspberries, there are phytoncides, which are fatal for mold fungus, spores of yeast and staphylococcus aureus.

What is the use of raspberries in cosmetology?

Raspberry, useful properties of which are widely used and in cosmetology, solves many cosmetic problems. It helps get rid of teenage pimples. To do this, fresh leaves of the plant are crushed, pounded in wooden or porcelain dishes, and gruel is applied to problem areas for 15 minutes. Then they wash (only do not wipe, but dry face with patting gentle movements).

Herpes are treated with raspberry branches. To do this, use a compress: a sore spot of young branches (necessarily washed in boiled water). Pulp and raspberry juice is used for masks for mature and fading skin, as a nutritional component and for improving tone. With burns and skin rashes an ointment of fresh crimson leaves is used: they are ground, squeezed juice, mixed with butter or petroleum jelly (1: 4).

There are raspberries a little contraindicated. They need to be considered when using berries. It contains a lot of purine bases, so you should not use raspberries and gout. It is undesirable to use it for diarrhea and inflammatory bowel disease. With a sick liver, raspberries can be taken a little, but with exacerbations of ulcers, gastritis and other gastrointestinal diseases, it can not be eaten, although fresh juice from it can be drunk, diluted with boiled water.

There is also an individual intolerance to raspberries, it can cause allergic reactions (usually it concerns red raspberries, then try to replace it with white, yellow or black). Eat this delicious gift of nature and be always healthy and young!