Tea from the dog rose: good and bad. How to make tea with a dogrose?

Recently, tea drinks from various herbs and berries have become very popular. One of the most popular and favorite - tea from the hips. And this is by no means a new word in health food.

The benefits of dog rose tea have been known since time immemorial

Before the appearance of the fashion for black tea and coffee in our country everywhere, they quenched their thirst with other drinks. In summer and autumn, in dry weather, people were collecting useful plants. To the traditional infusion of herbs and berries that we drank every day, there was also tea with a dog rose, the useful properties of which have been known since ancient times. For the brewing dried not only fruits, but flowers, leaves and even roots. Roots and leaves were used for medicinal purposes, and scented flowers and berries were boiled and insisted in a warm place - this drink turned out to be especially fragrant. To the dog rose were added leaves of raspberry, currant, mint and other fragrant herbs. Drinks were made from mixtures of wild rose berries with blueberries, sea-buckthorn, chokeberry, blackberries and others.

Who can drink a decoction of wild rose?

Traditional and traditional medicine, and in our time, without fail recommends that everyone drink tea from the dog rose. The benefits and harms of it depend only on the dosage. In the spring, when we suffer from avitaminosis, twice a day, a decoction of rose hips, or, as it is also called, a wild rose, will only be appropriate. Tea made from hips is harmful only in case of excessive consumption of the drink. In reasonable amounts, it improves overall well-being, normalizes blood pressure and improves metabolism.

What does a wild rose look like and where does it grow?

Rosehip is a low, up to two meters, prickly bushes. In our country, it can be found almost everywhere, with the exception of the Arctic territories. It is also widely distributed in America and Australia. The wild rose served as the basis for selective breeding of shrubs and breeding of ornamental varieties, which are used to decorate parks, gardens, to create bouquets. The fruits of wild and cultivated roses are very similar. This oval berries are red-brown, up to two centimeters in the longest part. Inside the fruit is covered with numerous bristles, which, when ingested, cause unpleasant sensations. Seeds are white, up to two millimeters in size. For medicinal purposes, only wild varieties are used. Rosehips can not be confused with any other plant. The aroma of its flowers is very recognizable. No wonder the essential oils obtained from the petals of its flowers are used in perfumery when creating perfumes and for flavoring creams and lotions.

Fruit harvesting

Varieties of dogrose, it is also called not only a wild rose, but also dog rose, and also a cinnamon rose, there are many, but not all of them are considered medicinal. For health and medicinal purposes, the fruits are not round, flattened to the center, but oval and elongated in length. In the medicinal species, the sepals are extended forward, like a peak, and those without a vitamin value are twisted back, toward the berries, and almost lie on it.

Blooms from mid-May to July, and ripe fruits are harvested in late summer and early autumn. After frosts, they lose their medicinal qualities. And the beneficial properties of rose hip tea are largely due to the content of a large amount of vitamin C in berries, which quickly breaks down at low temperatures.

From fresh hips of a dogrose cook compotes, jams, пастилу. Fruit processing is a laborious task, since berries should be cleaned from internal bristles and hard seeds. One kilogram of freshly picked berries produces less than half a kilogram of raw materials suitable for canning.

Internal setae - an unpleasant feature of berries

Berry berries for tea can be taken fresh, dried, and processed into syrup or jam. Since the dogrose inside has its own setae, then processing it presents a certain complexity. These bristles will not cause inconvenience only if the berries are dried whole, and they are not crushed to brew tea. Sometimes, for medicinal purposes, it is recommended to brew dry berries, pre-grind them. So do, if you want to get not just delicious, but also as rich in precious minerals tea from the dog rose. The use of ground berries is that the vitamin E, carotene, tocopherol, oleic, linoleic, linolenic and other acids contained in them are easier to convert into a drink.

What kind of water to use?

One of the primary requirements for a tea drink is the quality of the water used for it. Recognized authority in the part of brewing medicinal infusions - Chinese medicine - divides water into seven species. The best is mountain or key, and also spring water. This water is of the highest quality. River on useful properties follows it. Next on the list is well water. Nikolay Spafariy, who was an ambassador in Beijing in the 17th century, remembered in his notes that the Chinese did not take water from the nearest ponds for brewing tea, but bought them at the bazaar. It was brought from mountain areas, and it was very expensive.

The best water temperature for briar brewing

The temperature of the water for brewing is also of great importance. Chinese as the most authoritative specialists in the preparation of tea drinks distinguish a great many stages of boiling water. One of the initial stages - bubbles, similar to fish eyes and light noise, then - splashing water and splashes from a collision with the wall of dishes, then - rising from the bottom of the bubbles and "impertinent" bubbling. It is believed that water, most suitable for brewing tea - when the rising bubbles are like the eyes of a crab. At the first stage of boiling, salt should be thrown into the water, at the second - the dogrose, and at the third - a little cold water to precipitate the dogrose and revitalize the freshness of the water. You should know that water can not be boiled again.

10 secrets of good tea from wild rose berries

Chinese medicine has developed ten rules for the proper preparation of medicinal broths, in particular, so it is necessary to brew tea with rose hips. Useful properties of the drink will remain most complete, if you act in accordance with the following recommendations:

1. Grass or berries should be brewed in a thin-walled glass or porcelain dish. Get a good french press, in which you will brew tea from the dog rose. The benefits and harms to the health of any medicinal product are always related to the conditions under which it was prepared. Wellness properties will only have the rightly brewed drink.
2. Medicinal herbs or berries can not be boiled. Rosehips only pour boiling water. Cooled water can not extract useful substances from it. Long boiling water also does not fit, because with prolonged boiling oxygen escapes from it. Chemical reactions will be inadequate.
3. Water should be fresh, neutral acidity and not too hard.
4. Carefully approach the choice of a teapot, in which you will boil water to make tea from the dog rose. The benefits and harms of the drink depend directly on the material of the dishes, in which the water was boiled. Enameled, without chipping, utensils, as well as stainless steel and refractory glass. The remaining materials will provoke the occurrence of undesirable chemical reactions.
5. To filter the broth, you can use a plastic sieve, and metal for this purpose is not suitable.
6. Before brewing tea with a dogrose, make sure that the dishes in which you are going to do this, was not used for other purposes, except for cooking herbal decoctions. Make the rule that the dishes for herbal infusions should be kept separate from all other things and do not use it for any other purposes.
7. Before you brew tea with a dogrose, calculate how many cups you are going to drink. Do not cook for future use. If you brew a dogrose in a thermos for the night, then the next day it should be drunk. Do not brew tea from rose hips from the same berries.
8. Keep the dry honeysuckle fruit in a metal box lined inside, along the walls, with clean paper. You can use glassware with tightly closed lids for storage. It should shelter the fruits from direct sunlight.
9. When you drink tea from a dogrose, the recipe can be any. Even if your broth is supplemented with some other herbs or berries, remember that you can not reheat it. With a curative purpose it is supposed to drink only hot and fresh.
10. If there is film or foam on the surface of the broth, do not remove them. These are essential oils and resins, which are considered to be the most useful part of medicinal drink.

What determines the quality of the fruit?

Berry berries contain fruit sugar, organic acids. According to the content of vitamin C, dogrose outruns almost all plant products. Its quantity directly depends on the place of growth, the degree of maturity and the quality of drying and storage. You should not pick berries from bushes growing in the city. To do this, it is better to go to ecologically clean zones, which are practically in every region of Russia. Dry fruits retain useful properties for two years.

The unique composition and beneficial effect of berries and tea

Fruits contain sugars, organic acids, in addition to the above-mentioned vitamin C, vitamins B (B ₁ , B ₂ ), vitamins P and PP, K, carotene, tannins, flavonoids, salts of iron, manganese, phosphorus, magnesium, calcium and Etc. Rosehip tea has a multivitamin, anti-inflammatory and anti-sclerotic effect. It is very effective as a choleretic and diuretic. Rosehip stops internal bleeding. Vitamin C improves oxidation-reduction processes in the body, enhances the synthesis of hormones and the activity of enzymes. In addition, it contributes to the renewal of tissues, increases the body's resistance to adverse environmental effects.

Green tea with rose hips

Green tea with rosehip is recommended to drink with hypertension, for the prevention and treatment of atherosclerosis. It is very good as a restorative. It is better to drink it in the morning on an empty stomach. This is a good preventative against many diseases. It normalizes the state of the nervous system, strengthens the potency. Green tea with wild rose berries alleviates painful symptoms with gynecological and urological problems, promotes the healing of internal wounds and ulcers.

Tea from the dog rose: benefit and harm

Diuretic properties of dogrose are used in the treatment of urolithiasis. When inflammation of the gastric mucosa caused by a low acidity of the gastric juice, patients are also prescribed rose hip tea. Contraindications are diseases accompanied by high acidity. Since dogrose has a pronounced diuretic effect, it should be taken with caution to people with problems in the cardiovascular system.

Multivitamin Drink

Prophylactic and multivitamin tea from cinnamon rose berries is brewed as follows. Two full tablespoons of dried, crushed fruits are poured into a glass of boiling water and kept in a water bath for about ten minutes. Then half an hour they insist in a warm place. Filter through the gauze filter and drink a third of a glass a day after eating.

Rosehip tea helps with anemia, hemophilia, diathesis hemorrhagic character, diarrhea, tuberculosis and colds, it is drunk with neurasthenia as a sedative. Briar helps to facilitate the flow of very many diseases. This is a universally recognized multivitamin and general restorative means of a wide spectrum of action.

Effective decoction for the treatment of diseases of the stomach and intestines

Thanks to the rich and well-balanced composition, the dog rose is widely used in the treatment of a large number of diseases. The fruits of this shrub are included in many medicinal collections. If the stomach ulcer or 12 duodenal ulcer, as well as in the case of protracted gastritis, the following collection is very effective:

• Berries of a dogrose, 3 parts;
• Swamp grass (grass), 1 part;
• Petals of white roses, 1 part;
• Flowers of chemist's daisy, 1 part;
• Flowers of calendula, 1 part;
• Horsetail field (shoots), 1 part;
• Wormwood grass (grass), 2 parts;
• Ordinary hedgehog (grass), 2 parts;
• Yarrow (flowers), 7 parts;
• Plantain (leaves), 4 parts;
• St. John's wort pitted (grass), 4 parts;
• Dill (seeds), 3 parts.

A tablespoon of the mixture pour boiling water (0.5 liters), soak for 30 minutes, filter and drink during the day in several ways, 15-20 minutes before eating. The taste is infused with wormwood and a lot of yarrow bitter. Tea from the dog rose, the recipe of which is given above, can be prepared from fresh berries and herbs. In this case, the proportions remain.

Rosehip tea is best sweetened with natural flower honey. Only honey can not be put in boiling water. It will lose its useful properties from this. Try to prepare a drink from wild rose berries with brown cane sugar. This is delicious.