Greetings, dear gardeners! I don’t know about you, but all August I was looking forward to the golden autumn. Blizzard-like leaf fall, damp bad weather, blissfully warm Indian summer ... All this excites the soul of an inexperienced summer resident so much! =))
How to prepare mountain ash for the winter
Only this year I completely “flew” with: for the second year in a row, both ours and the neighbors have been pecked clean by rowan thrushes. It takes them no more than 2 weeks not to leave a single berry. So pity! There are no more of these beautiful beads, the trees stand without decorations. Is it fair? The forest is nearby, literally 5 minutes, and they attacked our trees with a whole army!
But let's not scold them too much. Let's better talk about how to prepare mountain ash for the winter. Maybe for those who have not yet visited the gluttonous thrushes, these tips and secrets will be useful. So I present 16 best recipes for harvesting mountain ash for the winter! And I assure you: it is unlikely that these supplies will wait all winter for their turn - eat them in the fall! But for starters...
A few facts about rowan
- Rowan is a very useful berry. It contains organic acids - 3.6% (malic, sorbic, succinic and tartaric), vitamin C - from 90 to 200 mg (depending on the variety), vitamin E - 2 mg, carotene - 18 mg, trace elements (iron, manganese, magnesium, copper, zinc), fructose - 4.8%, glucose - 3.8%, essential oils and many other important substances for humans.
- This berry is effective as a choleretic, multivitamin, diuretic, antiscorbutic and astringent. It also lowers blood cholesterol levels. It is recommended for hypertension, atherosclerosis, rheumatism, anemia, exhaustion ... In general, wherever you look - everywhere is good.
- Rowan is a good preservative, so it can be used when preparing other products for the winter.
- It is better to harvest after the first frost, when the mountain ash loses most of its astringency and becomes sweeter.
9. Marmalade from mountain ash
Ingredients- 1 kg rowan,
- 500 g sugar
- 1 glass of water
- a pinch of vanilla sugar.
Cooking method
Pour boiling water over the rowan and leave for 10-15 minutes, then drain in a colander and transfer to a saucepan. Mash the berries with a pestle, pour in water and bring to a boil over low heat. Then rub the mass through a sieve, mix with sugar and cook mashed potatoes until tender. But that is not all.
Rowan marmalade
Next, cool the puree and spread it in an even layer on a baking sheet covered with parchment. Sprinkle sugar on top and send to a hot oven. Keep it until dry and crusty. Sprinkle the finished marmalade with icing sugar and vanilla, cut into different pieces and store in a closed container.
10. Soaked rowan
Ingredients- Rowan.
- 1 liter of water
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 5-7 cloves,
- 30-50 g of sugar.
Cooking method
Thoroughly wash frozen rowan and pour into a bowl. Prepare the filling: dissolve sugar in boiling water, add spices. Cool the syrup and pour rowanberry over it. Cover with a cloth on top and put oppression. Keep for about a week at a temperature of +19 ... + 20 ° C, and then transfer to a cold place and leave for another 15-18 days. Thus, after 25-30 days, the soaked mountain ash will be ready.
11. Marinated rowan
Ingredients- Rowan,
- 10 peppercorns,
- 1 g cinnamon.
- 1 liter of water
- 600 g sugar
- 100 ml vinegar 9%.
Cooking method
Wash the frozen berries and put them in boiling water for 3-4 minutes, then cool them in cold water and arrange them in jars. Before that, put spices on the bottom of the jars. Pour the berries with hot marinade, sterilize the jars.
12. Frozen rowan (in brushes or powdered sugar)
If you want to freeze the mountain ash in the brushes, then just remove the leaves and hang the brushes on the ropes under the roof (when there are already frosts). Serve the berries frozen, without separating them from the brushes.
And you can freeze rowan in powdered sugar. To do this, the berries are separated from the brushes, washed, sprinkled with powdered sugar and spread on a tray in one layer. Trays are taken out into the cold or put in the freezer. Such berries are served without defrosting for tea or wine.
Ingredients- rowan berries.
Cooking method
We wash the berries, let the water drain and lay them out on sieves with a layer of 2 cm. You need to dry them in an oven or a special dryer at a temperature of + 45 ° C, and dry them at + 60 ° C. In such conditions, the berries dry out in 2-3 hours.
How to check if they are dry enough? If you squeeze the berries in a fist, juice should not stand out from them.
Ingredients- rowan berries.
Cooking method
Dry the berries and grind into powder (for example, using a coffee grinder, a food processor with the function of grinding solid foods, or, at worst, a mortar and pestle). Store in an airtight container. Such a powder can be mixed into jelly, confectionery - it gives the dish a sour-spicy taste. In general, feel free to throw in dishes that need to be slightly acidified.
- 1 kg rowan,
- 2 cups sugar
- 4 liters of water
- 10 g yeast.
Cooking method
Sort and blanch the rowan, then mash with a pestle, add water and cook for 10 minutes. Strain the juice, add sugar and cool. Add yeast, mix, pour into bottles, cork and leave for 3 days in a cool place. Everything, rowan kvass is ready.
16. Pouring from mountain ash
Ingredients:- 2 kg rowan,
- 1 liter of water
- 500 g sugar.
Cooking method
Mash fresh berries, add water and sprinkle with sugar. Put in a cool place for 4-5 days, then squeeze the juice, bottle and close with corks. Put the bottles in a cool place for 30-40 days. More precisely, lay it horizontally (I don’t know why, according to the recipe it is).
How long to store rowan fresh?
If you have no time to prepare or simply don’t have such a desire yet, know that fresh mountain ash can also be stored. To do this, you need to put the berries in trays and put them in a room with a temperature of +2 ... + 3 ° С. Under such conditions, rowan can be stored for up to 6 months! True, the berries darken slightly and dry out - a natural process.
Fresh rowan can be stored
By the way, in childhood, my girlfriend and I sometimes played in a restaurant. Once my older sister came to our “restaurant” and ordered wine. We brought her water, to which she said that a restaurant is not a restaurant if there is no wine in it. Therefore, we decided to make wine ... from mountain ash! They stole some sugar from the house, crushed the berries, filled it with water, covered it with sugar and put it in the sun (as we heard, it wanders faster in the sun).
The wine worked! True, we did not dare to try it))). And my mother makes wine from chokeberry. I think if you mix ordinary mountain ash and chokeberry, it will turn out great.
In general, experiment, dear gardeners! I wrote this post, but I myself am so sad - if I had mountain ash, I would definitely make marmalade and sweets ... But, alas ... Blackbirds have a lip that is not a fool)).
If you try any recipe, write here, okay? It's interesting...
And by the way, maybe someone has already tried to make blanks from mountain ash? Share your experience please =)
Mountain ash is extremely unpretentious, it is not demanding on soils, it tolerates frost well, and even pests bypass it. It would seem that an ideal horticultural culture, but the taste of the fruits of a wild culture leaves much to be desired. Its berries are small, hard and bitter in taste, but here the beneficial properties of red mountain ash in winter are very relevant.
In addition, at the moment, breeders have bred many dessert varieties of this beautiful plant. Thanks to the work of Michurin and his followers, the berries became larger, lost their astringency and bitterness.
Although I personally prefer the most ordinary mountain ash - red, the beneficial properties of which certainly no Michurinists spoiled for the sake of taste and appearance.
Rowan in the garden is a beautiful and useful plant. Its leaves release phytoncides, plant antibiotics into the air, due to which the air next to the tree is particularly clean and fresh. The fruits not only delight the eye with their fiery color in gray autumn weather, but also have a wide range of useful properties.
For example, mountain ash contains more vitamin C than lemons, and in terms of the content of carotenoids, which are converted into vitamin A in the human body, mountain ash leaves carrots far behind. In addition, rowan fruits contain vitamin P, tannins, organic acids, sugar, essential oils and many other compounds.
Due to its rich composition, the beneficial properties of red mountain ash are widely used in traditional medicine. Moreover, not only fruits are used, but also leaves and bark. For example, fresh leaves of mountain ash are rubbed and applied to areas of the skin affected by a fungus, and broths from the bark are used to treat inflammation of the mucous membranes and skin.
But, of course, the fruits are of great value.
They are prepared for the future in various ways. You can dry the berries in special dryers or on a baking sheet, in this form, red rowan berries do not lose their beneficial properties for two years, if stored in a tightly closed container in a dry and cool place. You can scroll the fruits along with sugar through a meat grinder and store in the refrigerator or cellar. Also, jams are made from mountain ash and juices are made.
Red rowan recipes
Syrup
Squeeze juice from 1 kg of fresh berries, add 600 g of sugar, boil and cork.
This syrup is used to treat beriberi, urolithiasis and relieve pain in rheumatoid arthritis.
rowan juice
Get juice using a juicer or juicer, pour into jars and sterilize. Sugar can be added if desired. And you can add it already when you use it.
Juice will serve as an excellent medicine for hypovitaminosis, exhaustion, anemia, help in the treatment of dysentery and strengthen the protective properties of the body.
Rowan jam
Sort through the berries, removing the spoiled ones.
For 1 kg of berries, add 2.5 cups of water and boil while stirring for 5 minutes. Strain the berries through a colander and leave for now.
Prepare syrup:
add 800 g of sugar to the water remaining from boiling the berries and boil until it is completely dissolved.
Pour the berries into the syrup, mix and leave for ten hours.
The next day, bring the jam to a boil and leave until the next day.
Then cook in three doses for 8-10 minutes with an interval of 6-8 hours.
Ready jam should be thick, a drop of syrup on a plate should not spread.
Mountain ash harmonizes well with apples in taste, so instead of 1 kg of mountain ash, you can take 700 g of mountain ash and 300 g of apples.
Perhaps every housewife knows how to cook jam, but not every housewife understands that prolonged heat treatment leads to the fact that all the beneficial properties of berries are significantly reduced in proportion to the cooking time. Therefore, if jam - then "five minutes". But it’s better to make juice or freeze fresh berries. Of these, you can then make quick confiture and cook compote, or simply use bright red beads to decorate a doorstep or cake.
Contraindications
With all the beneficial properties of red rowan, it should be noted that it can also be dangerous. Rowan preparations are contraindicated during pregnancy. You should not eat mountain ash and nursing mothers. And it is also not recommended to use rowan preparations for people over 45 years old.
In general, there are legends about the red mountain ash and its beneficial properties. At what most of them are true;) So why lose such a useful and absolutely free drug? While there is time - get a little bit. Only of course not in the city, and even more so not near the highway.
Perhaps you still know something about the beneficial properties of red mountain ash, or do you have experience in harvesting it for the winter? Share with us in the comments!
Rowan juice without pulp
Pour the washed red rowan fruits (2 kg) with water (2 l) and cook until softened, then rub through a sieve (you can use a juicer), squeeze the juice and pasteurize in a glass dish at a temperature of 90 ° C (half-liter jars - 15 minutes, liter jars – 22 min.). Rowan juice with pulp contains much more carotene than juice obtained by pressing on a press.
The first option for making rowan juice with pulp
To prepare rowan juice with pulp, intact red rowan fruits (1 kg) are selected, then they are washed, dried on a towel and blanched in boiling salted water for 4-5 minutes (1 tbsp of water is 1 tablespoon of salt). After blanching, the fruits are rinsed with cold boiled water and rubbed through a sieve or passed through a meat grinder. The resulting puree is mixed with hot syrup made from 2 cups of water and 200 g of sugar. Then the mass is transferred to clean glass jars, closed with lids and sterilized in boiling water (half-liter jars - 10 minutes, liter jars - 15 minutes).
The second option for preparing rowan juice with pulp
The fruits of mountain ash are prepared in the manner described above (see "The first version of the preparation of mountain ash juice with pulp"). After blanching in brine, the fruits are rinsed with cold boiled water (see above "The first option for preparing mountain ash juice with pulp"), passed through a juicer. The resulting mass is mixed with 40% sugar syrup (400 g of sugar accounts for 600 ml of water), heated with stirring to 70–80 ° C, transferred to heated glass jars, and then sterilized at 100 ° C (half-liter jars - 15 minutes , liter jars - 22 min, three-liter jars - 50 min).
Benefit
1. Freshly squeezed juice of rowan berries is good for treating papillomas and warts that dry out after several lubrication procedures.2. A syrup made from the juice of fresh rowan fruits is used as a diuretic and hemostatic agent for glomerulonephritis.
3. Fresh juice from the fruits of red rowan folk medicine is recommended for obesity.
4. Rowan juice is used for dysentery and lack of appetite.
5. Rowan juice is widely used for anemia, asthenia, gout, hemorrhoids, malignant tumors, low acidity of gastric juice (fresh rowan fruit juice is recommended to take 1 teaspoon before meals), hypertension, vitamin deficiency, glaucoma, whooping cough, dysmenorrhea, in diseases of the liver and kidneys, ascites and atherosclerosis.
6. Rowan syrup is used for articular rheumatism, kidney and bladder stones, as well as in violation of salt metabolism.
7. Tincture, decoction or juice from the fruits of mountain ash are used for disorders of the digestive system, hepatocholecystitis, hepatitis and problematic bile secretion.
8. Rowan berries are an important source of vitamins for diabetics.
9. The presence of sorbitol makes rowan effective also in the treatment of chronic constipation. The fruits of red mountain ash are especially useful for senile atony of the large and small intestines.
10. Infusion, decoction or juice of red rowan fruits help with uterine bleeding in menopause.
11. Red rowan berries contain phytoestrogens.
12. Sorbitol, contained in mountain ash, lowers the content of fat in the liver and cholesterol in the blood.
13. Rowan has a diuretic and hemostatic agent.
14. Pectins of rowan fruits prevent fermentation processes in the intestines, reduce gas formation and, having adsorbing properties, contribute to the binding and elimination of various toxins.
Infusion and juice from red rowan berries are used as an anti-radiation agent (they have a radio and X-ray protective effect).
15. There are a lot of triterpene acids in red mountain ash, so its berries help treat diseases of the cardiovascular system: arrhythmia, hypertension, heart failure, coronary circulation disorders.
16. The medicinal properties of red rowan fruits are used in folk medicine to treat spasms of cerebral vessels.
17. Amygdalin, found in rowan berries, increases the resistance of the human body to hypoxia and prevents the development of atherosclerosis.
19. Rowan increases urination, acts against scurvy.
20. Studies have shown that red rowan juice is very useful for pulmonary tuberculosis.
21. For the treatment of diseases, mountain ash juice is taken 1/4-1/3 cup along with 1 tbsp. a spoonful of honey, diluted in an equal amount of milk, 3 times a day before meals.
Harm
The fruits of mountain ash are contraindicated in hypotension, hyperacid gastritis, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, pregnancy, thrombophlebitis (and generally increased blood clotting), hypotonic biliary dyskinesia, cystitis and inflammation of the bladder.A curly rowan tree can be found not only in the forest, but also on the territory of megacities. Varietal varieties of this crop are grown to decorate gardens, parks, squares and harvest. In autumn, a fiery fire of flaming foliage and berries flares up, which will decorate the branches all winter. Fruits are a favorite food of wild birds, but this product also brings great benefits to humans. Our ancestors revered the tree, classifying it as sacred. And now rowan red useful properties and contraindications, which are discussed in this article, gives people health. To take advantage of this valuable gift of nature, we invite you to learn how to properly prepare and use various products, store the collected raw materials and grow crops in the garden.
Rowan red - description, photo
The graceful camp of a mountain ash has long been compared with a girl's figure, so the tree is considered feminine. Many different legends, beliefs and signs are associated with it. It is believed that the girl, mourning her dead lover, has turned into a stately beauty, mountain ash. Every autumn, she drops scarlet tears on the fallen snow, like drops of blood shed for unquenchable love.
The ancestors revered the tree, believing that it is able to protect from evil and give good health. It was forbidden to pick flowers, leaves, branches and fruits just like that, be sure to ask for forgiveness and explain to nature why the collection of raw materials is being carried out. And they harvested for the preparation of sweets and treatment, made wreaths and bouquets of brides from twigs, used in ritual ceremonies. It was believed that the mountain ash growing near the house would protect the home from fires, evil forces, witchcraft.
It is interesting! An old belief says: if nature took care of the birds and gave them a rich harvest of rowan berries, there will be a harsh winter. With modern climate change, you should not completely trust the sign.
Sorbus aucuparia is the Latin name for a genus of trees or shrubs belonging to the rose family. The range of the genus covers vast territories, mountain ash is widespread throughout the temperate climate zone. The mountainous terrain transforms the plant, turning it into a shrub. The bright beauty prefers to grow alone in the clearings and edges of coniferous forests. Incredible winter hardiness and the ability to tolerate shading endowed the plant with a persistent character, and adaptability to various conditions of existence allowed it to spread throughout the world.
Trees reach a height of 5 to 10 meters, there are also taller specimens. The crown seems openwork because of the carved foliage, the shape of the crown is rounded. The skeletal shoots of adults are covered with light greyish-brown bark with a sheen. At the young shoots, the branches are dressed in an edge, cast in a reddish tint. The buds of the plant are also pubescent.
Know! Modern travelers and fishermen still use the old trick - they disinfect water by dropping a sprig of mountain ash into it, as our ancestors did when they went to work in the fields, for mowing.
Especially beautiful is the leaf, consisting of 7-15 elongated-lanceolate lobes. The length of the plate is up to 20 cm, the arrangement is regular. The lobes are unpaired, pinnatiform with serrate serrations in the upper part. The upper part of the plates is green, matte, from below the leaves appear paler due to the white edge. The autumn outfit of the forest beauty is beautiful - the foliage flares up with a fire, about which Sergei Yesenin wrote "it cannot warm anyone." The leaves first turn yellow, and then acquire shades from orange to crimson.
In late spring or early summer, rowan shoots are densely covered with snow-white corymbose inflorescences, which makes it look like a bride. The corolla consists of five petals, reaches a diameter of 8-15 mm. Flowering is accompanied by the release of trimethylamine, a gaseous substance with an unpleasant smell of ammonia or herring.
You will be surprised, but the fruit of the plant is an apple, because the closest relatives of the apple and pear cultures. Tiny apples reach a diameter of 10 mm, ripen by early autumn. Inside the apple are small seeds. Harvest is usually eaten only after good frosts, when some of the bitterness disappears. The color of the berries is not only red, varietal varieties bring an orange and yellowish crop.
On a note! Mountain ash is an unpretentious culture that retains its decorative effect throughout the season. Breeders have bred a lot of fruit varieties and garden forms.
Nature endowed the tree with a bitter harvest, but at the beginning of the 19th century, several mutational forms were discovered that were devoid of bitterness in taste. On their basis, valuable fruit varieties were bred - Nevezhinskaya, Kubovaya, Rozina, Sorbinka, Businka, Granatnaya, Burka. Decorative garden forms are beautiful - undersized Nana, Pyramidalis with a high crown of a pyramidal shape, Pendula with drooping branches, as well as variegated (variegated) cultivars.
In spring, the culture produces nectar, from which the bees make coarse-grained honey with a thick fragrance and a reddish tint. Animals are fed with apples and green foliage, chic furniture is made from wood. For culinary purposes, they use the harvest of fruit varieties, but you can easily prepare healthy nectar, jam, marmalade, bitters, natural sweets from forest beauty apples.
Chemical composition, nutritional value of red rowan
The beneficial properties of tiny red apples are due to the rich chemical composition:
- The fruits contain about 5% sugars, but the content of sorbitol and sorbose, used as sugar substitutes, makes the product accessible to diabetics.
- Organic acids - tartaric, malic, citric, succinic. Improve metabolism, have a beneficial effect on digestion.
- Amino acids are the building blocks of all body systems.
- Tannins, bitterness - improve appetite, work of the gastrointestinal tract.
- Pectins, dietary fiber - remove toxins and toxins, improve the functioning of the digestive tract.
- Flavonoids, phytoncides - guard the immune system, have a bactericidal effect.
- Carotene, vitamin E - antioxidants, have a beneficial effect on the organs of vision, skin, bone tissue, rejuvenate, stimulate the growth of new cells.
- B group vitamins - calm the nervous system, participate in metabolic processes, cleanse and strengthen blood vessels, remove cholesterol, stimulate the endocrine glands.
- Srbic acid is a natural preservative that prevents the development of pathogenic microflora.
- Ascorbic acid - strengthens blood vessels, stimulates the immune system.
- Trace elements - Mn, Cu, K, Zn, Ca, Na, Mg, Fe, P, Cu. They are necessary for the body for the normal functioning of all systems.
Know! Tiny apples have more vitamin C than lemons and iron than regular apples.
In 100 g of berries there are only 50 kcal. The protein content is 1.4 g, fat 0.2 g, and carbohydrates 8.2 g. Most of all, the product contains water - 81.1 g and useful dietary fiber 5.4 g. In terms of the number of trace elements, beta-carotene and vitamin A are in first place; magnesium, vitamin C, iron. The magnesium content of just 100 g of the product corresponds to 82.8% of the daily value.
Useful and medicinal properties
Consider the useful and healing properties of the gift of autumn:
- Prevention of beriberi. The amount of vitamins and microelements in the product makes it indispensable for the normalization of the body's immune functions.
- Regulation of metabolism, maintenance of energy balance. This is especially important for a person exhausted by a serious illness.
- Prevention and treatment of anemia.
- Strengthens blood vessels, improves microcirculation of blood flow.
- It has a powerful hepatoprotective effect, restores liver cells.
- Suppresses fermentation processes, destroys pathogenic microflora. This property is equally good for treating intestinal infections and protecting home preservation.
- It has a diuretic effect, due to which blood pressure decreases, toxic substances are removed, edema disappears.
- Oncoprotective action - prevents the development of cancer cells.
- Laxative. Thanks to dietary fiber, it improves the functioning of the lower intestine.
- Helps restore the secretory function of the stomach with low acidity.
- Accelerates the process of blood clotting, heals wounds.
- Reduces cholesterol levels, prevents the formation of plaques on the walls of blood vessels.
- Eliminates fungi of various origins.
- It normalizes the metabolism and functioning of the endocrine system, relieves inflammation, strengthens the immune system - thanks to these properties, it is used in diabetic diets, helps to treat atherosclerosis, rheumatism.
- Calms the nervous system, improves sleep, relieves stress.
- It rejuvenates the skin, hair, has a beneficial effect on bone tissue, and is used for cosmetic purposes.
On a note! In folk medicine, the use of all parts of the plant is allowed. Official medicine recognized only the beneficial qualities of the crop. You can buy dried raw materials at any pharmacy.
Application in folk medicine: treatment of red rowan recipes
All parts of the forest healer benefit the human body. In folk medicine, fresh crops, juice, infusions, decoctions, and alcohol tinctures are used. First of all, the listed drugs enrich the body with vitamins and minerals. Each remedy has features of preparation and regimen for various diseases. Consider the most popular recipes recommended by traditional healers.
Herbal remedy for flu and colds
For the prevention and treatment of colds, various herbal teas are suitable, including berries of the culture. They prepare infusions and decoctions. To prepare a decoction for a cold, take:
- dried or fresh raw materials (berry);
- dried nettle leaves.
The ratio of the components in this recipe is 7:3. Mix the prepared ingredients, take a tablespoon of the finished collection and pour 400 ml of hot water. Boil for 1-2 minutes, insist for four hours. Ready broth drink half a glass 2-3 times a day. The course of admission is 3-4 weeks.
Cough lozenges
A folk recipe will allow you to prepare excellent cough and sore throat pills. The anti-inflammatory effect will relieve the symptoms, and the bactericidal properties will destroy the pathogenic microflora in the throat.
Take a few ripe bunches, rinse, sort through. Grind the fruit and add twice as much water. Evaporate in a water bath for 6 hours, then strain the liquid from the cake and seeds. Continue to boil until the mass thickens. Once the base has cooled, form into tablets. Slowly dissolve the medicine by swallowing saliva.
On a note! Such a home remedy is not inferior in effectiveness to pharmaceutical preparations, but does not contain harmful components, sugar, dyes.
Phytocollection for dysbacteriosis
Digestive disorders can unsettle for a long time. If dyspepsia is associated with a violation of the intestinal microflora, use a proven infusion recipe. You will need not only the fruits, but also the flowers of the tree, as well as the root of the common calamus. Mix three parts of rowan raw materials with one part of the root. Pour a tablespoon of the collection with a glass of cold water. The mixture should stand for an hour, then it is brought to a boil and removed from the stove. Warm infusion is drunk before meals in half a glass until the complete disappearance of unpleasant phenomena.
Healing syrup for liver diseases
The powerful hepatoprotective action fully reflects the healing syrup. To make a drug, you need 5 kg of freshly harvested crop, from which juice should be squeezed. Combine two glasses of liquid and the same amount of sugar, boil over low heat until syrup is obtained. It is enough to boil the mixture twice over low heat for 20 minutes. Pour into a dark bottle and refrigerate.
Apply the drug, diluting a small amount with warm water. After drinking a glass of warm solution, lie down on your right side. After 2 hours of rest, discomfort in the liver area will disappear.
Recipe for constipation
The crop is rich in fiber, dietary fiber and pectin, so it will help improve bowel function. To normalize the stool, turn the berries into a puree and mix with the same volume of sugar. Such cold jam is eaten 2 tablespoons 2 times a day until the problem is completely solved.
Important! Jam should be stored in an airtight container in the refrigerator.
multivitamin drink
You can fill the deficiency of vitamins with a drink based on rowan juice and milk. Combine 50 g of ingredients and a tablespoon of natural honey. Drink the resulting nectar 3 times a day before meals. For a month of taking the body will get stronger.
Treatment of warts
The bactericidal properties of the forest guest will help get rid of warts on the body. It is enough to apply applications from crushed berries to the wart for 10 days, fixing it with a bandage. The same technique allows you to quickly heal and disinfect open wounds, damage to the skin.
Alcohol tincture from the kidneys
The fluffy buds of the tree strengthen the immune system, restore vision and memory, and help overcome anemia. Dial half a glass of kidneys and fill with a half-liter bottle of high-quality vodka. Tincture insist 10 days, take 30 drops before a meal. Treatment is carried out until the desired result is achieved.
On a note! If you eat 10 buds of a plant every day, in just 10 days you can improve memory and vision.
Rowan juice: medicinal and beneficial properties
Freshly squeezed juice from tiny rowan apples contains all the above useful substances, has a low calorie content - 43 kcal.
It is used in the treatment of inflammatory processes in all body systems, normalizes blood pressure, increases the secretory function of the stomach, normalizes the menstrual cycle, eliminates uterine bleeding of various origins. Rowan juice destroys salt deposits in the joints, therefore it is used as an additional therapy in the treatment of arthrosis, arthritis, gout. Plant nectar inhibits fermentation processes, destroys pathogenic microflora - an excellent anti-dysenteric agent, cough medicine, cholecystitis, hepatitis.
Treatment with a herbal preparation is started only after consulting a doctor, since something else may be hiding under the alleged disease. With improper therapy, the patient's condition may worsen, so it is imperative to find out information from the doctor.
Getting juice is pretty easy. Sort the harvested crop, rinse thoroughly. Mash the berries in a mortar and squeeze through several layers of gauze. You can use an electric juicer.
It is interesting! Medicinal nectar contains pectin, which helps to remove harmful substances, including radionuclides. It is used in the rehabilitation therapy of patients who received a large dose of radioactive irradiation.
Schemes of treatment with rowan juice
Consider several ways to treat rowan juice:
- In the presence of hemorrhoids, drink nectar three times a day before meals, 100 grams, flavored with a spoonful of natural honey or sugar. Take the drink with cold water. The course of treatment is 2-3 weeks. The same scheme is shown for constipation.
- To ensure a full outflow of bile in biliary dyskinesia, the product is drunk in a teaspoon three times a day before meals.
- Glaucoma, kidney disease, atherosclerosis, unstable endocrine glands, gastritis with low acidity are treated with freshly squeezed juice. Drink a teaspoon 30 minutes before meals three times a day.
- Rheumatic pains are relieved by drinking 50-70 ml of juice mixed with 50-70 ml of milk and a tablespoon of honey. The scheme is the same - three times a day before meals. The drink suppresses the inflammatory process that is present in the diseased joint, cleanses from salt deposits.
- You can help a sore throat by gargling from a glass of warm water and a tablespoon of vegetable nectar. Gargle 3-5 times a day until complete recovery.
- From a healing drink, you can make an excellent lotion for cleaning oily skin. Mix it with lemon or parsley juice (2 tablespoons each) and vodka (40 ml), wipe the skin in the morning and evening.
- Wipe your face and décolleté daily with a frozen cube of rowan nectar. The tool will help with the withering of the dermis, tighten the silhouette, give the skin a healthy look. You will find recipes for masks with vegetable nectar below.
Know! For long-term storage, raw materials are subjected to conservation with minimal heat treatment. The drink is brought to a boil and immediately poured into sterilized containers, rolled up with sterile lids. Sugar syrup is added if desired.
Healing properties of red rowan for women
The graceful tree of our ancestors symbolized the feminine. It is not surprising that this forest healer brings a lot of benefits to women's health. Since biologically active components increase the tone of the muscles of the uterus, therefore, it is better for pregnant women to refrain from taking funds with this plant. If there are no contraindications or allergies, small doses will also benefit expectant mothers. So, only 10 berries will eliminate nausea with toxicosis, make up for the deficiency of vitamins, and improve appetite.
Hemostatic properties will help in the fight against heavy menstruation. The recipe for the decoction can be found below. In combination with other herbal ingredients or separately from them, the plant will help improve digestion, get rid of cholesterol, remove toxins and toxins, and purify the blood. Such properties successfully cope with the regulation of metabolism, contribute to weight loss.
Due to the normalization of the hormonal background, medicinal drugs (decoctions, infusions, herbal teas) are used for adjuvant therapy during menopause. The bactericidal effect will quickly cope with thrush and diseases of the genitourinary system, accompanied by an inflammatory process.
On a note! The listed useful qualities also include the ability to regenerate and rejuvenate tissues. Forest guest is an excellent tool for maintaining youth and beauty.
How to apply rowan with pressure
Every third person suffers from arterial hypertension. High pressure causes headaches, anxiety, sleep disturbance, with the progression of the disease, pathologies of the heart, blood vessels and kidneys join.
Scarlet apples are an excellent remedy for pressure and other related problems of the cardiovascular system. Ripened berries are supposed to be taken every morning on an empty stomach, 50 grams of the product. Such a medicine is available and suitable for long-term use. After 3 weeks of treatment, take a week break and resume the course. Suitable for reducing pressure and juice, which is drunk in a third of a glass in the morning for a month.
Useful properties of mountain ash red for children
Our ancestors believed in the healing power of the forest guest, so it was believed that she could not bring harm to children. Modern ecology has given rise to a lot of allergic diseases and over time, red apples have disappeared from the children's menu. And very much in vain!
The scarlet harvest, harvested after the first frost, is suitable for making compotes, fruit drinks and nectar, jelly, and is useful in its pure form. Children have unstable immunity, which is constantly undermined after entering an unfamiliar environment. Does your child get sick after going to kindergarten, school or clinic? Then try to diversify his menu with a natural vitamin product. It stimulates natural immunity, protects against intestinal infections, awakens appetite, regulates sleep.
Attention! Don't forget to sweeten your drinks with honey or sugar and dilute by half with water.
How to make an infusion of mountain ash - recipes and uses
Infusion is called water or alcohol extraction of useful components of vegetable raw materials. If the drug is prepared on the basis of water, it is customary to call it an infusion, when alcohol or vodka is used as the base - a tincture, tincture or alcohol infusion. Consider several recipes for infusions, their use for the treatment of various diseases.
For colds
To protect yourself from colds, it is better to prepare in advance for the beginning of the season. In spring and autumn, drink a course of healing tincture, which will strengthen the immune system. To make it, fill two half-liter bottles with berries by two-thirds. Fill to the top with high-quality vodka, cork the container. Put in a dark place to infuse for 3 weeks, shake the bottle periodically to enhance the extraction. Drink 1-2 tablespoons in the morning and evening before meals.
With atherosclerosis
Fill the jar of the desired capacity with berries by a third. Fill to the top with water and leave to ferment for 3 months. After half the time, add sugar to the solution (one third of the original mass of the raw material). Take 3-4 times a day for 40 g.
At menopause
A tincture of two hundred grams of berries and half a liter of vodka will help alleviate the symptoms of hormonal changes during menopause. She insist for 3 weeks and drink 20 drops three times a day.
Remember! Vodka must be of high quality, otherwise the medicine will harm the body.
With gastritis
Water extraction will help to increase the secretory function of the stomach. Crush 200 g of berries in a mortar or blender to a mushy state, pour half a liter of boiling water, leave for 4 hours. After straining, add a little honey, drink the infusion 3-5 times a day for a third of a glass.
With anemia
Prepare an aqueous extract from 30 scarlet apples, crushed in a mortar. Fill them with half a liter of boiling water and leave for 2 hours. Drink the entire volume of the infusion during the day.
To clean vessels
A special composition will help to clear the vessels of cholesterol. At its core:
- burdock root - 20 g;
- head of garlic - 5 pieces;
- lemon with zest - 5 pieces;
- rowan - 2 bunches;
- viburnum - 2 bunches.
After cleaning and washing, all components are scrolled through a meat grinder. 1 kg of natural honey is added to the gruel, mixed and kept for 7 days. Such an infusion is drunk between meals, 20 g three times a day.
Rowan red in home cosmetology mask recipes
Rowan masks rejuvenate the skin, eliminate inflammation, have a calming, cleansing and whitening effect. They are applied to clean skin and kept for 15-20 minutes. The best result can be achieved from daily application in a course of 10-14 days. After that, carefully rinse off the composition with warm water. Consider a few recipes:
- A rejuvenating mask is prepared on the basis of gruel from a handful of berries and a small amount of honey. Suitable for neck, face and décolleté. If the mass is too viscous, add a little water.
- Mix berry puree and a small amount of sour cream. This mask will give the skin nourishment and velvety.
- A mixture of 4-5 berries, 10 g of live yeast and 5-7 drops of calendula oil will cleanse pores, get rid of acne, and soothe the skin.
- A mask based on 25 ml of freshly squeezed nectar, 10 g of kaolin and a pinch of cinnamon will help get rid of age spots and dead cells. Pre-steam the skin of the face, and after the procedure, apply a regenerating cream.
- To increase tone, elasticity and microcirculation, you will need 6 dried apples, a teaspoon of honey and 2 g of coconut oil. Plant materials are first ground into powder using a coffee grinder, and then combined with the rest of the components.
- Anti-wrinkle tightening agent is prepared on the basis of 20 g of soft cottage cheese, 30 ml of milk and a teaspoon of berry gruel. Cottage cheese should be rubbed through a sieve, milk should be warm, it can be replaced with cream, then you get a nutritious composition.
Attention! If during the procedures you feel discomfort, burning sensation, immediately wash off the mask. Compositions based on honey are used only in the absence of allergic reactions.
Rowan tea - properties, application
Making healing tea is a real art. In fact, herbal tea is an aqueous extract from the collection of herbs or fruits, that is, an infusion. You can take fresh or dried berries and leaves to prepare this healing drink.
Freshly harvested parts of the plant will bring the greatest benefit. They can be used alone or flavored with other ingredients. Brew tea with hot, but not boiling water. Take a tablespoon of raw materials per glass of liquid. After twenty minutes of infusion, you can drink a healing drink, flavored with a spoonful of natural honey. With a cold, such a remedy will quickly put you on your feet, strengthen your immune system, and make up for the deficiency of vitamins. It is highly recommended to drink a healing drink for diabetes, high blood pressure, rheumatism. Life-giving tea has the same beneficial properties as fresh fruits. It is enough to drink 1-2 glasses of tea a day to regain vitality and protect yourself from colds.
Advice! Other medicinal plants will help diversify herbal tea - raspberries, wild roses, hawthorn, black currants, blueberries. Be aware of contraindications and possible allergic reactions.
How to prepare a decoction of mountain ash, methods of application
Decoctions from rowan berries are almost as useful as freshly harvested. A useful decoction will help to cope with beriberi, stimulates immune defense against flu and colds, and regulates metabolism. If herbal tea is drunk irregularly and more consumed as a tasty drink, then the decoction is used for treatment, following the scheme and dosage, because the concentration of such a water extract is much higher.
A healing decoction is used to treat the diseases described at the beginning of the article, recover from an illness, replenish vitamins and minerals, strengthen immunity, and cure a protracted cough. It will destroy fungi and infections in the pharynx. To do this, it is better to use rinsing with decoction 3-4 times a day. Consider several recipes for medicinal decoctions.
From atherosclerosis and Alzheimer's disease
To prepare a drink, take:
- 500 ml of boiling water;
- 100 g of plant bark.
Pour boiling water over the bark and hold for an hour in a water bath. After cooling, strain the broth and drink 3 times a day for a tablespoon half an hour before meals.
With cystitis
Inflammation of the bladder is treated with a decoction prepared on the basis of rowan bark. Pour 100 g of bark with a liter jar of water, boil for 10 minutes. Carefully drain the broth, drink instead of tea. Re-brew the rest of the bark. Use the drug until the symptoms disappear completely.
To strengthen memory
To restore brain activity will help herbal collection of lemon balm, fresh or dried rowan berries, goutweed and three-leaf watch leaves, taken in equal proportions. Take a tablespoon of the collection in a glass of boiling water, boil for 2 minutes. Infuse the decoction for 2 hours, drink during the day for three approaches.
With beriberi, diabetes
A life-giving decoction based on wild rose and scarlet berries will quickly restore the body's natural shield, normalize blood glucose levels, and relieve inflammation. Take 30 g of wild rose and small apples, pour 700 ml of cold water. Boil the mixture for 10 minutes and leave overnight. Divide into 3-4 doses, drink instead of tea.
Universal Recipe
This remedy will help to cope with any disease that the rudd is treating. It is based on deciduous mass and fruits of the plant. The raw mixture in the amount of 30 g is poured into 300 ml of water, boiled for 7 minutes. Infuse for 2-2.5 hours, and then use 15 ml three times a day.
Remember! The shelf life of ready-made broths does not exceed two days, the drink is stored only in the refrigerator.
Harm and contraindications
Although the benefits of the product are very high, you should also remember about the existing contraindications:
- ischemia, previous myocardial infarction or stroke;
- tendency to thrombosis, increased blood clotting, varicose veins;
- low blood pressure;
- increased secretory function of the stomach, hyperacid gastritis, peptic ulcer;
- alcohol tinctures are prohibited for use by people with diseases of the kidneys, liver, pregnant and lactating women, children;
- for babies under one year old, it is better not to give products containing mountain ash, because they can provoke an allergic reaction;
- do not use traditional medicine recipes during pregnancy.
If you are allergic to plants from the rose family, it is better to refrain from self-treatment, as the risk of allergic reactions from rashes to severe swelling increases several times.
How to prepare and store medicinal raw materials of mountain ash
Incredible healing power is inherent in nature in ripe rowan apples. To preserve them until the next harvest, it is best to use freezing. To do this, sort and rinse the harvested crop, then put it on a baking sheet and put it in the freezer compartment. When the product hardens, carefully pour it into sealed packaging - containers, tight bags with a zipper. Useful qualities will be fully preserved for 12 months. If necessary, remove a small portion of the crop from the storage and use it to make infusions, healing tea.
Important! If your garden does not have a tree, collect raw materials only in a forest located away from the highway and industrial facilities.
The second no less common option for harvesting is drying. Preliminary preparation consists in sorting, washing the berries. You can dry the raw materials in the oven or electric dryer. The optimum temperature regime is 60⁰C. Periodically stir the berries for even drying. After complete drying, revise, remove blackened specimens. Store the dried product in a closed glass container at room temperature. Shelf life up to two years. During heat treatment, some of the nutrients will decay, so freezing is preferable.
Rowan red - planting and care
Growing a stately mountain ash on the site is quite simple. The tree perfectly tolerates penumbra, develops well on almost any soil. It is preferable to plant the crop on fertile light loams, which absorb moisture well and allow air to penetrate to the roots.
Since the dimensions of the plant are quite large, it is better to select a plot in front of the house or around the perimeter of the garden so that it does not interfere with the normal lighting of other garden residents. The culture easily tolerates the close occurrence of groundwater, but it is better if the level does not exceed 1.5 m.
Remember! There is no place for a forest beauty next to an apple tree. Both crops belong to the rose family, so they have common pests and diseases. Especially the apple tree is annoyed by the mountain ash moth, the caterpillars of which gnaw through the passages in apples.
The culture is not very self-fertile, so several individuals should be planted at once, this will increase the yield. Planting is carried out in early spring, since the awakening of the kidneys of the plant is rapid. In a warm climate and central Russia, an autumn landing is acceptable. Landing dates - until the end of April or until the end of September. Varietal seedlings can be purchased at the nursery. Give preference to specimens with healthy bark, viable buds, flexible shoots and elastic roots. The optimal age of the seedling is 2 years.
Landing technology:
- The landing pit is prepared in advance. For spring planting, you will have to work hard in the fall, and for autumn planting, the preparatory event is carried out in 4-6 weeks.
- The depth and diameter of the hole is 60-80 cm, the step between specimens is at least five meters. The support is driven in at a distance of 10-15 cm from the center of the hole.
- The dug hole is filled with a mixture of fertile soil, compost, and rotted manure. A handful of wood ash and the same amount of superphosphate are added to the soil mixture.
- Place the seedling in a third-filled hole, straighten the roots, add the remaining substrate.
- Compact the soil, water the seedling abundantly, and mulch the near-stem space.
Attention! Make sure that the root neck is 5-7 cm above the level of the hole.
Care includes watering, keeping the trunk circle clean, fertilizing, pruning, disease and pest prevention.
Throughout the season, remove weeds from the trunk circle. You need to water the tree 4-5 times during the growing season, spending at least 20 liters of water for each instance. Pruning is carried out in early spring, it has the functions of sanitation and shaping. All diseased, weak, damaged shoots, as well as extra branches growing inside the crown, are subject to removal. If the fruits concentrate on the growth of the previous year, the branches are only slightly shortened. With the help of a haircut, you can give the crown a certain shape and height, and restrain violent growth.
Fertilizers are applied from the second year of vegetation three times per season. In the spring they are fed with nitrogen, potassium is important at the beginning of summer, and after fruiting they give phosphorus top dressing so that the wood is ripe for winter. In autumn, the trunk space is dug up with ashes, the trunks are whitened. Young trees are wrapped up for the winter - the trunk is wrapped in burlap, a fine-mesh net is installed from rodents. The trunk circle is highly mulched with humus.
The culture is propagated by seeds and grafting of dormant buds and cuttings. Disease resistance is high, but pests must be treated with insecticides or folk remedies. To protect the tree from fungi, spray it with Bordeaux mixture three times in the spring. Birds can damage crops. Installing a scarecrow will help, but soon the feathered brethren will stop paying attention to it. If you are growing varietal varieties for the sake of harvesting, use bird netting. But you can act like our ancestors - leave part of the crop feathered.
Remember! After the appearance of the ovaries, it is advisable not to use chemical means of exterminating pests.
In all corners of our country you can find a beautiful sun-loving tree - red mountain ash. Its fruits become especially tasty after the first frost, and after the onset of frost, vitamin C decreases in them.
By the way, rowan red, despite the fact that it is not cultivated in culture, claims leadership among the gifts of nature. In the fruits of mountain ash, vitamin C is 10 times more than in apples, 3 times more than in green onions, and exactly the same as in lemon and sea buckthorn. The content of carotene in the fruits of red rowan is 8 times more than in onions, 2 times more than in sea buckthorn, vitamin E (one of the best antioxidants) is 2 times more than in black currants, raspberries and apples.
There is also a lot of iron, manganese, zinc and copper in mountain ash. Such vital elements as potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, cobalt, barium, molybdenum and iodine are found in large quantities in this plant. Vitamins K, folic acid, vitamins B2, organic acids, sugars, vegetable alcohols, tannins are also present here.
Organic acids of rowan fruits increase the digestive properties of digestive juices, have a gentle choleretic effect. Phenolic compounds in fruit juice are detrimental to microbes and fungi. No wonder in the old days, to disinfect water during sea voyages, twigs with rowan fruits were lowered into it. Rowan seeds contain a glycoside, amygdalin, which enters the juice during its preparation. It helps to strengthen the heart muscle, and the brain to survive oxygen starvation. This condition is familiar to many people in old age, therefore it is recommended not to forget about it and not to immediately grab imported medicines, not all of them are well tolerated.
Rowan juice, with its regular intake in winter, 2 tbsp. per day is able to push back old age. Rowan juice has antiscorbutic, vitamin, diuretic and hemostatic effects. It is useful for people suffering from gout and urolithiasis to know that rowan juice dissolves salts and removes them from the body.
Interestingly, mountain ash also helps patients with diabetes of any type due to the presence of zinc, sorbitol and sorbic acid. In addition, the juice helps the tissues of a sick person survive oxygen deficiency, and this is important for such terrible circulatory disorders as diabetic leukinopathy and diabetic foot.
Applying red rowan juice with joint diseases (Bekhterev's disease, rheumatic and metabolic polyarthritis, traumatic polyarthritis), do not forget that the cake left when squeezing the juice can be used as a compress on sore joints or preparing a rub (1 part cake and 2 parts vodka, insist 2 weeks, squeeze out).
In our unstable and difficult times, many are obese.
So here, too, red rowan juice helps burn excess fat, has a moderate, laxative and diuretic effect. Weight is reduced gradually against the background of normal nutrition.
It will be enough to take 50 g of a mixture of rowan, chicory and black elderberry juices in a ratio of 1: 1: 1 - 3 times a day for two months. If you combine therapy with rowan juice with herbal preparations for obesity, then the effect comes faster and lasts longer.
Many people suffering from asthenoneurotic conditions, vegetovascular dystonia, neurosis and thyroid dysfunction note a deep sedative, restorative, rehabilitation and antidepressant effect of mountain ash juice.
Juice is effective when taken separately - 1 tbsp. 3-4 times a day for two weeks, as well as mixed with the juice of motherwort and flowering wheat, taken in equal proportions.
Rowan juice is an excellent vitamin remedy. Where there is mountain ash, there are few diseases - ancient healers said.
The components of rowan juice increase the stability of blood vessels, improve hematopoiesis in anemia and bleeding, dissolve and remove salts in gout and arthritis.
For malignant tumor x juice of red rowan is used both separately and mixed with juices of celandine, hemlock, plantain and sweet clover. This technique has proven itself well in combination with bee products: honey, pollen, propolis and royal jelly.
There is an experience of successful use of mountain ash juice in hypertension, glaucoma and asthma. Daily dose - 50-80 ml dissolved in water or infusion of herbs prepared for the treatment of the corresponding disease. Take 3-4 doses before meals for 4-6 weeks.
Preparation and storage.
Gather ripe rowan berries. In unripe fruits, there is an acid that irritates the mucous membrane of the digestive tract and kidneys. Therefore, the collection is best done after the first frost or with the onset of frost. Spoiled berries, twigs and insects are thrown away, the fruits are crushed and squeezed by a press or by hand. Cake can be stored in the freezer and added to compotes or used for applications.
The juice is mixed with honey in a ratio of 1:1 or sugar (400 g per 1 liter). For preservation, you can use alcohol (100 g per 1 liter of juice) or vodka (250 g per 750 ml of juice). Store juice at a low temperature.
Red rowan juice- an effective remedy for atonic constipation in the elderly, chronic hepatitis and hepatocholecystitis, as well as hemorrhoids, cholelithiasis and urolithiasis. The dose is always selected individually. You should start with 1 tbsp. 2-3 times a day before meals for three days, then the dose is increased by 2-3 times and taken for another five days. Then take 50-70 ml once, diluted in water or infusion of herbs. The course of treatment lasts from one and a half to two months.
Red rowan juice It is not recommended to take with exacerbation of peptic ulcer of the stomach and 12 duodenal ulcer.