Cinnamon rosehip, otherwise called "wild rose", is a shrub about 2 meters high. The flowers can be white or pink, and the fruits are smooth, dark red. This plant blooms in late spring-early summer. The fruits ripen by the beginning of autumn. In nature, there are about 50 types of wild rose, but the beneficial properties of all are the same, therefore, in medicine they are used for the same purposes.
It is impossible to overestimate the positive effect that rose hips have on the body. Useful properties and contraindications to it can be found even in ancient books on healing. Then our ancestors did not yet know medicine, but they already used the gifts of nature. Our grandmothers also know how to cook rose hips. Surely many remember the unforgettable aroma of tea from its fruits. This unique plant has anti-inflammatory, choleretic, antimicrobial, tonic and vitamin effects. Rose hips - realsalvation for people suffering from a lack of vitamins and low immunity. Thanks to a whole range of useful substances, simple tea from them becomes a real healing drink. It gives strength and helps the body fight infections.
Rosehip, the beneficial properties and contraindications of which are known to any modern doctor, contains useful substances such as rutin, carotene (increases the body's resistance), vitamin E and, of course, C, which is responsible for redox processes in the body.
However, you should be careful when using any plant. Even if it is as harmless as a wild rose. Useful properties and contraindications - this is the first thing you need to know about the plant before drinking decoctions or infusions. Rosehip should not be used for stomach ulcers, thrombophlebitis, thrombosis and high blood pressure. For stroke, it can only be used in conjunction with other herbs.
In other diseases, rose hips are used in the form of infusions, syrups, powders and extracts. Below is a list of diseases for which doctors recommend using them as an aid:
- liver stones;
- anemia;
- exhaustion;
- atherosclerosis;
- fractures;
- infectious diseases;
- kidney stone disease;
- reduced gastric secretion;
- uterine bleeding;
- for wound healing.
Chinese healers use not only rose hips, but also the roots from which they makespecial tool. It improves digestion and eliminates worms. In domestic medicine, these fruits are most often used as a general tonic, which helps to endure the autumn and spring changes in the body. In most cases, this is a simple rosehip decoction, for which no contraindications are known.
Rosehip oil is also widely used in medicine for a variety of skin diseases. These are nipple cracks in nursing mothers, bedsores, trophic ulcers, simple abrasions. And for ulcerative colitis, enemas with the oil of this plant are often used.
Significant improvements in the state of the body are observed in people who regularly take rose hips. Useful properties and contraindications to this plant can be clarified with your doctor, as an allergy or individual intolerance is possible. And, of course, you need to know the measure in everything, since the abuse of any decoction can bring new he alth problems.
