Quite often, appearance gives us a false impression, it happens in relation to plants. But in spite of his prickliness and odically, the rose is a natural storeroom of vitamins and mineral substances necessary for proper functioning of the human body.
It is considered that the briar is a wild rose, which simply cease to care. While on the other hand, rose often grows in places that do not that people could not plant roses, and even stepped his foot. Places where is found the hips a lot, for example: mountains, forests, ravines, along roads, in meadows and on brownfield sites. In nature, there are up to 200 types of wild rose. Some of them are more useful, others less, but all kinds, of course, have medicinal properties.
The wild rose bushes can reach a height of 10 meters and large volumes. The average life expectancy rose hips is 40 years. Stems covered barbed spikes, which in turn protects the shrubs from being eaten by wild animals. Spring flowers begin to bloom, and the whole shrub is covered with pretty, small, pale pink flowers that exude a pleasant aroma.
Mature in autumn the rose hips, they are the most valuable and useful part of the plant. Rose hips contains more cetilovy acid to the lemons and blackcurrants. In addition, the fruit contains: vitamins B2, R, A, K, E, flavonoids, pectins, phytoncids, carotenoid, minerals and pigments. In short, hips can be called a natural multivitamin complex. Precisely because of its healing properties, rosehip is very appreciated in medicine.
For the preparation of drugs from the hips are used not only fruits and roots, seeds and flowers. Manufactured products (tea, decoction, oil, tinctures, syrups) are an indispensable tool in the fight against many diseases and prevention of various diseases.
Components contained in these drugs strengthen the entire body, increasing resistance to negative external influences, contribute to the production of hormones, stabilize the digestive tract and play a not unimportant role in many vital metabolic processes of the body.
In medicine, rose hips are known for their medicinal properties, such as: sosudoukreplyayuschee, antiseptic, broncholytic, vasodilator, anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, wound healing, diaphoretic, immunostimulant, and many others.
Not for nothing is the rose called "pride" of the Russian flora, and the people he got his title of "doctor of the forest".