Sea buckthorn fruits have many useful properties that are widely used in medicine. This berry "works" better than any tablet. Once in our body, it lowers cholesterol, restores the liver, brings many benefits for vitamin deficiency and provides invaluable help to the heart. It is used to treat stomach and anemia. Sea buckthorn juice and oil help with skin infections, providing a bactericidal, wound-healing effect. A decoction of berries is recommended for diabetes and rheumatism.
The value of sea buckthorn
If you regularly use sea buckthorn, the chances of surviving to a ripe old age, while maintaining health, increase dramatically. Only 100 g of sea buckthorn, and the daily rate of vitamins C, E, B, folic acid, protecting from stress, strengthening the skin, hair, nails, is provided. Vitamins increase immunity, so the orange berry is simply indispensable for colds.
Even in the sea buckthorn many flavonoids, which are natural antioxidants. They improve the work of the heart, blood vessels, prevent the appearance of malignant tumors. Sea buckthorn saves women from menopausal hot flashes, helps reduce "harmful" cholesterol and resists atherosclerosis.
Medical properties of sea buckthorn
Modern physicians recommend sea buckthorn as an effective natural remedy for treating serious diseases. It has a healing, bactericidal action, protects the body from colds. Only 100 g of sea buckthorn contains 200 mg of vitamin C, which is partially preserved in dry berries.
Rejecting the usual tea in favor of the berry, you can seriously improve the immunity and get sick less colds. A handful of dry sea buckthorn is useful to add to tea during brewing, as well as to prepare from them vitamin decoction. To save the vitamins, you do not need to fill the sea buckthorn with boiling water, it is better to cool it a bit, to about 80 degrees. After preparation, drink sea buckthorn drink as usual tea.
Not only the fruits, but also the leaves have a therapeutic effect. No wonder pharmaceutical companies produce ready-made medicine containing dried sea-buckthorn leaves. The drug is an antiviral agent and is prescribed for the treatment of acute respiratory diseases, influenza, herpes. Houses with the same purpose apply water infusion of dry leaves. It is successfully used in intestinal disorders.
Sea buckthorn harvesting
Sea buckthorn is harvested during its ripening period, which falls on the end of August. Densely attached to prickly twigs, fruits are difficult to collect. And here the Russian gardeners have their own secrets: they do not harvest the “harvest” with their hands, but use special tools for collecting: nets where the crop falls, scrapers or wire loops to remove berries from the branches neatly. Sometimes gardeners cut branches with berries with a secateur.
The main thing is to remember that berries sometimes burst and stain clothes, hands. A large amount of sea buckthorn juice causes skin irritation, and soiled clothing is almost impossible to wash. Therefore, you need to collect sea buckthorn with rubber gloves, and cover your clothes with a thick apron.
Good advice: sea buckthorn can be stored all winter, sending it in the freezer directly on the twigs or sprinkling with sugar. In the first embodiment, the washed berries are packaged in bags, in the second, they are filled with sugar, its weight should be equal to the weight of the fruit, then placed in sterilized jars. Store candied berries in the refrigerator.
Sea-buckthorn health benefits
Useful sea buckthorn can rightly be called one of the most valuable berries of the planet. Unfortunately, it is little used. Perhaps because of the difficulties with the collection, the expensive price in the markets or because of the specific sour-astringent taste.
But despite this, sea buckthorn is a true miracle of nature. It contains many nutrients: vitamins (C, B1, B2, PP, K, P, E, carotene), minerals (iron, boron, manganese), fatty acids (oleic, linoleic), tannins, flavonoids, serotonin, which are perfectly absorbed and slightly destroyed when cooking.
Sea buckthorn is recommended for cough, runny nose and other respiratory diseases. Sea buckthorn oil is used to treat the skin, as a bactericidal and wound healing agent.
Valuable sea buckthorn oil: properties and uses
Sea buckthorn makes a very useful oil. For its preparation, the berries are ground in a coffee grinder, blender or minced, then squeezed berry juice.
Useful properties of oil
The unique sea buckthorn oil has excellent antibacterial characteristics. In addition, the enzymes contained in this wonderful oil improve the function of the liver and heart muscle. It also improves the condition of gastric and duodenal ulcers.
Application
The oil is actively used for cuts, burns, inflammation of the gums, baldness. To strengthen the hair follicles, it is rubbed with massage movements into the hair roots, scalp, and oil dressings applied to the wounds. When treating the stomach oil is taken orally.
How to cook butter
To prepare sea buckthorn oil, you need to squeeze berries (oilcake) pour refined oil, insist in a dark room.
For cooking you will need:
- 1 cup of dried sea buckthorn or cake;
- 200 g of any refined oil.
Cooking:
- Send sea buckthorn or cake to be dried in the oven (70ºC).
- Grind dry berries in a coffee grinder or blender. Put in a glass container, pour with heated (30ºC) oil, mix and leave in a dark room at normal temperature.
- Once every 2-3 days, remove the top orange layer from the surface of the oil and collect in a separate dish.
- After two weeks, filter the oil through several layers of gauze, add the removed oil, mix and pour into containers.
Tip: in order to make sea buckthorn oil more saturated and contain a maximum of useful substances, it is necessary to pour fresh oil cake with this oil and leave it for a week again.
Sea buckthorn juice
All the beneficial properties of sea buckthorn are stored in the juice. It contains many vitamins that are responsible for immunity, hemoglobin level, intestinal function, eyesight and longevity. In addition, the plant juice has a bactericidal effect, increases the secretion of bile, digestive enzymes and thus prevents diseases of the stomach.
Sea buckthorn juice will help eliminate various irritations on the skin. No wonder it is recommended to add to your home lotion. To make it, you need to mix the juice (1: 4 ratio) with vodka infused with St. John's wort. Then dilute the cooked mixture with boiled water (1: 1 ratio).
How to make juice
To sort and rinse the berries, let the water drain, then squeeze the juice using a juicer, if not, you can squeeze through gauze. Strain, add sugar (1.5: 1), mix until it dissolves, pour into sterilized containers. Store in a cool place.
If desired, you can make buckthorn juice with pulp. Warm up the prepared berries on low heat (10 minutes), add water (for every kilogram of berries you will need ½ cup of water). Then rub the sea buckthorn through a fine sieve, add granulated sugar at the rate of 0.8 kg per kilogram of fruit.
Bring to a boil, pour into clean bottles, sterilize. Tightly cork bottles, store on the shelf of the refrigerator. It is recommended to take ½ cup of juice daily in the morning, you can dilute it with water or add some honey.
Useful properties of sea buckthorn leaves
Do not forget about the leaves of the plant. They contain an excellent complex of vitamins that protect against stress, beriberi and strengthen the immune system. Infusion of leaves, you can rinse your gums for dental problems, treat herpes on the lips.
To prepare the infusion, you need 1 tbsp. a spoonful of sea buckthorn leaves pour 200 ml of boiling water, put in a water bath, leave for 30 minutes, then cool, strain and pour water (boiled) to a volume of 200 ml. The prepared drink has a neutral taste, it is recommended to take 50 ml 4 times a day.
Contraindications
Sea buckthorn oil is dangerous in some diseases, such as acute cholecystitis and pancreatic diseases.
Interesting Facts
A curious fact: everyone knows about the vitamins in the sea buckthorn. But the fact that her pulp contains fat, for some reason, is not advertised. The benefits of these fatty acids are that they are the main defenders of the immune and cardiovascular systems.
In addition, the use of sea buckthorn improves the condition of the skin and mucous membranes. If you put fresh sea buckthorn juice on the shelf of the refrigerator for several hours, its structure will change. For cosmetic purposes, you need to collect the top layer and use it as a nourishing mask, combining as desired with other components (vegetable oil, egg yolk, kefir, sour cream, milk).
It is interesting to know that among the devoted fans of this berry there are many long-livers. The most famous fan of the orange miracle is Alexander Aidelant. He delivered his amazing lectures on this berry when he was 90 years old. Over the entire period of fascination with this most valuable berry, he managed to make our astronauts who had country plots next to him fall in love with her. Subsequently, he achieved that products were delivered to the orbital station, which included sea buckthorn.
