Rose Hips Instead of Doctors
Folk wisdom says that briar is seven doctors. Even in times of Ivan the Terrible’s harvest rose hips fit out the expedition, kept it for the military campaigns in which, without modern medicine to stop bleeding and protect themselves from gangrene, infusion of rose hips were washed open wounds. In the old days hips rescued sailors from scurvy, and, going on a long voyage, they stocked up its benefits. And it became a national emblem of the hips from the British.
We now drink made the old-fashioned vitamin, tonic tea. Here is the recipe: one tablespoon of berries shipped 200 gr. boiling water (dish, it should be to take the enamel or glass), tightly closed and kept on a boiling water bath quarter of an hour. Taking off from the fire, insisting at least another 45 minutes, filter and drink two or three doses throughout the day between breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The concentrated extract is obtained by cooking it in the oven or a thermos. Very good to add honey and a handful of berries – sea buckthorn, dried apricots, raisins and raspberries, or rowan tree.