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 Lingonberry is not as well known as such, blueberries or cranberries, and in vain, because this berry is useful for health and beauty.
Vernacular: cowberry, upland berry Borovinka. Red bilberry - undersized perennial, evergreen shrub from the family of cranberry. The stem of a plant erect, branched in height reaches 20-50sm.
Cranberries have long horizontal creeping rhizome that grows up to 5 years under the ground, and only the 6th year coming to the surface and gives life to the young bush.
Dark-green leathery leaves are shiny bottom lighter and matte, have the shape of ellipse or oval, with edges slightly which wrapped down. If you look closely, it is easy for them you can see numerous points zhelёzki.
Fragrant flowers are small bell-shaped white or pale pink wax appear. They are collected in the 3-15-flowered short thick brush drooping at the ends of last year's shoots. Lingonberry blooms in May and June, for a long time - one month or a little longer. One flower lasts a week.
 Ball first white berries and maturing, becoming dark red, have a sweet-sour taste. They are small, their diameter is not more than 1 cm and a weight of up to 0, 4 c. Berries ripen in August - September.
Lingonberry grows in the European part of Russia, Siberia, the Far East and the Caucasus in the mixed and coniferous forests, bushes, tundra, in the dried-up peat bogs, pine forests, on the old clearings, in the mountains and swamps. One bush cranberries live to be a hundred.
In the old days cranberries harvested in huge quantities. The medicinal and cosmetic purposes is used not only fruit, but also leaves cranberries. The berries are harvested when they are fully ripe and the leaves during flowering. Later, the leaves turn brown and lose their useful properties.
Leaves cranberries contain vitamin C, glucose, gallic, Quinic, tartaric acid, tannins. Cowberry comprise: vitamin C, carotene, malic, citric, oxalic, acetic, benzoic acid, pectin, potassium, manganese, tannins. Berries cranberries keep well.
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- Berries to raise immunity and prevent colds.
- During cold cranberry juice has antiseptic properties, good thirst quencher, reduces fever.
- It also is used for diseases of the oral cavity.
- Cranberry improves vision, increases the number of red balls in the blood, helps to cope with depression and neurosis.
- Lingonberry juice drink with high blood pressure.
- Lingonberry wet from her cook jams, preserves.
- A decoction of the leaves is used for rheumatism, gout, diabetes, disorders of the digestive tract, diarrhea, as a diuretic for kidney stones, gall bladder and liver disease.
- The leaves are brewed as a tea and drunk with fatigue.
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Infusion of leaves cranberries
1 tbsp. a spoonful of minced raw materials to brew 1 cup of boiled water, in a thermos for 2 hours. Strain, take ¼ cup 3 times a day.
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Cold and flu
Pour ¼ cup of lingonberry juice, pour a glass of cool boiled water. Add 1-2 teaspoons of honey. Take ¼ cup 4-5 times daily after meals.
Lingonberry has no contraindications!
Cranberries from ancient times used in cosmetics
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Rejuvenating mask
Cranberries wash, chop, take 1 tbsp. spoon the pulp, add 1 teaspoon honey and 1 tbsp. soft spoon grated cheese, mix well. Apply on face for 15 minutes, wash off first with warm water, then wash with cool.
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Face mask for aging skin
Mix the juice of cranberries with honey 1: 1 and apply with a brush to the face in 2-3 layers. After 15-20 minutes rinse with water at room temperature.
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Hydrating Mask
2 tbsp. spoon the pulp of cranberries mixed with 1 teaspoon honey and 1 teaspoon of olive oil, mix well. Apply a thick layer on the face for 15 minutes. Rinse with tepid brew green tea. Five minutes later, wash with water at room temperature.
- Mix equal proportions of honey and the juice of grapes. In the resulting mixture to moisten the gauze and apply on face. Hold 20 minutes.
- The skin becomes noticeably posvezheet and elastic, if you regularly wash cranberry water - 1 teaspoon of juice to 1 cup of boiled cooled water.
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