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 Rowan - a storehouse of beauty, youth and health.
About food and medicinal properties of the rowan knew even in ancient times. In German mythology, her name associated with the god of thunder - Donner. In Westphalia believed that the mountain ash protects against dragons and other monsters. Until now, the custom here to nail "protective" rowan branches to the doors of houses. In Russia Rowan was considered a symbol of beauty and female happiness.
The chemical composition of rowan
- Fruits contain carotenoids, ascorbic acid, various sugars: glucose (3, 8%), fructose (up to 4, 3%), sucrose (1%), sorbose, sorbitol, the sugar alcohol (25%); acid: malic acid (2, 8%), tartaric acid, folic, succinic, and citric. Of the specific active ingredients: flavonoids, triterpene compounds, tannins (0 to 3%) and bitter substances, sorbic acid and parasorbinovuyu essential oil. In fruits rowan detected also vitamins K, P (quercetin izokvertsetin rutin), tocopherol, riboflavin, anthocyanins, including cyanidin, phospholipids (cephalin, lecithin), pectin - 2% amino acids.
- The leaves contain vitamin C, flavonols astragalin, hyperoside, kaempferol-soforizid, quercetin soforizid, izokvertsitrin.
- The seeds found fatty oil (22%) and glycoside amygdalin.
The bark contains tannins.
Secrets of harvesting
The fruits of mountain ash harvested in the period full maturity in September - October, before frost. When cleaning carefully tear or cut shears plates with fruit, trying to not to damage the branches. Then they break off and sorted out, cleaned of leaves and stalks. Use fresh or dried. When drying fruit peeled first provyalivayut for several days in the sun and then dried in ovens or oven at a temperature of 50-60 °, scattering thin layer and periodically stirring. In the southern areas can be dried and the sun. Store in a cool, dry, well-ventilated place. Shelf life - 2 years. Fresh fruits are preserved throughout the winter at a temperature of 1-2 ° or frozen.
Important!
Choose a tree away from busy highways, the best in the woods or on the outskirts of the city.
Cosmetics from Rowan
Rowan pores, tones, stimulates the synthesis of collagen, elastin and hyaluronic acid, slows down skin aging relieves inflammation and irritation of the skin, has anti-aging, tightens, soothing, antibacterial and wound healing effects. Therefore, the extract of mountain ash is used in the lines of many of the leading manufacturers of cosmetics. However, there is nothing better for our skin than natural cosmetics, which prepare and is not difficult.
- Lotions for dry and oily skin.
Take 1 cup of washed rowan berries and pour 1 cup of boiling water. Let stand 30-40 minutes, strain through two layers of cheesecloth and add 1 teaspoon of honey. Mix and ready to merge the lotion in a glass bowl. Wipe them face instead of washing. Keep refrigerated. To prepare the lotion for oily skin, add 1 tablespoon of vodka and ½ teaspoon of apple cider vinegar.
- "Grandma" mask.
Grind fresh fruit (1 cup) to the state of slurry. Put it in cheesecloth and squeeze the juice. Apply this juice on the face of several layers as drying. After 20 minutes the mask rinse with cool water.
-Ryabinovy Ice from vascular network.
Ash juice and mineral water, dilute 1: 1 ratio. The resulting solution was pour into molds and freeze. Rowan ice cubes to wipe the skin, gently massaging.
Ice can also be prepared from the infusion of dried fruit: 2 tablespoons berries fill the cup of boiling water, let stand for 20 minutes, strain, pour in cups and put in the freezer.
- Toning mask for all skin types.
2 tablespoons fresh berries razomnut and add 1 tablespoon of boiling water and 1 teaspoon of honey. Let stand 10-15 minutes, stir and put on clean face, avoiding the eye area. After 15 minutes the mask rinse with cool water.
- The mask against wrinkles.
2 tablespoons fruit of mountain ash mash to a state of mashed potatoes, mixed with 1 egg yolk, add 1 teaspoon of liquid honey and olive oil. Let sit 10 minutes, put on clean face and after 20 minutes rinse with warm water.
- Cleansing Mask.
Mash 100 g of fresh berries of mountain ash, grate on a fine grater carrots and mix everything carefully. Apply the mask on your face for 10-15 minutes, then rinse with warm water.
Important!
Carrots can lightly touch up the skin, so a mask is recommended to do in the evening.
Remove skin blemishes!
- Mask of pigment spots.
2 tablespoons of rowan berries mash to a state of pulp, add the chopped sorrel (a pair of leaves mince) and the mixture was dilute with yogurt or cream to the consistency of sour cream. Apply for 20-25 minutes. Rinse with cool water.
- Gruel of rowan berries, applied to warts, cures very quickly them - within 8-10 procedures.
- With pink acne mask is prepared from a teaspoon of juice and one rowan egg whites. The mask is applied for 15 minutes. The number of procedures - 10-12.
Rowan hair
- Rinse.
4 tablespoons dry berries fill 0, 5 liters of boiling water and cook, covered over low heat for 5-7 minutes. Cool, strain and rinse hair decoction after washing.
- Hair Mask.
1 cup fresh berries of mountain ash mash to a state slurry, mixed with 1 raw egg and ½ cup buttermilk or sour milk. Apply the mixture on the entire length of the hair after 20 minutes rinse shampoo.
Rowan Foot
To get rid of sweating, it is recommended to do a foot bath infusion of the leaves of mountain ash (after washing the feet with soap and water).
Beauty from within
Masks and lotions - are all useful and necessary procedure, but our appearance, primarily dependent on the health of the body as a whole. Rowan - irreplaceable assistant and then. It is full of useful and active agents.
Rowan energonapitok
Rowan berries wash and mash. Cover with water, bring to a boil, but do not boil. Allow to cool along with the cake, then strain. The resulting solution Dissolve the honey and put it on 2-5 days in a cool place. During this time drink configure themselves. On 1 liter of water should be 200 g of ripe mountain ash, and 2 tablespoons of honey.
Rowan tea
Rowan cleared of twigs, blanshiruem one minute in salted water, then dried, pulverized, mixed with the same amount of sugar (1 part ash and 1 part sugar). Two teaspoons of the powder fill one cup of boiling water, boil for five minutes - and the tea is ready.
The juice of mountain ash
The fruit is separated from the brush, blanch in boiling water for 2-3 minutes and immediately passed through a juicer. The finished juice is added to the boiling sugar syrup (250g sugar to 1 liter of water). The mixture is boiled for one minute, pour in cans or bottles.
Rowan infusion
2 teaspoons of fruit pour 400 ml of boiled water, 1 hour, add sugar to taste and drink for 3-4 hours during the day.
Important!
Preparations rowan contraindicated in increased acidity of gastric juice.
Jam of rowan and apple
Peeled twigs and leaves rowan berries (1 kg) washed, dried and dipped in boiling water for 5-6 minutes. Then fold in a colander, to shift into a saucepan and pour 1/2 cup water. Leave on low heat until the berries until the rind is not crack. Then wipe the berries through a sieve, mixed with apple sauce, add 2 kg of sugar and cook until tender.
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