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 According to one legend, apricots - are children of the sun, who did not want to live in the sky, down to earth and turned into the apricot trees. Scientists say that the natives of those places where apricots grow in abundance, dazzling life expectancy and good health, continuing to old age. In addition, the women of these peoples to look 60 years 30 and full of love longing.
After all this - who do not want to live in the apricot garden?
Apricot -
Prunus
- A deciduous fruit tree with irregular-shaped crown, of the Rosaceae family, in height from 3 to 17m. In apricot beautiful large green leaves are rounded, with teeth on edge. Pink or white single flowers have 5 petals. They dissolve the first leaf. Apricots bloom early spring.
Fruits are juicy, sweet, round, yellow or orange, with longitudinal groove. They ripen in June - July. Seeds light brown, flat, elliptical in shape, with a delicious inside the nucleolus. But there are apricots and bitter almond flavored.
Homeland apricot scientists call China. From there, through Central Asia Apricot was in Iran and Asia Minor, and 2,000 years ago - from Armenia to Ancient Greece and Rome ... From Italy, apricot in the XV century came to France. But at the end of the XVII century apricots grown in the United States, first in Virginia and later in other states. Apricots grow in the Ukraine and even in some areas of moderate climate in Russia. For example, in the Volgograd region. Amateur gardeners cherish apricot trees in the gardens of Central Russia.
Fruits apricot contain: provitamin A, vitamins - B1, B2, B15, P, PP, C, citric acid, malic acid, tartaric acid, sugar, pectin, tannins, starch, a large amount of mineral salts, inulin, iron, silver, calcium sodium, potassium, iodine, silicon, manganese, copper, zinc, phosphorus and magnesium ... The seeds of apricot contains: Vitamin B5, fatty oil, glycoside amygdalin, emulsin.
Apricot since ancient times was not only a delicacy but also a drug.
- It is known that even 4000 years BC, when the Chinese Empress Yu fruit used to improve blood formation, and apricot seeds were used in ancient China as a sedative with a strong cough, bronchitis.
- Modern folk medicine uses the fruits of apricot for the prevention and treatment of diseases of the cardiovascular and gastrointestinal systems, anemia, anemia, kidney disease and bladder disorders of the nervous system, calf cramps, low and zero-acidity of gastric juice, for removal from the body of bad cholesterol as restorative and febrifuge, skin diseases and diseases of the oral mucosa.
- Fruits are helping to improve memory and enhance brain activity, so they should be included in the diet schoolchildren, students, people engaged in intellectual work.
- Fresh apricots are an excellent dietary means.
- Apricot juice is useful in pregnancy.
- Apricot Kernels in raw form are anthelmintic. In diseases of the cardiovascular system is ground and brewed as a tea.
Fresh apricot fruits should not be eaten in acute gastritis with high acidity of gastric juice, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, pancreatitis. Provitamin A, located in the apricots are not digested or absorbed by the weakly in diseases thyroid gland.
- Avicenna called Apricot totally "feminine" fruit and considered it the most gentle and beneficial for women's health and beauty.
- The use of apricot inside and in the form of masks makes your skin soft fading, improves hair growth, longevity and youthfulness, improves stability rise to cancer.
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Mask, promotes the normalization of lipid metabolism of the skin and gives it freshness, firmness, elasticity and dullness.
2 tbsp. tablespoons chopped apricot pulp mixed with 1 chicken protein. Apply on face for 10-15 minutes. Rinse with warm water and wash cool.
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Mask overly tanned and dry skin.
2 tbsp. tablespoons fresh juice of apricot blend with 2 tablespoons of cream, soak the liquid, folded in several layers of gauze and apply on face for 15-20 minutes. Wash warm decoction of parsley or weak brew green tea. Wipe face with ice. The course 15-20 masks in 1-2 days. For very dry skin use cream instead of sour cream.
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Rejuvenating mask.
2 tbsp. tablespoons fresh apricot puree mixed with 1 teaspoon honey and 1 teaspoon of lemon juice. The resulting mass is put on face, covering the top with gauze soaked in boiled water. After 15-20 minutes, wash off the mask with water at room temperature.
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Nutritious.
2 tbsp. spoon mashed pulp of apricots mixed with 1 tbsp. Spoon cottage cheese and 1 tbsp. spoon sour cream and apply on face for 15-20 minutes and rinse with water at room temperature.
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The most simple mask of skin irritation and to give it freshness.
Wash, wipe the face with a cotton swab moistened with cream, and put on face for 10-15 minutes sliced apricots. Wash warm, then cool water.
In France and Italy, apricots and drinks from it are considered aphrodisiacs and recommended in love before the night of love.
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