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 A thorny, brown-barked shrub from the Rosaceae family. Up to two meters high. Leaves are petiolate, sharp-serrated; flowers are large, bright pink, fragrant; fruits are spherical or oblong. Red or orange, 10-15 mm in size, containing angular yellow seeds with white hairs.
Botanists have more than 50 species of rose hips and a large number of their varieties. In Russia, it is found almost everywhere.
This plant has always been respected, and not only as a medicine. At the burial of a deceased woman, the Hindus put as many rosehip flowers in the grave as she gave the world of daughters and sons. The pagan Slavs during the festivities decorated the statues of their gods with its flowering branches.
Rosehip is the humble ancestor of the modern cultural rose - the queen of flowers.
And who forbade the use of this forgotten folk remedy and you and me? In case of flu, sore throat, runny nose, lift them from a hot frying pan for one to two minutes three to six times a day.
"A handful of rosehip bark, boiled with six deep breaths in two large bowls of milk and drunk hot at sunset, cures malaria in seven days of fasting." (Jude Shea - Eastern Science of Tibet).
At present, the laboratory has established the destructive effect of the bark of the wild rose on the malaria plasmodium. Thus, one of the postulates of Tibetan medicine and the statement of the Armenian phytotherapist G. Minejyan have been scientifically confirmed.
Rosehip bark is used for diseases of the nervous system. It, prickly, is ground into a fine powder, sifted and taken on a pinch on a slice of bread during meals. Dried rose hips is a good store of vitamins for the winter.
In the XVI-XVII centuries, the Russian tsars equipped special carts - expeditions to the Orenburg steppes for harvesting leaves, flowers, bark, stems of wild rose - in early summer, and in the fall - its fruits and roots. Rosehip leaf tea, "brewed thicker", was considered the best medicine for sick liver, goiter, "sweet urine" (diabetes mellitus), "severe washing" (complicated menopause), "black disease" (vascular hypertension), for colds, female inflammations ... "The twist's sheet (convulsions) removes ... the wound does not give way ... lotions are made from it for the fracture ... so that the bone will soon grow together" ...
It is a pity that the rosehip leaf has gone out of use in our time, and folk knowledge about it has become only the property of history ...
Who does not know about the essential rose oil from the flowers of the Kazanlak rosehip - the basis of the modern perfumery and cosmetic industry? According to legend, Eve, seeing and picking a wild rose flower, stuck four petals to her face and one to the face of Adam. And Cleopatra made rose water from these flowers. She put twenty-five petals in a cup, poured them with twenty-five tablespoons of cold water, insisted on the petals for three days in cool darkness and made this infusion a nourishment on the body before the first meeting with Julius Caesar.
It is believed that these were the first steps in cosmetics, from which the procession of rose water began around the world.
Rose water reached the Slavic lands. The families of the Kiev princes began to use it for the first toilet of newborn babies, then as a female cosmetic for the premature appearance of wrinkles on the face, neck, hands, and then as a reliable medicine for all kinds of diseases of the mucous membranes and skin in the form of rubbing, washing, rinsing, douching, baths, lotions, etc.
It is nice in late spring to see bright pink lights of blooming rose hips in the garden or front garden ...This means that modern Nefertiti rules here - a wise and beautiful woman, for whom a few dozen flowers will be enough to have rose water until next summer.
Menzyak D.A.
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