The heroine of our today's review is cowberry. This bright red, juicy berry is a storehouse of health and vitality. Presenting itself as a sweet treat, and a useful medicine, it saves mankind from a multitude of diseases and a deficiency of vitamins.
Cowberry with honey is a delicious salvage from dozens of ailments, weakening of immunity and cold. Consider the healing effect of the duo in more detail.
Useful properties of cranberries
There are a lot of legends about wonderful scarlet berries. According to one of them, lingonberry was washed with live water, which was carried in the beak swallow, who wanted to give people eternal life. But the bird was bitten along the way by a wasp, and the swallow, unable to withstand the pain, shed water on cranberries, cedar and pine. These plants have become not only evergreen, but also have acquired the magic properties of the healing of any disease.
So, what is useful for lingonberries:
- is a wonderful antiseptic - an effective remedy for infections, decay and inflammation processes;
- berry restores and strengthens eyesight, renews skin;
- heals vascular disease;
- cleanses the body of toxins and toxins;
- normalizes the metabolic process;
- has choleretic and diuretic action;
- stabilizes the pressure;
- improves the functioning of the urinary system.
By the way, many of the above mentioned beneficial properties are related to cranberries with cranberries. This beautiful berry is also widely used in combination with an amber dessert. Details about the benefits of this composition, you can learn from the article about the cranberry with honey.
Warning! Not only the berries of cranberries, but also its leaves are endowed with healing power. Based on the latter make broths for hypertension, rheumatism and gout.
Benefit of honey with cranberries
Berry is strong alone, but in combination with honey, its healing qualities are increased by 2-3 times. Cowberry with honey( useful properties of the duet are multifaceted) are recommended:
- for gout and rheumatism;
- as a diuretic, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial agent;
- at high temperature, sore throat and cold;
- at the initial stage of hypertension;
- for vitamin deficiency and immunosuppression;
- for carbon monoxide poisoning;
- for pain in the joints.
Warning! Cowberry is undesirable to use with sugar, it is better to replace it with honey.
Contraindications
Cowberry with honey is not recommended for use:
- in peptic ulcer diseases of the stomach and duodenum;
- with gastritis with increased acidity;
- for cholecystitis;
- with hypotension, as the berry reduces pressure;
- for individual intolerance and allergies.
Warning! Children, pregnant women and nursing mothers should take honey and cowberry in moderate doses.
Recipes and healing combinations
Relieves cranberries with honey from many ailments. Recipes with their participation are used and against excess weight, and as a mask for the face, and in the field of cooking.
For all diseases
Grind cranberries( can be frozen) in a blender or mortar and mix with honey in 1: 1 proportions. Drug take in diseases or as a preventive agent every morning for 2 large spoons.
In diseases of the liver, kidneys, urinary and gallbladder
In 0.5 glasses of warm cowberry juice add 1 dessert spoon of honey. Drink a drink half an hour before meals three times a day.
From constipation, influenza, headache and hypertension
From these ailments the drink from cowberries with honey helps very well. To do this: crush the berries and pour them 200 ml of cold boiled water, strain. Honey in the mixture is added to taste. Drink the drink should be 100 g three times a day, after eating.
Morse for cold
Pour a glass of washed bilberry berries with a liter of boiling water( but do not boil!), Wrap it and let it brew for 3-4 hours or even all night. Obtain the resulting mors, dissolve in it 2 tbsp.spoons of honey and drink at a flu and catarrhal diseases 2 times per hour for 100-150 ml. Patients can drink up to 2 liters of healing Morse per day.
The drink is also useful for rheumatism, kidney disease, liver and gallbladder, with discomfort in the stomach, it is indispensable and as an organism-strengthening remedy.
With a cold
Excellent saves from colds, flu and sore throats of wet cowberry. Her recipe with honey looks like this:
- prepare 1 kg of ripe, juicy berries, go through them and rinse them in cold water;
- prepare natural honey - 100 g;
- clean cowberry in a glass jar;
- for honey pouring put 1 liter of water on a moderate fire;
- add there honey and 2 slivers of salt, bring the fill to a boil and boil a little, remembering to remove the foam from the surface;
- cool the honey mixture to room temperature, then fill it with berries;
- the jar with the berries covered with a plastic lid or parchment paper and take it to a cool place, leave for 30 days.
After this date, wet cowberry and the formed honey drink should be used for any symptoms of the cold, as well as for its prevention.
Also effective is the recipe for cranberries with honey, where they use mashed berries. Wash the cranberries( 1 kg) on a baking sheet and put in the oven at 160 degrees. Berries are baked in their own juice. When the cowberry becomes soft, remove it from the oven, cool it and turn it into mashed potatoes, wiping it through a sieve. Pour a lot of honey( to taste), melted through a water bath. Ingredients mix and use for cold ailments or simply as a dessert.
For weight loss
Attention! Daily reception of cranberries on 0,5 glasses mixed with a teaspoon of honey, will relieve you from superfluous kgs.
This is promoted by the diuretic effect of the berry and its sweetness, which can satisfy the feeling of hunger during a diet. Cowberry is low-calorie and useful, it is impossible to gain weight from its use, but to strengthen the body is quite real.
Face mask
Useful properties of cowberry with honey were appreciated in beauty. Masks on their basis are struggling with skin problems, moisturize and tone it, prevent the appearance of wrinkles.
Universal face mask recipe: grind fresh berries in enamel ware, mix mass with a little honey. The mixture is applied to the face for 15-20 minutes. Rinse with warm water. Toning effect you will feel after the first procedure!
Recipes, where cranberries with honey are involved, nemerenoe quantity. And each of them has a wide range of medicinal qualities.