- Useful properties and applications
- Recipes
- Contraindications
Sea buckthorn is famous for its unique healing properties and breadth of application. And about the benefits of honey for the body can talk endlessly. Therefore, sea buckthorn with honey is a unique healing combination that helps to cope with almost any diseases.
Useful properties and application field
Sea buckthorn, both fruits and leaves, has found wide application in folk and even traditional medicine. From the flesh and seeds of fruits on an industrial scale produce oil, intended for both internal and external use, not only for medicinal, but also for cosmetic purposes. Due to the unique composition, the sea buckthorn leaves are used in the manufacture of a popular antiviral drug of a wide spectrum of action. But you can prepare a medicine from sea-buckthorn even at home, and for this, both fresh and frozen berries are suitable.
It is impossible to overestimate the benefits of honey. It can be successfully used for any diseases, including diabetes. Therefore, it has long been one of the most commonly used components of both ready-made pharmaceutical and cosmetology products, as well as folk remedies.
Thus, using a certain recipe for sea-buckthorn berries with honey, without leaving home and without carrying large material costs, you can:
- cure colds;
- support the female body during pregnancy;
- eliminate constipation;
- cope with stomatitis;
- to eliminate skin diseases and improve its condition;
- strengthen the body weakened after ailment;
- cope with gynecological diseases;
- to help normalize the work of the cardiovascular system, kidneys, liver, etc.;
- to eliminate the effects of radiation;
- to rejuvenate the skin, etc.
Recipes
Seabuckthorn with honey can be used in various types and combinations depending on what effect it is necessary to achieve.
- To cleanse the body and improve the functioning of the kidneys, it is recommended to drink a glass of sea-buckthorn juice with honey daily. Drink is prepared immediately for 4-5 days, that is, 3 glasses of juice add 2 tbsp.l.honey, a glass of water and a half glass of decoction of mint leaves. The remaining product is stored in the refrigerator.
- Toning cocktail, which helps to restore strength after hard work or a hard day, is prepared from 2 teaspoons of honey, juice from a half of lemon and infusions of sea-buckthorn, for which it is enough to fill in 3 tbsp.l.crushed berries with a glass of boiling water and strain in half an hour. This remedy will also be relevant for influenza, colds, etc.
- With a cold and mild ailment, you should drink daily a glass of warm water in which is dissolved in a spoon of sea buckthorn oil and honey.
- If you are in contact with radiation, you should regularly take tea from the sea buckthorn leaves with honey. As a rule, immediately prepare a large amount of this drink - 5 liters. For such a volume of water, only a handful of sea-buckthorn leaves is needed. Tea is insisted for 6 hours, filtered and diluted in it half a cup of honey.
Advice: to improve taste in the tea, you can add mint leaves.
- To promote the healing of erosion of the cervix, the introduction for 5-15 days of gauze tampons moistened in a mixture of sea buckthorn oil and honey.
- To prepare a real vitamin bomb to strengthen immunity in the cold season, you can from 10 walnuts, 2 glasses of sea buckthorn fruit and 1 glass of honey. The berries are mashed in a puree and filter. In the finished juice, powdered nuts and honey are added.
- A special mask of milk, honey, sea buckthorn oil and cottage cheese will help to cleanse, rejuvenate and eliminate the peeling off on the weather-beaten skin of the face. All the ingredients are mixed until a homogeneous mass is applied, which is applied with a cotton disc or sponge for 25 minutes beforehand cleansed from make-up and contamination. Mask rinse with warm water. Since usually more funds are obtained than required for one procedure, the remaining mixture is stored in the refrigerator.
- You can clear the pores and give the skin tenderness with a soft scrub from lemon juice, honey, yolk and sea buckthorn oil. Such a remedy can be used for both the face and decollete skin, and the entire body.
Advice: when preparing a scrub, it is better to take buckwheat honey.
Winter billets
We have taken care in advance to meet the cold winter fully armed. That's why good housewives cook jams, jams, etc. in the summer and autumn, when there are plenty of berries, vegetables and fruits in the markets, and they cost a penny. In such cases, recipes for the winter of sea-buckthorn with honey will be useful.
- The washed and dried fruits of sea-buckthorn must be poured into sterilized jars, interlacing with layers of honey, the last layer being honey. On top of it lay alcohol-impregnated paper and cover with a sterile lid. As a rule, to prepare such a mixture, the products are taken in equal proportions. Dessert is stored in the refrigerator for 30 days.
- A kilogram of seabuckthorn berries is slightly welded to soften the peel. Prepared in this way, the fruits are grinded and the flesh is separated from the bones and skins with a sieve.0.7 kg of honey is added to the resulting puree and pasteurized at 90 ° C for 5 minutes. The mixture is rolled in pre-sterilized jars.
- The honey and the fruits of sea buckthorn are taken in equal quantities. The first is put in a copper vessel and heated to 40 ° C, constantly stirring with a wooden spatula. The honey is covered with pre-washed and dried berries and cooked, stirring, for 20 minutes. The finished jam is poured over sterile jars and rolled up.
- Sea buckthorn jam will be to your taste even for those who do not like sea buckthorn. It is prepared from 1 kg of berries, which are boiled for several minutes, and then grinded through a sieve. This puree is mixed with 800 g of honey and left for at least 2 hours. In the resulting mass add 200 g of apple juice and, not bringing the mixture to boil, cook it for 15 minutes. Ready jam is packaged in sterile jars, pasteurized for 15 minutes at 80 ° C and rolled up.
The sea buckthorn harvested with honey will help to stay healthy even when it seems that it is impossible to hide from viruses. Especially it is useful to pregnant women who are contraindicated in taking most of the existing drugs. And since such a delicacy has a delicious taste, even the most spoiled child is unlikely to give it up.
But even if you did not make the blanks, strengthen the immunity and at the root to stop the beginning ORZ you can drink sea-buckthorn tea. It is brewed immediately in a mug of 1 tbsp.l.berries. When the infusion is somewhat cool, add 1 tbsp.l.favorite honey.
Sea buckthorn honey
An excellent delicacy and at the same time a so-called sea-buckthorn honey, which, in essence, is a syrup, can become a remedy for the prevention of colds. Such a noble name he received for his color and consistency. It is prepared by dissolving 2 kg of sugar already freed from the skin and seeds of sea-buckthorn puree.
Advice: prepare the mixture better immediately in an enamel saucepan.
After 3-4 hours, the mass is brought to a boil and held steadily for 5-7 minutes. During the heat treatment, a foam is formed on the surface of the mixture, which should be removed.
Contraindications
Of course, there is no product that can be consumed absolutely without exception. Therefore, sea buckthorn recipes with honey are not suitable for those diagnosed with:
- an allergy to any of the components;
- gastrointestinal diseases, accompanied by high acidity of gastric juice;
- pancreatitis;
- cholecystitis.