Oak for female beauty and health

On legends of ancient Slavs, the oak is a tree of the Thunderer god Perun. Without the permission of magicians nobody had the right to cut down an oak, to wound and spoil it, to break branches. Once our ancestors under an oak discussed all important issues and made fatal decisions.

Centuries-old oaks are nature sanctuaries presently, and are under protection. It both Pushkin oaks, and Kochubeev' oaks in Dykanka …

Oak chereshchaty, or an oak ordinary – Quercus robur L. – a listopadny tree with powerful sprawling krone from family of beechen. In height the tree reaches 40 meters, has diameter of a trunk to 2-2.5 meters. Bark of young escapes olive-brown, or reddish-brown, brilliant, smooth, then it gets a silver-gray shade and with age begins to crack.

Brilliant green leaves, from below are painted more faintly, to the 8-15th in length, have elongated obratnoyaytsevidnuyu a form, gear. Inflorescences in the form of earrings are formed in bosoms of leaves during their blooming. Flowers small, ordinary-looking, sit on a long pedicel. The oak in May blossoms. From 30-40 the summer age begins oaks to blossom.

Fruit — an oval acorn, ocherous or brownish color, 1.5-3.5 cm long, with a hat cup above with dulled trimmed cheshuyam. Fruits ripen in September – the beginning of October. The oak lives up to 400 — 500 years, separate trees live till 1000 — 1500, having 4 m a diameter.

The oak ordinary is widespread in an average and southern strip of the European part of Russia, in the Caucasus, in the Crimea. Grows, forming clean oak groves, or in the mixed coniferous and deciduous and broad-leaved forests, but to ravines, beams, forest belts, in parks and squares.

In the medical purposes use smooth young bark of branches and young trunks.

- Bark of an oak contains: tannins, gallovy and ellagovy acids, pentozana, pectinaceous substances, quercetin and sugar, flobafen, katekhinovy tannins, carbohydrates, starch, pitches …

- In acorns are found: tannins, fat oils, sugar.

- Medicines from bark of an oak has knitting, anti-inflammatory and antiputrefactive properties.

- Traditional medicine applies broths from bark at ponosa, gastric and intestinal bleedings, ulcer colitis, an enterokolita, dysentery,

- At chronic tonsillitis, stomatitises, pharyngitises, gingivita, inflammatory processes of a mouth, throat and throat broth is used in the form of rinsings.

- At burns, not healing wounds, abscesses, ulcers, and hemorrhoids in the form of lotions.

- Broth. To fill in 1 tablespoon of the crushed bark with 1 glass of boiled water and to boil in the enameled pan on a water bath of 10 minutes, to draw half an hour, to filter.

Independently it is not necessary to drink oak decoctions. The excessive use of broth of an oak inside can cause vomiting.



The oak is applied in national cosmetics from time immemorial.

- At excessive perspiration of hands
To fill in 1 tablespoon of the crushed bark of an oak with 1 glass of milk and to cook about half an hour, to filter, add waters and to do trays for hands every day the perspiration will not disappear yet.

- Oak decoctions and masks tighten face skin, smooth wrinkles, regenerate and tone up tired skin, restoring elasticity and delaying aging.

- Infusion from oak bark for wiping of sluggish, wrinkled skin.
To fill in 1 teaspoon of the crushed oak bark with 1 glass of boiled water, to insist 2 hours, to filter. To wipe instead of washing skin in the morning and in the evening. Not to wash away.

- The mask giving to skin smoothness and silkiness.
To mix 2 tablespoons of broth of oak bark with rice flour to consistence of dense sour cream. To add 1 teaspoon of cream. To put on a face for 15 minutes, to wash away boiled water of room temperature.

- For oily skin.
To fill in 1 tablespoon of the dry crushed oak bark with 1 glass of boiled water and to boil on slow fire of 40 minutes, to cool, filter, add ¼ glasses of vodka and 1 tablespoon of grapefruit juice. To wipe fat sites of skin before going to bed.

- For rinsing of an oily hair and disposal of dandruff.
To fill in 2 tablespoons of the crushed bark of an oak with 1 liter of boiled water and to boil 20 minutes, to cool, filter, rinse hair 2-3 times a week before achievement of the necessary effect. Usually the course lasts 3-4 weeks.

Ancient Greeks considered an oak the first breadfruit tree. Slavs baked from acorn flour pancakes, fritter, dry biscuits, different cookies. Oak leaves are also now used as seasoning when salting cucumbers and tomatoes for preservation of hardness by them.

The tannins received from old bark of an oak used for production of the premiums of skin. Now it is added at production of linoleum and insulating materials. Wood of an oak is used in construction and the furniture industry.

In old times when there were no weather forecasters, our ancestors looked at oak groves – before a frost they kind of brighten, and before thaw – darken.

Magicians advise to put an oak leaf under the husband's insole for growth of career and receiving an increase to a salary.