Chinese gooseberry...

And the Chinese poets admired a white attire of the aktinidiya blossoming on spring and the huge leaves reminding fans from time immemorial. The plant of the Kiwi was called in honor of "kiwi" - not flying bird living in New Zealand.

Aktinidiya is Chinese, the Chinese gooseberry, or a kiwi – Actinidia chinensis Planch. – the grassy climbing ligneous rod or a liana up to 8 - 8.5 meters long. Escapes of a liana grow very quickly and twist a support which for them is established specially, as well as for grapevines. It can be a grid in width two meters and up to three meters high.

Leaves at the Chinese gooseberry dark green, large. Flowers white or yellow, are more rare orange to 5 cm in the diameter. The kiwi in May – the beginning of June blossoms. Fruits are berries of the extended form with a brownish thin skin and green pulp. Mass of fruits from 50 to 150 gr. Ripen in September-November. Leaves, fruits and escapes of a kiwi are covered with brownish strands of wood therefore the plant looks shaggy.

The homeland of an aktinidiya Chinese is … China. And the ancestor of a kiwi call a liana mikhutao or mi-hutao – "a monkey peach". In 1904 seeds of an aktinidiya Chinese were delivered to New Zealand where it was long grown up as an ornamental plant. The plant had small fruits, ordinary-looking, hardish.

In the middle of the 19th century the amateur gardener from New Zealand Alexander Allison who for many years is looking after a plant brought out of beautifully blossoming liana with rigid fruits the liana yielding tasty, soft, fragrant fruits.

In the USA seeds of a kiwi were delivered by the American soldiers. The port clerk from the USA James Makloklin was engaged in industrial cultivation of a kiwi by the first. From his easy hand fruits of a kiwi appeared on counters of shops and extended worldwide.

Presently kiwis commercially grow up in New Zealand, California, in the west of France and in Israel.

Health in kiwi fruits
Fruits of a kiwi contain: vitamins - B1, B2, B3, B6, E, PP, C, beta carotene, flavonoids, folic acid, fruit acids, pectin, minerals - potassium, phosphorus, magnesium …

Surpasses orange in kiwi vitamin C content twice.

In China the kiwi since ancient times was applied to prevention and treatment of rheumatism, gastrointestinal diseases, disorder of nervous system, to prevention of formation of stones in kidneys.

The one who regularly eats a kiwi has beautiful smooth skin and long not turning gray hair.

Beauty by means of a kiwi
Kiwis quite often apply in national cosmetics to skin saturation by vitamins, moistening, clarification and rejuvenation. It is especially useful to apply masks from a kiwi late fall, in the winter and in the early spring.

- The mask feeding
To clean 1 kiwi and to turn it into puree. To take 2 tablespoons of puree, to add 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 teaspoon of sour cream. To put on a face, a neck and a decollete for 10-15 minutes. To wash away warm water, to wash cool.

- The mask moistening
To mix 2 tablespoons of a kiwi with 1 teaspoon of olive oil and 2 teaspoons of soft cottage cheese. It is good to mix, apply everything to face skin for 10 minutes. To wash away the tampon moistened in warm tea leaves of green tea. In 5 minutes to wipe a face with an ice cube.

- The mask rejuvenating
To mix 2 tablespoons of puree of a kiwi with 1 tablespoon of apple puree and 1 tablespoon of dense cream. To put on a face for 20 minutes, to wash away warm water. To wipe a face with a cube of ice or to wash cool still mineral water. To allow to dry to moisture in the natural way.

- The bleaching mask
To mix 2 tablespoons of puree of a kiwi with 1 teaspoon of potato starch and ½ teaspoons of lemon juice. To put on a face for 10 minutes. To wash away water of room temperature and to apply the moisturizing cream.

- A mask for the withering skin
To mix 2 tablespoons of a kiwi with 1 chicken protein and ½ teaspoon of olive oil. To put on a face, a neck and a decollete. To wash away in 10-15 minutes warmish broth of parsley or camomile tea.

The kiwi can be combined almost with any fruit, especially well skin is affected by masks from mix of puree of a kiwi, apple, pear.

- The skin color considerably will improve if it is simple to wipe a face daily with a piece of a kiwi or juice of a kiwi.

- Juice of a kiwi is rubbed in head skin in 20-30 minutes prior to washing for improvement of growth of hair, giving to them of silkiness and healthy gloss.