Berry to berry – breath of the nature. Part 3

Telling in the first and second parts of a cycle of articles "Berry to Berry — Breath of the Nature", I with each new line am convinced that thanks to generosity of the nature and own efforts, we are capable to preserve the health and natural beauty. In the third part we learn about advantage of a mountain ash, cranberry and cowberry.

Sour, but useful – a cranberry marsh
September-October – the period of collecting the cranberry growing in the marshland. Not just like that the cranberry is called "berry crane". The matter is that its opened flowers on small stalks remind a neck and the head of a crane. In the 17th century there was one more name at a cranberry – "bear berry" since residents of New England often observed, how exactly local bears regaled on it.

As a part of a cranberry emit organic acids, glucose, fructose and sucrose, pectinaceous substances, vitamins of group B, PP, K, high content of vitamin C, macro - and minerals: potassium, phosphorus, calcium, iron, manganese, copper, iodine and others. From berries prepare juice, nectars and fruit drinks, kissels and kvass, extracts and teas which help at cold, quinsy and avitaminosis, cystitis and new growths.

- Recipe of cranberry drink.
Necessary products: 1.5 liters of water, 1 glass of a cranberry, ½ glasses of sugar. Crush the washed-up berries of a cranberry a wooden spoon and wring out from them juice. You fill in the squeezed-out berries with water, you boil, you filter the received broth, you add to it juice and sugar, carefully you stir, you ostuzhivat and you enjoy pleasant taste and aroma.

In cosmetology of property of a cranberry also found the application. From ancient times the cranberry is read out youth berry.

- The rejuvenating mask from a cranberry all-type skin
Ingredients: several berries, 1 h sour cream spoon, 1 yolk. All products carefully to mix and pound to homogeneous mass, to put on a face, to remove wadded tampons in 15 minutes. Frequency – 2-3 masks a week, a course – 20 masks.

- A cranberry mask for oily skin
Ingredients: 2-3 h a spoon of a cranberry, 1 egg white, 1 h a spoon of lemon juice, a little wheat flour for density of weight. Berries to grind, mix with other products and to put on a face. To wash away cool water in 10 minutes.

- A cranberry mask for dry skin
Ingredients: 2 h a spoon of the ground berries, ½ tablespoons of sour cream. To put weight on a face for 10 minutes, to wash away warm water.

- At problem skin it is recommended to wipe it with juice of fresh berries of a cranberry, divorced half boiled water or broth of a camomile. Also natural cranberry juice it is possible to process wounds and burns.

Cowberry glade
Cowberry at the beginning of summer blossoms, berries ripen in August-October depending on the area. As a part of cowberry emit useful organic acids, carotene and pectin, tannins, sugar, vitamins A, C and E, mineral substances: calcium and potassium, magnesium and manganese, iron and phosphorus. Berries easily give in to conservation and well remain since their structure contains a large amount of benzolovy acid.

From cowberry, as well as from a cranberry, prepare broths, extracts, juice and fruit drinks, from it cook jam, add as a stuffing to pies, candies and rolls. Broths from leaves of a plant help at diseases of kidneys, gout, rheumatism and sugar diabetes. Juice – at the increased arterial blood pressure, anemia at pregnant women and nervoza. Berries – at avitaminosis and gastritis with the lowered acidity, in homeopathy for essences. Cowberry is applied as dizenfitsiruyushchy and diuretic means.

Reference! Diuretic means promotes removal of salts and excessive water from an organism, thereby reduces liquid content in fabrics. Apply this diuretic most often at diseases of a liver and kidneys and also hypostases.

- Recipe of Cowberry broth
Necessary products: 1 tablespoon of leaves of a plant, 1 cup of boiled water. To crush, fill in leaves with boiled water and 5 minutes boil, then within an hour to insist and filter. It is necessary to accept to food on 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.

- The moistening mask from cowberry against skin aging
It is enough to pound in gruel of berry of cowberry and to put on a face for 10 minutes.

- The refreshing cowberry mask
Ingredients: 2 tablespoons of juice of ripe berries, 1 egg yolk. To shake up everything and to grease with mix a face. In 15 minutes we wash away water.

- Problem and oily skin can be wiped with tonic from cowberry juice and 0.5 parts of mineral water.

Is red-maiden-mountain ash
No, probably, in Russia of such girl which in the childhood would not do a beads of a mountain ash. Bright berries attract with the beauty and convenience to threading on a needle and thread. For medicine fruits of a mountain ash are of particular importance the since possess styptic, diuretic, sudorific, antiscorbutic, bile-expelling and laxative properties and also as headaches medicine. Mountain ash syrups are appointed at avitaminosis and rheumatic pains. Mountain ash bark is used for preparation of broths which it is possible to treat inflammation of skin and mucous a mouth.

Fruits are recommended to be collected after the very first frosts, then to dry, freeze or cook from them jam. Berries are saturated with vitamin P and carotene, there are tannins, organic acids, sugar, essential oils and another.

- A mountain ash mask for dry skin
Ingredients: 1 tablespoons of ripe berries, ½ tablespoons of cottage cheese, 1 h honey spoon, 1 tablespoon of a crude yolk, ½ tablespoons of sour cream, several drops of vegetable oil. Berries to pound, mix with other products to homogeneous mass. We put on a face for 15 minutes and we wash away water.

- A mountain ash mask for oily skin
Ingredients: 1 tablespoons of berries, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, 2 tablespoons of kefir. Berries to knead, mix with juice and kefir, to put the received weight on a face for 15 minutes, then to wash away water.

- A mountain ash mask for hair
Ingredients: 1 glasses of berries, 1 crude egg, ½ glasses of kefir. Berries to knead, mix with other products, to apply on all length of hair and to wash away shampoo in 20 minutes.

Berry to berry – feel breath of the nature and good luck!