The anise is the spice keeping female beauty

Anise ordinary – Pimpinella anisum L – an annual grassy plant from family celery. At an anise the slabovetvisty root getting on depth about a meter. A straight line stalk, up to 70 cm in height, slightly branched from above. Radical leaves rounded heart-shaped, averages are similar to wedges, and the top three separate.

Small white or pink flowers are collected in an inflorescence an umbrella. The anise in June – July blossoms. Good melliferous herb. Fruits ripen in August-September and represent a brown-gray dvusemyanka of a pear-shaped form. Seeds of an anise are valuable spice, have pleasant spicy aroma. On taste sweetish.

The homeland of an anise call Lebanon, but it grows also in the countries of the Mediterranean, in India, China, the USA. Cultivate it almost worldwide. Russia grew up an anise on plantations since 1830 and exported abroad.

Fruits of an anise contain: vitamins C, P, essential oil, fat oil, proteins, sugar and other useful substances.

That the anise has curative properties, knew in antique times.

- Hippocrates, for example, treated medicines from a digestive tract disease anise.
- Traditional medicine recommends to drink anise decoctions to the feeding mothers.
- Anis removes a depression and improves cerebration.
- Thanks to the fact that the anise contains essential oils it has antiseptic and expectorant properties that allows to use it at cough, bronchitis and other catarrhal diseases.
- Fruits of an anise are widely used in pharmaceutical industry.
- The anise is used also in the bakery, confectionery, alcoholic beverage industry, added in jam.
- Medical infusion
It is possible to prepare medical infusion independently, having bought anise seeds in drugstore. To fill in 4 teaspoons of the crushed fruits of an anise with 2 glasses of boiled water, to insist 1 hour in a thermos. To filter, accept ½ or 1/3 glasses 3-4 times a day.

And the most important – the anise helps to keep female beauty.

- Anise broth
For improvement of a condition of skin broth of an anise is accepted inside. To fill in 1 teaspoon with 2 glasses of boiled water, to insist 1 hour, to drink as tea to food on ½ glasses.

- Essential oil of an anise
Anise oil and masks increase elasticity of skin, improve lipidic exchange, normalize water-in-oil balance of epidermis, do skin of more elastic. Add no more than 1 drop of essential oil of an anise to ready creams. The growing old skin can be wiped with anise broth.

- The mask rejuvenating
To mix 2 tablespoons of sour cream with 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 drop of essential oil of an anise. To put on a face for 10 minutes, to remove a napkin, to wash warm water, then cool.

- A mask for dry skin
To boil potato in a uniform, to clean, turn quickly into puree, to add so much warm milk that smetanoobrazny weight turned out, to add 1 drop of anisic oil, to mix, put on a face for 10-15 minutes. To wash away water of room temperature.

- The mask increasing elasticity of skin
To mix 1 teaspoon of broth of an anise (according to the recipe described above) with 2 tablespoons of soft cottage cheese and 1 tablespoon of the grated carrots, to mix, put on a face for 10 minutes. To wash water of room temperature.

- The mask moistening
To mix 1 teaspoon of broth of an anise with 2 tablespoons, the grated cucumber and to add so many the oat-flakes flakes crushed on the coffee grinder that smetanoobrazny weight turned out. To put on a face for 10 minutes. To wash away water of room temperature.