Mespilus

Mespilus – Amelanchier Medic – a small fast-growing listopadny tree or a large bush from family of a rose family. In height the mespilus grows to 4-4.5 meters. Escapes direct brown-red color. Leaves are dark green, large, from below trimmed and lighter have the form of an oval, egg, an ellipsis. Are painted in yellow, salmoncolored and red-scarlet paints in the fall.

The mespilus in May blossoms. Good melliferous herb. Flowers white, cream, pinkish, are collected in inflorescences – guards on 10-12 pieces. Fruits are spherical, is more rare pear-shaped, oval, dark blue, sometimes than almost black color, with a wax raid. On taste sweet. Ripen in July - August. Fresh fruits are stored up to 5 days after collecting.

You will not call a mespilus a plant the long-liver, she lives about 40 years, fructifies from 3-4 years plentifully and annually.

Thanks to the frost resistance the mespilus got accustomed in the cities and in gardens of a midland of Russia. In Europe the mespilus began to be cultivated more than 400 years ago, more than 100 years it are grown up in the USA.

The mespilus is recognized as one of the most valuable fruit crops. Fruits of a mespilus contain: B3, PP, C vitamins, carotene, sugar, pectins, apple and other organic acids, tannic and dyes, minerals - copper, lead, cobalt …

Both fresh, and dried fruits of a mespilus possess anti-inflammatory and knitting properties. In the medical purposes use also bark, leaves and flowers of a mespilus.

Medicines from a mespilus strengthen sight, help at disorders of digestive tract, for treatment of a liver, kidneys, heart, for prevention of hypovitaminoses, avitaminosis, a sclerosis.

In any kind the mespilus strengthens vessels and increases their elasticity, it is recommended to eat for prevention of a myocardial infarction and varicose expansion of veins.

The mespilus removes their organism cholesterol, heavy metals, toxins, increases immunity, reduces arterial blood pressure, normalizes a dream.

At cold broths from a mespilus rinse a throat, the same broth removes inflammation in all mouth, helps at diseases of gums.

Fresh berries of a mespilus are useful practically to all at any age.

It is necessary to limit consumption of a mespilus only to people with the lowered pressure. But compotes and jam from a mespilus in a small amount it is possible also for them.

- Infusion from a mespilus
To fill in 1 tablespoon of dry berries in a thermos with 1 glass of boiled water, to draw half an hour. To accept at diarrhea.

Flowers, berries, mespilus leaves - good cosmetic

- For giving to skin of tenderness and velvet
To make 1 tablespoon of flowers of a mespilus 1 glass of boiled water, to insist 20 minutes, to cool, filter, wash in the morning and in the evening.

- At dryness of skin and excess suntan
To steam out mespilus leaves, having filled in with their boiled water for 5-7 minutes. To take out, to cool and put a little on a face for 15-20 minutes. It is not obligatory to wash.

- For oily skin with enlarged pores
To mix 1 tablespoon of pulp of berries of a mespilus with 1 egg white, to put on a face for 10 minutes, to wash away water of room temperature.

- Skin will become less fat if to wipe a face with the mespilus juice divorced boiled water 1:1. This procedure is useful to any skin as it feeds, saturates with vitamins and humidifies.

- The mask rejuvenating
To mix 1 tablespoon of juice of a mespilus with 1 teaspoon of honey and 1 tablespoon of soft cottage cheese, to put on a face for 15 minutes. To wash boiled water.

- Juice of a mespilus is rubbed in roots of hair for the best growth for half an hour before washing of the head.

- Mespilus flowers decoction
To fill in a handful of flowers with 1 liter of boiled water, to insist 40 minutes, to filter, add to a bathtub for softness and elasticity of skin. This broth also cleans and does skin more exactly.