The fig is a storeroom of health and beauty.

The summer on an outcome and on counters of shops appeared a lot of fig which to us is carried from Turkey, Greece. Not only that it is very tasty and useful fruit for health, so also the storeroom of beauty. About some of its unique properties I want to tell and share interesting article.

Fig - a paradise tree. Useful properties of a fig were used since ancient times. In the east considered that the white fig for pleasure, and black cleans. The fig belongs to family of mulberry. In the nature there are about 1000 types. Grows in the Crimea, Krasnodar Krai, in Armenia. Asia Minor is considered the homeland. The fig is called still a fig tree.

Fig - a sacred tree. In a bible legend there is a speech that leaves of a fig served as clothes for Adam and Eve. And in Ancient Rome the fig tree will be read for the fact that according to a legend, branches of a tree held a basket with twin babies Romul and Ram and saved them from inevitable death, there they also were found by a she-wolf who raised and grew up brothers. This legendary tree lived many centuries and when it died, all Rome put on in mourning. On Ceylon and now the sacred fig tree planted more than 2200 years ago during a statement era on the island of the Buddhism grows.

In the 9th century BC the fig was delivered to Ancient Greece. It is mentioned in many myths. When the beloved son Gei Sikevs died in Zeus's fight with titans, the goddess turned him into a fig tree – a fertility symbol. Not without reason on festivals in honor of Dionysus the basket of figs by all means adjoined to a vessel with wine, and the best of plants in a garden even had the names like family members.


The fig contains water, proteins, sugar, vitamins (B1, B3, PP, C), mineral substances (potassium, iron, sodium, calcium, magnesium, phosphorus to cellulose, antibacterial substances.

Fruits of a fig are very nutritious and are acquired by an organism for 100%. Avicenna is a great doctor of antiquity, used fruits for elderly people as the fig treats all diseases of an old age.

Fruits of a fig have diuretic and sudorific properties.
To them poisonings as substances of this berry help to normalize work of a stomach treat, to stimulate functioning of kidneys and a liver.

For healing of wounds use gruel from a fig.

The fig is widely used also at other diseases: at a sore throat and cough - the fig is made with hot milk.

At cold, hoarseness in a throat or bronchitis the fig needs to be filled in with the boiling milk and after it infuses, to accept every time before food.

Besides, the fig works as febrifuge.

Eat a fig and reduce cholesterol level.

A large amount of iron in a fig is useful for the people having anemia.

The fig is widely used at cardiovascular diseases.

Syrup from a fig works as laxative. Here perfectly tasty jam helps.

Razvarenny berries of a fig in milk can be put to abscesses for their faster maturing.

If you have callosities, they can be "brought" by means of applying for the night of the cut fruit to callosities.

The fig has no collateral properties, its application is contraindicated only at diabetes, gout and sharp gastrointestinal diseases.


The fig is filled with energy of creation. It gives strength, helps with treatment of many diseases. Fruit known long before our era, was applied by ancient beauties, winning against aging and restoring skin and hair.


Its sugar and polysaccharides humidify integuments, and the available ficin (enzyme) updates them, without causing irritation.



Fig – the best means against skin aging.

Masks which part the fig is purify skin and refresh it. If regularly to use sweet and tasty fruit, the complexion will improve. Under its magic influence mimic folds and wrinkles are smoothed, peeling stops. Signs of early aging successfully smooth out, thanks to stimulation of microcirculation and improvement of cellular respiration. By means of fruits of a fig it is possible to achieve reduction of puffiness and disposal of dark circles under eyes.

Mask with a fig for removal of puffiness

Products are necessary for a mask:
• fig (2 pieces);
• banana average (1 piece);
• sour apple pulp (1 piece);
• fat cottage cheese (2 tablespoons);
• peach oil (1 tablespoon);
• egg (1 piece);
• vitamin E oil solution (10 drops).

We crush everything and we mix in the blender. We apply a ready mask to face skin and hands a thick layer. We have a rest forty minutes. We remove mix a napkin, we rinse skin with warm water, and then mineral cool.

It is the best of all to do masks in cold time of the year for two months twice a week.
The mask nourishing and moisturizing the skin from a fig and milk

For a mask are necessary:
• dried fruits of a fig (3 pieces);
• fresh milk (1 glass);
• oatmeal (1/2 glasses);
• almonds oil (1 tablespoon);
• egg (1 piece);
• honey (1 tablespoon).

To weld a fig in milk and to mix with other ingredients. To shake up to a condition of sour cream. Mix is applied warm for 40 minutes. Further, as in the first case.
Mask with a fig for dry skin

To steam out dried fruits (2 pieces) in boiled water, to crush. If just to knead ripe fresh fruits. To mix with fat cottage cheese (2 tablespoons) and to apply to skin. To have a rest half an hour. Then to remove the wadded tampon impregnated in warm milk. To rinse with mineral water. Skin will become elastic, gentle and velvety. The mask will help to remove any inflammations on dry skin, will heal wounds.

Procedures with use of a fig in house conditions – the best means for rejuvenescence of face skin in the winter.
The ancient recipe for hair from fig fruits

Fresh (or dry) fig fruits (2 pieces) are crushed and mix up with a glass of milk. If fruits dried to boil thoroughly them previously in fresh milk. Mix of warm is applied on roots of hair, and then distributed on all their length. Musk needs to warm on an hour and a half. To wash away and rinse warm water. After drying to comb hair.

That fig and milky masks will give:
• food of curls vitamins, minerals and their moistening;
• health to head skin;
• will strengthen roots of hair;
• will solve a problem with split ends of hair;
• gloss, silkiness, elasticity and force.

Here such it is a surprising fig...