Many hostesses collect original and useful recipes of preparations. Among a variety of cookings, is popular treatment-and-prophylactic, very original – jam from pine cones. If in cookery it is used extremely seldom, then for therapy of catarrhal diseases, at joint pains it is the irreplaceable assistant to the house.
Pine cones – the natural storeroom of the useful substances which are well influencing a human body. Vitamins, essential oils, bioflavonoids, lipids, potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, copper both others macro and minerals are a part of fruits. Correctly and in time the collected fruits are capable to render the invaluable help in therapy of various diseases of a throat, lungs, in strengthening of immunity.
When and how to collect cones
Time of collecting fruits from a pine depends on climatic conditions and the region of growth. Generally this period lasts from the second half of June on August. Only young cones free of defects are suitable for the therapeutic purposes. From them cook tinctures, a pulverizing and cook jam, surprising, similar to mountain honey. All this very effectively helps at various diseases of lungs, joints, at avitaminosis and low hemoglobin.
When collecting it is necessary to consider several features:
- choose small, green cones without deformation;
- cut off densely closed fruits of the average size, it is no more than 4 centimeters;
- the tree has to be healthy, without wreckers, far from the road;
- you shouldn't store collected cones longer than 1 year;
- for jam it is better to choose tarry female fruits with scales.
The recipe jam from pine cones in house conditions
Ingredients:
- granulated sugar – 2 kg;
- pine cones – 1500 grams;
- boiled water – 3 liters.
Step-by-step management:
It is obligatory to put on gloves as the crude turpentine emitted by fruits very sticky and it is possible to spoil appearance of hands for a long time.
- It is good to wash cones with flowing water, to shift in capacity for cooking.
- Fill in with cold water, cook on average fire within 45 minutes.
- Remove from a plate, sustain a baking plate a cover for 12 hours. It is possible to boil in the evening and to leave till the morning.
- The cooled-down broth merge, measure volume.
- To pour sugar into a pan, to pour in infusion in a proportion 1:1, to cook on slow fire of 80 minutes. To stir slowly periodically syrup.
- Shift in preparation of a cone, stir, cook 20-25 minutes.
- Pour hot jam in the pasteurized banks, add 5-10 fruits, cork.
Store in the cool place, it is better in a case far away from a plate.
The fragrant, useful, sweet-sour and saturated with carbohydrates jam is ready. Caloric content of one hundred-gram portion of a ready-made product is 222 kcal. It is used in the preventive and medical purposes. Perfectly helps at cough, a sore throat and diseases of joints. One tea / a dessertspoon of shishechny jam in day will help to strengthen immunity, to protect from catarrhal diseases. God bless you!
NB! Some hostesses when cooking add a zest of lemon, orange, pine nuts, cowberry or a cranberry. It doesn't affect its therapeutic properties, just adjust taste.
Advantage of pine cones
The prepared sweet from young people шишечек will be pleasant to both children and adults. Besides beautiful dark amber color, a pleasant astringent flavor, it renders invaluable useful properties on a human body.
- Thanks to the entering minerals, vitamins, macrocells, jam promotes increase in a psychoemotional state, tone of an organism and strengthening of immunity. It helps to cope with drowsiness, increases working capacity, invigorates.
- Antiviral action. Including a small dose of delicacy in a food allowance, it is possible to help an organism not to pick up bacteria and viruses, to cope with diseases quicker, to reduce temperature, a fever.
- Antibacterial property. The substances which are a part of cones destroy fungal, microbic and pathogenic flora. Effectively eliminate bacterial infection, are often applied in traditional medicine.
- Противокашлевое / expectorant. It is recommended to application at various pathologies of the upper airways. The positive effect at therapy of bronchitis, asthma, tuberculosis is noted.
- The product renders strong analgeziruyushchy effect at joint, gums and teeth pains. It is enough to impose a compress or to take a small amount of jam in a mouth, and unpleasant symptoms will release, the discomfort will leave.
- Strengthening hearts/vessels. Group B vitamins entering fruits, tannin, promote strengthening of walls of vessels, normalization of work of heart, reduction of risk of development of a stroke and heart attack.
- Antineoplastic property. The conducted medical researches of jam, allowed to note that existence of natural antioxidants is capable to protect an organism from influence of harmful factors and to prevent risk of new growths, tumors.
Also, the coniferous product stimulates work of digestive tract, promotes healing of erosive formations, improves appetite.
Contraindications to application
Despite all positive impacts of jam, it can do also harm. So in cases of overdose strong allergic manifestations, an itch, dyspepsia, diarrhea and headache are possible. You shouldn't eat coniferous honey more than two tablespoons with the adult and two tea – to children.
To whom it is contraindicated:
- to patients with hepatitis;
- to allergic persons;
- with diseases of kidneys;
- to elderly people 65 years are more senior;
- to children up to 3 years;
- to pregnant women and the feeding mothers.
To take to diabetics, persons inclined to excess weight with caution.
How to apply in the medical purposes
Shishechny jam can be used in the preventive and medical purposes. In the period of cold, it will render not only antiviral, but also sudorific impact on an organism, will accelerate a conclusion of toxins. However, it is necessary to hold strictly norms of jam in day and to accept, having dissolved in a green tea, having added to pastries or having just eaten from a spoon.
- At throat diseases. The adult to accept up to 2 tablespoons a day with warm drink. Divide a portion into three times, therapy to spend from 7 to 14 days. For strengthening of effect, it is possible to rinse a throat infusion/broth from cones after a meal. About ½ teaspoons to 4 times a day, after meal, with a small amount of warm water are recommended to give to children.
- At bronchial asthma. Therapy lasts 14 days, then a break for 30 days and repetition of a two-week course. Accept a coniferous product to 6 times a day on 1 teaspoon for an hour before meal, not wash down.
- At helminths. The course of treatment makes 7-14 days, to daily pinch on an empty stomach 1 tablespoon, not to wash down. Meal is resolved only 30 minutes later after resorption of jam. Parasites don't take out a smell of pine cones, this therapy will allow to bring them intestines and to eliminate lyambliya.
- At elevated pressure / heart diseases. The scheme of therapy is appointed by the doctor, on the basis of the diagnosis and severity of a disease. After the had stroke/heart attack it is recommended to use 1 tablespoon of jam a day, for 2-3 weeks. For normalization of pressure to eat on the 2nd tablespoons in day at meal time within 7 days. It will help to stabilize HELL, to support work of a cardiac muscle, to improve blood circulation, to protect brain cages from destruction.
Recipe of fast medical jam
Prepares from fresh-gathered raw materials (preferably together with young shoots of pine branches).
Products:
- cones – 1000 grams;
- sugar – 1000 grams;
- water – 2/3 glasses;
- mint branch.
Way of preparation:
- Rinse pine fruits with water, divide into 4 parts, put in a stewpan.
- Pour granulated sugar, mix, leave before emergence of juice.
- Later time to pour in water, to stir, put mint, to put on a rassekatel, on average fire.
- Wait for emergence of the first bubbles, reduce fire, weary within 2 hours. Remove the formed skin.
- Divide in clean portion banks, remove to the cool place.
This curative jam can be used together with fruits. Enjoy your meal!