The advantage of a cranberry was known in far times. The tsar Peter I considered cranberry juice an elixir of youth and the best many diseases medicine. Over the years, in process of deepening of knowledge about plant values, use of a cranberry of national treatment became more and more various and detailed. The cranberry treats many illnesses, but it is especially necessary for a female body.
The cranberry is useful to all, but most of all the female body which throughout life bears big emotional and physical activity needs it. Fruits and leaves of a plant contain the substances which are analogs of a natural antibiotic which, unlike drugs, doesn't do harm and complications.
In a cranberry there is a mass of necessary minerals, minerals, sugars, tannins and vitamins. Berry is appreciated the high content of various acids and pectins which cause originality of the chemical composition of a plant.
Advantage of a cranberry as product for female health
Cranberry - one of low-calorie products. 100 grams of mature berries contain, on average, 25-26 kcal that is important for women with an excess weight.
Fruits and juice increase appetite, remove fatigue, dizziness. The use of its fruits after serious illnesses is effective.
At flu, high temperature, juice, fruit drinks, drinks from a cranberry help the weakened organism to struggle with an infection. A cranberry - excellent febrifugal and vitamin means. Addition of honey increases greatly curative effect of drinks.
Juice of a cranberry treats the itching dermatitis. Therefore it is successfully applied at burns, wounds, ulcers, mastitis. Juice has antimicrobic and bactericidal effect. It exempts an organism from a harmful putrefactive microorganisms, stafilokokk, streptococci, colibacillus. At the widespread female infectious diseases connected with an urinogenital system (cystitis, pyelonephritis, etc.) drinks from berries positively influence the speedy recovery, have diuretic and anti-inflammatory property.
Berries improve work of a stomach and intestines, promote growth of useful bacteria, suppress harmful pathogens. The pectins which are contained in fruits clean intestines and provide a soft chair. The role of pectins is especially big as they perform important biological functions: adsorb heavy metals from an organism that is important for the inhabitants living in areas with high radiation and bad ecology.
Broth from leaves and sprouts of a plant also salutary. It is used for rinsing of the inflamed throat at a tonsillitis and cold.
In the people the original way which helps at waste is known: in each ear put on one cold large berry of a guelder-rose. The method can be used also at headaches, noise in ears if it is connected with difference of atmospheric pressure and a weather changing.
The cranberry is applied to fight against periodontosis, during the swelling, inflammation and bleeding of gums and also when shaking teeth. For this purpose berries roll language about gums. Such massage quickly removes inflammation of gums, strengthens them better than any expensive toothpaste.
Masks from berries remove pigmentation on skin and are applied as cosmetic.
The use of a cranberry normalizes exchange processes, removes angiospasms, especially at tendency to migraines, elevated pressure.
Cranberry berries, as well as any product, it is necessary to use moderately.
As it is correct to choose a cranberry for treatment
The most important condition at treatment - berries have to have complete ripeness at autumn collecting. Fruits with a white flank aren't recommended to be used in treatment. In immature berries there is practically no valuable benzoic acid which is the main element in treatment. Its contents will be low even if berries ripen in the house or on the attic.
Application of a cranberry in cookery
The cranberry is widely applied in the fresh, frozen, dried, soaked look. It in any kind - a nutritious and useful product. A cranberry - the good partner in combination with many fruit: oranges, apples, grapes, dogrose. Addition of cranberry berries in vegetable dishes with beet, carrots, cabbage, radish enriches their nutritious structure. The cranberry is appropriate with mushrooms and nuts. It excellently is in harmony with fish, seafood, chicken, a turkey, meat. Berries use at preparation of sweet and hot sauces.
From a cranberry great fruit drinks, kissels, kvass turn out. Using its jellifying properties, from fruits prepare various jam, jams, jelly, fruit jelly, a fruit candy. In the wine and vodka industry apply cranberry raw materials to preparation of liqueurs, punches, balms. With cranberry stuffing bake pies, do tasty desserts. Decorate with berries many dishes.
Hostesses prepare a cranberry for the winter. The light way to preserve valuable raw materials of the house is a freezing: berries won't lose the medicinal and nutritive properties within a year. One more successful recipe keep a cranberry - to roll in berries in icing sugar. Such delicacy to taste all. Among house ways of preservation there is a simple classical recipe: the cranberry wiped with sugar in the ratio 1:1. This option allows to make a set of viands from this preparation at any time and saves the place in the deep freeze.
Simple recipes with a cranberry
Pancakes with a cranberry
Step-by-step recipe.
Products: a cranberry of 150-200 g, pancake mix of 200-230 g, milk of 300 ml, egg of 1 piece, sugar 1 full tablespoon, salt to taste, 1 tablespoon of the kindled desi, baking powder 1 of Part l, vegetable oil for frying about 100 grams.
- Cranberry wash out and dry berries from excess moisture.
- To add sugar, salt, egg, the kindled butter, pancake mix, baking powder to milk and to mix all ingredients.
- Add a cranberry to pancake dough.
- Bake on vegetable oil at a moderate temperature as usual pancakes. Pancakes are tasty also in hot, and cold.
Beijing cabbage apples and cranberry salad
This light dish which is cooked quickly and simply. Cabbage chop, add salt, to taste a sprinkling pepper, sugar. To wash apples and a cranberry. At apples to cut out a core and to cut with pieces or segments. Mix apples and berries of a cranberry with cabbage. Lay out on a dish and decorate with greens and berries.
The Beijing cabbage can be replaced with a white or red cabbage, to add onions and greens.