Useful properties of many plants are unknown to us. We perceive leaves and escapes, familiar since the childhood, as usual city greens, even without suspecting by what natural drugstore we pass every day. Herbs and herbs are one-year and long-term, are sowed or intentionally land as green ornament. One of such plants, hop ordinary, for the beautiful appearance is used on many garden sites. Only the few people know how it is correct to prepare its sticky green shishechka, and are able to treat them. In this article we will consider useful properties of cones of hop, the principles of their collecting, storage and indication to application.
Chemical composition of cones of hop
Characteristic bitterness of this plant is caused by availability in it of essential oils. Ascorbic acid, vitamins of group B and PP, such minerals as potassium, calcium and zinc contain in hop.
In it find manganese and iodine in smaller quantities. Bioflavonoids, tannins which happen in the best red wines and also tannic acid belong to organic components and it is well-cared, the major connection for health of brain fabric.
Important! Useful properties of this plant depend on extent of its maturing. Young cones will not bring special benefit while mature contain a maximum of useful substances.
Than are useful
Medicinal properties of hop are known to traditional medicine long ago, and recent scientific research confirmed them. Essential oil as a part of green shishechek causes their unique anti-inflammatory properties and antibacterial influence.
Anti-inflammatory action such oils as rosemary oil, castor oil, santalaceous oil, sea-buckthorn oil, dogrose oil, fir oil, walnut oil also possess.
The broths and ointments made on their basis effectively fight against a fungus and viral infections. The calming action on nervous system is shown at regular application of home-made tinctures.
Sleep disorders, chronic pains, spasms and spasms leave if to include house hop broth in the daily diet.
Separately it is worth mentioning advantage of this plant for a female urinogenital system.
For prevention of diseases of an urinogenital system at women also use devyasit, goji berries, a horsetail field, an immortelle sandy, a cornflower blue, a linden.
Colds and bacterial infections give in to this folk remedy. Periods become regular, and at women with an anovulyation the probability to become pregnant increases.
Diuretic properties of hop — the fine solution of problems with a bladder and kidneys.
The couperosis and vascular grid on a face will be less noticeable if regularly to do compresses of hop broths. By the way, the same broths reduce joint pain and do cartilaginous tissue of more plastic.
How to use in the medical purposes: recipes
There are many different recipes on the basis of cones of this plant. Apply it and in the medical purposes, and in cosmetology.
At insomnia and nervousness
In traditional medicine of China practically all means for treatment of problems of nervous system are made on the basis of this climber.
Study the list of vitamins necessary for strengthening of nervous system.
The simplest recipe includes 20 g of dry cones which it is necessary to draw 15 minutes in 250 ml of boiled water and to cool to room temperature under a cover.
The course of treatment lasts 2 weeks. Drink on 1 glass of such broth in the morning and in the evening on an empty stomach — and you will notice positive changes in the mood and sleep quality for the third day after an initiation of treatment. The following recipe will be more difficult. Buy mint pharmaceutical, dried cones and a shredded root of a valerian. Take 20 g of each component, mix them and fill in 1 l of water. Bring broth to boiling on slow fire, a vyparta on a third and cover.
Densely wrap a saucepan in a plaid for 6 hours. Drink the received broth before food on a quarter of a cup before full normalization of a dream.
Whether you know? Young escapes of hop braid support, moving only clockwise. At the same time they grow on 3–4 cm per day. Can brag of such growth rate unless a honeysuckle and an ivy.
Indirect methods of treatment of neurosises and insomnia include pillows with hop collecting and bathtubs on shishechny infusions. To prepare a bathtub, gather a 5-liter pan of water, fill up in it a glass of cones and bring water to boiling. Warm up broth within 15 minutes, and then pour out it in the bathtub filled with warm water. Take this weakening bath for half an hour to a dream. Do not blot skin with a towel — let it will dry.
That to travny small pillows, they can be put near a pillow on which you sleep, or to densely fill hop cones a clean pillowcase on a lightning and some time to sleep on it.
At headaches
Tincture of this plant on alcohol will save from migraines and headaches of spasmodic character.
Also the peppermint, a guelder-rose red, a grass a thyme, a wormwood bitter help to struggle with migraine and headaches.
To observe proportions, take 1 part of cones and 4 parts of alcohol — it is possible to measure them glasses.
Mix them in a glass jar, close a cover and for 1 week put to the dark place that tincture ripened. Every day get to bank and properly stir up it. Attentively dose ready tincture. It is necessary to drink it before food on 5 drops within 3 weeks.
At joint pains
To restore worn-out cartilaginous tissue and to reduce pain, prepare medicine on the following compounding: Grind 30 g of dried cones a rolling pin or on the coffee grinder in small powder.
Take 60 ml of olive or almond oil and a thin stream pour in it in the received powder, slowly stirring slowly. The received weight has to be dense and pastelike. Apply it on the center of inflammation and sustain 40 minutes.
The effect will be noticeable from the first application, but for full treatment complete at least a monthly course.
Acute radikulitny pain will be reduced by saturated hop broth. Fill in 30 g of dried or 50 g of fresh cones of 300 ml of water and you cook them on slow fire before reduction of volume by 3 times. Then mix the received broth with vaseline in a proportion 1:4 so that viscous ointment turned out. This rub ointment in sore joints within a month once a day. In 2 months repeat a course of treatment if necessary.
Important! Phytoestrogen which is a part of this plant influence a hormonal background and debug work of an urinogenital system. Men can apply hop only after drying — in dried fruits phytoestrogen collapses. On the contrary, it is better for women to use fresh cones.
At diseases of kidneys
Women for treatment of kidneys need to use fresh cones. The following recipe will well work both on kidneys, and on a bladder. 30 g of cones and 1 l of water will be necessary for you.
Fill in cones with water, 15 minutes boil them on big fire (about a third of broth will evaporate) and set aside to the dark place for day. It is necessary to apply broth 2 times a day and it is obligatory to wash down with a pure cup.
At cystitis
The unpleasant catarrhal disease which often disturbs women is treated simply. Take 100 ml of medical alcohol, 50 g of cones. Pour cones to alcohol and sustain 10 days in the warm place then to filter 20 drops and to drink before a dinner, diluting in a water cup.
At cystitis apply also a bearberry, a cranberry, cowberry leaves, pumpkin, corn snouts, a bergenia.
As it is possible to use in house cosmetology: recipes
The phytoestrogen which is a part of hop opens the wide field of opportunities. They level a hormonal background, affect with the rejuvenating image age skin, and young — give freshness.
For hair
Means for leaving act on the hop basis at the cellular level. They stimulate hair bulbs thanks to what growth of hair accelerates — the mane gets denser and is extended. You gain steady effect of application only at regular personal care therefore you are not lazy. These green cones not just improve appearance of a head of hear, they treat the injured hair and problem skin of the head.
Whether you know? This plant — the close relative of marijuana which is often used in the medical purposes. However, hop does not give the amusing effect even as a part of beer as is responsible only for aroma and safety.
Be attentive: broth of this plant can wash away paint from hair or give to a fair hair a greenish shade. Try to use the recommended means on a small lock and if everything passes well, to apply it already on all head.
Will save plain hop broth from dandruff, seborrhea and the increased fat content: on 1.5 l of water take 50 g of cones, boil them within 20 minutes, and before application filter through gauze fabric and rinse the washed-up hair. For a dry and brittle hair broth with a calendula will become the reasonable decision. Mix dried inflorescences and cones in equal proportions (on 30 g), fill in 1 l of water, boil and set aside under a cover for 3 hours.
This concentrated means, which it is necessary to rub in hair and head skin, and after to allow it to be absorbed at the room temperature. The hair dryer and a towel do not need to be used.
The following natural means will accelerate restoration of hair bulbs and growth of hair.
Mix calendula inflorescences, a burdock root, sea-buckthorn seeds and hop cones in a small saucepan on 20 g of each ingredient, fill in with boiled water so that it covered herbs, and insist in the dark place within 4 hours. Apply infusion to head skin and hair, turn off hair into a bunch and sustain so before full drying. For the future to prepare this infusion there is no sense, it quickly loses the curative properties.
For the person
Tonic will be even more useful to washing if to add to it tincture on hop cones. And it is possible to prepare tonic independently. Take 20 g of fresh cones, fill in them 250 ml of water, boil.
For tonic production also use dogrose berries, a girasol, apple cider vinegar, a plantain, juice of a pomelo, a red guelder-rose.
Sustain on small fire within 15 minutes and cool. Wipe with this structure a face on massage lines after cosmetics removal. It tones up skin and removes superficial age wrinkles.
Nutritious masks — the real rescue for skin with signs of aging and problem skin. To prepare a mask for fat type of skin, use the following compounding. Crush in coffee grinder 2 of a teaspoon of dried cones, fill in them with 1 cup of boiled water for 15 minutes and filter through a gauze. Keep broth, and properly pound the received inflated weight in a mortar and apply to face skin on massage lines.
Stand her on skin before partial drying (about 20 minutes) and wash away the broth which remained from insisting.
Important! Tannins which are a part of cones have unique anti-inflammatory properties. Thanks to them lotions against pimples and antibacterial tinctures on hop are so effective.
Dry skin will be glad to the following oily mask. Take 20 ml of olive oil, 20 g of buckwheat honey and a handful of fresh cones. Crush cones scissors, mix with other ingredients and apply the received weight to face skin, avoiding area under eyes. 10 minutes stand her on a face and wash away weak broth of a camomile.
Problem skin with eels, pimples and irritation will be saved by natural tonic. The St. John's wort and hop, everything dried up and on 30 g will be necessary for you an oregano.
Mix, add 300 ml of boiled water, cover and let's cool down at the room temperature.
Miss the received infusion through a sieve, add 100 ml of alcohol and 20 ml of apple cider vinegar. By means of a cotton pad or just a piece of cotton wool blot the inflammation centers with this tonic and wash away it in 15 minutes warm water. This tonic not longer is stored than 1 week.
The withering zone of a decollete will be tightened by the following mask. Prepare broth from 30 g of cones and 200 ml of water. Add 20 g of buckwheat or white honey, 3 yolks of quail eggs and 20 g of fat sour cream.
Apply a mask to previously cleaned skin, sustain 10–15 minutes and wash away weak mint broth. The effect of lifting will be notable from the first application.
When to collect and how to dry hop cones
This plant at the end of August or the beginning of September ripens. Its cones turn from lime-green into light green with yellow edges. The first cold weather paints this plant in pinkish color. The brown cones which — were overripe suit they only for rinsing of hair. Collect the ripened cones only in dry weather, then in them there is a lot of useful yellow pollen, lupulin. Its existence can be checked, having unbent several scales on a cone.
From the inside they have to be bright yellow.
To reap a crop of cones, cut off escapes on 15 cm from a root. Protect hands garden gloves — hop escapes are protected by sharp thorns. Do not worry, the next summer it is a plant will release the same long lashes and will curl on your fence.
Tear off cones together with legs on which they grow. These legs hold together all scales. If to break hop without legs, it rassyptsya after drying and will lose any advantage.
Whether you know? For the first time this plant was brought in botanical classification in 1753. Then it belonged to family Mulberry together with a mulberry and an osage apple. The technologies which allowed to emit hop in family the Hemp family were developed only in the 70th years of the last century.
After drying, hop almost does not change the color and a smell. That raw materials were dried well, spread out it on parchment or pure burlap a thin layer and leave in the warm, dry, aired room on solar to light.
These are the best conditions for drying. Street drying is fraught with an otsyrevaniye or soaking because of atmospheric moisture therefore it is possible to dry cones under a street canopy only in a clear sunny weather.
As well as where to store
Pour ready hop to a linen bag or a clean linen pillowcase and you store in the dry warm room — so he will breathe and will keep a maximum of useful properties till the next season.
It is possible to keep it in a kitchen cabinet or on the dry attic. You do not take out hop at all on a balcony as in the winter it will dampen, will become covered by black streaks and will become unsuitable for use.
Contraindications and harm
Observe all specified proportions and the modes of application in accuracy. Unreasonable and unlimited use of hop as medicine can shake your health. This active plant which components have serious effect on a hormonal background and microflora. Hop is contraindicated to women at whom estrogen level is increased.
Categorically pregnant women as this plant since ancient times is known the aborting properties cannot use medicines on its basis.
Also pregnant it is forbidden to use and apply durian, medicines on the basis of a lyubistok, peanut butter, medicines on the basis of birch kidneys, tea milk oolong tea, parsley.
Small children up to 2 years cannot give such drugs too. To the people inclined to allergic reactions, it is necessary to try at first small portions of medicine and to continue application only at a normal response of an organism.
Important! Leaves and sprouts of this plant actively incorporate heavy metals and radioactive elements from the soil and air therefore it is possible to collect floriferous cones of this plant only far from large routes and industrial zones. On the other hand, this property allows it to clean effectively the soil of farmlands therefore you sit down young escapes on the problem site — they will clean from it all superfluous.
Hop is a surprising plant which at many is associated with intoxicated heat and in the early fall. Its sticky very young shishechka serve as decoration of seasonal dachas, are widely used in medicine and cosmetology.
Its rich vitamin and organic structure and also wide range of application will not leave indifferent any person who is carefully watching over the health. Remember rules of preparation, drying and use of hop — it the plant will present you health and beauty.