For cranberries!

Blooms in May, the flowers are dark pink, gathered at 1-4 on the ends of branches. Berries round, juicy, red, sour-sweet fruit ripens in September and October. Berries stored for months without losing flavor, and biological qualities. You can collect them in 3 periods: in September, with the onset of cold weather in November and early spring. Harvest for the winter need not earlier than 5-10 September. Shelf life of berries - 9 months. Immature berries are poorly preserved, lose nutrients. Need to take care of the plant, cut berries by hand only. Collection comb scoops damaging the young shoots, which leads to reduced yields, and sometimes - in the death of the plant. Cranberries in folk medicine has always played an honorable place, and have used it since ancient times. Cranberries - one of the most useful of wild berries on the content of biologically active substances and mineral salts. Berries with leaves improve metabolism, reduce headaches, heartburn. Cranberries have antibacterial, anti-inflammatory, tonic, wound-healing effect, increase elasticity, strength of the walls of blood capillaries, improve appetite, assimilation of food, gastric juice and pancreatic juice, the activity of the intestine. The berries are widely used in gastritis with low acidity of gastric juice, colitis, an inflammation of the pancreas, obesity, and the appointment of a salt-free diet. They enhance the action of antibiotics and other medicines for cystitis, nephritis, gynecological, inflammatory diseases, prevent formation of kidney stones. Cranberry has antipyretic, diaphoretic and tonic effect in angina and colds. Contained in the acidic drugs "pectins contribute to the excretion of excess cholesterol, endotoxins, and heavy metal salts. Cranberry juice cleanse septic wounds, sores, burns, accelerates their healing. However, the "sour medicine has Contraindications: acute inflammatory diseases of the stomach, intestines, liver, and exacerbation of gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer. In a feed using berries used to prepare juices, syrups, juice, brew jam, jam, jelly, filling for chocolates and cakes. Eat cranberries with sugar candy in powdered sugar, used in pickling cabbage. Cranberries, gathered in the autumn, with cold water, and at the freezing water is drained berries are frozen and stored in the cold in barrels, boxes, baskets. Berries collected in late fall, after frosts, more delicious, juicy and sour. Store them in frozen form during thawing, they can quickly deteriorate. Berries collected in the spring from under the snow, are stored for long. Cranberry jam you can prepare for the two options. Option 1. Berries blanch for 3-4 minutes, sit in a colander, pour hot syrup for 8-10 hours, then cook until done. Option 2. One-half of sugar to cook the syrup, pour them berries for 12 hours, then add the second half of the sugar and cook until done. To prepare cranberry fruit candy, fruit should fill with water and cook until tender, grind and mix with sugar and boil down to the consistency of pastes (1 kg of cranberries, 1 kg of sugar, 250 ml of water). With angina and bronchitis with cough well to cranberry juice with honey. When thrombophlebitis, and hypertension is recommended to eat in 2 tbsp. tablespoons ripe cranberries 2-3 times a day for half an hour before meals. With urolithiasis and arteriosclerosis to prepare a mixture of equal amounts of fresh berries and leaves of cranberries (can be dry). 2 tbsp. spoon mixture of sugar and 1 cup boiling water, a thermos 3-4 hours, drain. Take 0.5 cups 2-3 times a day for half an hour before meals. In immunodeficiency. Mix 1 kg of cranberries, 1 kg of chopped apples, 2 cups peeled and crushed walnuts, pour syrup prepared from 2,5 kg of sugar and 1 cup of water. Boil the mixture on low heat for 30 minutes and the shift in the bank. Take 1 tbsp. spoon in the morning on an empty stomach, drinking warm water. When cystitis, as well as for prevention of diseases of the genitourinary system to make fresh cranberry juice to 2 tablespoons. spoon 2 times a day for half an hour before meals. When massaging the gums parodontosis crushed cranberries 2-3 times a day after meals. For varicose veins - ulcer patients wash stations fresh cranberry juice, diluted half with boiled water. Skin diseases inflammatory and antiseptic ointment has a cranberry. Grind 2 tbsp. spoons of ripe berries and press through cheesecloth. The resulting juice is mixed with 50 g of petroleum jelly or lanolin. Keep the ointment in the fridge. With freckles and pigmented spots 2 times a day to lubricate the skin with fresh cranberry juice, after checking the skin for an allergic reaction. When pink acne masks have a good effect from the juice of cranberries: Cranberry juice impregnated cloth, wring out and apply on face for 10-15 minutes. To juice did not cause skin irritation, early treatment can be thinned it with boiled water. Masks should be done once a day for two weeks. Remember, it is inadmissible combination cranberry drinks with sulfa drugs. Cranberries can treat genital herpes, Taiwanese scientists have discovered a substance in cranberries, which have shown antiviral activity against the causative agent of genital herpes - herpes simplex virus, the second type (HSV-2), reported BBC News. In the course of studying the properties of alpine cranberry, used in the treatment of gastric and lung diseases were isolated substance pronatotsianidin A-1. Substance is not destroying the virus itself, but significantly weakens it, without providing at the same toxic effect on the body. Mednovosti.ru