Rose

RosagallicaL.

Who hasn’t admired the delicately fragrant rose flowers! It would seem that everything is already known about the queen of flowers, but she and the people who love her never cease to amaze us. The snow-white, scarlet, amber, pink, velvet-black, and purple colors of rose petals have become familiar to us. In recent years, the palette of this exquisite flower has been supplemented with unusual shades. Blue, blue, emerald green rose petals seem surreal and magical. But the queen among them is the Eglanteria rose, whose fragrant flowers are hidden by a powerful branched trunk reaching 6 m in height and 70 cm in girth. The smell of a rose can be guessed by the color of its petals. Varieties with red and pink colors have a classic pink (centifolia) aroma. Orange roses have a distinct fruity note. The main components of rose essential oil in various combinations and proportions form about 30 types of smell, seven of them are basic: pink, violet, iris, nasturtium, clover, apple, lemon. Like the colors of the rainbow, when combined in a certain way, they give interesting shades to the aromas of roses.

Indeed, the rose is deservedly considered the flower of flowers. Everything surpasses flowers in aroma and beauty, But the rose can delight us not only with its aroma and beauty, but also with its abundance of healing qualities. They make oil from roses, and it is called rose oil, - Help with various diseases, as well as in many cases; If you drink, your stomach will soften and the exorbitant heat in your stomach will immediately subside, and if you carefully warm it with a poultice, headaches and fever will be cured with this medicine. If you somehow mix its oil with vinegar, it will clean the dirty wound and fill the hollow of the wound, and it also helps excellently against burns. Staying in the mouth for a long time, it heals toothache, as they say, and gives centuries their former softness... - wrote the French doctor Odo.

Dew collected from rose petals was considered the best remedy for eye inflammation.

Avicenna in the book “The Canon of Medical Science” gives a recipe for rose cakes according to Asclepius with the following comment: “They extinguish heat, help with pain in the stomach and strengthen it, also help with asthma, from heat and burning, from moisture, from “inversion of the stomach.” , from shortness of breath and burns.”

At the beginning of the 20th century, N.F. Zolotnitsky, in a book dedicated to the history of flowers and humanity, mentions the case described by Elian: “The first beauty in all of Greece, Aspasia, as a child had a growth on her cheek, which she could not get rid of, despite all the efforts of the most famous doctors of that time. Severely disfiguring her face, this growth brought her into such despair that, having become a young girl, she decided it would be better to die. But a dream saved her. She dreamed that a dove - Venus' favorite bird - appeared to her in the form of a young girl and offered to remove the withered roses on the goddess's forehead and, having made a kind of ointment from their leaves, rub the growth with it. Aspasia did as she was told, the growth disappeared, and she turned into the most beautiful woman in Greece.” The ancient Romans presented a wreath of roses to especially revered people who made a great contribution to the prosperity and strengthening of the country.

Rose essential oil has been used for cosmetic purposes for many millennia. This is a strong and at the same time very gentle rejuvenating agent. To give fragrance and freshness to the skin, rose petals were placed on the face. It has been observed that fragrant red roses in rich shades help get rid of headaches and calm nerves. Eastern wisdom says: “If you have two coins, then buy bread with one and a rose with the other, because this is bread for the soul.”

Medicinal properties

1. Gives good results in the treatment of asthma, bronchitis, tuberculosis, sore throat, and influenza.
2. Used in the treatment of stomach and duodenal ulcers. Helps restore the microflora of the stomach and intestines, eliminates abdominal pain, nausea, diarrhea, constipation, and increases the secretion of gastric juice.
3. Stimulates the production of bile, helps cleanse the liver.
4. Improves blood circulation, helps lower blood pressure, cleanses the blood, regulates heart function during arrhythmia.
5. Regulates the menstrual cycle, volume of discharge, helps get rid of infertility, leucorrhoea, thrush, vaginitis.
6. Antiallergen, reduces histamine spasms.
7. Improves the functions of the endocrine system.
8. It has an antiseptic effect in the treatment of viral, fungal and bacterial skin diseases.
9. An effective remedy for the onset of necrosis of the skin. Used to treat radiation burns.
10. Analgesizes ear pain, toothache, and is used in the treatment of periodontal disease and pulpitis. Eliminates bad breath.
11. In folk medicine, it is used in the treatment of eczema, herpes zoster, open wounds, dermatoses, cracks in the skin, as well as hemorrhoids, headaches, scarlet fever, diseases of the upper respiratory tract, kidneys, liver, bladder, and kidney stones. Used as a weak astringent.
12. One of the best sedatives for mental disorders: states of fear, stress, depression, insomnia, nightmares. Strengthens the nervous system, helps create a good mood and a soft, harmonious atmosphere.
13. Eliminates irritation and peeling of the skin, slows down the aging process, increases turgor, cleanses well, tightens pores, regulates the activity of the sebaceous glands. Perfect for any skin type, especially sensitive. Helps restore natural complexion. Smoothes out wrinkles. Used for ruptured capillaries in the cheek area.

Dosage

Externally: 2-3 k. per 10 ml of vegetable oil.

Internally: 1-2 k. per 1 tsp. honey

Baths: 6-7 k.

Douching: 3 k. per 300 g of water.

Enrichment of cosmetics: 4-5 k. per 10 g of base.

Contraindications. Individual intolerance, 1-4 months of pregnancy.

Note. The oil is strong, an overdose can cause an allergic reaction.