Rosehip - herbal medicine, vitamin C content, effects on the body, use in cosmetics
Rosehip is a rich source of active substances that have healing and cosmetic-care qualities. It contains a lot of vitamin C, which increases the body's resistance, and fruit acids that have a beneficial effect on the appearance and condition of the skin. Rose oil produced from it has calming, anti-depressant and soothing properties. If you want to look young and feel healthy, try the tasty fruits of the wild rose.
- Rosehip in herbal medicine
Rosehip is a spiny shrub from the rose family. It has leaves folded, and the fruit - sour, red. In Poland there are twenty species of rose, and the most widespread is a wrinkled rose. For therapeutic purposes, a wild rose, a dog rose and a styptic animal are used.
Red and juicy fruit of wild rose - szupinki - is harvested in autumn, fully ripe, and dried in a drying room at 50 ° C. In cosmetics, both seeds, fruits and flowers are used. The harvest of wild rose fruits is best carried out on sunny days when it dries dry. For food and medical purposes, before drying, they are first cut and the grains are hollowed together with the hairs. In the cosmetics industry, wild rose is mainly used to obtain aromatic oils
- Rosehip - the content of vitamin C
Rosehip has long been used as one of the richest sources of vitamin C. Already 1-3 fruits can cover the daily requirement of an adult human for this vitamin. The content of ascorbic acid depends on the time of harvesting and drying methods. Long-term drying at 40 ° C causes ascorbic acid losses as high as 75%. The most vitamin C is found in the crumb of the szupinki. Natural vitamin C is five times more active than synthetic.
The longer the time the fruit is stored, the less vitamin C will be. Ascorbic acid undergoes oxidation. Rosehip is also a true wealth of other vitamins: P, K, E, B vitamins and provitamin A. Rose hip fruits also include bioflavonoids, carotenoids (beta-carotene, lycopene and zeaxanthin), tannins, sugars, pectins, organic acids (citric acid and malic acid), essential oils and mineral salts.
- Rosehip - impact on the body
Rose hip fruits have a strengthening effect. Vitamin C supports the body's immune system with colds, during pregnancy, with excessive brittleness of blood vessels, and cholelithiasis. Wild rose is also used for gastrointestinal catarrh, diarrhea, gastric and duodenal ulcer, rheumatism and burns. It is often treated as the main medicine for shoeblack.
Extracts of Rosehip are recommended to women during pregnancy and breastfeeding, convalescents and people in general weakness and fatigue. The fruit of the rose hips is obtained oil containing vitamin E, carotenoids, sterols and unsaturated fatty acids. It is used in physiotherapy to treat inflammation of the skin, burns and difficult to heal wounds.
The properties of wild rose are also: moisturizing, softening and smoothing the skin. Such properties are due to vitamins, pectins, amino acids, and in particular organic fruit acids. The latter contribute to the relaxation of epidermal cells. The exfoliating effect of fruit acids has been used to treat acne and acne scars. In addition, these acids reduce the dryness of the skin due to the stimulation of ceramides biosynthesis and the increase of their level in the epidermis.
The vitamin A that is formed from beta-carotene along with ascorbic acid lightens the skin and prevents the formation of pigmentation spots. In contrast, the complex of vitamins B group in the wild rose is effective in the treatment of seborrhea of the skin and prevents skin roughness.!