Raspberry syrup, cardiac JOURNEY
30.07.2007 . Newspaper article published in light of 30.07.2007.
Raspberries are the most sought shrub forest, produces fruit very aromatic, very popular at the time rodirii both by bears and children. The plant grows frequently in spontaneous in Europe and North America, especially in mountain areas and premontane more cold and wet (up to an altitude of 2,000 meters), along valleys and luminişurile forest, where natural forms zmeurişuri easy shaded by tall pine trees and beech.
Known as scientific Rubus idaeus, raspberry growing form of bushes 1-2 feet high, with stems straight, slightly arched towards the top and covered with thorns pointed. Since plants are viable for 10-15 years and have a great capacity drajonare, bushes of zmeurişuri presents an essential role in blocking the process of soil erosion on sloping land.
The plant is easily recognized by the leaves with 3-7 folio, notched around the edges, the green on top, white and passwords on the bottom. In summer months (May-July) open white flowers with pink shades, sometimes grouped in 3-15 inflorescenses short. In the second half of summer fruits are red, juicy, sweet-tart and very aromatic which grow for 30-35 days and maturează still 25-30 days in the months July to September, providing yields of 50-400 kg / hectare zmeurişuri spontaneous.
As a result of the increasing fruits, both in the domestic market and export, it was necessary to introduce the culture of raspberry growing area in compact plantations or public gardens, on fences and alleys.
Intensive plantations raspberries are easy to achieve whereas the growth of plants is done by simple methods (drajonare, marcotaj, cuttings or division of bushes). Both varieties are planted neremontante with one crop per year and re-sorts, with two harvests per year, providing fresh fruit throughout the summer until October, at a level of production of 5-10 tonnes per hectare cultivated. Revenues are substantial and secure, while costs are relatively small, both the establishment and maintenance of plantation.
Fruit harvesting is done manually at the time of maturation of the consumer, with staggered to 2-4 days. The fruit is harvested for quality, packaging in plastic, waxed cardboard or wooden boxes, lined with polyethylene film, with a capacity of 200-500 grams and are transported in crates or casket paletizate.
Fruits for processing in factories and canned juices are collected without receptacle at maturity and full throughout the day. Is harvested without leaves petiolate mainly before and during flowering. Dry naturally on the thin layers, in the shade, or by artificial to 40-50 degrees C. The yield is the drying of 1 kg dry material of 3-4 kg of fresh leaves. After drying, the leaves remain green and fragrant and astringent taste.
Raspberries in natural treatments
From previous experience shows that preventing and fighting various diseases disease using both fruit and leaves, mugurii and mlădiţele of young bushes. Raspberry fruit are very diverse chemical composition, which correlated with therapeutic properties and actions to cure various diseases. Laboratory tests have highlighted the presence of soluble carbohydrates (5-11%), giving fruit sweetness. Harmonization taste is achieved through organic acid content (1.2 - 2.3%) that prevails between citric acid, malic, lactic and glycols. These acids are preserved in the body, does not alter the alkalinity of blood and pronounced bactericidal power, destroying micro-organisms (bacteria, fungi, molds). Also, the total acidity of fruits present appetizers properties, stimulating saliva secretion of gastric and intestinal juices.
Specificity of color and aroma is given by the content antociani, flavonoids, pecten, tannins and essential oils. Colorants found in the cell pieliţei juice, and fruit pulp, the color is intensified by the acidity and reduced oxygen in the presence of air and a solution of sulfur dioxide used for preservation.
Tanning substances with astringent properties are soluble in water and oxidised under the influence of enzymes and oxygen from the air, causing the closure of the color of fruit juice. After oxidation, tannins in the reaction pectinele that may precipitate, a process which should be avoided considering the role pectinelor at blood vessels where traps cholesterol and toxins, facilitating their evacuation.
Content rich in vitamin C and minerals
Therapeutic and nutritional value of fruit increased significantly by whole vitamin complex that predominates in vitamin C (20-50 mg%), B1, B2, D, P, PP and beta-carotene. To preserve vitamin content must take into account the possibility of rapid degradation by boiling at temperatures higher than 400C, in the process of oxidation in air and in contact with copper vessels often used in the transportation, processing and storage of fruits. High content of mineral salts, easily equivalent (K, Ca, P, Mg, Mn, Fe, Zn, Cu), is a natural source primary components necessary for synthesis of active principles with therapeutic action. These mineral salts (4-5 g per liter juice) is the material of construction for the nerves, blood vessels and have a role in neutralizing harmful action of uric acid, maintaining the alkalinity of the blood normal.
Therapeutic properties of fruit aims, firstly, internal diseases with effects astringent, antibacterial, antidiareice, anti-inflammatory, diuretic, depurative, stomahice, vitaminizante and energy. In external conditions acting on the skin care effect on regeneration, astringent, exfoliating and catifelare.
Raspberry syrup, good for voice restoration coardelor
Fresh fruit or processed into syrup are used in medical therapy as remedies in his digestive system diseases (diarrhea rebellious, burning stomach, gastro-duodenal ulcers, pancreas), in pulmonary disease (cough, bronchitis, sensitivity to cold and hoarseness, febrifuge in gripe). Sweetened with honey, syrup effects are amazing in coardelor voice restoration. In children is recommended in chronic bronchitis and recurrent tonsillitis, and in treatments for women in family, pielonefrită, dismenoree and metroragii.
Syrup is an excellent means of treatment of cardiac diseases with pain, disturbances in transit, eye disease (conjunctivitis), asthenia and skin diseases (eczema, pimpled, wounds, skin eruption).
Effects of therapeutic exception raspberries, followed by separate plant organs (fruit, leaves, flowers, germ, sprout), is a big motivation for the creation of perspective intensive plantings of raspberries, with growing areas every year. Households monks from monasteries in the mountain and premontane, and students in different steps of training may have the satisfaction of outstanding achievements through the creation and operation of their raspberry tree plantations with high efficiency money, but also with a role in preventing and many tămăduirea human diseases.
Ways of using fruit
Fruits are very much required for fresh consumption or industrial processing and domestic food in different forms, or semipreparate finished very tasty and nutritious (paste, jam, jam, marmalade, peltea, jelly, sherbet, frozen and candied fruit, ice cream, compotes, syrups, wine aromatic, vermouth, liqueur (raspberry), pasteurized juices, concentrates and beverages).
Fresh fruits consumed as dessert, with refreshing and invigorating effect or product, before each meal, each 200-300 g on an empty stomach for 12 days. After portion of fruit consumed not eat anything for 4 hours, because the fruits have a lower effect on digestive processes and the considerable reduction of hunger.
By domestic or industrial processing to prepare syrup, sweetness, jelea, liquor, juice, vinegar and flavored with foam meal.
Cataplasmele leaved Raspberry cure panariţiul
In the form of poultice is applied on wounds, eczema, whitlow, abcese, furuncule, breast pain before rash menstre and property due to disinfectants.
Fresh leaves are consumed in soups by blending the greens with blackberry leaves and nettle living and patlagină bucks.
Raspberry flowers are used as infusions for comprese applied to eyelids in cases of conjunctivitis and treatment of cough and cold.
Melliferous being a plant, flowers are an important source of nectar for honey bees in the preparation and other bee products.
Mugurii Raspberry early spring collection is whack and is preserved in honey. Another batch of gemmate dry and grind to fine powder form to be taken in a spoonful 4 times a day with the role of natural progesterone and adjust activity ovaries.
Of germ powder recommended during menopause
Treatment of germ powder take under control all the side of menopause (hot flushes and genital area usturimi). Women who want to quit contraversatele contraception may resort to treatment gemmate raspberries to prevent any emotional and hormonal disorders. After a long treatment will slow the aging process, in parallel with the therapeutic effects chisturilor secure against ovarian, uterine fibroma, mammary nodes and premenstrual syndrome.
Besides the germ powder can be used in tincture gemmate, effective treatment for ovarian cyst, uterine fibroma, amenoree, metroragii, menoragii, metric impendence abortion and excessive pilosity.
Mlădiţele raspberries are used in the preparation of drugs with a wide applicability in treating various disease conditions. Fresh Mlădiţele are weighed and placed in a brown bottle for maceration for 4-5 days in the alcohol 900 which covers the whole plant material. Add a mixture of water and glycerin (in the 1: 1) so that the solvent (alcohol, water, glycerin) should be an amount 20 times greater than the weight mlădiţelor. Continue further 3 weeks maceration followed by decantează with expression, is strecoara through gauze, leave to stand still for 48 hours and strecoara again. Treatment with alcoholic extract glicero-layer effects of exceptional against female genital diseases, restoring balance ovarian cranky.
Sometimes consuming 30-50 drops, morning and evening, taken 7 days before the cycle and cycle time, extract the layer has good effect in combating disorders premenstruale with breast pain and stomach and tension, and disorder menstrual cycle (metroragie functional manoragie, amenoree, dismenoree and heavy loss of blood).
The extract layer of raspberries prevents early aging in women
Effects are very good also in combating uterine fibroma, ovarian of chisturilor, menopause disorders, disturbed libidou, frigidity, impendence abortion, meters and vagina, hipogonadism and endocrine disorders in girls with pubertatea excessive pilosity. It also acts to prevent early aging women.
To increase the effectiveness of treatment is recommended to extract some of the association of offset with raspberries:
- Black currant for ovarian cyst;
- Black currant, mulberry and hazelnut for uterine fibroma;
- Rosemary and cranberry for menopause disorders with aging and avoid early women.
Cure Long with raspberries to stabilize blood glucose in diabetic
Many therapeutic properties: astringent, antidiareice, disinfectants, cicatrizate, antihemoragice, depurative mild diuretic, sudorific, neutralized in gastric acidity, reglatoare hormonal tonic-and soft drinks.
Medicinal effects are related to some digestive problems like diarrhea, dysentery, enterocolitis, pancreatitis, liver congestion, gastrointestinal spasms, disturbances of intestinal transit, gastric hyperacidity, stomatitis and mouth infections. In addition, favors the elimination of toxins and cholesterol from the blood, increasing sudoraţia, remove the internal sensation of scorching heat, headache, cold, bronchitis.
In diabetes cure are indicated for long-term stabilization of blood glucose, mixed with leaves and blackberry so.
Fresh or dried leaves, with the nuttiness and slightly tart, serve in the preparation of tea consumed, the spring and autumn, the daily food for children, elderly and sick people, especially in cold days, when more frequent virozele and gripele.
Tea drinking evening in the form of decocturi acting on kidney and genital diseases in regulating menstrual cycle is painful or heavy uterine bleeding.
In external use is used as a gargle for concentrated infusion or decoction against faringiene disorders, stomatitis, laryngitis, pharyngitis, inflammation of the throat, cough, cold and dental neuralgia due to painkillers and emollient qualities.
Recipes for home cooked jams
Raspberry syrup is prepared from a well-washed fruits kg, placed in a jar, where the smash with a wooden spoon. Link-to-mouth jar with a gauze and take 2-3 days amestecându is not for daily use mold. Juice left in the jar pass through double or triple gauze, previously wetted with water and soak. Leave covered for 24 hours clarification and pass another boat. Every liter of juice is sometimes added 1.25 kilograms of sugar and lemon juice for conservation and preservation of the color (or a crushed aspirin to drink a liter). Everything goes into an enameled vessel with volume twice the amount of syrup. Mix to dissolve all the sugar, boil it on low fire for 30 minutes and mix continuously until foam disappears. Pour the hot syrup into sterilized bottles and well heated. After plugging tight, the bottles are covered with blankets until the next day and then kept in cool place.
Sweetness of raspberries - fresh fruit (1 kg) under the jet wash of water and pass into a vessel of 3-4 liters in alternative layers with 1 kg sugar, add the lemon juice and leave to macerated 2-3 hours, after which stropeşte with a tablespoon of rum. Place the small fire and simmer 20-30 minutes, removing the foam with a wooden spoon. After cooling sweetness pass in jars which are closed tightly.
Jelly raspberries - fruit ripe to pass through the sieve and decantează clear juice, add an equal quantity of sugar and boil on low fire, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon. Try if jelea is tight, dip the tail of a wooden spoon in batter and then inserting it into a vessel with cold water, if the tail lingurii remains a gelatinous paste, boiled jelea is sufficient, but if you drain all the water means that you have boiled.
Liqueur raspberries (Raspberry) - choose one kilograms of fresh fruit, which is torn in a demijohn 500 g sugar, where it would take 5-6 days to soak in the sun, with daily agitation. Add one liter alcohol closes tightly and leave to soak another 2-3 weeks to cool place. Then strecoara through double gauze and a thin layer of wool. In the strained liquor is added 100 ml of rum and pour into bottles which are closed immediately with secure closures.
Raspberry juice to prepare 200 g of fruit blended with strawberry, blueberries and strawberries, washed and crushed by gauze; îndulceşte sugar is after preference and consumed immediately.
Vinegary raspberry flavor is obtained from 1.5 kg crushed fruit and a liter white vinegar, the maceration time of 10 days, and is strecoara pass in bottles well sealed.
Foam with raspberry meal - is prepared from 75 g fruit (possibly mixed with blueberries, strawberries and sour cherries), of which squeeze the juice, pulp stoarsă mix with 75 g whole fruit, boil it gently and strecoara. Juice resulted in gradually add 20 grams semolina and 15 g sugar, continue boiling still 4 minutes. Mix foam 5 minutes to cool and add the juice extracted from the first batch of fruit. Foam has beneficial effects in hyperacidity gastritis, ulcers, dispepsii of putrefacţie, hepatitis, rectocolită haemorrhagic, heart failure, hypertension, atherosclerosis, kidney disease and various infectious diseases.
Xilitolul helps prevent caries
Ripe fruit is prepared xilitolul, a natural sweetener used in the prevention and treatment of caries. Intensely colored fruits serve as a natural coloring, corrective color and taste in different pharmaceutical products, and mixed with red grape vine used to obtaining an open-violet dye for wool and white borangic.
