Maypot - prickly healer

Rosehip is known in May under various names, including brown hips, shipshina, cinnamon rose. You can meet this plant on the fringes of the forest, along ravines, among bushes and even in meadows. Distribution he received the widest: from Scandinavia to Central Siberia.

Rosehip in May. Description

This beautiful plant belongs to perennial bushes of the Roses family. The plant can reach a height of 200 cm. The hive of the dog rose, as a rule, consists of straight brown-red stems, with curved or straight spines. Leaflets petiolate, complex, oval in shape, serrate, have stipules. Flowers large, arranged singly or two or three, have five pink or red petals on a short pedicel. The fruit is spherical, naked, has sepals at the top, while ripening - red. Inside it there are many small, angular seeds that are covered with hairs.

Flowering of rose hips is in May and June. Fruits ripen in early autumn, usually in September. It propagates with seeds, but a vegetative method is also possible. Rose bred in May for a second or third year. This plant belongs to the longevity. 300 years for him is not the limit. By the way, garden hips are grown in gardens and parks without problems. He is unpretentious and does not require any special care.

Useful properties of the plant

The hips are used for medicinal purposes. They are prepared completely mature before the onset of frost. Roseberry is considered a useful plant. After all, it contains vitamins: C, B1, B2, P, PP, K. There are also glucose, and fructose, and sucrose, as well as organic acids, pectic substances, salts of iron, magnesium, calcium, manganese and others. Drugs made from rose hips are used as a choleretic, anti-inflammatory, anti-sclerotic, diuretic. They have a positive effect on the body's resistance to the negative effects of the external environment, as well as on carbohydrate metabolism. This plant will be useful in acute and chronic infections, with peptic ulcer and other gastrointestinal ailments, as well as with liver diseases, atherosclerosis, uterine and pulmonary hemorrhages. Oil from the hips is applied externally for healing wounds, with nipple cracks, with bedsores. Since the plant is very useful, infusion of fruits is made from it. Known to all syrup "Holosas". Assign it for hepatitis and cholecystitis. In some diseases, in particular, cholelithic and urolithic, take a decoction of the roots of dog rose.

Rose in May in myths and legends

Even in ancient times there were rumors that the dog rose could scare off demons, evil spirits, evil and protect against black magic. People believed that pink rose hips possessed a magical power that could once again bring back the passion into fading feelings.

A lot of myths and legends are connected with this prickly plant. According to one of the legends, the garden of wild rose was growing around the temple of the Greek goddess of beauty Aphrodite. It was the beautiful daughter of Zeus who created the scarlet rose. The myth says that before all the roses in the world were white. But one day, hearing that her beloved Adonis was torn to pieces by a ferocious beast during a hunt, the beautiful Aphrodite rushed to the place of his death, making his way through the prickly pink garden. All in tears and sorrow, she did not even notice how the sharp thorns of a wild rose wounded her. And drops of divine blood, falling on snow-white flowers, turned them into bright scarlet. And since then pink rose flowers always blossom on the briars.