This amazing sea-buckthorn: planting and care

What a beauty! This is the first thing that breaks from the mouth at the sight of branches, literally plastered with yellow-orange berries. One word is sea-buckthorn. Planting and caring for her, as well as her valuable properties are described in the article. There are many names, berry - one

As soon as the sea-buckthorn is not called - and the golden berry, and the turn is white, and silver. And there is also the ancient Greek name, in translation meaning "shiny horse". According to legend, the ancient warriors noticed that the horses with pleasure ate berries and leaves from the prickly bush, and then they began to shine with fur. Based on these simple observations, the ancient healers concluded: that the horse is good, then the person is not bad. Mentioned about the miracle-berry are found in ancient medical institutions of Tibetan monks, for centuries it was used by Chinese healers. And since those ancient times, sea buckthorn has been used as a panacea for all diseases.

Panacea is not a panacea, and the sea-buckthorn has unique healing properties. Planting and caring for her as a culture, entered the system quite late. At the beginning of the XIX century, its cultivation was undertaken by scientists of the St. Petersburg Botanical Garden, and the general distribution of seabuckthorn in the country even later, by the 30th years of the last century. Why such inattention? Most likely, the matter is in the extremely sour taste of the berry, and even in the thorns of the bush - it was difficult to collect the berries, and the cut branches were more often used to strengthen the fences.

All this in the past, today the magic properties of sea buckthorn are appreciated by the dignity of both doctors and pharmacists and folk healers. It is enough to list the useful substances contained in the berry. In it at times more than in any product of vegetable origin, contains vitamins C, K, B1, B2, B6, vitamin P deficient, responsible for vascular health. In addition, in the berries in excess are useful micronutrients - zinc, magnesium, manganese, titanium and others. Priceless organic acids, beta-carotene, serotonin, pectin - a unique list can continue and continue.

And now more about what is useful for sea buckthorn. Planting and nursing, cultivation of this shrub allow today to collect berries on an industrial scale. And even 20-30 years ago to get sea buckthorn oil in a pharmacy was almost impossible. There was a real boom in the popularity of this drug, because everyone suddenly found out: the sea buckthorn oil can heal the stomach and duodenal ulcer, heal any wounds, burns, pressure sores. In gynecology tampons with sea buckthorn oil were treated with cervical erosion, in urology they used it to treat kidneys, to restore potency in men, and in the treatment of cardiovascular diseases it was successfully used in the fight against atherosclerosis. In cosmetology, it was an invaluable tool against skin inflammation, for rejuvenating the face and the whole body, to treat hair loss. The most surprising and pleasant thing is that all this information was not intended, it was confirmed in practice.

Why is this said in the past tense? Not at all because the orange berry did not live up to expectations. Just against the background of numerous new products, food additives, essential oils and other pharmaceutical wealth, the modest, growing in all ravines of sea-buckthorn, has been lost. Planting and nursing, further cultivation, the breeding of new large varieties continues, and the results are evident. It is already possible to meet fruiting shrubs on private farmsteads, in orchards, planned for all the requirements of landscape design. And why not: sorts are produced practically without spines, not giving root shoots and not littering the whole territory. So, who did not have time, he was not late: the next planting of trees in the autumn, perhaps, will allow to find a place for a beautiful and useful shrub. And there will always be a sea-buckthorn jam on the table, and in the house they will forget about hypertension, and on the shelf there will always be a bottle of priceless orange oil. And there will be no problems with any sores.