HEALING POWER OF ROSE PETALS

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Healing power of Roses, fresh rose petals kill bacteria

 

 

 

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Healing power of rose treats most dangerous diseases 10/25/2004 13:35

 

Bacteria die within five minutes when contacted with fresh rose

petals

 

Rose is an astonishingly beautiful flower which is why it is

poetized and immortalized in legends. Long ago, the first rose was

raised from an ordinary dog-rose; some unknown gardener did it about

four thousand years ago.

 

Ancient doctors used rose water to treat upset nerves, fumed

patients suffering from lungs diseases with rose incense and gave

extracts of rose petals to patients suffering from heart and kidney

diseases.

 

Attar of roses is the basic medical component of roses; it

stimulates and harmonizes people's immune and nervous systems. It

also improves activity of endocrine glands, removes sclerous

disorders in organs and revives cells. Attar of roses is good for

digestive tract as it heals mucous membranes, fights disbacteriosis

and fermentative deficiency in stomach and intestine.

 

Rose petals contain vitamin C, carotene, B group vitamins and

vitamin K that is essential for haemopoesis. Almost all mineral

substances of Mendeleyev's periodic table can be found in rose

petals. They contain calcium that influences metabolism and

assimilation of foodstuffs; also potassium which is important for

normal heart activity, copper that participates in haemopoesis and

improves activity of endocrine glands; iodine that is good for

thyroid gland can be also found in rose petals. The list of rose's

virtues is long enough which allows to call rise a universal natural

medicine.

 

It is recommended to collect rose petals early in the morning when

the air is clean and humid, better after rain or abundant dew.

Blossomed out but not fading roses will do for collection of petals.

When collected, rose petals should be immediately dried or used for

treatment without washing to preserve their health-giving

components. Collected rose petals may be used for making extracts,

decoctions, rose water or attar of roses.

 

Bacteria die within five minutes when contacted with fresh rose

petals which makes rose a perfect medicine for fighting skin

diseases. Fresh rose petals will help cure festering wounds and

burns; they may also alleviate allergic itching.

 

Powder of dried rose petals mixed with honey is an effective

medicine against mouth inflammations, stomatitis and paradontose.

The mixture should be rubbed into inflamed gums. Headaches, sickness

and weakness can be cured with inhalation of roses and attar of

roses. Rose inhalations are also recommended to people with poor

nervous system, liable to neurosis and depressions. Put a bowl with

hot water and rose petals in the room in case you suffer from

nervous diseases, cold in the head, cough and flu.

 

Attar of roses perfectly tones up the cardiac muscle that is why

doctors prescribe rose inhalations for stenocardia treatment. Bath

with rose petals is a perfect remedy against nervous diseases: it

tones up, rejuvenates, relieves anxiety and purifies skin. Pour

boiling water over half a glass of rose petals and infuse in a

closed bowl to preserve attar of roses. Pour the infusion and the

petals into the bath; the infusion's healing power will be stronger

if beetroot juice is added to this bath. Never throw faded rose

bunches away and make curative baths of them.

 

Spraying with rose water is recommended for treatment of many

diseases. Pour a glass of boiling water over 10g of rose petals and

infuse in a covered bowl. Everyday spraying within two weeks is

recommended to people suffering from nervous disorders. In this

case, spraying with warm rose water should be done on the upper

third of the back. Spraying with rose water is good for healthy

people as well to strengthen the nervous system and immunity. Apply

rose water to skin and slightly rub. Warm rose water bath for feet

helps cure rheumatism; hot compress with rose water applied to

sacrum is good against radiculitis. Wrap a bad-sheet wetted with

rose water round the body to tone up the organism after a surgical

operation. Then muffle up with a dry bed-sheet and a blanket.

 

Tea made of rose petals (a tea-spoon of dried rose petals per a

glass of boiling water) is good against cold, pharyngitis,

bronchitis and various neuroses; it is a vitaminous drink as well.

Rose petal jam is a wonderful natural medicine especially in cold

weather.

 

If rose therapy is not available you may use dog-rose as its

characteristics are the same as of roses. Hips are to be collected

within the period of late August to October when they are still

hard. Green hips will not do for drying as they contain fewer

vitamins.

Fresh hips should be dried in the shade away from direct sunrays.

Better use a special dryer or an oven (at temperature of 80-100

degrees centigrade).

 

The content of ascorbic acid in hips is ten times more than in

blackcurrant, 50 times more than in lemon and 100 times more than in

apples. At that, the supply of vitamin C depends upon the area of

dog-rose vegetation. Hips collected in the north contain more

vitamin C than hips collected in the south. Hips grown in the

mountains or sunlit places contain more ascorbic acid than those

grown in plains or shaded areas.

 

Dog-rose is called a natural concentrate of vitamins: besides

vitamin C it contains vitamins B1, B2, P, K and carotene. That is

why hips extracts, decoctions and syrup are perfect medicine and

prophylactic against beri-beri and hypovitaminosis. To make hips

extracts and infusions even more effective add some honey or lemon

juice before

drinking. This is a unique medicine against cold, flu, chronic

bronchitis, lungs diseases, stomach and duodenum ulcer and others.

If mixed with carrot juice, hips extract will contain almost all

vitamins and minerals that people need.

 

To make a healing beverage against cold, flu and bronchitis mix two

portions of dried hips with one portion of dried nettle leaves.

Drink half a glass of the beverage twice a day with honey.

 

Hips are perfect surrogate of coffee: they are as aromatic and tasty

as coffee beans. Grind a tea-spoon of dried and fried hips and pour

a glass of boiling water over the powder. Let it brew for some time,

then drink with some milk and sugar.