ARTICLE CATALOG - ROSEHIP IN MEDICINE AND MAGIC
Rosehip in Medicine and Magic
Rosehip
Rosehip - a wild-growing plant of the Rosaceae family. The cultivated form is also the well-known queen of flowers, the Rose.
A thorny shrub up to 5 meters high, with pale pink (usually) flowers and useful, rich in carotene, fruits that ripen in October. These fruits are used for food both fresh and as a basis for healing teas and infusions, juices, and syrups. In Slovakia, a popular non-alcoholic beverage based on rosehip fruits is called Cockta.
They are also beneficial and rich in vitamin C. They also contain rutin, vitamins B1, B, K, carotene, and vitamin E in the seeds.
Rosehips contain approximately 10 times more ascorbic acid than black currants and 50 times more than lemons. Rosehip fruits have phytoncidal and potent bactericidal properties. They contain a large number of antioxidants.
Jam is made from rosehip petals, they are used in the essential oil industry, in the production of liqueurs and strong alcoholic infusions.
Ancient Romans considered rosehips a symbol of morality, while Greeks associated them with joy, love, and merriment.
Traditional medicine
In the 17th century in Russia, special expeditions were organized to the Orenburg steppes to harvest rosehip fruits, which were used as a means of healing wounds. The edges of the wounds were washed to avoid gangrene.
Oil extract and rosehip oil are used externally for trophic ulcers, certain skin diseases, and mucous membranes.
A medicinal preparation called Holosas, a cholagogue and general tonic, is made from a concentrated aqueous extract of rosehip fruits.
Recipe
For prostate adenoma:
Regularly drink a warm decoction of cinnamon rosehip fruits. Preparation: finely grind dried fruits, take 5-6 g of the raw material, pour the powder into an enameled dish, add 200 ml of boiling water, and keep on a boiling water bath for about 15 minutes, then quickly cool the remedy, strain through a layer of cheesecloth. Drink 2-3 glasses a day. The remedy has a strong anti-inflammatory effect and enhances the body's resistance.
You can also make an infusion - infuse cinnamon rosehip fruits in white dry wine in a 1:20 ratio and drink 1/3 of a glass once a day for a year. This remedy shows effective anti-inflammatory effects.
In case of an allergy:
1. Rosehip fruits, dandelion roots - in equal parts. Infusion: pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture with 1 glass of cold water, let it infuse for 8 hours, strain. Drink in 3 doses before meals throughout the day. Allergy symptoms will start disappearing with a strong itch, these areas should be treated with "Menovazin" liquid. Course: 1 month. Continue treatment if necessary (up to 3 months)
2. Rosehip fruits - 70 g, dandelion roots - 40 g, St. John's Wort herb - 30 g, horsetail herb - 10 g, corn stigmas - 10 g. Infusion: pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture with 0.5 liters of boiling water, let it infuse for 30 minutes, strain. Take half a glass 30 minutes before meals 3 times a day. Course: 1 month.
3. For stimulating kidney and adrenal function - stinging nettle, elecampane root, rosehip fruits, parsley, pine bark, grape seeds, cranberry fruits, peanut husk - in equal parts. Infusion: pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture with 2 glasses of boiling water, let it infuse for 25-30 minutes, strain. Drink 100-200 ml before meals. Course: 2-3 months
Cosmetology:
Even the beautiful Cleopatra helped enhance her beauty with a cream made from crushed rosehip petals and aloe powder. Rosehip adds a touch of exhilarating happiness to the cream, coloring the woman with not only the beneficial natural components of this cosmetic product but also a note of excitement.
In the petals of flowers and fruits, the good magic of the rosehip is concentrated.
Beauty recipes:
Masks for oily skin:
Herb mixture mask
Mix 2 tablespoons of dried sage, 1 tablespoon of rosehip fruits, and 0.5 tablespoons of dried mint, grind in a mortar or coffee grinder. Put the herbal mixture in a thermos, pour 300 ml of boiling water and infuse for 30 minutes. Then strain the infusion, apply the warm herbal mass to the face for 20 minutes, then rinse with water and rinse the face with an herbal infusion.
This mask effectively tightens pores, softens, and soothes the skin.
Magic:
GENERAL INFORMATION
FOLK NAMES - wild rose
AURA - cold
PLANET - Venus
ELEMENT - water
DEITIES - Venus, Isis, Eros, Cupid, Adonis
FLORAL LANGUAGE - love
KEYWORDS - love, fertility, protection
MAIN PROPERTIES - love, spiritual strength, healing, love divination, luck, protection
Rosehip carries love, peace, happiness, heals heart diseases, symbolizes abundance, success, and health.
There is an old English saying - a branch of white rosehip can ignite the love of a queen for a squire and a king for a shepherdess.
Rosehip is recognized in many magical traditions as a plant that embodies the depth and tenderness of heartfelt emotions, erasing all constraints and boundaries in their path, whether they be social-hierarchical barriers, differences in material wealth, distance, age - anything. Rosehip is tolerant and cosmopolitan in love. Even if fleeting and momentary, the impossible becomes possible. Unlike the straightforward sexual impact of other more direct plants and herbs in matters of love, rosehip is more responsible for the emotional sphere of love, for tenderness, emotional trembling, the union of souls, rather than bodies. It is not only a bright unclouded stream of eternal harmony; it also embodies the emotional passions and experiences inherent in our hearts when we are in love. After all, even the beautiful delicate flowers of the rosehip bloom on branches with sharp thorns. In the trials of love, the rosehip sees the natural state of the soul, necessary for purification and progression.
A branch of a blooming rosehip picked by you and gifted to a loved one will not only convey all the strength of your love but also serve as a good barometer of the sincerity of the reciprocated feelings - if the gifted flowers leave them indifferent, perhaps their feelings are not as deep as you thought.
And when blood is "mixed" on a rosehip branch, scratched by its thorns, between them may arise a fatal, fateful passion.
Rosehip fruits are a very common and important ingredient in a "love potion."
Like all prickly plants, rosehip is capable of protecting and shielding, neutralizing harm. If you gather dry rosehip branches in November during the full moon, they will protect you from evil dark forces, serving as your weapon against energy vampires. If you are forced to interact with such individuals, surround yourself with floral compositions containing dry rosehip branches, hawthorn berries, reed or a pine twig - and you will not feel like a squeezed lemon after the encounter.
To maintain tender affection, to avoid getting bored in a long-lasting family union, to prevent routine from engulfing your feelings for each other, brew tea from rosehip petals more often, make infusions from the berries. All of this will help you preserve your emotional warmth for a long time.
And if you feel the desire to revive the passion of the very first days of your love - bring your loved one a branch of blooming rosehip.
It is very important to pick flowers or berries with your own hands. Pre-made tea from a bright box or dried berries bought at the market will not bring the desired result.
It is believed that rosehip grows at the "crossroads of worlds," at the border of its own and others'.
In Macedonia, rosehip was considered a divine plant, offerings were brought to the bush growing at the crossroads to appease malevolent spirits - female demons.
Slavs believed that illnesses lived under the rosehip bush, it was avoided to sit under it, falling asleep was considered dangerous, and people tried not to cut it unless necessary. When taking a branch from the plant - which was often used in wedding rituals, making them into a handle for the wedding flag and creating wreaths - offerings were left under the bush - bread, nuts, wine.
In Bulgaria and Macedonia, there was a saying about a suddenly ill person "Go under the rosehip bush."
In western Bulgaria, a rosehip branch was used to measure the deceased, the measurement was thrown into the grave and buried, thorns were pricked into the heel or abdomen - all to prevent the deceased from turning into a vampire.
A rosehip branch was placed near the grave of a vampire, and its thorns, clinging to the shroud, would prevent it from leaving the grave.
Rosehip protected newlyweds from harmful forces. In Croatia, three thorns of Rosehip were pinned to the groom's cap, which protected him from the evil eye, and after the wedding, the bride tossed her veil onto a rosehip bush, bowing to it nine times.
In Serbia, to protect a child from evil forces, rosehip fruit was sewn into their clothing or placed nearby. In Bulgaria, it was forbidden to dry a newborn's swaddling clothes on rosehip bushes to prevent the samodivas, who lived under them, from harming the child.
In Croatia, rosehip was kept in the house to prevent the plague from entering.
On St. George's Day – among the Serbs and Croats, or on the eve of St. Philip and James' Day – among the Czechs, it was customary to stick rosehip branches in front of the stable to ward off witches and prevent them from stealing milk from the cows.
It was also believed that rosehip protects against snake bites, both for humans and animals. For example, the Poles would fumigate their livestock and shepherds with smoke from rosehip before driving them to pasture.
In Slovakia and Poland, as many rosehip berries were baked into Christmas bread as there were heads of large horned cattle owned by the host: they believed that the animals would not get sick, and the cows would give more milk.
In the Czech Republic, livestock were fed rosehip on Easter.
There is a legend among the Kuban Cossacks about a young girl who, unwilling to marry someone she did not love, stabbed herself with a dagger, and from her blood, a rosehip bush grew. Berries growing on this bush could only be picked by a kind person. If an evil person approached it, the bush would bristle with thorns and not allow a single berry to be picked.
It was customary to "discard" illnesses onto the rosehip bush, pouring water under the bush after treatment. At the same time, rosehip could give health, for which an exchange was made between the sick person and the rosehip bush: the sick person would take a red thread hanging on the rosehip for the night, and would wrap the bush with a yellow thread that hung around their neck for a day, saying, "I give you the yellow thread, and you give me the red thread." The illness would transfer to the rosehip, and the healing power of the rosehip to the sick person.
In Bulgaria, a person with epilepsy would be measured with a rosehip branch, which would then be buried where the seizure occurred. In gratitude, the healer would hang a red thread with coins threaded onto it on the bush and leave bread, wine, oats, and three horseshoes under the bush.
In Serbia, a sick person, to get rid of the disease, would crawl through a split rosehip branch, which would then be tied with a red thread.
Astrology
Floral Horoscope
Rosehip (July 24 - August 2)
It stings. You can't touch it with bare hands. Although, upon closer inspection, the thorns are protection. In our time, one cannot do without it. Rosehip is stubborn and unrestrained, but it has a kind soul, and all its thorns are meant only to protect its trembling and tender, like a flower, heart. It is bold and courageous, sincere and responsive with loved ones, and ready to fight to the death to defend its principles.
Dream Interpretation
To see rosehip in a dream - signifies danger
To push through a bush of rosehip in a dream - a sign that your feelings may be deceptive
To prick oneself with rosehip thorns - endure mockery and ridicule
To collect rosehip - unpleasant encounters await you
To drink rosehip juice - you are seeking sympathy and compassion.
Rosehip in Medicine and Magic
Rosehip
Rosehip - a wild-growing plant of the Rosaceae family. The cultivated form is also the well-known queen of flowers, the Rose.
A thorny shrub up to 5 meters high, with pale pink (usually) flowers and useful, rich in carotene, fruits that ripen in October. These fruits are used for food both fresh and as a basis for healing teas and infusions, juices, and syrups. In Slovakia, a popular non-alcoholic beverage based on rosehip fruits is called Cockta.
They are also beneficial and rich in vitamin C. They also contain rutin, vitamins B1, B, K, carotene, and vitamin E in the seeds.
Rosehips contain approximately 10 times more ascorbic acid than black currants and 50 times more than lemons. Rosehip fruits have phytoncidal and potent bactericidal properties. They contain a large number of antioxidants.
Jam is made from rosehip petals, they are used in the essential oil industry, in the production of liqueurs and strong alcoholic infusions.
Ancient Romans considered rosehips a symbol of morality, while Greeks associated them with joy, love, and merriment.
Traditional medicine
In the 17th century in Russia, special expeditions were organized to the Orenburg steppes to harvest rosehip fruits, which were used as a means of healing wounds. The edges of the wounds were washed to avoid gangrene.
Oil extract and rosehip oil are used externally for trophic ulcers, certain skin diseases, and mucous membranes.
A medicinal preparation called Holosas, a cholagogue and general tonic, is made from a concentrated aqueous extract of rosehip fruits.
Recipe
For prostate adenoma:
Regularly drink a warm decoction of cinnamon rosehip fruits. Preparation: finely grind dried fruits, take 5-6 g of the raw material, pour the powder into an enameled dish, add 200 ml of boiling water, and keep on a boiling water bath for about 15 minutes, then quickly cool the remedy, strain through a layer of cheesecloth. Drink 2-3 glasses a day. The remedy has a strong anti-inflammatory effect and enhances the body's resistance.
You can also make an infusion - infuse cinnamon rosehip fruits in white dry wine in a 1:20 ratio and drink 1/3 of a glass once a day for a year. This remedy shows effective anti-inflammatory effects.
In case of an allergy:
1. Rosehip fruits, dandelion roots - in equal parts. Infusion: pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture with 1 glass of cold water, let it infuse for 8 hours, strain. Drink in 3 doses before meals throughout the day. Allergy symptoms will start disappearing with a strong itch, these areas should be treated with "Menovazin" liquid. Course: 1 month. Continue treatment if necessary (up to 3 months)
2. Rosehip fruits - 70 g, dandelion roots - 40 g, St. John's Wort herb - 30 g, horsetail herb - 10 g, corn stigmas - 10 g. Infusion: pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture with 0.5 liters of boiling water, let it infuse for 30 minutes, strain. Take half a glass 30 minutes before meals 3 times a day. Course: 1 month.
3. For stimulating kidney and adrenal function - stinging nettle, elecampane root, rosehip fruits, parsley, pine bark, grape seeds, cranberry fruits, peanut husk - in equal parts. Infusion: pour 2 tablespoons of the mixture with 2 glasses of boiling water, let it infuse for 25-30 minutes, strain. Drink 100-200 ml before meals. Course: 2-3 months
Cosmetology:
Even the beautiful Cleopatra helped enhance her beauty with a cream made from crushed rosehip petals and aloe powder. Rosehip adds a touch of exhilarating happiness to the cream, coloring the woman with not only the beneficial natural components of this cosmetic product but also a note of excitement.
In the petals of flowers and fruits, the good magic of the rosehip is concentrated.
Beauty recipes:
Masks for oily skin:
Herb mixture mask
Mix 2 tablespoons of dried sage, 1 tablespoon of rosehip fruits, and 0.5 tablespoons of dried mint, grind in a mortar or coffee grinder. Put the herbal mixture in a thermos, pour 300 ml of boiling water and infuse for 30 minutes. Then strain the infusion, apply the warm herbal mass to the face for 20 minutes, then rinse with water and rinse the face with an herbal infusion.
This mask effectively tightens pores, softens, and soothes the skin.
Magic:
GENERAL INFORMATION
FOLK NAMES - wild rose
AURA - cold
PLANET - Venus
ELEMENT - water
DEITIES - Venus, Isis, Eros, Cupid, Adonis
FLORAL LANGUAGE - love
KEYWORDS - love, fertility, protection
MAIN PROPERTIES - love, spiritual strength, healing, love divination, luck, protection
Rosehip carries love, peace, happiness, heals heart diseases, symbolizes abundance, success, and health.
There is an old English saying - a branch of white rosehip can ignite the love of a queen for a squire and a king for a shepherdess.
Rosehip is recognized in many magical traditions as a plant that embodies the depth and tenderness of heartfelt emotions, erasing all constraints and boundaries in their path, whether they be social-hierarchical barriers, differences in material wealth, distance, age - anything. Rosehip is tolerant and cosmopolitan in love. Even if fleeting and momentary, the impossible becomes possible. Unlike the straightforward sexual impact of other more direct plants and herbs in matters of love, rosehip is more responsible for the emotional sphere of love, for tenderness, emotional trembling, the union of souls, rather than bodies. It is not only a bright unclouded stream of eternal harmony; it also embodies the emotional passions and experiences inherent in our hearts when we are in love. After all, even the beautiful delicate flowers of the rosehip bloom on branches with sharp thorns. In the trials of love, the rosehip sees the natural state of the soul, necessary for purification and progression.
A branch of a blooming rosehip picked by you and gifted to a loved one will not only convey all the strength of your love but also serve as a good barometer of the sincerity of the reciprocated feelings - if the gifted flowers leave them indifferent, perhaps their feelings are not as deep as you thought.
And when blood is "mixed" on a rosehip branch, scratched by its thorns, between them may arise a fatal, fateful passion.
Rosehip fruits are a very common and important ingredient in a "love potion."
Like all prickly plants, rosehip is capable of protecting and shielding, neutralizing harm. If you gather dry rosehip branches in November during the full moon, they will protect you from evil dark forces, serving as your weapon against energy vampires. If you are forced to interact with such individuals, surround yourself with floral compositions containing dry rosehip branches, hawthorn berries, reed or a pine twig - and you will not feel like a squeezed lemon after the encounter.
To maintain tender affection, to avoid getting bored in a long-lasting family union, to prevent routine from engulfing your feelings for each other, brew tea from rosehip petals more often, make infusions from the berries. All of this will help you preserve your emotional warmth for a long time.
And if you feel the desire to revive the passion of the very first days of your love - bring your loved one a branch of blooming rosehip.
It is very important to pick flowers or berries with your own hands. Pre-made tea from a bright box or dried berries bought at the market will not bring the desired result.
It is believed that rosehip grows at the "crossroads of worlds," at the border of its own and others'.
In Macedonia, rosehip was considered a divine plant, offerings were brought to the bush growing at the crossroads to appease malevolent spirits - female demons.
Slavs believed that illnesses lived under the rosehip bush, it was avoided to sit under it, falling asleep was considered dangerous, and people tried not to cut it unless necessary. When taking a branch from the plant - which was often used in wedding rituals, making them into a handle for the wedding flag and creating wreaths - offerings were left under the bush - bread, nuts, wine.
In Bulgaria and Macedonia, there was a saying about a suddenly ill person "Go under the rosehip bush."
In western Bulgaria, a rosehip branch was used to measure the deceased, the measurement was thrown into the grave and buried, thorns were pricked into the heel or abdomen - all to prevent the deceased from turning into a vampire.
A rosehip branch was placed near the grave of a vampire, and its thorns, clinging to the shroud, would prevent it from leaving the grave.
Rosehip protected newlyweds from harmful forces. In Croatia, three thorns of Rosehip were pinned to the groom's cap, which protected him from the evil eye, and after the wedding, the bride tossed her veil onto a rosehip bush, bowing to it nine times.
In Serbia, to protect a child from evil forces, rosehip fruit was sewn into their clothing or placed nearby. In Bulgaria, it was forbidden to dry a newborn's swaddling clothes on rosehip bushes to prevent the samodivas, who lived under them, from harming the child.
In Croatia, rosehip was kept in the house to prevent the plague from entering.
On St. George's Day – among the Serbs and Croats, or on the eve of St. Philip and James' Day – among the Czechs, it was customary to stick rosehip branches in front of the stable to ward off witches and prevent them from stealing milk from the cows.
It was also believed that rosehip protects against snake bites, both for humans and animals. For example, the Poles would fumigate their livestock and shepherds with smoke from rosehip before driving them to pasture.
In Slovakia and Poland, as many rosehip berries were baked into Christmas bread as there were heads of large horned cattle owned by the host: they believed that the animals would not get sick, and the cows would give more milk.
In the Czech Republic, livestock were fed rosehip on Easter.
There is a legend among the Kuban Cossacks about a young girl who, unwilling to marry someone she did not love, stabbed herself with a dagger, and from her blood, a rosehip bush grew. Berries growing on this bush could only be picked by a kind person. If an evil person approached it, the bush would bristle with thorns and not allow a single berry to be picked.
It was customary to "discard" illnesses onto the rosehip bush, pouring water under the bush after treatment. At the same time, rosehip could give health, for which an exchange was made between the sick person and the rosehip bush: the sick person would take a red thread hanging on the rosehip for the night, and would wrap the bush with a yellow thread that hung around their neck for a day, saying, "I give you the yellow thread, and you give me the red thread." The illness would transfer to the rosehip, and the healing power of the rosehip to the sick person.
In Bulgaria, a person with epilepsy would be measured with a rosehip branch, which would then be buried where the seizure occurred. In gratitude, the healer would hang a red thread with coins threaded onto it on the bush and leave bread, wine, oats, and three horseshoes under the bush.
In Serbia, a sick person, to get rid of the disease, would crawl through a split rosehip branch, which would then be tied with a red thread.
Astrology
Floral Horoscope
Rosehip (July 24 - August 2)
It stings. You can't touch it with bare hands. Although, upon closer inspection, the thorns are protection. In our time, one cannot do without it. Rosehip is stubborn and unrestrained, but it has a kind soul, and all its thorns are meant only to protect its trembling and tender, like a flower, heart. It is bold and courageous, sincere and responsive with loved ones, and ready to fight to the death to defend its principles.
Dream Interpretation
To see rosehip in a dream - signifies danger
To push through a bush of rosehip in a dream - a sign that your feelings may be deceptive
To prick oneself with rosehip thorns - endure mockery and ridicule
To collect rosehip - unpleasant encounters await you
To drink rosehip juice - you are seeking sympathy and compassion.
