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Bright brushes of Rowan red decorate the Russian autumn. The plant is famous not only for its beauty, but also for its healing abilities. Rowan black-fruited, relatively recently appeared in summer cottages, ripens a little earlier, giving people its edible and healing fruits
Rowan or Black chokeberry
Although Rowan chokeberry was grown in gardens back in the Eighteenth century, and it gained fame as a food and healing representative of the plant world in the first half of the Nineteenth century, in Russia it owes its popularity to I. V. Michurin, who advised the Altai researchers of gardening to take a closer look and study this plant better. Little by little, Aronia black-fruited began to move to summer cottages, becoming their adornment and giving healing black fruits.
The natural range of Aronia aronia is in North America, where it is found in the vast territory of the northeastern part of the mainland. The multi-stemmed shrub can grow in a wide variety of conditions, ranging from swampy margins and low-lying wetlands to rocky dry mountain slopes.
In contrast to the picturesque carved leaves of the Red Rowan, the Aronia chokeberry leaves are simple and solid, the mischievous look of which is given by a sharp nose and a fine-toothed edge of the leaf plate. White or pinkish flowers cannot boast of their size, but, forming corymbose inflorescences, they look quite impressive on the branches of a bush. The fruit cluster appetizingly attracts the eye with its rounded juicy berries with a black surface, on which there is a slight ash coating, similar to the one that covers the grape clusters and promotes fermentation. A rather unpretentious fast-growing plant does not like shaded places, prefers fertile soils and requires attention to thinning the root growth.
The collection of healing fruits is carried out at their full maturity, which happens in September. The harvest is kept fresh (up to two months), dried or frozen. The sorbitol contained in the berries makes them attractive for patients with diabetes mellitus, liver disease and excessive obesity. If desired, and in the absence of a negative attitude to sugar from berries, you can prepare jams, compotes, syrups and alcoholic tinctures.
Fresh berries and juice from them help to improve appetite, are useful for hypertension, low acidity of gastric juice.
Rowan red or ordinary
At the heart of the generic Latin name of Rowan - "Sorbus" - is the Celtic word "sar", meaning "tart". Anyone who has tried the orange-red Rowan berries understands the meaning of this name. The astringency of rowan berries is combined with their healing abilities used by traditional healers and official medicine.
The thin-stemmed beauty of the Rowan tree, although it loses its pinnately dissected spectacular leaves for the winter period, is a decoration of the garden all year round. In spring, it is adorned with a lush green crown of picturesque leaves. Then, corymbose inflorescences are added to the leaves, collected from small and fragrant white-cream flowers that turn into green berries after pollination by hardworking insects. Ripening, the tart berries turn the inflorescences into coral-red clusters that hold firmly on the branches almost until spring, periodically hiding under snow caps. Rowan grows up quickly, giving a crop already in the fourth or fifth year of life, if it grows in a place open to sunlight.
If official medicine uses only rowan berries as a multivitamin, then traditional healers find more widespread use of the plant. To make healing infusions, they harvest young leaves in the spring, pluck the inflorescences during the period of mass flowering, and collect scarlet bunches of berries in the fall.
Infusions from prepared raw materials are used as an antimicrobial, hemostatic, anti-inflammatory, choleretic and diuretic, mild laxative and anti-sclerotic agent.
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