Chokeberry Aronia

Chokeberry Aronia

Many years gustovetvisty deciduous shrub up to 2.5 m leaves are alternating obovate or elliptic with serrated edges. The flowers are white, sometimes pink and clustered in dense corymbose inflorescences.

The fruits yagodovidnye round or spherical in shape is with 8 dark brown seeds, black or black and purple, with a slight bloom, gathered in clusters. Aronia Blossoms in June and July, the fruits ripen in August - September.

Chokeberry Aronia berries palatable, contain carbohydrates, a group of flavonoids that have P-vitamin, ascorbic acid, organic acid, tannin, manganese, molybdenum, copper, boron, iodine, magnesium, and iron.

Of chokeberry Aronia berries are prepared juices, jam, jams, jellies, soft drinks, from the obtained juice bioactive food colorant used in the confectionery industry.

For the preparation of fruit juice washed pour water (based on 100 g of water per 1 kg of fruit) was heated to 60° C and stirring constantly kept at this temperature until an hour until berries are soft. Then run them through a meat grinder or mash wooden pestle, weight drained.

Therapeutic use of chokeberry Aronia

* In atherosclerosis and hypertension to simultaneously take chokeberry Aronia rosehips or blackberries are rich in vitamin C, which promotes better absorption of vitamin P.

It should be remembered that the hypertension drug chokeberry Aronia can produce side effects, so a doctor's advice is needed;

* Fresh fruits chokeberry for the prevention and treatment of vascular diseases take 3 times a day with 50-100 g.

* Berries and black chokeberry juice lodnoy effective in the treatment of hemorrhagic diathesis disease with increased fragility and permeability of the vascular wall (allergic vasculitis, scarlet fever, measles, capillary-toxicosis, eczema, dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, bleeding from different backgrounds).

* When gastric diseases and fruit juice from Aronia chokeberry increase the acidity and stimulate the action of gastric juice, their use in the treatment of gastritis with low acidity of gastric juice.

* Under the influence of fruit juice and chokeberry Aronia balanced excitation and inhibition in the brain, reduced emotional imbalance.

* In chokeberry Aronia berries are a large amount of iodine, so they are recommended for diseases of the thyroid gland (in the adjuvant therapy in the treatment of hyperthyroidism and Graves' disease) and radiation sickness.

* Chokeberry Aronia Berries - effective cholagogue, leaves and improve liver, promote the formation and release of bile.

* Due to the high content of anthocyanins chokeberry Aronia useful in the diet cancer patients.

* Water extract (no sugar) for diabetes patients: 1 tablespoon chopped dried fruit pour 1 cup of boiled water for 30 minutes and filtered. Take 2-3 tablespoons 3 times a day. Insist stored in a cool place.

WARNING!!!

• Aronia Aronia (chokeberry) contains a lot of ascorbic acid. Therefore, patients with hypertension and angina should not use it in large quantities. Overdose leads to increased blood clotting and threatens the formation of blood clots.

• Do not abuse the aronia berries and a tendency to thrombophlebitis.

• In gastritis with high acidity, duodenal ulcer and stomach, with increased blood clotting chokeberry Aronia not be used.