National pharmacy: how to make oil from sea-buckthorn

If you decide on a united family effortto collect a cunningly growing berry, undergo a complicated procedure of obtaining juice and harvesting it for the winter, it is simply a sin to stop at what has been achieved. Half of the natural pharmacy is still unused. Sincerely recommend, spend some more of your precious time and make home-made sea buckthorn oil. It is stored for a long time, but can be useful at any time.

In what cases is sea buckthorn oil used?

Do not bother you with medical terms, but just recall those typical cases of using an oily extract of miracle-berries, which are known since ancient times.

• wound healing: even with suppurative inflammations, the bactericidal properties of sea buckthorn oil make it possible, with simple compressive application, not only to speed up the process, but also to make it less painful;


• burns: surprisingly, not only folk medicine, but also official pharmacology recognize this amazing oily liquid as an amazing property of restoring burns to the skin;


• circulatory system: regular ingestion of small doses (one to two teaspoons a day for 2 weeks) stabilizes blood pressure, helps lower cholesterol and improve blood flow; gastritis,


• stomach ulcer: this case is not so obvious and requires obligatory consultation with a doctor; The berries of sea buckthorn contain a large number of acids and if mistakes are made in the home cooking of oil or the wrong dosage, the effect can be directly opposite;


• stomatitis, tonsillitis, runny nose: in children's cases, too, do not do without medical advice, but to remove the most acute symptoms of the disease in adults, sea buckthorn oil will help;


• restorative and restorative effect: this is just the case when you can get a whole complex of positive changes in your almost healthy body, both at the expense of the external, and in the case of domestic consumption of sea buckthorn oil;


• strengthening of hair in women, increasing potency in men, stabilizing the work of the heart and liver, etc. - that's far from a complete set of medicinal properties of berries from your summer residence.

The recipe for cooking sea buckthorn oil at home

At first glance, it is quite simple. However, it should be recognized that the process itself requires attention and accuracy.

1. The mash of berries obtained after pressing (by hand or using an electric juicer) must be dried. Ways of drying are suitable any, if only there was a result. The cake can be spread out on trays lined with paper and placed in a dry, darkened and well ventilated room, for example, in an attic. The variant most sparing from the point of view of preservation of useful properties of a skin and seeds of a berry. You can use an intensive method - drying in the oven at a temperature of 50-70oC or in a horizontal electric dryer.

2. The dried squeezes should be crushed, as they say, "into dust", i.e. try to turn the semi-finished product into small-fraction crumb. Of all household appliances, an ordinary coffee grinder is ideal. Although, with a pestle in a mortar - this is also entertaining. 3. The ground dry sea buckthorn powder is placed in a glass jar of the desired size, preferably from a dark glass, and poured with any refined vegetable oil heated to a temperature of 45 ° C. Ideally - olive, but the most simple sunflower will do. The level is 1-2 cm above the layer of sea-buckthorn.

4. The dishes are tightly closed and placed in a dark, dry place, but you can not forget about it. The process of extracting microelements from the medicinal berry requires constant attention. The contents of the jar should be mixed regularly for 7-10 days.

5. The present mixture is filtered, squeezed through gauze and the first fraction of homemade sea-buckthorn oil is ready. If you want to increase the concentration of useful micronutrients in the finished product, use the resulting oil to fill a new batch of cake in the second or third time. This will increase the concentration of sea-buckthorn extract from 15 to 50%. Now it remains to give the oily liquid to stand, to get rid of the sediment, pour over the prepared vials and hide in the refrigerator. A universal medicine for all diseases in your family is now plenty.

Author: Katerina Sergeenko