What are pine cones for?To spread the seed? Not only for these purposes. It turns out that they can be used for a different purpose. Almost everyone knows that walking in a pine forest is very useful, but not everyone knows why. And as for the benefits of pine honey, hardly anyone thought about it. From this article you can learn about the useful properties of pine cones and shoots, as well as useful honey from pine cones, recipes for its preparation.
Pine cones are a highly effective remedyfrom cough, so delicious, sweet, healing honey from pine buds (a step-by-step recipe is presented below) will be enjoyed even by toddlers. It has not only expectorant, but also immunomodulating, diaphoretic properties. On its basis make various tinctures and decoctions for ingestion, compresses and external grindings.
In the oleoresin, cones, buds and needles is containeda lot of useful substances: ascorbic acid, panipicrin, tannins, resins, essential oils and many others. This helps them to use in the treatment of colds, rheumatism, gout and a number of others.
There are many recipes for honey from pine cones, but they all have medicinal properties and are used in folk medicine under such circumstances:
Green pine cones are, first of all,source of iron and many other useful elements. They contain oleic and linolenic acids, bioflavonoids, tannins, lipids, monoterpene hydrocarbons and many other nutrients and nutrients.
Хвоя и почки сосны также в себе содержат массу useful elements. In pine buds contains a large number of tannic elements, essential oils and all sorts of vitamins. In needles - vitamin C, ascorbic acid, carotene, tar. Thanks to these components, cones have received wide application in the treatment of many diseases. But for this it is necessary to collect young and quite green cones.
In this case, remember that you need to collectunopened pine cones. The time of collection may be somewhat different, it all depends on climatic conditions. In our country, they can be collected from 21 to 25 June. In this case, the cones in width should be of the order of 4 cm.
In the process of collecting young cones must be givenspecial attention to the condition of the tree on which they grow and the appearance of the shoot. In trees affected by insects, it is desirable not to collect cones. Tree and cones should look beautiful, without any traces of decay and not eaten by insects.
This is not just honey in the full sense of the word,It is a medicinal product that perfectly helps against polyarthritis. It would be great to stock them for a whole year, because it is beautifully stored in the refrigerator. You can prepare such honey in several ways.
Ingredients:
Pine honey recipe
Cones need to be well washed and dunk onday in cold water. Mix sugar with water and boil syrup. Then cones are added to the hot syrup, and everything is boiled with constant stirring until they unfold. It is not necessary to remove the black scale formed during the cooking process. If the honey is too thick, it can be diluted with boiled water. The finished product has a pleasant taste, has a dark brown shade.
Young pine cones (1 can of 0.5 l) sizeabout the walnut hazelnuts are poured with cold water and boiled for 15-20 minutes so that they become soft and do not boil soft. Remove the bumps with the help of a skimmer and shift into a pre-prepared syrup (2 tbsp of water, 1 kg of sugar) and boil for about 20-25 minutes.
Pine honey recipe can be prepared even soin a way. Young pine cones need to be washed, tear off the roots, cut into quarters or in half, depending on the size, after which everything is filled with sugar in a 1: 1 ratio. Then it is infused for 24 hours, the cones are allowed to drink juice, and then they are boiled for about 30-40 minutes, after which they are rolled into jars.
Introducing another recipe for pine honey. Have to take:
Honey needs fresh buds, still green.Collected shoots need to sort out, rinse and pour water so that it covers them for about 1-2 cm. Then boil with the lid closed for 20 minutes, then the broth should be brewed for about a day.
The next day, pour the infusion into anothercapacity, add sugar in the ratio of 1 kg of sugar per 1 liter of infusion, and then cook, as usual jam. Do not forget to remove the foam during cooking. Boil need at least 1.5 hours. The composition should turn out to be crimson in color, which should be poured into heated jars and tightly closed with lids. To avoid sugar, you can add citric acid to honey (1 partial teaspoon).
Consider another recipe for pine honey.Young cones collected from June 21 to 25 fit into a transparent container, tightly poured with sugar (1 kg per 1 can of 3 liters). The neck of the container is covered with gauze, and the bank is placed under direct sunlight (for example, on a window sill) for the period from September 21 to 24. If mold suddenly appears on the surface of the cones, then these fruits should be thrown out, and those that are located under a layer of liquid should be sprinkled with a layer of sugar.
The resulting honey elixir is neededPour into a container, close tightly with a lid and put in a cool and preferably dark place. The shelf life of this honey is 1 year. It can be added to tea. In order to prevent it, it is consumed 20 minutes before breakfast and before bedtime, 1 tablespoon.
As a rule, pine pollen is applied with honey. In pulmonary tuberculosis, such a composition as milk and pine pollen with honey is very useful. The recipe is the following.
Pine pollen (1 teaspoon) is pounded in a mortar and poured into hot milk, and then honey is added (1 teaspoon).
In prostate adenoma, prostatitis, the use of pollen with honey helps to improve blood flow and reduce swelling in the tissues of the prostate. Consider the recipes for making pine pollen with honey.
The most succulent shoots in length may not bemore than 12 cm. With longer shoots, it is already possible to collect significantly less juice. In order not to damage the tree, it is not necessary to collect branches from one side only, you should choose the most succulent and from different trees.
But how can you make honey from pine shoots (recipe):
Preparation:
Despite the beneficial properties of pine honey,This product has contraindications. The treatment of cones in the first place should be carefully treated to people suffering from kidney disease. In acute hepatitis, there are also contraindications. With great care should be used honey and tincture of pine cones for the elderly and pregnant women. In addition, honey from the cones can cause allergic reactions in children.
The main thing - to remember that the drugs in the compositionwhich pine cones enter, it is impossible to use in large quantities as it can provoke not only headaches, but also inflammatory processes in a stomach.
