Why is cloudberry useful?

This is a short shrub plant, which can reach a height of 35 cm. Fruits are amber berries that look like raspberries. More often, cloudberry is common in the Far Eastern region, in the Arctic zone of Russia, in the tundra and in Siberia, and it can often be found in the swampy terrain of the Polesie forests of Belarus.

The harvest season is August-September. They can be consumed both fresh and prepared from them jams, jam, jam, compotes. In the North, one of the popular dishes from cloudberry is cloudberry, which retains all its useful qualities.

By the way, jam from this berry is also worth its weight in gold - a 100-gram jar of jam is equivalent to a basket of fresh berries!

Moroshka gives strength to the weak, prolongs life. It is well known that the last desire of the famous poet Pushkin was to eat cloudberries, which he loves since childhood.

Why is cloudberry useful and what are its useful properties?

The benefits of these amber berries are huge. Yes there to say - in one berry contains a whole treasure of vitamins, minerals, trace elements and amino acids. It is rich in vitamin A, E, PP, B1, B3. The milk powder is supersaturated with vitamin C, which is 6 times more in it than in sauerkraut. Bright orange cloudberry is appreciated by vitamin A , which is three times more than in carrots.

Useful properties in cloudberries inexhaustible set. About what kind of disease you would not have thought - cloudberries on the bungled organ will have a curative effect.

  1. For patients with scurvy, this miracle-berry is the best folk remedy - and this is not the most important advantage of cloudberry.
  2. When scabies skin is lubricated with juice from berries - and the infection passes in a few days.
  3. So, with skin diseases, this royal berry acts as the number one physician. And is cloudberry useful, for example, in the season of the flu epidemic? With flu and cold, it will have an anti-inflammatory effect, relieve fever and strengthen the immune system. It will help in a season of flu jam from cloudberry, the useful properties of which do not differ from the benefits of fresh berries.
  4. Morozhka is priceless in burns and wounds. For example, the Nenets and the population of Siberia are convinced that the beneficial properties of the northern cloudberry leaves are in the removal of pus from the wounds, the immediate healing of post-burn scars. You just need to apply to the site of the affected area of ​​the skin a cloudberry leaf and change it every 2-3 hours.
  5. Potassium, which this berry generously, will strengthen the heart muscle and generally protect against cardiovascular diseases.
  6. Has an excellent diuretic effect, relieves swelling. In connection with this fact, cloudberry is perfect for pregnant women. Plus, this will be the presence of tocopherols (more simply, vitamin E), which will support the body of the future mother and ensure the birth of a healthy baby.
  7. Has antimicrobial (anti-inflammatory) and diaphoretic action. The berries contain vitamin C (ascorbic acid), which prevents the penetration of viruses into the human body.
  8. Astringent property. Moroshka will give a helping hand in the disorder of the stool and food poisoning.

Whose cloudberry will have the opposite effect?

There is a category of people who do not benefit from the use of berries. So, cloudberry is forbidden to eat those who suffer from high acidity of the stomach, colitis, enteritis, gastritis, stomach ulcer and duodenal ulcer.

Nevertheless, cloudberry is one of the miraculous berries in the pantry of nature, and stands in line with cranberries and cowberries.