Rowan ordinary - an extraordinary plant

Rowan is a tree or bush, whose beneficial properties are known to everyone. Although many plant rowan as an ornamental plant, because it looks very beautiful, and especially its ripe red bunches of berries.

Rowan care

There is nothing difficult in leaving:

• it is necessary to regularly remove overgrown at the roots;
• watering;
• fertilize (for this, mineral fertilizers are suitable - phosphorus, nitrogen and potash) - necessarily in the spring and after harvest;
• cut off - in the spring it is necessary to remove broken branches and weak shoots, and make long stems shorter;
• loosening the soil is a must.

The tree can grow up to 20 meters, but its height can be adjusted by spring pruning.

Useful properties and use of rowan ordinary

Ripe rowan fruits are a load of nutrients and vitamins:

• organic acids - tartaric, malic, succinic, citric, sorbic;
• pectin and tannins;
• amino acids;
• essential oils;
• salts - sodium, potassium, calcium, magnesium;
• vitamin C;
• vitamin R.

In scientific medicine, mountain ash is used as a diuretic, multivitamin and hemostatic agent, as well as to normalize metabolism in the body.

In folk medicine, with the help of mountain ash, rheumatism, menstrual irregularities in women, decreased appetite, kidney and digestive tract diseases, diathesis, hemorrhoids are treated.

At home, you can prepare delicious and very useful infusions, fruit drinks. Also, rowan fruits are used in veterinary medicine to treat lung disease in animals.