How to Use Rose Petals From Your Garden Roses for Health

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Roses are not only beautiful, they're also healthy for you!

The beauty and fragrance of fresh garden roses are soothing to the senses. However garden roses can also be beneficial to your health. Roses contain vitamin C, pectin, malic & citric acids, and antioxidant flavonoids. Using your garden roses, such as the rose petals, leaves and rose hip fruits supply a beneficial aid to your health.

Be sure that when you use rose petals for consumption that you only use fresh organically grown garden roses. Rinse them with cool water to wash off any dust and bugs before using for consumption.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Step 1

MAKE A CUP OF ROSE TEA
In a cup of hot water, stir a teaspoon of dried, ground rose petals and leaves; or use 1/2 cup fresh fragrant rose petals from your garden roses per cup. Add honey, pieces of dried citrus rind, or a very small amount of peppermint for additional flavor. I add my rose petals to other favorite teas for extra flavor. Cover 10 minutes. Stir, strain, and sip.

A tea prepared with rose petals and leaves is effective in cleansing toxins. It also provides a cooling effect on the body and serves to reduce fevers along with associated rashes, and also increases the body's immune system.

The rose's malic and tartaric acids serve of great value in dissolving gallstones, as a mild diuretic, and an aide to the kidneys, liver, gallbladder, urinary tract, bloodstream, and restores balance in the gut and bowels. It also helps in alleviating problems related with lethargic liver like headaches and constipation.
Step 2

EAT THE ROSE PETALS
Rose petals from your garden roses can make a nice nibble by themselves, dabbed with honey or maple syrup, or included in a fruit or vegetable salad, in a soup, or in a puree. Grind or powder dried rose petals to add into any cooked foods.

Rose petals aid in relieving congestion in the female reproductive system, reduce heavy periods, treat erratic menstrual periods, infertility and increases sexual desire.
Step 3

MAKE ROSE WATER
Slowly simmer a full cup of dried rose petals from your garden roses in two pints of hot water in a covered pot for 45 minutes. Express the liquid in which mix another full cup of the petals and prepare as before. Preserve the aromatic water in the refrigerator. Dilute the rose water to drink as a health tea or use it to flavor baked goods.

Infusion prepared from the rose petals acts as a useful astringent and is effective for treating diarrhea, enteritis and dysentery. It is also a corrective for loose bowels when boiled down to half its contents, and may be used as a laxative to clear bowel movement
Step 4

MAKE A SYRUP FROM THE ROSE WATER
To make rose syrup, thicken the original rose water with enough sugar or honey and use as a topping for fruits or a sweetener for tea.

Rose petals possess reconditioning affects on the nervous system, and are also capable of alleviating the problems of insomnia, relieving depression, and driving out fatigue.
Step 5

MAKE A VINEGAR FROM ROSE PETALS
Pour a pint of cider or wine vinegar over a cup full of tightly packed rose petals from your garden roses contained in a quart glass jar. Seal and place the jar near a warm radiator or in a sunny window for two to three days. Strain and store the vinegar.

Use the vinegar alone or with other aromatic vinegars as a marinating liquid, in sauce and salad dressing, or as a quick remedy for scratches, cuts and insect bites.

Comments

vegannatasha said

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on 9/23/2009 Great info.
I just bought some rose petal tea.

sallyemaycreate said

on 9/11/2009 Wonderful ideas... thanks for sharing your expertise... 5*****

believeinfamily said

on 9/2/2009 Great tips that I didn't know before. Nice article. 5*

Coach4U said

on 8/20/2009 I love roses and have several bushes. I thought they were just to look at. Loved your article about how to use rose petals from your gareden roses for health. "5"