Life hack for berry lovers: how to pick lingonberries and preserve their healing properties

Cow­ber­ry berries have many heal­ing prop­er­ties, help in the treat­ment of var­i­ous dis­eases and increase immu­ni­ty.

The lin­gonber­ry har­vest­ing sea­son begins in late August — ear­ly Sep­tem­ber. You can col­lect lin­gonber­ries until Novem­ber, if we are talk­ing about wild for­est berries. Coun­try bush­es are usu­al­ly cut off no ear­li­er than Octo­ber.

How to harvest lingonberries

Col­lect­ing lin­gonber­ries is not an easy task. How to speed up this process and pre­serve the ben­e­fi­cial prop­er­ties of berries, told the “Most Use­ful Pro­gram”.

How to make hard work eas­i­er, folk crafts­men came up with. You can assem­ble a device with your own hands that allows you to col­lect lin­gonber­ries not by one berry, but by whole hand­fuls. By the way, such a man­u­al “har­vester” is use­ful when col­lect­ing blue­ber­ries, blue­ber­ries and cran­ber­ries.

To repeat the gad­get and final­ly for­get about many hours of tor­ment, you will need:

• sev­er­al pieces of plas­tic
• strong threads,
• steel wire,
• wood­en han­dle.

We assem­ble a pro­to­type, as shown in the video. We fix all the parts. Hand har­vester is ready! Now you can har­vest and enjoy deli­cious and healthy berries.

The benefits of lingonberries

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The peo­ple called lin­gonber­ries the berry of immor­tal­i­ty or the mir­a­cle berry. Eat­ing it helps to strength­en the immune sys­tem and cope with var­i­ous dis­eases.

The prop­er­ties of the mir­a­cle berry are due to its chem­i­cal com­po­si­tion. 100 grams of lin­gonber­ries con­tain: 8.2 g of car­bo­hy­drates, 0.5 g of fat, 0.7 g of pro­tein, as well as 95% of the dai­ly norm of organ­ic acids and 16% of vit­a­min C.

Lin­gonber­ries are rich in use­ful sub­stances, includ­ing man­ganese, iron, vit­a­mins A, B1, B2, B9, PP, C and E. Heal­ing sub­stances are con­tained not only in the berries them­selves, but also in the leaves of the plant.

Thanks to this, lin­gonber­ries are used to treat a wide vari­ety of dis­eases. In folk med­i­cine, it is used for:

• colds;
• prob­lems with the stom­ach (gas­tri­tis with low acid­i­ty, stom­ach tumors);
• dis­eases of the car­dio­vas­cu­lar sys­tem (hyper­ten­sion, ane­mia, coro­nary heart dis­ease);
• joint prob­lems (rheuma­tism and arthri­tis);
• dia­betes
• neu­ro­sis and depres­sion;
• uro­log­i­cal prob­lems.

Who should not eat lingonberries

Due to the fact that the berry con­tains a large amount of acids, it is con­traindi­cat­ed in:

• gas­tri­tis with high acid­i­ty;
• inflam­ma­tion of the gall­blad­der;
• low blood pres­sure (hypoten­sion).

Also, fresh lin­gonber­ries are not rec­om­mend­ed for peo­ple with urolithi­a­sis, stom­ach and duo­de­nal ulcers.

A decoction of lingonberries to increase immunity

On cold autumn days, to increase immu­ni­ty and cheer up, you can make a decoc­tion of lin­gonber­ries.

Fra­grant dessert: Recipe for home­made cran­ber­ries and apples

To pre­pare it you will need:

• 200 g lin­gonber­ries;
• 1.5 st. spoons of sug­ar;
• 400 ml of water.

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The decoc­tion recipe is sim­ple:

1. rinse the berries, put them in a saucepan and mash with a pes­tle (you can chop the lin­gonber­ries in a blender);
2. put the pan with berries on a slow fire so that the lin­gonber­ries give juice;
3. add water and sug­ar and bring the mass to a boil;
4. remove from heat, strain through a sieve or cheese­cloth.

After the broth has cooled, you can drink it. The recipe is designed for 3–4 serv­ings, so it can strength­en the immune sys­tem of the whole fam­i­ly.