Good afternoon, dear needlewomen!
In this article we will talk about how to prepare cherry pits for making crafts from them, for example, warmers with cherry pits.
We eat cherries fresh, frozen, in jams, compotes... and throw away the pits. But in vain, because they are a very valuable product!
The healing effect is based on the wonderful and amazing property of cherry pits - the accumulation and retention of heat or cold, thereby providing a beneficial effect on human health (In other words, cherry pits heat up quickly and give off heat rather slowly).
Healthy dry heat People may need cherry pits in various situations (for muscle pain, pain in the ears, pain in the joints, back, neck or stomach, with a runny nose). In any of the above circumstances, a bag filled with cherry pits can easily turn into a heating pad or, conversely, a cold compress.
For newborn babies, a heating pad with cherry pits will be a real salvation during colic and will help with colds. The bag with cherry pits is very pleasant to the touch. Therefore, playing with such a toy will help develop your baby's fine motor skills.
Cherry pits also have massage properties, for example, if you take a bag of cherry pits, it can be used separately to massage your hands and feet.
That's how many benefits you can get from ordinary cherry pits! Therefore, do not throw them away, but process them correctly. Because in order for cherry pits to be beneficial (and not rot, release hydrocyanic acid, become moldy or spoiled), they must be properly processed.
This is what “Master of Handicrafts” will tell you about now.
How to separate cherry pits from pulp
Everything is very simple.
1. Free the seeds from the cherry pulp
2.Wash the cherry pits and boil for about 10 minutes in a saucepan on the stove, add vinegar to the water.
3. Drain the water, rinse the seeds thoroughly, rubbing them with your hands or through a sieve. All remaining pulp from the seeds is separated and the seeds remain clean, smooth and white.
4.Fry the bones in a frying pan until they darken. This step can be done in the oven, in the microwave, and even just on the windowsill, it just takes more time.
Warmed cherry pits have a slight almond scent. This is wonderful aromatherapy.
Watch the video on how to make a heating pad with your own hands
Text prepared by: Veronica
Do-it-yourself crafts from grains, cereals and various seeds are a great way to keep children busy, because working with such natural material is a great way to train fine motor skills hands, which helps improve the overall and speech development. Also, such activities help to cultivate patience, diligence and perseverance in children.
Features of creativity using natural materials
Not only schoolchildren can make crafts from cereals with their own hands, because such joint creativity Suitable even for small children. True, you will need to be with the kids constantly so that they do not harm themselves in any way.
So, the following materials may be useful to you:
- all kinds of cereals and grains - buckwheat, rice, millet, semolina;
- legumes - peas, lentils and multi-colored beans;
- any seeds and seeds - watermelon, pumpkin, melon and sunflower, etc.
You can even take it. Also in the process you will need: thick paper or cardboard, glue, scissors, fabric, plasticine, templates of various patterns, decorations (at your request).
The most best crafts from cereals, seeds and sunflower seeds with your own hands - these are applications and paintings. You can come up with stories with your child yourself, or use some ready-made templates and transfer them to paper. The complexity of the work should depend on the age of the children; keep in mind that the child should be interested in making the craft on his own, even with your help, but not be completely aloof.
We create applications and paintings with our own hands
The topic of work can be anything. But crafts made from grains and other products turn out to be very beautiful and original. natural materials on the theme of spring. Spring landscapes (crafts made from watermelon seeds and cereals), lush flowers (flowers made from pumpkin seeds are especially good - asters, sunflowers, snowdrops) ‒ great ideas for children's creativity.
The more different cereals, seeds and seeds you use, the better, because they all not only vary in size and shape, but also in color and texture. That is, you will have a huge space for imagination and creativity. And if your grain craft requires some special colors, then you can always paint your materials using watercolors or gouache.
Try starting with a simple appliqué. For example, as a craft, you can make a basket with flowers from pumpkin seeds.
- Draw the outlines of the basket on a piece of thick paper or cardboard and spread them with glue.
- Next, lay out along these contours pumpkin seeds so that they form a voluminous basket.
- Inside, draw flowers in exactly the same way - these can be sunflowers, asters, poppies, daisies, snowdrops or any others. Use seeds to create them various sizes- pumpkin, watermelon, sunflower seeds.
- The centers of the flowers can be made from beads or covered with fine grains.
- Paint your bouquet and paint the basket in Brown color. You can decorate the applique with sparkles or stickers, or add some plasticine details.
It’s easy to make a vase with flowers on a spring theme - just like a basket. To keep children's crafts made from seeds for a long time and not fall off, you can spray them with hairspray or cover them clear varnish for nails.
A favorite activity for children will be creating applications and paintings depicting various animals, birds or fish. Together with your child, come up with a plot and bring the fairy tale to life using crafts made from pumpkin or watermelon seeds, as well as other various materials.
Fish, hedgehogs, bees, snails, ducks, cats and other animals are incredibly cute. See how easy it is to make a picture of a hedgehog as a craft from seeds.
- Print out a drawing of a hedgehog or draw one yourself.
- Apply a good layer of glue to his back and start gradually attaching seeds to him (these could be watermelon seeds or sunflower seeds).
- You need to glue the seeds so that they all point with their sharp tips in one direction.
- You can simply paint the rest of the hedgehog’s body, and attach mushrooms or fruits made from plasticine to its spines.
But what an interesting picture you can create with a peacock using watermelon seeds, as well as semolina and corn grits.
- Draw a peacock on thick paper or print out a ready-made template (even regular coloring books will do).
- Apply glue to the round ends of the feathers and cover them with corn grits. Do the same with the bird's legs.
- When it dries a little, shake off the remaining residue from the sheet.
- Decorate the feathers with watermelon seeds, gluing each one tightly.
- After some time, cover the entire remaining peacock image with glue, except for the head, and fill it with semolina, while clearing the contours with a toothpick.
- You can paint the head and decorate the picture as you wish. As you can see, crafts from watermelon seeds are very simple to make.
The cherries are ripe in Uncle Vanya's garden
Article for the magazine "Warning Plus" No. 10 for 2009
What is the article about? Case from practice. About dry heat, cold and health.
For what purpose is it written? Help people.
For whom is it written? For those who want to be healthy.
Who wrote? The doctor is a chiropractor with 30 years of experience.
Fifteen years ago, a patient was brought to see me with acute radiculitis that arose after a sudden lifting of weight. Since the attack occurred only a few hours ago, the problem was resolved during the first manual therapy session.
While he was resting after treatment, we started talking. He told me a lot interesting story about his family, in which three generations of men work as drivers and tractor drivers: “In our family there is a talisman that is inherited. It preserves health, helps with fatigue, makes the neck and back light and mobile. And there is one more property of our talisman: over the course of 96 years, our family has traveled hundreds of thousands of kilometers of roads, been in difficult various situations, but over the years - not a single accident, not a single major breakdown. Maybe it's an accident, or maybe it's a talisman. If you want, I’ll show you, it’s in my car.”
I became interested. He went to the car. He returned very happy, as his back no longer hurt, and brought his talisman. His face shone with happiness when he showed me his talisman, his wealth. In his hands he held a worn and greasy, earthy-gray bag measuring approximately thirty by twenty centimeters, in which something rolled and rustled.
I waited with even greater interest for the continuation, but it did not come. He simply put the bag on the table. The pause lasted about a minute. We looked into each other's eyes and were silent.
To somehow get out of this situation, I asked: “What’s inside?” After his answer, the pause lasted another minute.
His answer: “There are cherry pits there, pits from cherries from our garden.”
When I asked why the bag was so dirty, he replied that this bag contained not only bones, but also the sweat and energy of his father and grandfather.
Then he spent several minutes talking about how and where to apply it in various situations.
I listened to everything. Everything seems simple and clear. He left. After that we didn't meet. His name was Ivan (very rare Russian name, I put it in the title of the article). It was in winter.
After him there were many other patients with their own stories, but for some reason this case stuck firmly in my head.
And so in the month of July, when “the cherries in the garden were ripe...”, I decided to create a similar talisman for myself.
A linen bag thirty by twenty centimeters and 700 grams of dry cherry pits (that’s about 15 kg of fresh cherries) and that’s all! In appearance, everything is very prosaic.
Poetry began later, as my acquaintance with the “cherry talisman” continued. That’s what they started calling him first in my family, and then by friends and patients. The name stuck.
After making it, my whole family, having twirled it, pressed it to different parts of the body, smelled and rustled it, heated it in the microwave oven and cooled it in the refrigerator, lay on it, massaged themselves and each other, even slept, putting it under their head - they came to one conclusion (which happens very rarely in our family, that is, it almost never happens): “This is super!” Everyone liked it. In my profession I have to work a lot with my hands. I have never seen such an amazing hand massager (fingers completely restore “lightness” and mobility after five minutes). Surgeons, chiropractors and massage therapists take note!
Now in order:
The smell that we all liked so much was not only the smell of cherry pits, but also the smell of a linen bag. But this did not bother us in our talisman, since linen fabric has been known since ancient times. It was used to make clothes for both peasants and pharaohs, and sewed bed linen and sails for ships.
Linen fabric absorbs moisture very well and dries quickly, is very durable, is a very good conductor of heat and has low electrical conductivity. This is all very important, of course.
The smell of flax is the smell of a hot country summer, the smell of the sun and wide Russian fields with their flowers, singing birds and chirping grasshoppers, the smell is memories, the smell of youth... I wrote and closed my eyes with pleasure.
The rustling of the bones is the second thing we all liked. Now I won’t confuse this sound with anything. It resembles the whisper of reeds by the river, the rustling of hay, the sound of the wind in the treetops, the sound of a distant waterfall.
The tactile sensations in your hands when you knead a bag of hot seeds, while inhaling this aroma and listening to the mysterious rustling of the talisman, puts you into a state of complete relaxation and bliss...
The heat emanating from heated cherry pits is much calmer, deeper, more pleasant than from a bag of heated salt, sand, cereals, paraffin and other substances and objects that are usually used for these purposes in folk medicine. Their main difference is that cherry pits, ..... heated, do not cause burns (which is very important when used in seriously ill patients, the elderly and small children)
Parts of the body that come into contact with the heated bag with particular pleasure are the neck and shoulders, lower back and sacrum, feet and hands.
15 years have passed since I heard about the “Cherry Talisman”, during which time thousands of grateful people have tried this remedy on themselves and are already using it (thank you Ivan for your talisman!). He now helps other people too.
The idea of using dry heat to warm and treat various diseases, especially chronic ones that accompany pain and muscle spasms, is certainly not new. It was used in different options from ancient times to the present.
However, there is one twist: it’s all about the filler.
Fundamental difference from other dry heat sources:
Absolute safety
Anti-allergenic
Reusable
Does not cause burns
Ease of storage and transportation
Does not break if dropped or misused
Easy to wash and dry
Not dangerous for children
Doesn't stain clothes
Does not emit unpleasant odors
Treatment is accompanied by a quiet, melodic rustling sound
Can be used for hot and cold compresses
Stabilizes the cervical and lumbar spine when sitting
In a lying position - unloads these same departments
Easily heated in a microwave oven, oven on the lid of a pan, on a hot radiator
Easy to cool in the freezer or on the balcony in winter
Can be used as an orthopedic sleeping pillow
Can be used as a massage toy for small children with impaired motor skills of fingers and toes
It is used for a huge number of diseases where a person is bothered by cold, heat, pain and spasms
If you do it yourself, the talisman is practically free
But the most important thing is the confidence that you have your own “cherry talisman”, which will always help in difficult times.
One small addition. If you have a “powerful physique” and you want to lose a couple of three kilograms in one session and win, perhaps the first victory in your life, over cellulite and excess weight, stretch your shoulders, back and legs well - don’t be lazy to make yourself a couple of small bags with cherry pits weighing 200 - 300 grams, and into a bathhouse, a Russian bathhouse with good steam. Ask your friends to give you a good kneading and a special pat (which is more important!). The result will pleasantly surprise you.
Heat treatment is an old time-tested method of treatment, very simple and straightforward.
Illness comes from the word pain. Old, dull pain is treated with heat, and acute, hot pain is treated with cold.
This was the case a thousand and ten thousand years ago.
There are no healthy people on earth, and there never were! This is a very sad fact. But everyone wants to be healthy. And this is also a fact.
To achieve this, hundreds of new drugs and medical devices are produced every year, and new clinics and hospitals are built. New diagnostic and treatment methods are being developed, unique and effective, but there are no fewer sick people.
Most people are quite satisfied with the absence of pain or other unpleasant symptoms that interfere with their lives. Nobody strives for perfect health.
Patients want to be treated by doctors, but in most cases they themselves do practically nothing or do very little for themselves, and, as a rule, only occasionally. Health care comes last for most people. Both doctors and their patients understand this very well.
Therefore, when a doctor gives advice and recommendations, he has absolutely no idea how it will respond in the patient’s soul.
Taking care of your health and the health of your children is constant daily work, even when you feel well.
And this: both the work and rest regime, and proper nutrition and lack bad habits etc., etc. In short: “Love your neighbor as yourself and live in harmony with nature.”
Another characteristic detail: more than 10 thousand diseases are known, more than 10 thousand medicinal plants, tens of thousands various forms chemicals and their various combinations, a huge number side effects from the effects of drugs, many treatment regimens, thousands of doctors and billions of patients. In addition, each doctor and patient “has their own cockroaches in their head.”
This is a shock! No one can untie this knot of problems now.
But what should we do? But what about before, when there were no medicines and doctors? Yes, everything is the same as now. There were only three healers on earth: faith, hope and love.
The love of family and friends, the warmth of their hands and hearts. Faith that everything will be fine. Hope that all this will come true. And only then there are compresses and poultices, mixtures and tinctures, powders and enemas.
Any doctor will tell you that there have not been, are not, and never will be better doctors than these three doctors.
A little history about the “cherry talisman”.
For centuries, cherry has been considered a magical tree. This is one of the few trees in which all its components were used to treat humans: flowers, berries, berry stalks, juice, leaves, bark, branches, wood, resin, roots, even ash. Oil was made from cherry grains. And now you have learned that you can use even cherry pits to great benefit.
The blossoming Japanese cherry tree - sakura, is a symbol of the Land of the Rising Sun. The cherry was considered the emblem of the samurai: the short, fleeting life of a flower, a bright berry full of joy and the juice of life, a powerful, deeply hidden fortress of a cherry pit, in the depths of which hidden and reliably protected new life. Delicate sakura flowers are the souls of deceased ancestors who care for their descendants.
In the Christian religion, the cherry fruit is considered a symbol of life and joy. Cherries are even called the berry of paradise, since Christ was often depicted on icons with a cherry in his hands.
It is interesting that many peoples have such a sign: to see yourself picking cherries in a dream is a sign of prosperity and a successful turn in fate, and if you dream of a cherry blossom, then happiness is already close.
In Britain, there has long been a belief: if you want to find out whether you are destined to get married and when this will happen, after eating cherries, count the pits, saying: “This year, next year, someday, never.” The last bone will give you the answer.
For many peoples of Eastern Europe, cherries have long been considered a symbol of fertility, so ash, resin and juice from cherries were added to newlyweds’ food and drink, cherry pits were sewn into the bride’s clothes, wedding clothes were embroidered with the image of cherries, and cherry branches were hung over the newlyweds’ bed.
There was also a custom that if a woman cannot get pregnant or for the birth to be successful, she needs to “ride” in the grass in the morning dew under a blooming or fruiting cherry tree with ripe berries.
Wands for love magic are made from cherries, and to make love spells “more reliable,” three dried cherry pits from the church garden were placed in a specially drilled channel.
It is believed that some trees attract spirits, especially cherries and thorns. There is a lot of wishful thinking in the book on health. Look in your home medicine cabinet - there is a lot of stuff there that you believed in, then bought and tried on yourself or on your loved ones. Maybe this remedy helped you, or maybe time healed you. Who knows?
Throw away expired medications, they are either poison or useless. Place the cherry talisman in the vacant space. Believe me, it will help you stay healthy and vigorous better than many medications.
Remember: there are diseases, and there is a painful condition. So, doctors treat diseases, but you can cure a painful condition yourself.
Good health and good luck to you!
Vegetables and fruits from our latitudes are not only healthy and tasty. Their seeds - seeds, nuts and lionfish - are an excellent material for all kinds of crafts! And if you returned from exotic countries with a collection of amazing seeds and fruits, then this is generally an excellent basis for creative work.
The more diverse the collected samples, the easier and more convenient it will be to work with them. Pieces of moss, decorative pebbles, and dried plant leaves will be in demand.
Stone fruits are good for crafts: apricot, peach, cherry. Nuts are very decorative. Even watermelon seeds will not go to waste! You can create a decorative panel, or you can, as I did, find an unusual piece of driftwood or a tree root and turn it into a three-dimensional craft.
So, let's get to work. First of all, we clean the seeds and seeds from any remaining pulp, dry them well and sort them.
A hot glue gun with replaceable plastic rods is convenient and practical for working with natural materials. It reliably holds together individual elements and gives strength to the entire structure. The only thing you need when working with this device is compliance with safety precautions.
Since the temperature of the working material is high, contact with exposed areas of the body can cause severe burns. Therefore, it is more practical to work with thin rubber gloves or always have a glass of cold water on hand so that in case of a burn you can quickly cool the burned surface.
If you work with small children, then you can do without a heat gun. PVA glue or any superglue will help you cope with the task of fastening. Crafts made from seeds can be safely practiced with children aged three years and older. In addition to creativity, this process perfectly stimulates fine motor skills of the hands, develops imagination, and promotes concentration.
We start with small elements, combining them in shape and color. Nature itself will be a good mentor and example, because, using individual parts, you can successfully copy natural objects: flowers, inflorescences and buds.
Required material and equipment:
a plastic wine glass for the base and two legs;
natural material (plum and apricot kernels, or peach kernels);
decorative material (colored glass, beads, chains, sequins, etc.);
glue gun and glue sticks;
gold spray paint;
glitter nail polish;
glossy varnish spray;
yarn natural color and lurex.
1. Prepare necessary materials. If necessary, rinse and dry the seeds. Degrease the plastic base of the wine glass.
2. Glue plum pits onto the base, starting from the bottom. Glue the bones tightly to each other. For the bottom row we use larger seeds, and so on in descending order. For convenience, I arrange the seeds by size in advance. Glue the next row of seeds tightly to the previous row in a checkerboard pattern. We continue gluing the bones, making sure the rows are even. Having reached the top, glue the bones, pointing them upward. Afterwards we remove the formed adhesive web.
3. For the Christmas tree stand we use two legs from plastic wine glasses. We degrease the legs and glue their narrow ends together, strengthening them from the inside with some kind of rod. We wait until the glue sets well. Then we decorate the leg of the Christmas tree with natural-colored yarn or jute cord. Coating the plastic leg with glue, row by row we glue the yarn in a circle.
4. The Christmas tree made from plum pits had already dried up, now it can be painted. If you are painting with aerosol paint from a can, you need to go to open air(on the balcony or in the yard). I use quick drying acrylic spray paint. It dries quickly and doesn't smell as strong. After the paint has dried, we connect the tree to the stand. Apply glue around the circumference of the top side of the stand and on the bottom edge of the plastic wine glass. We connect, pressing tightly. Now we see what a fluffy beauty we have.
5. Let's start making the star. To do this, you can use the same plum pits, or you can use ready-made plum pits. For a homemade one, arrange 5-6 seeds in a circle like a flower. Add glue to the center and let it dry. Then we turn the star over and drip glue on the other side. Let the glue dry. Paint the star with a spray can or nail polish suitable color. Let it dry and carefully glue it to the top of the Christmas tree.
6. Now we proceed to the most interesting stage - decorating the Christmas tree. To do this, we use cute trinkets - beads, glass, sequins, chains - in general, anything your heart desires and to your taste. I used beads in the shape of pearls in a color scheme close to natural. I also added some sequins in the shape of snowflakes - after all christmas tree. I used lurex thread in several turns to avoid clutter. The star was also decorated with snowflakes to hide gluing errors. At the base of the star, where I attached it to the tree, I also glued beads - as if the tree had put on beads (it also hid the fastening errors). Having finished my work, I can’t stop looking at my beautiful Christmas tree. She's the only one I have. And you?
