A berry from the fig-tree

Recently the medical men proved that the fig - it’s some kind of battery-energizer, one of the best suppliers of energy to our organism.

As far back the warriors of Alexander Macedon took with themselves small bags with the dried fruits of fig-tree on their long campaigns, after exhausting battles they ate few berries, and their forces returned to them again. It’s enough to have a snack with a not big berry weighing approximately 15 g to make the feeling of tiredness and hunger disappear or step back.

Exactly for these amazing capacities most of the dietitians name the fig-tree the most perfect or absolute fruit of our nature. However people call this plant: the fig-tree, simple fig. Since olden times it was famous by its healing abilities and properties. Poisonings are and were healed with the figs, because it contains matters which in turn normalize the work functions of stomach, stimulate the functions of kidneys and liver. It is irreplaceable when you caught a cold: it takes away cough and pain in the throat very well, if to brew it with hot milk. Besides the fig-tree helps you to perspire freely and to beat down temperature not worse than the most famous febrifuges (medicines to reduce fever). And the thin gruel from dried fruits of the fig-tree are usually used for healing injures. The fig-tree contain more iron than in the apples, that is why people suffer from anemia should eat fruits of the fig-tree. The uniqueness of this plant is also in that fact that the soluble fibres of his cellular tissue contain the matters reducing the level of cholesterol in people’s blood.

Preparing the healing or medicinal infusion (potion) is a very simple work.
20 g fruits of the fig-tree should be brewed with 200 ml of hot milk.

Then boil during 10 minutes on the slow fire, let it draw for 2 hours, then pass it through a sieve.

Take 0, 5 glasses 3 times a day if you suffer from bronchitis, tracheitis, disease of kidneys and problems with urinary bladder. In spite of milk you can use water. And also you can wipe (dry) your face with this infusion.



Useful arithmetic (per 100 g):
Nutrition information
Energy - 305 kcal;
Fat - 1, 3 g;
Carbohydrates - 63, 5 g;
Albumen - 4, 3 g;
Mineral matters - 2, 3 g;
Vitamins - 0, 5 mg.

The Enigmatic Russian Soul

Russia... The biggest country in the world with the population about 150 million people. People of different nationalities, who live in different climatic conditions, who have various characters, habits and thoughts. And there is only one thing that units them: they live in Russia.

There is something indeterminate, mysterious, even irrational about Russia and Russian identity. Various poets and philosophers since about the middle of the ninetenth century have characterized Russia as a "Sphinx." For many Russia has also been a "riddle". The young Nikolai Berdiaev began his 1915 article on "The Soul of Russia" by speaking of the need to "solve the riddle of Russia". For Berdiaev, Russia was a "riddle," an "unsolved mystery" . More recently philosopher E. V. Barabanov characterizes Russia as a "problem-riddle" . The word "riddle" is applied to Russia again and again from the beginnings of Russian philosophy down to the present day. Sometimes, as well, Russian thinkers make sarcastic reference to the "enigmatic soul" of Russia. And all this is quite apart from the fact that Western observers speak too much of "the riddle of Russian identity." Most famous, of course, is Sir Winston Churchill's characterization of Russia as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma." This phrase gives a brief but precise description of Russian character. The character which is based on extremes and contradictions that make it mysterious and difficult to understand. Speaking about Russian character we need to remember that it was formed in the Soviet Union and was oppressed for iron curtain and only now swims out. Everything new is a mystery.

Russia possesses huge territories where different resources, like coal, gas and oil, can be mined. But Russian people are too lazy to spend their time on mining these fields. Moreover, Russians do not appreciate what they have until they lose it.

Russian people think that people in Europe and America live better than they do, but when they go abroad they get homesick and think that “there is no place like home”. On the one hand, Russians are generous and hospitable. On the other hand, the level of the corruption is one of the highest in the world. The same can be said about unpredictability: Russians can be reserved and can be emotional, even unstable.

In 1886 Fedor Tiutchev wrote his famous quatrain on the need to believe in Russia:
Russia cannot be understood with the mind,
Nor can she be measured with the ordinary yardstick.
There is in her a special stature:
You can only believe in Russia.

To sum up, Russian soul is unic and it cannot be understood in a rational way. Who is going to solve this mystery and to find a key to it’s heart?