The first food that a person receives at birth, is the milk, first mother, then the cow or goat. Milk - one of the most important human food. Academician Pavlov called milk "amazing food, cooked by nature itself. The scientist is very well observed characteristics of milk: it is really food, because breast milk has everything a man needs. And all the components in milk are balanced as necessary to person. And the fact that milk is food, not drink (as many believe), confirm the smallest consumers of this product - babies who, thanks to him in the first months of life grow and develop normally. According to nutritionists, physiologists, pediatricians, milk and dairy products are essential for mental and physical development of children. In ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, milk called "source of health", "juice of life", "white blood".
On the healing properties of milk, a thousand years ago, said the great scientist Abu Ali Ibn Sina (Avicenna). He claimed that milk and dairy products are the best food for children and the elderly. Especially useful it is believed goat and donkey's milk, and recommended to drink it with salt and honey.
In the Middle Ages treated milk has been forgotten and only at the end of the XVI century. Doctors have again used the milk in therapy. Important role in this activity has played a French doctor, Raymond Restore, which formulated based on the teachings of Hippocrates, the indications and contraindications to treatment with milk.
In the XVIII century. Hoffman first drew attention to the use of milk as an antidote, and offered to divorce his mineral water. He considered milk anticonvulsants, slowing down and calming movement, believed that it improves the blood and displays the harmful substances from the body.
Doctor FI Inozemtsev (1802-1869) suggested that their treatments milk pulmonary tuberculosis, bronchitis, pleurisy, bronchial asthma, gastro-intestinal diseases, scurvy, cholera, nervous diseases.
In 1865, the St. Petersburg physician F. Carrel described more than 200 cases of successful application of skimmed milk with cardiac decompensation, liver cirrhosis, lung disease, obesity, gout. SP Botkin evaluated milk as a precious tool in the treatment of heart disease and kidney.
At the end of the XIX century by the classical studies of Pavlov and his students was given a firm scientific base for studying the processes of digestion and confirmed by the special value of milk and dairy products in the diet of humans and animals.
Milk is indispensable to supply depleted, exhausted and weakened people. It increases body resistance and normalizes metabolism.
