Fruits and vegetables guard health. Recipes of traditional medicine
Every day we eat fresh fruits and vegetables, noting their remarkable properties and benefits that they bring to our body. Or add a food processed vegetable products. And of course there is no such person, who did not know about the healing properties of plants or not convinced of their healing power of their own experience.
Generally, considering the energy and nutritional value of any crop, I try to mention its curative properties. But sometimes something slips from memory, and simply can not happen in one article tell the whole story. And fruits and vegetables has long served as a man not only food but also as medicines. Our ancestors had no idea of the chemical composition of fruits and vegetables, somehow guessed about their ability to positively influence the human organism. And it worked.
And today the majority of fruit and vegetables along with herbs help us get rid of specific ailments. I tried to find some, may be known, but a little half-forgotten recipes of traditional medicine, and link them in one article. It often happens that for some diseases we do not help any medications. And the pudding some folk remedy - and the pain passes.
Has long been traditional medicine valued the healing power of turnips. This plant has diuretic, antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, healing and anesthetic properties. Turnips used as therapeutic and dietetic care in gastritis with low acidity, colitis, in diseases of the bile ducts and atony of the stomach. Turnip juice, mixed with honey or sugar, used as an expectorant. It is useful in the treatment of pain in the chest cold and cough.
Cooked and mashed turnip is applied to places bruises, inflamed joints of hands and feet to relieve pain. Infusion of the leaves of turnip used to rinse the mouth with paradontosis, bleeding gums, as well as for the prevention of caries. Prepare it simple: 20 g of crushed leaves of turnip pour 1 cup boiling water and infuse for 30 minutes.
Broth from turnip roots helps with bronchial asthma and the long exhausting insomnia. 2 tbsp. tablespoons minced root crops, cover with 1 cup of boiling water, boil for 15 minutes, strain. Accepts broth by 1 / 4 cup 4 times a day or two glasses at night.
Traditional healers are widely used for medicinal purposes celery. This plant enhances physical and mental efficiency, a positive effect on sleep, endocrine and nervous systems. Celery improves appetite and digestion, is useful for gastritis, peptic ulcer and chronic colitis. It is used to normalize the metabolism, improve digestion, stimulate kidney function, excretion of wastes.
Water infusion, and the juice of roots and leaves of celery are used in diseases of the kidneys and bladder. Mucus contained in the roots of plants, has shielding and anti-inflammatory properties, which is important in the treatment of gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer. Solution of the roots and leaves of celery appoint an edema and constipation, liver and kidney disease, gout, dermatitis, and allergic urticaria. It is also effective in painful menstruation.
Infusion for the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases: 1 tbsp. spoonful of shredded celeriac pour 1 glass of hot boiled water, to insist in 4 hours, strain. Ready infusion drink before the meal warm for 1 / 3 cup 3 times a day.
Broth from the seeds of celery are used in urolithiasis. To make it, pour 1 cup boiling water 2 tsp seeds and simmer over low heat for half an hour. Drink it should be on 2-3 tbsp. spoon 2-3 times a day.
When the sand in the kidneys effectively means the following: 1 kg of fresh parsley with the roots and one large celery root cut into small pieces, add 1 kg of natural honey and 1 liter of water, bring to a boil over low heat, stirring occasionally. Infuse for three days. Add another 1 liter of water and again bring to a boil, filter, not allowing the mixture to cool. The resulting mixture was applied to 3 tbsp. spoon before meal (recipe from Ivanka).
Decoction of leaves or roots of celery are used for the treatment of diabetes. 15-20 g of crushed leaves or roots in the same quantity pour 1 cup boiling water and simmer over low heat for 15 minutes. Cool, strain. Drink this broth to half a cup 3-4 times a day.
Celery juice is recommended in rheumatic lesions of the joints, gout, allergic states (for 1 / 3 cup 1-2 times a day an hour after meals for 2-3 weeks).
Warning Celery is contraindicated in lactating mothers, as well as reduces the allocation of milk.
Perhaps it would be wrong if we do not even remember some of spicy plants. I mean the parsley and dill. Both in ancient times is widely used in folk medicine in many countries.
Seeds and grass (stalks, leaves, flowers), fennel contain essential oil, vitamins, carotene, and kampferol phytoncides. Dill stimulates the appetite, enhances digestion, urine, driving gas, stimulates the activity of mammary glands in lactating mothers. In medical practice, and note that dill stimulates the weary heart, dilates blood vessels, lowers blood pressure, and also has aperient action.
Infusion herb fennel is used as a diuretic for pain and inflammation of the bladder. Tincture of fennel seed has a calming effect on the central nervous system, improves sleep, relieves nervous tension. Preparing the way: 10 g, ie, 2 tbsp. spoons, seeds or herbs are placed in an enamel bowl, pour 1 glass of hot boiled water, close lid and heated on a water bath for 15 minutes. Then 45 minutes to cool at room temperature, filter. Take for 1 / 3 cup 3 times a day for 30 minutes before a meal as a diuretic.
Tincture of fennel seeds and herbs used in the form of compresses and washing your face with pustular skin diseases. Due to the high content of iron in the dill and carotene and its use in complex treatment of anemia.
Grass parsley and its seeds have diuretic properties, increase the excretion of salt from the body. Tincture dry parsley, helping with the aggravation of cystitis: 1 tbsp. teaspoon dried parsley 1 glass of boiling water is poured, cooled, strained and drunk for several days.
Water parsley infusion strengthens the digestive apparatus. Preparing the report as follows: 2 tablespoons. tablespoons fresh or dried parsley roots insist 8-12 hours in two cups of boiling water in a sealed container, and then filtered. Take for 1 st. spoon 4 times daily for 30 minutes before meals.
Decoction of the roots of parsley and the juice from the leaves, mixed with lemon juice, used for removing freckles and pigmentation.
"Garlic and onions from seven disease!" - People say. It is hard to disagree, but perhaps not by seven, but on a much larger number of ailments. Hippocrates recommended garlic as a laxative and a diuretic. And modern physicians believe that the use of this plant protects our organism from many diseases.
Garlic is useful in bodily weakness, hemorrhoids, epilepsy, tuberculosis. Garlic is a member of more than 20 drugs and helps, it is believed, from sixty (!) Disease. Thus, when the epidemic influenza, as a preventive measure, it is enough to put on his neck and thread of the children with a slice of garlic - and you can not worry about health.
We have already seen the healing power of these plants. But perhaps not all lit up, so will offer a few popular recipes on the basis of these crops.
If the tooth was ill, attach a cut clove of garlic to the point at the wrist, where to take the pulse, and lock it in a plaster or bandage. Warning If a tooth ache on the left - garlic attach to the wrist of his right hand, and vice versa.
Treatment of psoriasis
Method number 1. 2-3 cloves garlic, pound and drop in a glass of boiled water. Draw for an hour and used for lotions.
Method number 2. Dry the garlic cloves and burn them together with the husk. 1 tbsp. spoon resulting ash mixed with 1 tbsp. spoon of butter and 1 tea spoon of honey. This ointment to lubricate all the sore spots before visiting the steam room. In the bath to sit in a pair, until all cream is absorbed completely into the skin.
Treatment of ringworm
Wound site must be rubbing gruel garlic for one minute, then in the same place vtiret mixture of activated carbon with milled burdock root (1:1) for 2 minutes. Usually 3.4 is already such procedures give significant effect.
The juice of onion and garlic is used for colds. For the prevention of influenza is useful to twice a day for 10-15 minutes to inhale in turn one, then another pair of nostrils, fresh slices or grated onion or garlic juice or lubricate their nasal passages and mouth from the outside.
It is advisable also more likely to have onions and garlic. Or just chew them for two or three minutes several times a day, so as to accept large quantities of onions can not be patient in the acute stage of disease of the gastrointestinal tract, kidney and liver. And get rid of the smell of onions and garlic can easily be worth only eat a little parsley.
It is useful to rinse the nasal cavity and pharynx infusion of onions with honey (1:1) every hour or by the following solution: a glass of warm boiled water to take half a teaspoon of salt and four drops of 5 per cent tincture of iodine. The solution is put into the nose, and pour out through the mouth.
You can also the following recipes.
Peeled garlic, grate and mix with honey (1:1). Take before bedtime for 1 st. spoon, drinking warm water.
Grate the onion, pour 0.5 liters of boiling milk (not boiling), insist in a warm place to drink at night and half of hot infusions, and the other half - in the morning, too hot.
These two ways are effective for severe influenza or complications from it.
Traditional healers recommend a slice of onion rubbed whiskey and neck, ten minutes to lie down with eyes closed, relaxed, if a headache. This method is especially effective for headaches catarrhal nature. You can also eat 2.3 slices of garlic. Headaches helps.
When cough can cut into small pieces and cook for 10 bulbs, 1 head of garlic in pasteurized milk until soft. Then add a little juice, mint and honey. Take 1 tbsp. substrate during the day. Another way to treat cough: 500 g peeled onions chop, add 400 g of sugar and cook over low heat in 1 liter of water for three hours. Allow the mixture to cool, add 50 g of honey, pour into a bottle and cork. Take of 4-6 tablespoons a day after meals.
Can also finely chop the onion and cover it with sugar. When the juice, eat this porridge as often as possible within ten days. Or can your heart's desire is onions, baked in the oven. It is believed that he was very useful and tasty.
Vegetable oil in a glass stand for 30-40 minutes in boiling water, cool. Then 3.4 cloves of garlic and ¼ of the onions cut and fill prepared butter. Mixture insisting for two hours, filter and lubricate the mucous of the nose.
From cold to shove garlic or onions (slices the size of a pea) in the nose. Nose to shut your mouth and breathe, while sneezing. After 2-3 minutes, according to traditional healers, all passes. This procedure should be done several times. No need to fear, because for 2-3 minutes, the nasal mucosa garlic does not burn.
Alcohol on garlic helps with osteochondrosis. Preparing the report as follows: in a bottle of alcohol or vodka is placed 200 grams of finely chopped garlic and insisted during the week. Drink of the throat before eating, drinking raw eggs or butter. Before use, the mixture is shaken.
Tool for strengthening the hair
Onions grate and mix with honey (the four parts of the bow and one part honey). Rub mixture into the hair roots and leave for 40 minutes. Then rinse with warm water without soap.
