One common vegetable plant is radish, of which there are many types in the world. Of these, only black radish has a powerful useful force, although in terms of taste it loses to other varieties.
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Description and composition of black radish
Vegetable refers to biennial plants: first, the fruit and flowers are formed, and the next year they are round the seeds Brown. The root vegetable has white flesh and black skin. Black radish has been familiar to people since ancient times. The ancient Greeks used it for food and, on the advice of Hippocrates, as a medicine.
The richness of carbohydrates, proteins, minerals, essential oils in the root crop is immeasurable.
The vegetable is also not deprived of vitamins necessary for the vital activity of the body. They are especially good at supporting a person in early spring. Radish has a specific bitter taste due to the phytoncides contained in it, which makes it similar to horseradish and onions.
Root essential oils can replace mild antibiotics in their action. The potassium salts contained in the vegetable can clean the vessels. Coarse fiber of a radish beneficially supports the work of the intestines, frees it from toxins and toxins.
Beneficial features
Traditional healers are well aware of the medicinal properties of black radish, the ability to cure many ailments:
- Many colds, as well as runny nose, sore throat, whooping cough, are treated with root vegetable juice. In case of inflammation of the bronchi, instead of mustard plasters, a grated and slightly squeezed radish is applied to the area of the scapula, having previously wrapped it in gauze so as not to burn the skin.
- For the choleretic effect, they also drink fresh radish juice a teaspoon half an hour before a meal or an hour after it. It is necessary to use such a medicine at least three times a day for a month. At this time, it is better to exclude spicy and sour foods from the diet.
- Rubbing a composition of radish juice (300 grams), honey (200 grams), vodka (100 grams) and salt (50 grams) into swollen joints after a bath helps to relieve the symptoms of the disease. To obtain a quick result, this mixture is consumed orally once a day, starting with a quarter of a glass and gradually bringing it to half.
- A salad with this vegetable for dinner will relieve digestive problems. Black radish is well absorbed in combination with carrots, beets, apple and vegetable oil. And also to get rid of stagnant phenomena in the intestines, to restore the beneficial microflora in case of dysbiosis, these dishes will help. An organ such as a radish liver will relieve fatty degeneration.
- Root juice with the addition of castor oil and honey will help to strengthen hair and enhance their growth. Rubbing the composition regularly into the hair roots, you can feel after a while their strength and strength.
- The juice of this plant cures arrhythmia, cleanses blood vessels from cholesterol.
- Evaporate the same proportion of root vegetable juice and red wine over low heat and treat the skin areas affected by eczema with the resulting ointment.Root seeds ground into powder and mixed with a small amount of water will also have a healing effect on skin inflammations and lead to wound healing.
- A mixture of equal amounts of vodka and radish helps fight cancer and removes freckles from the face.
- Beneficial features Black radish is most often used by a person when drinking its juice, especially in combination with honey. Drinking a glass of such a medicine once a month, you can forget about many diseases, strengthen the immune system, and regulate the water-salt balance in the body.
Traditional medicine recipes
Recipes for the treatment of diseases created by the people based on observations of the effect of this root crop on the human body are very popular. When coughing, take a medium-sized radish and, cutting off the top, remove the pulp from the inside approximately to the middle of the root crop. 2 tablespoons of honey are poured into the formed hole, covered with a cut lid and insisted during the day or night.
The resulting medicine is consumed before meals for half an hour by adults 1 tablespoon, and children - by a teaspoon. Then again add honey to the same radish to prepare the next portion. It is necessary to replace the root crop after three days of consumption.
For those who are struggling with obesity and want to lose a few pounds, radish will also help.
There are several ways to do this:
- Grind the root vegetable on a fine medium-sized grater, mix it with a spoonful of honey and salt. Add two tablespoons of turpentine and ground black pepper and mix thoroughly. The resulting ointment is applied to the body and to the steam room for 10 minutes. Coming out of it and wrapping yourself in a sheet, sit in the cool for the same amount of time, and then wash off the composition from the body. This procedure is repeated three times. At the same time, a person's sweating increases, blood rushes to the skin tissues, he sheds extra pounds.
- Another way to lose weight is easier to use. Prepare three liters of juice from unpeeled, but thoroughly washed black radish and drink every day three times a day after meals, a tablespoon, until it ends. Do not forget to follow a diet: exclude fatty, sweet from your diet.
Contraindications
Some people are so addicted to the treatment and prevention of diseases that they consume food and black radish juice without measure. But it is contraindicated for those who suffer from acute diseases of the digestive and genitourinary system.
In no case should you eat this product on an empty stomach, as this will lead to severe pain in the stomach.
The root vegetable promotes the production of gases in the intestines, therefore, with caution, you need to include dishes with radish in the diet for pregnant women and those suffering from flatulence.
Features of growing and caring for a vegetable
Black radish will bring rich harvest, if you choose the right soil for planting: loamy, humus-rich, moist. Before planting a vegetable on a garden bed, add phosphate and potassium fertilizers... Radish is planted depending on the time of harvest: if it is needed in the summer, then at the end of April, if for the winter, then at the end of June.
Radish is one of the most cold-resistant vegetables; frosts below two degrees are not afraid of it.
The first shoots will appear in a week. Radish, like all cabbage, is necessary watering, loosening, hilling, weeding. Top dressing vegetable also plays a significant role in obtaining a healthy harvest. Make fertilizers 2 times per summer, use only mineral, superphosphate, urea, organic vegetables can be ruined. The radish is harvested before the onset of frost, stored in boxes with damp earth or paper bags.
Use for the prevention and treatment of certain diseases, strengthening immunity against colds, for replenishing the body with vitamins, black radish is simply necessary. And for this you just need to grow a vegetable on your site.
More information can be found in the video.
... It will be sharper than a green radish.