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Healing recipes from cabbage.

Cabbage in its original form - in the form of leaves - for external use, unfortunately, can do little to help in the treatment of diseases. By themselves, cabbage leaves are not chemically active, but the juice contained in cabbage leaves is endowed with many medicinal properties. And all these beneficial properties of cabbage juice are directly related to the digestive tract. That is, cabbage is a medicine for our stomach and intestines.

But like all medicinal plants, cabbage, or more precisely, its juice, has a number of contraindications to use. For this reason, you first need to familiarize yourself with the undesirable and sometimes very harmful effects of eating cabbage and its juice, and only after that you start treating cabbage.

Cabbage in its raw form and in the form of raw juice in the process of digestion stimulates increased gas formation in the intestine in all its parts, which means that it is harmful to food:

people suffering from a tendency to flatulence (gas formation);
people with colitis;
people suffering from dyspeptic disorders with a predominance of diarrhea;
people suffering from dysbacteriosis;
women during pregnancy;
people with a recumbent lifestyle;
people who have undergone abdominal operations on the abdominal organs - during the rehabilitation period;
people suffering from gastritis and other types of inflammatory diseases of the gastric and intestinal mucosa;
people who eat once or twice a day with a long break (the intestines are empty and filled with gas, swells up and causes unbearable pain);
people after procedures that empty the intestines (enemas, 12-24 hour fasting before x-rays or studies of the gastrointestinal tract and its functions);
categorically for children under the age of three (only boiled ground cabbage and juice from boiled cabbage are allowed - for children over two years old).

What is useful in raw cabbage and its raw juice for the treatment of diseases?

Firstly, cabbage is a fiber that is necessary for normal intestinal motility, which means that raw cabbage and its juice are useful in food for people with chronic constipation, with lazy intestines, with intestinal atony, for people in the period after a therapeutic diet, when only ground food was consumed, and the intestines were used to "not bothering" in digesting food. Cabbage treatment is also useful for preventing constipation in a predominantly sedentary lifestyle.

Secondly, cabbage is very low in calories, which automatically translates it into the list of dietary foods for athletes or people seeking to lose weight in a fairly short period of time. Cabbage is part of all anti-cholesterol diets and preventive diets to prevent excess weight gain.

Thirdly, cabbage is a natural source of vitamins and minerals. Cabbage (all types) is a storehouse of vitamins PP and C, as well as important micro- and macroelements Potassium, Calcium, Magnesium, Fluorine, Sodium, Iodine. All types of raw cabbage juice contain natural acids and enzymes. The juice of raw cabbage is very useful for vitamin deficiencies, poor appetite, hypovitaminosis, for diseases of the oral mucosa (dystrophy, gingivitis) and for periodontitis, for anemia, for diabetes mellitus and other metabolic disorders, for diseases associated with disturbances in the work of bile enzymes and a tendency to stone formation in the gallbladder.

Fourth, raw cabbage and its juice, as well as sauerkraut and its juice, are a favorable environment for the survival of beneficial intestinal bacteria - it is a kind of stimulant of fermentation in the intestine.

Several healing recipes from cabbage for different occasions will make it possible to effectively use the beneficial properties of cabbage.

Fresh cabbage juice.

For the preparation of the juice, a variety of cabbage with thick juicy leaves is chosen. Cabbage leaves are shredded and squeezed with a pestle or a special press (juicer) until juice appears. The juice is expressed and consumed an hour and a half before meals or during meals (it can be chilled). Such juice is useful for all types of sports or anti-cholesterol diet, during the rehabilitation period after long, protracted diseases that weaken the immune system (as a general tonic and fortified agent).

Sauerkraut juice.

During the period when the cabbage is fermented and left to ferment in room conditions, the excess of the released fermented cabbage juice is poured into a glass. take an hour and a half before meals or during a meal (can be chilled) in half a glass of fermented cabbage juice, diluting it to taste with boiled water. Such juice is useful for disorders of the enzymatic activity of the intestines, with low acidity of the stomach, with constipation and lazy intestines, with metabolic disorders.

Cabbage juice (two recipes).

Cabbage juice is useful for people on strict diets with the exception of fresh vegetables.

The first recipe for cabbage juice. Cabbage juice is prepared as follows. Squeeze fresh juice from juicy cabbage leaves, divide its volume into two parts. Bring one part of the juice to a boil over low heat and remove from heat. The remaining volume of raw juice is added to it, mixed (shaken) and drunk like ordinary vegetable juice (before meals, during meals or after meals) in a warm form or at room temperature.

The second recipe for cabbage juice. Thick and juicy leaves of any kind of cabbage are finely chopped (2.2 pounds of chopped leaves). Drinking water (68 ounces) is brought to a boil and chopped cabbage is dipped into it. Transfer to low heat and boil for 15 minutes, pour the broth through a colander. Cabbage broth is cooled for drinking, and boiled chopped leaves are added to salads.

Diet salad made from fresh cabbage.

Such a salad is useful for people with diets that exclude raw vegetables in food. Chop fresh juicy cabbage finely (any kind), put the chopped leaves in a colander and put them in boiling water for a second, remove the chopped leaves and cool in the air. These scalded cabbage leaves can be added to salads with any composition of ingredients and to traditional vinaigrette. And it will also be very useful to have a salad of fresh cabbage prepared in this way in combination with cottage cheese or cheese, chopped egg or boiled carrots in the proportion: 1 tablespoon of cabbage to one tablespoon of boiled carrots and / or chopped eggs, or a glass of cabbage prepared in the above way for one a tablespoon of cottage cheese, grated cheese).

Diet puree from fresh cabbage.

Finely chop thick and juicy cabbage leaves, scald in boiling water for a second, drain off the water, salt to taste and grind in a blender (mixer) until smooth. Such cabbage puree can be thickened in jelly (terrine), or mixed in a one-to-one ratio with rice puree (boiled rice can also be salt to taste and grind in a blender separately from the cabbage). This cabbage puree is useful for all types of diet, diarrhea, gastritis, dysbacteriosis, especially with diets during infectious diseases, since both ingredients of the puree (cabbage and rice) are adsorbents of toxins.

Diet cold soup from cabbage.

Finely chop thick and juicy cabbage leaves of any kind (kilogram), scald the leaves in boiling water (two liters) for one second (dip in a colander and remove), squeeze the juice from the scalded leaves, mix it with hot water, in which they were scalded leaves. Cool this broth. This will be a liquid cold soup base for four servings.

Grate two fresh cucumbers without skin (large size) on a coarse grater, add to the cooled broth at the rate of half a cucumber per serving. Finely chop four boiled eggs into the broth, one egg per serving. Finely chop (into cubes) the boiled meat into a decoction (one hundred grams per serving), fill each serving with a tablespoon of fresh kefir, sour cream or cream. Cabbage cold soup is suitable for any type of diet.

All recipes for using cabbage for treatment can make up standalone meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as for intermediate meals or an overnight snack.