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Black radish - medicinal recipes.

There is no more ideal situation in the treatment of diseases when their treatment can be combined with a normal diet. But if a food product is also suitable for external use in the treatment of diseases, then it has no price. Such a simple plant, the Black radish (root vegetable), has many advantages both in nutrition and in salvation from many painful conditions. How to use the root vegetable Radish for the benefit of digestion and how to use Black radish for various diseases?

The Black radish contains substances to which the Black radish owes its medicinal properties (glycosides - glucosinolates (mustard oil) and Salicylic acid). These substances endow Black radish with a pronounced bitter taste, which, on the one hand, makes it a vegetable for bitterness lovers, and on the other hand, creates the opportunity to use these substances as natural irritants of the skin or mucous membranes. The irritating effect of Black radish juice on the gastrointestinal mucosa creates the prerequisites for stimulating digestive enzymes in diseases associated with enzymatic deficiency. This property of Black radish is used in nutrition to improve digestion.

The irritating local effect of Black radish juice on the skin or mucous membrane plays the role of a stimulator of local inflammation and trophism of the skin or mucous membrane due to blood flow to those areas of the skin with which Black radish juice comes into contact. The local inflammatory process, caused by light burning of the skin or mucous membrane with Black radish juice, helps to stimulate the immune system, which reacts to a light burn and starts a mechanism in the body called local immunity, which allows the immune system to work in the desired area of the skin or mucous membrane in such an artificial way. This property of Black radish is used for the preparation of applications, compresses, wraps, baths, rinses of the mouth and throat.

In addition to the obvious healing effects of Black radish juice, Black radish itself is a very multifaceted vegetable in terms of vitamins and microelements, which allows it to be used in nutrition as a source of nutrients. The most valuable trace elements in Black radish are Zinc, Selenium and Sulfur. Root vegetable Black radish is an almost complete vitamin complex.

From the point of view of the choice of Black radish varieties for certain medicinal needs, the winter Black radish varieties are more acute and more suitable for external compresses and rinses, and the summer varieties are less sharp and more fortified, which has a good effect on digestion and general healthy vitamin nutrition. But both the winter and summer varieties of Black radish are equally suitable for food, which makes this vegetable an important year-round food product.

The use of Black radish for food and for medicinal purposes has contraindications. Black radish is categorically NOT useful in the diet of people suffering from acute and chronic inflammatory diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (gastritis, colitis, allergic inflammation of the gastrointestinal mucosa), as well as diseases associated with high acidity, ulcers and erosions of the gastrointestinal mucosa (stomach ulcer, duodenal ulcer, erosive intestinal and stomach damage). DO NOT use Black radish in food, for rinsing and compresses in cases of viral and bacterial stomatitis, skin diseases (acute and chronic), with acute infectious diseases of the skin or mucous membranes (viral, fungal, bacterial), with purulent inflammations on the skin or mucous membranes, with abrasions or burns on the skin or mucous membranes.

How to use Black radish juice for treatment? Black radish juice is a chemically active component that can be used for rinsing, compresses (applications) and for oral administration for colds associated with the upper respiratory tract - when coughing, with congestion of the bronchial tree. Peel the raw Black radish, rub on a coarse grater, squeeze the juice through cheesecloth or through a fine strainer. Mix the juice of fresh Radish with sugar or honey in the proportion of two tablespoons of juice to one tablespoon of granulated sugar or honey, take orally a teaspoon of the mixture once a day in moments of severe cough - plays a distracting role and relieves a coughing attack for a short time.

For people who avoid excessive intake of sugar and its alternatives, Black radish juice can be consumed orally by wetting the crumb of bread in it. In a tablespoon of Black radish juice, soak a slice of bread with a trimmed crust and eat. For severe coughs, take no more than once a day.

Black radish juice can be used in combination with hot milk - add a tablespoon of Black radish juice to a glass of hot milk. Drink the drink at the moments of a coughing fit (It can be divided into two steps - add half a tablespoon of Black radish juice to half a glass of milk. The milk is heated before the Black radish juice is diluted in it).

For compresses or applications, the juice of fresh Black radish is used according to the principle of a pepper plaster. You can soak a cotton cloth with juice and put it on the chest area - conditionally opposite the bronchi. The compress is closed with a layer of polyethylene and fixed with a bandage (bandaged) or adhesive plaster on the skin. It is possible to keep such a compress in time depending on the strength of heating, but not to allow a severe burn of the skin, but only a superficial light burn - redness. This is a distraction for coughing of any origin (including asthmatic cough - if there is no other remedy at hand, with a cold cough, with a heart cough). Similar compresses can be done with honey and Black radish juice in a one-to-one ratio; with grated fresh Black radish; with grated fresh Black radish mixed with mustard powder in any proportion, with grated fresh Black radish mixed with honey in any proportion.

Fresh Black radish juice in its pure form is used for rinsing the throat and mouth for diseases of Pharyngitis, Laryngitis, Tonsillitis.

Fresh radish juice can be used to remove corns. A cloth soaked in freshly squeezed Black radish juice is applied to the corn, covered with a layer of polyethylene, fixed with a plaster and during the day the application does its job - it gradually eats away the hardened skin. The application of Black radish juice is repeated several times.

With Black radish juice, you can make foot baths. Three large Black radishes grated on a coarse grater or juice squeezed from grated three large Black radishes are added to three liters of water heated for a bath. Keep your feet in the bath until the water cools completely and then at room temperature for another hour. This foot bath is used for tired legs, colds, rheumatic diseases of the joints of the foot and ankle.

Fresh Black radish juice can be used in food for watering green salads, vegetable salads of any composition, for making sauces without heating. Concentrated juice of fresh Black radish gives any salads and sauces a spicy pungent taste.

Fresh Black radish juice can be diluted with cabbage juice, carrot juice, tomato juice and drunk as a fortified drink - add one and a half to two tablespoons of fresh Black radish juice to a glass of vegetable juice.