Benefit for health.
Cabbage has many medicinal properties. First of all, it is known for its excellent digestion. Cabbage juice helps the healing process and reduces pain in peptic ulcer of stomach and duodenum, with gastritis, liver diseases, ulcerative colitis. With peptic ulcer of the duodenum and stomach, freshly squeezed cabbage juice is taken in a warm form 3 times a day before meals for 30-40 minutes, starting with a half-glass, gradually increasing the dose to a whole glass. 40 days - a full course of treatment, but relief will come in a few days. Excellent cleanses the intestines and stomach from accumulated slag fresh cabbage. It has a beneficial effect on the beneficial intestinal microflora. It improves digestion, eliminates constipation. But with increased acidity in the stomach to take cabbage juice is prohibited.
Fresh cabbage and freshly squeezed cabbage juice reduce the risk of cancer, especially cancer of the rectum. Cabbage juice contains substances called indoles. Indoles contribute to lowering the level of estrogen (a female hormone), which is converted in the body into compounds that can cause cancer. Therefore, the use of cabbage and its juice reduce the risk of breast cancer.
Due to the large amount of vitamin C, fiber and flavonoids, cabbage strengthens the walls of blood vessels, promotes the excretion of cholesterol from the body, and also prevents atherosclerosis. Cabbage is included in medical diets for various diseases of the urinary tract and kidneys, diabetes, obesity.
Cabbage has an anti-inflammatory effect and relieves pain, so in folk medicine, raw cabbage leaves are applied to ulcers, wounds, mammary glands (with mastitis), abscesses. Long (several weeks) night wrapping joints with arthritis, rheumatism, gout will get rid of the pain.
For medicinal purposes, it is better to use raw cabbage, because when heat treatment, its nutritional value will decrease. To cabbage has not lost vitamin C, you need to prepare it for water vapor. To get the freshly squeezed juice, let the finely chopped leaves 2 times through the meat grinder and squeeze through the gauze, or use a juicer (2 kg of cabbage = 1 L of juice). Freshly prepared juice is recommended to drink immediately, otherwise the disintegration of useful amino acids will begin. If cabbage juice is stored (even if in the refrigerator) for more than 2 days, then the destruction of vitamins will occur. To undiluted freshly squeezed juice did not cause gas generation, you need to mix it with carrot juice.
Benefits for beauty.
Cabbage is extremely important for skin health, and is also useful for hair, which is why it has been used for cosmetic purposes since ancient times. Cabbage whitens, cleans, nourishes and refreshes the skin, giving it softness and velvety, and can be used as masks suitable for any skin type.
For dry skin.
- Finely chopped cabbage leaves boil in milk until a mushy condition. Apply on the face and neck area, leave for 20 minutes. Then rinse with warm water.
- Scald with a small amount of boiling water a couple of cabbage leaves to make them softer. Moisten them in vegetable oil, and cover your face and neck for 15-20 minutes. Then the leaves need to be removed and washed with a slightly warm chamomile broth.
For very dry skin.
- Mix in equal proportions vegetable oil, egg yolk and cabbage gruel. Apply the resulting mixture on the skin with a thin layer, leave for 20 minutes. Wash off the face mask with exceptionally warm, not hot water.
For the fading skin.
- Finely slice a couple of fresh cabbage leaves, mix with a quarter teaspoon of yeast, a quarter of a glass of apple juice, and add one teaspoon of honey. Apply on the face for no longer than 20 minutes, cleanse the face with a cotton swab.
For oily skin.
- Pass cabbage leaves through a meat grinder, whisk egg white, bring the mixture to a homogeneous mass. Apply on face for 25 minutes. The mask will help with purulent wounds.
- Fatty skin needs to be cleaned in the morning and in the evening with a cotton swab moistened with cabbage juice. Then for 10-15 minutes before washing wipe the juice from sauerkraut.
For normal skin.
- Finely chop the leaves from fresh cabbage. Crushed mass or cotton swabs, moistened with cabbage juice, apply to the skin of the face. After waiting 25 minutes, remove the mask and wash your face with cool water.
- Mix a teaspoonful of sauerkraut juice with a teaspoon of vegetable oil and the same amount of yolk. Use the resulting mass for 20 minutes.
Whitening masks.
- Dampen the napkin with sour cabbage juice, then squeeze it lightly and apply on the pigment spots on the face skin, leave for 10 minutes. Tip: Do this procedure a day before the blanching spots (but, in no case, no more than 30 times).
- Mix in equal proportions gruel fresh cabbage leaves, their juice and rowan with curdled milk. Apply on pigment spots every day for about 10-15 minutes.
In order to soften the skin of your hands , 2 times a week make a bath of sour cabbage juice, then grease your hands with fat creams.
Use of cabbage for hair.
- To strengthen split, thin hair, actively rub a mixture of lemon juice, freshly squeezed cabbage juice, spinach and lemon daily into the scalp. The full course of treatment is 3-4 weeks.