In medical nutrition, carrots are used in the form of juice or in kind. Carrot has a curative effect on the body:
1. Grated carrots and carrot juice have a restorative effect on the body. They increase the activity of internal organs, normalize the metabolism, remove harmful substances and toxins from the body, purify the blood. The use of carrots is useful for anemia and beriberi.
2. Consumption of carrots increases the content of antioxidants in the blood, which allows, especially in the elderly, to strengthen the body's immune system, reduce the risk of cancer, stimulate the growth of healthy cells.
3. Carrots are useful in diseases of atherosclerosis, cardiovascular system and at elevated blood pressure.
4. Carrot juice helps to cleanse the liver, removes sand and small stones in kidney stones, is useful in the violation of the liver and kidneys.
5. Carrots improve digestion, eliminates hemorrhoids and constipation.
6. Carrots are used in inflammatory processes in the oral cavity, with stomatitis, catarrh of the upper respiratory tract, with visual disturbances. A mixture of carrot juice and honey is used for sore throat.
7. In folk medicine, carrot juice and grated carrots are applied to wounds, frostbitten skin areas, ulcers, burns. Excessive consumption of carrots will lead to the fact that the skin can acquire a yellow or orange tint.
Vitamin A is called a "vitamin of beauty" and thus makes carrots, an important means for natural cosmetics. If you regularly drink cooked carrot juice, then you will have a blooming, healthy appearance. In addition, carrots are still good for use in cosmetic purposes as masks.
Use carrots can smooth and refresh the skin. For any facial skin, take a tablespoon of grated carrots, mix with a tablespoon of oatmeal and yolk. Dilute this mixture with a small amount of milk. Put this mask on your face. And after fifteen minutes, we will wash off with warm water, and then with cool water.
To give the skin a tint of sunburn, mix two tablespoons of carrot juice and one teaspoon of glycerin and this mixture wipe the face in the evening and in the morning.
For fading skin
Stir two tablespoons of grated carrots, add honey. We will put a mask on the face, neck. Hold it for 10 minutes. Wash off with warm water and wipe the face with a cotton swab dipped in cool water.
Tightening Face Mask
We cook the carrots and mash it. Add a teaspoon of honey and the resulting mixture will be applied to the face for fifteen minutes, then wash it with water at room temperature.
Take a small carrot and rub it on a grater. Put a grated tomato. Press off the carrot-tomato juice, stir with wheat flour to make a gruel. We will put a thick slurry on the face and wash it with cool water after 20 minutes. This mixture on the oily skin of the face tightens the pores well.
Recipes used masks for the skin of the neck and face
Masks are suitable for any type of skin, it is applied for 20 minutes and washed off with warm water. Natur three rubbed pale pink carrots, add a teaspoon of mashed potatoes or potato flour and half yolk. Taste the carrots and mix with one tablespoon of milk. Two light grated carrots, add the yolk and a few drops of vegetable oil. Take three parts of the carrot juice, and one part of the lemon. If you have a normal or dry skin, then before applying the mask on the skin, pre-lubricate it with butter or cream.
For dry skin
Masks are applied for 20 minutes, and then washed off with warm water. Boil and mash 2 or 3 large carrots, mixed with honey. Take a teaspoon of grated carrots or carrot juice, mix with a teaspoon of cream or a teaspoon of fresh cottage cheese. Take a tablespoon of puree from boiled carrots, add a teaspoon of oatmeal, raw yolk and a teaspoon of vegetable oil. Must get a thick mixture. We will put it on the neck and on the face, we will remove from the face an edge of a teaspoon, thus, not pressing on a skin. Wash warm tea.
Masks for oily skin
Masks we apply for 20 minutes and rinse with warm water. We rub the carrot and put it on gauze, or moisten the gauze with carrot juice and put it on your face. If you do this mask for a month 2 or 3 times a week, the skin will get a light, swarthy tan. Grated carrots will help you if the skin "burned" in the sun. We'll take the protein in the foam and add the grated carrots and flour until the mush is formed.
Mask for normal skin
We rub a light carrot on a small grater. In a tablespoon of this mass, add a few drops of lemon and olive juice, egg yolk. Apply on face for 10 or 15 minutes. We remove the mask with a cotton swab, previously moistened in warm water.
With a slow growth of hair will help a mixture of lemon and carrot juice. When rubbed into the scalp of this mixture, the hair will get a beautiful shine and grow better.
If you want to be energetic, beautiful, healthy, you need to eat more carrots. Add grated carrots to garnish to fish and meat dishes, add to cottage cheese, make salads out of it. Here are a few recipes.
Salad "Health"
Ingredients: 2 pieces of raw carrots, 2 fresh cucumbers, 2 apples, 2 tomatoes, 100 grams of green salad, 100 grams of sour cream, ΒΌ lemon, salt, parsley, sugar.
Take apples, carrots and cucumbers and cut them into thin strips, lettuce leaves cut into 3 or 4 pieces of each leaf. All mixed and served with sour cream. Add sugar, salt, lemon juice. On top of the salad decorate with tomatoes, which we will cut into slices, greens.
For sandwiches - carrot weight
Take 100 grams of carrots, a tablespoon of butter, 2 tablespoons of crushed walnuts, 50 grams of horseradish, and 50 grams of celery.
Carrots baked in the oven with sour cream
Ingredients: 1 kg of carrots, a tablespoon of sugar, a glass of sour cream, 100 grams of melted or butter, salt to add to taste.
We'll clean and wash the carrots, chop and fry red in oil, stirring constantly so that carrots do not burn. In sour cream, add sugar, salt, sugar, fill it with carrots and put in the oven for half an hour. We serve as a side dish to meat or as an independent dish.
Pickled carrots with garlic
Ingredients: 1 kilogram of carrots, 150 or 200 grams of garlic, 1 cup of sunflower oil.
For marinade: 4 glasses of water, 60 grams of salt.
We will wash the carrots, cut it into cubes, mix it with the chopped garlic. Then we add to the carrots refined sunflower oil, mix everything thoroughly and fill it with a marinade. Carrots are packaged in half-liter jars, sunsets and sterilized in water for 20 minutes.
The system, developed by the Bulgarian healer Pyotr Dimkov, is very popular for weight loss. Grate the carrots, add honey, lemon juice and any fruit. It is necessary to eat this dish for three days for breakfast, lunch and dinner. On the fourth day you can already include in your diet apples, bread and chips. And on the fifth day we move on to regular meals.
Now we know about carrots useful properties in the spring. But carrots are useful for eating at any time of the year and not just in the spring. It is very useful and necessary for our body.