Spring is in the yard and soon young green plants will appear on the beds. And after long winter months, I want vitamins. So, let's talk about green cultures, about how they benefit our body.
Dill: useful properties and contraindications
Dill is one of those plants that has been used by man for thousands of years. This spicy grass comes from the eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea. Without dill, our dishes would not have such a pleasant flavor. In Europe, dill began to appear in various dishes, marinades, pickles and sour cream after the 16th century
Currently, fennel by right takes an honorable place in cooking. Dill is especially popular in modern Scandinavian and Baltic cuisines. He is considered a "national herb" and is successfully used in fish dishes and sauces.
Fresh dill is added to the dish at the end of cooking. You can get a very fragrant vinegar for salad dressing. Just put the dill umbrellas in a bottle of vinegar poured. Vinegar should be insisted for two weeks, periodically shaking. Dill seeds are also used. But we must remember that the seeds give away their fragrance only after heat treatment. To fully open the fragrance, pre-heat the frying pan with the frying seeds.
The most common greens on our table are dill. It is not only delicious greens, but also a plant with a lot of useful qualities and properties.
Use of dill
Vitamin C, carotene and vitamin B, nicotinic and folic acids, including many trace elements (calcium, potassium, phosphorus and iron salts) - dill green is beneficial for the body:
- Dill beneficially affects the work of the gastrointestinal tract, lowers blood pressure and normalizes heart activity.
- this beautiful green will help with exacerbation of cystitis and renal inflammation,
- will ease the headache and help get rid of insomnia,
- has diuretic and choleretic properties,
- Dill is an excellent way to increase the amount of breast milk.
In modern medicine, dill is used both in fresh form (salads and dill water), and in the form of preparations (infusions, decoctions):
- Dill water is prepared from dill oil (one part of dill oil per thousand parts of water).
- Tincture of fennel seeds is used for diseases of the urinary system. Prepare it easily - a tablespoon of seeds (chop) pour a glass of boiling water and press under the lid for fifteen minutes. If tincture to drink half a glass three times a day, then this is a wonderful diuretic. Infusion of dill seeds is recommended for use in inflammation of the respiratory tract, as a soothing agent, with hiccups.
Amazing greenery dill is useful to us and for beauty. Useful properties for cosmetology are as follows.
Lotion of dill broth will help to remove eye fatigue.
Dill-petrusher mask will save you from freckles. If you consume enough dill, your skin will improve. Therefore, when it comes time for young potatoes with dill, for us it's a chance to enjoy a delicious and healthy dish. Dill is good always and everywhere.
Benefits and harm of parsley
Parsley, perhaps, ranks first among the green grasses in Russia. Cooks use both leaf and root parsley, and for medicinal purposes only leaf is suitable. An interesting fact is that in parsley there is more vitamin C than in citrus fruits. So, if you catch a cold, then chew parsley, and then you can and lemon.
Parsley is bioflavonoids and essential oils (in myristicin). Myristicin stops the development of malignant tumors. Parsley has antioxidant properties and thus protects our body from many carcinogens. Parsley juice is used to remove swelling, with insect bites, as well as in cosmetics. For example, for bleaching the skin. It acts on the skin rejuvenating, tones it and brightens, helps to get rid of acne. Parsley is an excellent tool for teeth whitening and strengthening of gums.
This beautiful herb is rich in useful substances and minerals. In large quantities, it contains vitamin K. Therefore, for patients after prolonged treatment with antibiotics it is recommended to eat parsley, because the useful properties of parsley have curative power .. Currently, parsley is used as a restorer of acid-base balance after a delicious lunch. Green parsley - a beautiful decoration of the table.
Parsley juice is an excellent but potent remedy. Therefore, you should drink no more than sixty milliliters of juice in its pure form. It is best to make a blend - mix with any vegetable juices.
Parsley: contraindications
It can cause contraction of the uterus, so this greens should not be consumed in large quantities by pregnant women. Parsley is contraindicated in people suffering from urolithiasis.
What is the composition of parsley? It is superior to fruit in the content of vitamin C, in addition it contains a large amount of carotene (not less than carrots), vitamin A, vitamins B1; AT 2. In the parsley there is folic acid, mineral and enzymatic substances, as well as inulin, necessary for regulating the exchange of glucose in the blood.
Useful properties of parsley:
- Benefits for women's health (menstrual cycle problems, as well as for improving lactation).
- As a therapeutic and recreational purposes and prevention of diseases of the digestive system, liver diseases. To combat swelling, with eye diseases. In addition, it helps to increase the level of hemoglobin in the blood.
- In addition to decoctions and infusions use juice. In addition to many useful properties, it also has antipyretic effect and relieve the pain from insect bites.
- Root parsley when used in any form strengthens the immune system. This is an excellent tool for the treatment and prevention of scurvy, night blindness and beriberi.
- Parsley is magnificent and as a cosmetic.
Useful properties of cilantro
Cilantro is an amazingly useful spice. It is rich in carotene, vitamins and potassium salts. The composition of cilantro seeds includes essential oils, pectin, starch, proteins, fructose, sucrose and glucose, as well as tannins.
Cilantro is widely used as a medicine. With various tumors and swelling, with diarrhea and mouth ulcers, anemia, menstrual disorders and many other diseases, coriander will help our body. The extract of seeds and essential oil is used as medicines. Extract from the seeds helps with depression and depressed psyche. Cilantro contains eleven kinds of essential oils, seven kinds of acids, minerals and vitamins, all of these substances have excellent medicinal properties.
The presence of cineol and lanolic acid in the plant contributes to anti-rheumatic and anti-arthritic effects on the body. If the kidneys are broken, the coriander will also help. Cilantro has the ability to remove excess fluid from the body. The acids present in cilantro, such as linoleic, oleic, palmitic, sterol and ascorbic, perfectly lower the level of cholesterol in the blood. As part of the essential oils of cilantro comes borneol and linalool, which contribute to improving digestion and normalizing liver function. Essential oils, thanks to the content of the sitronelol in them, perfectly treat ulcers in the oral cavity. Cilantro, rich in iron, will be useful in the treatment of anemia.
Treatment of eye diseases, skin diseases and many others will help coriander. But we must remember that, like all medicines, coriander has certain contraindications. So, for example, it is categorically contraindicated for pregnant women and people suffering from thrombophlebitis, thrombosis. And also it is impossible to use coriander with hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases, with gastric ulcer, with gastritis and cholecystitis.
By the way, coriander can be grown not only in the garden garden, but also in the apartment, just on the windowsill or on the balcony. And you will always have fresh, beautiful spicy and very useful greens.
Now you know everything about dill, parsley, coriander, the beneficial properties of these amazing plants, which will undoubtedly emphasize your dishes and add to them an amazing taste.