Basic properties of black radish
Radish has medicinal properties superior to all known natural remedies - garlic, onions and honey. it has a truly unsurpassed bactericidal properties. This is all due to the content of essential oil, which in 100 g of dried raw materials contains up to 50 mg. Add benefits and glycosides, which give the radish a well-known sharp taste and aroma. Also, scientists recently discovered in the radish antimicrobial substance lysozyme, which helps dissolve the cell wall of most harmful microorganisms. Neither mycobacteria, pertussis and diphtheria bacillus, nor Staphylococcus aureus nor streptococcus can withstand lysozyme.
In addition, the radish perfectly removes toxic substances from the body. In the period of illness they are bacteria, viruses and products of their decay. To speed up the process of their removal, doctors advise drinking as much fluid as possible. But it's better to deal with this black radish! It contains a lot of potassium, regulating water-salt metabolism. With the use of radish urination increases, intestinal activity improves, the excretion of its waste content, and with it poisonous metabolic products, is accelerated.
Black radish in folk medicine
These curative properties of radish were known to people since the beginning of its cultivation, and this is more than 3000 years ago. Hippocrates also explained how a radish is useful and prescribes it for the treatment of pulmonary diseases and dropsy. The ancient Greeks found that radish helps to improve digestion, helps eyesight and calms coughing attacks.
In folk medicine, black radish is often used as a diuretic and anti-cold remedy. There is a proven recipe for fighting the flu: radish root rubs on a small grater, the juice is squeezed out and the entire body of the patient is wiped (before going to bed). The patient goes to bed and wraps well. In addition, you can drink a small sip of 1 cup of the prepared mixture: radish juice with water (in half) and 1 tbsp. spoon of honey.
A radish is also useful in other diseases. For example, in diseases of the lungs, radish juice is advised even by doctors. He is better than any medicine dilutes sputum, reducing inflammation of the mucosa of the respiratory tract and coughing.
Rhinitis is also easily and safely treated with a radish. You must first evaporate in a bath or bath and rub in the mixture of grated radish and horseradish (1: 1), adding a little honey and salt. In addition, you can drink tea with mint, St. John's wort and raspberries. Then necessarily lie in a warm bed.
Radish juice with honey is the most effective remedy for colds of the upper respiratory tract with dry cough and hoarseness of voice. For adults it is recommended to drink 1-2 tablespoons. spoons 2-3 times a day, and children on a teaspoon.
There is an excellent prescription for children to facilitate the phlegm. Prepare it this way: the radish is cut into small cubes, poured into a saucepan with sugar and put in the oven for a couple of hours. Then the pieces of radish are thrown out, and the liquid merges into a bottle and is given to the child for 2 tsp 4 times a day before meals and always at night.
If the cold is accompanied by cystitis, then the radish juice with honey (1: 1) will also come to the rescue. Drink it should be 1 tbsp. spoon three times a day for half an hour after a meal. Treatment should last at least three weeks.
Black radish is used for cold inhalations. It is rubbed on a grater, folded into a jar and tightly closed. Then just remove the lid and several times deeply breathe outgoing vapors. Thus it is necessary to hold your breath during inspiration. The procedure is repeated 6-8 times during the day.
Radish essential oils accelerate the secretion of gastric juice, improve the gastric and intestinal blood circulation, activate the activity of the bile excreting organs, and help the rapid evacuation of the intestine. Therefore, it is often used as a laxative for constipation. At the same time, radish juice is drunk in a warm form, and also vegetable salads are eaten from it.
With cholelithiasis and urolithiasis, black and white radish is useful as a means for dissolving stones. Juice is prepared and drunk at 1 tbsp. spoon one hour after each meal. If there is no pain in the liver, then the dose can be gradually increased to 3 tbsp. spoons. The course of treatment lasts 4-5 weeks.
When hypertension is recommended to take 1 glass of radish juice, beets, carrots and horseradish, pour 0, 25 cups of vodka and insist a day in a dark place. Then add lemon juice to the mixture. Drink 1 tbsp. spoon three times a day one hour before a meal or 2 hours after it.
Fresh juice of black radish drink 1 tbsp. spoon three times a day for atherosclerosis, as the radish excels cholesterol perfectly. It is also useful to eat radish dishes.
Radish is also effective in the fight against anemia. Prepare the medicine as follows: squeeze the juice from 0, 5 kg. radish, 0, 5 kg. beets and 0, 5 kg. carrots, poured into a container of dark glass, covered with dough and put in the oven for 3 hours. Take 1 tbsp. spoon three times a day for 15 minutes before eating. The course of treatment is 3 months.
Often radish is used for many ailments. For example, with rheumatism, radiculitis, neurosis, a compress of gruel or radish juice is applied. With intercostal neuralgia, myositis and sciatica, fresh juice is rubbed into the sore spot along the nerve path.
Radish juice, mixed with honey, is also used as an anthelmintic. Radish is also useful for activating the activity of the pancreas and for strengthening the elasticity of the vascular capillaries.
Vitamin dishes with radish
Black radish is a low-calorie product. It contains a whole set of useful substances. These are, first of all, micro and macro elements: sodium, magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron, phosphorus, iodine, chlorine, sulfur, copper and other substances that have therapeutic effect. There are in it a lot of sugars, proteins, carbohydrates, fiber, enzymes and vitamins - C, R, group B, essential oils.
In the people it is customary to eat bitter radish with sour cream, mayonnaise, tomato sauce, sour milk and butter. Also the radish perfectly combines with apples, oranges, quince, cranberry, sour juices, lemon, kvass and vinegar. Not bad is it digested with boiled meat, hard and homemade cheeses and fish.