A natural question may arise: "How does carrot promote our recovery, if it is most often heat-treated?" Here the unique property of this root is manifested. Ironically, but, unlike most vegetables and fruits, the carrot after cooking contains more useful substances than in its raw form. After cooking, the content of antioxidants in carrots increases by 34%. But the more interesting fact is that in the boiled carrots stored for a month, even more chemical compounds with antioxidant properties are formed. As you know, antioxidants in the body contribute to strengthening immunity, provide growth of healthy cells, reduce the risk of developing cancer.
Probably everyone knows that carrots are the leader among vegetables and fruits in the content of carotene - a provitamin (precursor) of vitamin A, so necessary for the health and beauty of the skin. Regular use of freshly squeezed carrot juice refreshes and nourishes the skin. Many have heard that carrot juice is better to drink in a mixture with vegetable oil. It should be noted that the oil contributes to the better absorption of carotene by the body.
Benefits for beauty.
It is useful to use carrots in the composition of face masks.
So, for example, for any type of skin , such compositions of masks are used:
- grated carrots (3 pcs.), potato flour (3 tsp), half yolk;
- grated carrots, milk (1 tbsp.);
- carrot juice, lemon in a ratio of 3: 1.
Masks are applied for 15-20 minutes, after which they are washed off with warm water.
For dry skin:
- puree of boiled carrots, honey;
- one teaspoon of grated carrots or carrot juice, cottage cheese, cream.
Apply these compounds to the skin for 10-20 minutes, rinse with warm water.
For oily skin:
- use lotions of gauze soaked in carrot juice. This mask with regular use (2-3 times a week for a month) creates a light tan on the skin.
- grated carrots, whipped into the foam protein, flour (to give a mushy consistency).
Apply the mask for 20 minutes, rinse with water at room temperature.
Use of carrots for hair:
- A mixture of carrot and lemon juice, rubbed into the scalp, promotes the growth of hair, gives them shine.
Benefit for health.
Carrots and other vitamins and minerals are rich: vitamins D, E, B vitamins, ascorbic acid or vitamin C, phosphorus, iodine, magnesium, manganese, potassium, iron, calcium and other substances. Such a rich chemical composition opens up a wide range of carrot applications, both in traditional medicine and in folk medicine.
Raw carrots and its juice are used for hypovitaminosis and avitaminosis, anemia. Due to its composition, it helps to restore the epithelium. In the people with various burns, frostbite, wounds, ulcers on the damaged area of the skin impose grated carrots.
Carrot juice helps to cleanse the body of toxins, removing sand from the kidneys, normalizing metabolism, stimulates the work of all organs. Carrots improve the work of the gastrointestinal tract, is a mild laxative and antihelminthic. Phytocides contained in root vegetables, contribute to the suppression of pathogenic microflora. At the same carrots in its action is almost inferior to garlic and onions.
Carrot juice is used for mouth and throat problems. Carrot juice rinses the mouth with stomatitis, various inflammations of the oral cavity. With angina in folk medicine, gargling is used with a mixture of carrot juice and honey.
Weight loss.
Pyotr Dimkov (a Bulgarian healer) based on carrots developed a diet for weight reduction. There is a diet in the use of a certain dish during the day for three days. The composition of the dish includes: grated carrots, honey, lemon juice, any fruit. On the fourth day, we include fried potatoes (in our opinion, better boiled), bread and apples. From the fifth day you can switch to normal light meals.
Reception of medicines.
Seeds of carrot plants also contain a large number of useful substances that are used to produce medicines. For example, a remedy such as Daucarin is a good antispasmodic, used for atherosclerosis, coronary insufficiency.
Contraindications.
But, despite the huge list of positive effects for beauty and health, carrots and its juice have some contraindications: it is undesirable to consume with inflammation of the small intestine, ulcers of the stomach and duodenum in the stages of exacerbation. In addition, excessive consumption can lead to the appearance of a yellowish, orange hue on some parts of the body. This phenomenon indicates that there is a surplus of carotene, which the body is not able to cope with.