The healing properties of lettuce leaves

Since the days of antiquity, cultivated such a garden crop as a salad. It was grown in ancient Rome. In ancient Egypt it was used as a medicine, and the ancient Greeks, famous culinary specialists, used it for cooking different dishes. Now there are many varieties of salad. The useful and medicinal properties of lettuce leaves to mankind have been known for a long time. There are a lot of provitamin A, vitamins of the whole B-spectrum, C, PP, E, calcium, magnesium, potassium, iron salts, sugar and proteins in its leaves. Ogorodnikov most of all attracts in the cultivation of this culture its frost resistance and precocity. It can be successfully grown even in the northern territories of our country. The plant needs a lot of light, so it is referred to as a "long day" plant.

Salad and its leaves are used for dietary nutrition, they are recommended for people with diabetes. Those who have problems with excess weight, can make themselves unloading "salad" days, thus it is possible to eat its various kinds. The leaves of this plant perfectly excrete poisons and toxic elements from the body. Salad - a fairly useful culture for ulcerative lesions of the stomach, gastritis and bowel diseases.

If you regularly eat different kinds of salad, then you can win long-suffering pain. Ulcerous lesions will heal much faster. If you suffer from frequent sleep disorders, you can resort to the help of tincture from salad leaves, which are used in fresh form. Tincture of salad seeds is also very useful. It is able to significantly increase the amount of milk produced by young mothers.

Salad and its useful properties are often used as an expectorant for bronchial diseases, salad does not lose effectiveness even with a strong and prolonged cough. Indispensable salad and with large blood loss. In its composition, there is a lot of iron necessary for the human body. Being in our body, iron should be gradually updated, in order to help in timely cases in extreme cases. Therefore, you need to eat a salad more often.

In the leaves of the salad, everything else is full of magnesium. This element is necessary for a person to restore and work the nervous system and maintain the tone of muscle mass. The juice that can be squeezed from salad leaves is also very useful. It can be mixed with carrot juice, beets, turnips and take at least a cup. Such a drink will prevent the development of atherosclerotic lesions of blood vessels, it can perfectly restore strength. Useful properties of this plant are skillfully and profitably used by homeopathic physicians. Created on the basis of salad useful properties, medicines help to fight with increased emotional and nervous irritability. They help with hypertension and other diseases of the heart and vessels.

Salad: medicinal properties.

Salad leaves help beauticians solve skin problems, which are often addressed to them by visitors. On the basis of lettuce leaves make masks that promote skin refreshing. If the skin is heavily scorched by the sun, then the affected areas are wiped with light green juice. Spirituous tincture with salad leaves is an excellent remedy that will help to strengthen hair. It, after it stays at an average temperature of about 7 days, will acquire a greenish tinge. This emerald composition - an excellent assistant in the fight against dandruff, hair loss. It will help hair grow faster. You can make yourself a bath with a decoction of lettuce leaves before going to bed. This bath will help relieve stress of the day, allow you to relax and sleep well.

Culinary specialists also successfully use the useful properties of salad. Often it is used in soups, replacing them with cabbage. Our compatriots use it as a snack, while they serve salad with mayonnaise, sour cream or vegetable oil. It's no secret that when extinguishing, frying, cooking, the useful properties of many plants are lost, not an exception, and a salad. It is better, of course, to have it fresh. Leaves of salad are often decorated with meat, fish dishes, vegetables. They look great on sandwiches. In general, a salad can be combined with many products. Different peoples have their own passions. For example, Italians like to eat salad as a dessert after dinner. Salad leaves they are sprinkled with lemon juice and watered with yoghurt.

Salad refers to those crops that require care in storage and care when buying. It should be noted that more than a day to store the salad is not recommended, and flabby leaflets generally can not be. If there is only a fresh salad, then you will get the whole set of nutrients that this plant possesses.

When washing lettuce leaves you need to use standing water, and, by the way, you do not need to wash it, otherwise you can "miss" all the vitamins that will go along with the water. In general, the salad is worth it so that you pay attention to it and truly love it.