Potatoes: its composition.
Potatoes are a product considered very healing. A quarter of the tuber weight is starch (carbohydrates), about 2% are substances of protein origin, and 0, 3% are fats. Tuberous protein is classified as a full-fledged kind of protein, it contains quite a few amino acids. Potato contains many potassium compounds (per 100 g accounted for 568 mg), phosphorus (about 0, 05g), its composition is rich in calcium and iron. Potato tubers also contain vitamins (E, K, D, PP, B, B6, B2, B, C), and folic acid, citric acid, chlorogenic and coffee acids.
Potatoes: its useful properties.
Potato tubers contain a lot of potassium, so it helps to remove excess fluid and salts from the body. This, of course, improves the overall metabolism. Potatoes are therefore indispensable for dieting. Baked potatoes are especially rich in potassium, practically all useful substances are stored in it. Doctors recommend it is for atherosclerosis, hypertension, heart failure.
As mentioned above, there are a lot of carbohydrates in potatoes, so it is very caloric. Its caloricity is higher than other vegetables by about 3 times. Therefore, those who are trying to lose weight, should limit the reception of potatoes. Starch, which is found in potato tubers, our body is not digested in its pure form, so doctors are not advised to eat potatoes often. Nevertheless, the properties of potatoes are irreplaceable in the fight against such diseases as gastritis, increased acidity, ulcerative lesions of the duodenum and stomach. Potatoes favorably differ from other products by their property alkalinizing to act on the human body. This is important for those who suffer from an increased level of acidity. Along with the elements of starch, potatoes are rich in proteins, ascorbic acid and lots of vitamins. And, in spite of the fact that there are not so many of them, we make up for their shortage at the expense of decent portions, with which we are accustomed to eat our favorite potatoes.
Potatoes: traditional medicine, treatment.
To get rid of allergic reactions in the form of spots, burst blood vessels, after burns, you need to wipe the skin with a cut of a raw potato tuber. Freshen up your face with a mask of potatoes, it will easily remove all traces of fatigue. To make a mask, you need to crush a hot tuber, add milk, yolk and mix thoroughly to get a viscous gruel. The mask should be applied while it is warm, and cover with a woolen or other, but warm, handkerchief or towel. The mask should be kept for up to half an hour. Then wash everything off with water and rinse your face with cool water. This mask is able not only to refresh the skin, but it has both nutritional properties and lifting effect: it is able to smooth wrinkles. The dry structure of the skin becomes more gentle, smooth, and its elasticity rises. The greatest benefit is a mask made from young tubers welded in a uniform. It is recommended to impose it on ladies who are over 40. It is necessary to crush the tuber, mix it with sour cream, and apply the gruel to the skin. In about 20 minutes everything can be washed off.
The juice squeezed from raw tubers can help in purifying the whole organism. If you mix it with celery or carrot juice, it will help to normalize digestive processes, to extinguish nervous disorders. He promotes healing in goiter and sciatica. If every day to drink a half-liter of a drink from potato, beet, cucumber and carrot juice, the result will not take long. Especially it will be relevant if you comply with the condition of complete exclusion of meat and fish food.
If cardiac activity is impaired, then 100 ml of potato juice intake will help three weeks three times a day before meals. Then you need to take a week break and repeat the course. During the course you need to drink up to 15 liters of potato juice.
But with gastrointestinal disorders (with gastritis with an increased level of acidity, ulcers, with problems with constipation), one should drink a full glass of potato juice squeezed out of raw tubers in the mornings while the stomach is empty. After taking the juice, you need to lie down about half an hour. An hour later, you can easily have breakfast. You need to repeat the reception of the juice for ten days, and then take a break, also for 10 days, then repeat the course again. By the way, juice should be taken only fresh: within 4 minutes after cooking.
The skin of the hands will become more gentle, if you drop your hands into the decoction of potatoes for about 5 minutes. The potato broth is also effective, and with the fragility of the nails. A concentrated decoction of potatoes can defeat the fungal infection in an unopened stage.
There are potato properties to treat and diseases of the respiratory system: bronchitis, catarrh. You need to boil potato tubers in uniforms, crush, add 1 table. a spoonful of oil (vegetable), a few drops of iodine, stir everything, put it in a napkin and apply a compress on the chest, wrap it.
Hypertension can also surrender its position under the influence of potatoes. It should be eaten, boiled in a uniform, along with skins. When treating hemorrhoids, you can grate the raw tuber, squeeze the juice and through the syringe to enter, leaving for the night. And so for 10 days. You can cut a candle from a potato and insert it into the anus at night. You can dip it into honey.
If you tortured a cough, you can boil 5 potatoes in uniforms, cut and put on the night on your back and chest, after pre-laying paper, wrap it on top.
You can boil the tubers in their uniforms, drain the water, cover themselves with a towel, bend over the pan and breathe hot potato steam. This is useful for diseases of the respiratory system, colds.
With warts, you can cut the potato and rub it with a cut. To heal wounds with pus it is necessary to impose a gruel from grated raw tubers. You can also treat boils and boils. The imposed gruel should be changed every few hours.
Anemia and Graves' disease are treated with fresh juice from red tubers, taking half a cup a couple of times a day before meals for 30 minutes for 3 weeks. With headaches take juice by a quarter cup.
Flatulence eliminates the trick of fresh juice on an empty stomach 4 r. the day before meals. Ulcerous lesions of the digestive organs require the reception of a decoction of potatoes boiled in enameled pots without salt.
In raw potatoes there are many digestible sugars, they become starch when cooking. Those who suffer from sexually transmitted diseases or are prone to sexual overexcitation, there is no potato.