When buckwheat appeared in Europe, it did not immediately win a worthy place on the table. It was considered the food of the poor. However, the high nutritional value of buckwheat and its usefulness have changed the situation. Buckwheat was recognized as the queen of croup in the early twentieth century, after extensive research. The value of buckwheat is explained, first of all, by the saturation of microelements:
- Iron is responsible for a good skin color and promotes the formation of blood cells;
- Potassium maintains blood pressure;
- Magnesium helps in the fight against overweight and saves from depression;
- Calcium strengthens fragile bones, brittle nails and helps fight caries;
- a lot of buckwheat and other valuable minerals.
In buckwheat a high concentration of irreplaceable vegetable proteins, which explains its nutritional value. This cereal among the cereals is a true champion in the content of B vitamins. These vitamins help fight depression and insomnia, and also are responsible for the condition of nails, skin, hair.
Fans of buckwheat are not threatened with senile sclerosis, and also heart diseases are not terrible. Buckwheat porridge removes excess cholesterol from the human body. It removes from the human body slags and ions of harmful heavy metals, which is especially necessary for residents of cities and industrial areas with poor ecology.
Especially appreciate buckwheat doctors for a large amount of routine, which tightens the walls of blood vessels, stops bleeding. And also with varicose veins and with hemorrhoids has a preventive and even curative effect on the veins. Rutin in the connective tissues strengthens the small blood vessels. Thanks to this buckwheat porridge is especially useful in arthritis and rheumatic diseases, with problems with blood vessels. It also helps strengthen the immune system and improves blood circulation.
Buckwheat fields farmers are considered to be environmentally friendly. Since buckwheat is a very strong, strong plant. It does not require treatment with chemicals to protect against various pests and weeds. In fertilizer, it also does not really need.
Nutritionists recommend buckwheat include in their diet to people suffering from diabetes, obesity, anemia. This product is indispensable for diseases of the cardiovascular system, as well as of the nervous system, in case of problems with the liver. Buckwheat porridge promotes the maintenance of vision and cerebral circulation. Thanks to all these qualities buckwheat is often used in recipes of academic and folk medicine. And graduates recommend to include this product in the diet.
Buckwheat can be used as an alternative to medicines, because this porridge is a real "natural pharmacy." To raise the hemoglobin level in the blood and save yourself from anemia, try to prepare a healing powder from a buckwheat in a frying pan. Take it, washed down with warm milk, 2 tablespoons four times a day.
When skin burns, ointment from buckwheat flour helps. For this, brown the buckwheat flour until yellow and dilute it to a mushy state with water. With this composition grease burned places.
Buckwheat kissel will help with atherosclerosis. To make it, you need to grind buckwheat in a coffee grinder. The resulting flour boil in water, stirring constantly, for several minutes, observing the proportions (3 tablespoons of flour for 300 ml of water). This kissel should be taken 2 times a day for a glass, for 2 months.
With furunculosis and other skin inflammations, the curative effect creates a buckwheat powder. You need to grind the buckwheat in a frying pan, grind it in a coffee grinder, then mix it with warm water so that a sticky mass is obtained. Apply to the inflamed places for twenty minutes.
With cramps in the calf muscles and swelling of the legs helps buckwheat flour, if you take it raw in 1 tablespoon per day, washed down with water. Specialists reflexologists recommend grains of buckwheat glued to a rubber mat and barefoot walking on it for several minutes a day. This method helps in the prevention of many diseases. On the soles of the feet, as is known, there are many active points. When working on these points, the work of all internal organs is established. This mat will be a great massager that you can use when watching TV.
To preserve the value and nutritional value of buckwheat porridge, it must be properly prepared. Do not soak the rump in water, before cooking. Porridge really becomes softer, but a lot of useful substances are washed out of buckwheat. Do not also boil the porridge in a lot of water. It is necessary to pour water so much that it covers the croup at such a height as the croup itself occupies.
The value and nutritional value of buckwheat has long been interested in doctors, nutritionists, scientists. Their conclusions only confirm the popular opinion about the incredible usefulness of buckwheat. But remember - it's good that in moderation!