Over the years, people have learned to extract from everything that surrounds us, only useful properties, avoiding harmful ones. Today we will learn the useful properties of white cabbage in the article "Why white cabbage is useful", as well as when to plant it, how to take care of it, and find out how much it takes to get the most benefit and benefits.
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Cabbage is a white-biched two-year plant from the family of crucifers, it is known to everyone as a vegetable crop. Today there are about 100 varieties of cabbage. It is used in fresh, salted, marinated, crocked. I can say that there is no need to describe its taste qualities - they are already known, but cabbage is of medical importance.
It has many varieties, and is grown in seedlings. Cabbage is a biennial plant, the first year is headed, and in the second year a stalk is formed and gives seeds. Cabbage is a cold resistant plant. Cabbage is very hygrophilous, and therefore it should be watered often. If the cabbage got the right care during the growth, then it should have a solid, tight head. The soil for planting cabbage should be a clayey type, with sufficient lime content. Before you plant cabbage from seedlings on the soil, you need to make fresh manure under cabbage, digging for cabbage is best done in the fall. My grandfather makes holes for both potatoes, then pours these holes with warm water. Waiting until the water leaves, the center of the hole planted seedlings of cabbage. Then he again watered the plant with water. Sometimes it happens that the cabbage grows poorly, and the grandfather feeds it with mineral fertilizers.
Cabbage does not differ much from other vegetables. Cabbage cabbage contains up to 1.8% nitrogenous substances, 0.18 fat, 19.2 sugars, 1.65 fibers, 1.18 ashes and 90% water. Leaves also contain carotene, vitamins A, B 6 , P, U, K, D, lysozyme. Proteins and fats, vitamin C, in cabbage, the content of this vitamin is equal to the content in citrus fruits, and it is perfectly preserved as in cooked and sauerkraut. Cabbage contains ascorbic acid in the form of ascorbic acid, and during cooking turns into vitamin C, so the content of vitamin C rises. And 250 grams of cabbage is enough to get the daily norm of vitamin C. Young leaves of cabbage contain folic acid, which normalizes metabolism and hemopoiesis. It is destroyed during cooking, and boiled cabbage is a sick person, in whom unhealthy blood is not recommended.
Cabbage is useful in diabetes mellitus, nutritionists say that cabbage contains substances that reduce the composition of sugar in the blood, and with obesity, but substances that prevent the conversion of carbohydrates into fats, are destroyed by heat treatment. In 100 grams of cabbage 28 kcal, so for the cabbage diet is the best vegetable. When tuberculosis is advised to cabbage juice with honey, and with insomnia it is good to drink juice with decoction of cabbage seeds.
In medicine, cabbage juice is used. It is drunk for the treatment of stomach ulcers, Scientists have found that the beneficial effect of juice with an ulcer is due to the fact that cabbage juice contains anti-ulcer vitamins, the so-called anti-ulcer factor, this substance was called vitamin U. To treat ulcers, do not eat cabbage leaves, so as the content of fiber on the contrary can exacerbate the disease. Cabbage juice has a beneficial effect in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and ulcer of the duodenum. The course of treatment with cabbage juice is 4-5 weeks. The juice should be drunk half a cup 2-3 times a day before meals in a warm form. Warm up at 90 degrees in a water bath. This recipe helps with dental pain, migraine, and cabbage juice with sugar helps to sober and bring into the feelings of drunk people.
As a child, my grandmother often gave me sauerkraut, and said that I would not have a stomach ache. After reading the necessary literature, I found out that thanks to sauerkraut, favorable conditions are created for the growth of useful intestinal bacteria. Regular consumption of cabbage relieves bronchitis, eczema, inflammation of the veins, rheumatism passes.
Granddaddy, often walking in the garden, tied large cabbage leaves to his head, saying that it saved him from the heat. And it seems that really helped. Young leaves of cabbage are recommended to be applied to wounds and abrasions, but before that you need to rinse them with warm water, remove coarse veins and lightly roll with rolling pin. And only after that, the leaves are applied to the damaged area of the body and tied with a not too tight gauze bandage. Change should be two times a day. Leaves stretch various purulent discharge, the wound is thus cleaned and healing begins. Leaves of cabbage relieve rubella and burns. Also, cabbage juice is drunk for the treatment of the liver. In connection with the advent of the synthetic vitamin "U", the cabbage juice was used less often.
As for side effects, it does not appear to everyone. At some people, at overeat of cabbage the stomach can be bloated, but also it can depend on that the dish has been prepared not correctly, in such cases it is advised to drink a cup of caraway tea.