Cowberry: useful properties for diabetes, what to cook from it

Cowberry - one of the most useful berries among those that people eat. Useful properties of cranberries are explained by its unique chemical and vitamin composition. Doctors recommend that their patients eat lingonberries and drink the broths of this berry with completely different pathologies, both somatic in nature and connected with the psyche.

What kind of berry is a cowberry?

Cowberry is an evergreen shrub of the genus Vaccinum of the Vereskov family. The bush has beautiful and dense bright red round berries, which are widely used for food and for cosmetic purposes. Usually, cranberries are harvested and harvested with the beginning of the autumn-winter period. Often this berry is called the berry of immortality, because by the number of vitamins and trace elements that make up its composition, it is comparable only to a chicken egg - a symbol of life. In the world, areas of cranberry growth are forest and tundra zones, raw, coniferous, mixed, deciduous forests, bushes, peat bogs, alpine meadows.

Ingredients of the wonder-berry

Cowberry contains carbohydrates, fats, proteins, iron and manganese, vitamins A, B1, B2, B9, PP, C and E, mono- and disaccharides, dietary fibers and starch, organic acids( benzoic, malic, oxalic, lemon).Low calorie cranberries - only 46 calories per 100 grams - is explained by the fact that the berry consists of 86% water. But in the cowberry contains 95% of the daily rate of organic acids, so important for the human body, 32.5% of manganese and 16.7% of vitamin C. In cooking and medicine are used and leaves of the bush, because they contain even more useful substances than berries cranberries. Useful properties of fruits and berries cranberries are due to a large content in the plant arbutin( glycoside, which has antiseptic effect), antioxidants, organic acids, tannins, tannins, flavonoids and vitamins.

Use in folk medicine

The curative properties of cranberries have been used in folk medicine for thousands of years. Usually, cranberries are used to achieve general restorative, wound healing, antipyretic, tonic, antiscorbutic, anthelmintic, diuretic, laxative, antisclerotic, choleretic, disinfectant.

The list of diseases in which cranberries helps is as follows:

• internal bleeding;
• colds;
• gastritis( with low acidity);
• hepatocholecystitis;
• neuroses and depression;
• anemia;
• ischemic heart disease;
• urological diseases;
• salt deposition;
• rheumatism;
• arthritis;
• diabetes;
• tuberculosis;
• of jaundice;
• hypertension;
• enteritis;
• vitamin deficiency;
• worms;
• a stomach tumor.

Exceptions are:

• gastritis( with high acidity);
• cholecystitis;
• decreased blood pressure( hypotension);
• urolithiasis;
• ulcers of various kinds( intestines, stomach), since with ulcers of any type, acid, including fruit, is contraindicated.

Diabetics to note

Cowberry is one of the few berries that can be consumed by a diabetic patient. Of course, cranberries are not able to cure diabetes, but to stop the development of the disease, especially in the first stage with the right diet, this berry is quite possible. Useful properties of cowberry in diabetes are explained by the high content of glucocaine in this berry - a substance with insulin-like action. In addition, cranberries help to repair damaged pancreatic cells that are involved in the process of insulin production, and have a slight alkalizing effect on the organs. Given that cranberries can increase immunity, which in patients suffering from diabetes is traditionally low, the benefits of cranberries in this serious disease increases dramatically. Cowberry can be called one of the facilitators of diabetes.

We will not discount the fact that cowberry is a very low-calorie berry, and a diabetic diet that is constantly on a strict diet needs to withstand a daily glucose limit.

Other Diseases

In addition to diabetes mellitus in mild form it is obvious that a lot of useful in cranberries is also useful in the treatment of mild forms or prevention of the following diseases: atherosclerosis, gall bladder disease, catarrh of the stomach, cystitis, any colds. At the beginning of the flow of the last cranberries and vitamin C help reduce fever, stop the infectious process and give the body extra strength to fight the disease.