Beets useful properties

Beetroot is a two-year herbaceous plant, short-fluffy, often with a dark purple hue. Root - root, thick, repo, red, less often - yellow or white. In the first year gives a rosette of long-petioled, obtuse, ovoid leaves and root crop. The stalk of the second year is straight, branched. The cauline leaves are regular, small, oblong or lanceolate. Flowers are small, ordinary, correct, five-membered. Perianth simple, greenish. The flowers are collected in glomeruli, the latter - in long olive ears. Fruits are ternary glomeruli. Blossoms from July to September.

It is usually bred in vegetable gardens in the middle belt of the European part of Russia, especially in the black earth zone. For more information about beets, see here.

Medicinal raw materials are root crops and leaves, used mostly in fresh form. Roots contain sugar, vitamin C, pigments, oxalic and malic acids. Red beet is rich in salts of manganese and potassium. The beetroot is significantly richer in vitamin C( 20-50 mg%), folic acid( 0.2 mg%) and poorer in fiber than root crops.

With , Vekla contains vitamins of B group, salts of iron, manganese, potassium, calcium, etc. It is used in the treatment of liver and kidney diseases, the initial stage of hypertension.

With it is especially useful for use in salads, vinaigrette, beetroots, etc. A little fermented beet juice when instilled 2-3 drops in each nostril 3 times a day gives a good effect in chronic rhinitis.

In traditional medicine beet has long been used to treat various diseases. Juice freshly ground root crops is used to treat lung diseases( inflammation, pleurisy, etc.), and mixed in half with honey is used in the treatment of hypertension. Use beets for anemia, chronic cold, persistent prolonged constipation, lung cancer, anemia.

In cases of external inflammatory processes and ulcers, it is recommended, apart from the internal use of beet juice, to apply to the affected area for a long time the gruel from the beet roots( it is changed as it dries).

Raw and sour beet has long been considered a good tool for the treatment of scurvy.

Boiled beet and its broth have a laxative and diuretic effect.

With persistent prolonged constipation, the decoction( 15-20 g per 200 ml) is used in enemas.

Juice of boiled beets in the form of drops in the nose is recommended for chronic rhinitis, you can grate( moist) root in the form of small tampons in the nostrils for a few minutes. In this case, there is a sharp individual reaction: in some, a chronic runny nose can quickly become aggravated. In such cases, beet tampons should be used less often or replace beets with some other means.

Another popular way of medicinal use of beets for the treatment of chronic cold: ingested and used to wash the nostrils of the root of the root, which has been standing for a while and slightly fermented.

For the treatment of anemia, the following mixture is prepared: from the roots of beet, black radish and carrots squeeze the juice( from grated cake) and in equal parts merge into a dark bottle, then roll the bottle into a dough and put it in the oven for 3 hours;consume 1 tbsp.spoon 3 times a day.

Freshly prepared juice of root crops is drunk 1/2 cup 3-4 times a day for cold lung diseases and cancer, while improving health, appetite, reducing swelling, drinking juice in anemia, diabetes, anemia, etc.

Healing properties of beets are known withancient times and are used in the treatment of anemia, digestive organs, enhances metabolic processes in the body, is used to prevent hypertension and atherosclerosis. Antineoplastic properties of beet have long been known.

Quail beet is a good antiscorbutic:

• juice of raw beet with honey( 1: 1) aged for two hours is useful for hypertension( even kidney type);

• pectin substances contained in beet, suppress the putrefactive microflora of the intestine.

Contraindications

With excess intake of beetroot juice, a spasm of the blood vessels can occur, freshly squeezed juice should be left for 2-3 hours before consumption.
It is not recommended to eat beets raw when bowel disturbance occurs.
Vegetable root vegetable fibers in combination with organic acids and sucrose can cause frustration.
Natural compounds included in beets effectively lower blood pressure.
In this regard, beet drugs are contraindicated in patients with hypotension.
Do not abuse the beetroot of a person with urolithiasis. This is due to the fact that the root crops contain a large amount of oxalic acid, which forms in the body of sparingly soluble salts, mainly calcium oxalate.
Because of the sucrose contained in the root crops, you should limit the use of beets to people with diabetes mellitus.
Daily intake of beet juice can lead to intolerance. Then the juice is mixed with oat flakes, horseradish, yogurt, which change its taste.
Beetroot therapy is carried out for a long time without interruption.