Once "топинамбо" was the name of the Indian tribe inhabiting Chile. Perhaps, between it and actually a certain communication is a girasol. However throughout centuries this fruit had a set of names: "earth apple", "solar root", etc. Only one always remained invariable – medicinal properties of a girasol.
Description
The girasol tastes like potatoes, but its properties are much richer. It is very easy to grow up it, he is unpretentious and doesn't demand a certain temperature condition, lighting and humidity of the soil. The girasol "is absolutely uninteresting" an insect wreckers, can grow without supervision and care in any soil and to yield a harvest several years in a row.
Chemical composition
The girasol is rich with silicon, selenium, zinc, iron and potassium. Also the fruit is magnificent "cocktail" from the proteins, carbohydrates, amino acids and pectins necessary for normal activity of all systems of an organism.
Useful properties
The most valuable in a girasol is inulin. Therefore a girasol - product number one in a diet of patients with diabetes. By experts it is proved that the long use of this root crop considerably lowers sugar level in blood. The girasol is also recommended to the people genetically subject to diabetes.
The inulin which is contained in a girasol also brings toxins and heavy metals out of an organism.
Useful properties of a girasol extend also to a GIT of the person. It harmonizes intestinal microflora, is irreplaceable at dysbacteriosis, has bile-expelling property.
Girasol – the great assistant in treatment of stomach ulcer and a 12-perstny gut, locks, colitis, gastritis and pancreatitis, eliminates heartburn.
Thanks to the rich content of vitamins and mineral salts, the girasol strengthens immunity, protecting from infections and viruses, is fine anthelminthic means.
It is a wonderful fruit it is useful and for mucous surfaces – stimulates blood supply.
Contraindications
Despite all completeness of scale of useful properties, a girasol nevertheless it is transferred by not all people. Therefore before the use it is necessary to know about this factor.
In the raw the girasol can cause a meteorizm.