Green radish — a useful vitamin root crop which homeland call Uzbekistan. Many types of a root crop are known: white and black radish, daikon, close relative garden radish. Than green radish and where it is applied is useful — we will discuss in this article.
Caloric content and chemical composition
Nutrition value:
- proteins — 1.9 g;
- fats — 0.2 g;
- carbohydrates — 6.5 g.
Caloric content: 35 kcal / 100.
Chemical composition:
- vitamins: And, B1, B2, B6, C, E, PP, carotene;
- mineral substances: calcium, potassium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, sulfur;
- essential oils;
- amino acids.
Than green radish is useful to an organism
The green root crop, first of all, bears huge advantage for digestive organs: helps to produce enzymes, necessary for exchange processes and a digestive tract; cleans an organism from cholesterol, removes slags; prevents locks. Besides, low caloric content defines a product in the list dietary, helping to lower and support weight. The bile-expelling and diuretic effect improves work of a liver and kidneys, a gall bladder. The regular use is useful for diabetics, cores and hypertensive persons.
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The product reduces sugar level in blood, helps to strengthen vessels, potassium in structure lowers pressure and improves work of a cardiac muscle, and iron normalizes hemoglobin level. Retinolum and carotene improve function of sight, strengthen bones and muscle tissue, together with ascorbic acid increase protective functions of an organism that is especially useful in the period of seasonal diseases. The advantage of these vitamins B strengthening of hair bulbs, recovery of structure of hair, strengthening of nails, a skin nourishment is known. Health of our bones and teeth is maintained by phosphorus and calcium, and activity of a brain, blood and nervous systems — sulfur, iron, sodium which are also present at structure of radish.
Whether you know? The biggest root crop was grown up by the inhabitant of the Japanese island of Kyushu, the weight of radish was 29 kg 600 g. Record about a record is in the Guinness Book of Records.
Whether pregnant women can eat
The essential oils which are contained in a root crop have property to collect and to be removed slowly. During pregnancy this fact can lead to a uterus tone that, in turn, threatens with an abortion. Therefore it is better for pregnant women to use less aggressive remedies and vitamin products.
What can be made and what it is combined with
In cookery the root crop can be combined with many products in different dishes:
- fresh vegetables salads: cabbage, beet, carrots, apple, greens;
- second courses with meat and vegetables;
- it is not bad combined with other vegetables in various ragouts;
- in chicken, beef and veal warm salads;
- dish, popular with Slavs, okroshka;
- radish soup on meat broth;
- radish is salted, made sour, preserved for the winter in salads.
Whether you know? At Ancient Greece among the gifts uplifted to Apollo surely there were root crops: carrots, beet and radish.
How to use in the medical purposes: recipes
At application of a root crop in the medical purposes it is important to know some rules: fresh juice is too concentrated, can burn skin and mucous membranes therefore it is desirable to dilute it, with either boiled water, or other components.
At cough it is possible to use a linden, cocoa butter, dyagil, ginger, a melissa, a thyme, a marjoram, bear and badger fat.
At cough and a sore throat
For treatment of cough use radish with honey: at a root crop cut off a top, cut out a part of pulp, doing deepening. In the received pole put honey, it is desirable flower, cover with the cut-off top part and leave for seven hours. During this time honey will absorb useful properties together with juice. This mix is accepted in thirty minutes prior to food by two or three times a day on a teaspoon.
At gout
For treatment of joints at rheumatism and gout do compresses: the juice which is squeezed out from the crushed pulp is diluted with vodka and salt in equal parts and put the received mix for half an hour. Then skin needs to be greased with children's cream to remove possible irritation.
At hypostases
To remove puffiness, 500 g of the crushed pulp fill in with water liter. The received mix is boiled on weak fire by ten minutes, then cool and filter. Drink is drunk during the day instead of water.
To remove puffiness apply cloudberries, a horsetail field, a bearberry, a cowberry leaf, a meadowsweet, fir and sea-buckthorn oil.
At locks
Cocktail from juice of radish and pumpkin in equal proportions, with addition of a teaspoon of honey will help to release intestines. Drink drink in the morning and in the evening before elimination of a problem.
As it is possible to use in the cosmetology purposes: recipes
In cosmetic recipes radish shows such properties:
- normalizes work of sebaceous glands;
- dries oily skin;
- cleans and disinfects;
- improves inflow of blood to the top layers of epidermis at the expense of what the complexion improves.
Important! House masks from radish cannot be applied to sensitive face skin.
For hair
For strengthening of the injured or weakened hair use rinsings by the redechny juice diluted with grass broth (camomile, a nettle) one to one. It is necessary to rinse within a month after each washing.
For the person
To mix a tablespoon of the crushed mass of a root crop with egg white (juice from pulp should be wrung out previously). To apply the received mix to skin, except for skin around eyes, for fifteen minutes. Then to wash away warm water and to apply cream. This mask will help to eliminate gloss on oily skin and to narrow pores. Apply such mask bleaching and leveling tone of the person to the combined skin:
- the wrung-out pulp — 1 tablespoon;
- lemon juice — 0.5 tablespoons;
- olive oil — 0.5 tsps.
Mix is applied to skin for twenty minutes, washed away warm water. A nutritious mask for dry skin: to mix gruel of radish and sour cream in equal parts. To apply for twenty minutes to previously cleaned face skin. To wash away warm water.
Important! After crushing of a product in gruel before mixing with other components, it is necessary to give 5-10 minutes to stand. After that to carry out the test for allergic reaction on wrist skin. If on face skin there are damages, it is necessary to refuse a mask before recovery.
How to choose upon purchase
It is necessary to choose a root crop of the average size, the he is younger, the more usefully. The peel should not be dry and wrinkled to be convinced of freshness and juiciness, it is enough to pierce a peel a nail.
How to store in house conditions
In the conditions of the private house the large supply of a product is stored in sand in a cellar. In the conditions of the apartment put in the fridge on the shelf for vegetables. Thus, it can be suitable within two-three months.
Contraindications and harm
Strict contraindications to the use:
- stomach diseases (gastritis, pancreatitis, an ulcer, enterokolit, etc.);
- diseases of a liver and kidneys;
- diseases of a small and large intestine.
With care, after consultation of the doctor, use at such states:
- the increased acidity of a stomach;
- heart troubles;
- meteorizm.
Before consumption of fresh radish it is desirable to scald it boiled water, it will reduce influence of essential oils on mucous. It is not recommended to use more than 150 g of a product a day. Today radish is a little almost forgotten, but at our ancestors it enjoyed wide popularity, thanks to nutritious and curative properties. The dishes from a root crop even to royal tables were served. It is difficult to overestimate advantage of the regular use of a product, but they should not be fond, especially in the medical purposes.