Sorrel: useful properties and contraindications

Sorrel: useful properties and contraindications

The sorrel — the real well of vitamins, is good in cookery and traditional medicine and also deshyov. Now it is demanded in any kitchen, beginning from modest family and finishing the most refined restaurants. About what advantage to a human body does this plant and what possible harm it can conceal in itself, and the speech will go further.

Caloric content and chemical composition

The power component of a sorrel is small, its caloric content varies between 18 and 22 kcal on 100 g of a product. Except traditional I WATCH of which, by the way, in it it is a little, than and its dietary low-caloric content speaks, the plant has valuable fatty acids, saccharides, food fibers, starch and organic acids.

Whether you know? In France the sorrel is considered the main national vegetable culture which advances on the second place carrots.

Such vitamins are widely presented in a product:

  • And;
  • beta carotene;
  • B1;
  • B2;
  • B5;
  • B6;
  • B9;
  • With;
  • E;
  • N;
  • To;
  • SS.

Also the mineral component of this grass presented by the following micro and macrocells is not less extensive:

  • manganese;
  • sodium;
  • sulfur;
  • iodine;
  • calcium;
  • potassium;
  • magnesium;
  • copper;
  • phosphorus;
  • iron;
  • zinc;
  • chlorine;
  • fluorine.

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Than the sorrel is useful to an organism

The sorrel has the following useful properties:

  • antioxidant;
  • antibacterial;
  • bile-expelling;
  • laxative;
  • styptic;
  • antirheumatic;
  • antiallergic;
  • antitubercular;
  • anti-catarrhal.

Leaves of this grass, juice from it and also roots and seeds help to fight with:

  • cardiovascular diseases;
  • colitis;
  • enterokolity;
  • different problems in functioning of a gastrointestinal system;
  • manifestations of hemorrhoids;
  • inflammations in a mouth;
  • colds;
  • anemia;
  • depression and shock;
  • headaches.

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Zhenshchin

This grass as though is specially created for health of women. It helps them at:

  • climax, struggling with a headache, irritability, jumps of arterial blood pressure, inflows, uterine bleeding;
  • plentiful periods, by means of the folic acid which is present at a plant restoring loss of blood and increasing content of hemoglobin in it;
  • diets for the purpose of weight loss, normalizing metabolic processes, optimizing activity of a stomach and intestines and bringing toxins and slags out of an organism;
  • skin care.

Whether you know? The Latin name of a sorrel Rumex means a spear though only the few young leaves of a plant with a big stretch can be compared to an edge of this weapon.

Muzhchin

There are no doubts and at a question whether the sorrel is useful to a strong half of mankind. He allows men easier to cope with:

  • infertility;
  • with problems in an urinogenital system aged after 45 years, stimulating blood circulation in a prostate, killing pains and protecting from various infection;
  • hangover which actively levels oxalic juice;
  • baldness with which oxalic juice in mix with aloe juice in equal proportions struggles.

Important! You should not eat this plant long time in order to avoid an imbalance in exchange processes and formation of nephroliths.

Whether it is possible for pregnant women and feeding

The ability of this plant to improve digestive functions by stimulation of office of bile and gastric juice does it demanded at pregnancy. Besides, the sorrel helps future mothers to fight with:

  • lack of vitamins B organism;
  • toxicosis;
  • locks and diarrhea, everything depends on quantity of the eaten portions;
  • slags and toxins in intestines;
  • catarrhal diseases, replacing antibiotics, harmful to pregnant women;
  • cystitis.

However at useful for pregnant qualities there are also significant cautions at the use of this plant by future mothers:

  • if the pregnant woman has stones at kidneys, then it is necessary to refuse a sorrel resolutely;
  • if at future woman in labor the deficiency of calcium in an organism is observed, then this grass is capable to aggravate situation;
  • in case of presence at pregnant stomach ulcer the use of this product is inadmissible.

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The sorrel and to the nursing women is not recommended. Experts note that at a lactation it slows down development of milk therefore it is worth using dishes with this plant only when the woman begins to disaccustom the child to a breast.

Contraindications and harm

Correctly collected plant is capable to do harm to health only to people with its individual intolerance or having the violations of health connected with:

  • kidney problems;
  • gastric ulcer;
  • the increased acidity leading to gastritis;
  • intestinal ulcer;
  • deficiency of calcium in an organism;
  • manifestations of osteoporosis;
  • gouty symptoms.

The sorrel at present vegetable abundance does not lose the positions thanks to a successful combination in it diverse useful substances and a peculiar taste.

Dishes with this plant it is possible and it is necessary to include in the diet, however it should be taken into account also a condition of the health to benefit from plants only.

Important! It is necessary to use exclusively young oxalic leaves, carefully avoiding old.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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