This familiar to us all crops are so firmly established in the diet of modern man that few people think about the medicinal properties of vegetables that we often associate with his culinary virtues.Not everyone knows that in addition to food cabbage valuable qualities as a medicinal plant.
Popularity
about its benefits Hippocrates wrote.On its application in medicine mentioned in their treatises of Pythagoras and Pliny.Even in some Egyptian papyri contain information on the cultivation of this valuable vegetable.
Historical cabbage is considered to be the birthplace of the Mediterranean Europe and North Africa.In Slavic lands she came more than two thousand years ago, after the colonization of the Black Sea coast.Due to suitable climate, it quickly caught on to the new land.In traditional medicine, the vegetables are used, and folk healers keep the recipes of its application.
Why cabbage as useful
Medicinal properties of cabbage leaf and fresh juice due to their composition.Cabbage leaves contain a large number of organic acids, carbohydrates, proteins and vitamins C, H, E, U, V.
addition, cabbage is rich in calcium, potassium, sodium, phosphorus, iron and magnesium.It is noteworthy that most of the vitamin C contained in the cabbage is presented in a specific form called askorbigenom.This version of ascorbic acid.It is not destroyed during the processing of vegetable fully entering the human body.Medicinal properties of cabbage leaves are used in the treatment of many diseases.
Properties
long been observed that cabbage leaf produces an analgesic effect, so it was used in the treatment of pathologies of the joints.In some cases, even without the use of medication helps to relieve the pain of a cabbage leaf.The healing properties of this vegetable has long used by people suffering from diseases of the joints.
Those remarks at soft tissue swelling around the joints, too, will help a cabbage leaf.Medicinal properties of the anti-inflammatory nature of this vegetable is also peculiar.In addition, according to traditional healers, this tool activates blood circulation in the joints of patients.
How to treat
It's easy.Take the average of the value of a cabbage leaf, rinse well under running water.Then, on one side, which you will apply to the affected area, make a lot of small incisions, cuts, remove the thick veins.
Then wrap the cabbage leaf affected joint.Top cover it with plastic wrap and wrap a woolen scarf.
This compress should be kept at least one hour, but better to do it on the night before the morning did not shoot.If the pain persists, it is necessary to repeat the procedure, but with a fresh sheet.Action will skyrocket if the sheet spread with honey.
We treat cough
Surprisingly, the healing properties of cabbage leaves have long been used in the treatment of cough.For this, you need an external sheet, separated from the head of cabbage.Wash it, remove the veins, a little crumple it to become softer.Lay it on the back or chest as a normal compress.
treatment is carried out at night during the week.From medicines to refuse it is not necessary - the parallel use of two tools you get rid of the debilitating cough.Try to use a cabbage leaf.Medicinal properties of the test of time when you cough.This is an effective method.
Treatment of mastitis
This serious disease can also be treated (along with traditional methods) and cabbage.Treatment options are many - from ingestion of cabbage juice to the external compression on the chest of the leaves.
What are the healing properties of cabbage leaf contribute to recovery?In addition to a powerful tonic effect on the body cabbage pushes rebirth nodal forms of the disease in malignant neoplasms.However, we want to warn you of the need to consult with your doctor.Initiative in the fight against this disease is inappropriate.
Outdoor use in the treatment of mastitis there are several options for using cabbage leaf.Check them out.
Wash cabbage leaf, grease it with butter, previously melted, sprinkle with a little salt, a little bit so that he let the juice.
attach a sheet to the breast, wound on top of a dry cloth.Underwear should be contractible so as not peredavlivat breast tissue and thereby reduce the compression effect.Leave the list for 6-12 hours and then replace it with fresh.Such cabbage compresses should be done within a week, leaving them at night.
The second method is similar to the first, but in this case instead of butter spread a cabbage leaf honey.
beets, grated on a fine grater (about 3 tbsp. L.), Mix with honey (1 tbsp. L).Spread this mixture on a cabbage leaf, apply a compress on the chest.
can be used to compress only the cabbage leaves without greasing them nothing.First, remove the sheets of thick veins, slightly repel his hammer, that he let the healing juice.Apply it to the breast.
This method is particularly good in the presence of pain.Chop cabbage leaf (better to use a meat grinder or blender) into a homogeneous slurry.Mix the resulting composition with three spoons of homemade yogurt.The mixture was put on the gauze and apply to the breast.Substitute raw materials necessary several times a day.
We would like to warn that the scientific medical studies proving the effectiveness of the cabbage leaves when exposed to mastitis, no.But there is a centuries-old experience of using this remedy in folk medicine for women around the world.
cabbage leaf: the healing properties of swelling
Needless to say that this unpleasant phenomenon familiar to many firsthand.Swelling appear on the legs, arms, face.The reasons can be many - heart disease, vascular abnormalities in the kidneys and so on. D. Determine the cause of their occurrence must be in the clinic.Do not immediately grasp at a cabbage leaf.Medicinal properties and contraindications for its application are still being studied.Although today we know that it is worth to refuse treatment cabbage to those people who have an increased acidity of the stomach, flatulence and have suffered an allergic reaction to the cabbage.
But back to edema.As an aid in the treatment of edema of the feet before going to bed can make a compress with cabbage leaf.
a few minutes cabbage leaf dip in boiling water to make it softer.You can soak it for 1 hour in olive oil.Before applying the sheet to the leg, squeeze it a little lemon juice or sprinkle baking soda.Traditional healers claim that it will have a beneficial impact, even without prior training.Attach it to the desired location, after making it several notches.
Such a compress is done before going to bed for the night.Fix it with gauze or a bandage.Medicinal properties of cabbage leaves are used in the treatment of edema of the face.To this end, it should grind to a pulp and apply on the swollen areas.
For removing excess fluid from the body, you can take fresh cabbage juice.
