Horse-radish

Horse-radish – a plant from family cabbage with dark green big leaves and a long and thick rhizome.

Curative properties of horse-radish

In traditional medicine the root of horse-radish in which essential oils, calcium, sodium, phosphorus, potassium, sulfur, iron, phytoncides, sugar, pitches, cellulose, vitamins C, B, PP, a glycoside the sinigrin impacting to a plant root specific acute relish are found is used.

It is necessary to tell about vitamin C which is in horse-radish separately – according to its contents the plant is on the third place after a dogrose and blackcurrant therefore it is possible to call its root effective immunoexcitant.

The advantage of horse-radish is that it renders antibacterial, diuretic, all-tonic, expectorant action.

Treatment by horse-radish when it wiped is accepted inside, helps at small appetite and digestion, at inflammatory diseases of an urinary system, at rheumatism, gout, gastritis with low acidity.

Topical treatment by horse-radish effectively at neuralgia of facial nerves, a frostbite, joint pains, suppurations.

Bactericidal properties of horse-radish successfully use at quinsy, whooping cough, tuberculosis.

Use of horse-radish

Treatment by horse-radish will be effective if to use its root fresh. It is proved that the advantage of horse-radish after its processing remains about 7 days. It is recommended to process horse-radish soon after collecting, it cannot lie too long more than a week.

For treatment usually use grated horse-radish and the juice which is wrung out from it.

Inside divorced juice of a root of horse-radish is used for treatment of gastritis, at disturbances of functionality of bilious ways, an intestines atony.

Doctors strongly recommend to dissolve horse-radish juice as the essential oils which are contained in it can cause strong allergic reaction.

For preparation of the means bringing slime out of an organism prepare such mix: grated horse-radish is mixed with lemon juice, accepted on a hungry stomach on a teaspoon in day in two steps.

Diuretic property of horse-radish is well shown if to prepare mix in such proportions: 150 grams of grated horse-radish mix with the juice which is wrung out from the 2nd or 3rd lemons. It is noticed that means is effective at an edema and strong puffiness, at cold, asthma. Accept it inside. At cold – on 0,5 spoons twice a day on an empty stomach then it is desirable to eat nothing and not to drink half an hour, and at asthma, puffiness – a means teaspoon once a day.

For treatment prepare by horse-radish of small appetite such means: fill in a tablespoon of a grated root of a plant of 500 ml of boiled water, maintain hour. It is necessary to drink such "medicine" 4 times a day in 15 minutes prior to food on 50 ml.

Horse-radish brings benefit and at diabetes as it can recover sugar level. Prepare such mix: the grated root is mixed with acid milk (1:10), days maintain in well closed capacity. Drink means filtered three times a day on a tablespoon to food. If there is no acid milk, it can be replaced with kefir – one tablespoon of a grated root of horse-radish is the share of one glass. Drink means fresh, on a glass 3 times a day.

At joint pains compresses with such mix help: fray a horse-radish root by means of the meat grinder, mix with grated apple.

At supertension the means prepared from juice of horse-radish, carrots, beet helps: all components about 100 grams undertake, juice of a half of a lemon and 100 grams of honey is added. For bigger efficiency mix is accepted for an hour before meal – on a tablespoon three times a day.

Antibacterial properties of horse-radish help at tuberculosis: the juice which is wrung out from the root passed via the meat grinder is mixed with honey (1:1). It is recommended to drink juice to food, on 2 teaspoons three times a day. Carry out such treatment by horse-radish two two-month courses between which the two-week break becomes.

Apply such recipe to removal of the laid salts: take kilogram of roots of horse-radish, fill in with two liters of boiled water, days maintain, periodically stirring slowly. In a day tincture is filtered, add kilograms of honey, mixed. The received means is accepted by three times a day on 50 ml to food.

It is impossible to forget about advantage of horse-radish and to healthy people. The grated root of a plant is recommended to be used regularly as seasoning to the first, second courses. It is so possible to avoid seasonal catarrhal diseases, problems with digestion. That horse-radish was really useful, it is not recommended to fill it with vinegar or sugar. It is better to replace them with lemon juice and honey.

Contraindications

It is impossible to eat a horse-radish root on an empty stomach with that who suffers from acute inflammations and ulcer gastrointestinal diseases.

To pregnant women to use a root of horse-radish and it is not recommended to take medicine on its basis.

Healthy people and hypertensive persons should consider that in a large number horse-radish can provoke increase in pressure. Besides, abuse of horse-radish can cause internal bleeding.