Turnips

Useful properties and applications turnip vegetable

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Useful properties of turnip

Turnips long been grown as garden plants. Sources claim that it became known six thousand years ago. The homeland of the vegetable is the Mediterranean, East and South Asia. It was grown by the ancient Romans, appreciated for easy maintenance and high productivity. Useful turnips a storehouse of minerals, essential oils, vitamin C and carotene. All plants contain mustard oil, so it has a pleasant, slightly sharp, but quite spicy taste.

It has antiseptic, diuretic and anti-inflammatory properties. It contains potassium, magnesium, sulfur, iron, sodium, manganese and iodine, and the rare anti-cancer element - sulforafan. The flesh of the vegetable is useful for vitamin deficiency, presence of calcium promotes excellent prevention of rickets and bone diseases. In raw turnips are sugar, polysaccharides, sterols, glucoraphanin.

When choosing a turnip, you need to focus on the larger roots they contain more of vitamins B1, B2, B5, PP, provitamin A, phosphorus, and sulfur.

The use of turnips

The owner of a number of advantages – rap is recommended for use in diets, its low caloric content contributes to the rapid acquisition of harmony and relief from many diseases. The turnip juice is excellent analgesic, sedative and expectorant. With regular use of the juice to eliminate kidney stones, to normalize cardiac function, clean the joints, and cure of diseases of rheumatic origin.

Turnips are used in folk medicine for the removal of salt deposits, it is effective when polyneuritises pathologies. In any kind of vegetable is good for the stomach and intestines. Boiled turnips is applied to the joints during acute gout, this remedy soothes and eases pain. Affect the good health bath with a decoction of turnips. Rinse with warm decoction relieves toothache and reduces inflammation of the oral mucosa. Due to the fact that the root is saturated with sulfur, going to clean the blood, dissolve stones in the bladder.

Magnesium helps calcium absorption and accumulation in the body. Juice and broth to soften the mucus, promoting the release of these bronchi during colds, laryngitis and asthma. What is surprising is that in the pulp and therefore the juice is a natural antibiotic inhibits the growth of fungi except Escherichia coli andStaphylococcus. Coughs are treated with juice extracted from grated turnips and sugar. Should drink a teaspoon 5 times daily, mixed with honey.

Turnip seed

The seeds of turnip are formed in the shoots of the flowering aerial parts. Their usefulness is mentioned in sources of Oriental medicine, where the pounded seeds are applied at impotence.

Turnip greens

In the leaves of the lettuce varieties, turnips and lots of vitamins and minerals, iron, beta-carotene and vitamin C. turnip leaf Juice with calcium prevents softening of bones and teeth. The potassium content in the leaves contributes to the increase in base composition, which is useful at low acidity of gastric juice.

Infusion from the leaves of turnip greens: 20 g of crushed leaves pour a glass of boiling water for 30 min. Divided into three portions and drink before each meal. This infusion can be used as a gargle and gums.

Varieties of turnips

The breeders have selected many varieties of turnips, characterized by the early maturity, juicy, excellent taste.

Turnip vegetable ripens in August - September. This is a biennial plant with a thick root and round, oval or shortened forms of the root. The flesh can be yellow or white. Used in clinical nutrition for the prevention of atherosclerosis. Helps with constipation, liver disease. Helps to activate beneficial microorganisms of the intestine with indigestion.

Especially valuable is that turnips can be used as a supplier of vitamins and minerals in the winter. For colds of shredded turnip and any animal fat, you can prepare the mixture and apply on the chest and back as a "mustard plaster". Also for warming and sweating boil the broth.

A decoction of turnips: grate a medium-sized vegetable, pour 1 Cup of boiling water and simmer on low heat for 2-3 minutes. Strain and drink 4 times daily in the form of heat.

Turnip white not only has a great taste and medicinal properties. It is great for cleaning the bowel. For this you need to grate 100 grams of pulp, squeeze the juice and add 50 grams of honey. Drink this dose is important in the period from 6 to 7 o'clock in the morning on an empty stomach, the result will appear immediately. The course of the week.

White turnips have a low calorie content and high nutritional value. Since ancient times in Russia turnip was a staple food. Itconsumed fresh, boiled, fried and steamed. Dish has extraordinary flavor and high nutritional value.

Contraindications turnip

Contraindicated to use turnips when acute inflammatory processes in the gastrointestinal tract. Acute and chronic hepatitis and cholecystitis, diseases of Central nervous system disease in which the turnip is strictly prohibited.