Potatoes were imported to Russia even under Peter I. Russian peasants were apprehensive about the overseas curiosity and flatly refused to eat "earthen apples".However, if they at that time knew about all the useful properties of an overseas diva, it would be unlikely that they resisted the king's innovations.
So what is the benefit and harm of potato juice for health? Before answering this question, let's carefully consider its chemical composition.
Composition of potato juice and its useful properties
Potato is a rather ambiguous root crop. Nutritionists refer to it sharply negatively, accusing him of high calorie and harm to the figure. At the same time, they forget to clarify that only kilograms of fried potatoes add extra pounds. Boiled in a uniform, he loses most of his calories. In its raw form it does become, almost a panacea, against many diseases, since its juice contains a lot of healthy substances. Chemical composition
Potato juice contains the following nutrients:
- minerals - phosphorus, calcium, potassium, magnesium, chlorine, iron, sodium;
- vitamins - A, B1, B2, B3, B6, B9, C, E, PP, H;
- of sugar;
- amino acids;
- cellulose.
The younger the tuber, the more useful elements it contains. Old, sprouted or grown in artificial conditions potatoes can have in its composition harmful to health, or even poisonous substances.
An interesting fact! First time in Russia did not know how to properly eat potatoes. The peasants ate bitter berries growing on the top of the plant, and the noble sprinkled the tubers with sugar.
Health Benefits
raw root vegetable to eat difficult. It has a rather unpleasant, starchy taste. Therefore, it is best to drink potato juice for health. The useful properties of this drink will more than pay off the suffering of the taste buds. Although maybe someone will like it.
Useful properties of potato juice:
- bactericidal
- wound healing
- diuretic
- restorative
- antioxidant
- antiscorbutic
- analgesic
- purgative
- cleansing.
Excellent potatoes proved to be a wound-healing product for skin diseases. It is applied externally in the form of gruel from a grated tuber. People suffering from various gastrointestinal diseases are advised to drink fresh, freshly squeezed potato juice. Its benefit is especially noticeable in the treatment of gastric ulcers and gastritis. Pregnant women will help get rid of heartburn and constipation, reduce swelling of the legs, raise immunity.
Tip! In the presence of any chronic diseases, before drinking potato juice should consult a doctor, as he has a number of contraindications.
Juice from red, early potato varieties is especially useful.
Indications and contraindications
In folk medicine only fresh potato juice is used. The treatment with a drink, which has stood for a long time and is already darkened, will not bring benefits. Therefore, the tubers are placed in the juicer shortly before consumption and try to drink the drink within 10 minutes. At the end of this time, it oxidizes and loses all its useful qualities.
Indications for use
Many diseases can heal the juice of raw potatoes. The use of this drink is effective with the following ailments:
- stomach ulcer;
- gastritis;
- pancreatitis;
- poisoning;
- swelling of the legs and body;
- is a migraine;
- fibroid;
- cervical erosion;
- hypertension;
- heartburn;
- constipation;
- hemorrhoids;
- sore throat.
Juice of raw potatoes is useful for the stomach. It promotes the process of digestion, eliminates the processes of fermentation. In inflammatory diseases of the throat and oral cavity it is used in the form of rinses. Inside it is used for various diseases of the digestive system. For example, potato juice is recommended for pancreatitis. It reduces the inflammatory process, relieves the pain symptom and ultimately promotes recovery. Potato juice helps with gastritis with high acidity. It removes inflammation, anesthetizes and heals.
Contraindications
Raw juice is not recommended for use in the following cases:
- in severe diabetes;
- reduced gastric acidity;
- tooth decay;
- acute pancreatitis.
Potato juice for the stomach has contraindications only with reduced acidity. This is due to its increased alkaline balance. In other cases, it is recommended for use with strict adherence to the rules of use and dosage.
An interesting fact! Small red berries, growing on the tops of potatoes, are poisonous and can cause serious poisoning.
Application of
The application of juice in medicine has its own rules. In case of their violation, undesirable consequences are possible in the form of complications of the course of illnesses, deterioration of well-being and severe organic lesions.
Rules for the use of potato juice:
- Fresh juice is used, squeezed out no later than 10 minutes.before use.
- Strictly observe the dosage.
- Treatment with potato gastric juice is possible only with its increased acidity.
- For the preparation of juice take only young, healthy, with no signs of rot and spoilage of tubers.
Potato juice for gastric ulcer take courses for 20 days, 3 times a day for half an hour before eating. It is recommended to start with a half dose, gradually bringing it to 150 ml. With myome length of treatment increases to 6 months. A good result with this disease is the addition of beet juice. Treatment of gastritis with potato juice is carried out for three 10-day courses. Between them, breaks are also made in 10 days. A glass of juice is taken in the morning on an empty stomach an hour before meals.
The recipe itself is extremely simple. It is necessary to grate the tuber on a fine grater and squeeze the resulting mass through the gauze. To facilitate the process, you can use an electric juicer.
When preparing a drink, one should not forget that the benefits and disadvantages of potato juice depend to a considerable extent on the time of collection and storage conditions. So, for example, in old, germinated and green on the sun tubers formed solanine - a poisonous and harmful to the human body matter, and potatoes, overfed with fertilizers and processed against pests and can become completely deadly.
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