It’s time to clean up and prepare cabbage for the winter, which means it’s time to talk about the healing properties of this common and popular vegetable culture.
This is the case when the ready — made medicine grows right in the garden, and no special effort is required to prepare a healing potion-each housewife regularly prepares one or another “medicine” from cabbage. Yes, it turns out that ordinary cabbage salad is an effective remedy for atherosclerosis, gout, obesity and other ailments, and many people’s favorite sauerkraut is used in folk medicine for liver diseases and hemorrhoids, as well as as a means to normalize digestion, treat and prevent beriberi.
Fresh white cabbage has anti-inflammatory, choleretic, diuretic, mild laxative, expectorant, tonic effect. The fiber contained in cabbage activates intestinal motility, has a beneficial effect on the activity of beneficial intestinal microflora, and also helps to remove excess “bad” cholesterol from the body. And most importantly, all these valuable properties are not lost during storage. And when sauerkraut becomes even more useful!
Let’s get acquainted with some recipes of traditional medicine and learn how to use cabbage in the treatment of various diseases.
Cabbage juice for gastrointestinal diseases
with problems in the gastrointestinal tract, eating fresh cabbage often provokes flatulence. To avoid this, use fresh cabbage juice. Take into account: with increased acidity of gastric juice, treatment with cabbage is contraindicated, since it stimulates the secretion of gastric glands).
Fresh cabbage juice treats gastritis with low acidity, spastic and ulcerative colitis, cholecystitis, peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum. Moreover, the improvement of health in peptic ulcer disease occurs very quickly, and the result of treatment (if the disease is not started) is usually the healing of ulcers and the recovery of the patient. Of course, it is necessary to use this remedy after prior consultation with your doctor, self-medication is unacceptable.
Fresh juice (prepared using a juicer) is taken 1-1.5 cups 30-40 minutes before meals 3-4 times a day. The duration of the course is 1 month, and it can be repeated in six months.
The prepared juice can be stored in the refrigerator for no more than 2 days, using glass or enamel dishes, but it is better to cook at a time no more than a daily dose, since useful substances are destroyed during storage.
Cabbage juice for inflammatory diseases of the mouth and throat, cough and cold
Fresh cabbage juice, diluted with warm boiled water in a ratio of 1:1, is used for rinsing with sore throats and stomatitis. With bleeding gums, rinsing with sauerkraut juice (brine) also helps.
When coughing, bronchitis and other inflammatory diseases of the respiratory tract, take juice with sugar or honey: 1 teaspoon of sugar or honey per glass of fresh juice, drink warm half an hour before meals, 0.5 cups 3-4 times a day or 1 glass 2 times a day. With laryngitis and bronchitis, red cabbage juice is taken according to the same scheme — it helps to separate sputum, helps to relieve coughing and reduce hoarseness.
Cabbage leaves for joint and headaches, bruises, wounds
If you have a headache, just mash a fresh cabbage leaf (to make the juice stand out) and apply it to your forehead and temples. For gout, inflammatory diseases, or joint injuries, cabbage leaves are used similarly, applying them to the sore spot — this helps reduce inflammation and relieve pain.
You can also use compresses made from cabbage leaves cooked in milk: chop the cabbage, pour the milk, and simmer until soft. Put the warm cabbage mass on a cotton or linen napkin and apply as a compress to a sore joint or bruise.
For purulent wounds, burns, ulcers, folk medicine uses a gruel of finely chopped cabbage leaf mixed with egg white (instead of crushed leaf, you can use the juice squeezed out of it). The phytoncides contained in cabbage have an antibacterial effect, so this tool helps to clean wounds and accelerates healing. By the way, the juice (brine) of sauerkraut still whiten freckles.
Fresh cabbage is recommended to be included in the diet of patients with diabetes, as well as people suffering from cardiovascular and cancer diseases. No, it will not bring miraculous healing, but it will help to mobilize the body’s defenses, regulate metabolism, improve heart function and strengthen blood vessels. And in the prevention of diseases, this vegetable can play a significant role. So eat cabbage and be healthy!
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