Medicinal Properties Of Black Radish

2024 Author: Sebastian Paterson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 13:47

Unfortunately, modern gardeners and gardeners do not really like these plants, and after all, Russian peasants always assigned him one or even two beds in their garden. They grew radishes, because they knew very well its useful properties to strengthen the body, to prevent many diseases. It is known that for a very long time - in Ancient Egypt - along with onions, it was included in the diet of the builders of the pyramids.

The radish, or rather the sowing radish (Raphanus sativus) - it is she who is grown everywhere - is a biennial plant belonging to the Cabbage family. In the first year, large root crops grow from the seeds, and in the second year, ripe seeds are harvested from the root crop planted on the garden bed, which forms a powerful peduncle stalk.

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A curious reader can find on our website a very detailed and interesting article about the cultivation of sowing or black radish, a very detailed and interesting article by V. V. Perezhogina. Now we will not focus on its nutritional properties, although they are very good. Anyone who has tried a vitamin salad of grated black radish with carrots and sour cream in winter will not let you lie. It is no coincidence that our people came up with many proverbs and sayings about her. For example, this one: "There are seven dishes in the radish: a tricha radish and a lomtiha radish, a radish with butter, a radish with kvass, a parena radish, a boiled radish, and a so-called radish." The affectionate name of the root crop "redechka" itself speaks of the attitude of people towards it.

But radish has one more useful property - medicinal. Almost every family knows that with the help of radish with honey, coughs and colds can be treated. But that's not all that can be done with this root vegetable. Everyone knows that the inhabitants of Japan have the highest longevity in the world. Experts believe that this is facilitated by the use by the inhabitants of the islands on which this country is located, seafood - fish, mussels, seaweed and other gifts of the ocean and seas. But not only. A very important place in the Japanese menu is occupied by one of the varieties of radish - daikon. They have created hundreds of varieties of it, grow huge, sweet-spicy root vegetables and use it mostly raw.

But our radish is in no way inferior to the daikon. Black radish has a rich chemical composition. Its roots contain sugars, rafanol, phytoncides, the enzyme lysozyme - an antibacterial agent that destroys the cell walls of bacteria; fiber, there are many vitamins: ascorbic acid, beta-carotene, vitamins B1, C, E and PP, a lot of potassium, there is calcium, magnesium, iron, phosphorus, purine bases, choline, sulfurous essential oil.

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It is this oil, irritating the stomach, stimulates the secretion of gastric juice, increases microcirculation in the walls of the stomach and intestines, thus eliminating congestion there. It is useful for intestinal atony (loss of stomach muscle tone), as well as for hypacid gastritis and duodenitis.

Fiber, which is abundant in root crops, also plays a positive role here. It is she who effectively cleanses the digestive system, ridding the intestines of harmful substances. Eating radish in food helps to eliminate dysbiosis, suppress pathogenic microflora.

The rafanol and sulphurous oil contained in the root vegetables help to increase the formation and secretion of bile from the gallbladder into the intestines. Therefore, it is recommended to use radish for cholecystitis and for the prevention of gallstone disease.

Choline contained in root vegetables promotes the formation of phospholipids, which prevent the development of fatty liver disease.

Ascorbic acid found in root vegetables also helps to improve liver function. It increases the storage of glycogen, which improves liver function. Therefore, radish juice is recommended for liver cirrhosis and toxic hepatitis.

The use of sowing radish in food helps to improve the patient's condition in the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias and cardioneuroses.

Radish juice is also used externally in the treatment of certain skin diseases.

In traditional medicine, a mixture of radish juice and honey is most commonly used to treat coughs.

Radish juice as an antitussive agent

Radish juice with honey or sugar in a 1: 1 ratio is used for bronchitis, hemoptysis and whooping cough as an antitussive agent. To do this, a part of the core is carefully cut out of the radish root crop. Then, honey or granulated sugar is poured inside, into the formed depression. When granulated sugar or honey is soaked in radish juice, they are taken in case of illness, one teaspoon three to four times a day, half an hour before meals. After using the juice, honey or sugar is added to the hole again to get a new portion of juice.

You can prepare this remedy in another way: peel the root vegetable, cut into pieces and place in a cup. Then pour sugar or honey over the radish. After a few hours (2-3 hours) juice will be released from the radish. Take it for the above diseases.

Also, fresh radish juice is used externally in the treatment of intercostal neuralgia, myositis, radiculitis, arthritis.

With frequent constipation, traditional healers recommend drinking 1 tablespoon of freshly squeezed radish juice after meals. Also make salads from it.

Black radish for urolithiasis

Has black radish properties to dissolve stones in gallstone and urolithiasis. To do this, doctors recommend drinking 2-3 tablespoons of fresh radish juice after each meal. Treatment should be continued for 1-1.5 months.

There are many more different recipes in traditional medicine. For example, the treatment of atherosclerosis. For this, a mixture of 50 ml of radish juice and 50 ml of high-quality apple juice is prepared. It is recommended to take half a glass of this mixture twice a day for one to two months. The course of treatment is recommended to be repeated after six months.

In atherosclerosis, there is another recipe for cleansing blood vessels from bad cholesterol: daily use 1 tablespoon three times a day fresh juice of black radish. And additionally there is a raw radish, cut into slices, mixed with unrefined sunflower oil without salt.

Radish juice for poor appetite

Poor appetite is treated by taking 15-20 ml of black radish juice 15 minutes before meals three times a day.

Black radish also has a diuretic effect when eaten. And the calcium included in its composition is necessary for hypertension.

Black radish in the treatment of diseased joints

To obtain a therapeutic effect, a mixture of 300 g of black radish juice, 200 g of liquid honey, 100 g of vodka and a teaspoon of salt is prepared. For joint pains, traditional healers recommend taking 50-100 g of this healing mixture once a day in the morning on an empty stomach. The same mixture must then be rubbed into sore joints. If, after taking the mixture inside, suddenly discomfort begins to arise, then in the future you need to stop taking it, and use the mixture only externally.

Long-term practice has shown that grated radish accelerates wound healing, providing an antibacterial effect.

The same effect is obtained by using black radish seeds for the same purpose. But they must first be crushed and diluted with warm boiled water until they are mushy, and then they can be applied to the wound.

Contraindications

Black radish has many useful properties, but there are also contraindications. You should not eat it during pregnancy. It is not recommended to use black radish juice and the root crop itself for patients who have a stomach or duodenal ulcer, gastritis with high acidity, colitis, enteritis, exacerbation of chronic pancreatitis, organic heart disease. In any case, if you are planning to start treatment with radish juice, consult your doctor.

Anatoly Petrov

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