Black radish

Ancient Chinese and Greeks have a black radishwas valued very highly: it was believed that it costs as much gold coins as the root crop weighs. No less popular was it in ancient Egypt, as evidenced by inscriptions on the pyramids and ancient excavations.

The native land of this vegetable is Egypt, from whichhe got on the shores of ancient Hellas, and then began his march through Europe. In Russia, this kind of radish, most likely, has got together with numerous caravans of the merchants coming from Asia. The Russians quickly realized what treasure had come to them and found a worthy use for it.

In ancient recipes, black radish was usedas the main component of the Türi - dishes for the poor, in Rus folk healers radish juice treated many diseases of the respiratory system, stomach and intestines, fought with abundant hair loss. Northerners, or rather Pomors, usually took her with them on a long voyage - she helped them to cope in the sea with scurvy and other diseases.

Physicians from many countries in the Middle Ages almost equally used this vegetable, which is a natural antibiotic.

Black radish is an unpretentious medicinala plant belonging to the family of cruciferous. It already in the first year forms a rosette, sometimes reaching a height of one and a half meters and the weight of the fruit to almost 3 kg.

For medicinal purposes, this vegetable uses root crops and seeds, which are harvested in the summer for future use and stored in vegetable stores until spring.

The taste of black radish is very burning, the reasonare the essential oils and glycosides that make up its composition. In its rhizomes there are sugar, fats, fiber, vitamins, potassium, calcium, and also lysozyme, known for its strong bactericidal properties.

This root crop has no side effectseffects, its enzymes dissolve cell walls of many varieties of existing bacteria, which is why radish juice is so effective in the treatment of purulent and inflammatory processes, ulcers and wounds, it is very useful in diseases of the liver, heart and bronchi.

The reason for such a beneficial effect ongastric and intestinal tracts is that this vegetable increases the secretion of gastric juice, strengthening the digestive process, its juice is an excellent choleretic that normalizes the metabolic process in people suffering from inflammatory diseases of the bile duct and gall bladder.

Healers believe that the juice of this plant has strong diuretic properties, due to what it can be drunk as a therapeutic drink with stones in the bile, urinary bladder and kidney.

However, most of all helps the black radish fromcough. The peoples of Central Asia eat it in the chronic form of this disease in boiled form or simply drink a decoction. This remedy works well for pertussis, tuberculosis and bronchitis, acting simultaneously as an antispasmodic.

Black radish with honey from a cough is consideredRussian healers most common medication: it its juice mixed with honey in equal proportions. The resulting mixture can be drunk on a spoon several times a day as soothing and expectorant.

Fiber contained in the radish helps to remove cholesterol from the body, preventing the development of atherosclerosis, while also increases peristalsis in the intestine.

However, with such numerous usefulproperties black radish has a number of contraindications: it can not be strictly used by people who suffer from erosion or stomach ulcers, gastritis, as well as from various organic heart diseases.

Many people like the taste of this extremelya useful vegetable, and it seems that even in the course of a century there is hardly a natural and natural medical folk remedy in nature that will be an adequate substitute for a black radish.