Beets and beet juice: benefit and harm, use in folk medicine

Beetroot is the most familiar, familiar vegetable.Someone likes to add it to borsch, someone prefers to bake it with minced meat, many make salads and eat it in a boiled form "without anything."And very few people know that this vegetable is a real storehouse of vitamins, minerals.

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Chemical composition and nutritional value of beet

Nutritional value 100 g:

• Caloric value: 42 kcal
• Proteins: 1,5 g
• Fat: 0,1 gr
• Carbohydrates: 8,8 g

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sodium, magnesium, iron, potassium,Zinc, chrome, vanadium, copper, vitamins PP, E, A, B1, B2, B6, folic acid, vitamin C - and that's all - beet contents!And yet - carbohydrates, starch, ashes, monosaccharides, organic acids. .. In general, the composition of the vegetable in question is so unique that even doctors do not detract from its useful properties and strongly recommend taking beets not only for the purpose of treating some pathologies, but also absolutely healthyPeople.

Do not forget that beets are fiber, which will always act favorably on peristalsis of the intestine, improve the performance of the entire digestive system.

Calorie content of beet - 42 kcal per 100 g, so you can safely include the vegetable in the diet.

Benefit of beet

You can talk for a long time about the usefulness of beets for the body.But it's enough to mention only a few amazing abilities of this vegetable to become his admirer.And do not forget - in food is used, and root crops, and beet tops, they are useful properties are almost identical!

Beet has the following properties :

• strengthens the walls of the vessels - and, with the same intensity, the vegetable affects both large vessels and small ones;
• contributes to lowering blood pressure - especially this effect is when regular use of raw beets, and not from time to time in the salad "herring under the fur coat";
• serves as a preventive agent against atherosclerosis, osteoporosis and Alzheimer's disease - no wonder beets are mandatory for use at the age of over 50;
• restores the blood formula, raises the level of hemoglobin - with a slight decline in hemoglobin, mild anemia can do without drug treatment, using beetroot;
• restores the function of the liver, improves the functioning of the organ - the vegetable under consideration is part of the diet of people who have had liver infections of an infectious / inflammatory nature;
• improves metabolic processes - it includes substances that actively influence water-salt metabolism.

Back in the old days, raw beetroot was used as a cold remedy, and the tops of a young plant were used to heal uncomplicated wounds on the skin.

Beetroot is very useful for pregnant women - this is one of the few vegetables that in its composition has folic acid in large quantities.It is this substance that ensures the correct intrauterine development of the fetus, doctors recommend that the product be introduced into the diet and those women who are only at the stage of pregnancy planning.

Beets support the strength of the smallest capillary vessels, vitamins A and C, flavonoids are able to strengthen even the eye vessels and prevent the development of cataracts.This vegetable( and root crops, and tops) is rich in carbohydrates, and this is the source of energy - when physical fatigue it is useful to introduce salads from fresh beets into the diet.

Traditional healers recommend to use beetroot and women, and men - boron compounds favorably act on the hormonal background, help to cope with psychoemotional bursts in the premenstrual period, strengthen potency to male representatives.

Beet juice - good, rules of use

Freshly prepared beet juice is a storehouse of vitamins and minerals, it is not surprising that it has an exceptionally beneficial effect on the body. In particular :

• helps fight colds - treats the common cold, relieves sore throat;
• actively lowers blood pressure;
• improves heart function;
• counteracts thrombus formation in large and small vessels;
• increases the amount of hemoglobin, relieves anemia;
• corrects the menstrual cycle, gives positive dynamics in mastopathy and amenorrhea;
• helps with urolithiasis, removing all kinds of stones, except for oxaluric;
• promotes excretion of gallbladder stones;
• calms the nervous system, gives a deep, full sleep.

Just to prepare the juice from beets and drink as a drink can not be - there are certain rules and preparations for healing "drugs" and use.

First, you can consume juice from beets only after it has stood for at least 2 hours from the moment of preparation.If you drink beet juice immediately after pressing, you may experience headaches, nausea and upset stomach.

Secondly, correctly use the drink in question only in combination with other juices.The best combination of both taste and healing properties - beets + celery, beets + carrots, beets + pumpkin.Start consuming such freshens with a proportion of 1:10, that is, 1 part of beet juice and 10 additional components.Every day you can add a little beet juice, but the maximum permissible proportions are 1: 1.

Thirdly, it is absolutely impossible to drink the prepared cocktail in one gulp or at a time.During the day, a glass( 300ml) should be drunk in several receptions.And each reception is only a few( up to 5) small sips.

Note: if there are no negative effects during the use of beetroot fresh, then you can gradually switch to the use of pure beverage.In this form, you can drink juice for 2 weeks, then take a break of 10 days and the course can be repeated.

There are certain indications for the use of beetroot fresh :

1. Beetroot + carrot + apple in 1: 1: 1 ratio - serves as a preventive measure against lung cancer, peptic ulcer of stomach and duodenum, hypertension, pancreatic pathologies.
2. Beetroot + carrot + orange in a proportion of 0.5: 1: 2 - maximally fully absorbed by vitamin C, is a positive effect on the condition of the walls of blood vessels.
3. Beet + cranberries or beets + honey in a proportion of 0.5: 1 - normalizes blood pressure, calms, corrects the psychoemotional background, cleanses the liver and kidneys, relieves constipation.

It is very useful to use beetroot juice in the recommended combinations for lifting the hangover state, to feed the liver, to get rid of spasms of blood vessels, to suppress heartburn, as a component of dietary nutrition for weight loss.

Beet juice for oncological diseases

Important: in the product under consideration contains the pigment betacyanin .This substance is able to prevent the development of cancer cells.Therefore, beet juice is considered very useful in the prevention of cancer, and even during the treatment of already diagnosed cancer, the product is recommended to be included in the diet.

Beet juice can and should be consumed by people with cancer and at the stage of rehabilitation after chemotherapy, and during periods of remission of the disease, and in the postoperative period.But there is one indispensable condition: every day you need to eat 200 g of boiled beets and 700 ml of beetroot fresh( not pure juice!).Moreover, the recommended amount of boiled beet should be divided into two doses, and the medicinal drink - by 7-10.

Beets will restore strength after aggressive therapy, will promote the development of new blood cells, increase appetite, stop the progression of the disease.

Boiled beet

Many believe that in the boiled beet leaves no useful substances - the vegetable turns into a banal food supplement.But this is a wrong opinion!It is proved that even after heat treatment practically all useful properties remain in the product under consideration.

By the way, the boiled beet does not irritate the walls of the stomach, therefore for some people( with previously diagnosed stomach / duodenal diseases) the use of the product after heat treatment will be more useful.

It is the boiled beet that normalizes the digestive system - in particular, it relieves chronic constipation, and also helps to fight stress, promotes the formation of blood cells, normalizes protein metabolism.

Harm to beets and contraindications

It can not be said for sure that beets can be harmful to the body, it is better to characterize it as some limitations / contraindications to the use of the vegetable in question for certain categories of people.

It should be extremely careful when introducing beets( raw and boiled) in the diet to those people who have unstable stools.In other words, if there is a predisposition to diarrhea( diarrhea), then it is necessary to limit the amount of beets and closely monitor the work of your intestines.

This useful vegetable contains oxalic acid - it causes contraindications to people with diagnosed oxaluria.It is this acid that makes beets an undesirable vegetable in the diet of gastritis patients with a low acidity of gastric juice.

It is strictly forbidden to consume beets in any form to people with diabetes mellitus - the vegetable in question contains a lot of sugar, which can lead to deterioration of well-being, increase of sugar in blood - this will lead to serious consequences.

Please note: if the use of beet juice is intended as a medical procedure, it is necessary to consult with the doctor in charge and get a recommendation and permission for such sokoterapiyu.

Such a vegetable, well known to all of us, like beets, can give the body a lot of benefits!By the way, it is allowed to introduce even small children into the diet - this also normalizes the bowel work, and relieves lower hemoglobin.Do not be addicted to beetroot - too much of this product can lead to diarrhea, hypervitaminosis, and stomach pain( due to irritation of the mucous coarse fiber).But if you eat 100 grams of boiled / raw beets every day, the body will receive the necessary dose of vitamins and micro / macro elements for the normal operation of all systems and organs.