Acute respiratory viral infections lie in wait for all people, especially children, as well as women and men with weak immunity. Today, many different drugs are sold in pharmacies, which contain various vitamins. Firstly, such drugs are very expensive, and secondly, these are not natural preparations. But I want the child to use natural vitamins. This is especially true in the autumn-winter period, when the peak of colds comes.
Today we will talk about an excellent tool for strengthening the body's defenses, which every woman can cook. This is a mixture to enhance immunity from dried fruits. We also determine what products are included in this natural medicine and what properties each component has.
When is a tasty mix of vitamins useful?
A mixture to increase immunity from dried fruits will be useful in the period of colds, viral infections, or simply with spring vitamin deficiency. After all, after the winter on the shelves of stores there are no more natural healthy fruits and vegetables, so you need to replenish vitamins from your own hand-made products.
A vitamin mixture is useful if a person has such conditions as:
- Fast fatiguability.
- Drowsiness or, conversely, insomnia.
- General malaise.
- Fragility of nails, hair loss.
- Peeling skin.
What is a part of a natural immunostimulating agent?
The mixture consists of the following ingredients:
- lemon;
- honey;
- walnuts and dried fruits (dried apricots, raisins).
These are the main components, but you can put figs, dates, prunes there. Instead of walnuts, it is recommended to use cashews, peanuts, almonds, pistachios, hazelnuts, pine nuts, etc. By the way, the latter help with pancreatitis, gastritis and stomach ulcers. And cashews can lower blood cholesterol. They also, unlike most nuts, do not cause allergies. Delicious almonds contain the same amount of organic acids as walnuts. Therefore, you can experiment and add your favorite foods to your taste.
Vitamin Blend Recipe
For a standard harvest, you will need the main ingredients: nuts, raisins, honey, dried apricots and lemon. Dried fruits and nuts are taken in the same amount - 200 grams each. Then honey will need 3 tablespoons. The lemon should be medium in size.
Rules for the preparation of the vitamin mixture:
- Put dried fruits in a saucepan and pour boiling water over them for 10 minutes.
- Drain, allow ingredients to dry.
- Remove seeds from prunes (if they were originally there).
- Peel walnuts, wash them under running water so that the excess husk is washed off.
- Lemon should be immersed in boiling water for 2 minutes, and then, without taking it out of the pan, allow to cool. This is done so that the zest eventually turns out to be soft, and all the bitterness is gone.
- Cut the lemon into small slices, get rid of the seeds so that the vitamin mixture does not appear with bitterness.
- Scroll individually dried fruit and lemon in a meat grinder or blender.
- Mix all ingredients with liquid, not candied honey.
The resulting mixture to enhance immunity from dried fruits, honey and lemon must be stored in the refrigerator in a glass jar, tightly corked with a lid.
Useful Tips
- Before chopping, it is advisable to warm the nuts in a frying pan or in the oven. By the way, for a vitamin mixture walnut is ideal, the price of which, however, has recently increased significantly. Today, in large supermarkets, peeled fruits can be bought at 600 rubles per 1 kg. But you can do otherwise: go to the market and buy walnuts from your grandmothers. The price in this case will be several times lower than in the store. In addition, grandmothers, in addition, will also pour an extra handful of nuts into the bag.
- Dried fruits used to prepare the mixture (raisins, dried apricots, prunes and dates), it is advisable to pre-soak. Be sure to do this if these ingredients are dry.
- You can’t eat such a mixture dryly, it is very sweet. Ideal to combine it with tea.
- Such a natural immunostimulating agent is especially useful for people who have hard physical work.
- Persons who suffer from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract must not add lemon to the mixture, because it is, in fact, an acid.
- So that children can eat up useful medicine with interest, mom can make sweets from it. To do this, roll small balls and roll them in coconut. You will see how the child himself will ask for such a yummy.
How to take a natural immunostimulating agent?
The vitamin mixture will appeal to both adults and children. You need to take this remedy in such a dosage:
- Children from 3 years old - 1 teaspoon 2 times a day.
- Adults - 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.
Children under 3 years old should not be given this mixture, since it contains allergens such as honey and nuts. But you can go the other way: instead of honey, put berry jam, and do not add nuts at all.
Properties of Dried Apricot
The use of dried apricots for the body is great. This dried fruit is rich in fructose, sucrose and glucose, it contains potassium, magnesium, calcium, pectin, vitamin B5, as well as organic acids that remove heavy metals and other harmful substances from the body. Dried apricots acts on the body as follows:
- Helps to recover quickly after surgery, replenishing iron stores.
- Reduces the negative impact after the use of antibacterial drugs during illness.
- It replenishes the supply of vitamins in the body, due to which the immune system begins to work better.
- It increases the formation of blood cells, so this dried fruit is indicated for people suffering from anemia.
- It relieves toxins and is an excellent diuretic.
- Lowers cholesterol.
- It is an excellent prophylactic against the appearance of cancerous tumors.
- Supports normal hormonal levels.
But with all the positive aspects, the use of dried apricots for the body may decrease, and dried fruit can harm a person if he chooses dried apricot incorrectly . So, some sellers treat it with chemicals in order to increase the shelf life of the product and improve its appearance. Therefore, you need to buy dried apricots only in trusted places. And also this dried fruit should not be taken by people suffering from obesity or having an allergic reaction to it (rash, swelling, itching).
Walnut Properties
This is an excellent ingredient for a vitamin mixture that can increase immunity due to the content of polyunsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E. Walnut increases the overall tone of the body. It also positively affects the functioning of the central nervous system and brain, interferes with the aging process, has a hypoglycemic and antitumor effect, and improves blood viscosity.
Beekeeping Product Properties
Lemon, honey, dried apricots - these ingredients of the mixture contain vitamins A, B, P, potassium, copper, pectins. But most of these beneficial elements are found in bee products. Even small children know that honey is good. This product enhances immunity, has bactericidal and anti-inflammatory properties.
People who constantly consume honey to restore the body’s defenses note high working capacity and excellent mood. And this only says that a person is strong from the inside, he has strong immunity. After all, those people who often suffer from respiratory diseases complain of a bad mood, fatigue, and rapid fatigue. And honey improves appetite, activates brain activity, restores the cardiovascular system.
Important condition! This beekeeping product must be natural. Only then, a mixture to increase immunity from dried fruits, nuts and honey will be truly valuable.
Useful properties of raisins
Dried grape fruits contain almost the same vitamins as dried apricots. In addition, in raisins there is a bioton called vitamin N. Dried grape fruits are very rich in potassium and sodium.
Useful properties of raisins:
- This product has a lot of iron, so it is recommended for anemia.
- Boron, which is part of raisins, contributes to the normal absorption of calcium in the body. Therefore, people with osteochondrosis and osteoporosis are recommended to take meals with dried grapes.
- Raisins have a lot of potassium, so it should be consumed by people suffering from cardiovascular diseases.
- And most importantly, there are many antioxidants in this product, in particular oleanolic acid. It is she who protects the cells of the body from free radicals, thereby strengthening the human immunity.
- Raisin helps with colds, helps to quickly relieve symptoms of SARS: sore throat, cough, nasal congestion.
Lemon Properties
This citrus helps with colds: it prevents the reproduction of pathogenic microflora. It is rich in vitamin C, which helps fight ARVI.
Vitamins of group B, located in lemon, reduce fatigue, normalize sleep, relieve depression, give the person vitality. Group A vitamin, also part of this citrus, is good for vision. A lemon peel improves digestion and reduces gas formation.
Mixture benefits
Such a tasty medicine must be made to people whose immunity is undermined, or to mothers raising small children. The advantages of such a home product:
- The naturalness of the drug.
- 100% result.
- Acceptable price. Medicines sold at the pharmacy are much more expensive than this homemade mixture. In addition, most of them are not natural, which means that they can lead to allergic reactions.
Conclusion
Nuts and dried fruits, honey and lemon are a storehouse of useful elements, when used, a person's immunity increases, and he does not suffer from viral respiratory diseases, even in an epidemic of influenza. This healthy mixture can be prepared at home. Now you do not need to go to the pharmacy in search of the best remedy for immunity.