Black radish is a two-year-old vegetable plant that has been widely distributed throughout North America, as well as Asia and Europe. Black radish is rightfully recognized as the most bitter, however, and the most useful.
The benefits of black radish are enormous because it is rich in: proteins, carbohydrates (sucrose and fructose), fats, provitamins A - carotene, vitamins A - retinol, vitamins B 9 , C and K, trace elements - iron, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, sodium potassium, zinc. Yes, black radish does not have as many vitamins as other healthy vegetables, but it has a perfectly balanced composition, for which it is appreciated for its significant benefits.
Black radish gained its beneficial properties due to its content in it: organic acids, salts of mineral origin, vitamins, enzymes, volatile, essential oils, proteins and amino acids. The benefits of using radish are manifested in improved metabolism, increased immunity, improved digestion, and as a natural substitute for antibiotics with a wide spectrum of effects, it is able to remove excess fluid from the body.
Of course, this is not all the merits possessed by black radish. Its useful properties are manifested in the ability to dissolve toxins, which may contain the gall bladder, mineral salts in the vessels, renal pelvis and bladder.
Since radish juice is a strong choleretic drug, the use of which can cause pain in the liver, this can be avoided if you use a water heating pad, applying it to the liver area. In this case, the pain will become completely tolerable, and its manifestation will be felt only at the initial stage of bile output. Further procedures will be much easier. In the event that the pain caused by the use of juice is tolerated by you tolerably, such procedures should be continued until you feel a noticeable improvement in your health.
You need to drink juice no more than one teaspoon after an hour after eating. Depending on how your pains are tolerated, you can gradually increase the intake of juice to one, two tablespoons, and at the end of the course - up to half a glass. As a result of such treatment, black radish will reveal the beneficial properties of its juice with the mandatory observance of a fresh diet. And also for this period of treatment should not eat spicy and acidic foods.
After you have completely drunk the juice of the radish, it is necessary to switch to the use of oilcake, which should be sour by this moment. It should be taken in the process of eating one, three tablespoons, until it, like juice, is consumed by you all.
For storage, the juice must be placed in the refrigerator, and the cake should be mixed with honey. If there is no honey, sugar can be a substitute in the following proportions: to one kilogram of cake you need to add three hundred grams of honey (or five hundred grams of sugar) and in a jar tightly closed with a press, store in a warm room. Avoid the appearance of mold in the jar, such a cake should not be used.
Black radish also reveals the beneficial properties of its oilcake in the treatment of bronchitis. So from the cake that remained with you after squeezing the juice (before putting the cake in a jar), you can prepare effective mustard plasters. It is wrapped in a thin layer in gauze and applied in the area under the scapula for fifteen to twenty minutes. You can cover this place with a towel or pillow.
Also, it can be perfectly eaten in the form of a salad or just pouring olive oil on it.
Of course, black radish also has dangerous properties, the following are contraindications for use. If a person suffers from an aggravated disease of the organs of the gastrointestinal tract, glomerulonephritis, or has recently suffered a heart attack, drinking radish juice is strictly contraindicated.
If you want black radish to give you useful properties all the time, you can grow it in your country house. A favorable growth medium for radish will be humus and moist soil.