Carrot and the fresh taste of spring

This root vegetable is native to Afghanistan, where it grows in the wild. Like many other plants, has suffered over the centuries, deep transformations. Varieties we know today are tender and sweet.

Indications

Nature has endowed carrot with vitamins A, B, C, minerals and elements such as iron, magnesium, calcium, potassium, phosphorus, sodium, carotene, etc. asparagine.

Composition very rich in active principles make a carrot nutrient treatment of primary importance.

Containing abundant iron, remineralizing and antianaemic his actions are remarkable, it contributes to increasing the number of red blood cells and the amount of hemoglobin.
High percentage of carotene makes carrots to be very important in the growth, the increase in visual acuity and control dermatoses. Carrot is of interest for people concerned about skin beauty, for he maintains skin suppleness and promotes cell regeneration.
Carrot treat both constipation and diarrhea as, also restoring peristalsis.
For his action is recommended especially in healing gastric ulcers.
Liver lazy, full of waste and toxins, can have a better friend to her foster functioning and to help in rehab, the carrot is, therefore, a vegetable that should be included hepaticilor daily menu, as in that of rheumatic, of those suffering from arthritis and gout, in the treatment of detoxification of the body and relieve pain.
During the year, but especially in winter, is best to eat carrots to strengthen the body's natural immune mechanisms.
Levulose sugar carrot has negative effects on diabetes.
As I mentioned, the best way to take advantage of the benefits of a vegetable is eating them in the form of salad, appetizer, cooked or raw steam stifled or, as a fruit, at any time of day. Carrot readily lend themselves to the ways of cooking.

However, an excessive consumption - spread over several months - may cause certain disorders without serious consequences as benign jaundice.
Be quiet, if not suffering from any particular digestive disease, and ten carrots you eat daily for several weeks without any adverse effects.
Like all root, carrot juice is a very healthy food, the abundance of minerals and vitamins, the disease indicated above. Special properties of plant fibers can be conferred only vegetable pulp.

Herbal Artault of Vevey healed sick children carrot juice for ringworm of the face, orally administered to 50 up to 150 g of juice per day. Scabs are gone after two months of treatment, and with regression of disease, and patients regained small skin beauty and vigor.

Like many other vegetable, carrot has been used in many recipes. Pharmacopoeia of folk remedies were sent until today. Easy to do, here are a few:
Anemia: 100 ml of carrot juice, 400 g of sugar. Mix juice with 200 ml of mineral water (a bowl). Add sugar, previously dissolved by boiling steam, until a syrup. Take one teaspoon of preparation, eight to ten times a day.

Anorexia: 5 g of ground carrot seeds. Leave to infuse in a pot with boiling water for 15 minutes, then filter preparation. Drink a glass before each meal.

Diarrhea: 15 g carrot seed powder. Let boil in 300 ml of water for 15 minutes, then strain. Drink half a cup in the morning on an empty stomach, drink another half an hour before dinner and another half an hour before bedtime.

Dyspepsia: 5 g of dehydrated carrots (dust). Let boil in 300 ml water for ten minutes and strain. Drink half a glass every ten minutes before each meal. Drink slowly and, preferably, lukewarm.

Gastritis: I take 150 grams of carrots, wash and dry well. Extract juice to drink after i have added some mineral water and honey. Drink 3 times a day: morning on an empty stomach in the afternoon and half an hour before bedtime.
External use

Carrots look younger all body tissues. Its beneficial effects on skin are known to followers herbal medicine and cosmetics.

Oily Skin: Apply carrot juice on your face and leave on for 15 minutes. Wash with mineral water. This is a detoxifying mask for dry skin.

Wrinkles: two ladles of carrot juice, a teaspoon of liquid honey, a tablespoon of wheat grass oil. Mix. On the face. Allow fifteen minutes, then rinse.

Cracked skin: a few leaves of fresh carrots are cooked in 400 ml water. Once the boil, reduce heat to third and let it simmer ten minutes. Strain. Use this decoction applying it to the part affected with a piece of gauze or cotton, several times a day.

Burns: Take three carrots, rinse well with warm water. It gives a fine grater to get a kind of paste. Apply a thin layer burning olive oil, then paste obtained. It bandajeaza with gauze. Leave on for about an hour.

Boils, varicose ulcers, ringworm: poultice of fresh leaves, bruised, or poultice with grated carrots. Changes poultice twice a day.

Sunburn: Carrots are given clean the grater. Mix two tablespoons of yogurt. Apply this paste on the affected areas. Allow 20 minutes. Rinse with plenty of water, if water can necalcaroasa.

Ulcerative dermatitis: 100 g of carrots washed with warm water. Smooth shave, to get a paste. Is applied locally in the form of poultice. Leave on 30 minutes. Changes twice a day.

Eczema: preparing carrots as the previous recipe. Apply the poultice three days. Is fixed with a bandage and left on for about an hour.

Thrush, abscesses: a few leaves of fresh carrots in a liter of water. Let boil for ten minutes. Strain. The gargle six to eight times a day.