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 Garden salad was cultivated even in antiquity: in ancient Rome and ancient Greece it was actively cultivated and eaten, and in ancient Egypt it was used as a medicine. There are a lot of types of salad, and each of them has a lot of useful properties. The people of antiquity knew about this, so they ate fresh lettuce leaves, as they say, for a sweet soul.
This plant contains a large amount of useful proteins, carbohydrates, salts of magnesium, potassium, calcium, iron. Each leaf of lettuce is saturated with B vitamins, vitamin E, C, vitamin PP, provitamin A. The salad is very attractive as a garden crop, as it has frost resistance and early maturity. It can be successfully cultivated in the northern regions of Russia, but only where there is a long daylight hours, since the lettuce needs a lot of sunlight.
Lettuce leaves - food for the diet
Salad is such a product that is ideal for diet food. It must be consumed by people with diabetes, obesity. In general, losing weight on lettuce leaves is both effective and healthy; with them, you can arrange fasting days, making up a diet of various types of salad. This food is so useful that it removes poisons and toxins from the body; helps the recovery of the stomach and duodenum, if an ulcer is worried or gastritis.
Regular consumption of lettuce leaves helps to eliminate pain, even at night, and speeds up the healing process of ulcers. A person suffering from a sleep disorder simply needs an infusion of fresh salad. The seeds of this plant have impressive beneficial properties, in particular, the infusion from the seeds can increase milk production in nursing mothers.
Lettuce has a beneficial effect on the respiratory tract, which leads to its use as an expectorant and antitussive agent, especially if the cough is severe. Lettuce leaves are indispensable for large blood loss, because they contain iron.
Magnesium, which is also rich in lettuce, is required to maintain the nervous system and restore muscle tissue. The juice squeezed from lettuce leaves has an exceptional benefit. And if it is mixed with turnip juice, beet or carrot drink, then the benefits are doubled. With such a mixture in the daily diet, you can not be afraid of the appearance of atherosclerosis, hope for a quick recovery of strength. Lettuce leaves are a favorite "medicine" of homeopathic doctors, which they recommend to hypertensive patients, those who suffer from increased nervous, emotional excitability, diseases of the cardiovascular apparatus.
Lettuce leaves solve problems with appearance. So, cosmetologists use this herbal product as part of refreshing masks. Lettuce juice soothes the skin affected by the sun's rays; it is enough to wipe the affected areas with it.
With the help of salad, you can improve the health of not only the skin, but also the hair, using an alcoholic tincture of its leaves. Before use, you need to keep this setting at room temperature for exactly one week (it will acquire a greenish tint). The same remedy relieves the scalp from dandruff, and the hair - from loss; plus alcohol tincture on lettuce leaves accelerates hair growth.
Add a decoction of 2 forks of head salad to the bath - and stress is relieved. Thanks to bathing in such a bath, stress will go away after a hard day, a feeling of calmness will appear and a surge of energy will roll.
Lettuce leaves in cooking
Salad is good in folk medicine, cosmetology, but it is not in the last place in cooking either.“Kitchen masters” know everything about the salad, so they gladly put it in soups instead of white cabbage. With his participation, a variety of snacks are prepared, including fresh salads with vegetable oil, natural sour cream. Of course, the body benefits greatly from the fresh product, however, stewed lettuce leaves are also good, although they lose a significant part of the valuable components.
Salad is an excellent culinary decoration for fish, meat and vegetable dishes. It is used as an adjunct to sandwiches and other edible products. Italians generally regard the salad as a dessert, sprinkling it with lemon juice and sweet yogurt.
When buying a salad, keep in mind that it is stored for only a day, after which the leaves become lethargic and lose their benefits. Embossed leaves require careful washing, otherwise particles of earth, dust will creak on your teeth. Wash them in standing water to prevent all vitamins from being consumed.
The salad is worthy of love and recognition, because it is not in vain that nature has awarded it with such great benefits. Have delicious and useful days!
Moskvitina E.
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