Dara Vostoka: magic spices. Part 1

Turmeric (boor, sarykyo). This spice in our country began to gain popularity rather recently.



Powder of bright yellow color with the expressed aroma is the used-up root of a plant, related to ginger. A turmeric – the great doctor and the cosmetologist. Turmeric powder very powerful antioxidant, perfectly treats diseases of joints and a backbone, regulates exchange processes, increases immunity, cleans a liver and bilious channels, cleans intestines and regulates activity of digestive tract. Purifies blood and lowers cholesterol. Effective antivermicular remedy. It is applied both outwardly, and internally.

Recipes with addition of a turmeric.

"Gold milk". The known recipe among admirers of yoga. ½ teaspoons of powder of a turmeric to make 1/5 glasses of boiled water, to draw minutes five and to add a honey teaspoon, to stir and add the same amount of hot or cold milk. To drink in the morning, on an empty stomach, or in the evening before going to bed.

Tea from a turmeric. we make ½ spoons of a turmeric a glass of boiled water, we add 2-3 features of a carnation, a honey spoon. We drink in one-two receptions. At intolerance of honey to replace with brown sugar. This drink very quickly helps at catarrhal diseases.

Kefir with a turmeric. to fill in ½ teaspoons of a turmeric with a small amount of boiled water (couple of tablespoons), to allow to steam out a couple of minutes, to add a little honey, to stir, add the 150-200th kefir.

For use the turmeric can be made boiled water in a small posudinka, to steam of tablespoons at once, then to boil thoroughly ten on a water bath of minutes. After cooling to store in the refrigerator, having densely corked. The prepared paste can be added to teas and masks. If after acceptance of drinks with a turmeric the expressed poslablyayushchy effect followed, and to you it is undesirable, take spice in smaller quantities: 1/3 or 1/4 teaspoons. In several days the complexion, mobility of joints, ease in digestion will improve.

Outwardly the turmeric is applied in the form of masks and oil vtiraniye.

Face pack. Structure: 1 tsps of a turmeric, 1 tablespoon of cream, 1 h l of honey. Mix is applied on zo min. After washing off to wipe a face with tonic for removal of a yellowish shade.

Body balm. ¾ glass of sugar, 2 h l of a turmeric, 1/3 glasses of vegetable oil, 1 tablespoon of ground coffee. Balm is applied to a body at massage and wrappings. To wash away in twenty-thirty minutes. For elimination of yellowness to use kefir.

The turmeric has the resistant painting properties therefore all structures need to be done accurately, it is possible in gloves.

Ginger. Ginger root powder – fine antioxidant, besides has antiseptic properties. Ginger is capable to rejuvenate an organism (as well as a turmeric), promotes acceleration of a metabolism, reduces appetite, eliminates inflammatory processes in an organism, improves blood circulation. Ginger treats skin and allergic diseases, violation of brain blood circulation, facilitates asthma attacks.

Tea from ginger. 1 teaspoon of ground dried ginger is made in 300 g of boiled water, allow to infuse and add honey and a lemon to taste. Ginger tea perfectly tones up, reduces appetite, warms a body. The excellent help at observance of a diet.

Ginger mask. to make ½ teaspoons of ground ginger, 1 h a spoon of bran boiled water, to add a tablespoon of cream to the weight which cooled down to warm. We put a mask on a face and a zone of a decollete for 30 minutes. It is desirable to check reaction of skin on sensitive sites of hands. The mask has the warming, rejuvenating effect.

For cosmetic procedures it is good to buy ginger oil. It can be added on two-three drops to masks, to ready creams, lotions.

Having mixed 10 drops of oil of ginger with a spoon of olive or burdock oil, you receive a fine mask for growth of hair, it is possible to add a teaspoon of coarse salt and a pinch of ground black pepper. To rub a mask in roots of hair and to take under a hat for hair of 20-30 minutes. To wash away usual shampoo. The mask promotes growth of hair and treats head skin.