Doctor and cosmetologist … horse-radish

The grandmother about it said that lovers of horse-radish have always a good complexion and, looking at her, it was possible not to doubt it.

Horse-radish or wild radish - Armoracia rusticana L. – an aromatic perennial grassy plant from family of a cruciferae family from a half a meter up to one and a half meters high. A stalk at a straight line plant, branchy. Leaves green or dark green, radical large and oblong and oval on long scapes, average stem plumose and separate, top linear. In June-July on horse-radish the white florets collected in panicled brushes blossom. Fruits are dvugnezdny pods, ripen in August.

Horse-radish roots which add to the most various dishes are edible. Young leaves of horse-radish add to soups and salads and when salting cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage.

The first mentions in Russia of cultural horse-radish belong to the 6th century. Before Slavs used wild-growing horse-radish. Horse-radish ordinary grows on all European part of Russia, in Western and Middle Siberia. Grows on crude meadows, on coast of the rivers, on the abandoned waste grounds, it is cultivated at dachas and kitchen gardens.

Horse-radish for health

- Roots of horse-radish contain: vitamins of group B, C there is a lot of essential mustard oil which impacts it sharp spiciness and aroma. And also glucose, flavonoids, mineral substances - calcium, potassium, phosphorus … Remove roots in the fall, before frosts.

- Horse-radish fine antimicrobic and antibacterial means.

- Medicines from horse-radish possess antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, expectorant, antiscorbutic, soothing action.

- The juice of horse-radish diluted with boiled water is applied at gastritises with the lowered acidity, sluggish reduction of intestines, at chronic colitis and cholecystitis.
Or do infusion: To fill in 1 tablespoon of the horse-radish which is passed via the meat grinder with 2 glasses of boiled water, to insist 1 hour, to filter. To accept on 1 teaspoon 3-4 times a day to food.

- Juice is used for rinsing at diseases of a throat, mouth at a toothache, at purulent wounds.

- Wrappings are made of the diluted juice at radiculitis, rheumatism, neuralgia.
Juice also treat seborrhea, baldness and purulent wounds.

To be treated by horse-radish, taking it inside, it is impossible at exacerbation of chronic diseases, inflammatory processes and highly blood pressure.

Horse-radish is an excellent cosmetologist

- Do broths and face packs and a hair of it.

- Horse-radish perfectly bleaches skin, deleting freckles and pigmentary spots. For this purpose the face is wiped with broth from a root of horse-radish or the juice diluted with boiled water 1:1.

- A mask at sluggish and porous skin
To grate a root of horse-radish and apple. To take 1 teaspoon of horse-radish and 2 teaspoons of apple puree, to add 1 teaspoon of honey. To put on a face for 7-10 minutes. To wash away water of room temperature. If skin sensitive, has tendency to irritation, then before drawing a mask, it needs to be oiled olive.

- For treatment of acne rash
To wash warm water and to apply on an acne surface a polished root of horse-radish for 10 - 15 minutes. To wash away a mask boiled water of room temperature. If pinches skin earlier, then it is necessary to wash away at once.

- For improvement of blood circulation and rejuvenation of skin
To pass a horse-radish root via the meat grinder. To take 1 tablespoon of gruel, to add 1 tablespoon of sour cream. To put on a face, a neck, a decollete a thin layer for 15 minutes. To wash away the tampon moistened in the warmed-up milk. In 5 minutes to wash water of room temperature.

- For the weakened, dropping out hair
To grate horse-radish, to wring out juice through 2-3 layers of a gauze, to part it with water 1:1, to add a honey teaspoon on ½ glasses of mix 1, to rub in roots of hair, to put on a polyethylene hat, to tie from above the head with a terry towel. In half an hour to wash hair with shampoo and to rinse with the water acidified by lemon juice. Hair will find the volume, gloss and silkiness.

- A mask for hair from horse-radish for volume, silkiness and gloss
To take 2 tablespoons of gruel of polished horse-radish, 1 tablespoon of olive or castor oil, 1 tablespoon of sour cream. To put all this in the enameled bowl and it is good to mix. To apply this mix on roots of hair, and then and having distributed on all to length. To put on a polyethylene hat the head and to wind from above the head with a terry towel. In about 40-60 minutes to wash up the head shampoo with warm water. After washing to rinse a fair hair with broth of a camomile pharmaceutical (1 teaspoon on 1 liter of boiled water), dark – nettle broth (1 tablespoon on 1 liter of boiled water). Before a spolaskivaniye broths to cool and filter.

Magicians say that if to add horse-radish to the man's food, at least 2-3 times a week, will pull it to this woman.