Useful properties of potatoes as an alternative treatment of certain diseases. Several alternative uses for the popular potatoes. The potato is considered an indispensable food.
But it is widely razsaten for centuries in folk medicine. With its juice has long been treated ulcers of the stomach and duodenum, and the potassium content determines its diuretic properties and makes potatoes needed in the daily menu of patients with diseases of the heart and kidneys.
Potato starch is used as an anti-inflammatory agent in the gastro-intestinal diseases. Boil potatoes not protivopozakan even in severe forms of poisoning.
Here are some recipes with potatoes as folk medicine helps to treat some common diseases:
• If swelling in the hands and feet of bark peel potatoes, grate it and enforce the resulting soft swollen mess of places for 15-20 minutes.
Compression can tighten with a cotton cloth or towel.
• In hypertension, the peel of potatoes 4-5 should be washed well to pour 500 ml of water and boil for 15 minutes. Potion cool, strain and take 1 cup half an hour before eating.
• When osteochondrosis make a compress of grated potato with honey. This compression is kept for not less than one hour.
• When burning, nausea, vomiting and a chronic headache drink the juice from fresh potatoes (half a cup 2-3 times a day).
• The juice prepared from raw potatoes, carrots and celery helps cleanse slag.
• 3-4 teaspoons of raw potato juice helps with nervous disorders.
• Potato apply cosmetics. The mixture of fresh grated potato and wheat flour (in equal proportions) helps with inflammation and flaking of the skin. It is applied on the face of the thick layer and the top placed a napkin soaked with potato juice. The mask is held for 20 minutes, then the face is washed with cold milk, diluted in half with water.