It’s cabbage! Strong odor is due to the high content of sulfur and minerals along with other assets, gives numerous medicinal properties, helps reduce cholesterol and uric acid, even recommends against cancers, arthritis and rheumatism .
Its cultivation dates back to the Celts who used it as food and medicinal plant in ancient Greece, the meals served in public and in Rome is mentioned by Cato in his book “De re rustica” as a remedy for intestinal or lung disorders, and especially to increase milk production in women giving the breast.
The Spanish conquistadors brought it to plant your vegetables and legumes. What has not been established is whether our continent existed in some varieties because the Aztecs cultivated a genre called quelites with similar characteristics. .
It belongs to the cruciferous family. There are many species of this genus, but of the same family we have the Brussels sprouts, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower, all with a high sulfur content, which is a potent antioxidant.
Features
Cabbage habitat is along roadsides, grasslands, and cultivated fields. It is a herbaceous annual or perennial plant of the cruciferous family that can reach 300 cm in height.
Stems glabrous or with glandular hairs, ascending woody foliage with signs.
Upper leaves sessile, (Latin sessilis, suitable for sitting), a term often used in botany to express the lack of a standing body to serve or support.
The lower leaves more fleshy, stalked and lobed.
Yellow flowers, up to 2.5 cm in clusters little compact. Siliqua fruit (as trefoil) up to 8 cm.
Compounds
Cabbage contains 92% water, fiber, fewer calories, carbohydratesVitamins A, C, E, B.Minerals rich in sulfur and potassium, phosphorus, aluminum, calcium, fluorine, barium, magnesium, bromine.Other: Folic Acid, Niacin, Biotin, Mucilage, Quecetina, tyrosine, leucine, cystine, glutamic acid, arginine, ammonia, nitrate, Lauteina.Its qualities can be summarized with the following schedule:Amino cabbage: Alanine (Interesting as involved in the production of antibodies) Arginine (Essential in the elimination of ammonia, tissue repair and muscle building).Ascorbic acid (vitamin C, essential to disease prevention such as scurvy, plays a key role in the formation of collagen), Cystine (hormone function) Folic acid (Vitamin B) glutamic acid (Improving mental conditions, schizophrenia and vitalizes prevents the body).Leucine (Child growth, nitrogen balance) Niacin (Metabolism of the fat, prevention of hypertension and cholesterol reduction). Tyrosine (Acts as neurotransistor and is very important in the fight against depression as well as the proper functioning of the pituitary and thyroid).Medicinal properties
Cabbage is recommended for diabetic child growth, development of antibodies, hormonal functioning of the thyroid and pituitary gland, as well as helping to burn fat so it is ideal for low-calorie dietary regimes.
Counteract the excess uric acid and cholesterol, prevent hypertension and recommended treatments for arthritis and rheumatism. Recent studies attributed anticancer effects.
1. Diuretic
Helps remove accumulated fluids in the body, recommended in the treatment of diabetes, obesity, uric acid and heart disease associated with fluid retention. Also in rheumatic diseases such as arthritis, rheumatism, etc..
In this sense it is related to other foods that serve the same purpose, such as onions, celery, lemon.
Make a decoction of half an hour with the elements mentioned above and take discretion several times a day.
2. Diarrhea
Take a few cups of the decoction mentioned.
3. Ulcers
Cabbage high glutamine content makes it one of the best natural antacids, ideal for the treatment of stomach ulcers or duodenal ulcers, and ulcerative colitis.
Crush some leaves or shred and drink ten tablespoons a day of fresh cabbage juice, spread over four or five shots. It can be sweetened to make it more enjoyable.
4. Intestinal
For its anti-inflammatory and antacid and its high content of vitamin C helps prevent intestinal infections or helping diminish if there is diverticulitis.
Crush 100 grams. cabbage and drink by mixing the juice with water. It can be mixed with a couple of carrots to increase its healing power.
5. Hyperthyroidism
Caffeic and chlorogenic acids give antitiroidales properties. The juice can help reduce thyroid hormone production.
Squeeze a couple of cabbage leaves and take the juice mixed with a spoon
squeeze of lemon.
6. Bronchitis
Decoction cabbage is a cabbage leaf in a glass of milk for 15 minutes. Take spread over the meals.
The decoction is useful in colds, flu, etc.
7. Anti-inflammatory
Cabbage external use cabbage leaves to relieve pain or inflammation breast inflammation in mastitis during lactation.
Crush a cabbage leaf without midrib and apply directly on the sore breast.
The same treatment is used for swollen joints of arthritis. (Heat a cabbage leaf and apply it on the painful joint)
Caution
The presence of sinigrin or black mustard salt and other glucosinolates is causing intestinal irritation in people taking too much of this plant.
Sprouts are one of the main foods responsible for producing flatulence so their consumption should be moderate in people with this problem.
Did you know?
Cabbage juice, high in anthocyanins, can be used as pH indicator.
Red cabbage is better than white because it contains chlorine and is very high in calcium so it is in the malnourished. The juice is an excellent tonic, always be prepared correctly, so it will be highly recommended for children who are growing.
Cabbage cooked in water is quite effective against cough and hoarseness. With the juice of red cabbage is prepared a syrup is soothing and chest and is used especially to treat diseases of the chest, particularly chronic colds.
Collard greens are used in cases of anemia and chlorosis, and are recommended along with spinach, carrots, lettuce, finely chopped and fed to the dose of one to two tablespoons at each meal, along with other foods.
Because of its iodine content is excellent cabbage, in cases of exophthalmic goiter, so preference will use the red or green cabbage, with alcoholism, will use the stem of the cabbage, shredded and soaked in wine or liquor, be delivered in glasses.
It is a vegetable rich in insoluble fiber cellulose-and sulfur compounds that give them the smell so particular that release during cooking, as well as antioxidant properties that make it flatulent. This is when you consume these types of cooked vegetables, which worsens the digestive function, which does not happen when eaten raw.
Studies have shown that cabbage or cabbage in oil contains anti-ulcer compounds in its composition, only that have not yet been identified completely.
For the benefits against gastrointestinal ulcer cabbage is taken into salad or drink their own juice.
In salad: tender cabbage leaves are also eaten in salads, chopped very fine and seasoned with olive oil and lemon. One example is the Coleslaw and apple.Fresh Juice: To get the juice or juice are to crush the fresh leaves of cabbage, mix with a few tablespoons of water and then crush all using a blender or mixer. To be effective this juice is recommended to take 2 tablespoons to half a glass before each meal and for several days.
Cabbages has been used with great success, poultice of cabbage leaves to cure varicose ulcers on the thighs and calves.
For this, wash the leaves macerated in water of boric few hours after the affected area thoroughly cleaned, leaves are placed so as to cover all the ulcer, then lightly bandage the whole area, reliving every day 2 times; so get to heal quickly.
This poultice is also used to treat all kinds of sores swollen as refreshing.
To decrease the secretion of milk in women, apply lightly roasted leaves in a poultice on the chest.
In scarlatina used a decoction of cabbage leaves, applied as a warm bath.
The leaves steamed and made into poultices, are great for curing rheumatism, gout, arthritis, and neuralgia ciética for which apply to the affected regions. It also serves to remove the pain in inflammation of the kidneys and liver, placed in the corresponding parts.
The cooked leaves and apply hot for sore side, as well as against rheumatic pains, and it will be renewed every one or two hours or more often.
In feverish conditions, apply to the patient’s head, as a refreshing, poultices of cabbage leaves, which also cause a pleasant feeling of freshness will prevent hair loss.
More than 380 genera and 3,000 species, but there are 3 varieties of cabbages traded:
- Cabbage-green or plain white: it is the most common.
- Cabbage White or Milan, or kale or cabbage Savoy Crespo.
- Cabbage or red cabbage or purple.
- Chinese cabbage or Akusai.
The family of crucifers, also pertenecenel, Brussels sprouts or sprout, broccoli, cabbage and cauliflower.
The cabbage is used for canning, sauerkraut, pickles, is consumed in salads and cooked as you can keep cooked, frozen after blanching and even prepared as sauerkraut (fermented cabbage that is used as a condiment or accompaniment).
Cabbage, kale and broccoli are rich in isothiocynates, phytochemicals that trigger the production of enzymes that block the carcinogenic damage to DNA. That is, help prevent cancer.
However, isothiocynates of cabbage are drastically reduced when these foods are cooked. That is why in order to benefit from anti-cancer affects the cabbage or cabbage should be eaten raw as a salad.
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