Just 200 grams of boiled potatoes are enough to get the full daily requirement of vitamin C.
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Description and composition
Recently, many have demonized this vegetable, claiming that it is responsible for obesity. This only happens if the potatoes are fried or seasoned with butter and eaten in large quantities.
In fact, research has proven that potatoes contain a large number of useful substances:
- proteins,
- fats,
- carbohydrates,
- organic acids - malic and citric,
- vitamins B1, B2, B3, B5, B6, PP, C, K, E, U,
- potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, iodine, selenium, magnesium, manganese,
- starch.
Healing properties
In folk medicine, tuber juice is used for
- constipation,
- headaches,
- as a diuretic.
Potato tubers have anti-inflammatory and wound-healing effects. Antimicrobial and anticystic properties of potatoes have been noted. Moreover, young tubers stored in sunlight have more antimicrobial properties than those stored for a long time in the dark. The maximum amount of antimicrobial substances was found in young green shoots of potato tubers.
What diseases does it help with?
Clinical and experimental studies have shown high healing properties of multivitamin potato juice in the treatment of ulcers .
Potato juice is also effective for gastritis with high and low acidity.
Methods of application
For gastritis, it is necessary to wash and peel raw potato tubers and pass through a meat grinder. Squeeze the juice from the resulting mass. Take half a glass of freshly prepared juice 2 times a day.
For peptic ulcers, young potatoes should be used. Wash the tubers, very thinly scrape the peel, grate, and squeeze out the juice. When taken orally, 1 glass of juice 4 times a day, for 20 days, while following a therapeutic diet, there is a decrease in pain, heartburn, decreased acidity, and weight gain.
Such treatment should only be carried out under the supervision of a physician.
Contraindications
Long-term storage of potatoes leads to the accumulation of a particularly toxic alkaloid, solanine, which causes severe poisoning.
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