Quinoa plant is spreading.

Syn.: mari.

An annual semi-shrub monoecious plant with alternate leaves, covered, like the stem, with a powdery coating. It is a valuable food product and is also widely used in folk medicine some countries.

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Flower formula

The formula of the spreading quinoa flower is: *O2-5T2-5P(2-5).

In medicine

Quinoa is a plant that is not included in the domestic pharmacopoeia and Russian medicine it is not used. However, quinoa is a valuable food product, and its medicinal properties are used in folk medicine in different countries.

Quinoa is used for constipation as a laxative. Is an excellent vitaminizing, tonic with vitamin deficiency, scurvy. Helps with various diseases gastrointestinal tract. When coughing, it has an antibacterial and expectorant effect.

The greenery of the spreading quinoa is rich mineral salts calcium and iron, vegetable fats, valuable protein, carbohydrates, vitamins PP and C. Infusions, as well as decoctions prepared from the aerial part of the plant, are successfully used as an antibacterial, expectorant, and diuretic. Quinoa has carminative and sedative properties, the fresh greens of the plant are natural remedy cleansing the liver, gallbladder and gastrointestinal tract from toxins and waste.

An infusion of fresh or dried quinoa will help cure sore throat, and can also be used topically in the form of lotions for skin diseases accompanied by itching. Quinoa leaf poultice - excellent remedy against gout and hemorrhoids, and some gynecological diseases and constipation are treated with a decoction.

Contraindications and side effects

It must be remembered that the abuse of this plant as food product may cause diseases of the digestive system and nervous system. Also, quinoa should not be eaten by people suffering from urolithiasis and cholelithiasis.

In cosmetology

The beneficial properties of quinoa can be used in home cosmetology. Having antibacterial, anti-inflammatory properties, and providing a vitaminizing effect on the skin, quinoa can be used for washing and bathing. Leaves are suitable for this. Prepare an infusion of 4 tablespoons of dry leaves per 1 liter of boiled water.

In cooking

Quinoa is undoubtedly one of the most widely known edible plants. She has almost no pronounced taste, only slightly salty when raw. Therefore it can be added to various dishes in fairly large quantities. In the old days, it helped people out during periods of famine, crop failure, and lack of food; peasants and city dwellers widely used it in their diet. Quinoa was ground into flour and bread was baked from it along with rye flour. From its mature seeds they prepared a nutritious, delicious porridge with the addition of milk, they cooked cabbage soup from fresh quinoa and sorrel, often using it instead of cabbage.

Nowadays, quinoa can find wide application as a useful vitamin and mineral supplement to dietary, fasting and everyday nutrition. Scrambled eggs with finely chopped quinoa are almost a delicacy. Chopped young quinoa herb with onion, boiled egg and butter Perfect for filling dumplings, dumplings, pies, pies, quite plausibly resembling meat in them. Quinoa can be prepared for the winter by fermentation.

Young leaves of quinoa are extremely useful in fresh to prepare a wide variety of salads, they use it not only as an additive to main vegetables and other ingredients, but also as a main component. You can dress salads vegetable oil, sour cream, mayonnaise, various sauces. These fresh herb salads are wonderful vitamin remedy, especially indispensable in the spring. Quinoa is added to various soups, main courses with vegetables and meat. A puree is made from scalded (blanched) quinoa leaves. Currently, it can be used in vegetable smoothies, gazpacho and other dishes where a blender and raw vegetables. As a valuable nutritious plant, quinoa is widely known to the peoples of the Caucasus, where it was previously considered a delicious food product.

Classification

Spreading quinoa (lat. Atriplex patula) - a type of herbaceous annual plants genus Quinoa (lat. Atriplex) of the family Chenopodiaceae (lat. Chenopodiaceae).

Botanical description

Spreading quinoa (lat. Atriplex patula) is a plant with a tap root. The stem is from 30 to 100 cm high, bare, straight, branched, with horizontally spaced or upwardly directed branches. The leaves are green, single-colored on both sides, thin, hanging down, with a short petiole; the lower ones are opposite with a spear-shaped base, the blades of which are directed obliquely upward, broadly wedge-shaped or almost lanceolate, unequally toothed or entire; in the rest of the stem - alternate, lanceolate, with a very short point at the top, sometimes with small lobes at the base, almost always entire. Flowers in dense spike-shaped inflorescences; staminates are mostly five-membered; The bracts of the fruit are ovate- or lance-shaped-rhombic, fused to the upper border. The seed is vertical. It blooms in June-July, bears fruit in September until mid-October.

Spreading

Spreading quinoa, except in the Far North, is widespread throughout Russia. Its distribution area covers Europe, Central Asia, Near East, North Africa, is widespread in China. The plant has naturalized and taken root in North America.

The plant prefers vegetable gardens, orchards, cultivated areas, and areas near farms. Often grows along roads where the best way its seeds are spreading.

Regions of distribution on the map of Russia.

Procurement of raw materials

Medicinal raw materials serves as grass (leaves, rough stems, flowers, seeds). It is used fresh and dried. Quinoa grass is harvested during flowering. Air dry under a canopy in the shade. The seeds are collected as they ripen. The shelf life of grass is 1 year, seeds - 3 years.

How food plant, quinoa is harvested before flowering, when it is still young, juicy and not hardened. You can also collect its parts for food and later - the young tops of the plant without flowers.

Chemical composition

The above-ground parts of the plant are especially rich valuable substances during the flowering period. They contain saponins, betaine, ascorbic acid, carotene, essential oil, rutin, up to 30% proteins, a lot of fiber and mineral salts.

Pharmacological properties

Quinoa is not a pharmacopoeial plant and is not used in the domestic official medicine, however, is widely used in folk practices.

Use in folk medicine

In folk medicine, the plant is used as an infusion for gout, hemorrhoids, itchy skin, jaundice, scanty menstruation and leucorrhoea, as a pain reliever for stomach colic. When dry and chronic cough it is used as an expectorant. As part of the preparations, the plant is used for benign tumors. Used during childbirth (to facilitate the release of the baby's place).

As the leaves show antibacterial activity, they are applied fresh to wounds.

Freshly crushed grass is effective means when treating a festering nail bed, it pulls out splinters; quinoa leaves are also applied to the ulcers.

Externally, the infusion of the herb is used for gargling for sore throats and for washing and lotions for skin itching.

Abroad, the plant is used in the form of plasters, liniments, decoctions for benign and malignant tumors larynx and other organs.

Quinoa spreading is used for amenorrhea, jaundice, lung diseases, the leaves are used as a hemostatic and diuretic, they also help with scrofula, the treatment of tumors, calluses. In the form of tea, quinoa leaves are used for coughs, thick sputum that is difficult to clear, and hoarseness. In addition, they can be used for hysteria. Fresh leaves and dry grass of spreading quinoa are used for hypovitaminosis, scurvy, as a general tonic.

It is necessary to recall that pollen from quinoa flowers is one of the strongest allergens in our climate zone.

Historical reference

As a food plant, quinoa has been known since ancient times. Until the 19th century, it was specially bred in gardens; large areas were sown with it, along with cereal crops. According to Vasmer's etymological dictionary, the Russian name possibly comes from the white spots on the leaves and goes back to the word "swan" and the Latin albus, meaning "white". It is noteworthy that Russian word"balanda" is borrowed from the Lithuanian language, where the word "balanda" means "quinoa". Hippocrates and Galen also recommended the use of quinoa for constipation and rickets in children. Already in the works of Pliny it appears Latin name plants.

Literature

1. V.P. Makhlayuk “Medicinal plants in folk medicine” M.: Niva Rossii, 1992

2. A. L. Budantsev, E. E. Lesiovskaya. Wild useful plants of Russia. - St. Petersburg: SPHFA, 2001 - 663 p.

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Atriplex patula L.
Taxon: Chenopodiaceae family
Folk names:
English: Spear Saltbush, Common Orache, Spear Orach, Spreading Orach

Description:
Annual herbaceous plant family of the goosefoot family up to 1.5 m high. The stem is erect, branched. The leaves are petiolate, the lower ones are triangular, cordate-longitudinal, slightly toothed, the middle ones are oblong, matte, almost the same color on both sides. Young leaves are light-colored and covered with a powdery coating. Greenish small flowers are collected in small balls that make up the apical paniculate inflorescence. Quinoa seeds are lentiform, shiny, dark, hard, and remain fresh for 10 years. Blooms all summer from July to September.
The fruits ripen in August-October.

Distribution of spreading quinoa:
In nature, the range covers all of Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, North Africa, China (Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region). On the territory of Russia it grows in the European part, Ciscaucasia, Western and Eastern Siberia and in Altai. Naturalized in North America.
A ubiquitous weed, quinoa grows along roads, in weedy places, fields, mainly in potatoes, beets and other vegetables, in thinned spring and forage crops, along the banks of rivers and lakes.

Collection and preparation:
The medicinal raw material is herbs. It is used fresh and dried. Quinoa grass is harvested during flowering. Air dry. The seeds are collected as they ripen. The shelf life of grass is 1 year, seeds - 3 years.

Chemical composition spreading quinoa:
Quinoa leaves contain carbohydrates, minerals, proteins, fiber, saponins, essential oil, oxalic acid, ascorbic acid (up to 120 mg/%), carotene, rutin, seeds - proteins, fats, sugar, starch.

Pharmacological properties:
Quinoa has restorative expectorant and analgesic properties.

Application in medicine:
Hippocrates and Galen recommended the use of quinoa for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, especially constipation and rickets in children. Swan leaves: can be used instead of tea for thick sputum that is difficult to clear, cough and hoarseness. In folk medicine, the plant is used as an infusion for hemorrhoids, gout, itchy skin, and as a painkiller for stomach colic, scanty menstruation and leucorrhoea.

Medications:
Quinoa herb decoction: Brew 200 ml of boiling water 20 g of herb, simmer over low heat for 10 minutes, leave for 30 minutes, strain. Drink 200 ml 3 times a day after meals for gout, general weakness, dry cough, gynecological diseases, with diarrhea.
A decoction of the herb is used to apply a poultice to areas affected by scabies mites to soothe the itching of scabies.
Freshly crushed grass draws out splinters, is a wound-healing agent in the treatment of festering nail beds.
Quinoa leaves are applied to wounds and ulcers.

Use on the farm:
In the old days, flour was made from quinoa and bread was baked mixed with rye flour. In early spring, cabbage soup can be prepared from fresh grass, after scalding it with boiling water, with the addition of sorrel, and scrambled eggs mixed with quinoa is a delicacy. Ripe quinoa seeds boiled with milk make a delicious nutritious porridge. It has been established that mari seeds contain a large number of nutrients, but they are poorly absorbed by the body. At long-term use Eating quinoa bread makes a person lose weight and loses a large amount of nitrogen, which can cause diseases of the nervous system and digestive organs.
Good perganos. Colors the fur red.

Photos and illustrations:

Quinoa spreading (quinoa drooping) - Atripex patula.

The weed belongs to the quinoa family. The plant has such related species as Tatarian quinoa, beautiful-fruited quinoa, glossy quinoa, garden quinoa, etc. It grows and develops everywhere. It infests crops of all vegetable, industrial, fodder, field crops, vegetable gardens and orchards.

Rod root system, branched. The root goes deep into the subsoil layer. The stems are erect and branch very strongly. Their height is up to 1 m or more. The leaves are petiolate, arranged alternately, glabrous, with a wide wedge-shaped base, unequally rhombic, arrow-shaped. The leaves are very narrow at the top, entire at the edges. The flowers are collected in spike-shaped inflorescences. The fruit is a nut. The nut is rounded, compressed, tetrahedral.

One plant can produce from 6 to 7 thousand nuts. Nuts with a diameter of 2-3 mm. Weight of 1000 nuts - more than 1 g. Seeds do not germinate very quickly, but may be viable for a long time. Germinate at minimum temperature 3-4, optimal - 20-22°C. Shoots appear from a depth of no more than 4-5 cm early in spring. The cotyledons are oblong-linear-ovate, on short petioles, fleshy. Their length is 18-24, width 3-4 mm.

To eliminate the spreading quinoa weed, it must be destroyed before sowing, and agrotechnical control measures must also be observed. Weeds are sensitive to herbicides.

Spreading quinoa photo:

Spreading quinoa is an annual herbaceous or semi-shrub plant of the Amaranthaceae family, distributed throughout Russia. Grows along roads, in vegetable gardens, near farms. Found in countries of Asia, Africa, North America and the Middle East. This plant is widely used in folk medicine. Young quinoa is used for food.

Blank

The medicinal raw materials are quinoa grass and seeds. The preparation is made during the flowering of the plant: the stems with flowers and leaves are cut and dried in the shade or under a canopy. Dried herbs can be stored for a year. The seeds are collected and dried as they ripen. Seeds are stored for no more than three years.

Composition and properties

Spreading quinoa grass during flowering is rich in: saponins, rutin, carotene, ascorbic acid, vitamins E, P, PP, fiber, proteins, essential oil, mineral salts of iron, potassium and others. Quinoa has antibacterial, tonic, expectorant, sedative, diuretic, and carminative effects.

• cough, sore throat;
• sore throat;
• lung diseases;

• gout;
• scurvy, vitamin deficiency;
• jaundice and other liver diseases;
• constipation;
• hemorrhoids;
• stomach colic;
• whites;
• scanty menstruation;
• amenorrhea;
• benign tumors;
• hysteria;
• bruises, joint inflammation;
• skin itching, wounds, ulcers, sores, boils, calluses.

Quinoa is also used to cleanse the body of waste and toxins and prevent heart disease.

Recipes

For the treatment and prevention of cardiovascular diseases, the following infusion is recommended:

• 2 tbsp. quinoa herbs;
• 300 ml boiling water.

Pour boiling water over the herb and let it brew for 30 minutes. Strain. Divide the resulting infusion into three parts and take three times throughout the day. The recommended course of treatment is two weeks. Then you should take a break for two weeks and you can repeat the course again.

Infusion for rinsing:

• 1 tbsp. quinoa herbs;
• 1 tbsp. boiling water

Pour boiling water over the herb, let it brew for 20 minutes and strain. Use as a gargle for sore throat and other throat diseases 5-6 times a day. This infusion also helps strengthen gums and prevent unpleasant odor from mouth.
Expectorant tea:

• 1 tsp quinoa herbs;
• 1 tbsp. boiling water;
• 1 tsp honey

Pour boiling water over the quinoa, let it brew and strain. Add honey. Drink this tea three times a day to improve the discharge of sticky sputum.

Cough decoction:

• 2 tbsp. dried herb quinoa;
• 1 tbsp. water.

Pour water over the quinoa, boil over low heat for 5-6 minutes and strain. Divide into several servings and drink throughout the day.
Decoction for infectious jaundice:

• 5 tbsp. dried quinoa herb;
• 1/2 glass of water.

Pour water over the quinoa, bring to a boil and simmer over low heat for 5 minutes. Then let the broth brew for an hour. Strain. Take 1/2 cup 4/5 times a day.
For treatment chronic constipation It is recommended to drink ¼ cup fresh juice from quinoa in the morning on an empty stomach. Fresh leaves of this plant are added to salads, soups and other dishes to normalize the functioning of the digestive tract.

For radiculitis, prepare a compress from warm quinoa leaves - they are applied to the sore spot, wrapped in something warm and left overnight.

Purulent wounds, boils, and inflammation of the nail bed are treated with compresses prepared from freshly squeezed quinoa juice. Such compresses are kept for up to 12 hours, changing periodically, depending on the condition of the wound.

Contraindications

Quinoa is contraindicated for urolithiasis and cholelithiasis. This plant should be used with caution in cases of low blood clotting.
Excessive consumption of quinoa and medicines prepared on its basis can lead to exacerbation of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract and nervous system.

Spreading quinoa - Atriplex patula L. - an annual plant from the goosefoot family (Chenopodiaceae) has erect or ascending branched stems from 20 to 90 cm in height.

Leaves are alternate; the lower and middle ones are rhomboid-lanceolate, with a spear-shaped base and “ears”, with jagged edges, petiolate; the upper ones are narrow-lanceolate, whole-cut without ears, sessile.

White goosefoot - Chenopodium album L. has erect stems, from 10 to 200 cm in height, leaves are ovate-rhombic, lobed or serrated at the edges, with a rich powdery coating, which is why they look dull.

The flowers of both species of quinoa, as well as those of their relatives, are small, inconspicuous, collected several times into dense balls, which together form a common apical inflorescence. Flowers with a simple perianth of 5 membranous leaflets fused at the base, or without a perianth, then it is replaced by 2 ovate or triangular bracts.

The goosefoot has bisexual flowers, the quinoa has dioecious flowers, but the plants are monoecious. Bisexual and male flowers have 5 stamens. Pistils with 2 stigmas and an upper ovary.

The fruit is single-seeded, dry, enclosed in bracts.

Plants bloom from June to September, fruits ripen in August - October.

Spreading quinoa and white pigweed are common across large areas of Eurasia and North America. In Russia they are found almost throughout the country, especially in the European part and in long-inhabited areas of the southern regions of Siberia and Far East. They grow as weeds in vegetable gardens and fields, as well as in wastelands and garbage areas, near roads, along coastal cliffs, on coastal sands and pebbles.

Quinoa grass is easily distinguished by its thick powdery coating and the reddish tint of the stem. It is the most common weed found in gardens,
in trash areas, on roadsides.

Its leaves, young shoots, inflorescences and seeds are eaten.

About 40 species of this plant are known: white, red, Tatarian, etc., and all types of quinoa are not only edible (in salads, soups), but also beneficial for human health.

Quinoa has long been used as food in Rus', and not only in hungry, lean years. Both young greens and peeled seeds are edible.

Widely distributed in the Caucasus and grown in small private farms, and in some countries of the South and Central Europe on an industrial scale.

Our ancestors also noticed that quinoa is not much inferior in nutritional value to products of animal origin. And the reason for this “fullness” is that it is very rich in protein (valuable protein). Used fresh in salads, borscht, hot and cold vegetable soups, vegetable side dishes, omelettes.

In Russia it was used in stews, cabbage soup, and botvinya. Young leaves were pickled and fermented like cabbage. The shelled seeds (the seed shell has a bitter taste) were used to prepare cutlets and porridge, which is similar in taste and nutritional value to buckwheat. Seed flour was added to rye and wheat flour when baking bread. At the same time, the bread baked better, became more nutritious and did not go stale longer than usual. In past lean and war years, quinoa often saved people from starvation.

The shoots and young leaves of the plant contain a real storehouse of proteins, so the nutritional value of quinoa is even superior to animal products. The plant is also rich in rutin, potassium, vitamin C and various mineral salts.

Quinoa - very useful plant, which has a beneficial effect on our body. Its leaves are an excellent source of vitamins and minerals. Quinoa has a general strengthening effect due to its significant content of carotene, ascorbic acid and seventeen amino acids, some of which are not even synthesized in the human body.

If quinoa seeds are not thermally processed, then they can be used as a good emetic and laxative. In this case, quinoa is indispensable for food poisoning and chronic constipation.

The antibacterial activity of quinoa decoctions allows the use of this plant in case of infectious and inflammatory processes various organs body. Quinoa leaf is also used as a good disinfectant: simply applied to a fresh wound to prevent suppuration.

Quinoa is widespread throughout the globe. It can be found in both cultivated and wild forms. The largest number of varieties suitable for consumption grows in Australia and North America.

Of course, on the European continent there are fields sown with this grass, sparkling with all kinds of colors. And there she at one time acted as a life-saving remedy against hunger.

No wonder in French it is affectionately called “ nice woman”, and in German - “good Heinrich”.

It is worth noting that in European countries they used not ordinary, but garden quinoa, which was known to residents Ancient Greece and Rome. The famous Galen also spoke about quick satiety after eating quinoa dishes. Later, science got to the bottom of the reason for this beneficial property: quinoa contains a large amount of protein.

However, quinoa has almost no taste or smell. For this reason, to use it for culinary purposes it is necessary significant amount all kinds of aromatic seasonings: pepper, garlic, parsley and onion. You can make good cutlets from quinoa, which are very popular among vegetarians. Also, its leaves are often added to green salads and cabbage soup, pickled and prepared. Scalded quinoa leaves are suitable for making vegetable puree.

Garden quinoa is used for mixing into flour, since after this rye or wheat bread will be more nutritious. Also, bread with quinoa bakes better and lasts for a long time. Grass seeds are suitable for preparing various porridges.

Quinoa porridge, the so-called swan, is eaten with milk and eggs.

In folk medicine, different parts of plants called quinoa are used. Most often, all above-ground organs (grass) harvested during the flowering phase are consumed. The aerial parts of quinoa and white goosefoot contain ascorbic acid (vitamin C) and carotene (provitamin A). It is believed that the herb has a calming and analgesic effect, therefore it is used for colic in the stomach and intestines, with increased nervous irritability and hysterical reactions.

For treatment, prepare an infusion of a tablespoon of crushed quinoa herb in 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 2 hours. Take the infusion 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day before meals.

A more concentrated infusion (2 tablespoons of herb per 1 cup of boiling water) is prepared for external use. They gargle with it for sore throats and pharyngitis, and in the form of lotions, compresses, and washes are used for itchy skin. In such cases, quinoa exhibits anti-inflammatory properties.

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Quinoa leaves can be brewed instead of tea for thick sputum that is difficult to clear, cough, or hoarseness.

An infusion of quinoa herb in folk medicine is prescribed for dry cough, chronic bronchitis, jaundice, hemorrhoids, gout. It is used for gynecological diseases, leucorrhoea, scanty menstruation and during childbirth (to facilitate the passage of the baby's place).

Preparation of quinoa infusion: 20g of quinoa herb per 200ml of boiling water, leave for 2 hours, strain, take 3/4 or 1 glass 1 hour before meals, 2 times a day.

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Fresh crushed leaves are applied to the wounds.

A salad made from fresh young leaves is recommended for use for hysteria, lung diseases, delayed menstruation and as a vitamin remedy.

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Fresh crushed herb relieves constipation and is a wound healing agent for the treatment of festering nail beds. You can use fresh juice lotions.

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With hysteria.

Infuse 1 tablespoon of quinoa in 200 ml of boiling water for 2 hours, strain. Take 1-2 tablespoons 3-4 times a day before meals.

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Herbal infusion: 20-30g of dry crushed raw materials per 1 cup of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes. Use as a gargle for hoarse throat and stomatitis.

Take fresh quinoa juice externally for stomatitis.

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Herbal decoction: 4 tablespoons of dry crushed raw materials per 1 glass hot water, boil for 15 minutes, cool, strain, bring the volume to the original volume. Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day before meals for scanty menstruation and gout. Dilute the same decoction with cold boiled water up to 1l. Use for douching for leucorrhoea.

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Quinoa leaves are applied to wounds to prevent inflammation.

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Tea from the leaves is drunk for hoarseness, colds, coughs, and constipation.

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Quinoa effectively cleanses the body of toxins, thanks to great content the plant contains fiber and pectins, which, like a sponge, absorb toxins, excess salts and waste from the intestines.

Quinoa juice for worms.

To prepare this juice, you need to take young stems with quinoa leaves and pass through a meat grinder. Next, everything needs to be squeezed out. Take the prepared juice 20 minutes before meals, 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.

This same juice is very good for cleansing the intestines, or using it to remove all unnecessary substances in the body.

Quinoa decoction for gout.

The decoction is prepared easily and quickly. To do this, take 2 tablespoons of dry leaves and grind them. Next, they need to be filled with 100 ml of boiling water. Place on low heat for a quarter of an hour. After removing from the heat, strain and bring the resulting volume with boiling water to the original volume. This decoction is taken 3 times a day, 1 tablespoon, before meals.

Quinoa decoction for stomatitis.

To prepare it, you need to take 3 teaspoons of the herb and grind it to a powder state. Pour 300 ml of boiling water and leave to brew for 1 hour. Then filter and squeeze. You need to rinse with this decoction oral cavity a couple of times a day.

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Fresh steamed quinoa is used as a compress for radiculitis.

Quinoa face mask.

Pour 1 teaspoon of dry crushed quinoa into 1/2 cup of boiling water, leave for half an hour, strain. And add enough powdered milk to make a creamy mass.

Apply thickly to face. Wash off after 20 minutes warm water and wash with cool water.

Quinoa flour.

Quinoa seeds can be used to make flour. To do this, clean the seeds from foreign impurities and grind them. Use as an additive when baking bread (no more than 5%).

Quinoa seasoning.

Dry the quinoa leaves and chop them. The powder can be used as vitamin supplement for first and second courses.

Quinoa salad.

Wash young leaves collected before flowering thoroughly. cold water, chop, add chopped sorrel leaves, green onions, grated horseradish, salt, season with mayonnaise or vegetable oil.

150g quinoa leaves, 50g sorrel, 25g green onions, 30g grated horseradish, 25g mayonnaise. Salt and oil to taste.

Quinoa cutlets.

In international and Russian vegetarian cuisine, such a dish as quinoa cutlets is also known:

200g finely chopped white quinoa leaves, 50g onion, 30g oatmeal or rolled oats, 10-15g of fat (butter or lard), pepper, garlic - for flavoring, crackers and egg - for breading.

From these products comes a “quinoa portion” - two cutlets of 150g each. By the way this ideal food for obese people!

There are no contraindications for the use of quinoa.