Home doctor. Potatoes for beauty and health

Potatoes - perennial or annual herbaceous plant. The flowers are white, pink or purple. Blooms in July. The fruits are spherical multi-seeded berries. Ripen in August. Potato - most important source vitamin C. It is rich in lysine, leucine, starch, potassium and sugars (mainly sucrose and glucose). Potatoes contain 32 microelements, of which potassium is considered very important (there is 1.5 times more of it in the peel). All organs of the plant are used for treatment, but most often the tubers. Tubers have antiulcer and anti-inflammatory effects.

Treatment folk remedies(potato):

Angina
Let fresh potato juice sit for 1 hour, drain, combine with cranberry juice and drink 1/2 glass 3 times a day.

Arrhythmia
Periodically spend “potato days”, drinking mainly potato juice, potato water or baked potatoes.

Haemorrhoids
Drink 1/2 cup of raw potato juice 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

Hypertension
1) Take 14 days in a row on an empty stomach, 30 minutes before meals, while controlling blood pressure, 1 tablespoon of grated raw potatoes or a solution of 15 g of starch in 1/2. glasses boiled water.
2) Drink a decoction of potatoes boiled in their skins (1-2 glasses daily), and also eat baked potatoes in their jackets with their skins.
3) Drink a decoction or infusion from potato peels: rinse the potato peelings thoroughly, pour boiling water, boil for 10 minutes, leave and drink 2 tablespoons 4 times a day before meals. The dosage can be increased.

Flatulence
Drink 1 glass of raw milk daily on an empty stomach. potato juice, after this, do not eat anything for 1 hour, preferably lie down for 30 minutes. The course of treatment is 10 days.

Reduced potency
There are baked potatoes.

Cancer tumor
At cancerous tumor(regardless of its location) drink an infusion of potato flowers. Brew 1 tablespoon of dried potato flowers with 0.5 liters of boiling water and leave in a water bath for 3 hours (you can leave for 3 hours in a thermos). Take 1 tablespoon 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals. Thus, during the course of treatment you need to drink 4 liters of infusion.

Decreased vision
Pour 1 tablespoon of potato tuber sprouts - sprouted in the cellar - with 1 glass of vodka. Leave for 1 week. Take 1 teaspoon 3 times a day.

Pulmonary tuberculosis
Eat potatoes cooked whole with their skins on, and also drink raw potato juice from July to February.

Emphysema
Grate green tops, potatoes and squeeze out the juice. Drink juice, starting with 1/2 teaspoon and increasing to 1/2 glass.

Peptic ulcer of the stomach and duodenum, hyperacid gastritis, headache, spastic constipation
1) Grate raw potatoes and squeeze out the juice. Take 1/2 cup 1 hour before meals, then lie down without getting up for 30 minutes. The course of treatment is 1 week, then take a break for 1 week and drink the juice again for a week.
2) Take 1/2 cup of potato juice with 1 tablespoon of honey in the morning on an empty stomach and at night (also on an empty stomach) - 3/4 cup of potato juice with honey.
3) Peel the potatoes, cut into cubes and boil without salt. Take 1/2-1 glass of decoction 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

Alcohol intoxication
To sober up, it is recommended to eat raw potatoes grated (preferably in their skins) on a fine grater.

Angina
Take small potatoes (tubers with sprouts and even potato peelings are suitable). Wash the tubers thoroughly and cook in a large quantities water so that the steam comes from the potatoes, and not from the water, until a typical potato smell appears. Inhale the steam through your nose and mouth for 10-15 minutes (you can add 2 validol tablets). After inhalation, you should immediately go to bed to avoid hypothermia. If inflammatory processes are particularly acute, procedures can be carried out in the morning and evening.

Arthritis
1) To relieve pain in the joints and legs, it is recommended to apply compresses from green potatoes crushed on a grater or in a meat grinder to sore spots. Wash the potatoes thoroughly and chop without removing the skins. Place the resulting mass in hot water and heat to a temperature slightly above 38°C. Then, without squeezing, place the potatoes in a bag made of burlap. Moreover, the bag itself should be shaped like the shin, ankle joint or fingers, depending on where you need to put the compress. You should first place an oilcloth under the bag. The thickness of the potato layer should be 1.5-2 cm. Wrap the sore spot with this bag and cover it with oilcloth, then bandage it so that nothing leaks out of the compress. You should go to bed with the compress, placing your foot on a pillow. Sleep comes quickly as soon as you feel warm. If the compress does not heat, it means it is poorly made. The pain goes away within 20-30 minutes and does not recur until the next exacerbation. Apply the compress daily at night. This must be done within 7 days, and after that - according to the result. If the pain disappears in the first 2-3 days and then does not reappear, there is no further need to apply a compress.
2) Drink potato decoction in the morning on an empty stomach, then during the day and before bed. It is also recommended to eat 1-2 potatoes - raw, finely chopped on a grater along with the peel.
3) The Indians use the following method of treatment: whole potato tubers are applied to the sore joints, and if the joints of the fingers are swollen, then the potato is played in the hand like a ball, and at night they put a glove with a potato on the hand or tie the potato to the sore joint.

warts
Cut a raw potato in half and apply the cut side to the wart, then connect both halves together and bury them, but bury them so that the potatoes do not germinate. Some modern healers recommend not burying potatoes, but putting them in the freezer. In a few days the wart will disappear.

Phlebeurysm
Places with swollen veins should be soaked in fresh potato juice several times a day or applied with bandages? dipped in this juice. It is good to combine this procedure with drinking potato juice.

Heat
Grate 2 raw potatoes on a coarse grater. Pour 1 tablespoon of vinegar into the resulting mass and place it on a clean cloth or gauze folded in several layers. The fabric should be as wide as possible so that the mashed potatoes can be wrapped in it. Apply the finished compress to the forehead, and after a while change it by preparing a fresh one. In the same way, a potato compress is prepared for a sore throat. Place the potatoes wrapped in cloth on your throat. Wrap your neck well with a scarf or handkerchief.

Haemorrhoids
1) To relieve pain and relieve inflammation, it is recommended to use potato suppositories. Before the procedure, you can sit for 30 minutes in a warm bath, then insert into anus potato candle, cut from raw peeled potatoes, the size of a finger (6-8 cm). To facilitate the procedure, a potato candle can be greased with sunflower oil. You can leave it on all day - it does not interfere with walking. If you need to go to the toilet, the candle should be thrown away, and after cold washing of the anus (or better yet, cold douching of the rectum with a small enema with 1/2 glass of water), insert a fresh candle. If you carefully and carefully apply this method, then hemorrhoids will disappear in a few days, but the procedure should be done within 10 days. If necessary, the course of treatment is repeated after 1-2 months.
2) Grate a raw potato, squeeze the juice into 1 tablespoon and use a small syringe to insert into the anus overnight. This procedure should be carried out for 10 days. Be sure to squeeze juice from whole potatoes (with skin).
3) Fill a 3-5 liter saucepan with potato peelings, add water so that the peelings are just covered, and boil. Pour all the contents into a suitable vessel such as a chamber pot and, sitting on it, take steam “inhalation” for 15-20 minutes. To reduce heat transfer to environment and keep the steam in this way longer, place the vessel with cleaning in a basin with hot water. In this case, after defecation, you should definitely wash yourself with cold water.

Burr
If the torn hangnail begins to tear, then you should take potato peelings and apply the white side to your finger, tying it. Change the potato wrapper several times a day.

Cough
1) Cut hot potatoes in their jackets and place them on the chest, greased with turpentine.
2) Boil 4-5 potatoes in their skins, but so that they do not boil. Place several sheets of paper on your chest or back, and place hot potatoes cut in half on them. Wrap yourself up from above. As they cool, remove the sheets of paper. Carry out this procedure in the evenings.
3) Apply cut hot potatoes to your throat for a throat cough.
4) Boil potato pieces (or peelings), drain the water, place them in a double plastic bag, tie, then wrap in a linen towel (2-3 layers) and secure on the chest. Be careful not to get burned. Warm up your chest for 1 hour. Several such procedures - cough and hoarseness disappear. Potatoes “take over” the negative field of the disease, and soft heat promotes good blood circulation in the diseased area. This method is especially good for a child with allergies, for whom mustard plasters are contraindicated.

Mastitis
Offset 1/2 cup potato starch and 1/2 cup sunflower oil. Place the mixture in a gauze bag and tie it to your chest for 1 hour.

Bags under the eyes
Apply a warm potato cut in half to your eyes; boiled with peel. Keep for 30 minutes. It is advisable to lie down at this time.

Wrinkles
1) A mask of mashed potatoes mixed with boiled beans helps remove wrinkles around the eyes.
2) For early neck wrinkles, it is recommended to add 1 teaspoon of liquid honey to 2 tablespoons of soft warm mashed potatoes and mix quickly. Place on a piece of cloth and wrap it around your neck. Cover with wax paper and bandage or bandage with a scarf. Keep this compress for at least 30-40 minutes, then rinse with water at room temperature. The compress can be used 2-3 times a week.
3) Boil a large tuber in its peel, peel and mash. In the warm mashed potatoes add 1 tablespoon warm milk. Heat the resulting mass in a water bath. Hot mass thin layer Apply to face, cover with a thick cloth or towel and leave for 15-20 minutes. After the procedure, if the skin is dry, carefully remove the mask with a linen cloth moistened with hot (40-45°C) milk, if oily - cool boiled water. Apply a nourishing cream that matches your skin type. After such a potato mask, the skin becomes elastic, smooth, soft, and wrinkles disappear.
4) For aging, dry, flabby, flabby skin, add 1 yolk and 1 tablespoon of milk to warm mashed potatoes. The mask is applied to the face and neck and then washed off with an infusion of mint and linden flowers, taken in equal parts.
5) Grate raw potatoes, mix them in equal parts with wheat flour and milk and apply to the skin of the face and neck. This mask is used by many American actresses who want to avoid even minor signs of skin aging.

Runny nose, sinusitis
1) Boil the potatoes in their skins, drain the water. Wrap yourself up and breathe over the steam of potatoes. The potatoes can be mashed additionally.
2) Quickly roll a hot potato over your forehead, nose, ears, and then cut it and apply one half to your forehead and the other to the wings of your nose. You can “roll” 3-4 potatoes in this way per day. After the procedure, be sure to wear a bandage made of soft woolen fabric on your forehead.

Frostbite
If the skin of your hands is red from frost, it is enough to hold your hands in warm potato water several times. A potato compress is used to treat frostbitten areas of the skin on the face. The tubers boiled in their skins should be quickly mashed and immediately, while the puree is hot enough, applied to the affected area on a piece of gauze or cloth. Hold the compress until it cools down, and then wipe the frostbitten area several times with cotton wool dipped in lemon juice diluted with water.

Burn
1) Grate the peeled potatoes. Apply the resulting mass onto a gauze napkin folded 4-5 times and bandage it to the affected area of the skin. After 2 hours, remove the potato mixture and replace it with fresh one.
2) Immediately after a burn with boiling oil or a hot frying pan, as well as after scalding with boiling water, apply fresh potatoes to the sore spot. The potato should be cut lengthwise and applied to the burn site. Apply new potato slices every 2-3 minutes until the pain subsides. Thanks to potatoes, blisters will not even appear at the burn site, the pain will be softened and the wound will be covered with a protective layer of starch.
3) Apply the pulp of grated raw potatoes to the affected area, squeezing it slightly and wrapping it in cotton cloth. This procedure should be carried out several times a day and at night, combining lotions and compresses with ingestion of raw potatoes.
4) Moisten the burn areas several times a day with fresh potato juice or apply bandages soaked in this juice. It is good to combine this procedure with drinking potato juice, taking part of the juice from the portion to lubricate the burn.
5) Sprinkle the burn with potato starch mixed with baking soda in a 1:1 ratio.
6) Apply a compress of cooled water to the affected area. oatmeal jelly, mixed with potato starch.
7) If the esophagus is burned by caustic substances, it is necessary to prepare potato juice as soon as possible (in a juicer or meat grinder) and drink 1/2 cup immediately and after 30-40 minutes another 1/2 cup.
8) If your facial skin is burned, it is recommended to make a potato mask: boil the potatoes in their skins, peel them, grind them with sour cream and apply the resulting warm paste to your face.

Osteochondrosis
Take grated raw potatoes and honey in equal proportions, put the paste on a napkin and apply to the spine for 2 hours. The pain goes away.

Edema
Apply compresses of grated raw potatoes or thinly sliced raw potato slices to swollen areas.

Polyarthritis, rheumatism
Carry raw potatoes with you throughout the day. After some time, the potatoes will turn black and should be thrown away immediately.

Renal colic
Whenever renal colic The patient benefits from a warm bath for 20 minutes. After the bath, go to bed and put a poultice of mashed, boiled potatoes in their skins on your stomach.

Cold
1) Do inhalations over boiled potatoes. Place potato peels in a saucepan with water, cook and breathe over the steam for 10 minutes. Carry out the procedure daily 1-2 times a day until cure.
2) If the temperature is high, apply a potato compress to the forehead - the heat will subside within 1 hour. The compress is being prepared in the following way: grate 2 raw potatoes with skins on a coarse grater, add 1 tablespoon of vinegar, wrap the resulting mass in a clean cloth or gauze.

Rheumatism
1) Grate 1 kg of raw potatoes (preferably pink). Fold the linen fabric in half, spread the potato pulp in the middle, fold it, and wrap it around the sore spot. It’s good to tie something warm on top. Cover the patient with a blanket all night. Apply compresses every other day. At the same time, take 5 drops of aspen tar, diluted in 1/4 cup of vodka, daily orally at night. Drink for 1.5 months. Used for rheumatic pain.
2) Good effect gives the combination of external use of Potatoes with the intake of raw potato juice - at least 1/2 glass per day. The course of treatment is 1 month, sometimes to consolidate the treatment a second course is carried out after a week's break.
3) Boil broth from potato peels, drink it and apply compresses to sore spots.

Erysipelas
Apply a compress of potato starch on cotton wool to the affected areas.

Stomatitis
Apply raw potatoes, mashed into pulp or cut into slices, to the inflamed gums.

Chronic tonsillitis
Boil 1 tablespoon of potato flowers in 1 glass of water. Gargle with this decoction 3 times a day for 10 days. Take a break for 1 month and repeat the course.

Insect bites
Apply a slice of raw potato to the bite site; the itching from the bite will soon go away.

Furuncle
Apply baked onions and baked potatoes to the boil alternately to ripen the boil.

Emphysema
Inhale the vapors of potatoes boiled in their jackets. Apply cut, boiled potato tubers to the chest, greased with turpentine or goat fat.

100 grams of fresh potatoes contain 20 mg of vitamin C - about three times less than a ripe orange. But oranges rarely reach our table fresh, and in order for the fruit to be stored better, the peel is treated with ethylene, biphenyl and paraffin. But there are no harmful compounds in potatoes from your own garden, grown without chemicals.

To cover the body’s daily need for vitamin C, it would take 400 grams of raw potatoes, and 200–300 g for potassium (100 g of root vegetables contains 568 mg of potassium). Potato pulp also contains magnesium, without which calcium cannot be absorbed, and sulfur, which helps normal growth hair, and B vitamins (cosmetologists call them beauty vitamins), vascular-strengthening vitamins A and E, 14 amino acids.

One problem: 70% of all vitamins and microelements contained in potatoes decompose or are washed out when heat treatment during the cooking process. Therefore, more and more naturopathic doctors recommend eating raw potatoes.

What kind of potatoes can you eat raw?

Raw potatoes has the same light nutty flavor as Jerusalem artichoke. The taste of potatoes largely depends on the variety. Some varieties are juicier, even a little sweet, while others are drier and mealier. Tubers with yellow skin are considered the most useful: they contain a lot of carotene.

You need to choose the potato that you like best. If the tuber is even slightly bitter, you should not eat it: the bitterness comes from solanine, which can cause food poisoning.

Yellow-skinned varieties are better suited for a raw food diet.

Potatoes are very healthy and rich in vitamins from June to December. Young tubers in June–July are especially tasty and juicy, but they can be eaten only if it is known for sure that the young potatoes are not oversaturated with mineral fertilizers and other chemicals.

The highest concentration of vitamins and microelements is under the skin, so until the New Year you can eat raw, unpeeled potatoes (of course, we are talking about root vegetables grown in environmentally friendly conditions). The tubers are thoroughly washed with a brush, and for greater safety they are scalded.

Starting in January, the vitamin content in potatoes decreases, and solanine accumulates under the skin. Therefore, from January to March, potatoes are peeled, and tubers that have turned green, wilted or sprouted (even with broken sprouts) are not suitable for food.

Raw potatoes for treating diseases

Shortage in the body useful substances often becomes the reason serious illnesses. By replenishing your supply of vitamins and microelements, you can improve your health and strengthen your immune system. In raw potatoes, these substances and compounds are in an easily digestible form.

Treatment with potato juice is very effective way, but very inconvenient, since the juice must be drunk within 10–15 minutes after squeezing. Usually you should take it 3 times a day, however, a working person is forced to skip the lunch (and sometimes morning) dose, which makes the treatment ineffective.

There is a simple way out: instead of juice, you can eat raw potato gruel. Raw potatoes, chopped using a blender or grater, even have several advantages over juice:

Vitamins are preserved in grated potatoes longer than in juice, so you can make the gruel in the morning and take it with you to work;
Potato gruel, unlike juice, is rich in fiber, which helps remove toxins from the intestines ( traditional healers they even call it a “broom” for its effectiveness in cleaning the intestinal walls);
raw potatoes reduce appetite and can replace the main dish (for those who want to lose weight).

One serving of juice is replaced by taking 70–100 g of grated potatoes. It is better to grind the vegetable on a plastic grater, since metal destroys vitamin C. To make the mass sweeter, grated carrots are sometimes added to the composition. If there is no time or opportunity to make a paste, you can eat the tubers by cutting them into slices (instead of drinking juice - 1 medium-sized tuber).

Potato mass is consumed 1-3 times a day, half an hour before meals (or as a main dish for breakfast or dinner). You need to start taking it with a teaspoon once a day, gradually increasing the portion as your body gets used to it: raw potatoes weaken you.

fatigue, nervousness, syndrome chronic fatigue;
weakened immune system;
constipation;
swelling;
metabolic disorders;
heartburn;
migraine;
inflammatory processes, in particular in joints;
hypertension;
diseases gastrointestinal tract, except for gastritis with low acidity;
hair loss, premature aging skin, acne;
periodontal disease and other gum diseases;
oncological diseases.

Benefits of raw potatoes for gum disease

For periodontal disease and bleeding gums, it is recommended to gnaw raw tubers for 5-15 minutes 1-2 times a day, best in the morning after brushing your teeth, in the evening - half an hour before hygiene procedure. The potatoes are chewed thoroughly and for a long time, then spat out.

Treatment of arthritis with raw potatoes

For arthritis, make a paste from one potato weighing 80–100 g and pour a glass of kefir or sour homemade milk. The mixture is drunk in the morning, 40–60 minutes before meals, according to the following scheme:

10 days in a row;
10 times every other day;
10 times - two days later on the third.

The break between courses is a month. In order to feel significant relief, you will need 2-3 courses.

Eating raw potatoes for cancer

Austrian naturopathic doctor Rudolf Breuss noted that drinking potato juice and gruel from grated tubers gives strength to cancer patients and even stops the development of tumors in the early stages.

Doctor Boris Uvaidov, former doctor The USSR Olympic team, in its book “Victory over Cancer,” recommends that cancer patients eat a salad of 100 g of grated potatoes and 100 g of apples in the morning and evening for 3 months.

Raw potatoes during pregnancy

Potatoes contain folic acid, which is necessary for the fetus. If the raw vegetable does not cause stomach upset, pregnant women are allowed to eat 50–100 g of gruel per day (preferably half an hour before breakfast).

Raw potatoes in a vegetarian diet

The eternal problem of vegetarians is the lack of protein in plant foods. Raw potatoes contain the protein tuberin, which contains essential acid– lysine, very rarely found in foods plant origin. A lack of lysine in the body contributes to a decrease in immunity, the occurrence of chronic fatigue syndrome, anemia, and hemorrhages of the blood vessels of the eyeball.

Lysine is needed for tissue regeneration and hormone synthesis. In terms of the content of this amino acid, raw potatoes are only slightly inferior to egg yolk.

Can children eat raw potatoes

Even very young children love to chew on freshly peeled potatoes. The kids have not yet acquired “adults” bad habits and have not forgotten how to listen to the needs of the body. If a child loves raw potatoes, it means that he lacks some useful substances that are in this root vegetable.

But don’t panic and run to the pharmacy and buy multivitamins. It is better to add more other vegetables to your baby’s diet and make sure that the child does not eat too many raw potatoes, and that the tubers are fresh, thoroughly washed and do not contain solanine.

Children can eat raw potatoes in small quantities.

Contraindications to eating raw potatoes

You should not eat raw potatoes if:

severe forms of diabetes;
exacerbation of gastrointestinal diseases;
gastritis with low acidity.

Some people, having tried potato gruel, complain of an upset stomach or other unpleasant symptoms. In such cases, the harm of raw potatoes is explained either by the use of large amounts of pesticides and mineral fertilizers during cultivation, or individual characteristics body.

Raw potatoes are not a panacea, but a good one vitamin supplement. To treat serious illnesses, you should consult a doctor.

Home healer. Potatoes for beauty and health.

Medicinal properties of potatoes

1. Two hundred grams of boiled potatoes (“in their jackets”) contains half daily norm vitamin C, and a sufficient amount of potassium salts, calcium, phosphorus, carotene, organic acids and starch.

2. Know that potatoes with yellow tuber flesh are healthier than those with white flesh. Since the yellower the pulp, the more carotene it contains. Pink and red varieties have even greater healing properties.

3. Potato juice lowers blood sugar levels, relieves belching and heartburn, has a mild laxative effect, lowers blood pressure and helps with headaches. And in the treatment of gastritis with increased acidity, stomach and duodenal ulcers, potatoes are almost a panacea.

4. Take half a glass of freshly squeezed juice every day, two to three times a day, thirty minutes before meals.

5. To normalize digestion processes, you can prepare a cocktail from raw potato juice, carrot juice and cucumber and celery juices. The main thing to remember is that juice cannot be prepared from greened tubers or from those that contain sprouted “eyes”.

6. If you have heartburn, peel the potatoes. average size, cut into small pieces and eat, chewing thoroughly.

7. To heal burns and eczema, it is enough to apply potato pulp to the affected areas of the skin for three to four minutes.

8. And if your facial skin is chapped, use a mask of grated potatoes and sour cream. It will help soften the skin.

9. To prevent potato tubers from becoming poisonous, they must be stored in a dark place, since poison accumulates in them when exposed to light. But you should not immediately throw away green potatoes, since poisonous solanine tends to accumulate only on the surface, without penetrating into the depths. Therefore, part of the potato, well peeled from greens, is quite suitable for cooking.

The cut green peel will also be useful to us: grind it to a mushy state and you will get ready-made product, which can be used for bruises and sprains in the form of compresses.

10. In case of swelling of the hands or feet, peel the potatoes, grate them, apply the resulting potato pulp to the swollen areas and hold for 15-20 minutes, tightly wrapping the “compress” with a cotton or terry towel.

11. If you have hypertension, then eat baked jacket potatoes more often.

12. A compress of grated raw potatoes with honey has an analgesic effect for osteochondrosis. This compress is kept on the sore spot for at least an hour.

13. If you are tormented by heartburn, nausea and chronic headaches, then take fresh potato juice. They drink it half a glass 2-3 times a day: the first dose on an empty stomach, the second half an hour before lunch, the third an hour before bedtime. After two weeks of treatment, take a break for 6 days and repeat the course of treatment, using half the dose of juice.

14. Raw potato juice perfectly cleanses the body of toxins if mixed with carrot and celery juice. In addition to all of the above, 3-4 tbsp. l. such juice daily helps with nervous disorders. But frozen suppositories cut from potatoes can help with hemorrhoids.

15. Since potato tubers contain many vitamins, minerals and salts, they can also be used in cosmetology.

For example, to improve hair of any type.

If your hair has become dry and brittle after the summer, then treat it with a potato mask.

To do this, take 3-4 medium-sized potatoes, place them, without peeling, in boiling water, close the lid tightly and cook until tender. After this, drain the water, peel the potatoes, put them in ceramic dishes and knead. Then add 2-3 tbsp. l. sour cream or cream and mix everything thoroughly to the consistency of a well-spreadable mass.

Before washing your hair, divide your hair into strands and apply the resulting mixture to the roots and along the entire length. Then tie your head with plastic wrap and insulate it with a terry towel or woolen scarf. After 30 minutes, wash your hair with a mild shampoo for every day for dry hair, and then rinse with acidified water (1 tsp. citric acid or apple cider vinegar on a basin of water).

16. If your hair is oily, pamper it with a mixture of raw potatoes, honey and egg white.

To prepare such a mixture, take a ceramic bowl and put in it a paste of raw potatoes (first wash the tubers well and grate them unpeeled on a fine grater), beaten egg white and 1 tbsp. l. honey Mix everything thoroughly and then add a pinch of salt and 1 tsp. oatmeal And mix everything well again. Then the use of the mask is the same as in the first option, only you will need to wash your hair with shampoo for oily hair.

17. If you have normal hair, then prepare the following potato mask for them:

Grate 2-3 potatoes on a fine grater and add 2-3 tsp to the resulting pulp. milk, 1 tsp. flour and 2-3 drops lemon juice. Mix everything thoroughly and use as a nourishing mask.

18. The simplest and very effective potato face masks will help you cope with many problems.

Prepare “Potato tenderness”, for which you will need a couple of boiled tubers. Mash and mix them (hot) with one yolk, 1 tsp. honey, a small amount of vegetable (preferably olive) oil. Apply the resulting mass to your face and then rinse with boiled water. After this moisturizing and skin-softening potato mask, lubricate your face with any nourishing cream.

19. For lovers of natural natural cosmetics, this recipe will probably come in handy:

Mix boiled medium-sized potatoes with 1 tbsp. l. fresh cottage cheese and add 0.5 tsp. honey and half a raw egg. Then apply the prepared paste to the skin of your face and neck. Cover the top with a gauze cloth and hold the mask for 20 minutes, then rinse with warm water. It is useful to make such masks 1-2 times a week for 4-6 weeks. After 2 months the course should be repeated.

20. If your hands are peeling, then potatoes will help you again, but not tubers, but starch. To keep your hands soft, it is recommended to rub a mixture of glycerin and starch in equal proportions into the skin of your hands every evening.

21. A bath with starch will help you remove peeling skin not only on the face, but also on the body. To do this, mix 350 g of starch in 2 liters cold water and pour into the prepared bath. The duration is as follows water procedure- 15 minutes.

22. For allergic spots, post-burn marks, burst blood vessels, you should wipe your face daily with a cut of a raw potato tuber. A potato mask refreshes the face and removes signs of fatigue. Crush the hot potato, add the yolk and a little milk until you get a thick, viscous slurry. Apply the mask while warm to your face and cover your face with a warm, preferably woolen, scarf. Keep for 20 minutes. Rinse with warm water and then rinse with cold boiled water.

23. Potato face mask not only refreshes, but also nourishes and smoothes wrinkled skin. Dry skin becomes soft, smooth and elastic. A mask made from young potatoes, boiled in their jackets, is especially useful for women over forty. Mash the potatoes, mix with sour cream and apply to your face. After 20 minutes, wash off.

24. Raw potato juice cleanses the entire body well. With carrot juice and celery juice, it helps with indigestion and nervous disorders, such as sciatica and goiter. Daily consumption of 500 ml of carrot, cucumber, beet and potato juice gives positive results in short term provided that meat and fish products are excluded from the diet.

25. If you have cardiac problems, drink 100 ml of potato juice three times a day on an empty stomach, before lunch and before dinner for 3 weeks. Break - 1 week, then repeat the course. In total per course - from 5 to 15 liters of juice.

26. In case of gastrointestinal disturbances (gastritis with high acidity, ulcers, constipation), drink 1 glass of raw potato juice in the morning on an empty stomach. After taking it, you need to go to bed for half an hour. In an hour you can have breakfast. Do this for 10 days in a row. Then skip 10 days and repeat the 10-day treatment again. Accept Fresh Juice immediately after cooking for 2-4 minutes.

27. If you dip your hands in potato broth for 5 minutes every day, your skin will become silky and soft. Decoction baths - effective method fight against brittle nails. Concentrated potato broth used daily can even overcome an advanced fungal infection.

28. Be careful with green and sprouted potato tubers - they contain harmful substance solanine When peeling such potatoes, it is necessary to remove a large layer of pulp from the skin, removing all the greens and eyes. Never cook potatoes in a tin or copper container, as this will result in loss of a large number of vitamin C. When steamed, the content of this vitamin is twice as high as when cooked in water. Vitamin C is better preserved if we cook potatoes in their jackets.

29. Famous beneficial features potatoes for treatment respiratory tract. For catarrh and bronchitis, boil potatoes in their jackets, mash them, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of vegetable oil and 2-3 drops of iodine, stir. Place the composition on a cloth or napkin and apply it to the chest up to the throat. Wrap it on top like a compress. Do it at night.

30. For hypertension, eat baked potatoes in their “jacket” along with the peel. For hemorrhoids, grate raw potatoes, squeeze the juice into a tablespoon and administer with a small syringe overnight. The duration of treatment is 10 days. From a raw potato, cut a finger-thick candle with a blunt end. Insert into the anus for hemorrhoids and leave overnight. In the morning, the suppository will come out in the feces with slight straining. If it's too dry, dip the candle in honey.

31. For chronic cough, boil 4-5 large potatoes in their skins, but so that they do not crumble. Place several sheets of paper on the chest and back, and cut potatoes on them. Wrap it on top. As they cool, remove the sheets of paper. Do this at night.

32. Boil the potatoes in their jackets, drain the water. Cover your head with gauze (wrap it over the pan), inhale potato steam for respiratory diseases, runny nose, colds.

33. To treat warts, take a small potato and cut it in half; no need to peel it; rub the cut side onto the warts. To speed up healing purulent wounds fresh mashed potato tubers are recommended. Apply raw grated potatoes to boils or abscesses several times a day, bandage, change after 3 hours.

34. For anemia and Graves' disease, take 1/2 glass of freshly prepared juice 2-3 times a day 30 minutes before meals. The course of treatment is 2-3 weeks. Use red tubers. Take 1/4 cup of fresh potato juice for systematic headaches.

35. For flatulence, take 1/2 - 3/4 glass of freshly prepared juice on an empty stomach 4 times a day, 20 minutes before meals. For stomach and duodenal ulcers, boil peeled potatoes in an enamel pan without salt. Drain the broth and take 1/2 - 1 glass 3 times a day. Drink only the decoction daily, avoiding odor and spoilage.

36. To normalize metabolism, take potato flower pollen on the tip of a knife 3 times a day. For cancer various localizations 1 tbsp. pour 0.5 liters of boiling water over a spoonful of potato flowers, leave for 1 hour, take 1/2 cup 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals.

37. During flowering, pick flowers (white or purple) and dry in the shade. Pour clean boiled water into a teaspoon, drown 1 dried flower (bud) in a teaspoon of water, then bring the spoon with the contents to the fire (or a candle) and hold over the fire until bubbles appear (do not bring to a boil). As soon as bubbles appear, remove the spoon with its contents and wait until it cools down to temperature. fresh milk. Then put it into a pipette and drop 2 drops (no more) into each eye. It will cut a little at first, you have to be patient. There may be some watery eyes during the day. Use a clean handkerchief to wipe away tears. The course of treatment is from 2 weeks to 2 months. It is better to do the procedures in the morning. It is not advisable to do this in the evening. A month later, as a result of this treatment, vision increased from 3 diopters to one.

Raw potatoes contain easily digestible sugars, which turn into starch when cooked. Persons suffering venereal diseases and those prone to sexual arousal should not eat potatoes.

Consult your doctor before starting self-medication!

The underground roots are white, forming fleshy edible tubers at the ends. Stems numerous, erect or ascending, faceted.
The leaves are intermittently pinnately dissected, with several ovate leaflets. The flowers are large, white, purple, 2-4 cm in diameter, with a spike-shaped star-shaped corolla, collected in an inflorescence consisting of 2-3 curls. The fruit is a poisonous, spherical, multi-seeded black and purple berry. Seeds yellow color, very small. The color of the tubers is different - white, red, purple.

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WITH therapeutic purpose flowers, potato shoots, peels and underground tubers are used, which are harvested during their ripening period, on the waning moon from noon to sunset. You should remember one feature of potato tubers: they must be stored in a dark place. Otherwise (if the tubers lie in the light, especially in the sun), they take green color and become poisonous, unsuitable for food, let alone medicinal use.

Chemical composition

According to some studies, potatoes contain a small amount of protein, which is extremely valuable, with a rich set of essential amino acids. Potato tubers on average contain about 76% water and 24% dry matter, including about 17.5% starch, 0.5% sugars (sugar fructose and sucrose), 2% proteins, about 1% mineral salts, trace elements: potassium - 426 mg/%, calcium - 8 mg/%, magnesium - 17 mg/%, phosphorus - 38 mg/%, iron - 0.9 mg/%; vitamins: thiamine - 0.01 mg/%, riboflavin - 0.07 mg/%, a nicotinic acid- 0.67 mg/%, ascorbic acid - 7.5 mg/%. Amino acids are also found here: arginine, lysine, leucine, tyrosine, tryptophan, histidine, choline, acetylcholine, allantoin, xanthine, etc. Potato protein is called tuberin. It belongs to the group of globulins. All plant organs contain the steroidal alkaloid solanine. Most of it is found in sprouts formed when potatoes are illuminated, flowers and peels.

Pharmacological properties

Fresh juice of potato tubers and starch obtained from potatoes are used as an enveloping anti-inflammatory agent for gastrointestinal diseases.

Starch has a pronounced antiulcer effect, the basis of which is the blocking of the action of pepsin on the gastric mucosa.

Application in medicine

Because potatoes have alkaline properties, it makes a great addition to all vegetables, milk and cheese.

It is included in the diet of kidney and heart patients: the high potassium content determines its good diuretic properties, which means preventing edema.

Red and pink potato varieties are considered especially effective.

Potato juice helps reduce the secretion of acid by the gastric glands, slightly “drowns” pain, and accelerates the scarring of ulcers on the mucous membrane digestive tract. In addition, it is somewhat laxative, which is extremely important for gastritis and ulcer patients, who usually suffer from constipation.

It relieves belching well and helps with various dyspeptic disorders.

Potato starch is used for chronic diseases gastrointestinal tract as an enveloping, emollient and anti-inflammatory agent.

Potato starch is also used as a base for powders and a filler for powders and tablets.

IN folk medicine drink potato juice to reduce high blood pressure.

Potato juice lowers blood sugar levels, so it is useful in initial stage diabetes

Raw potato juice is used for peptic ulcer stomach and duodenum. It inhibits gastric secretion and has an anti-inflammatory effect.

Substances have been found in potato peels that have positive impact on the human body with allergies, tachycardia, hypertension and painful shock.

Medications

Potato juice helps with headaches - due to the acetylcholine it contains, which has a hypotensive effect. If you have a headache, immerse both hands in hot water up to your elbows and hold them until the pain stops, adding hot water. Tie thin slices of raw potatoes to your forehead.

Potato juice, pressed from tubers ripened in September-October, should be taken for 2-3 weeks, 2-3 times a day, 100 ml (up to 200 ml if tolerated) for uterine fibroids.

Fresh potato juice mixed with skim milk and sour cream is used to get rid of freckles and cracks from exposed parts of the skin.

Raw potato juice cleanses the entire body well. Mixed with carrot juice and celery juice, it helps a lot with digestive disorders and nervous disorders - for example, with sciatica and goiter. In these cases daily use 500 ml of carrot, cucumber, beet and potato juice very often gives a positive result in a short time, provided that all meat and fish products are excluded.

Juice squeezed from fresh raw tubers is taken 2-3 times a day, half a glass, half an hour before meals for gastritis with high acidity, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.

Raw potato tubers, grated, are considered a good healing agent for burns, eczema and other various lesions skin. The ground mass is simply applied to the affected areas of the skin.
Peel a medium-sized potato, cut it into small pieces and chew slowly one by one for heartburn.
Potatoes are effective means cleansing joints of toxins and is considered good remedy for polyarthritis. To do this, within 3 days you need to eat 2-3 kg of potatoes, boiled with peels in a large amount of water. Potatoes are mashed in broth and eaten with the peel. Do not take other food at this time. To eat potatoes with skins, you need to cook them for a long time.

Mashed potatoes or gruel from raw potatoes relieve swelling if applied to them 3 times a day in the form of compresses.

Steam from boiled unpeeled (in their jacket) potatoes is used as an inhalation to treat colds respiratory tract, accompanied by cough, runny nose and headache.

To lengthen the session, i.e. to prevent the pan from cooling quickly, the patient throws some kind of cloth blanket over his head, covering the pan as well. The treatment effect is quite high, because here as therapeutic factors Both volatile emissions from potatoes and the heat of water vapor appear. It is important only after the inhalation session not to go out into the cold.

Warming up with potato steam is very useful for sciatica and radiculitis.

Pour 1 liter of water into one medium-sized potato, one medium-sized onion and an apple, cook until the water boils by half. Drink 3 times a day, 1 tsp. for chronic cough.

Potatoes with a greenish thick layer are peeled and finely chopped. The crushed fresh mushy mass is applied as a compress to damaged ligaments, muscles, and tendons.
Cut long potato sprouts into small 0.5 cm slices and dry in a dark, well-ventilated area. Place 200 g of these sprouts in a glass mortar, pour in 200 ml of 70% alcohol, close tightly, leave in a dark place for 8 days, shaking the contents periodically, strain, squeeze. Store in a cool, dark place. For various oncological diseases, take 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals (in 1/2 cup warm water drip the tincture, starting with 1 drop, increase the intake to 25 drops and continue to take them in this amount).

Dry the potato flowers in the shade. Brew 1 tbsp in 0.5 liters of boiling water. l. flowers, leave in a thermos for 3-4 hours. Drink 1/2 cup 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals at different malignant neoplasms. The course of treatment is 4 liters of infusion.

A decoction of flowers is used to reduce blood pressure and stimulation of breathing.

Potatoes are used for making faces. Take a knife and move it around the face clockwise, saying: “Mug, face, you are no good here. An aspen, mug, is waiting for you in the forest at the edge, you will be very beautiful on the aspen, you will sing, have fun and burn. And leave the servant of God (name) alone. Amen. Amen. Amen". You can’t touch the face with your hands!
Saying three last words, cross your face three times, then take two potatoes and grate them. The patient should put this mass on his leg or other sore spot, bandage it and go to bed. If the plot is read in the morning or during the day, the patient must change the bandage with potatoes at night.

Contraindications

In the light, glycoalkaloids accumulate under the skin of tubers, which can cause poisoning in humans and animals; During cooking, these compounds partially pass into water.

Potatoes containing solanine are also poisonous. This alkaloid is formed in leaves, young shoots, fruits and skin, especially during long-term storage. Children who eat potato berries experience severe poisoning, scratching in the throat, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and hand tremors. When providing first aid, it is necessary to rinse the stomach, give them sour or fresh milk or egg white.

You cannot prepare juice from tubers that have turned green and contain sprouted eyes - this is very dangerous.

In cases where livestock is grazed in potato fields and the animals eat green tops and fruits, they may experience diarrhea, vomiting, severe poisoning, convulsions and disturbances in the functioning of the cardiac and respiratory systems.
Toxic substances are formed only in this greened surface part of the tuber, without penetrating into the depths at all. Therefore, you should not throw away green potatoes; it is enough to cut off only the green parts (they, as a rule, occupy a small proportion total mass).

The white sprouts of potatoes are also poisonous, so when boiling potatoes “in their jackets,” the sprouts must be broken off.

A little history

There are about 200 wild and cultivated potato species, native primarily to South and Central America. There are two main cultivated species: Indian (since ancient times grown in Colombia, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia) and Chilean (homeland - Central Chile), which are widespread in countries with a temperate climate. Potatoes began to be cultivated about 14 thousand years ago by the Indians South America, and it was brought to Europe around 1565. Potatoes came to Russia thanks to Peter I, who sent a bag of tubers from Holland in 1698. As a result of violent tsarist measures to introduce potato crops in 1834-1844, there were unrest among peasants in the Vyatka and Vladimir provinces, the Urals, Lower and Middle Volga regions.

1. Why are proteins considered polymers?

Answer. Proteins are polymers, that is, molecules built like chains from repeating monomer units, or subunits, consisting of amino acids connected in a certain sequence peptide bond. They are the basic and necessary components of all organisms.

There are simple proteins (proteins) and complex proteins (proteins). Proteins are proteins whose molecules contain only protein components. When they are completely hydrolyzed, amino acids are formed.

Proteids are complex proteins whose molecules differ significantly from protein molecules in that, in addition to the actual protein component contain a low molecular weight component of a non-protein nature

2. What functions of proteins do you know?

Answer. Proteins perform following functions: construction, energy, catalytic, protective, transport, contractile, signaling and others.

Questions after § 11

1. What substances are called proteins?

Answer. Proteins, or proteins, are biological polymers whose monomers are amino acids. All amino acids have an amino group (-NH2) and a carboxyl group (-COOH) and differ in the structure and properties of radicals. Amino acids are linked to each other by peptide bonds, which is why proteins are also called polypeptides.

Answer. Protein molecules can take on different spatial forms - conformations, which represent four levels of their organization. The linear sequence of amino acids within a polypeptide chain represents the primary structure of a protein. It is unique to any protein and determines its shape, properties and functions.

3. How are secondary, tertiary and quaternary protein structures formed?

Answer. The secondary structure of a protein is formed by the formation of hydrogen bonds between -CO- and -NH- groups. In this case, the polypeptide chain twists into a spiral. The helix can acquire a globule configuration, since between the amino acid radicals in the helix there appear various connections. A globule is the tertiary structure of a protein. If several globules combine into a single complex complex, a quaternary structure arises. For example, hemoglobin in human blood is formed by four globules.

4. What is protein denaturation?

Answer. Violation of the natural structure of the protein is called denaturation. Under the influence of a number of factors (chemical, radioactive, temperature, etc.), the quaternary, tertiary and secondary structures of the protein can be destroyed. If the effect of the factor ceases, the protein can restore its structure. If the effect of the factor increases, the primary structure of the protein - the polypeptide chain - is also destroyed. This is already an irreversible process - the protein cannot restore the structure

5. On what basis are proteins divided into simple and complex?

Answer. Simple proteins are composed exclusively of amino acids. Complex proteins may contain other organic matter: carbohydrates (then called glycoproteins), fats (lipoproteins), nucleic acids (nucleoproteins).

6. What functions of proteins do you know?

Answer. Construction (plastic) function. Proteins are structural component biological membranes and cell organelles, and are also part of the supporting structures of the body, hair, nails, and blood vessels. Enzymatic function. Proteins serve as enzymes, i.e. biological catalysts that accelerate the speed bio chemical reactions tens and hundreds of millions of times. An example is amylase, which breaks down starch into monosaccharides. Contractile (motor) function. It is performed by special contractile proteins that ensure the movement of cells and intracellular structures. Thanks to them, chromosomes move during cell division, and flagella and cilia move protozoan cells. The contractile properties of the proteins actin and myosin underlie muscle function. Transport function. Proteins are involved in the transport of molecules and ions within the body (hemoglobin carries oxygen from the lungs to organs and tissues, blood serum albumin is involved in transport fatty acids). Protective function. It consists of protecting the body from damage and invasion of foreign proteins and bacteria. Antibody proteins produced by lymphocytes create the body's defense against foreign infection; thrombin and fibrin are involved in the formation of a blood clot, thereby helping the body avoid big losses blood. Regulatory function. It is performed by hormone proteins. They participate in the regulation of cell activity and all life processes body. Thus, insulin regulates blood sugar levels and maintains them at a certain level. Signal function. Proteins embedded in the cell membrane are capable of changing their structure in response to irritation. This transmits signals from external environment inside the cell. Energy function. It is realized by proteins extremely rarely. With complete breakdown of 1 g of protein, 17.6 kJ of energy can be released. However, proteins are a very valuable compound for the body. Therefore, protein breakdown usually occurs to amino acids, from which new polypeptide chains are built. Hormone proteins regulate the activity of the cell and all life processes of the body. Thus, in the human body, somatotropin is involved in the regulation of body growth, insulin maintains the blood glucose level at a constant level.

7. What role do hormone proteins play?

Answer. The regulatory function is inherent in hormone proteins (regulators). They regulate various physiological processes. For example, the most well-known hormone is insulin, which regulates blood glucose levels. When there is not enough insulin in the body, a disease known as diabetes mellitus occurs.

8. What function do enzyme proteins perform?

Answer. Enzymes are biological catalysts, that is, they accelerate chemical reactions hundreds of millions of times. Enzymes have strict specificity for the substance that reacts. Each reaction is catalyzed by its own enzyme.

9. Why are proteins rarely used as an energy source?

Answer. Amino acid protein monomers are valuable raw materials for the construction of new protein molecules. Therefore, complete breakdown of polypeptides into inorganic substances rarely occurs. Consequently, the energetic function, which consists in releasing energy upon complete breakdown, is performed by proteins quite rarely.

Egg white is a typical protein. Find out what will happen to it if it is exposed to water, alcohol, acetone, acid, alkali, vegetable oil, high temperature, etc.

Answer. As a result of the action high temperature protein denaturation will occur on the egg white. When exposed to alcohol, acetone, acids or alkalis, approximately the same thing happens: the protein coagulates. This is a process in which the tertiary and quaternary structure of a protein is disrupted due to the rupture of hydrogen and ionic bonds.

In the water and vegetable oil the protein retains its structure.

Grind the raw potato tuber to a pulp. Take three test tubes and put a small amount of chopped potatoes into each.

Place the first test tube in the freezer of the refrigerator, the second on the bottom shelf of the refrigerator, and the third in a jar of warm water (t = 40 °C). After 30 minutes, remove the test tubes and drop a small amount of hydrogen peroxide into each. Observe what happens in each test tube. Explain your results

Answer. This experience illustrates the activity of the enzyme catalase in a living cell on hydrogen peroxide. As a result of the reaction, oxygen is released. The dynamics of the release of bubbles can be used to judge the activity of the enzyme.

The experience allowed us to record the following results:

Catalase activity depends on temperature:

1. Test tube 1: there are no bubbles - this is because at low temperatures the potato cells collapsed.

2. Test tube 2: there are a small number of bubbles - because the activity of the enzyme at low temperatures is low.

3. Test tube 3: there are a lot of bubbles, the temperature is optimal, catalase is very active.

Drop a few drops of water into the first test tube with potatoes, and a few drops of acid into the second ( table vinegar), and in the third - alkalis.

Observe what happens in each test tube. Explain your results. Draw conclusions.

Answer. When water is added, nothing happens, when acid is added, some darkening occurs, when alkali is added, “foaming” occurs - alkaline hydrolysis.