Cabbage
(Brassica oleracea var. Capitata)
Synonym:
Family:
Cruciferae (Brassicaceae).
Description:
Cabbage family have enough type. Commonly grown in Indonesia, including cabbage, cabbage flowers, broccoli, cabbage sprout, cabbage rabbis, and kale. Cabbage types are inferred from the wild cabbage Brassica oleracea var. sylvestris, which grows along the Mediterranean coast, the coast of England, Danish, and the north western France. Wild cabbage is a plant that grows as the Biennial, and there is also a perenial.
Which have been cultivated cabbage made into annual crops. To obtain the seeds, sprouts are allowed to grow as the plant Biennial. These vegetables can be planted in lowland and in the highlands with rainfall average of 850-900 mm. The leaves are round, oval, to elongated, forming roset large roots and thick, leaf color variety, including white (forma alba), green, red and purple (forma rubra). Initially, waxy leaves that grow straight, the next leaves grow bent, covering the young leaves of the latter grew. Leaf growth stops are marked with the formation of crop or the egg (head) and the next crop of cabbage buds (Brussels sprouts).
Furthermore, the crop will be broken and out "panicles of flowers" are long-stemmed, branches, small leaves, crown erect, yellow. Fruit fruit pods cylindrical, 5-10 cm long, seedy. Seeds 2-4 mm in diameter, gray-brown. Age harvest vary, ranging from 90 days to 150 days. Fresh cabbage leaves and crisp crunchy taste that can be eaten as raw and cooked lalap, mixed salad, made of vegetables, or made Urap. Cabbage can be propagated by seed or cuttings sprout.
Cabbage is used for treatment:
- Itching due jamurcandida (candidiasis),
- Fungus in the scalp, hands, and feet
- High blood cholesterol levels,
- Rheumatoid arthritis (arthritis),
- Protect the body from the radiation beam, such as x-ray beams, computers, microwaves, and color television,
- An antidote to the drinking of alcohol (hangover), toxins in the liver,
- Eliminating complaints prahaid (premenstrual syndrome),
- Increase breast milk production,
- Prevent tumor enlarged,
- Prevent colon and rectum cancer,
- Ulcer (ulcus) in the gastrointestinal tract, and
- Difficult bowel movement (constipation).
HOW TO USE
Provide 25-30 g of cabbage, then eat it raw, as lalap or can also be boiled or juiced. Because of cabbage including fiber foods so if a person consumes too much cabbage can cause a full feeling, bloated, and cause the gas in the stomach quite a lot. It also may interfere with the absorption of certain nutrients. For external use, cabbage juice can be used to wash the hole is itching because sexual intercourse fungus Candida albicans, the disease known as candidosis vaginalis. In addition, this herb can be used to wash wounds, to heal the skin and fungus in the head (it is applied), and compresses the body bruised, swollen, or painful joints.
EXAMPLE OF USE IN THE COMMUNITY
Premenstrual syndrome, and candidiasis yeast infection
Drinking fresh cabbage juice every day. Cabbage juice can also be used for washing genitals (vaginal douche).
Constipation
Lalap eat cabbage every day, either raw or cooked.
Ulcus the gastrointestinal tract
Drink 1 / 2 cup fresh cabbage juice, do it two times a day.
Protect the body from the radiation beam
Eat fresh sprouts every day as lalap or cabbage juice.
Increasing milk production
Cabbage juice can be given to pregnant mothers shortly before birth.
Lowering blood cholesterol levels high
Rinse 1/4 part fresh medium cabbage until clean, rinse with boiled water, then cut into pieces as needed. Cabbage juice, and juice drinks as well, do every day.
Poultice of cabbage can cause blisters if worn for several hours.
If the cabbage juice is consumed continuously, can reduce the amount of iodine in the body. As a result, the thyroid (thyroid) lack of iodine. To prevent this, multiply to consume the food sources of iodine, such as seaweed (kelp).
Composition:
Fresh cabbage contains water, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, fiber, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium, potassium, vitamins (A, C, E, thiamine, riboflavin, nicotinamide), calcium, and beta carotene. In addition, also contain compounds sianohidroksibutena (CHB), sulforafan, and which stimulate the formation iberin glutathione, an enzyme that works by describing and remove toxic substances circulating in the body. The high content of vitamin C in cabbage may prevent skorbut (scurvy). The existence of substance cabbage anthocyanins can cause color changes to red. Content of active substance, and Histidine sulforafan can inhibit tumor growth, preventing colon cancer, and rectum, detoksikasi dangerous chemical compounds, such as cobalt, nickel and copper excess in the body, and increase body resistance against cancer. Amino acid content of sulfur, also merit lowering high cholesterol levels, nerve sedative, and uplifting.
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Reply.This juice is great tonic to drink if you have stomach ulcers
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