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 September 27 - Exaltation. People say that the turn came turnips - "Exaltation wait so turnip tear." In the old turnip respect and honor - "Repa - meat, eat Cut yes."
Turnip -
Brassica rapa L.
- Herbaceous biennial vegetable plant of the cabbage family. In the first year of life of the plants appear rosette of leaves and roots. In the second year the plant blooms and forms seeds.
Turnip leaves dissected, pubescent. In lettuce varieties are smooth. The fleshy root vegetable has a rounded flat or oblong shape. Colour outside white or yellowish, rarely bronze, purple, where acts of the land is green. The flesh is white or yellow. The taste is pleasant, but the lack of moisture and poor soil, turnips can taste bitter.
Branched flower stalks that grow in the second year, may have a height of over one meter. They are light green or bluish sessile stem leaves. Yellow flowers are collected in inflorescence - a brush. Turnips Blossoms in May and June. Fruit - pod with elongated nose. Inside it are spherical seeds reddish or black.
Although nowadays turnip is not found in the wild, home to wild turnip consider Southwest Asia. Scientists say that rap was widespread in the ancient world. The ancient Greeks were cultured on a par with its grapes. In the Middle Ages, turnip grown throughout Europe in large quantities. Before the advent of potato, about the end of the XVIII century it was a turnip for Europeans second bread.
In Russia, with its risky farming, which often had poor harvests of cereals, turnips was often the "first bread", not just to save entire villages from hunger. And up to the time of Catherine the turnips in great demand not only among farmers but among the nobility.
Modern varieties of lettuce turnip derived in Japan. Now turnips grown on a smaller scale, but vacationers still put it on their acres.
 Turnip health
Root vegetables turnips dug in the autumn, before the onset of frost. In the pulp turnip contains a huge amount of nutrients: vitamins - B1, B2, PP, C, carotene, sugar, fiber, potassium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, magnesium, sulfur, volatile mustard oil, which gives the plant a peculiar odor and pungent taste .
- Thanks turnip mustard oil, irritating the mucous membrane of the digestive tract, stimulates the secretion of gastric juice and increases peristalsis.
- Turnip is particularly useful in the fall and early spring, as a means, with vitamins and raises immunity. For this purpose, experts recommend to eat in a day a couple of pieces of raw turnip.
- Turnip juice has also expectorant and diuretic properties.
- In gastritis and colitis turnip used in steamed form.
- In acute bronchitis drink
decoction of turnips
Turnips wash, peel, grate on a fine grater, take 2st. spoon mashed potatoes, pour 1 cup of boiled water, half an hour, drain. Take ¼ cup 3-4 times a day.
- When gout and joint pains turnip rubbed on a grater, steamed or boiled and applied to the sore spot.
- Turnips applied similarly to chiryam and abscesses to accelerate their maturation.
The raw turnip is contraindicated for people suffering from gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcers, acute gastritis and enterocolitis!
- Nutritionists used turnips for weight loss, recommending it raw, boiled, stewed and fried.
Turnip Beauty
Pulp turnips have long been used in cosmetics to preserve youth, elasticity of the skin and slow down its aging.
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Hydrating Mask
Grate grated turnips, pour the cream to form a slurry, add 1 teaspoon of honey and apply on face for 10 minutes. Rinse with tepid brew of weak green tea.
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Toning Mask
Boil one turnip, turn it into mashed potatoes, add 1 tbsp. spoon sour cream, 1 tbsp. a spoonful of carrot juice and 1 tbsp. of olive oil. Apply to face, neck and neck for 15-20 minutes. Rinse with warm water, then wipe the skin with ice cubes.
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For hair growth and get rid of dandruff
Mix 4 tbsp. spoon turnip juice with 1 teaspoon of onion juice and 1 tbsp. spoon burdock oil. Rub into the scalp to hook or by 30 minutes. Wash suitable to the type of hair shampoo.
- Baths with the addition of juice of turnips have tonic and gives the skin elasticity properties. On the bath is enough ½ cup juice. Bath must not be above + 37 ° C. And lasts longer than 15 minutes.
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