Orange

Orange

Sweet orange belongs to the family Rutaceae. It is an evergreen tree with a spherical crown and fruit, like a ball. Fetuses orange peel, aromatic, juicy and very tasty sweet-sour pulp.

Wild species as orange is not found. Cultivate it in tropical and subtropical countries. Growing regions is East and Central Asia, the Mediterranean, South America, South Africa, Australia. In taste surpasses all orange citrus fruit and a dessert.

In orange fruits contain up to 13 % sugar, 2-3 % citric acid, vitamin C (65 mg %), B1, B2, B6, P, provitamin A, pectin and nitrogenous substances, carbohydrates, fiber, ash, volatile, minerals (potassium - 197 mg %, phosphorus, calcium). Orange peel contains essential oils.

Eat fruit orange fresh, prepare them candied fruits, jams, jellies, used for flavoring confectionery. Orange juice - one of the most common and useful fruit juice, it is well quenches thirst. Insist on the skin of the fruit wines and liqueurs, and candied fruits.

Orange peel contains essential oil, which is for making fruit drinks, alcoholic beverages and dairy production.

Therapeutic use of orange

* Sour-sweet pulp of an orange, its juice - fresh or canned - stimulate the appetite and help improve digestion, stimulate the secretion of bile.

* In the treatment of hypo-and avitaminosis and simply useful to use for the prevention of oranges, which contain a lot of vitamins.

* Due to the large amount of potassium, ascorbic acid and other vitamins oranges are useful in hypertension, atherosclerosis, obesity, liver disease, gout.

* If you eat a few slices of orange, along with fatty foods, it is better digested, cholesterol levels will decrease, and this will greatly reduce the risk of thrombosis and heart attacks.

* First of oranges in folk medicine used for the treatment of infected wounds and ulcers, as in oranges are strong volatile, killing some disease-causing microbes. Orange juice has antimicrobial properties. These natural and effective antibiotics used in medicine and in cosmetics and food industry.

* Essential orange oil - a great tool to eliminate the infection of the mouth. Pectin, contained in fruits oranges, improve bowel contribute to the removal of harmful substances and inhibition of putrefaction. Elderly people suffering from chronic constipation, it is recommended to eat oranges, drink juice in the morning on an empty stomach (at the normal acidity of the stomach) or in the evening before bed time.

* If constipation prepares a decoction of the peel of an orange, the fruit of cumin and buckthorn bark (1:1:8). 1 tablespoon of the mixture pour 1 cup of water, bring to a boil, cooled and filtered. In the morning and evening drink of 200 g.

* Gastritis with low acidity prepared infusion of equal parts of orange peel, leaf watch, herbs centaury, rhizome, bitter wormwood. 1 table spoon of raw pour 1 cup boiling water, boil in water bath in a sealed container for 15 minutes, cooled to room temperature and filtered. Take tincture 3 times a day 30 minutes before a meal to 100 g.

* In gastritis and liver complaints, a mixture of equal parts of shredded orange peel, valerian root, leaf and mint watch. Brewed with 2 teaspoons of the mixture and 1 cup of boiled water for 30 minutes under the lid and filter. Take 200 g 3 times a day after meals.

* When kidney stones and certain chronic diseases of the gall bladder is useful to drink a mixture of juices made ​​from orange and lemon, black radish, sweetened with honey mixture.

* In order to facilitate breathing bronchitis (especially in acute bronchitis) make orange inhalation: a patient within 30 minutes should breathe vapors decoction of grated orange peel and orange leaves of a tree.

* Oranges have a tonic effect, help to better endure fatigue and even lower sensitivity to cold.

* Essential orange oil helps to cope with depression, regain strength and improve your mood.

* The complex is useful for the substances found in oranges, accelerates the healing process and promotes the excretion of metabolic products from the body.

* A decoction of orange peel well to the effects of lead poisoning, as an antidote. 2 tablespoons peeled 0.5 liters of boiling water, boil over low heat, covered 5 minutes, infused for 20 minutes, strain and drink 1 glass of warm every 5 hours. Additionall recommended daily drink 200 grams of sour orange juice.

* Oranges are a good sedative contribute to relief from palpitations, convulsions, hysteria. It is believed that the juice of sour oranges helps reduce the frequency of epileptic seizures.

* To prepare a soothing herbal tea 1.5 teaspoons chopped orange peel together with 1.5 teaspoons of lemon balm herb brewed with 1.5 cups of boiling water, tightly closed, insist 15 minutes, strain and add 1.5 teaspoons of tincture of valerian and honey to taste.

Drink 150-200 g 2-3 times a day.

CAUTION!!!

Drinking large quantities of oranges has an irritating effect on the mucous membrane of the stomach, intestines and kidneys. Consequently, the oranges are not recommended for stomach ulcers and duodenal ulcers, enteritis, gastritis with high acidity of gastric juice, exacerbation of colitis and inflammatory bowel disease, cholecystitis, hepatitis and acute nephritis.

However, a small amount of orange juice, half diluted with water, you can drink.