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Actinidia fruits: both food and medicine

Actinidia arguta Balsamnaya Even Hippocrates argued that food can serve as a medicine for a person. A striking confirmation is the fruits of actinidia, which, without exaggeration, can be called natural concentrates of vitamins. By the content of vitamin C (ascorbic acid) Actinidia kolomikta surpasses orange, lemon, bell pepper and black currant. For comparison: fresh fruits of colomicta contain more than 1500 mg / 100 g of ascorbic acid, while berries of the best varieties of black currant contain no more than 300 mg. 100 g.

By the content of provitamin A (carotene), the fruits of actinidia polygam are not inferior to apricots and sea buckthorn. There are in them in large quantities and substances of P-vitamin activity, and Actinidia arguta is especially rich in them.

Since for normal life a person needs 50 mg of vitamins P and C, as well as 2 mg of provitamin A per day, this need is fully satisfied by 2 fruits of actinidia kolomikta, 6 polygamy and 12 arguta, with a total weight of less than 100 g.

There is information about the presence in fruits of actinidia and vitamin Q, which inhibits the growth of cells of some types of cancer.

Actinidia fruits also contain sugars, organic acids, pectin, dyes and tannins, and have valuable nutritional and dietary properties.

The biologically active substance actinidin, which is found in the fruits of all types of actinidia, has a beneficial effect on the gastrointestinal tract, promotes the digestion of meat, and mildly weakens.

Actinidia arguta Balsamnaya

In folk medicine, the fruits of actinidia kolomikta and argut are used as an antiscorbutic, antihelminthic and analgesic agent for pain in the intestines. They are used for bleeding, including uterine bleeding, for tuberculosis, whooping cough, dental caries. Infusion of fruits and dry stems of actinidia polygam is used in the treatment of lumbago, rheumatism, paralysis and dizziness. In Japan, the extract from the roots and fruits is used as a general tonic and to enhance cardiac activity.

If you have heart disease, be sure to grow actinidia. Just a glass of freshly squeezed actinidia argut or kolomikt juice relieves an attack of angina pectoris.

In blanks, actinidia fruits protect vitamins for a year, provided that no metal utensils were used in their preparation, since vitamin C is destroyed in contact with it. Glass jars with blanks must be stored in a dark place, since biologically active substances are also destroyed in the light.

Recipes for using actinidia: Sauce "Spark" from actinidia polygam, "Vitamin" salad with leaves of actinidia polygam, Wine from actinidia.

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