Properties and Benefits of the Potato

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The potato is a tuber that is native to America, which Columbus managed to introduce in Europe and with it was used to treat some health problems. The potatoes are very good and have great healing properties, in traditional Chinese medicine, they use this tuber as a food with a great healing power.

The father is a Quechua word that has a meaning like (tuber), its antiquity is unknown, some botanical and cultural evidence refer it to the Collas Indians of the Tiahuanaco culture. This was spread on the sides of South America among the Andean peoples and thus could become a very important food in the diet of the Incas, its great resistance to the cold allowed its cultivation to more than 3,500 meters in height.

A new survey has revealed that after sugar, the carbohydrates of potatoes are one of the first things we must keep at bay because of its high caloric index. But nevertheless, far from being the food of the devil, a cooked potato has only 26 calories and is quite full of many nutrients.

The benefits and properties of the potato

Nutritional:

Potatoes provide our body with an essential source of energy, potatoes are misclassified as high in the glycemic index (how quickly they break down into glucose during digestion).

Potatoes help relieve gout pain:

If we regularly consume the juice of raw potatoes, it can help us reduce gout pain. And if we mix the juice of raw potatoes with a little honey, it will help us to detoxify the organism, and to eliminate more quickly the excess of uric acid from our organism

The potatoes help blood pressure:

Some of the researchers at the Norwich Institute for Food Research have found that kukoamines can help reduce blood pressure. Although the amount of potatoes that have to be eaten for a therapeutic effect are not well calculated, it is thought that with eating only 2 potatoes a day, we will suffer some of the reducing effects of blood pressure.

Potatoes help cardiovascular diseases:

The Agricultural Research Service in Navarra has identified 60 types of phytochemicals and vitamins in the skin of potatoes. Many of these were flavonoids, and can help protect us from cardiovascular disease by lowering the levels of bad cholesterol and keeping arteries free of unwanted fat. The B vitamins can help protect the arteries. Vitamin B6, tend to reduce the levels of a molecule called homocysteine ​​that is involved in inflammation and furring of the arteries.

The high levels of dietary fiber can give us a very healthy digestion and regular bowel movements, while achieving a protective effect of colon cancer. The highest concentration of fiber is found in the skin, the starch in the potatoes is not digestible. Instead it passes through our intact intestine, This adding volume to our stomach.

The potatoes help treat anemia:

Potatoes tend to provide a large amount of folic acid and iron to our body so they are very good at avoiding and treating anemia.

Potatoes Anti-inflammatory power:

for the high content of minerals and organic salts that the potato contains. The best way to take to treat an inflammation, is cutting a potato in half with the skin, and put it to boil. Once boiled drink a glass of the resulting water in the morning before eating.

The potato has many properties such as calming, anti-irritant, anti-inflammatory, so it can be used in the treatment of rashes, burns and irritations that we have on the body, you can apply a slice of raw potato throughout the burn, or also apply the juice of this on top of the area that is being treated.

Daily consumption of raw potato juice can help alleviate migraine.

The potatoes help improve circulation:

The skin of the potatoes has a large amount of chlorogenic acid, this acts as a great natural diuretic for our body. That is why it is very beneficial to be able to treat hypertension and to be able to improve the circulation of the organism and the mutation of normal to cancerous cells.

Also, the raw potatoes are alkaline, which helps to detoxify the digestive system and heal stomach ulcers, it also relieves inflammation and pain, for this we must make daily raw potato juice

Some ingredients that the potato contains such as vitamin C and calcium allow to generate collagen and elastin quickly and can accelerate the renewal of many cells, the raw potato can serve as a gentle exfoliant for the skin, and has antibacterial properties that will leave the skin quite clean, at the same time helps to eliminate dark circles.

Whenever you can talk about the benefits of any shell of any product, it comes to mind are the fibers, like another protective shell, the shell of the potato contains mainly polysaccharides in the cell wall or as is commonly known as Dietary fiber, 50% by weight of the potato husk is made up of fibers that is dietary.

The potatoes help with kidney stones:

Although studies on the use of potato peel in the treatment of kidney stones have not yet been revealed, it is believed that if you drink the tea from the potato skin it can help you to eliminate kidney stones, it is still known this domain of alternative traditional medicine.

The potatoes help to improve the Hepatic Function:

If you drink the potato tea it can alleviate gallbladder problems and it can also improve the liver's ability to eliminate waste products and the toxins that the body contains.

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