The cabbage is a vegetable grown for its high mineral and vitamin content and alkaline salts. The major benefits of cabbage is its wonderful cleansing and reducing properties.

Its most valuable properties are the high sulphur and chlorine content including its high percent of iodine.

The combination of the sulphur and chlorine causes a cleansing of the mucus membranes of the stomach and intestinal tract, but this only applies when cabbage or its juice is taken in its raw state without the addition of salt.

This vegetable can be used raw in the form of salad. It can also be steamed, boiled or cooked. Preferably, it should eaten raw as most of the nutrients contained in it is usually lost during the process of cooking.

This vegetable can be used raw in the form of salad. It can also be steamed, boiled or cooked. Preferably, it should eaten raw as most of the nutrients contained in it is usually lost during the process of cooking.


Do you want to learn something new? Here is an amazing fact!

Do you know that the raw cabbage is more easily digested than the cooked one? Yeah! The longer the cabbage is cooked, the less digestible it becomes. So, to enjoy the full benefits of cabbage, its preferable you eat raw or you simply juice it.


Apart from keeping you healthy, the benefits of cabbage still includes curing some ailments!

1. STOMACH ULCERS
One powerful treatment that ranks no. 1 amongst all natural remedies for ulcer is cabbage juice! Drinking lots and lots of cabbage juice at various intervals daily followed by a natural diet has proven to heal ulcer miraculously!

The juice contains the antiulcer factor, vitamin U. This vitamin is destroyed by cooking the cabbage.

To make the juice more palatable, add pineapple, tomato or citrus juice to it.


2. CONSTIPATION
A meal of raw cabbage is an excellent remedy for constipation. It is one of the numerous effective natural remedies for constipation.

It acts immediately without any adverse after-effects. This meal can be prepared by adding a little salt and lemon juice to finely chopped raw cabbage.


3. SKIN DISORDERS
One of the benefits of cabbage is that it remedies a whole of skin disorders including psoriasis!

This is achieved by using the cabbage leaves!

To treat affected regions of the skin (sores, blisters, etc), the cabbage leaves should be made flat, soft and smooth by rolling them with a rolling pin after removing the thick veins.

They should warmed and then applied smoothly to the affected part in an overlapping manner and secured with an elastic bandage.

This should be kept for the whole day and night. If the leaves changes colour, they should be replace by fresh ones.


4. OBESITY
One benefit of cabbage is that it aid weight loss through the biochemical action of tartronic acid which inhibits the conversion of sugar into fats!

Taking a cabbage salad is the simplest way to stay slim! Cabbage is found to posses a low calorific value and adds a lasting feeling of fullness in the stomach.


As you can see, cabbage has lots of benefits. You can stay healthy by simply changing your diet to a natural-based one!

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