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Beet was a famous herbal plant in the ancient Rome and Greece. In the ancient Greece the peoples thought that the juice of the beet refreshed their blood.
Nowadays the people also drink the juice of the beet because this herbal plant contains lot of minerals, vitamins, amino acids and lot of useful and very effective active agents.
The beet herbal plant can optimize your body’s ph level and the minerals and the amino acids which are in the beet can build your blood.
The original birth-place of the Beet is in the Mediterranean countries, but nowadays you can find close to everywhere in the word. The original name is Beta, this come from a Greek letter which is in the ancient Greece alphabet, the shape of the beet root is similar of this letter. The Latin name which is the Vulgaris means that single or common. The name which we use for this very good and useful herbal plant is the Beet, this name origin the French. The bete word means ‘beast’ as cooks thought when they cut up the Beet this vegetables is bleeding as an wounded wild animal/beast.
If I want to save may beauty I should eat Beets - the goddess Aphrodite said. The people think in the in Middle Ages that if a man and a woman eat from one Beet they will be love to each other, it was a kind of folk magic in the Middle Ages. Unfortunately I don’t know that this effect is true or not but the peoples uses the Beet as an antipoison against of the cyanide poison, in Africa.
Keep in you mind: When you eat or drink too much beet your urine and stools may become dark red or light pink, anyway this effect is harmful. The beet which is greens contains high dosage of oxalic acid and You must not eat when you have arthritis or kidney stones.
Latin Name: Beta vulgaris rubra
Family: CHENOPODIACEAE
Useful part of the Beet: Root.
The main natural herbal remedies of Beet: Emollient, Antitumor, Rejuvenative, Nutritive,
Main application of the Beet medical herbal: Diverticulitis, Cancer, Anemia, Constipation Acne, Dysmenorrhea, Hepatitis, Leukemia, Hypoglycemia, Lumbago, Rheumatism, Poor Circulation, Toxemia
How can you prepare, eat, drink or buy Beet herbal plant: You can buy capsules or make juice, salad or soup from this vegetable.
The most common applications of Beet: You can mix together with yogurt and you can use this as a face-pack.
Culinary uses of Beet herbal plant: Soup, juice, pickled, baked, salads. The Russian culinary art use the beet in a very good and special soup, this name is Borscht. This beet soup is rich in iron.
Flavour of the Beet herbal plant: Sweet, Neutral.
The main effective agent of the Beet herbal plant: Iron, saponiside, betaine, phytosterol, leucine, potassium, betacyanin, manganese, beta carotene, tyrosine.