The ability of red wines to remove radical elements from the body has been noticed for a long time. Wines from Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot varieties were officially assigned in the USA, the USSR and other countries to the crews of nuclear submarines, personnel servicing radioactive installations, and in 1986 - to all residents who live in the regions adjacent to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
G.G. Valuiko, G.N. Arpentin, together with medical scientists, established the radioprotective effect of natural grape wines. If you give the patients who suffered from the Chernobyl accident 2 glasses of red table wine a day, then after three weeks the content of radioactive cesium in the blood of patients decreases three times. This indicates the protective property of red wines in case of radiation damage.
Red wines have a number of other health benefits. They have been used for thousands of years in traditional medicine for the treatment of gastrointestinal diseases; on their basis, official medicine recommends preparing formulations for the treatment of catarrhs of the upper respiratory tract. Wines such as Cahors, Black Doctor, red ports, all varietal and blended, ordinary and vintage red table wines are used in small doses for a number of diseases, in the absence of appetite, as well as for debilitated patients in the postoperative period and during the recovery period. For influenza, pneumonia and bronchopneumonia, hot red wine with sugar, the so-called mulled wine, is used.
Professor M.A. Gerasimov, who lived to be almost 84 years old, suffered from tuberculosis at the age of 27 and was sent to the North Caucasus for treatment. According to his testimony, following the recommendations of doctors, in addition to the treatment prescribed for him, he drank one glass of red dry Cabernet wine every day and soon got rid of this difficult illness.
The experience of Soviet medicine during the Great Patriotic War showed numerous examples of successful treatment of wounded soldiers and civilians with the help of wine. So, during the heroic defense of Sevastopol, on the initiative of the director of the Massandra winery, N.K. Sobolev, antiscorbutic tinctures were prepared from grape juice and dry red wine Cabernet, and champagne cuvée aged with yeast was disinfected for wounds, and the forces of the defenders of the hero city were supported. Professor Koreysha noted that moderate consumption of light white table wines, which refresh and quench thirst, was very useful for the wounded with a high fever, and recommended chilled champagne for inevitable vomiting.
The medicinal properties of grape wines were pointed out at different times by great specialists in domestic medicine: Academician N.P. Kravtsov, Professor N.M. Nikolaev, professor E.V. Vershinin, the famous Moscow general practitioner N.F. Golubev, Professor G.A. Zakharyin, Professor S.R. Tatevosov and many others.
Professor N.F. Golubev, in the treatment of emaciated and weak patients, successfully applied strong wines such as Port and Madeira, giving them to the sick a few spoons a day. He believed that champagne was the most effective for raising strength and weakened heart activity. Some people do not tolerate the high carbon dioxide content of champagne. In this case, it is recommended to consume pearl wines with a reduced content of carbon dioxide at a bottle pressure of 50 to 250 kPa. Light white table wines, in his opinion, have a tonic effect on nervous system and heart and can be administered to patients up to 0.5 liters per day.
Prominent Soviet clinician Professor G.A. Zakharyin was widely used to support weakened cardiac activity. grape wine alongside other cardiovascular agents. Medical experience has also shown that natural grape wines have a particularly beneficial effect on the elderly, normalizing sleep. Unlike chemical sleeping pills, a quarter or half a glass of dry wine with Borjomi will cause normal physiological sleep. However, wine, even in such small doses, can be used only on the advice of a doctor.
Wine therapy, or enotherapy, allows in some cases to completely eliminate the use of potent drugs that will cause adverse side effects of the patient. There are cases when medicines are useless, and preparations using wine as a biological component provide invaluable help to patients.
In the United States, at the Medical School of San Francisco (California), in the department of preventive medicine, research has been conducted for 30 years on the use of grape wines in medicinal purposes. Dr. Salvator Lucchia found that, contrary to popular belief, moderate doses of natural grape wines can be used for certain urological and gastroenterological diseases. Of course, wine is categorically unacceptable for nephritis, stomach ulcers, cirrhosis of the liver and other diseases, as well as during pregnancy. However, wine is successfully used in the treatment of mucous colitis, spastic constipation and diarrhea. It helps to restore the deteriorated function of fat absorption, enhances diuresis. Dry white wine can be included in the diet of diabetics: with a normal diet, wine can serve as a partial source of energy that does not require the participation of insulin.
We have proposed a technology for producing low-calorie semi-sweet wines, where sugars are replaced by a protein sweet substance - aspartame, which is not fermented by yeast. This wine can be recommended to people who suffer from diabetes and obesity.
I. Nemets and A. Pribela (Czech Republic) also found out that wine has a positive effect on digestion and metabolism, activates the function of blood circulation and promotes a better removal of fluid from the body. In particular, a good effect is achieved when drinking a glass of wine before meals or during meals in elderly people who are prone to insufficient secretion of gastric juice, since after 45 years the acid concentration in it gradually decreases. Improving blood circulation is that wine in small quantities affects blood pressure. At the same time, due to a decrease in resistance in external vessels, systolic pressure slightly decreases, and diastolic pressure rises. Clinical studies of the authors have also shown that wine has a beneficial effect on the body in atherosclerosis, vascular changes, insomnia, emotional decline and other types of depression and neurosis, which are often observed in older people.
Doverschein and Joyer (France), studying the effect of wine on people of different ages, established its positive euphoric property, which in particular contributes to the treatment of elderly patients. Pleasant peace caused by a small amount of wine dispels fears, the excitement of old age, improves sleep, patients complain less about age. According to Joyer, wine is a supplier of specific amino acids that stimulate appetite and ensure the normal functioning of the nervous system. As Louis Pasteur wrote, "wine is milk for the old." It has long been known that in contact with white or red grape wine for several minutes (and in wine diluted by 50% with water - for 30-60 minutes), typhoid and tubercular bacilli, cholera vibrios, intestinal bacteria and other pathogens die. . Therefore, it is very advisable to add wine to drinking water in case of a massive spread of gastrointestinal diseases. When an epidemic of cholera occurred, medical personnel used water for drinking with the obligatory addition of wine.
The soldiers of Alexander the Great, on campaigns using water of unknown origin, disinfected it by adding wine.
In our studies (G.G. Valuiko, G.N. Arpentin), conducted with animals, it was found that when grape wines are introduced into the diet, there is a significant decrease in the alcohol syndrome in comparison with pure ethyl alcohol, which indicates the anti-alcohol effect of grape wines.
Natural grape wines contain biologically active substances that mitigate the negative effect of ethanol on the body. The anti-stress effect of grape wines has also been established. At this time, stress has become a misfortune. You can relieve or limit stress with the help of humor, sex or grape wines. If animals are artificially stressed by a sound effect of 90 dB, then they develop a stressful state. For example, we can say that such a sound effect is achieved by the turbines of a jet aircraft or the musical equipment used by the Rolling Stones ensemble. The second type of stress in animals was obtained by alternately drowning and floating. In both types of stress, the animal was fed with alcohol and red grape wine. If alcohol was introduced, the effect of stress was somewhat softened, and when red table wine was introduced, the stress in animals was significantly reduced.
The Magarach Institute, together with doctors, has developed a test to determine a person's tendency to alcoholism. With a positive indication of this test, a person is contraindicated to work at wineries.
The test consists in the fact that a number of enzymes are determined in a drop of human blood and, by their presence or absence, a person's tendency to alcoholism is established. It can be genetic, congenital or acquired. Children of chronic alcoholics, as a rule, have a tendency to alcoholism.
Thus, everything that has been said about the dietary and medicinal properties of grape wines indicates that their consumption in moderation is beneficial for the human body. Wine, like any medicinal substance, in large doses is detrimental to health, and in moderate doses it contributes to the healing effect.
Today it is becoming more and more popular Home wine division. Wine made by hand is a great drink. It will delight you with its rich taste and provide a great mood. After all, homemade wine drink does not contain harmful chemical impurities and preservatives. On the contrary, vitamins, trace elements and acids are present in the composition. The wine contains vitamins C, PP, and group B. There are antioxidants, essential oils, tannins.
Medicinal properties of homemade wine
The benefits of homemade wine have been proven for a long time. Since time immemorial, not only Italians and Spaniards have used medicinal properties. The Tsarist Russian State used wine methods for the treatment of various ailments.
The French nation at all times consumed wine drinks at dinner. And statistics show that France has a low threshold for cardiovascular disease.
- wine use for colds and colds. The wine is heated, but it should not be brought to a boil. There are many recipes for the preparation of such a medicine. AT hot drink add lemon or orange zest, cinnamon, cloves and other spices to your taste. Drink warm.
- Dry red wine prevents the development of tumors. Has anti-inflammatory properties.
- It is very useful to use homemade wines for the elderly. With a decline in strength and weakness.
- Homemade wine is not only capable of relieve pressure and cholesterol level, but it is the same lowers sugar content in blood. So drinking some dry wine is also good for diabetics.
- It has a beneficial therapeutic effect on the entire circulatory system, including anemia, heart disease. Prevents the development of strokes and heart attacks.
- Moderate consumption of quality wine strengthens the body, improves the quality of sleep.
- Reduces the formation of urolithiasis.
- It improves appetite, assimilation of food, normalizes the acidity of the stomach and has a beneficial effect on metabolism.
- Removes toxins from the body.
- Dry wine prevents the development of diseases of the oral cavity.
- Wine prevents the development of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases.
For each disease, you need to use wine from a specific ingredient.
Red or white
White wine Ideal for people who want to lose weight. This type of wine stimulates weight loss. Helps in the fight against cellulite. Reduces appetite.
Red wine more nutritious than white. But the ruby elixir contains more vitamins. Red wine is an excellent antioxidant. Beneficial effect on the condition of the skin. Has an antitoxic effect.
Variety of house wines
Today you can find great amount various recipes making wine at home.
The ingredients are also very varied. Many people think that wine can only be made from grapes. But this is far from true.
Wine is made from grapes, apples, pears, plums, chokeberries, various currants, raspberries, strawberries. This list can be continued indefinitely.
Someone has their own preferences, someone likes to experiment. But many are engaged in making homemade wine from a certain ingredient, for the treatment and prevention of any disease.
Apple wine is good for digestion, supports normal functioning thyroid gland. Normalizes body weight. Removes excess salt from the body. Contains pectin, iodine and fiber.
Blackcurrant and black ashberry wine has a beneficial effect on blood formation. The necessary elements contained in berry wine strengthen the walls of blood vessels, make them less fragile and more elastic.
Plum wine is suitable for people with intestinal problems. The drink will restore the intestines and adjust its work.
Raspberry, as well as strawberry, strawberry, blueberry wines taste extraordinary. They have an unrivaled and rich color. Such drinks will enrich the body with iron and acids.
And of course grape wine. You can make both red and white wine. Many varieties of grapes can be used to make wines.
The benefits and harms of home winemaking
It is worth considering that homemade wine benefits and harms, which depends on the amount of elixir consumed. Wine gives a healing effect in small quantities. With a large amount of wine consumed, not only will the medicinal properties not appear, but the body will receive enormous harm to health.
Benefits of homemade wine
The benefits are pretty obvious. Homemade natural wine, without any impurities and flavorings. Ingredients are chosen according to your taste. Saturation, strength and sweetness can be adjusted.
Harm of home wine
People prone to allergic reactions, as well as those suffering from asthmatic diseases, should be wary of drinking red wine.
During the preparation of wine, various reactions occur. Many substances are produced. If you do not follow the recipes and rules for making a wine drink, you can get, instead of tasty and healthy wine, quite the opposite.
And of course, the main thing is to know the measure. You can drink a glass of wine before lunch or dinner.
Basics of making homemade wine
Making wine is a rather lengthy process. So you need to be patient. From the correct preparation, will depend not only taste qualities, but also the benefits of the drink, and most importantly the harm.
Louis Pasteur also said that wine is one of the most hygienic and healing drinks. Chemical composition and physiological properties grape wines suitable for use in medical purposes - wine therapy. The Science of Healing wine and the use of grape wines for medicinal purposes is called enotherapy.
For ancient people, the healing properties of wines were known for a long time. So, in ancient Greece, wine was used as an antiseptic. Wine was given to the wounded, bandages soaked in wine were applied to the wounds. In Asia and Western Europe, wine healing began to spread in early medieval period . And the priests of the pharaohs then considered wine the “drink of the gods” and began to attribute magical properties to it.
By its nature of origin, chemical composition and dietary properties, wine surprisingly suits human physiology. Wine has a general positive bioenergetic and strengthening effect on the human body, helps restore vitality when it declines (for example, in the elderly), increases tone and vigor.
No wonder they say that wine is the milk of old people. Wine also enriches the body. useful trace elements, vitamins and amino acids, prevents the occurrence and development of atherosclerosis. The substance trioxystilbene contained in natural wine helps to slow down cell aging and prevents the onset of cancer.
The wine has pronounced antibacterial properties. It is noted that during epidemics the number of cases in wine-growing regions and among people who regularly drink wine is somewhat lower. During the research it was noted that wine suppresses the bacteria of tuberculosis, cholera, malaria, etc. Moreover, almost the same effect is produced by wine diluted twice with water, which I constantly used Avicenna in the treatment of patients, especially wine half diluted golobom or shikanjubin.
Therefore, during epidemics, especially in regions prone to them, doctors recommend drinking instead of drinking water. table wine, half diluted with water. In addition, dry white table wine perfectly quenches thirst.
Natural wine is also useful for colds and chronic diseases such as influenza, bronchitis, pneumonia, etc. With such diseases, mulled wine should be used - hot red table wine with spices and sugar, such as Cabernet or Merlot.
For disorders and diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, red wines with a high content of tannins are useful, for example, Cabernet Sauvignon, Cabernet. Such wines, due to the presence of tannins, have a strengthening and healing effect on the stomach, especially with scars and stomach ulcers.
With obesity and metabolic disorders, wines also help. They remove slags and toxins from the human body, normalize metabolism. A particularly valuable property of wines is the ability to lower the cholesterol content, which has been confirmed by numerous experiments, for example, with rabbits. It has been established that in the same area, people who regularly drink wine have a low cholesterol content.
Wine also helps with radiation. So, in the former Soviet Union, people who, on duty, work in the nuclear and similar industries and in conditions associated with increased radioactive danger, were regularly prescribed the use of Cahors (for example, submariners on nuclear-powered ships).
With diabetes, dry grape wines with a low content of sugar and glucose (less than 4 grams per 1 liter) are suitable.Light white and especially champagne wines contribute to the maintenance of weakened cardiac activity. So, white semi-dry wines have a positive effect on the elasticity of blood vessels, reduce the risk of blood clots and myocardial infarction. And champagne also improves ventilation of the lungs, stimulating the respiratory centers.
Red table wines help with anemia. Red and white semi-dry wines remove excess salts from the human body, so they are recommended to prevent salt deposits in the joints.
Wines also help with beriberi, and with exhaustion, a few sips of port wine will do. Port wine and vermouth help with loss and lack of appetite, contributing to a better secretion of gastric juice. To stimulate appetite, 30 minutes before a meal, take 50 grams of vermouth or port wine up to 100-150 grams. But you should not drink vermouth in large quantities.
Wines rich in minerals help with fractures and diseases of the bone apparatus.
But, like any useful substance, wine in large quantities can be harmful. Mixing wine with other alcohol-containing drinks, such as beer, vodka and the like, has a particularly harmful negative effect on the human body. In order for wine to be beneficial, you should know in what quantities it should be consumed. The exact figures for the amount consumed vary depending on the characteristics of a particular person - gender, age, height, nature, weight and so on.
Modern scientists believe that the norm of wine consumption is one to three glasses drunk with meals. For an adult healthy man, the norm of drinking wine per day is 300-350 ml, for a woman - up to 150 ml.
But those who take care of their health should know that only absolutely natural, quality wine. Medicinal properties are not manifested in falsifications of wines.
Avicenna says:
Rules for drinking wine
About old drinks and
about their usefulness
I, - says Avicenna, - by the word drink I mean wine. Although it looks simple, it is actually complicated, so we mention it separately. The amount of wine consumed by a person should be different depending on the age of the drinker, on the season, on habit, on the nature and strength of the wine.
Drinking wine should not be to quench thirst or hunger; it should also not be drunk with meals, as is generally accepted by many and most people do, that is, wine is drunk with meals.
Food should be taken a little earlier, then wait about two hours, then drink, for drinking wine immediately after eating or eating after drinking wine is the most harmful thing. This gives rise to bad diseases, the mildest of which is jarab ( skin rashes, eczema).
As for intoxication, it is harmful under all circumstances, especially if it occurs constantly, for it has a dissolving effect on the nerves; therefore, if it is constant, it weakens the nerves and relaxes them.
Intoxication is also the cause of acute illnesses and even the cause of sudden of death. It is best if a person consumes wine in moderation.
after wine need a drink cold water or pomegranate juice, this is when a young man drinks; water and pomegranate juice suppress the power of wine and destroy its malignity, especially in summer time. As for old people, they should not drink, for it harms their nerves and senses, except when the wine tastes good.
Anyone who has diseased and weak internal organs should beware of wine. It is better for a person with a healthy body to drink it in a small amount diluted with water or gulob.
Young wine helps with difficult digestion, drives urine, but causes bad dreams. The average between young and old wine occupies a middle position between those two. Therefore, you need to choose wine for drinking in a healthy state or in a diseased state.
As for white liquid wine, the eye is easily digested, quickly penetrates the body and is good for the stomach. Black wine is thick and difficult to digest; in general, the average between these species is average in its property.
Sweet wine is more difficult to digest. In addition, white wine is of different nature: sweet puffs up the stomach and locks the stomach and intestines like matbukh(Israeli spicy sauce).
Fragrant wine digests food, helps the bladder and kidneys, drives urine and menstruation, soothes, binds the stomach and removes moisture. Weak wine is less harmful to the nerves, drives urine and moderately softens the stomach.
As for wine, in which gypsum is added, it harms the nerves and the bladder, causes headache and any damage. It has a bad effect on people suffering from hemoptysis. As for wine, which contains zift (ozocerite) and pine resin, it warms, digests food, but is not suitable for patients suffering from hemoptysis.
Wine that has ear- moss, immediately has a strongly calming effect; if you soak earwax in wine, it will cause intoxication because of this.
As for the wine with which it is mixed maybih- condensed quince juice, then it is less harmful.
Any wine, when it is pure, not mixed with anything and somewhat astringent, warms, quickly penetrates the body, strengthens the stomach, increases appetite, increases juices, strengthens the body and improves the complexion. If you drink it in sufficient quantity, then it helps the drunk furbiyun.
It also helps from drinking cold deadly substances, such as spotted hemlock, opium, poisonous mushrooms, etc.
Balanced wine helps against the bite of insects that kill with their cold poison; it also helps from burning under the ribs, from relaxation and weakness of the stomach, from moisture flowing into the intestines and into the stomach. It is also useful for those who sweat slowly, especially if it is old and fragrant.
Old sweet wine is useful for diseases of the bladder and kidneys; it also helps against boils and swellings, if a piece of unwashed wool is dipped in it and applied to them.
Wine made from wild black grapes with astringent properties is good for those whose stomach and intestines drain excess and who are subject to other diseases that require binding, accumulation and tearing of fluid matter.
Honey wine with honey water helps with chronic fever, softens the stomach, drives urine, is also useful for the stomach and for those who suffer from pain in the joints and in the kidneys, as well as for those who have a weak head. It also helps with dropsy that occurs in women. It nourishes, stimulates the appetite and is very useful for the elderly and in adolescence.
Description of honey wine. They take astringent grape juice in the amount of five bodies (one body 1530 g), add to it one jug of honey - 3 kg and salt in the amount of one kiaf (horst). All this is poured into a spacious vessel, in which there would be room for excitement and fermentation. Salt is added little by little when fermentation stops, wine is poured into hababits (special three-liter jugs for wine) or into earthenware jugs of this kind and stored in a dry and dark place.
Another prescription for honey wine. The best of honey wines is that which is made from old, strong and astringent wine and good honey; it swells less than other types, and descends faster from the stomach. As it ages, it becomes more nutritious; when it is of this kind, it softens the nature and drives out the urine. It is harmful to drink it immediately after meals, as well as on an empty stomach. When drunk, it first dulls the appetite and later excites it.
Description. They take wine in the amount of two jarr (1 jarr is a three-liter jug) and mix with one jarr of honey. Some people brew wine with honey so that it ripens faster, then they clean it. Others boil six cysts (one cyst 850 g) of grape juice, mix honey cysts with it, then leave to cool; it's sweet.
Karamyn water, that is honey water. Her strength is equal to the strength of honey. Honey water may well replace honey wine for medicinal purposes. If it is not boiled, then it is used to treat someone who wants to induce a loosening of the stomach and vomiting. With the help of water with rose oil, one who has drunk any deadly substance is healed, since it causes vomiting.
As for boiled honey water, it is given to drink against the dissolution of strength - immunodeficiency, weakness of the body - after illness, cough and lung tumors.
Honey water, boiled and set aside for long time, some people call idrumali, that is, honey wine. When she is of middle age, neither old nor young, her power to strengthen the body is equal to the power of weak wine. It also helps with tumors and those who have pain in the stomach; for persons suffering from the dissolution of forces, it brings obvious benefits.
Ingredients: Take honey - one part and old rainwater - two parts; they are mixed and exposed to the sun for forty days. Some people take spring water, mix with honey and boil down to two-thirds of the volume, then skim. Others prepare it from comb honey and water and clean it. Mix well with water.
Wine with zift. It warms, promotes digestion, cleanses and relieves pains that occur in the chest, abdomen, liver, spleen and uterus in the absence of fever. It also helps against chronic weakness and diarrhoea, ulcers occurring in the viscera, coughs, slow digestion, bloating and asthma.
Cooking: They take fresh zift and freshly squeezed grape juice - sulafat al-asir. In this case, the zift must first be washed with sea or salt water several times until the water poured from the vessel becomes clear. After that, fresh water is poured onto the zift. For every eight kavasus (one kavasus and a half uqiyi) of grape juice, two uqiyi ziftas are added. When the wine has matured and fermentation has stopped, it is poured into another vessel for storage.
Wine with common dubrovnik: It has a warming and dissolving property, it helps with spasms, jaundice, bloating in the uterus, slow digestion and dropsy. The more you stand it, the better it gets.
Wine with thyme: Helps with indigestion, lack of appetite, it is also good for the nerves when their movement is disturbed, helps with pains that occur under the ribs, from "goose skin", which happens in winter. Benefits also from insect poisons, from which the body cools and freezes.
Cooking: Thyme is crushed and sifted, one hundred miskals are taken, tied in a rag and thrown into one jarra (12240 g) of grape juice.
Wine with spices: It helps with pain in the chest, in the sides and in the lungs, from hayer, i.e. chest tightness, from chills and from menstrual disorders. It is useful for those who travel in snow and cold, and who suffer from thick chyme. It refreshes the complexion, induces sleep, soothes pain, eliminates pain in the bladder and kidneys.
Cooking: They take fragrant reed - six mithqals, Ceylon cinnamon - eight miskals, hoof - four miskals, according to another recipe: sumbula - six miskals, aloe tree - seven miskals. All this is crushed, tied in a linen cloth and thrown into a mikyal of grape juice. When the smell medicines turns into juice and fermentation stops, then the syrup is filtered into another vessel.
Wine with high elecampane: Useful for chest and lungs, drives urine.
Preparation: They take a dry root of high elecampane - fifty miskals, tie it in a rag and throw it into six mikyals (one kail 892 g) of grape juice. Strain after three months and consume.
Wine with hoof: It drives urine, and is very helpful for dropsy, jaundice, liver disease, pain in the thigh, lungs, and stomach.
Cooking: They take two bowls of hoof and throw it into twelve kutuli (one kutuli 208.25 g) of grape juice, then do with it as they did in the first case.
Wine with wild - Asian sumbul: It helps with liver diseases, difficult urination, stomach diseases and bloating.
Cooking: Take a fresh sumbul root, grind and sift. From it, eight mithqals are thrown into one cup (1530 g) of grape juice and left for two months. Then filter, clean in a vessel and use.
Wine with wild carrots- duku: It helps with pain in the chest, in the sides and in the uterus, drives menstruation and urine, relieves belching, cures cough and constriction of the intestines.
Preparation: Take sixty mithqals of the root - we have seeds wild carrots, roughly crushed, thrown into one jarra of grape juice and left for the same time as the previous wine was left. Then they taste it, pour it into another vessel and consume it.
Wine with opopanax: Helps with hernia and rupture of the intestines, bruised muscles and shortness of breath, drives urine, dissolves the thick chyme of the spleen; also helps with pain in the intestines, with pain in the joints and with indigestion; excites menstruation, removes the fetus, helps from dropsy - haban and from the bite of bad animals.
Cooking: They take ten miskals of opopanax root - we have white chayira root - a kind of sunbul, and throw into the mikjal of grape juice; left to stand like wine with wild sumbul. Then they try it, put it in another vessel and use it.
Wine with celery: It stimulates the appetite, helps the stomach and those suffering from difficult urination; it dissolves all excess of the body.
Cooking: They take seventy mithqals of freshly extracted and then crushed and sifted celery seeds, tie them in a linen cloth, throw them into one kulla of grape juice and leave to stand like the previous wine. Then they put it in a vessel and use it.
Wine with a wolf's bark: It benefits those who have dropsy and pain in the liver. It also helps those women who vomit during labor pains.
Cooking: They take this plant when it appears, andcut off the branches together with the leaves, dry, grind - twelve mithqals, throw into the mikial of grape juice and leave to stand for two months. Then filter, clean in a vessel and use.
Wine with bindweed: It heals stomach ache by side, removes bile as well as mucus.
Cooking: They take fifteen mithqals of the root of the arrow-leaved bindweed, - we collect milky juice uprooted in the days of the wheat harvest and late before winter, rubbed, tied in a linen rag and thrown into ninety bowls - kasa grape juice. All this is left to stand until the eighth day, then removed and consumed. It replaces scammonium even works better than him.
wine (lat. Vinum) - this is alcoholic drink, created as a result natural fermentation grapes or any other fruit juice. The strength of the drink after fermentation is 9-16 vol.
In the manufacture of fortified wines, high strength is achieved by diluting the wine with alcohol to the desired percentage.
Wine is the most ancient drink. There are many legends of the first appearance of the drink, which are reflected in the epics of Ancient Greek, Ancient Roman and Persian mythology. Many scientists believe that the emergence and development of winemaking is inextricably linked with the formation and development of human society.
The oldest wine that has survived to this day in the form of fossilized remains dates back to 5400-5000 years. BC. It was found on the modern territory of the Caucasus.
The production technology of the drink has undergone changes all the time. This happened until the main stages were clearly delineated. The production process of white and red wine has its own differences.
So red wine is made from red grapes. Ripened grapes are harvested and passed through a crusher, in which special combs separate the berries and twigs unsuitable for processing. During this operation, the bones must remain intact, otherwise the wine will be too tart. Then the crushed grapes, along with yeast, are placed in special vats, where the fermentation process begins. After 2-3 weeks, the intensity of fermentation decreases, and saturation with alcohols reaches a maximum. In case of an insufficient amount of natural sugar in the grapes, pure sugar can be added to the must. At the end of fermentation, the wine is drained, the pomace is pressed and filtered.
Young wine can be immediately bottled, resulting in fairly cheap wine brands. For more expensive brands, exposure to oak barrels in the cellars for at least 1-2 years. During this period, the wine evaporates and sediment settles to the bottom. To achieve best quality, wine in barrels is constantly topped up and poured into fresh barrels to clean the sediment. Aged wine is subjected to final filtration and bottling.
For the production of white wine, the grapes are peeled before the fermentation process, and only strained wine without pressing is used for infusion. The aging process of white wine does not exceed 1.5 years.
Depending on the sugar content in the wine and its strength, the wines are divided into table, fortified, flavored and sparkling.
Wines are produced all over the world, but the top five wine sales leaders include France, Italy, Spain, the USA, and Argentina.
Each type of wine is served at the table at a certain temperature and with certain dishes.
Useful properties of wine
Many doctors believe that daily consumption of small quantities wine, very good for the health of the whole organism (no more than one glass a day). It contains a large number of enzymes, acids (malic, tartaric), vitamins (B1, B2,,), trace elements (calcium, sodium, potassium, phosphorus, magnesium) and other biologically active substances.
So red wine is very rich in the antioxidant resveratrol. According to its properties, it is 10-20 times stronger than vitamin E. Wine also contains iron and substances that promote its better absorption, which increases the level of hemoglobin. The beneficial effect on the red bone marrow promotes the production of red blood cells (erythrocytes).
The use of wine enhances digestion, appetite and the secretion of the salivary glands. It has antiseptic and antibacterial properties, suppressing the pathogens of cholera, malaria and tuberculosis. The use of red wine is prescribed for peptic ulcers. The presence of tannins in it contributes to the rapid healing of ulcers.
Both white and red wine lowers blood cholesterol levels, normalizes metabolism, and helps to eliminate toxins. They also normalize the level of salt, so it is recommended to drink wine to reduce the deposition of salts in the joints.
Wine has always been and is an integral part of culture and life. But not everyone knows the extraordinary properties of wine, varietal characteristics and the place of each type of wine among the variety of drinks and dishes. opposition grape wine other alcoholic beverages as a drink that displaces toxic products from the human body, definitely indicates its positive role.
Wine, unlike many other spirits, is not a product of distillation. True connoisseurs of wine believe that real wine lives its own life, like a real living organism. The birth of wine is facilitated by fermentation - a process caused by yeast that can decompose sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide with the release of heat. It is alcoholic fermentation that is the basis for making wine, in particular red, and contains a number of biologically active substances necessary for the human body. In this sense, red grape wine has no analogues in its properties.
Louis Pasteur once remarked that "wine may rightfully be regarded as the healthiest hygienic drink."
One of the most important properties red wine, which few people know about, is that it is a carrier of potential energy, which is almost completely used by the body. So, a liter of dry red wine contains about 600-700 calories, which give the body the necessary energy boost, which immediately feels a surge of vivacity and an uplift in mood.
Therefore, if possible, drink some good red wine at breakfast every day, the use of which will give you a boost of cheerful mood for the whole day. But remember that dessert sweet wines with a high sugar content are considered more high-calorie.
Wine has many valuable properties due to its composition. Thus, the components of wine, composed of the main organogens - hydrogen, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen - are nutritious, as they take part in plastic processes and in metabolism. Although the content of nitrogenous substances in wine is low, amino acids are very valuable, of which up to 19 were found in red wine.
Contained in this amazing product amino acids are important regulators and catalysts of the body's metabolism. Several essential amino acids present in red wine serve as the multidimensional units from which all proteins are built. The order in which amino acids are included in them is determined by the genetic code. Some are part of enzymes and hormones (iodine in the composition of thyroxine). Most microorganisms and plants synthesize the amino acids they need for life, the body of animals and humans is not able to form the so-called essential amino acids obtained from food. Therefore, the use of red wine, which contains 19 of the 20 necessary for normal functioning body of amino acids, is extremely beneficial.
Together with red wine, the most important elements for it - potassium and phosphorus - enter the body. Phosphorus is partly contained in organic form. The insignificant content of chlorine and chlorides makes the wine useful in the hypochlorite mode. AT modern conditions Of great importance is the fact that the consumption of wine does not accumulate free cholesterol, the accumulation of which in the body leads to the development of atherosclerosis.
Atherosclerosis is a disease that occurs mainly in the elderly. This is a chronic cardiovascular disease, which is characterized by a deterioration in the blood supply to all organs. Heredity, excessive consumption of animal fat, low physical activity, psycho-emotional stress, and smoking are of some importance. With atherosclerosis of the venous arteries of the heart, angina pectoris, myocardial infarction, cardiosclerosis are possible; with atherosclerosis of cerebral vessels, a stroke and even mental disorders are possible. In order to prevent all this from happening, you need to use a proven and, importantly, nice way- drinking a small amount of red wine with daily food.
An excessively high level of cholesterol in the blood leads to an increase in its viscosity, in connection with which the speed of blood movement through small vessels decreases. This in turn causes insufficient blood supply to the inner ear. Some scientists are of the opinion that this fact may be the cause of hearing loss in humans. To prevent a sharp hearing loss, you can, and in some cases even need to, drink red wine.
As already mentioned, in addition to natural fruit sugar, which is an optimal energy supplier, red wine contains minerals and vitamins that are so necessary for the body. For each person, it is necessary to know the brief characteristics of some of the main substances contained in grapes, and hence in wine. This is necessary in order to appreciate the beneficial healing properties of red wine and use it in certain cases.
So, calcium contained in red wine is considered a good building material for bone tissue, it is recommended to use it in sufficient quantities for muscle spasms and convulsions; zinc and vitamin C increase immunity; magnesium and vitamin B calm the nervous system, improve metabolism, are recommended for disorders of the cardiovascular system, in the absence of appetite; Vitamin A is essential for the health of the skin, eyes, and mucous membranes.
In addition, the high potassium content improves kidney function. Simultaneously salt, uric acid and other residual metabolic products are washed out of the body. Red wine is an excellent, in some cases an indispensable tool for removing excess fluid and toxic substances from the body, so many well-known resorts in the world every autumn - after the harvest - are treated with grapes.
Red wine can also be attributed to the category of products that promote weight loss. Our good advice to you: act like the French and allow yourself to drink a glass of red wine for dinner. This delays the flow of carbohydrates into the blood, the digestion of proteins in the stomach slows down, and the appetite decreases. American scientists came to such conclusions. As a result of their research, they sought to find out why the French, despite their love of tasty, plentiful food, are mostly leaner than Americans. And the reason for harmony, as it turned out, is a glass of wine, most often drunk before dinner.
In addition to the above properties, grape red wine has a bactericidal effect and adversely affects cholera vibrio, typhoid bacilli, Ebert's bacilli, related to them.
In pure table red wine, bacteria die in 20-30 minutes. In wine diluted with water, the period of death harmful organisms somewhat lengthened.
By killing or weakening intestinal bacteria, red wine also helps to speed up the healing of scratches on the mucous membranes (due to the presence of tannins in it), thereby being the best prophylactic against purulent infections.
Naturally, wine itself does not disinfect the intestines, which have an alkaline environment, but only products that enter the body, in particular water, which often does not meet hygienic requirements and standards.
Therefore, the use of red wine instead of drinking water, the quality of which does not quite meet sanitary standards, will be very useful. We advise you to use red wine in any environment where the rules of cleanliness and hygiene raise some doubts.
Medical scientists have long been engaged in the study of the properties of wine in laboratory conditions and scientifically substantiate its effect on the body. The scientific literature describes cases and experiments that testify to the antitoxic properties of red wine. So, according to Professor Krosh, in 1861, an Indian bitten by one of the most poisonous snakes was saved with wine with a strength of 14-16% in the amount of 3 bottles.
Experiments with animals are very indicative for demonstrating the antitoxic properties of wine. It is known that mice were injected lethal doses cobra venom and hemorrhagic viper venom, after which red wine was given. The experimental animals not only lived longer than the control animals that did not receive wine, but were saved in this way.
Red wine has the most beneficial effect on the nervous system. His research in this area was carried out by the professor of physiology of the Yerevan Zootechnical Veterinary Institute S. A. Shcherbakov. The results obtained during the work turned out to be quite interesting and exceeded even the wildest expectations. It turns out that wine stimulates the activity of both salivary and gastric glands, promotes the production of hydrochloric acid in the stomach and the amylolytic function of saliva.
Wine acts as a sympathetic-tonic agent on the autonomic nervous system.
Conducting experiments with grape wine, Professor Shcherbakov concluded that in the process of excitation of the cerebral cortex, general excitation increases, which affects the increased function of the kidneys. Especially in this sense positive traits shows red grape wine.
In moderate doses, red grape wine has a positive effect on the entire body. The abuse of other alcoholic beverages and even beer has more severe consequences than the effect of red wine, which is consumed in excess.
It must be remembered that fruit and berry wines, such as currant or wild rose, are richer in vitamins than grape wine. They contain especially a lot of vitamin C, which, as mentioned above, improves immunity and strengthens the body. Vitamin C is especially useful for those people whose body is exposed to the harmful effects of the environment. This vitamin acts as an antioxidant, it promotes the formation of new collagen fibers and prevents the occurrence of various inflammations (the formation of new collagen fibers is of great importance, since these are fibers of the extracellular substance of the connective tissue of animals and humans; these are strong and low-elastic fibers that perform a very important mechanical function) .
The use and consumption of red wine as a good healing agent has been known for a very long time. Knowing and studying the medicinal properties of this drink, you can even refuse to use some chemicals. But wine has a positive effect and a beneficial effect on the entire body, if you take into account the correct norms for its use (mostly red wine is consumed warm or even hot). For each person, the required amount of this drink is individual, but in general the daily allowance should not exceed 25-50 ml.
From the point of view of prevention, the prevention of gastrointestinal infections with the help of red wine is especially important. Due to its bactericidal and antitoxic properties, as mentioned above, as well as its effect on malarial plasmodia, red wine is considered unique. remedy. According to the testimony of a 95-year-old veteran, paramedic L. I. Kristsyak, who lived for 15 years in one locality in Armenia, where malaria raged for many years, he was never exposed to this serious disease due to the fact that he replaced ordinary drinking water for his own use with red wine.
Even such a common disease as exacerbation of appendicitis can be prevented by including red wine in your daily diet. Among other things, there are statistical data in the scientific literature on lower mortality from tuberculosis in wine-growing regions and on outbreaks of tuberculosis when wine production is reduced.
If a person suddenly has signs of an adynamic state, accompanied by a violation of coordination and movement, numbness of parts of the body, red wine will help improve his condition.
The benefits of red wine in influenza-bronchial and pulmonary diseases can hardly be overestimated. If you breathe over red hot wine for 5-7 minutes, the characteristic unpleasant signs of such diseases (runny nose, cough) can disappear without a trace. A good remedy in the treatment of colds, especially bronchitis and flu, is a kind of cocktail made from red wine and mustard. And the use of fruit and berry or grape wine during meals contributes to the death of pathogenic bacteria, after which conventional medical means will be able to cope with any disease.
If you add black pepper to red wine, you will get a great healing drink that can bring a cold person to his feet. Such a drink is especially effective in the treatment of angina. In order for this natural medicine to work faster, it is necessary to wrap up the patient immediately after taking it (all the ailment will come out with sweat). Do not be afraid of those unpleasant sensations that you will feel in your throat. However, the next morning you will wake up healthy and strong, and you will remember the sore throat and fever as a nightmare.
A therapeutic cocktail using dry red wine has a very beneficial effect on the body's resistance to pathogens. various diseases. Dry red wine, mixed with aloe juice and honey, protects against colds, increases the body's resistance to infectious diseases. The juice is squeezed from the lower leaves of the plant, which are cut, washed cold water, cut into pieces and squeezed through cheesecloth. Then honey and wine are added. This mixture must be infused for 5-6 days. Take the resulting product before meals, 1 teaspoon.
Drinking red wine in small amounts also helps with dullness of attention or partial loss of memory, and calms the nerves.
Wine is also recommended for patients with tuberculosis. In this case, wine is more effective than alcohol, due to the content of many useful components, such as tannins, mineral salts, iron (which is useful for anemia, weakening of the body, improves blood composition, metabolism), manganese, potassium (improves bone tissue composition). ), calcium, phosphorus and trace elements, glycerin and other biologically active substances.
In the homeland of many elite red wines, in Burgundy, they say that "the milk of old people is wine." This expression did not come about by chance. Red wine is especially effective tool for convalescents who have undergone major operations, especially for the elderly. Wine is recommended in an amount of at least 30 ml per day for anemia, diabetes, scrofula, malaria, overwork, dyspepsia (indigestion, manifested by heartburn, heaviness in the stomach, bloating, cramping pains; observed with gastrointestinal and other diseases, improper feeding child, and so on), cachexia (general depletion of the body with tumors, lesions of the pituitary gland (pituitary cachexia), etc.) and other diseases.
In everyday life, we often encounter such minor troubles as cuts. For cuts, it is also very useful to use red wine to treat wounds. As you know, it contains substances that prevent the penetration of infection into the human body, and if this does happen, help to neutralize them. As a prophylactic procedure, it is recommended to apply a cotton pad soaked in wine to the place where irritation has occurred or slight itching has appeared.
Red wine is especially effective in surgical shock, fainting, asphyxia. It provides invaluable assistance in anesthesia, often replacing strong medications.
Everyone knows that wine warms in the truest sense of the word. We recommend that you make your own drink from red wine - mulled wine, one sip of which warms you up perfectly and is an excellent remedy for gastrointestinal diseases. The recipe for its preparation, as you know, was discovered in Burgundy. "In Burgundy" to prepare this drink is easy.
For two bottles of red wine, one bottle of water is taken. Water in any case must be filtered. AT warm water for a short time insist (to avoid bitterness) 30 g of coarsely ground cinnamon (in a bag of rare fabric). If the wine is taken not sweet, but dry or semi-dry, about 40 pieces of refined sugar are added to it. A mixture of wine and water is brought to a boil, then a little cloves, cinnamon, cardamom and slices of lemon without skin are added. You can add a tablespoon of cognac.
Mulled wine should not be boiled for a long time, it is only necessary to keep it hot. This drink, prepared at home, is generally better to use immediately after you have prepared it, since in this case its taste qualities are better preserved and, most importantly, beneficial features.
Naturally, it is not recommended to use wine for everyone without exception: it is contraindicated in certain diseases. Often, in order to use red wine for medical purposes, you need a doctor's prescription (but this is only if you decide to organize a serious course of treatment, which will be based on red wine).
If you use red wine in small quantities, it will only benefit. Moreover, without expecting it yourself, you can feel a surge of vivacity and an improvement in your physical condition in general.
As unbelievable as it sounds, red wine has saved lives many times, not just improved health. There are many such facts in history.
Perhaps the most striking confirmation of our words will be the story of the physicists Marie and Pierre Curie, who made a stunning discovery of the radioactive element polonium and radium in 1898, investigated piezoelectricity and radioactive radiation that is very dangerous to health. It is clear that under other circumstances, a portion of radiation, which became an integral part of their scientific work, could be fatal to their lives. And the circumstances were that these scientists were French and their daily habits saved their lives.
The French are not indifferent to red wine, and the Curies for many years drank a glass of wine for breakfast. It turns out that red wine, in addition to all its inherent beneficial properties, many of which were already known at that time, has a unique ability to prevent the accumulation of radioactivity in the body.
The historical fact once again proves that red wine is a unique means of combating external adverse environmental conditions, allows the body to mobilize all the protective properties and to some extent prevents the occurrence of various diseases.
But not all wine can be beneficial. Useful properties of red wine are determined by its composition. The features of this amazing drink are that it requires exceptional care in storage, how to use it, and, most importantly, in creation. All this requires a special mood, because the cooking process good wine- real creativity, in which you need to invest a piece of your soul. And only truly high-quality wine can benefit your health.
Throughout its life, the wine requires careful care. In order for it to retain its healing properties, it is recommended to store it in accordance with special rules. So, the angle of inclination of a bottle of red wine from a horizontal surface should not exceed 13 5o 0. And in the Caucasus they say that when serving red wine, you can’t even wash the dust from the dishes in which this amazing drink was stored.
Proper storage of red wine allows people for many centuries not only to enjoy its taste and aroma, but also to derive undoubted benefits from its use. In the past few decades, scientists have taken up this issue separately. The study of the influence of wine on individual systems of the human body led to the following conclusions.
Wine activates the vagosympathetic system and enhances the secretion of the endocrine glands; enhances salivation and secretion of ptyalin (saliva amylase); promotes better separation of gastric juice and digestion of proteins; favors the secretion of bile in the liver; has a diuretic effect on the kidneys (that is, the use of red wine contributes to the increased work of the kidneys and the removal of excess water and sodium chloride from the body); promotes ventilation of the lungs, affecting the cardiovascular system, dilates blood vessels; reveals alkalizing properties in the blood, acting against acidosis (acidosis is a shift in the acid-base balance in the body towards a relative increase in the number of anions).
Thus, the moderation and timeliness of the use of red wine will not only allow you to enjoy it unsurpassed taste but also help in the treatment of many ailments. Moreover, this drink is very different from conventional antibiotics that poison the human body. Unlike their not always positive effect, red wine can bring real benefits to your body.
