The apple is in itself a compendium of medicinal virtues, known from very old. They emphasize among them the digestive ones, who the medical school of Salerno, in centuries X to the XIII in Italy, described with the following aphorism, according to Messegué appointment: Post pirum gives potum, post pomum vade cacatum, (After the pear, pipí; after the apple, poop).
Habitat: original of western Asia and widely distributed everywhere, as much cultivated as wild. It prefers cold climates and the continental and northern regions.
Description: tree of the family of the Rosaceous ones of average stature, with white flowers and fleshy fruits, which they are known more than thousand varieties.
Used parts: the fruits, the crust, and the flowers.
Properties and indications: the apple contains from 12% to glúcidos 15% of (right-twist, levulosa and saccharose); less of 0.5% of prótidos lipids and; minerals (potassium, calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, iron and very little sodium); vitamins To, B1, B2, C and niacina; acids málico, citric and salicílico; tannin, of action astringent; pectina, hydrocarbon substance of absorbent and antidiarreica action; and great amount of enzymes. The apples have the following properties:
Antidiarreica: they have the virtue to absorb the bacterial toxins that take place in the intestine, in addition to desinflamar and curing its mucosa. The apples are useful in all type of diarreas, or are slight or complicated with colitis or disentería (lee emission with snot and blood). They give good results in the enterocolitis produced by foods in badly been (nourishing toxiinfecciones), produced frequently by the Salmonella microorganism. They are very recommendable in the infantile gastroenteritis
Laxative: peculiarly, the apple has a regulating effect on the flora and the intestinal peristaltismo, that grants contradictory properties apparently to him (antidiarreica and laxative): Seizure in the morning in uninformed, gives good results in the chronic or habitual constipation.
þ purifying Diurética and: by their capacity of absorption of intestinal toxins, the apples give good results in eccemas chronic of the skin, that sometimes must to an autointoxication of the organism. In addition, they facilitate the elimination of úrico acid, urea and other remainders of the metabolism, reason why they agree to the arthritics, rheumatics, gotosos, and to those who suffer of urinary calculations. By his under sodium content (salt), the apples are recommended in the diet of the hypertense ones, along with the rice, with which very good results in the reduction of the arterial pressure and in the reduction of edemas by retention of liquids are obtained.
Hipolipemiante: the pectina of the apple absorbs the biliary salts in the intestine, with which one of the raw materials diminishes from which the organism produces the cholesterol. In order to obtain results it is necessary to take during long periods (more than three months), of two or three daily apples; besides to follow other dietetic measures against the excess of cholesterol.
þ Tonificante and equibradora of the nervous system: perhaps due to its phosphorus content. He is very recommendable in case of excitation, nervousness, stress and mental fatigue. The effect is smooth and slow, but surely.
The apple is an ideal food-medicine in all the chronic diseases like: digestive and respiratory affections, renales arteriosclerosis, arthritism, hepatopatías (affections of the liver), affections, obesity, cardiopathies (affections of the heart), hypertension. Very recommendable to delay the aging process. The crust of the apple tree is tonificante, febrífuga and astringent. It has been used in substitution of the quinine. At the moment one is used in infectious diseases like febrífugo and tonificante, as well as in the phase of convalecencia. The leaves and the flowers of the apple tree are very diuréticas and they are recommended in case of renales calculations or river sands, nefritis (inflammation of the kidneys) and of arterial hypertension.
Use: crude (ralladas), roasted or boiled apples, of means to a kilo to the day; it always agrees to pelar them, unless they come from biological culture, and therefore have not been dealt with insecticides or other chemical agents. Juice: a daily glass of juice or apple juice in the breakfast, assures a good physical form; It is possible to be mixed with carrot or lemon juice to obtain better revitalizantes results. Decocción of 2 divided apples puttings to boil in a liter of water, during half an hour; the resulting liquid, sweetened if it is desired, is recommended specially for the patients very debilitated, before initiating the solid diet. Decocción of crust: it is prepared with 50-100 grams of crust of the tree by liter of water; they are taken from 3 to 5 daily cups like tonificante, febrífugo and astringent. Decocción of leaves and flowers: it is made with 50 grams by liter of water; 4 or 5 daily cups like diurético are taken.
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