The apple

  The apple

The apple is the only fruit with a noble legend and a sacred past. But this myth and this past have a strange smell, which is the smell of sin.

In the Olympian mountain, the apple was the cause of all disagreements between the gods, for it was also the reason for the expulsion of the first human from eternal paradise. The front of the neck, now known as the "Adam's apple".

Isn't it strange that a woman should sin and that retribution is inflicted on a man? But that time - the age of myths - is over and over, and in our atomic age, we see in the apple only a symbol of human wisdom and knowledge.

Whether these myths are real or illusory, they have taught us two things: the first is that the apple was known to people before the Torah Age and that - secondly - it has always been in the eyes of man the excellent one. fruit, as it is to man a delicious taste, food and medicine.

Dr "Claire," says he is from "Trebizond" and then moved to Egypt, so Ramses II planted it in his gardens, and from these gardens, the apple tree moved to Greece and from there it grew. moved to Europe and the White Sea basin, then worldwide.

Regardless of the material of this fruit and its origin, there is a complete consensus among physicians and non-physicians, that it comes to the forefront of both nutritious and healing fruits, and even it has been said in proverbs: that an apple

Whatever a person eats on an empty stomach does not leave the doctor a way to achieve it.

Among the characteristics of apples that you should always trust is that their trees, which belong to the rose family, are grown in most areas, whether temperate or cold. We see them in most of the countries of the White Sea basin, as we see them in some Scandinavian countries, as we see them in parts of Siberia.

Cold. Not only that, but apples are hardly absent from the reach of people in summer and winter, although they ripen in summer, and advancements in modern cooling methods have had a great benefit in retaining its freshness and flavour. throughout the year.

And apples come in many kinds of different colours, sizes and shapes. Experiments are still being carried out to improve its production and permanently vaccinate it with the best quality species, and this number continues to increase.

Pleasure:

The pleasure that the apple offers to the human being is in three respects: the pleasure of the sight, the pleasure of the touch, the pleasure of the taste, and the apple is always closed with a pleasant coloured peel, in which the magnificent colours come together. mix in a wonderful, varied, laughing or shining and luminous like the sun itself.

The skin of the apple is satiny, without grooves or fluff, to benefit from its softness to the touch.

 The apple is solid without cruelty, and its juice is sweet with a slight acidity.

The big apple is truly unique and very delicious, and it does not consist of just one flavour, nor two, but rather of different mixtures, and it contains types that science has not yet discovered with complete precision (he seems that the apple has 26 different chemical elements, and these elements are what gives the apple its scent. Al-Mortar). The harmonious blend of these scents is what gives the apple a scent unmatched in its qualities and its perfume.

Food:

But this fruit is not just a person's pleasure. Its sugar, vitamins, salts and the water it contains make it a food of choice, but it lacks proteins and lipids (alkaloid and semi-fatty acids).

Apple juice contains 10% sugar, 9% of which is a simple sugar, and it is found in the form of “dextrose” and fructose, and these two components are the simplest types of sugar. Thus, we see that the body does not require very little digestive effort to absorb semi-sugars (and we must not forget that the muscles consume glucose without either one or the other) and therefore the apple, or its juice, was food that stimulates activity and helps muscle work.

In addition to simple sugar, the apple contains richness in vitamin (C), which is an anti-digging disease, which has a decisive effect on the general state of nutrition and on the mucous membranes of the digestive system, and it also contains a large amount of vitamin (B), which is very useful for the functioning of the nervous system, which allows full use. For the sugars in apples. For these reasons, we find that apple juice and the juice of certain other fruits have taken its place in America and Switzerland as a “drink for work”. This gesture contains important social cues, as it is an attempt to get rid of alcoholic beverages (like wine and beer) and use it with a non-alcoholic drink like fruit juice. And apples in particular, and it is clear that this drink is more beneficial for the health of workers and more effective in increasing their yields.

In fact, alcohol is a poor food that only gives the body heat, which the muscles do not know what to do with. Certainly, alcoholic drinks, whatever they are, are part of the reasons for the weakening of a person's professional activity. It creates a feeling of great strength, but this unpleasant feeling is the second which results in fatigue and physical decline. It has been observed that the work efficiency is reduced since the work is delicate and complex and requires the intervention of the nervous system. It has also been observed that what decreases is not the amount of labour compensation

It is also the quality.

 From Holstein's experiments, we find that the average material yield for work is 15% lower than it was before consuming an alcoholic drink, while we find that 100 grams of sugar lead to an increase in yield equivalent to about 15%, and if this sugar is consumed in the form of fruit sugar, the yield also increases further. . And the additional output that occurs afterwards is greater than expected in relation to the number of calories gained by the body.

 Replacing alcoholic beverages with fruit juices means, for workers, increasing their output and improving their health, as their economic conditions improve and the death rate among them decreases.

From this, we understand the medical, health and social importance of fruit juices, especially apples and grapes.

The nutritional value of the apple does not lie only in the qualities of its sugar and its richness in vitamins dissolved in water, but also in its hundred, because each well-ripened apple contains 84 to 85% of its weight in water, this which makes this fruit one of the best anti-dehydrating agents.

Indeed, the body's need for hydration is not expressed only by the thirst felt by a living creature, but by the body's need to defend itself against poisoning caused by waste and residues which are expelled by water. through the kidneys, intestine and skin.

This need for thirst emerges in the thirst of the cells, which aims to weaken the concentration of cellular content.

While the body's need for hydration may lead to drinking river or spring water, thirsty cells cannot because cell exchange requires other water.

Of the internal origin and on the respiratory plane, more than food, which life has repeated once before, water is more of a food than a drink, a kind of cell serum or protoplasmic sap, which we call l metabolic water.

This water is exactly what the apple offers so generously to imbue our cells, and to bring our bodies mental and physical health!

Medication

The apple helps digestion with the abundance of saliva that stimulates its secretion. If chewed well, it resists gas and constipation thanks to the large quantities of pectin it contains, while tannins and potash salts resist the formation of uric acid. In such a case, they describe boiled apples, which are prepared with two or three apples after cutting them into round pieces and without peeling them, and the boiling should last for 15 minutes. Do not peel the apples because the peel has great therapeutic benefits. It fights gout, chronic rheumatism, kidney and gallstones.

Dried apple peel and powder boil at the rate of a tablespoon in a cup of water, to make it a drink with many benefits: a generative and a state of sand. Apple is moisturizing and purgative. The apple marinade is very tasty, creamy and very useful in acute and inflammatory diseases, it relieves fever, soaks thirst, reduces pain, and has a beneficial effect on the liver, kidneys and bladder, so that all these organs are easy to work, and it is used a lot against intestinal infections, boiling it for ten minutes With a little liquorice root (liquorice).

 And apples have benefits for the chest, as they calm the cough and facilitate the secretion of sputum (expectorant).

Apple facilitates intestinal contractions thanks to pectin, a colloidal substance with a strong, and sometimes crucial, the effect on diarrhoea.

The therapeutic value of apple juice is very large in febrile diseases and in cases that require surgical intervention, and it is useful before or after surgical intervention, as well as in the case of inflammation

Acute or chronic neuropathy, precipitating and liver disease.

And apple juice, like grape juice, has - in the words of "Lavillie" - great benefits in the maintenance of blood vessels, it reduces the speed of deterioration while increasing the activity of the heart.

And apples are used today against caries, a disease of the most civilized people, which seems to be caused by sugar that ferments under the influence of some germs that usually nest in the oral cavity, resulting in this fermentation of lactic acid and yeast acid.

 And not all types of sugar are harmful by one, and it has been possible to set a scale for the percentage that causes various sugary substances to decay, and it becomes clear from this scale that the most harmful fruits for teeth are figs, and the least is apples.

And apples, with their healing virtues, are at the fore in childhood diseases, especially those affecting the digestive system. The mechanical action of cellulose plays an important role here, as well as the individual character of pectin, its anti-toxicity, and apple acid and its anti-inflammatory effect if it modifies the germ level in the intestine, and tannins have the ability to handle.

Thus, we find that the healing activities in apples are: cellulose, pectin, apple acid and tannins, and among these four activities we find that the most important of them is undoubtedly the apple acid, which, if burned in the body, liberates the basis. The balance between the base and the acids has the greatest benefit to our health, and apples contribute to a great extent in achieving this balance. It greatly avoids acid propagation or alkali proliferation, the two conditions are equally dangerous. We should not forget that as soon as we are over forty years old, acidification begins to attack our bodies, pushing them to prematurely ageing. And our way to resist this stubborn enemy is to eat more fruits, especially apples.

 In our opinion, it is necessary to eat three apples a day to be able to overcome the increase in acid in the body after forty.

 There is another acidosis, but it is seasonal, and apples can neutralize its effect, and this acidosis is winter acidosis, or alto coxicose, "winter poisoning" and is primarily caused by a lot of eating meat, grease, nuts (walnuts, almonds, chestnuts), dry fruits, grains, and concentrated foods, those foods that Winter forces imposed it on us, and this multiplication of food encourages an increase in the acid content in our body.

The food is not the only one responsible for that if the lack of our use of our muscles are not shared with it so that the lack of oxygen supply to the body and thus an increase in the toxic substances that the slow recognition does not reach the body rid of them. This is what causes slackness or sudden fatigue that we feel at the beginning of spring after That we have passed the winter season under the aforementioned circumstances, and this is also the reason that explains the phenomenon confirmed by the statistics, which is the high death rate in early spring.

And this is evident in all peoples whose countries have successive seasons.

So let us make the most of this wonderful fruit that nature left for us after taking all the summer and autumn fruits.

Apples contain the following amounts of elements and materials: 64% water, 12% sugar, 9% cellulose, 8% acidity, 4% pectin, 3% fatty substances, 1% protein.

A hundred grams of apples contain 90 units of vitamin A, 40 units of vitamin B1, 20 units of vitamin B2, and 20 units of vitamin C.

Thanks to these materials and elements, apples had these broad beneficial effects, as it dissolves urine acid, facilitates salivary and gastric secretions, and has an important role in treating diseases of the liver, intestine, urinary tract and bronchi. It is also considered one of the best fruits in treating diets, especially typhoid, as well as in treating diarrhoea and dysentery.

The ancients knew in apples its healing properties, so they used it in their medicines and treatments, especially in cases of wounds and ulcers, so those medieval scholars derived the name (pommade) from (pomme apple) trusting them in the effect that apples have in treatment. They used to treat eye pain in the form of stomach compresses from apple powder with a woman's milk applied to the eye afflicted with conjunctivitis. They used its powdered, uncooked juice in the treatment of epilepsy.

It is worth noting that Arab doctors discovered treatment with mould, and it is worth noting that Arab doctors discovered treatment with mould extracted from apples at least a thousand years before penicillin was discovered - and penicillin is known to be extracted from mould - as many ancient Arab medical books contain prescriptions for treatment with old apples (Al-Moasqil) in cases of fetid wounds and gangrene.

At the present time, we find that medicine has not detracted from the value of apples, after discovering its properties in treating the conditions and diseases that we have referred to, as well as in facilitating digestion, because of its desirable acidity that stimulates the secretion of the salivary and intestinal glands.

 And because apples contain "cellulose" fibres, it helps the intestine in its circular movement, prevents constipation, and eliminates chronic seizures.

And it is not true - at all - that what some pedantic people claim that apples are heavy to digest are difficult on the stomach or that they provoke heartburn if their membranes are inflamed because good chewing is sufficient to clear all the caveats, and giving the body the opportunity to benefit from this valuable fruit is the most beneficial.

Studies and observations have proven that the areas where apple cultivation is abundant, its people have escaped from infection with kidney or urinary stones, such as the province of "Normandy" in France, and the state of "California" in America, due to the property of apples as a solvent for gravel and a barrier to the formation of sand.

A prescription for an apple cure for rheumatism.

Three apples are cut into small pieces, without peeling, then they are boiled in a litre of water for a quarter of an hour, then they are taken boiled between meals or with them.

 A prescription for an apple cure for dysuria. Boil a few apples in a little water, and drink boiled.

A prescription for an apple cure for children's diarrhoea.

The apples are peeled and then grated until they become small reddish-brown scatterers, then they are cooked with sugar-sweetened water and given to the child with diarrhoea, without giving any other food.