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Peach
Fresh peaches contain 85 – 89 % water. Fruits contain only 0.7% proteins, 10% carbon hydrates, salts, and minerals like: calcium, iron, and vitamins A, B1, B2 and C.
Therapeutic recommendations:
For intern use:
Because they are easily digestible, peaches facilitate the digestion, being recommended for the older people.
Stimulating the digestive glands, peaches have a small laxative effect, and a more powerful diuretic effect, being recommended for persons who suffer from rheumatism and gout.
Cosmetics:- peaches can be used for skin purifying.
Treatment recommendations:
- The fruit as a hole, juice and other mixes.
- Cosmetic mask with crushed fruits.
Notes:Leaves and flowers have a higher medicinal importance. They both has a light laxative effect, being very well tolerated by children.
Peach flowers have sedative proprieties, being very useful for restless children. Also for children, it is recommended the use of syrup made from leaves and flowers boiled in water with sugar and honey.
 
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