When a person often catches a cold (more than 4-6 times a year), has repeated relapses of chronic diseases, gets tired quickly and, in addition, has poor performance, etc., we are talking about weakened immunity.

The decrease is facilitated by: an unhealthy lifestyle (smoking, drinking alcoholic beverages, lack of sleep, etc.), unhealthy diet, heavy physical and mental stress. The weakening of the immune system is influenced by stress, frequent bacterial and viral infections, as well as a polluted environment. With age, the effects of adverse effects on the immune system accumulate, and it ceases to cope with the function of control and timely destruction of pathologically changed structures and cells.

Proper nutrition, lack of stress and a good mood strengthen the immune system.

Experts believe that even the most basic hygiene rules can protect us from 90% of diseases.

To stay healthy, you need to strengthen your immune system. Each of us is able to do this.

Boost immunity- a set of preventive and therapeutic measures aimed at strengthening the body's defenses and restoring the normal functioning of the immune system.

Nowadays, pharmacies sell many drugs to strengthen the immune system, which can be taken in consultation with your doctor. But no drug helps to increase immunity as much as a healthy and active lifestyle. And this is regular sports, and being in the fresh air, and hardening the body, and proper nutrition.

Along with this, you can also use methods to increase immunity. It is about them, these methods that will be discussed today. But before using them, you need to consult a doctor, since some prescriptions have certain contraindications.

Folk remedies to strengthen immunity

Vitamin drinks

To maintain the body's immune system, it is useful to drink vitamin teas, cocktails, decoctions.

Rosehip decoction

1 tbsp. pour a spoonful of dry crushed rose hips with ½ cup of boiled water and boil over low heat under a lid for 10 minutes, then leave in a warm place for 2 hours. Drink ½ cup 3 times a day. The broth is useful to drink during a flu epidemic and during colds.

Rosehip tea

You will need a decoction of rose hips and hot tea in equal parts, sugar and honey to taste. A decoction of rose hips, boiled for 3-4 minutes, strain and mix with hot tea. Add sugar and honey. Serve warm or cold.

Vitamin tea

Take 1 part of chopped dry leaves of hawthorn, St. John's wort and strawberries. Pour 1 teaspoon of the dry mixture with a glass of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes. Drink during the day like regular black tea.

Blood purifying tea

Strawberry leaves, succession grass, chamomile flowers are taken in equal parts. For 1 glass of boiling water - 1 tbsp. collection spoon. Drink constantly instead of tea.

Raspberry juice

1 tbsp. pour a spoonful of dry raspberries with a glass of boiling water and boil for 10 minutes, leave for 2 hours, strain and drink 1 glass 2 times a day. Fruit drink is also useful for the prevention and treatment of flu and colds.

Spruce pine needles vitamin drink

2 tbsp. Rinse spoons in cold water, put in a bowl, pour a glass of boiling water, close the lid and boil for 20 minutes, leave for 30 minutes, drain. Season with sugar, honey or cabbage pickle before use. Drink 1 glass a day in 2-3 doses. This drink is also recommended for the prevention of scurvy.

Garlic milk

Pour 10 drops of garlic juice into a glass of warm milk and drink before bed.

Nut milk

Lightly fry 100 g of nuts (hazelnuts), grind into powder and, together with a pinch of vanillin, pour 0.5 liters of fresh goat's milk. Add 2 tbsp. tablespoons of sugar or honey, leave for 15 minutes, stirring the mixture from time to time. Drink during the day in small sips. This is a very good general tonic.

Rowan infusion

2 tbsp. tablespoons of dried rowan berries pour 2 cups of boiling water, leave for 20 minutes, drain. Drink ½ cup 3-4 times daily before meals. It is better to take the infusion with honey, which enhances the healing properties of mountain ash.

Walnut leaf infusion

2 tbsp. tablespoons of walnut leaves pour 0.5 liters of boiling water, leave in a thermos overnight and drink ¼ glass a day.

Infusion of pomegranate peel

Pomegranate infusion is considered a general tonic that can quickly increase immunity.

Pour 2 teaspoons of chopped peel with 1 glass of hot water and boil in a water bath for 30 minutes, leave to drain. Top up with boiled water to the original volume. Drink ¼ glass 3 times daily before meals.

Vitamin compote

Take 5 tbsp. tablespoons of herbs (lemon balm, mint, chestnut flowers, ivan tea - everything can be bought at the pharmacy), brew 1 liter of boiling water, leave for 2 hours. Cook cranberries and other frozen berries (black currants, strawberries, cherries, viburnum) in 2 liters of water for 10 minutes. Add the strained broth to the compote and bring to a boil. For taste, you can add a couple of tablespoons of honey. Drink at least 0.5 liters of compote during the day.

Herbal tea to strengthen the immune system

The marsh cinnamon herb is mixed in equal parts with lemon balm, valerian root, hop cones, linden flowers, oregano herb, motherwort and coriander seed. Brew the collection in a pre-scalded teapot at the rate of 1 tbsp. spoon (top) collection for 0.5 liters of boiling water. The kettle should be wrapped up and allowed to stand for at least 1.5-2 hours, or better all night. You need to drink this portion a day in 2-3 doses at will.
In addition to strengthening the immune system, this collection relieves arrhythmia, heart palpitations and is useful for a number of neuroses of the heart and vascular system. If you increase the percentage of dried cinnamon in it, then it will also become a good remedy for the treatment of gastritis and pancreatitis.

Vitamin cocktail

Mix 1 teaspoon of rosehip syrup, 2 tbsp each. a spoonful of beetroot juice and kefir. Squeeze the juice of ½ lemon into the mixture. Take 1 time a day for 1/3 cup (if there are no contraindications from the gastrointestinal tract). This cocktail is also effective against the flu.

Beat in a mixer 50 g of celery juice, 100 ml of milk, 1 egg yolk and juice of 1 lemon.

Squeeze the juice from 3 carrots, add 50 ml of cream and 1-2 tbsp. tablespoons of sea buckthorn juice with pulp.

Oatmeal jelly

One person will need 200 g of rolled oats No. 3, 500 ml of water, salt and citric acid to taste.

Pour rolled oats into cold water, add salt and citric acid, put on fire. Stir occasionally. After boiling, cook for 1 minute. There are no contraindications to the use of jelly.

Oats are the richest grain in fat (up to 6-9%). It also contains more iron than other cereals, a lot of sulfur, silicon, phosphorus, potassium, magnesium, chromium, manganese, nickel, zinc, fluorine, iodine, etc. Many vitamins are found in oat grains: B1, B2, B6, carotene, vitamins K, E.

Radish juice with carrots

Mix ½ cup of radish and carrot juice, add 1 tbsp. a spoonful of honey and lemon (cranberry) juice. During the seasonal epidemic of influenza and colds, drink 1 tbsp in the morning and at night. spoon.

To strengthen immunity and prevent vitamin deficiency in the spring, it is useful to drink any fresh red juices within 3 weeks: beet, cherry, blackberry, strawberry, grape, pomegranate, cranberry. In the first week, you should take ½ cup 3 times a day, in the second - 2 times, in the third - 1 time between meals. After 10 days, the course can be repeated.

To be continued…

Delicious home-made drinks will help to increase the body's resistance to colds and viral diseases without resorting to expensive dietary supplements and medicines. In order to charge large and small households with health and vigor, it is worth a little magic in the kitchen. After all, there are many recipes with the simplest and most affordable components, not difficult to perform, but very tasty and containing all the necessary vitamins and substances.

Kvass and teas, compotes and jelly, infusions and potions, syrups and smoothies for immunity - from such a variety, everyone will choose what he likes. The only secret of healthy vitamin drinks is in the correct preparation:

• Kvass takes a long time to prepare, because the basis of their recipes is the fermentation process.
• Fruit drinks are simple in execution and are made by diluting berry or fruit juice with water.
• Compotes are cooked from fruits and berries; due to boiling, they retain less useful properties.
• According to the cooking technology, the decoction is very similar to the compote. The only difference is that the roots and leaves of plants are most often used in the broth, and not fruits and berries.
• Syrups are concentrates. They are made by mixing fruit or berry juices with a strong sugar solution. A syrup for immunity can be stored in the refrigerator for a long time, since sugar acts as a preservative.
• If you squeeze fruits, berries or plant roots, you get juice to increase immunity. It is drunk both naturally and with added sweeteners.
• Tea, in addition to the usual black, green and red, can be herbal, fruit and berry. There are many more useful properties in such teas, which is why people of the older generation are so fond of them.
• The role of kefir in maintaining the body's immune defense should not be underestimated, because it has a beneficial effect on the intestinal microflora.
• Infusions, like fruit drinks, are prepared without boiling, but in hot water. The infusion takes a long time to prepare. Some drinks last from 3 hours to several days.
• Nutritious and delicious cocktails. Even a child can cope with their preparation, because the process is very exciting and simple. Using the most common products, fantasize - and your immunity cocktail will be appreciated by friends and family.

The benefits and harms of vitamin drinks

In order for all organs to work correctly, a person is cheerful and energetic, he needs vitamins and nutrients in sufficient quantities. You can get them with proper nutrition or with the help of special supplements. Immunity boosting drinks replenish missing vitamins in the body without damage to the wallet... Their presence in the diet allows:

1. increase the body's resistance to viruses and colds;
2. improve appetite;
3. strengthen teeth, nails and hair;
4. improve the appearance of the skin;
5. fill the body with energy and improve performance.

These properties are especially important in late autumn, winter and spring, when natural vitamins are low in food.

However, when making vitamin drinks, it is important not to overdo it, so that natural medicines do not turn out to be harmful. Some components, although they have many benefits, are contraindicated in certain diseases, therefore, do not mindlessly get carried away with this or that product, not knowing its properties.

The main contraindications for beverages for immunity are:

1. Allergy to a certain product. Symptoms such as stomach problems, itching, sneezing, watery eyes should be alert. In this case, it is better to give up the allergen and consult a doctor.
2. Overdose of any vitamin. If a certain vitamin or substance is sufficient in the body, then its additional intake in large doses can lead to an overdose.
3. In addition, substances have the ability to accumulate in the body, which can also adversely affect health over time. Therefore, when consuming vitamin drinks, it is advisable to alternate their components, and not to get carried away with the same composition for a long time. Signs of hypervitaminosis are very different: headaches, nausea, drowsiness, peeling of the skin, rash, high blood pressure.
4. Not all foods are good for pregnant women and young children. So, with caution you need to take ginseng, ginger, cranberries.
5. Chronic diseases. Almost all useful products affect the work of various organs, therefore, people with chronic diseases of the heart, blood vessels, gastrointestinal tract, kidneys and liver should be wary of vitamin drinks and study in detail the properties of the main components.

How to prepare immunity drinks?

There are a huge number of recipes for preparing a drink for immunity. Most of them do not require special skills, and are available to almost all people. Let's consider the most popular ones.

Turmeric with milk

Turmeric is an inexpensive and common spice. Its beneficial properties are well known and widely used in traditional medicine. Turmeric is beneficial for the immune system, joints and the circulatory system. This spice is made from the tumeric plant, which has a strong anti-inflammatory effect and is used as an antioxidant.

The simplest and most delicious recipe is turmeric drink for immunity combined with milk.

First, prepare the mixture:

1. a third of a glass of ground turmeric;
2. two-thirds of a glass of water.

Stir the turmeric in water, put the resulting mixture on medium heat and heat for 10 minutes. In the process of stirring, the mixture thickens and becomes like a paste, remove from heat, cool. The shelf life of this workpiece in the refrigerator is up to 30 days.

If necessary, 1-2 teaspoons of the mixture are diluted in a glass of warm milk. If you wish, you can add honey, but the milk in this case should not be too hot, otherwise honey will turn from a useful product into poison. The optimum temperature is 30-40 °.

For those who do not like honey and milk, the mixture can simply be diluted with boiled water.

Take a drink in a glass once a day, immediately or divided into several receptions.

Important! Turmeric removes fluid from the body, so while taking it, drink more water or decoctions of linden, rose hips, chamomile. The beneficial properties of these plants will give an additional effect in the fight against colds.

Watch the video on how to make a drink from turmeric with milk:

Ginger teas

For those who like milk tea:

1. take the root of fresh ginger (medium, 50-60 grams);
2. finely chop;
3. boil a glass of water;
4. fall asleep ginger and cook for 10 minutes;
5. add two glasses of milk, cook for another 5 minutes.

If you don't like milk, use a fruit recipe. It includes:

1. a large spoonful of fresh mashed ginger;
2. citrus zest (orange, lemon);
3. dried apples (a handful);
4. cinnamon (stick);
5. star anise (asterisk);
6. honey or orange juice to taste;
7. tea (green or black).

Boil a liter of water, add ginger, zest, apples and spices. Warm up over low heat for 5 minutes and remove. Add tea, let it brew and let it sit a little under the lid, then add honey and orange juice (optional). Pour into cups through a strainer.

Carefully! You can not use ginger for diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, heart, high temperature and pressure, bleeding. It is better to abstain from this drink for pregnant women.

Lemon kvass and jelly

Many people know how to make traditional lemonade, but kvass and jelly are not so common.

To make kvass from lemon, you need 130 grams of sugar, the same amount of grated lemon, three liters of water, 30 grams of yeast and raisins.

1. Dilute sugar in water and boil;
2. let's wait a bit;
3. add yeast, raisins and lemon;
4. we stand in a cool place for three days;
5. the immune cocktail is ready!

Lemon jelly cooks much faster:

1. we rub on a grater two or three lemons;
2. squeeze out the juice, set aside the zest separately;
3. dilute half a glass of starch with the same amount of cold water;
4. dissolve a glass of sugar in one and a half liters of water, bring to a boil;
5. add citrus zest, cook for 10 minutes;
6. we filter;
7. pour lemon juice into the syrup and bring to a boil again;
8. pour in starch, stir until the jelly thickens, and remove from heat.

Cranberry juice

Cranberries bring down the temperature well, remove toxins after illness and, due to the high content of vitamins, strengthens the immune system.

Cranberry fruit drinks are useful for both adults and children over 3 years old.

Important! The benefits of this berry are lost when boiling, therefore, before preparing fruit drink, the berry must be squeezed out.

Classic fruit drink:

1. squeeze the juice from a glass of cranberries through cheesecloth or a very fine sieve;
2. boil a liter of water and cool until warm;
3. add squeezed juice and sweetener (sugar, honey);
4. wrap the container with fruit drink with a towel and leave to cool and infuse for a couple of hours.

Cranberry juice for the lazy:

1. kill a kilogram of cranberries with 700 grams of sugar in a blender or pass through a meat grinder;
2. store the resulting semi-finished product in the refrigerator, if necessary, dilute the required amount with boiled water or tea.

Rosehip decoction

Rosehip is useful for immunity, first of all, with vitamin C, of ​​which these fruits contain 40 times more than lemons. Therefore, like cranberries, rose hips should not be boiled. This fragile vitamin cannot withstand temperatures above 80º and loses its benefits.

To prepare the broth, you must carefully select the berries, they must be dry, but not overdried (not crumble), without gray dusting and excess debris.

The berries for the decoction are stored in a well-ventilated dark place.

To prepare a decoction, you need:

1. Take 4 large spoons of rose hips per liter of water.
2. Boil water and cool slightly.
3. Cover with rose hips.
4. The container with the broth must be well wrapped and put very slowly to cool and steam, at least 3 hours.
5. Strain the resulting broth.

The broth can be stored in the refrigerator for about three days.

Immune drinks for children

From the moment of weaning babies from breastfeeding or with artificial feeding, it is very important to increase the immunity of children, since mother's milk ceases to protect the child's body. At the same time, at this age, the likelihood of allergic reactions is high, therefore, it is better to introduce even the most useful foods in small quantities.

Also, you should not give pure squeezed juices, it is better to dilute them in the form of fruit drink. Ginger, honey, lingonberry, cranberry, raspberry - should not be given at an early age. Such foods in the diet of children should appear after 3 years.

But viburnum berries, on the contrary, are very useful and have hypoallergenic properties. Children from six months old can be given not strong drinks to increase immunity - compotes and fruit drinks, and after a year, juices, mousses, jelly and the berries themselves diluted with water.

Nature gives man access to natural reserves of all the necessary substances. The main thing is to be able to use them correctly and in moderation, then health, strength and beauty will be preserved for many years.

Acute respiratory viral infections lie in wait for all people, especially children, as well as women and men with weak immunity. Today, many different preparations are sold in pharmacies, which contain various vitamins. Firstly, such products are very expensive, and secondly, they are not natural preparations. But you want your child to use natural vitamins. This is especially true in the autumn-winter period, when the peak of colds comes.

Today we will talk about an excellent remedy for strengthening the body's defenses that every woman can prepare. This is a mixture for enhancing immunity from dried fruits. We will also determine what products are included in this natural medicine and what properties each component has.

When will a delicious vitamin mix come in handy?

A mixture for enhancing immunity from dried fruits will come in handy during the period of colds, viral infections, or simply when After winter, there are no natural healthy fruits and vegetables on store shelves, so you need to replenish the supply of vitamins from self-prepared products.

A vitamin mixture is useful if a person has conditions such as:

• Fast fatiguability.
• Sleepiness or, conversely, insomnia.
• General malaise.
• Brittle nails, hair loss.
• Peeling of the skin.

What is included in a natural immunostimulant?

The mixture consists of the following ingredients:

• lemon;
• walnuts and dried fruits (dried apricots, raisins).

These are the main ingredients, but you can put figs, dates, prunes in there. Instead of walnuts, it is recommended to use cashews, peanuts, almonds, pistachios, hazelnuts, pine nuts, etc. By the way, the latter help with pancreatitis, gastritis and stomach ulcers. And cashews can lower blood cholesterol levels. They also, unlike most nuts, do not cause allergies. And delicious almonds contain the same amount of organic acids as walnuts. Therefore, you can experiment and add your favorite foods to taste.

Vitamin Blend Recipe

For a standard harvest, you will need the main ingredients: nuts, raisins, honey, dried apricots and lemon. Dried fruits and nuts are taken in the same quantity - 200 grams each. Then honey will need 3 tablespoons. The lemon should be medium in size.

Rules for preparing a vitamin mixture:

The resulting mixture for enhancing immunity from dried fruits, honey and lemon must be kept in the refrigerator in a glass jar, tightly sealed with a lid.

• It is advisable to warm up the nuts in a frying pan or in the oven before chopping. By the way, a walnut is ideal for a vitamin mixture, the price of which, however, has recently increased significantly. Today, peeled fruits can be bought in large supermarkets for 600 rubles per 1 kg. But you can do otherwise: go to the market and buy walnuts from grandmothers. The price in this case will be several times lower than in the store. In addition, grandmothers will add an extra handful of nuts to the bag.
• Dried fruits used to prepare the mixture (raisins, dried apricots, prunes and dates) should be pre-soaked. Be sure to do this if these ingredients are dry.

• You cannot eat such a dry-boiled mixture, it is very sweet. It is ideal to combine it with tea.
• Such natural is especially useful for people who have hard physical work.
• People who suffer from diseases of the gastrointestinal tract should not add lemon to the mixture, because it is, in fact, an acid.
• In order for the children to devour a useful medicine with interest, mom can make sweets from it. To do this, you need to roll up small balls and roll them in coconut flakes. You will see how the child himself will ask for such a treat.

How to take a natural immunostimulant?

The vitamin blend will appeal to both adults and kids. You need to take this remedy in the following dosage:

• Children from 3 years old - 1 teaspoon 2 times a day.
• Adults - 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.

Babies under 3 years old should not be given this mixture as it contains allergens such as honey and nuts. But you can go the other way: instead of honey, put berry jam, and do not add nuts at all.

Dried apricot properties

The benefits of dried apricots for the body are great. This dried fruit is rich in fructose, sucrose and glucose, it contains potassium, magnesium, calcium, pectin, as well as organic acids that remove heavy metals and other harmful substances from the body. Dried apricots act on the body as follows:

• Helps quickly recover from surgery by replenishing iron stores.
• Reduces the negative effects after the use of antibacterial drugs during illness.
• Replenishes the supply of vitamins in the body, due to which the immune system begins to work better.
• It increases the formation of blood cells, which is why this dried fruit is indicated for people suffering from anemia.
• It frees the body from toxins and is an excellent diuretic.
• Reduces cholesterol levels.
• It is an excellent prophylactic agent against the appearance of cancerous tumors.
• Supports normal hormonal levels.

But with all the positive aspects, the benefits of dried apricots for the body can decrease, and dried fruit can completely harm a person if he chooses the wrong one. So, some sellers treat it with chemicals in order to increase the shelf life of the product and improve its appearance. Therefore, you need to buy dried apricots only in proven places. And this dried fruit should not be taken by people suffering from obesity or having an allergic reaction to it (rash, swelling, itching).

Walnut properties

It is an excellent ingredient for a vitamin mixture, due to the content of polyunsaturated fatty acids and vitamin E. Walnut increases the overall tone of the body. It also has a positive effect on the functioning of the central nervous system and the brain, interferes with the aging process, has a hypoglycemic and antitumor effect, and improves blood viscosity.

Beekeeping product properties

Lemon, honey, dried apricots - these ingredients of the mixture contain vitamins A, B, P, potassium, copper, pectins. But most of these useful elements are found in the beekeeping product. Even small children know that honey is useful. This product enhances immunity, has bactericidal and anti-inflammatory properties.

People who constantly use honey to restore the body's defenses, note their high efficiency and excellent mood. And this only says that a person is strong from the inside, he has strong immunity. After all, those people who often suffer from respiratory diseases complain of bad mood, fatigue, and honey improves appetite, activates brain activity, restores the work of the cardiovascular system.

An important condition! This beekeeping product must be natural. Only then will the mixture for enhancing immunity from dried fruits, nuts and honey be truly valuable.

Useful properties of raisins

Dried grapes contain almost the same vitamins as dried apricots. In addition, there is a biotone in the raisins, called dried grapes, which are very rich in potassium and sodium.

Useful properties of raisins:

• There is a lot of iron in this product, therefore it is recommended for anemia.
• Boron, which is part of raisins, contributes to the normal absorption of calcium in the body. Therefore, people with osteochondrosis and osteoporosis are advised to take dishes with dried grapes.
• Raisins contain a lot of potassium, so it should be consumed by people suffering from cardiovascular diseases.
• And most importantly, this product contains many antioxidants, in particular oleanolic acid. It is she who protects the cells of the body from free radicals, thereby strengthening the human immune system.
• Raisins help with colds, helps to quickly relieve ARVI symptoms: sore throat, cough, nasal congestion.

Lemon properties

This citrus helps with colds: it prevents the reproduction of pathogenic microflora. It is rich in vitamin C, which helps fight ARVI.

Vitamins of group B, found in lemon, reduce fatigue, normalize sleep, relieve depression, and give a person vigor. Vitamin A, also part of this citrus, is good for eyesight. And lemon peel improves digestion and reduces gas formation.

Benefits of the mixture

Such a tasty medicine must be done to people whose immunity is compromised, or to mothers raising small children. The advantages of such a homemade product:

• The naturalness of the drug.
• 100% result.
• Acceptable price. Medicines sold in a pharmacy are much more expensive than this homemade mixture. In addition, most of them are not natural, which means they can lead to allergic reactions.

Conclusion

Nuts and dried fruits, honey and lemon are a storehouse of useful elements, when consumed, a person's immunity increases, and he does not get sick with viral respiratory diseases even during a flu epidemic. This healthy mixture can be made at home. Now you do not need to go to the pharmacy in search of the best remedy for immunity.

Grace and beauty are inextricably linked to our health. Good mood, sparkle in the eyes, positive attitude and energy depend on the state of our health and our well-being. In turn, the key to excellent health is a good immune system. By strengthening it, we help the body recover from the negative effects of stress and illness, temper it, teach it to resist viruses, and restore its natural protective functions.

A lot has been said and written about a healthy diet, the need to take vitamins, the importance of adherence to sleep, proper physical activity and lifestyle in general. We want to touch on the topic of healthy and tasty vitamin cocktails. I WANT offers you a selection of 5 mixtures, the recipes of which contain ingredients whose main task is to strengthen our immunity.

Immune System Strengthening Cocktail

You will need: 4 apples, 2 limes, 15 strawberries, 1 tsp. cinnamon. Peel the lime and cut into 4 parts, cut the apples into slices, add the strawberries, pass all the ingredients through a juicer, add cinnamon, mix everything again. Useful properties of the cocktail: apples contain calcium and magnesium, which have a beneficial effect on the brain; cinnamon activates the brain; strawberries have antioxidant functions; lime, like all citrus fruits, cleanses the body of toxins, protects against infections, and is an effective remedy for coughing. By the way, vitamin C is contained in each of the components selected for the cocktail, and together they replenish its reserves in the body. This is important because a vitamin C deficiency leads to irritability, loss of energy, and anemia.

Blood sugar lowering shake

You will need: 1 banana, 3 parts of a pear. Stir the ingredients to a liquid slurry, take after meals. Easy to prepare, tasty and easily digestible drink, it also has a very important function - it regulates blood sugar, preventing it from rising after a meal.

Antioxidant cocktail

You will need: 2 parts pear, 2 parts apple, 3 parts mango, 2 parts carrots. Mix everything thoroughly. An irreplaceable cocktail for cleansing the body. It removes toxins and toxins from the body, which accumulate in the body for years, disrupting metabolism, metabolic processes and do not allow the body to function fully.

Celery, parsley and carrot juice drink

You will need: 0.5 kg of carrots, 0.5 kg of celery, some sprigs of parsley. Rinse the ingredients thoroughly, grate on a very fine grater. Squeeze the juice through a cloth or cheesecloth, dilute with water, add granulated sugar (to taste), a pinch of salt, stir and sprinkle with finely chopped parsley before use. The cocktail is recommended for colds, to restore vision and prevent eye diseases, to regulate metabolism, to lower cholesterol levels, and to improve complexion.

Cold and excess weight cocktail with ginger

You will need: 1 tsp. chopped ginger root, honey, lemon. Pour the chopped ginger root with a glass of boiling water. When the drink reaches room temperature, add honey and lemon to taste. Follow this sequence, take your time and do not mix all the ingredients at once, since honey added to boiling water loses all its beneficial properties. The cocktail can be jokingly called "Chasing Two Hares". It is relevant both in the fight against colds, which weakens our immune system, and in the fight against excess weight, which is so difficult to keep under control, especially in winter.

So, choose the recipe you like, stock up on the ingredients you need, enjoy the taste of the healthy mixes, and be healthy! After all, the better we feel, the better we look.

Official medicine usually requires taking oral serum, a drug with interferons and / or immunoglobulins for the purpose, and physical therapy. Narodnaya in similar situations focuses on. A cocktail for immunity is a somewhat unusual proposal.

It is even impossible to tell right away whether it has more to do with treatment or cooking. But modern "kitchen" technologies make it possible to greatly expand the understanding of this "genre", to combine in it, as in the case of smoothies, ingredients traditionally attributed to different dishes.

Vitamin cocktails for immunity: what are their benefits?

The vast majority of liquid blends are sources of minerals, proteins, food acids. They compensate only for immunodeficiencies provoked by a meager, monotonous diet, as in lovers of simple carbohydrates (confectionery and pizza on an equal footing), radical diets or people living below the poverty line.

Initially, cocktails were considered layered bar spirits, and their name was derived from the English. "Cocktail" ("cock's tail") for external resemblance. Now this word means rather from several ingredients and is more often prepared by simple mixing in a blender / shaker. The modern "map" allows you to look at them wider, mix celery with vegetable oil and add potatoes to a milkshake.

Such a gradually formed variety requires its use to create immunity-raising "compositions". The liquid form is the most easily assimilated for the digestive tract at any age and with any "bouquet" of pathologies, including metabolic ones. Plus, the vitamin cocktail for immunity is the quintessence of metabolically significant nutrients from herbal and / or animal supplements included in it.

At the same time, he is relieved of the lion's share of vegetable fiber. It creates a false volume in the stomach and intestines as they cannot digest it. Fiber is useful in accelerating the onset of imaginary satiety (ideal for those who are losing weight) and the ability to mix the food lump, divide it into fragments that improve digestion.

But it also scrapes off protective mucus from their walls, increases the threat of gastritis, duodenitis and ulcers, rectal polyposis (it is assumed that it is associated with mechanical irritation of its walls).

Recipes. TOP-7

The most pleasant part when introducing cocktails to raise immunity is the infinity of their variations, the opportunity to experiment with proportions and composition almost without restrictions, only based on your own taste preferences.

To make the process easier, you just need to have an idea of ​​the standard proportions (in restaurants they are called a technological card) of liquid and solid ingredients in a drink, and / or fruits with a pronounced immune-boosting effect.

1. The secret of technological maps is simple and requires only taking into account the capacity of the blender bowl, the number of final portions that are planned to be received, and their volume. All added components must be summed up. So, if you beat 0.2 liters with 50 g of ice cream, you get 0.25 liters plus the froth from whipping. It will fit into an ordinary glass "end-to-end". As for the optimal proportions in terms of consistency (so as not to get watery or too thick "miracles"), then for each glass of liquid base it is simply not worth adding more than 50 g of not too juicy components. Liquids include fresh and bagged, mineral water, soda, dairy products, eggs, ice cream, toppings, vegetable oil, brewed tea, coffee and cocoa. Dry additives include chocolate, vegetables like carrots, potatoes, and herbs. This should also include fruits like apples, bananas, grapes, peaches, plums, sour berries, including currants and gooseberries. The rule for dosing ice is not more than 2 cubes (whole or frappe) per 0.1 liter of liquid base.
2. Cocktails for raising immunity should include citrus or sour berries (also rich), carrots (retinol), with seeds (vitamin E in its natural fatty medium), green vegetables. Cereals are more likely sources of minerals and highly allergenic gluten. But at will and taste, it is allowed to pour a tablespoon of steamed oatmeal or buckwheat into a 300 ml portion.

Milk "blotches" should not be ignored either. They combine well even not the most successful ensembles, soften the taste of the drink, contain amino acids necessary for the construction of any body proteins, including protective ones. But alcohol, including a light "degree", like beer with kvass, is not used in cocktails to raise immunity.

Oatmeal and honey

Steam for half an hour 2 tbsp. l. oatmeal 250 ml of hot milk. Pour into a blender, break a peeled banana and a tablespoon there, beat for 2 minutes. at low speed.

Watercress with cheese

Fold and beat 250 ml of yogurt with 50 gr. cheese with blue mold. Use a hard juicer to extract juice from a large bunch of lettuce, 400 g broccoli and 3 pears. Drain all the yogurt juices, mix again.

Dried fruits with milk

They are more often used as a basis for pasta - inventions of Acad. Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR N.M. Amosova. But you can also make a rich cocktail for immunity from, the recipe for which is no more complicated than the others presented here. It is necessary to add to 0.5 liters of milk 3 tablespoons of ground oatmeal, a handful (moderate) with plus a couple of teaspoons of honey and beat.

Ice and citrus

Remove the fresh 4 oranges and a large grapefruit, "fill" the bowl of the food processor with them, add 5 ice cubes and 3 peeled bananas, broken into pieces. Beat at high speed for 1 min.

Honey and kiwi

Peel banana (peel only), apple (stalks, core) and kiwi (remove ends), chop coarsely and arbitrarily, put in a blender. Pour in a glass of kefir, beat. Add a teaspoon of honey, stir vigorously.

Apples and greens

Cut three apples into fresh juice in a special juicer, squeeze 2 tbsp. l. lemon juice. Take 7 sprigs of cilantro, parsley and basil, add lemon juice to them, puree. Then add the puree to the apple juice and mix by hand. Add ice to taste.

Sea buckthorn and honey

This cocktail to improve immunity was once prepared on the air of the Russia-1 TV channel by S. N. Agapkin, Doctor of Medical Sciences and a well-known TV presenter (show “About the Most Important”). The recipe proposed by the doctor for raising resistance requires combining and whipping a glass of berries in 300 ml of kefir with 3 tbsp. l. honey (or to taste, but not to overdo it).

Possible harm and contraindications

There is also a lot of drinks from berries with yogurt, milk and, cucumbers with zucchini or salted kefir, carrots, orange and olive oil.

But with them you need to be careful with people suffering from:

• allergies - "accented" and their botanical relatives should not get into the cocktail, even by accident;
• inflammatory and erosive pathologies of the gastrointestinal tract - strong irritants, such as carrot, beetroot, squash, garlic juice, must be excluded;
• gallstones - it is unacceptable to use choleretic drugs like beets, dill, cilantro, any fats;
• pancreatitis - acidic components will have to be removed completely, strictly limit the amount of ground vegetables and fruits (only juice - no fiber).

It is customary to serve cocktails to boost immunity cool or cold (if they are with ice). It is highly undesirable for chronic diseases of the nasopharynx such as tonsillitis, rhinitis, sinusitis, deep caries or fillings, pulpitis, gingivitis.