Since ancient times, wine has been a drink of love and friendship, a companion of joy, a source of poetic inspiration, and also a medicine. The healing properties of wine are studied by enotherapy or vinotherapy.
Even Hippocrates pointed out that grape wine surprisingly corresponds to human nature, both healthy and sick. He attached particular importance to wine in restoring strength, especially among the elderly.
To obtain wines, white, pink, black and red grapes are used, which are grown in countries with a moderately warm climate: in Italy, Portugal, Spain, France, in southern Germany, along the shores of the Mediterranean Sea, in the Balkans, in the Crimea, in the Caucasus, in Moldova, Ukraine, Central Asia and some parts of the USA. Over 100 million hectares are occupied by vineyards all over the world.
Wine is perceived by many only as an invigorating drink.However, wine also has a healing effect on the human body..
Numerous clinical observations have shown that grape wine carries powerful healing powers that allow you to fight not only with banal colds, but even with such formidable diseases as tuberculosis, malaria, coronary heart disease, cancer and even AIDS!
Scientists emphasize thatthe use of small amounts of alcohol. In addition, people who process alcohol slowly have a higher risk of developing alcoholism and alcohol damage to other organs.
Medicinal properties of wine:
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Improves mental activity, thanks to pleasant taste sensations. No wonder grape wines in ancient times were called the “drink of the gods” and were sung by poets of all countries and times.
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Stimulates appetite and improves digestion.
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Influencing the intestines, it has a slight laxative effect.
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Has a diuretic effect. The more diuretic (and this is especially white), the easier it is to remove harmful products from the body.
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In moderation, before meals, white wine improves liver function. The choleretic properties of wine depend on the content of potassium tartrate in it.
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Excites the respiratory center (especially sparkling wines), promotes ventilation of the lungs. American researchers have found that the use of white wines has a beneficial effect on the functioning of the respiratory system. Wine contains substances that have antioxidant activity and prevent the damaging effects of free radicals on lung tissue.
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Causes a state of euphoria, sharpens mental abilities and speed of perception.
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Influencing the cardiovascular system, dilates blood vessels. Red wine is a storehouse of useful elements. It contains tannins that cleanse blood vessels, amino acids necessary for normal growth and cell protection, iron that heals anemia, magnesium that is good for the heart. Louis Pasteur called wine the healthiest drink if you do not abuse it.
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Improves the functioning of the nervous system and endocrine glands.
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Wine enriches the body with individual vitamins, mineral salts and other biocatalysts.
11. Wine contributes to an increase in muscle strength.
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Improves metabolism.
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Wine has antitoxic properties. Many doctors recommend wine as an antidote for bites from snakes and other poisonous animals. The effect of wine on intestinal toxins and on diphtheria toxin was found. Solutions of one alcohol have less antitoxic properties than grape wine.
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In the beauty salons of the Argentine capital of Buenos Aires, wine therapy is wildly popular – the external use of red wine. Nourishing creams are made from wine or simply applied to the skin of patients in its pure form.
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A substance found in red wine can be used as a cure for herpes. This compound, called resveratrol, can prevent the further spread of the rash or even interrupt the pathological process.
However, this view is now in doubt. Recent studies by French scientists from the Paris Center for the Examination of Cancer Tumors show thathalf a glass of wine a day can increase the risk of colon cancer by 9% and cancer of the throat and mouth by 168%.
“Small daily doses of wine are especially dangerous. There will be no benefit from any amount of this drink, ”says one of the scientists.
