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Ancient healers used wine to treat colds, bronchitis, exhaustion, and depression. After research, modern scientists have expanded the range of uses of wine in medicine. In 1994, French doctors coined the term “Enotherapy” – a way to improve human health and a section of clinical medicine dedicated to the beneficial properties of wines, their effect on diseases and the functioning of human body systems.
Wine should be consumed in strict proportions under the supervision of a physician. Table wine is considered the healthiest because it contains a small amount of alcohol and an optimal dose of acid. White table wine helps with diseases of the genitourinary system, and red restores the body after exhaustion. Muscats contained in red wines have a beneficial effect on the respiratory organs.
Today, enotherapists are able to cure a person from influenza and pneumonia. For this purpose, hot sweet or semi-sweet wine is prescribed for adults, and baths are made for children from a warm drink. Wines contain mineral salts, glycerin, tannins and bioactivators. These substances are necessary for the human body in the fight against tuberculosis.
On the basis of wine products, enotherapists advise making tinctures on hawthorn, rose hips, peppermint and lily of the valley flowers. Arrhythmia is treated as follows: a head of chopped garlic is poured over a bottle of Cahors and insisted for a week. The patient takes the tincture one teaspoon three times a day for a month. The patient’s health improves, the disease recedes.
Benefits of enotherapy
By learning to drink wine in accordance with the recommendations of experts, you can restore and strengthen your health. Natural wines do not contain chemical additives, affecting the body in a complex way. An example of this is the Caucasian centenarians who drink wine all their lives and do not complain about their health!
Contraindications for enotherapy
Wine therapy is not suitable for hypertension, cardiovascular insufficiency, tachycardia and cardiac arrhythmias. Wine procedures are avoided with organic lesions of the central nervous system, epilepsy, diabetes, drug addiction and alcoholism.
Official medicine does not reject this method of treatment for some diseases, but calls to treat it with caution. Wine therapy should be carried out under conditions of complete control over the amount of alcohol consumed.
The proportion of the drug is determined by the doctor: on average, an adult drinks 200-400 grams of wine per day, depending on the physiotherapeutic condition and the drug treatment. Dessert wines are diluted with water in a ratio of 1:3, table and dry wines are used in pure wine. The course of enotherapeutic treatment prescribed by a doctor is 14 days or more.
Oenotherapy in Russia and other countries
Wine therapy in Russia is used during a comprehensive resort recovery. Specialized health resorts are located in the Krasnodar Territory and the Crimea. A number of studies were carried out at the Pyatigorsk Research Institute. The people participating in the experiment were divided into three groups. The first group was given red wine, the second – raisins and dried apricots, and the third did without wine and viticulture products. Mood, activity and well-being were at the proper level in the first group, lower – in the second. The third one lagged behind both. This clearly shows that enotherapy has a positive effect on the body.
In Europe, wine treatment is spreading in countries where viticulture is highly developed: in France and Italy, in Greece and Cyprus. These are methods of healing and cosmetology based on massage procedures. They are held using wine and appropriate spices and products. Oenotherapy is also used in Italy, patients take baths with crushed grapes. Wine treatment is popular in South America, Africa and Asia
The ancient Greek thinker Plato argued that wine is milk for the elderly. And not in vain! According to scientists, daily consumption of 100-200 milliliters of dry or table wine reduces the risk of stroke and pre-stroke conditions by 70%. Only the quantity determines whether the wine will be harmful or beneficial!
Attention! Self-medication can be dangerous, consult your doctor.