How to properly cleanse the body with buckwheat

Among the many health diets, cleansing with buckwheat is one of the most effective and gentle methods.

The purpose of the diet is to help the body remove excess fluid, harmful substances, stimulate the immune system, accelerate metabolic processes in order to tune the body to efficient work and relieve from extra pounds... Buckwheat cleaning is carried out in the form of a mono-diet or cereals are combined with vegetables and fruits, but the most effective method is to cleanse the body with buckwheat and kefir.

The composition and useful properties of the components of the buckwheat-kefir diet

Buckwheat porridge and kefir are two familiar, useful and beloved by many products, when consumed, the diet approaches the optimal one in terms of proteins and carbohydrates. Diet promotes gentle bowel cleansing and removes excess water from the body.

Useful properties of buckwheat

The popularity of buckwheat is easy to explain: it is good in the form of porridge and as a side dish, nourishing due to the "slow" carbohydrates.

Groats are rich in vegetable protein, vitamins of group B, P and E, microelements (calcium, potassium, magnesium, iodine, phosphorus, selenium, iron, etc.), fatty acids.

Buckwheat is a leader among cereals in terms of the concentration of rutin (vitamin P), which prevents free radicals from entering the cell structure, supports the functioning of the circulatory system, and helps cleanse and strengthen blood vessels and veins.

The main properties of buckwheat:

• cleanses the body of allergens, toxins, helps with obesity;
• due to the high fiber content, it helps to cleanse the gastrointestinal tract (GIT), has a slight laxative effect;
• accelerates the healing of gastrointestinal ulcers;
• favorably affects the state of muscle tissue, increases the body's endurance;
• increases immunity and male potency;
• indicated for hypertension - normalizes blood pressure.

The benefits of kefir

Kefir is a tasty and healthy dietary product, a source of calcium and protein with a minimum amount of fat. Kefir contains phosphorus, magnesium, vitamins D and K2.

Kefir contains probiotics that restore the balance of beneficial microorganisms in the intestines. For example, a unique probiotic - Lactobacillus kefiri, is able to inhibit the growth of dangerous bacteria (Salmonella, Helicobacter pylori, Escherichia coli). And the polysaccharide kefiran has antibacterial properties.

Useful properties of kefir:

• normalizes the digestive system;
• effective for diarrhea, irritable bowel syndrome;
• improves immunity;
• helps in the treatment of metabolic syndrome;
• strengthens bone tissue.

Why do you need to cleanse the body

The health of the gastrointestinal tract, its full-fledged work is the most important condition for strong immunity. Due to unbalanced nutrition, overeating, a sedentary lifestyle, toxins, alcohols and excess gases are formed in the intestines.As a result - discomfort in the digestive tract, indigestion, constant feeling of fatigue, frequent headaches, depression, excess weight, obesity.

Excess weight leads to metabolic disturbances in the body, which serves as a "trigger" for the emergence of formidable diseases: arterial hypertension, atherosclerosis, diabetes mellitus. Excess weight overloads the joints - knee, hip, spine.

Signs of slagging of the body:

• irregular bowel movements constipation, diarrhea, flatulence;
• increased sweating, chills;
• sleep problems;
• smell from the mouth;
• allergic skin manifestations;
• jumps in blood pressure.

Cleansing mechanism

To unload the body and help him cope with problems, carry out cleaning with buckwheat and kefir at home. The fiber contained in the cereal promotes the evacuation of undigested food residues from the intestines, and kefir has a beneficial effect on the gastrointestinal microflora.

Porridge is prepared without adding salt. In the very first days of the diet, buckwheat removes excess fluid from the body, as a result of which edema decreases or completely disappears.

To exclude dehydration and accelerate the elimination of toxins, it is important to observe the drinking regime: at least 1.5-2 liters of water per day.

The cleansing course is designed for 7 or 14 days, depending on the state of the body and well-being. Cleaning can be repeated no more than twice a year.

Important! It is recommended that you consult your doctor before starting a cleansing diet. When painful sensations appear, the diet is stopped and seek advice from a specialist.

Benefits of the buckwheat-kefir diet:

• the ingredients are familiar, available, cooking porridge is not a hassle;
• easily tolerated, there is no exhausting feeling of hunger or allergic reactions - frequent companions of such diets;
• weight decreases, which has a positive effect on overall well-being;
• there are no painful sensations in the abdomen and increased defecation, which are usually observed when cleansing with the use of laxatives.

Buckwheat cleaning rules

The peculiarity of the diet is the use of buckwheat porridge as the main product throughout the day.

To get benefits and not harm the body, follow the rules:

• give up salt, sugar, butter, milk, white bread;
• eat fractionally: 4 to 6 times a day in small portions;
• observe the drinking regime: from 1.5 to 2 liters of water per day;
• in the morning, immediately after waking up, drink the first glass of water (preferably with lemon), have breakfast after 30-60 minutes;
• do not eat before bedtime, last meal - at least 3 hours before bedtime;
• during the entire course of cleansing, take multivitamins.

Regular physical activity, such as swimming, walking, will help cleanse the body.

What buckwheat to choose

For cleansing, kernel buckwheat is used, that is, whole, unbroken grains. They are the richest in fiber.

Green buckwheat will bring even more benefits - cereals that have not been heat treated. The percentage of fiber in it is higher than in brown cereal, and the complex of nutrients is even richer.

All other types of buckwheat, namely, crushed, ground grains, ready-made flour, are not suitable for a diet.

How to cook buckwheat correctly

The basic rule is that buckwheat is not boiled, but steamed - pour hot water and leave to swell for 6-8 hours.

With this method of preparation, useful substances are preserved as much as possible, and calorie content product decreases. For example, the fiber content in a steamed kernel is 11 g per 100 g of product, and in a boiled kernel it is only 4 g.

Important! Every evening a fresh portion of the porridge is prepared, which will be used the next day.

Cooking method:

1. Since the groats are not subjected to heat treatment, they are thoroughly washed and poured over with boiling water.
2. Pour boiling water over. The ratio of cereals and water is 1: 2. Usually, 1 cup of cereal and 2 cups of boiling water are enough to cook porridge for the whole day.If the portion is insufficient, you can double it.
3. The container with the prepared cereal is tightly closed and wrapped with a towel. It is more convenient to steam the cereals in the evening so that the porridge is ready for breakfast.

For cooking, use earthenware, glass, enameled dishes or a thermos with a wide neck.

What can you combine buckwheat with

Buckwheat porridge without salt, sugar and oil is not the most delicious dish. It is extremely difficult to stay on such a diet for a week or two, and it is not necessary, since the nutrients in the cereal are not enough for the normal functioning of the body. Therefore, as part of the diet, it is recommended to use a small amount of additional foods.

What to add to your diet:

• low-fat kefir or yogurt without filler;
• greens - parsley, dill, celery, lettuce;
• fruits - apples (preferably green), kiwi, plums, grapefruits, pineapples;
• dried fruits - prunes, dried apricots, figs;
• natural honey (no more than 1 tsp per serving);
• olive, linseed oil (no more than 1 tablespoon per day);
• salad vegetables (non-starchy) - cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, spinach;
• stewed vegetables (acceptable in some diet options) - zucchini, broccoli, cauliflower;
• soy sauce;
• green tea, herbal tea, dried fruit compote without sugar.

Recipes for cleansing the body with buckwheat and kefir

The advantage of the buckwheat diet is the possibility of choosing suitable schemes and cooking recipes... There are several of them within the framework of buckwheat cleansing.

The classic scheme involves the fractional use of porridge throughout the day. Before cleansing, you just need to decide on additional products and the duration of the diet.

Soft cleansing of the body - buckwheat-kefir breakfasts... This is a one-time intake of a dietary product. The rest of the day, light meals of your choice in small portions. Refusal of sweets, flour, fatty and harmful for the entire course of the diet is required.

Cleansing by the hour throughout the day

If the goal of the diet is not only cleansing the body, but also weight loss, we recommend staying on the classic scheme and eating steamed buckwheat porridge throughout the day.

Three-day mono diet

In the evening on the eve of cleaning, 1 glass of buckwheat is poured with 2 glasses of boiling water. In the morning, the resulting porridge is divided into 5-6 parts and eaten during the day. Prerequisite: every half hour - an hour to drink water without gas, green or herbal teas.

This diet option is the toughest - fresh porridge on water is tasteless, the complete absence of salt and sugar in the diet can provoke a headache, weakness, and a decrease in blood pressure. When these symptoms appear, you should soften the diet: drink tea with a spoonful of honey, eat an apple or a handful of dried fruits. You can add 1 tsp to the porridge. olive oil and chopped dill or parsley - this will slightly improve the taste of the dish.

The mono diet is tough, but effective. It removes water and toxins from the body.

Important! Nutritionists believe that keeping a mono-diet for more than 3 days is unsafe for the body. And it is even better to carry out such a strict cleansing once as a fasting day.

Buckwheat and kefir

The menu is limited to two dishes: add 1 liter of low-fat kefir to the porridge cooked for the whole day.

Products can be used together: wash the porridge with kefir or just mix them. Or drink kefir in between meals.

The meager menu is supplemented with green tea, weak coffee, 1-2 apples, 1 tsp. honey, 1 tbsp. l. vegetable oil, chopped herbs, a handful of dried fruits.

Important! You can't starve - if you feel hungry between meals, you need to eat an apple, drink a glass of kefir or green tea.

Buckwheat with kefir

In the evening, 1 glass of cereals thoroughly washed and scalded with boiling water are poured with 2 glasses of kefir. The dishes are tightly closed and put into the refrigerator for 6-8 hours or overnight.

Consumed during the day in 4-6 doses.

Buckwheat infused with kefir is a very satisfying dish, however, the diet is also supplemented with tea, coffee, 1 tsp.honey, 1-2 apples, a small handful of dried fruits.

Buckwheat with fruits and vegetables

A relaxed diet option. The basis is buckwheat porridge made from 1 glass of kernel and 2 glasses of boiling water. Together with it, they consume not only 1 liter of kefir, but also a small amount of vegetables and fruits.

A salad of cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage with herbs and 1 tbsp. Is added to a portion of buckwheat. l. vegetable oil. Stewed or steamed vegetables are introduced into the menu: zucchini, spinach, broccoli, cauliflower. They are eaten as an independent dish, replacing one of the methods of porridge, or mixed with it.

Attention! According to the rules of the diet, vegetables cannot be salted. Salt retains fluid in the body and interferes with the cleansing process.

Chopped fruits or dried fruits are placed in buckwheat - this improves the taste of the dish and activates peristalsis. You can also substitute fruits for one of the meals or use them as a snack.

If cleansing continues for more than a week, a small amount of animal protein is introduced into the diet: 1 egg, a serving of boiled chicken, turkey or beef.

Buckwheat breakfasts

For gentle cleansing of the body, buckwheat-kefir breakfasts are suitable.

In this case, they proceed as follows: on an empty stomach they drink a glass of water with lemon, after an hour they have breakfast with buckwheat and kefir, and after 2-3 hours they switch to a regular diet, excluding sweet, fatty, spicy and fried foods from it. It is best to stick to a vegetarian diet. It is allowed to lightly salt the food.

Buckwheat-kefir cocktail

In the evening, wash well with 2 tbsp. l. cereals, fill them with a glass of kefir and put them in the refrigerator. By the morning, the cereal absorbs the fermented milk product, swells and is ready for use.

Buckwheat and kefir drink

If the buckwheat-kefir cocktail is not to your taste or there are problems with the gastrointestinal tract, prepare a drink from buckwheat and kefir.

For this, 1 tbsp. l. washed and dried buckwheat is ground in a coffee grinder and poured with 1 glass of low-calorie kefir or yogurt. Leave overnight in the refrigerator, and in the morning they have breakfast with this drink.

For 7-10 days of such a light and pleasant diet, the body is gently cleansed of toxins.

Preparation and exit from the diet

The preliminary and final stages are an obligatory part of the cleansing procedure. Smooth entry into the diet will allow the body to more easily adapt to the reduction in the diet, and the correct exit will preserve the obtained result for a long time.

Diet preparation

Like any diet, buckwheat cleansing becomes stressful for the body if it is wrong to prepare for the procedure.

To get the maximum effect, a week before the start of the cleansing activities, fast food, fatty, fried foods, sweets, wheat flour products, alcohol and carbonated drinks are excluded from the diet. Eat more vegetables and fruits.

Moderate exercise, walking, and daily contrast showers are recommended. An enema is given before starting the diet.

How to eat after cleansing

When one of the 7 to 14-day full diet options is used, getting out of abstinence is important. Conventional foods are introduced into the diet gradually over the course of a week. All this time, they continue to eat fractionally, in small portions.

Buckwheat is also gradually abandoned, every day reducing its amount in the diet, replacing it with vegetables and light food.

Exclude sweets, baked goods, smoked, fried, spicy foods, semi-finished products, alcohol.

During the week they still drink a lot - at least 1.5 liters of water per day.

Products that are gradually being introduced into the menu:

• fruits vegetables;
• lean meat - turkey, chicken, beef;
• fish, seafood;
• eggs;
• fermented milk products of low fat content - yogurt, cottage cheese, cheese;
• vegetable oil - olive, linseed;
• whole wheat bread.

Possible harm and contraindications

Any diet is stress for the body. It can manifest itself in the form of headaches, weakness, drowsiness, and decreased performance.In this case, the diet is stopped or glucose is introduced into the diet: they drink water with honey, eat several fruits.

Buckwheat contains rutin, which helps to thin the blood. Therefore, people taking routine-based pharmaceutical preparations should be very careful to use the buckwheat mono-diet. And it is better to consult a doctor about the advisability of such cleansing and dosage of drugs.

Cleansing the body with buckwheat is strictly contraindicated when:

• diseases of the gastrointestinal tract in the acute stage;
• infectious diseases;
• diabetes mellitus;
• pregnancy, breastfeeding.

The opinion of doctors about cleansing the body

The attitude of doctors to cleansing the body is ambiguous. Many of them believe that if you eat a balanced and varied diet, then there is no need to cleanse. The human body is a self-regulating system capable of getting rid of all unnecessary and unnecessary in a natural way. For this there is the intestines, kidneys, liver, sweat glands. However, this is so only in the case when the person is absolutely healthy.

We suggest that you familiarize yourself with the opinions of doctors on this issue.

Elena Korsun, Dr. med. Sci., Associate Professor of the Department of Phytotherapy FPK MR RUDN: “Extreme purges should not be undertaken. It is necessary to pass tests and come to the doctor's office in order to outline a plan of "cleansing" actions. Better yet, do not bring the body to a state that requires cleansing. How to do it? Monitor proper nutrition. "

Semyon Rapoport, Dr. med. sciences, prof. Clinics of gastroenterology of the I.M.Sechenov Moscow Medical Academy: “Many of us eat too much meat. To help the gastrointestinal tract and kidneys, to allow them to rest, it is necessary to periodically arrange vegetarian fasting days. At the same time, the calorie content of the diet will decrease, which will benefit all systems and organs. You can cleanse the body not only through the digestive tract. During SPA procedures, in a steam bath, metabolic products are excreted through the skin, which takes over the kidney function. "

Subcutaneous fat, which many people want to part with through cleansing diets, is not as dangerous as invisible, visceral fat. It is recognized as a risk factor for diabetes, cancer, atherosclerosis, hypertension, heart attack, and stroke.

Mikhail Ginzburg, Dr. med. Sci., Director of the Research Institute of Dietetics and Diet Therapy: “The real slag is visceral fat. It accumulates inside the abdominal cavity around internal organs, on the walls of blood vessels, which leads to the development of atherosclerosis. You can get rid of it with diet and adequate exercise. "

Conclusion

Buckwheat and kefir are two healthy and safe products. Buckwheat is a hypoallergenic cereal, which is part of many medicinal diets for children and adults. Kefir is able to prevent the development of gastritis, gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer.

Buckwheat-kefir body cleansing is a soft and comfortable way to improve the condition of the gastrointestinal tract and get rid of excess weight. However, in the presence of chronic diseases, before using kefir with buckwheat, it is better to consult a doctor and undergo the necessary examinations, since the effect of the diet is individual for each person.