The birthplace of Badian is Japan, southeast of China. Now it is grown in many tropical countries: India, Cambodia, Vietnam, Korea (South). It grows in both Jamaica and the Philippines. Europeans learned about the Badian only in the 16th century. According to many linguists, it received its name from the Tatar root of the word "bajan" (anis).
The taste of badjan is sweetish with an admixture of bitterness, it is sharp and astringent. The smell reminds him of a simple anise, but the badon is much more fragrant. Its odor is more complex than anise and much thinner. Badon is used by folk healers, perfumers and cooks.
Badyan: useful properties.
Buckwheat fruits contain up to 7% of essential oils, the main components of which are anetholes. As part of the badyan, there are terpenes.
Impact on the human body is very beneficial because of the richness of essential oils, resins, tannins and sugars. Bad fruit can have anti-spasm activity, anti-inflammatory. He successfully fights against flatulence, improves gastric activity. It is great for kids when they are tormented by gases, buckets contribute to their removal.
The fruits of badjan treat a cough, return the missing or sat down voice. They are able to dilute sputum and promote its excretion. I must say that for the first time lollipops against cough that were made more than 100 years ago by the people of Kiev, were precisely on the basis of the fruits of badjan.
As a medicine, badges were taken in the form of infusions or tea. Tincture on fruits of badyan is used for rheumatism, colic, and tea - for the treatment of protracted cough.
The fruits of badjan are useful for women during lactation, they contribute to the appearance of milk, have a diuretic capacity. They contribute to the painless passage of critical days. Decoction of tubercle seeds has a beneficial effect on digestion, it is useful in diarrhea and gastric indigestion. Badan is a good remedy against increased heart rate.
Folk healers recommend tincture on Badyan seeds for improvement with fevers, abdominal pains, convulsions. It is also used as an anthelmintic.
The literature has examples of using badjan to neutralize unpleasant odor during breathing. It was believed that the tubercle seeds can purify both breathing and human thoughts.
Traditional medicine now uses tubercle seeds in medicines to improve their taste. Badges are included as an independent remedy in many nursing drugstores.
Bad fruit: tea.
From badyan it turns out excellent tea. We take 1 spoonful (teaspoonful) of fruits of badjan, preliminary rastering them and chopping them, for example, in a mortar. Fill all a quarter of a glass of boiled water, and after 10 minutes, strain the broth. The resulting liquid can be added to traditional teas or diluted with water and drunk as an independent tea. To get rid of cough, you need to drink up to 5 cups of tubercular tea, while you can add a little honey.
Culinary specialists add baden into confectionery, for example, in dough during cooking. When the product begins to heat, the badon gives away its unique aroma, which the finished product will certainly save. This property is only bad. Baden is added in sweets only 7 minutes before full readiness. Then the dish is removed from the fire, covered and insisted. To add to the sweetness there are enough pairs of "fruit" badjan or 0, 25 tablespoons of badyon powder. In meat dishes, it is also often added, only almost 3 times more. You can add almost 1 gram to one serving.
It should be said that if you add buckwheat powder to cherry jam, it will act organoleptically (it will improve the taste and give a special aroma and freshness) and stabilizing (preserves the color of jam and its high quality for a fairly long period of time, up to 3 years).
As already mentioned above, the crumbs are added to the "confectioner" for about 7 minutes until ready. In liquid dishes, it is added for the same time, but to the boiled water, then the bottle is covered with something and briefly insisted. In some Asian countries, crumbs are added to dishes from roasted meat, mainly to pheasant, pheasant, chicken and chickens. Baden powder gives dishes spicy, piquant, it improves the smell, and the meat under its influence becomes softer and softer. Badan powder is perfectly combined with other seasonings: with pepper (black), garlic, fennel, ginger, cloves, cinnamon and onions.
Dangerous properties of badjan.
If you suffer from a predisposition to allergies, then use badon carefully and carefully. It is contraindicated to deal with epileptics and people with increased nervous excitability. Buckwheat essential oil should never be applied to the skin in its pure form, because it can cause serious damage to the skin and burns.