The valuable and medicinal properties of bran were discovered already in ancient times. Still Hippocrates appreciated their properties and recommended everyone to use as a good tool for normal work and cleaning the gastrointestinal tract. In Russia, in ancient times, bread was baked from flour of coarse grinding, it turned out as if with bran. People ate it basically ordinary people, and the rich used bread from white peeled flour, and it was noticeable that it was of little use. Ordinary people cooked pastry from white flour only on holidays. To eat bread from white flour in Fasting was a great sin.
Useful waste.
As it turned out, the bulk of valuable substances that are contained in cereal grains are stored in the outer aleurone grain layer. It turns out that in the production of flour of the highest grade, grains are cleaned, peel and aleurone layer of grains, grain embryos go into waste. As a result, the premium flour consists of pure starch, in which there are no vitamins and trace elements, so necessary for human health. And all the valuable and useful that is in whole grains, gets into waste. It can be concluded that bran is a very useful product, which is advised to include a healthy diet.
Composition of bran.
Wheat or other cereal bran is a great source of fiber that is necessary for good functioning of the intestine and the entire digestive system. Scientists say that if a person used more rough food and a lot of fiber, he would have extended his life, and the quality of it could be better. Just bran and eat such food. Fiber, which is in large quantities in the bran, is poorly digested, and this is its useful properties.
In the bran are very necessary macro and microelements, vitamins B: B1-B12, as well as vitamin A and E. All of them are important for supporting many functions of the human body - they help in improving protein, carbohydrate, fat, water-salt, energy metabolism. Regulate the functions of the cardiovascular, digestive, nervous, muscular system of man. Participate in the processes of hematopoiesis.
Vitamins, which are in the bran, improve the skin condition, hair and nail growth, promote tissue regeneration, are necessary throughout the life of a person to maintain good vision and immunity.
If you constantly use bran in your food, then the body is cleaned of heavy harmful metals, the risk of tumors in the intestines in the area of the colon decreases.
Methods of using bran.
Cooking bran for consumption is very simple. To prepare, you need to take a certain amount of bran, pour them with boiling water and close the lid. Leave for twenty minutes, then drain the remaining water, and ready. Such porridge from bran can be added to various dishes or consumed just like that, washed down with water. Getting into the stomach, bran, because of its property to hold water, do not digest and continue to enter the intestine. During their passage through the intestine, it is purified from decay products and carcinogens.
Adults are advised to use bran, starting with one teaspoon, further one tablespoon with meals three times a day for two weeks. When the bowels work back to normal, it is necessary to continue to consume bran some more time for two teaspoons a day.
Between the main meals, you can consume bran with milk, kefir, yogurt and other dairy products several times a day. The recommended daily intake of bran is 30-50 g.
To restore strength after severe illness, weakened people, as well as the elderly, are advised to take advantage of the medicinal properties of bran. One tablespoon with a slide of bran pour 400 g of water and cook for 30 minutes, stirring constantly. Remove from heat, allow to cool to room temperature. To improve the taste, you can add a tablespoon of honey and take in equal parts throughout the day.
Apply the useful properties of bran can and for the treatment of bronchitis : 400 grams of any bran to fill in one liter of boiling water, cook for 10 minutes. Leave to brew, then strain. To improve the taste, you need to add burnt sugar. Eat hot, instead of tea or coffee, throughout the day.
If you do not eat dinner after 18 hours, but you have an incredible hunger , then you will be helped by a handful of bran and a glass of yogurt or kefir, and your body will get rid of undesirable consequences.
Fiber, contained in bran, has a useful property - reduces the content of cholesterol and sugar in the blood. In diabetes, patients are advised to regularly consume bran as a highly effective adjuvant for the resumption of metabolism and lowering of blood sugar.
To whom are brans contraindicated?
Despite the fact that bran helps to cleanse the body of toxins and bile acids and help to remove nitrates that enter the body with vegetables and fruits, they are not useful to everyone and have contraindications. They can not be used for peptic ulcer disease, exacerbations of gastritis, polyps in the intestines and large intestine. With these diseases, bran can cause irritation of the mucous membrane of internal organs.