Since ancient times, figs were famous for their medicinal properties, which led to its active use in the treatment of various diseases. More details about all this we will tell in today's article "Useful properties of figs and its application in folk medicine".
The fig is not only a tree, but a shrub. It is very spreading and branched, it can reach a height of 10 meters.
This tree is distinguished by an unusual color - its inflorescence is born in empty green balls, and the fruits grow only on the female tree. Another name you may be familiar with is wine berries. Pollination of figs occurs with the help of only one species of wasps, and without these os can not appear. From this we can conclude that the plant is whimsical, while the fruits can appear very quickly - after 2-3 years, and they do not destroy pests.
Figs are considered a sacred tree, the Bible often mentions it. Many believe that Adam and Eve made their first clothes from the leaves of the fig when they ate the forbidden fruit. According to many researchers, it was figs that were the forbidden fruit mentioned in the Bible, but the Europeans said that it was an apple, because they could not imagine the fig fruit.
Fig is a relative of the ficus and mulberry tree, which is familiar to many of us as a houseplant.
The fig fruit is nutritious and tasty, and the figs bloom with reddish and yellowish flowers, so it can be confused with an apple, but violet berries are also met. In fresh form, figs can not be stored for a long time, so it immediately after drying, dried and dried in the sun, and sugar from this in figs becomes even greater.
Under favorable conditions, a fig tree can live long and bear fruit for about 200 years. About him was known in ancient times, in Greece and ancient Arabia.
Another great Avicenna treated figs with sick measles, malaria, fever, and also treated tumors, ulcers, furuncles, syphilis and leprosy. In addition, Avicenna believed that figs can cope with any poisons and long to keep youth, and as a cosmetic agent too.
Treatment with figs
Modern medicine also says that the useful properties of figs provide some of the substances that make up this plant. On their basis, medical preparations are created that are used in the treatment of thromboses, cardiovascular diseases, thrombophlebitis, and contributes to the creation of blood.
Infusions of fig fruits are useful for compresses and rinses for colds, as well as for the treatment of abscesses and tumors. Essential oils, which are contained in figs, are able to maintain the blood composition in the norm and prevent it from thickening, so there is no need to drink aspirin, which liquefies the blood, enough to eat for a month one fig fruit a day, and a month to repeat the course.
Also, the use of figs is very useful for people whose work is related to creativity and mental loads - artists, writers, composers, poets, businessmen.
Caloric content and composition of figs
Berries of figs are very high in calories - about 240 kcal per 100 g, and are also saturated with sugars and carbohydrates. In addition, in figs there are dietary fibers, organic acids and starch. In small amounts, protein, saturated fatty acids and fats are present; carotene, vitamins B, A and C. It contains minerals - phosphorus, calcium, sodium, magnesium, iron, but most of all in figs - potassium.
Using figs in folk medicine
In non-traditional medicine, figs were used to treat gastritis and constipation, and decoction of berries is useful in bronchitis, inflammation, tracheitis and other respiratory diseases. It is also useful as an antipyretic and sudorific remedy. To do this, you need to drink a drink and jam from the figs.
Decoction of the leaves of figs is useful for coughing, as well as for such diseases as diarrhea, coalition, dysentery. Figs can destroy parasites and pathogens.
Still physicians can appoint figs at diseases by whooping cough, an anemia, a bronchial asthma, cardiac pains, tachycardia, nephritis - as a diuretic.
With exhaustion, sore throat, high fever, hoarseness, infections of the oral cavity, you can take a decoction of dried fruits of this tree. To do this, 1 tbsp. crushed figs pour two cups of boiling water, and boil over low heat for 10 minutes. Cool, strain and drink regularly, 4 times a day for half a glass.
If you use figs with milk, it gives relief from many diseases. 4-5 berries pour a glass of warm milk, let it brew, then rub and eat half a glass from two to four times a day. It is useful to apply figs, which were previously ripped in milk, to abscesses and abscesses, this will help to speed up the healing process.
Doctors recommend taking it with urolithiasis, since figs help to crush and remove stones from the organs.
3-5 fig berries you need to pour one glass of boiling water, then boil for 5 minutes on low heat, and then carefully stretch the berries. It is taken separately from food throughout the day.
With such complex skin diseases that arise due to a decrease in the function of melanocytes (vitiligo and nesting baldness), one should use infusion from the leaves of figs. 2 tablespoons are taken. crushed leaves, pour two cups of boiling water, allow to stand for an hour, then the infusion is filtered and used half the glass 4 times a day for 20 minutes before eating. It is also recommended to apply the fresh mashed leaves of this plant to white spots, and the pigmentation of the skin will be restored.
Juice, prepared from fresh fig leaves, perfectly moisturizes the skin, prone to dryness, promotes the treatment of wounds and acne, brightens birthmarks and removes warts. These properties of figs were mentioned in ancient oriental teachings.