Walnuts contain many useful and vitally important vitamins, microelements and other substances. They contain coratriterpenoids, alkaloids, steroids, a lot of vitamin C, quinones, tannin. In addition to the nut kernel, essential oils, aldehydes, folic acid, vitamin C, carotene, alkaloids and many others are found in the leaves of the walnut tree, organic substances, coumarins, quinones, tannins in the amniotic parts. Unripe (green) walnuts are rich in vitamins B1, B3, C, PP, carotene, fiber, cobalt and iron. The shell of the malicious walnut contains steroids, phenol carboxylic acids, coumarins, tannins.
Medicine widely uses walnuts in the manufacture of medicines, because they have bactericidal, anti-sclerotic, anti-inflammatory, restorative, anthelmintic, astringent, hemostatic, wound-healing plural. other properties. The leaves of the walnut tree have antimicrobial, anti-inflammatory, wound-healing properties.
Walnut kernels contain magnesium, which has diuretic, vasodilating and removing from the body sodium properties. Explain all these functions can be an antihypertensive property of walnuts.
Mature fruit of walnut is an excellent tool for replenishing the body with polyvitamins.
As we have seen, walnuts are full of general fortifying, auxiliary and other useful properties. Let's look at the recipes for the preparation of walnuts for the treatment of a number of diseases.
Mature, peeled, mashed walnuts are poured with olive oil, put on a sunny place for 40 days. It takes about 0.5 liters of the mixture. This mass is lubricated with sore spots until it is over.
100 grams of membranes or partitions from walnut kernels pour 200 ml of alcohol 70%, insist 7 days. Take with diarrhea 3 times a day, adding 5-10 drops of tincture in a small amount of warm water. When the dysbacteriosis stops, the taking is stopped, because it can cause the opposite effect - constipation.
Another therapeutic method for diarrhea is a tincture of unripe walnuts with green peel, sliced and filled with vodka. This tincture costs 3-4 days. Use only adults for half a teaspoon 1-2 times a day.
Dermatitis is treated with a gruel made from 1 tbsp. dried and finely chopped walnut leaves, filled with 1 tbsp. boiling water, infused for 1 hour. Then filter and lubricate the mess with problem areas.
When hemorrhoids, eczema: leaves nuts cooked in the form of gruel, apply as a compress.
For the treatment of helminths (worms), incl. in children, use this mixture: 1 tbsp. dried leaves pour 1 cup boiling water, infused for 2 hours, wrapped in a warm cap. Then drain, take the children 1 tsp. 3 times a day.
In case of violation of the menstrual cycle, it is recommended to take such an infusion: one and a half tablespoons of chopped leaves from walnut tree, pour two cups of boiling water, insist for 2 hours. Strain, wring out. Use an infusion of 0.2-0.3 liters 3 times daily before meals. The same infusion can be used as a diuretic.
In skin diseases in children, also with rickets, scrofula, baths with such a decoction are recommended: 0.5 kg of walnut tree leaves are poured into 5 liters of water, boiled for about half an hour, drained and poured into the bathroom.
For an auxiliary effect in inflammatory diseases of the oral cavity and throat, it is advised to rinse the throat or mouth with such decoction: 1 tbsp. dried leaves of walnut pour 1 cup of boiling water, insist under a warm cap for 1 hour. Then strain and consume 1 tsp. 2 times a day for children and 3 tsp. adults. With acne, take the same broth, but not more than 1 glass a day.
Gout and rheumatism will treat baths and pouring with infusion of 0.5 kg of walnut leaves boiled in a liter of water.
In the case of purulent otitis in the ears should drip 3 drops of fresh juice obtained by squeezing out of the leaves of walnut.
When wet eczema, nettle fever, itching and other dermal skin diseases should be taken from a bath of this infusion: 0.4 kg of walnut leaves pour boiling water, insist for 15 minutes, drain and take a bath with a water temperature of 38-38.5 degrees in a quarter of an hour.
A useful property of walnuts is their ability to more quickly heal wounds. To do this, take 1 tablespoon inside. walnut oil. Wounds can be washed with salt water, then lubricate with nut oil, lay on the wound a tampon, soaked in it. Apply the procedure until complete recovery.
An excellent prevention of atherosclerosis is the application of the following mass: 10 kernels of walnuts mixed with 2 teeth of mashed garlic, 1 tbsp. sunflower oil. For taste, you can add grated cheese. This mass can be used as a spread on sandwiches.
A mixture of walnut kernels with raisins will strengthen the heart muscle.
Green unripened nuts, which are harvested before July, crushed and mixed with honey, increase immunity.
In case of thyroid dysfunction, start each morning with nuts with 1 tablespoon of honey.