Still ancient Greeks called walnut the real "holiday for brains" and "food for gods" as they knew about advantage and nutritiousness of this product. But you shouldn't think that walnuts can be used only in already mature stage as they and green will provide to a human body a lot of advantage as a part of medicines and numerous tinctures.
Than walnut is useful
In fruits of this plant there are a lot of useful and well influencing an organism fats, proteins, vitamins and other useful substances. Not to mention the amazing taste providing to walnut the place in cookery of many countries and the people.
Especially there is a lot of in nuts of vitamin C of this type which content at a stage of a green maturity can reach 300 milligrams. This indicator on the content of ascorbic acid puts walnuts even above berries of currant and a dogrose.
Other vitamins of these fruits – A, B1, B2 and B3, acids – nicotinic and folic. In a green cover of walnuts the amount of the tannins possessing valuable bactericidal properties is also high. The combination of all these qualities also does walnuts especially in a green stage by fine ingredient for preparation of tinctures, compotes, jam and it is a lot of another.
Recipes of tinctures
There is a lot of options of preparation of medical and preventive drinks from green walnut. The recipe the simplest includes use of 15-20 grams of a crushed fruits, alcohol half of liter which need to be placed in capacity from dark glass and to put to the warm, but darkened and aired place approximately for 2-3 weeks. Further the recommended and revitalizing consumption rate of this tincture is approximately till 25-30 milliliters in day after a meal. When "maturing" liquid you shouldn't be afraid of its darkening as it is natural owing to stay in a nutshell of dyes. It is also possible to replace alcohol with good vodka. With the last train a little another on technology useful drink. Elastic and yet not firm green nuts need to be cut on 4 parts, to put in darkened to bank and to fill in with vodka. Such tincture is recommended to store about a month during which it will ripen, and nuts will give to liquid all the useful substances. On the expiration of the specified term ready vodka can be merged and consumed, and to fill in nuts repeatedly once again. One more, but very important point – you shouldn't cut fruits of walnut and for a long time to leave them without liquid as this product very quickly is oxidized and spoils. Observance of only several rules will help you to make tasty and fragrant drink with delicate a little balsam perfume and saturated beautiful color of a dark chestnut. And the period of storage in the correct conditions of such tincture isn't limited.