The nature allocated the woman with beauty. And skillful use of plants helps to keep it for many years. One of such assistants is the cedar and, in particular, its fruits are pine nuts. Tinctures, broths, oil and a milk from nutlets not only cure, but also give beauty. Let's consider properties of pine nuts in more detail.
Useful structure
For a long time the mighty tree a cedar (family Pine) possessed soul and was considered as sacred at many people. Height (up to 45 meters), longevity (up to 5 century), trunk width (up to 2 meters) allow to call the Siberian pine the tsar of the wood. Cones ripen at different times. The harvest consists in collecting not only cones, but also needles, pitch, bark. Valuably everything.
Whether you know? The first mentions of cedars occur in the Bible. Noah's Ark was made of this mighty tree.
The basis of a harvest is formed by nuts. Pine nuts are oblong seeds of a cedar pine with bright oily nut smack and aroma. Are useful and tasty at the same time.
Contain, except vitamins, minerals, fat amino acids, vegetable protein of food fibers which is almost completely processed (99%), positively affects work of intestines, removes toxins, slags.
Tryptophane content in nutlets helps to avoid insomnia. And availability of fatty olein amino acid will prevent atherosclerosis. A set of fat amino acids is unique, many of them in deficiency. Cedar seeds will help to fill shortage.
Learn more about such useful product from a cedar as essential oil.
Vitamins
Group B vitamins — B1 (optimism vitamin), B2 (organism engine), strong antioxidant vitamin E and the main element of oxidation-reduction processes RR vitamin are a part of seeds. The role of vitamins A (growth catalyst) and With is big (an immunity stimulator).
Mineral substances
The main minerals of nutlets are potassium, copper, phosphorus, magnesium, manganese, calcium. All of them directly participate in all processes of activity of an organism. Such as fat, proteinaceous, intracellular exchange, growth of bone and tooth fabrics, blood clotting, formation of hemoglobin and others.
Nutrition value and caloric content
The nutrition value of seeds of a cedar consists available highly useful elements, fat amino acids. 100 g of the cleaned nutlets contain about 680 kcal.
It is surprising that high caloric content — not a hindrance in weight reduction as nutlets satisfy feeling of hunger, reduce amount of harmful cholesterol and increase positive.
Important! Distinctive feature of seeds is the prevailing availability of fatty acids and scanty amount of cellulose owing to what the stomach is not irritated. Physicians allow to take pine nuts at chronic gastritis.
About advantage of pine nuts in a daily diet
Seeds are extremely useful, but their quantity should not exceed 50 g a day. It is better to accept as an independent dish, to refuse combination with meat and milk. The last excessively overload digestive process. Cedar oil and milk — the most valuable derivatives from cedar seeds. Oil is received by an extraction. The milk is formed by method of a fine crushing with addition of water at the end of crushing.
Cedar milk was long since used in treatment of a tubercular illness.
Cedar oil promotes the early recovery of skin at burns and frostbites, wounds and severe bruises.
Both oil, and milk increase intellectual and physical activity, strengthen an organism, improve sight, cope with chronic fatigue, increase immunity to infections, remove toxins, heavy metals, radionuclides.
Can help at chronic fatigue beer yeast, a hawthorn, amber acid, pistachios, ekhinatseya, a perga, semolina, cahors wine, kefir, oat milk, a motherwort, grapefruit.
Whether it is possible for women
To all women, especially in the family way and to the feeding mothers, it is possible and it is necessary to eat nutlets and their products (oil and a milk). A contraindication is the individual susceptibility to components of cedar seeds.
At pregnancy
During pregnancy it is important to use products useful, valuable and eco-friendly. Pine nuts have unique advantages: environmental friendliness, a large amount of protein in seeds (an excellent product for vegetarian mothers), lack of contraindications, a possibility of the accelerated regeneration of fabrics (thanks to availability of eykozenovy acid), safe treatment of hemorrhoids at pregnant with shell infusion.
The varicosity (often meets at pregnant women) is eliminated with regular foot massage with cedar oil twice a day.
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When breastfeeding
At the child's birth the breastfeeding is irreplaceable. Including in food pine nuts, a cedar milk, useful qualities of breast milk increase many times. Mental capacities, hormonal, mental, immune, bone, nervous development of the child it is stimulated with valuable components of pine nuts.
The lactation increases, the allergy disappears at babies at the daily use of seeds of a cedar or cedar milk. If breastfeeding is impossible, then cook milk on the basis of cedar cake. In its composition of amino acids arginine prevails (21 g in 100 g of protein). Baby food does not do without it. Useful qualities of such milk are higher cow, goat.
Use of curative properties
Not only seeds, but also shell, and nut cake have medicinal properties.
Tinctures
Tincture of a shell and cake skin eczemas, manifestations of an allergy on skin treat. Bathtubs remove a nerve strain, calm.
- At myoma. A half of a one-liter jar of a shell is covered with alcohol to the brim by banks, insist in the dark place before infusion darkening. Filter. Give on 1 tablespoon three times a day.
- At sciatica. 200 g of a dry istolchenny shell fill in with vodka, maintain month. Filter. Drink on the 2nd tablespoons for half an hour to food.
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Broth
Broth from a cedar shell removes manifestations of a toothache, stomatitis, a periodontal disease, skin rashes.
- At a climax. 1 tablespoon of a dry shell is covered with a glass of boiled water, 20 minutes allow to stand. Filter. Drink ½ glasses five times a day between meals.
- At cough, cold. The glass of an istolchenny shell is cooked on small fire in water liter by three hours. Filter, cool. Accept ½ glasses twice a day. Broth is kept in the fridge by two days.
- Broth of a shell paint hair in chestnut color. Safely it is also useful.
- Water with broth legs that undesirable hair were softened, broke and disappeared.
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Use in cosmetology
Nutritious properties of nutlets apply in cosmetology to masks and srubs. Nuts take crude, they are most useful, pound in powder, mix with various components depending on skin type (for example, with kefir at oily skin; with sour cream — at dry).
Time of action of a mask — about 15 minutes. Wash away. Masks struggle with rashes on skin, remove wrinkles, give elasticity, rejuvenate.
In srubs use the shredded shell mixed with oatmeal as an example. Several drops of hot water, and a srub it is ready. It is better to put after a bath. Face peel and removal of old cages will take place more effectively. Srubs from seeds of a cedar have antimicrobial and anti-inflammatory qualities.
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As it is correct to choose, clean, store pine nuts
When choosing it is impossible to take nuts with an unpleasant smell, the cracked shell, mouldy, soft, damp. Light color of grains speaks about freshness of a product. To clean nuts not easy. For softening or emergence of cracks in a shell they are placed in water for day, filled in with boiled water for 10 minutes, calcinated in a frying pan, placed in an oven. It is desirable to store in the cleaned look on shelves of the fridge (about three months) or freezers (about six months) in sterile banks or special packages. Store nuts in the crude look, well dried and placed in dense bags or banks of dark color.
It is not recommended to store in cones as cones quickly grow mouldy. If decided, then place in a fabric bag in well aired room.
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Tasty dishes
Fill with cedar oil salads, several drops improve flavoring and useful qualities of the first and second courses. Seeds of a cedar give to dishes unusual aroma and smack. Here the simplest, but not less interesting recipes.
Salad arugula, pine nuts and shrimps
For 4 portions it will be required: 200 g of cherry tomatoes, 150 g of shrimps, 125 g of cheese mozzarella, 100 g of arugula, 40 g of pine nuts, 3 tablespoons of olive oil, 1 tablespoon of lemon juice, 1 teaspoon of mustard, pepper ground.
Tomatoes we cut in half, cheese — cubes, arugula — at your discretion, we boil shrimps (it is possible marinated). We shift everything in a salad bowl and we strew with pepper. We do gas station of olive oil, lemon juice, mustard. We mix. From above we scatter seeds of pine nuts. To eat right after preparation.
Chicken and pine nuts salad
For 4 portions it is necessary: 300 g of chicken fillet, 50 g of pine nuts, lettuce leaves, on the 3rd tablespoons of vegetable oil and juice of a lemon, 2 segments of garlic, pepper and salt to taste.
The boiled fillet is divided into fibers, we tear leaves hands to pieces. We place meat, leaves, nutlets in a deep dish, we mix. We pour dressing from oil, juice of a lemon, garlic, pepper and salt. Again we mix. It is possible to use.
Harm and contraindications
Harm to an organism is done by excessive amount of the eaten nuts. So everything has to be moderately. 50 g a day are enough. The woman with an excess weight has to carry out this rule always.
And to contraindications refer individual susceptibility to product components. The danger traps upon purchase of the peeled nuts, on light they quickly are oxidized and taste bitter. Take in a shell.
Important! Rancid nuts cause intoxication or poisoning. Food gains bitterish smack. Recovery of taste will happen a maximum in two weeks without medicamentous intervention.
Not less useful nutlets
East wise men knew that nuts provide us with all necessary vitamins, minerals, proteins, fats and carbohydrates. Food of athletes call nuts. Are most known (except cedar) — peanut, walnut and forest.
Peanut
Peanut is popular with athletes. At the low cost it is protein-rich also vegetable oils. Contains vitamins of groups A, B, C, D, SS. Holds in remembrance, the attention, calms nervous system, promotes reduction of indicators of cholesterol. At the use in unlimited doses the obesity is possible.
Walnut
Walnut is most widespread. Protein content, positive fatty acids, vitamins, minerals in it also impresses. Reduces stress, improves work of heart, liver, provides good immunity. Food for mind — other name of nut.
Whether you know? Priests of Ancient Babylon imposed the ban on use by commoners of nuts in food. And Herodotus from Ancient Greece allocated walnuts with special vital force.
Forest
In hazelnut kernels the squirrel is also a lot of, vitamins of group B, vitamin A, potassium, calcium, iron, magnesium, copper, phosphorus. The advantage is obvious. Besides, nut removes slags and toxins, thereby cleans an organism, maintains immunity. Gifts of the wood are invaluable and are our first assistants. What nut we would not choose, in them it is more advantage, than harm. The main thing is to know when to stop.