Caraway seeds: advantage and harm

Caraway seeds: advantage and harm

Caraway seeds belong to the most ancient spices known to the person. Began to use caraway seeds about five millennia ago. This plant is widely applied in medicine, cookery and healthy food.

Advantage of caraway seeds

Caraway seeds include a large amount of useful substances: vitamins, ascorbic acid, calcium, iron, phosphorus necessary for activity of the person.

This plant helps to accelerate process of fermentation in a digestive tract, increases amount of gastric juice, saves from a meteorizm and gastric gripes. Besides caraway seeds have pronounced diuretic, antibacterial, antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.

Caraway seeds are capable to refresh breath and to reduce excess of saliva. Spice helps at diseases of an urinogenital system, with treatment of prostatitis and also is shown at irritability, insomnia and nervousness.

Caraway seeds seeds possess fine antibacterial and expectorant cure for bronchitis. The people having problems with excess weight are recommended to include the products containing caraway seeds in the diet. Also the plant promotes improvement of appearance of skin, regeneration, perfectly affects the immune system of an organism, reducing dizziness.

Advise nursing mothers to include this plant as it is fine laktogonny means in the menu.

In addition several grams of spice will allow to get rid of parasites.

Harm of caraway seeds

At the same time at caraway seeds is as well contraindications. The people having individual intolerance, suffering from excessive acidity, gastritises, diabetes, cholelithiasis aren't recommended to add this spice to food.

Categorically it is impossible to use this plant at thrombophlebitis, to an ischemic disease and the people who had a heart attack. Pregnant women have to use caraway seeds only in limited quantities.

Author: «MirrorInfo» Dream Team


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