We live in an age with a tight rhythm of life, constant stress, which affects human health. Many of our compatriots, when unwell, seek to pharmaceutical institutions. But with the high cost of medicine prices, not everyone can afford to buy not cheap medicines.
Let's not forget about the folk remedies that can be made with their own hands. It helps us in this chestnut.
So what is this plant? Many remember him as a tall tree with beautiful white flowers candles. In the south, tree blooms for the May holidays in the middle lane - in early June, to the north - in the middle. Flowers plants are not only the beauty, fragrance, but they are also wonderful honey plants. Chestnut honey differs excellent taste and beneficial properties.
Chestnut
In the wild chestnut is of two kinds:
- horse chestnut (not edible, is used exclusively for medical purposes and cosmetics);
- Noble (Nuts are delicious, nutritious and healthy).
In this article we will focus on the noble "real" chestnut.
Fruit
Valloneya harboring fruit, spherical shape, hollow inside. From the outside it is dotted with formations resembling thorns. It is usually placed between three and four nuts. The shape of the egg-shaped nuts.
Walnut shell thin, glossy, brown with a spot of light gray color. Flesh represents two cotyledons containing starch.
In addition, fruits contain:
- fiber;
- carbohydrates;
- vitamins B, C and A;
- beta-carotene.
Of minerals:
- selenium, improves immunity, prevention of cancer;
- copper, a powerful antioxidant;
- potassium, strengthens the heart muscle, and normalizes blood pressure;
- manganese, has a positive effect on the nervous system;
- phosphorus, improves bone structure of tooth enamel.
The pulp chestnut, can rightly be called energy bars or "bombs". When injected into the human body released huge amounts of energy, Due to high content of carbohydrates and starch. Doctors sports teams are constantly adding it to the diet of their wards.
The crushed fruit housewife plants are added to the batch, which makes baking a special, exotic flavor.
pharmacological properties
- for varicose veins it is recommended to use a decoction of the flowers of the tree. Flowers poured boiling water and add to the bath when bathing. This procedure also tones the muscle, relieve fatigue;
- for the treatment of colds, good crust. It helps with edema of the larynx, nasal congestion (chopped raw material insist 30 minutes and rinse the throat and washed nose);
- For the treatment of hemorrhoids used seeds and tree bark.
- Due to the beta-carotene and B vitamins, chestnut is sosudoukreplyayuschim plant.