Healing hazelnuts - fantastic food from the forest

Who has not tried the nuts brought in childhoodfather, mother or grandmother with grandfather from the forest. In the harvest year they were recruited baskets, for the future, for several years ahead. After all, harvests of hazelnuts - the fruits of hazel, in the European part of Russia, especially north of Moscow, are not every year. Blossom blossoms very early, in March, when the snow still lies, and its tender ovaries can kill the suddenly returned frosts.

Or, for example, walnuts are poured in July and August,and here - a rare phenomenon in these places - a drought. And the nuts will be burned without water, they will dry up and turn black. And again they are not. Although the hazelnut, or hazel, does not refer to nuts, but to the family of birch (as indicated by the shape of the leaves and male flowers - earrings), its fruits are true nuts. Here are such jokes of nature. On sale they can not be found. But very often sold hazelnut, a southern relative of our hazel. Its fruits are larger and slightly less sugary, but they are identical in their nutritional and healing properties. Medicinal hazelnuts are fantastically high in calories, contain a lot of nutrients necessary for human beings (60% - fats, 12% - proteins, 16% - carbohydrates). In addition, vitamins B, C, D and E. Minerals in them contain iron, potassium, calcium, zinc. The main medicinal properties of nuts are well known. They will help with atherosclerosis, anemia, enlarged prostate gland, varicose veins, strengthen potency, remove slags from the liver, strengthen the immune system. To consume medicinal hazelnuts, even diabetics can eat. Women know the property of hazel to increase the amount of milk in nursing mothers. Of the nuts, the substance that is the main substance in the known anti-cancer drug "Taxol" was isolated.

The healing properties of the walnut many are known since childhood. Mom, knowing about them, often forcefully force the children who are sick of their eating. And not in vain! After all, they are natural multivitamin complexes containing iron, cobalt, zinc, potassium, magnesium, calcium, iodine and phosphorus, as well as vitamins A, B, E, PP, C. All this wealth is combined with a large number polyunsaturated fatty acids, so necessary for brain function. The last property is known since the time of Ancient Babylon. There commoners were forbidden to eat this product, as they are smart - to anything.

In addition to the general strengthening effect, these gifts of nature have a beneficial effect on the state of health in hypertension and anemia, ulcerative colitis, atherosclerosis and many other diseases.

In addition to hazel and walnut, which, by the way, grows wild in the forests of the Caucasus and can also be called forestry, there are other medicinal hazelnuts.

Rare guests on the table of Russians and the fruits of Siberiancedar - pine nuts, which have extraordinary properties and have a beneficial effect on the human body. These medicinal hazelnuts contain polyunsaturated fatty acids, a complex of B vitamins and a large number of amino acids, which makes them indispensable for the nutrition of pregnant women and children of any age. And, of course, they are good for every person's food.