Black walnut: application and useful properties

Black walnut application has quite a variety. For medicinal purposes it began to use the Indians of North America. From there he got to our country. Nuts grow on the tree of the same name, having a low lowered wide crown and reaching a 50-meter height. Compared with his fellow, walnut, in our country, black walnut application is not so great. This is mainly due to his little fame. Because the skin of this large fruit is very hard, it is not used in cooking. Due to a wide range of medicinal properties, black walnut application has one of the widest. Due to its growing popularity this plant is now cultivated in the south of Russia.

Why is black walnut so effective? Its use in folk medicine is based on the properties of the beneficial substances contained in its fruits. In the skin there are vitamins C, PP, B, sugars, essential oils, tannins, quinones. There is also provitamin A. Vegetable kernel oil is a storehouse of acids such as linolenic, palmitic, oleic, stearic, myristic, linoleic, lauric, arachine. But, of course, the main role is played by the unique juglon compound, which has a characteristic iodine smell. This substance has antitumor, antibacterial, antifungal and antiparasitic properties. Also, the nucleus contains poly- and monounsaturated acids (including vitamin F), flavonoids, tannins, carotenes and various minerals.

A black walnut is very useful and effective, its price is within reasonable and acceptable limits. It has lymph and blood purifying properties. Has spasmolytic, sedative, vasodilating, resorption, anthelmintic, antitumor, analgesic, wound healing, antiemetic, tonic, anti-infective effect. It is considered a powerful immunostimulant, an antioxidant, an effective anti-aging agent.

The most common drug on its basis is tincture of a black nut. Its use is recommended for hypothyroidism, breast fibroadenoma, nodular goiter. It also helps with polyarthritis, rheumatism, osteochondrosis, arthrosis. Used tincture in fibrocystic mastopathy, adenoma of the prostate gland, prostatitis. It is prescribed by doctors in the case of fungal skin lesions, with diathesis and acne, neurodermatitis, eczema, dermatitis, psoriasis, warts and furunculosis.

Tincture has a positive effect on the motility of the intestines and stomach. It is recommended to use for various ailments of the gastrointestinal tract, hemorrhoids, cystitis, pyelonephritis, urethritis. It is also used for lymphadenitis, multiple sclerosis, various types of tuberculosis (bones, lungs, skin). With her help you can fight with diabetes, hyper and hypotension, migraines, chronic fatigue, sinusitis, tonsillitis, ARVI, parasitic diseases, overweight.

For the use of tincture, there are a number of contraindications. It can not be used with erosive gastritis, liver cirrhosis, peptic ulcer, thrombophlebitis, during pregnancy and child feeding.