Cumin: useful properties and contraindications

Seasoning, which the hostesses are pleased to add to various dishes, is a wild anise or cumin. Useful properties of it, both flavoring and healing are valued long ago in Russia. In the food are shoots and leaves of the plant. It contains protein, essential oil, tannins, fatty oil and flavonoids.

What should be used in the plant if you have the opportunity to collect the cumin? Useful properties of wild anise give, above all, fruits. It is necessary to prepare them, when the plant already has at least half of the ripened umbrellas. Collect cumin better either in the morning or in the evening, because at this time of day, the ripe fruits do not crumble. When harvesting, check the quality of cumin: the taste is spicy, hot, bitter, and the smell is fragrant and strong.

Cumin is widely used in Tibetan medicine. Useful properties of it help to remove heat, to cure many eye diseases. Cumin also excels toxins from the body. From the fruits of cumin, infusions are made, which help strengthen the secretory activity of the digestive glands. They help with atopic constipation, dyspepsia in children, flatulence, colitis. Cumin is used as a tonic for the work of the intestines, with poisoning.

Infusion of this plant helps to get rid of cough, bronchitis, as well as other colds. Even as a means to increase the amount of milk in a nursing woman, caraway seeds are used. Useful properties of this plant help with rickets, gall bladder diseases, ulcer of the duodenum and stomach. From the fruits of the plant make a decoction in which the weakened children bathe. Caraway oil is used for aromatization of medicines.

But it is not a panacea for all caraway diseases . Contraindications wild anise has the same as any other plant. You can not use cumin with peptic ulcer, gastritis, coronary heart disease, heart attack, thrombosis, thrombophlebitis, diabetes mellitus.

Consumption of cumin to a person who has gastritis with high acidity is strictly contraindicated. This is due to the fact that this disease is usually accompanied by a violation of the patency of the bile ducts. The cause of this deviation is cholelithiasis. If this diagnosis is confirmed during examination, then cumin is contraindicated for use.

In no case can people with ischemic heart disease have cumin. The properties of this seasoning are such that they can cause the risk of a heart attack.
Strictly forbidden consumption of caraway seeds for people suffering from thrombophlebitis. Once the doctor has made such a diagnosis, it is necessary to abandon the use of this seasoning when preserving foods and sour cabbage, as well as from consumption of caraway beverages. When thrombosis, cumin is also undesirable. You can not eat bread and buns with cumin.

If a person has recently suffered a heart attack, cummin is contraindicated in any form. The consumption of drinks and foods with the addition of this seasoning can provoke increased cardiac activity. Thus, caraway seeds will provoke another heart attack.

Contraindicated cumin for people with diabetes. This seasoning can even in a small amount provoke a significant increase in blood sugar levels.

Caution is required to consume caraway in women's position. Pregnant women often want buns with fragrant cumin. A small amount of eaten seasoning will not have a critical change in the body of a woman and can only cause a laxative, diuretic or immunostimulating action. But a significant consumption of caraway can increase the risk of miscarriage. In case of an irresistible desire to eat a large amount of caraway, you should consult an obstetrician-gynecologist.

Contraindicated caraway for people with transplanted organs. This seasoning helps to increase immunity, which can lead to the rejection of the body of an alien organ.

Cumin is one of the most delicious and aromatic spices, which has become popular with many people. But if you abuse this seasoning and in large quantities eat cumin, its useful properties fade and allergic reactions may appear in the body.