Goat's milk: benefit or harm?

In countries where cows were not grown very much, and the main livestock that gave milk were goats and sheep, people have long ago laid down legends about the benefits of cheese and milk received from the goat. This milk was attributed to healing and magical properties. The ancient Greeks believed that the king of Olympus, Zeus, was nourished by the milk of the divine goat Amalfea. Goats, who were grazed by the inhabitants of ancient Greece, were not at all divine, but people placed high hopes on their milk. He was given orphans who had lost his mother, he was prescribed a sick stomach. "The father of medicine" - Hippocrates - appointed goat's milk as one of the medicines in the treatment of tuberculosis, and Avicenna advised drinking it to the elderly in order to avoid the disease, which was later later called Alzheimer's disease.

Traditional medicine now attributes the miracle to the milk from the goat, calling it a panacea for all ills. A special role for non-traditional healers takes the role of this product in infant food. Some of the truth here is: goat's milk for children, especially nursing milk , is more useful than cow's milk. However, to say that it is more useful than mother's milk, it is still not worth it. It has quite a few folic acid and vitamin B12, so if you feed the baby only goat's milk, it can develop megaloblastic anemia. However, if you compare the milk of goats and cows under a microscope, then in the first product the balls of milk fat are smaller, they are easier to digest by the stomach. This means that milk from under the goat is less likely to cause allergy, it can be consumed by people who do not tolerate lactose.

This property of the product allows not only to give goat milk to children who do not accept cow's milk, but also to treat people who are allergic to all products containing lactose. Breastfed babies should nevertheless be given an artificial mixture that is chemically similar to that of women's milk, but made from goat. Such mixtures are enriched with necessary vitamins, mineral salts, microelements and fats. If you still decided to give the baby real goat's milk, do not forget to boil it. But older people can drink it raw. Do not forget about goat's cheeses, which are not only useful, but also very tasty.

Folk cosmetology Widely uses in their recipes milk and dairy products from under the goat. Daily wiping with milk of the skin will help get rid of youthful acne, and hair mask based on goat's curdled milk will forever save the split ends. For those who want to part with extra pounds, it is optimal to drink goat milk, not cows - it has less fat, and it is easier to digest. Also, the advantage of goat's milk in front of a cow is that it is a natural storehouse of vitamin D. Our grandmothers gave goat milk to people after fractures of bone and children with rickets. Also, the product is useful for pregnant women, because it has a lot of calcium, which is needed to form the bones of the crumbs and to preserve the integrity of the teeth and strong nails of the future mother.

But the fact that it is possible to treat oncological diseases with milk from the goat is not proved by science. Milk, of course, will not bring harm, but it's also not necessary to neglect medicamentous treatment for the sake of a diary diet . Another thing is that goat's milk helps people to move easily the unpleasant phenomena associated with the passage of chemotherapy. But to achieve the maximum positive effect, you should take milk not in its pure form, but prepare this mixture: bring to a boil 100 grams of honey, add the crushed sprig of aloe, boil for another five minutes, pour into fresh milk and refrigerate for six hours. Take this drug one week before the course of chemotherapy every hour of the day at a rate of 50 grams per ten kilograms of body weight. Finish taking the medication is needed only a week after the end of treatment.