Properties of linseed oil and flax seed taken for medicinal purposes, have long been known and is widely used by many nations of the world. In Russia, the linseed oil special treatment - is not only nutritious food product that is widely used in nutrition, but also a medicinal remedy for many ailments.
The content of the article:
- 1 Especially linseed oil
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2 What parts of the plant are for the manufacture of oil
- 2.1 How to prepare flaxseed oil
- 3 Storage
- 4 Medicinal properties of linseed oil
- 5 The chemical composition of linseed oil
- 6 Contraindications to receiving flaxseed oil
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7 Drugs in pharmacies on the basis of linseed oil
- 7.1 Linseed oil from Now Foods
- 7.2 Linseed oil "Borodino" with selenium
- 7.3 FoodScience coconut and flaxseed oil
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8 The use of oil in traditional medicine
- 8.1 joints
- 8.2 Gastritis
- 8.3 Linseed oil constipation
- 8.4 Weight loss and weight normalization
- 8.5 treatment of joints
- 8.6 Treatment for constipation
- 8.7 Flax oil with weight loss
- 8.8 Flaxseed oil with garlic and honey - "Elixir of Youth"
- 9 Video of linseed oil
Especially linseed oil
Flax is known to people as a culture about 7000 years. According to scientists the first mention of flax were found in Assia, ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia in the form of sarcophagi found linen cloths, which were wrapped in a mummy. Excavation of graves on Swiss also samples of linen cloth was found dated approximately VIII century BC
Roman name for flax Linum, derived from the Celtic lin-thread.
The literal translation of the word Linum means "naipolezny", indicating a high demand for flax as a culture already in those days. In Russia flax was introduced in the 2nd millennium BC. Ancient slavyanevozdelyvali flax for clothing, fishing nets, ropes and sails. In this period came the first mention of the oil from flax seeds.
What parts of the plant are for the manufacture of oil
Flax (or crop) is not growing in the wild and is an annual plant in the culture cultivated mainly two varieties: flax and flax. Flax - fairly high plant with the stem height to 130 cm, which is formed on the seed boxes 1-3. In one box to 10 seeds.
The flax seeds contain a high percentage of fibers (30%), so this sort is used mainly for the production of flax yarns. The oil obtained from it a bit, but it sweeps high taste qualities. Flax - plant is undersized with stem 60 cm in height and has a branched structure and many boxes of a large number of seeds.
In each box Kudryash they contain from 30 to 60, containing a high percentage of oil. Kudryash grown for the purpose of preparing a food product.
The number of cores in boxes oilseed flax affected locus. In Russia, the most favorable for the cultivation of flax are Leningrad and Smolensk region, Siberia - its western and eastern parts, Tver region. locus Curly varieties - is the central Black Earth and the Caucasus. In this area than north seeding, the greater the% of iodine contained in the produced oil.
How to prepare flaxseed oil
Treated seeds are pushed by special press until golden liquid - linseed oil. This method of obtaining a product called cold pressing. The precipitate is removed by chemical treatment. Useful weight with such production method is 97% of the total weight of the feedstock.
Flax seeds can be stored for a long time, but making oil is a highly perishable product. In this way, cooking oil - refined. Compressing give crude product which is used in the manufacture of varnishes, oil paints for painting and quick-drying lacquers.
Storage
Linseed oil in use bole delicately unlike other vegetable oils used in cooking. It requires special storage conditions and quickly deteriorates under the influence of the external environment of the facts of the environment. As a result of the oil polymerises with atmospheric oxygen - dries and coated rigid film.
The taste becomes bitter, and it becomes unfit for consumption.
To avoid this process should adhere to the following rules:
- Packaging. Traditionally, linseed oil stored in dark glass bottles green or brown in color, with a tight, well-fitting stopper.
- Shine. Daylight is harmful to the linseed oil. Under its influence the process of oxidation of fatty acids contained in the oil, resulting in a loss of useful properties and therapeutic properties of the oil, making it useless. Therefore, the oil should be stored in a dark place with lid tightly closed. This may be a kitchen cabinet or other place where no light enters.
- Temperature. Comfort temperature for the linseed oil - room 20-23 ° C. Oil does not like high or low temperatures. When stored in the refrigerator, it hardens and becomes cloudy. If glowing of oil components, including fatty acids, are destroyed, forming harmful free radicals. Therefore, the product can not be used for frying. Prolonged heating it becomes toxic and flammable.
- Shelf life. By purchasing the oil should pay attention to the shelf life, which is not calculated from the date of the distribution chain, and with the date of the spin. This date is indicated on the package label, with it also should be calculated shelf life, which is 1 year.
Medicinal properties of linseed oil
Take flaxseed oil for medicinal purposes for women is considered to be particularly useful, thanks to its unique composition, oil helps to ensure normal metabolism process. Since Omega - 3 is not synthesized by the human body, food - the only source of supply of acid in the human body.
Meanwhile, this is the most important fatty acid that is responsible for normal functioning of the circulatory system and regulation of metabolism, preventing the clogging of blood vessels and normalize cholesterol levels blood. This is important for the normal course of pregnancy in women.
The gestation period is characterized by increased blood viscosity, making it difficult to pass through the blood vessels, and the presence of cholesterol plaques on their walls could aggravate the situation and lead to a lack of oxygen and mineral elements in not only bodies mother but also the baby.
Admission linseed oil eliminates this problem by improving the blood flow in a woman's body and blood flow between mother and fetus. Another important feature is the product's ability to correct a hormonal woman background.
This property is due to the presence of oil in its composition fitoestragenov deficit which complicates the process of conception and gestation. Compensate for a deficiency of hormones, phytoestrogens flax stabilize hormones, which favorably affects the course of pregnancy and the formation of the fetus. In the male organism linseed oil acts not so clear as in the female.
Bracing effect when taking the oil is expressed by:
- in enhancing immunity;
- in reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease;
- in lowering cholesterol;
- in the normalization of the digestive system.
- to improve metabolism.
In adolescence, the intake of oil and fitoestragenov in its composition will help rid the skin of juvenile acne. In adulthood, the regular intake of oil helps to increase male potency and sperm quality, to solve the problem with a disease of the urinary tract and prostate.
However, men should take the oil with caution. Phytoestrogens - a female sex hormones of vegetable origin. Excessive use them as part of linseed oil can lead not only to men with thick hair, but also to fail hormonal system, excess weight, weak sperm and the appearance of fatty deposits in the "female" parts of the body - the stomach, flanks and thighs.
Moreover, the high content of omega-acids in the male may be a cause of prostate cancer.
Flax oil is used as an additive, and the children's diets. Using it as a part of the daily diet, the children develop better. Improves motor skills, stress and orientation in space, there is suppression of pathogenic intestinal flora and getting better digestion.
Nutritionists and pediatricians prescribe intake of flaxseed oil for children who:
- often suffer from;
- tired quickly;
- suffer regular constipation;
- They have a poor appetite;
- lagging behind in development.
Flaxseed oil is administered to children, usually in capsules. In its pure form it is not prescribed, because the oil has a slight bitter taste, which is not very appreciated by patients of childhood.
The chemical composition of linseed oil
Take flaxseed oil for medicinal purposes with the highest therapeutic effect helps its chemical composition:
| Structure | Content, mass fraction per 100 g product |
| vitamins | |
| vitamin E | 0.5-1.2 mg |
| Beta-tocopherol | 0.60 mg |
| Gamma-tocopherol | 28,8-52,0 mg |
| Delta-tocopherol | 0,95-1,60 mg |
| vitamin K | 9.3 g |
| Phosphorus | 1.0-2.0 mg |
| fatty acid | |
| Omega-3 | 53,304-53,400 g |
| The content of the omega-6 | 12,701-14,300 g |
| Linoleic C18: 2 | 12,701-14,300 g |
| Linolenic C18: 3 | 53,304-53,400 g |
| Stearidonic C 18: 4 | 0.0 g |
| Oleic C18: 1 | 18,300-20,198 g |
Contraindications to receiving flaxseed oil
Take oil for medicinal purposes is impossible without taking into account a number of contraindications.
Despite the high utility of the product is not used in the period of exacerbation:
- intestinal diseases;
- cholecystitis;
- cholelithiasis;
- an allergic reaction to an oil component;
- pancreatitis.
Not assigned product at polyps in the uterus, taking antiviral drugs and antidepressants, and also in the presence of cancers provoked by high content of estrogen in body. The product was used with caution in chronic diseases of intestine and stomach as fatty oils structure may provoke their aggravation.
Drugs in pharmacies on the basis of linseed oil
Today, pharmacy network offers a wide range of choice on the basis of linseed oil products with a wide range of prices and offerings from different vendors.
Linseed oil from Now Foods
A product with a high content of lignin (phytoestrogens). 120 gelatin capsules containing 100% of flax oil. The drug strengthens the immune system a beneficial effect on the condition of hair and nails.
Linseed oil "Borodino" with selenium
Liquid, highly purified product of processing of flax seeds by cold pressing with a high content of selenium. It is used for output of kidney stones, reduces pain during menstruation, used in the treatment of psoriasis and eczema. In case of hypersensitivity to the components and bleeding disorder products are accepted not recommended.
FoodScience coconut and flaxseed oil
90 gel capsules the mixture of coconut oil and linseed in plastic. Such tandem oils comprises the entire set of fatty acids and is a vegetarian alternative to fish oil. Product Acceptance creates a comfortable state of the joints and improves their performance. In addition to the impact on the joints of the product strengthens the immune system and supports the heart muscle.
The use of oil in traditional medicine
Accept linseed oil medicinally accepted not only clean but also in a combined form. Due to the record number in its fatty acid composition, and in particular, omega-3 product is a powerful prophylactic means various diseases has disinfecting and cleansing effect in connection with what is widely used in folk recipes medicine.
joints
Linseed oil is used as a curative and anti-inflammatory agent in diseases of the joints.
As an independent remedy to cope with arthritis or osteoarthritis of the oil is not able to, but in the complex treatment due a useful component in its composition, it effectively relieves pain, improves mobility and elasticity of joints, improves blood circulation in it tissues. When articular pains oil is used as a compress.
Gastritis
Gastritis called inflammation of the gastric mucosa. At the wrong mode, the power is a violation of the functions of the secretory glands. Hydrochloric acid released glands destroys the gastric mucosa and lead to the formation on the surface of small ulcers and lesions.
Linseed oil has no therapeutic effect, but its oily consistency, due to its protective action protects affected areas of the mucosa of the stomach wall from exposure to hydrochloric acid, promotes healing and facilitates its state at gastritis.
With regular use of oil pain go away or greatly reduced, disappears heartburn and feeling of fullness in the stomach, there is the establishment of a chair.
Linseed oil constipation
Due to its laxative effect flaxseed provides fast action gently, without damaging the wall of the intestine and causing pain. Contained in the composition of fatty acid oils improve intestinal motility, pressed in its wall.
The combined action of flax oil:
- It stimulates the muscles of the intestine;
- softens the stool;
- neutralizes toxins;
- facilitates defecation;
- It reduces the inflammation process;
- enriches the intestinal microflora nutrients.
- For therapeutic purposes, taking oil for chronic constipation is much more efficient than conventional laxatives, which in most cases are hard, causing discomfort and painful I feel in the intestine.
A method of treating flax oil are its direct consumption, and prepared on its basis liqueurs and rubbing.
Weight loss and weight normalization
For the effective weight required intake of polyunsaturated acids. The reason is that the inclusion of these substances in the diet is an acceleration of fat burning. Particularly intense this process occurs during sleep.
So if you drink before bedtime spoon of oil, then eaten on the night of calories are not put off in unwanted places the figure in the form of extra kilos. This mechanism of action of the product not only prevents weight gain, but also cleans the body of toxins.
treatment of joints
Take flaxseed oil for joints and for other medicinal purposes can only be cold-pressed, and good quality. Good effect in relieving pain joint syndrome rubbing gives cooked linseed oil.
To prepare the rubbing is used:
- kerosene - 50 ml;
- linseed oil - 25 grams.
The ingredients are thoroughly mixed and rubbed into the affected joint. Then wrap up the treated joint is warm cloth for the night. The procedure relieves pain, restores blood flow and intra-articular joint mobility.
Treatment for constipation
oil for activating intestinal taken in the morning on an empty stomach. Oil well stimulates peristalsis. 1 teaspoon of it must be taken within a week. On day 8 the amount of oil received can be increased. The maximum number - 1 tablespoon at a reception. The course of treatment 2 weeks.
With frequent constipation treatment is recommended 3 times a year.
Oil well with vegetable salads and dairy products, which are widely used in diets and healthy eating programs. Especially effective is to use products with low-fat cottage cheese or yogurt. It is better to do at night, eating a meal instead of dinner.
Flax oil with weight loss
Due to its composition of flaxseed oil is actively involved nutritionists and people leading a healthy lifestyle in a healthy diet program. To reduce excess weight and enhance the metabolic processes in the body of the product is taken in the morning for 20 minutes before breakfast and 1 teaspoon.
To enhance the process oil may be taken as at night after 20 minutes after eating the same dose. Accept oil should be in a cold state, without pre-heat treatment which reduces its effectiveness. The daily dose should not exceed 2 tablespoons. admission rate for weight loss - 3 months. Upon reaching the effect of the intake of oil can be repeated after 2 weeks.
Flaxseed oil with garlic and honey - "Elixir of Youth"
Receiving such a tincture protects cells from destruction, slowing the aging process of organs and tissues, cleanses and makes elastic blood vessels, and normalizes blood pressure. Course admission tincture protects against thrombosis, high blood pressure, improves heart rate, prevents the occurrence of varicose veins.
For cooking use cold-pressed oil and 250 g of fresh garlic '25 The ratio of ingredients 10: 1, as well as honey - 1 liter. Fresh garlic is crushed and pulverized. The resulting slurry was added honey, oil, and the whole was stirred vigorously shaken.
The mixture is placed in a dark glass bottle or other container, close the lid tightly, and placed in a dark place or in a refrigerator. After 7 days tincture ready for use. Ready taken the elixir for 20 days in the morning 30 minutes before breakfast and in the evening after dinner and 1 teaspoon.
Then a break for a week, after which the receiving infusions can be repeated. When receiving infusions may be indigestion, nausea, constipation, may occur an allergic reaction to the oil components. In case of any signs of side effects of receiving infusions should be discontinued.
Thus, it is possible and it is necessary to maintain the beauty and health to take flax seed oil for medicinal purposes. However, it should be remembered that the oil - it supplements (dietary supplement), and in case of serious health violations its application in medical order is possible only in the complex therapy, prescribed by the doctor to the patient's analyzes and an individual approach to its problem.
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