From ancient times, flax was very valuable as a raw material for the manufacture of fabrics, but there are references that about 3000 thousand years BC. in Babylon it was used as food, and in Russia flour was made from these seeds, which was added to ordinary flour. So what do flax seeds contain? Useful properties and contraindications have been known to our ancestors for a long time, let's read this interesting page from the encyclopedia of traditional medicine again. These miraculous seeds contain coarse insoluble fiber, a fiber that cleanses the intestines. Miracle flax seeds contain lignans, which protect the female body from the occurrence of breast tumors during menopause, fight aging and support immunity.
Flax seeds. Useful properties and contraindications
Flaxseed oil contains vegetable fat, which includes various omega fatty acids that our body cannot synthesize on its own. These substances improve mood, prevent Alzheimer's disease, atherosclerosis, cope with joint pain and normalize cholesterol.
- With the regular addition of oil or seeds to food, you can get rid of bad cholesterol and thereby improve the condition of the heart and blood vessels.
- Diabetes sufferers are strongly advised by nutritionists to consume flaxseed daily (fiber and omega-3, 6), and also to replace wheat flour bread with flaxseed.
- Heavily soluble fiber helps to normalize stools by absorbing water, thereby allowing food to pass through the digestive tract more easily, which is undoubtedly necessary for a he althy life of the body.
- Typical signs of menopause (irritability, lack of normal sleep, hormonal imbalance) can be helped by flax seeds.
- The oil properties of these seeds allow them to be used in the treatment of arrhythmia, as well as for the prevention of strokes; oil is used to reduce the intensity of inflammatory processes in rheumatism and arthritis.
- Flax seed is used for burns, acne, ulcers, and diseases of the genitourinary system.
The benefits of flaxseed oil are invaluable. The composition is very diverse and includes vitamins A, E, P, group B, seeds also contain a considerable proportion of protein and macronutrients necessary for our body: chromium, manganese, iodine, zinc, iron and magnesium. In folk medicine, against parasites, general weakness, thrombosis, slagging, as well as various diseases of the gastrointestinal tract (cholecystitis, gastritis, colitis), cough, pleurisy, pneumonia, flax seeds are used. Useful properties and contraindications in this product border on each other a little. So, fiber with insufficient moisture intake can cause not bowel cleansing, but, on the contrary, constipation.
Flax seeds in cooking
They can be soaked, eaten whole or ground. Oil can be seasoned with various fruit and vegetable salads, cereals, cold and hot dishes. Flax seeds go well with dairy products, and they also harmonize well with baked goods. I advise everyone to start adding oil and flax seeds to food as soon as possible.
The beneficial properties and contraindications of these seeds are now well known to you and I am sure you will be able to use this for a long and he althy life!
