In hot climatic conditions on the territory of Central Asia, Stavropol and Krasnodar Territory, in Ukraine and on the Crimean Peninsula, an interesting deciduous tree grows with spreading twisted branches, with fruits similar to oranges. But children often play football with these citrus fruits. They are inedible: tasteless, besides cause vomiting. If you take fruits covered with a sticky oily film with your hands, your palms will become sticky and dirty. They will take a long time to wash.
In different countries, the tree is called differently: God's, inedible citrus, Chinese or Indian prickly orange, osage tree, onion tree (in England), Adam's apple, maclura. The application is still found for this plant.
Native spaces
Maclura - this is how the Scotsman William Danbar, who traveled in the valley, called the treeMississippi in 1804. His attention was attracted by bizarre fruits, now called the Adam's apple (maclura). The plant is native to Texas, Oklohoma, and Arkansas. In India and China, wild maclura are also found. At the beginning of the 19th century, French settlers brought seedlings of the tree from the American continent to Europe. In 1830, maclura came to the famous botanical garden of Y alta - Nikitsky.
Helpful not only where I was born
How is Adam's apple used, maclura? The use of wood by the Indians (Osidge and Comanche) was purely practical - for the manufacture of weapons, excellent bows. Valuable wood is harder than oak and in beauty, strength is not inferior to weapons wood - yew. Aboriginal people still call it "Osage Orange". Even now they continue to make bows from maclura. The wood is well polished, used for engraving.
When developing the Wild West, or rather, seizing and dividing free lands, the Adam's apple plant (maclura) found even more use. Settlers fenced their territories with trees of "inedible orange" in the space of modern Texas, Oklahoma. The boundaries of land holdings were reliably guarded by a living thorny fence (thorns under the leaves up to 3 cm). Tightly planted with ribbons, the fast-growing plantings served as a barrier not only to pet thieves or scattering herds of mustangs - even a rabbit was not easy to slip through to the other side of the fence. Protected fences from dry winds. Tree leaveseaten by horses. Now maclura is used in decorative landscaping of cities.
Maclura has nothing to do with citrus fruits. She is from the mulberry family, whose leaves are food for the silkworm. In the homeland of these domesticated caterpillars (in China and India) there are plantations of cultivated maclura. Plant leaves, which are quite large, feed these voracious insects, pulling out the finest threads of natural silk.
Benefits of Adam's bitter apples
Cut fruits smell like fresh cucumbers. This smell, combined with caustic milky juice, is an excellent repellant that repels insects, cockroaches, for example. In mature fruits are gray seeds - edible and tasty. Once de-fleshed and toasted, they will pass for sesame seeds in culinary products.
Found the Adam's apple (maclura) application not only where it can grow. Now his seedlings are in demand. They are used in alternative (folk) medicine. It is possible that this is the main purpose of the plant - to heal people. Official medicine has not yet studied the plant enough, but it has recognized it as a source of useful substances, and in some countries it is used in pharmacology. It often happens that traditional medicine is the first to fight diseases.
Briefly about the chemical composition of fruits
Seeds contain up to 30% fatty acids. In the leaves - citric acid up to 13%. In fruits - sugars, pectins - up to10%, saponins, sterols. But the most useful are flavonoids (mostly kaempferol) and isoflavones. These substances actively and destructively affect cancer cells, inhibit sclerotic degeneration of body tissues. The presence of flavonoids is confirmed by their indicator - the orange color of ripe seedlings. Up to 6% comes the content of isoflavones - natural phytohormones that compensate for the lack of estrogen in the female aging body, have anticarcinogenic effects, promote metabolism (metabolism), strengthen the walls of blood vessels and regulate heart function.
Adam's apple (maclura) - application. Recipes
Traditional medicine practices ointment, tincture and oil prepared from maclura to heal the body.
For general strengthening massage, when muscles are stretched, to relieve joint and osteochondrosis pains, an oil rubbing is prepared. Cut the maclura fruits into small pieces and fill the container halfway with them. Top up with olive oil. Under a tight lid in the dark, insist 2 months. Drain the finished oil.
To prepare the ointment, you will need coconut oil and maclura (Adam's apple) - tincture. Application external. The s alt concretions of the heel spurs are softened, the spinal column and joints are freed from stiffness. It is intensively necessary to rub sore spots with rheumatism, gout, arthritis. Drink an aqueous infusion of cinquefoil (for 1 cup of boiling water 1 tablespoon of chopped stems, leave for an hour, drink during the day). in the spinal column withintervertebral hernia rub gently. Drink alcohol tincture of comfrey (15 drops, diluted with water, 3 times a day). The ointment cleanses the skin from boils, boils, rashes, festering wounds.
Adam's apple (maclura) is adopted by desperate cancer patients.
The use of oncology tincture inside for long courses gives hope for recovery: the access of the body's nutritional juices to the neoplasm gradually stops, a capsule of he althy cells impervious to metastasis is formed around it. An application of ointment is applied to compacted lymph nodes, inflamed areas - this helps to soften them, dissolve or suppurate to come to the surface.
The tincture is prepared from fully ripened fruits collected in an environmentally safe place (away from cities and roads), cut into pieces and placed in a glass jar up to the neck. Immediately pour 50% alcohol with alcohol and close tightly with a lid. You can drink after 8 weeks (without draining, continuing to infuse). But the best tincture of annual exposure is considered. Dosage: the first week 3 drops 3 times a day. In each subsequent week, add 1 drop to the reception. Bring up to 30 drops per reception 3 times a day. After drinking for a week at the achieved level, go to reduce the number of drops - from 30 to 3. Dilute the drops in water. The treatment period is long - 60 weeks.
The ointment is prepared in a ratio of 3:1 (for 3 measures of oil, 1 part of the tincture). Melt butter (coconut, palm, avocado is suitable) in a water bath and stir intincture. Store in the refrigerator for no more than six months.
You can not apply ointment or oil to the breasts of nursing mothers. Contraindicated in diabetes mellitus Adam's apple (maclura). Application (reviews about these products on the Internet are positive) must be agreed with the doctor.
