beneficial properties and harm, linseed oil

Flax is an annu­al, herba­ceous plant that can reach a height of up to 1 meter. It has a thin stalk with nar­row leaves, and flax flaunts with its soft-soft blue flow­ers from July to August, which then give fruit — a spher­i­cal box.

The process of grow­ing flax began 5000 years ago in Egypt and Cen­tral Asia.

As you know, years are used not only for the man­u­fac­ture of nat­ur­al light fab­ric, but also in folk med­i­cine.

Con­tent:

The heal­ing prop­er­ties of flax are explained by its chem­i­cal com­po­si­tion. Flax seed con­tains mucus, lina­marin gly­co­side, car­bo­hy­drates, fat­ty oils, which include glyc­erides of linole­ic, ole­ic, linolenic, stearic and palmitic acids.

Useful properties of flax

Prop­er­ties of flax seeds:

• mild lax­a­tive;
• envelop­ing agent;
• anti-inflam­ma­to­ry.

After inges­tion, they swell in the gas­troin­testi­nal tract and stim­u­late intesti­nal motil­i­ty.
Mucus is pre­pared from flax seeds by insist­ing on water, which is used for inflam­ma­to­ry and ulcer­a­tive dis­eases of the stom­ach and intestines. Fat­ty oils also help food move faster.

This makes it pos­si­ble to use flax as a mild lax­a­tive for con­sti­pa­tion and to achieve punc­tu­al bow­el move­ments. This is explained by the fact that, swelling and not being digest­ed for a long time, the mucus from flax seeds mechan­i­cal­ly stretch­es the intestines, increas­es its con­trac­tion, and accel­er­ates the move­ment of the food mass. The secre­to­ry and motor func­tion of the gas­troin­testi­nal tract is enhanced by the alka­loid lina­marin con­tained in the seed coat.

Mucus from the seeds can also be used for dis­eases of the uri­nary sys­tem and the mucous mem­brane of the res­pi­ra­to­ry tract.

Poul­tices are made from fresh­ly ground flax seeds to speed up the mat­u­ra­tion of boils. To do this, grind the seeds, place in a gauze bag and immerse in boiled water (not boil­ing) for 10 min­utes. Then apply the bag to the boil for 20 min­utes. Poul­tices do 2–3 times a day.

An infu­sion of dried flax herb has a diuret­ic effect. Pour one table­spoon of dry chopped grass with a glass of boil­ing water and leave for 30 min­utes, and then strain. 1 st. spoon to take 3–4 times a day as a diuret­ic in dis­eases of the kid­neys and blad­der. The course of treat­ment is up to 3 weeks.

For med­i­c­i­nal pur­pos­es, lin­seed oil is also wide­ly used as a lax­a­tive and diuret­ic for cholelithi­a­sis and chole­cys­ti­tis (1–2 table­spoons each). With con­sti­pa­tion, it should be used on an emp­ty stom­ach, with chole­cys­ti­tis — dur­ing meals.
It is used in dietary nutri­tion in patients with impaired fat metab­o­lism, with ath­er­o­scle­ro­sis, coro­nary heart dis­ease, brain, hyper­ten­sion, dia­betes mel­li­tus, with cir­rho­sis of the liv­er, hepati­tis, fat­ty hepato­sis (fat­ty liv­er).

Flaxseed oil con­tains a min­i­mum amount of cho­les­terol and a large amount of polyun­sat­u­rat­ed fat­ty acids.

Mucus pre­pared from flax seed is very use­ful for the diges­tive tract.

Flax slime recipe

• Take a 200 ml glass jar with a lid.
• Place 1 tea­spoon of flax seeds (with a slide) into it and pour 100 ml of boil­ing water.
• Close the jar with a lid and shake for 15 min­utes.
• Strain the result­ing mucus through cheese­cloth and squeeze.
• Take 1/4 cup 3 times a day 30 min­utes before meals while warm.

Mucus should be pre­pared imme­di­ate­ly before tak­ing. The course of treat­ment is 2–3 weeks. Apply mucus and exter­nal­ly — in the form of ene­mas for inflam­ma­tion of the colon, hem­or­rhoids. To do this, one ene­ma should use 50 ml of mucus, the tem­per­a­ture of which is 35–38 ° C.

How else can you use flax seeds?

In addi­tion to decoc­tion or mucus from flax seeds, they can be con­sumed dry, adding to kefir for break­fast. Many doc­tors rec­om­mend drink­ing kefir with flax seeds in the autumn-win­ter peri­od, because this will help to resist var­i­ous virus­es.

Many now intro­duce flax seeds into their diet pre­cise­ly in order to lose weight. It is most effec­tive to con­sume flax seeds in the morn­ing, adding to break­fast. If your goal is a com­pre­hen­sive cleans­ing of the body, then you need to drink a decoc­tion of flax seeds on an emp­ty stom­ach for sev­er­al days in a row.

Harm of flax

Flax is not only an end­less ben­e­fit and a com­po­nent of the elixir of immor­tal­i­ty. Like any sub­stance with med­i­c­i­nal prop­er­ties, flax has both side effects and con­traindi­ca­tions. We strong­ly rec­om­mend that you famil­iar­ize your­self with them before use:

• Flax seeds do not need to be eat­en in large quan­ti­ties, that is, more than one table­spoon per day, since they con­tain a large amount of lin­seed oil, dis­com­fort in the liv­er area is pos­si­ble.
• Some peo­ple may expe­ri­ence bloat­ing or flat­u­lence when eat­ing flaxseed, in which case start con­sum­ing flaxseed with one tea­spoon and slow­ly increase the dosage.
• In the pres­ence of stones in the blad­der, in the gall­blad­der, with pan­cre­ati­tis, chole­cys­ti­tis, you need to use flax seeds with great care, since flax seeds have a strong choleretic effect.
• It is not rec­om­mend­ed to use flax seeds dur­ing preg­nan­cy and breast­feed­ing.
• When using flax seeds, aller­gic reac­tions are pos­si­ble.
• If you con­sume flax seeds long enough, it can lead to diar­rhea and pain symp­toms.
• It is strict­ly for­bid­den to take flax seeds with intesti­nal obstruc­tion.
• You can not use flax seeds in acute and chron­ic chole­cys­ti­tis, espe­cial­ly in the acute stage.

Atten­tion! Do not use flax prepa­ra­tions for a long time or exceed the dosage (espe­cial­ly herbal infu­sion), as this can lead to poi­son­ing.

What is the difference between white (golden) linen and brown linen?

What col­or is bet­ter to buy flax seeds?

White (gold­en, yel­low) flax is a spe­cial­ly cul­ti­vat­ed plant.

The fact is that the nutri­tion­al val­ue of white flax is much high­er than brown, but grow­ing this crop is much more dif­fi­cult. Gold­en and brown flax dif­fer in taste. Many pre­fer white linen.

How­ev­er, both linens are the best way to main­tain health and beau­ty!

White flax seeds are eas­i­er to use in cook­ing. If the kids don’t like eat­ing brown flaxseeds, you can use gold­en flaxseeds as they can be eas­i­ly added to bread, muffins, mues­li, break­fast cere­als and oat­meal. The gold­en col­or will not be observed in the prod­ucts.

Brown flax seeds are more afford­able as they are sold in any gro­cery store. It can be a meal from flax seeds, as well as a whole look.

Linseed oil

Lin­seed oil is wide­ly used in folk meth­ods of treat­ment. Flax oil con­tains unsat­u­rat­ed fat­ty acids: omega‑3 — 60%, omega‑6 — 20%, omega‑9 — 10%.

What is most inter­est­ing, in terms of use­ful prop­er­ties, lin­seed oil even sur­pass­es fish oil. What does flaxseed oil treat?

• ath­er­o­scle­ro­sis
• vas­cu­lar dis­ease
• throm­bus for­ma­tion.

If you under­go treat­ment with lin­seed oil, it will con­tribute to the pre­ven­tion of:

• car­dio­vas­cu­lar dis­ease
• hyper­ten­sive crises,
• the devel­op­ment of heart attacks, as blood vis­cos­i­ty and cho­les­terol lev­els decrease, and the work­load on the heart is reduced.
• Ease the menopause
• improves the con­di­tion of hair and skin when tak­en oral­ly,
• has anti-inflam­ma­to­ry, envelop­ing, diuret­ic, lax­a­tive effect.

Applied inside in the morn­ing before meals 1.5 table­spoons course from 21 days to 4 weeks. It must be remem­bered that flaxseed oil does not need to be heat­ed when eat­ing.

In addi­tion, there are many recipes for flax hair masks, both from oil and from the seeds them­selves. For exam­ple, for the face, use heat­ed oil in the form of a com­press for 15 min­utes — this is great for dry and chapped skin. If you have oily skin, then use a cos­met­ic clay mask with lin­seed oil, also keep it for no more than 15 min­utes.

You can also apply pure flaxseed oil all over your hair, it will nour­ish dam­aged and falling hair. Lin­seed oil will nour­ish, regen­er­ate, strength­en hair, elim­i­nate dry­ness.

As we can sum up, the prop­er­ties of the flax plant are amaz­ing! Linen is per­fect for a healthy diet, pre­ven­tion and treat­ment of dis­eases, as well as for cos­met­ic care.

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