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Flax seed treatment: methods and properties

It is said that flax is the first plant used by man as a cultivated crop. Ancient people treated with flax seeds in a variety of cases. Contraindications they almost do not have, and those that are - are insignificant. For example, when radiculitis was once applied steamed seeds.

Consider how in folk medicine today is treated with flax seeds.

Composition of flax and use

Official science began to study this plant from the point of view of its medical qualities only recently. First of all, interest was caused by the search for natural remedies for the treatment of oncology. Previously, its use was recommended only for obtaining additional fiber. However, we recently found out that plant seeds have a large number of proteins, phytoestrogens, omega-acids and lignans, as well as a variety of vitamins, micro- and macroelements.

The most common treatment with flax seeds, but there are recipes that involve the use of flowers and even stems. But, of course, the seed is the most useful and vital for the human body. Only such a well-known and valuable acid, like omega-3, in seeds contains three times more than in fish oil.

Beneficial features

So, most often treatment with flax seeds in folk medicine is prescribed:

  • With constipation, in order to calmly and gently normalize the stool, without causing addiction;
  • With pain and against worms;
  • At disturbances of metabolic processes;
  • With increased cholesterol;
  • With obesity;
  • For the treatment of wounds and inflammations.

But also with their help it is possible to alleviate the condition with atony, paresis and intestinal obstruction, muscular dystrophy and myopathy. In Germany, he was treated with dry cough, bronchitis and asthma.

But there is still no controversy about a single opinion. Some consider the only obstacle to the application of seeds to diarrhea in acute form.

Contraindications

Nevertheless, like any medicinal plant, instead of good, the plant can cause harm. That this does not happen, it is necessary to take into account the peculiarities of its action, as well as its organism.

Because of the large number of phytoestrogens and bioactivity, it should be used with caution in women during pregnancy and lactation.

It is forbidden to take it for cholelithiasis and acute cholecystitis.

In addition, poor blood coagulation is also a contraindication for the use of seeds as a medicine.

Ways of brewing

Seeds are ground or used whole. You can cook a decoction, mucus or infusion. To improve the taste, the product is drunk by dissolving a couple of spoons of honey in it, adding lemon juice or a decoction of dogrose and black chokeberry.

To get the infusion, the seeds need to be ground. After that take a tablespoon of powder, pour a glass of boiling water and leave it for an hour.

For mucus use whole seeds. A teaspoon is poured into half a glass of boiling water and insist 15 minutes, shaking. Before you drink, the mucus must be filtered.

The broth is prepared as follows. 2 tablespoons pour a liter of water and bring to a boil. Another quarter of an hour they cook on the slowest heat, then they insist an hour. Before use, in this case, it is not necessary to filter it.

How to prepare a remedy for diseases of the digestive tract

Like no other, folk flax seed treatment is beneficial for the digestive tract. First of all, the pancreas is meant. In this case, a decoction of seeds will do. The recipe is prepared as follows.

Half a liter of boiling water pour 30 grams of seeds. 30 minutes it is bitten, then cooled, poured and take a few sips. To restore the pancreas, treatment with flax seeds is carried out for a long time. But this is a simple and very cheap way of healing not only this organ, but the whole organism as a whole.

The use of seeds is also common in gastritis. Treatment helps with the presence of mucus, which, getting into the stomach, gently envelops it and relieves pain. In addition, it remains on the walls of the esophagus for a long time, and the healing qualities are preserved all this time. Therefore, regardless of whether the increased or decreased acidity is present in the stomach, the treatment of gastritis with flax seeds will be successful.

The recipe for the preparation of the medicine is simple. Seeds are poured with boiling water (1/30), left on the smallest fire for a quarter of an hour, cooled, filtered and drunk half an hour before eating a quarter of a glass. This tool will also help in the treatment of stomach ulcers.

But with this disease, the decoction prepared differently will be even more effective. To do this, a tablespoon of seeds boil in boiling water until the water becomes thick. Then filter through gauze in several layers and drink on a spoon for thirty minutes before eating.

Treatment of stomach with flax seeds

As already mentioned, the seeds have an enveloping effect. Therefore, they are effective in inflammation of the digestive system. Successful in the treatment will be decoctions and infusions. The main thing is to cook as often as you can for a day, that is, the remedy should always be fresh. To add a pleasant taste to the medicine, it dissolves honey or dilutes rose hips syrup.

For the present in a thermos pour a tablespoon of seeds, pour up to half a liter of boiling water and leave to infuse for several hours. For a day, the dose is divided into several doses in half a glass.

For broth also take a tablespoon, pour a glass of boiling water and cook over a small fire for thirty minutes. Finished means drink before eating half the glass.

The destructive effect of gastric juice weakens, pain and inflammation soften. This is the treatment of pancreatic flax seeds. With increased acidity of the stomach, it is better to use mucus, which will last longer on the walls and protect the esophagus from hydrochloric acid.

Prepare it this way: take one tablespoon of whole seeds, pour 200 milliliters of water, boil and filter. Drink a drug one tablespoon 4 times a day for thirty minutes before eating.

From heartburn and pancreatitis

From these painful conditions there is a huge variety of medications. However, flax seeds can be used instead. To normalize the acid balance, one tablespoon per day is needed. To do this, pour it a glass of boiling water, insist 2 hours, periodically shaking. Then press cake and drink the infusion before eating 50 milliliters. The course is one month.

As a preventive tool use ground seeds, simply adding them to food, for example, in cottage cheese, porridge, pastries. It is important not to forget that flax has a laxative effect and a lot of calories.

Excellent will pass as treatment of intestines with flax seeds, and removal of inflammation in pancreatitis.

Excellent results can be achieved if you use the collection of herbs with flax seeds. The most successful are the following combinations:

  • Seeds of flax with leaves of plantain and dandelion, and also burdock root;
  • Seeds of flax with grass and hair;
  • Flax seeds with spores, buckthorn, zubchatka and sage;
  • Seeds of flax with blueberry leaves and St. John's Wort.

In a thermos from evening brew one spoon of a mix and accept, since morning, every six hours. The course should last at least two months.

In chronic pancreatitis take a collection of 4 plants: flax seeds, blueberry leaves, bean leaves and oat straw.

The ingredients are taken in equal parts and mixed. Take a tablespoon of the mixture, pour a glass of boiling water and leave on a steam bath for 15 minutes. Then another half an hour they insist. Take half a glass before eating.

With constipation

Different problems with health modern medicine offers to treat a variety of drugs aimed at suppressing certain symptoms. However, most of them do not solve the problem, but cope only with the consequences.

Medicinal plants, on the other hand, help in a comprehensive approach to getting rid of the disease.

The composition of flax seeds includes a large amount of cellulose of vegetable origin. It stimulates intestinal motility, and constipation passes in a mild and natural way. At the same time, there is a recovery of the body as a whole.

The treatment with flax seeds recipes includes different. But to eliminate this problem there is a simple and very effective way.

For two hours, the seeds of flax are soaked in water. Then put on the fire and remove the broth, without bringing to a boil. After let cool, add a pack of butter and 200 milliliters of honey to the broth. The drug is taken before meals three times a day until the symptoms completely disappear.

Other application of seeds

As for taking the seeds for lactation with breastfeeding, today there are absolutely contradictory opinions. Experiments on animals showed a negative effect. And mothers who still tried flax seeds, speak about it extremely contradictory. Therefore, to drink or not drink a decoction, every woman should decide for herself.

It is known that both to increase and to reduce the production of milk, there are excellent alternative recipes. But with the stagnation of milk flax seeds will be irreplaceable.

In addition, they are widely used in gynecology, with endometriosis and diabetes mellitus.

It is easy to get rid of flax seeds, even from such an unpleasant phenomenon as parasites. It is known that 70% of the population today are infected with these "guests". Flax seeds will easily help to remove them from the body. And for the prevention, you can use ground seeds as a food additive.

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