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Koumiss: useful properties of the drink

"What is koumiss? A fruit drink, flowing from the rivers of paradise, which can revitalize and give strength to the sick body, "Ruzbihan (author from Central Asia of the 15th century) described it so.

In value, Kalmyks put this drink on a par with juboy. Koumiss was a significant drink in the diet of the steppe nomadic peoples. The milk healed, mowed, satisfied hunger and thirst.

What is koumiss

In comparison with the cow, the mare gives little milk - only to her child. And in order to receive it, a foal is brought to her, which sucks the udder. After this, the baby is taken to the side, and the milkmaid is accepted for the job. This procedure is carried out every hour, and a day one mare gives about 5 liters.

What is the difference from cow's milk? The content of fats and proteins in the mare is much smaller, and the amount of sugar is higher, so for fermentation it is more suitable than cow's.

The resulting beverage can not be stored, which means that it is impossible to obtain real koumiss on an industrial scale. Its price is high (from 300 rubles per 0.5 liters), as they prepare it for a special technology.

In the old days, milk was poured into a leather bag and the horses were tied to the saddle. After which she was driven, and under the influence of strong shaking, he was saturated with oxygen and acquired his airiness. There is a belief that for the preparation of real koumiss it is necessary to mix it at least 5000 times.

Even now, many families place a sour-milk drink in a bag and hang over the front door. Each person, before crossing the threshold, had to shake the wineskin.

The Legend of Lola

Like other beverages, koumiss has its own history of popularity. Useful properties of the nutritional product became known in the XVIII century. When spring began to decorate the steppe with its clothes, a beautiful Kalmyk family Balzanov was born a beautiful daughter. But soon the family got into trouble - Lola got tuberculosis. The healers and elders unanimously reiterated that only koumiss would save her. Since in Kalmyk steppes no one knew the recipe for cooking, Lola's father ordered a loyal troop of soldiers at any cost to bring specialists to the doorstep of their house. By force and deceit, but the Kazakhs were brought. They also taught the Kalmyks a secret recipe for a drink with a strange name "koumiss". Beneficial features Fermented milk products helped Lola to defeat tuberculosis, and the specialists were rewarded with gifts and were safely delivered to their native steppes.

On the territory of Kalmykia there was an anti-tuberculosis sanatorium where koumiss treatment was actively used. Today it is no longer there, but thanks to the initiative of activists there are 130 horses, 36 of which give milk for the preparation of a therapeutic nutritional product.

Kumysotherapy in the territory of Russia

Silence, tranquility, flowering flower beds, around a gazebo, benches and cleanliness - that was the way the first koumissoleum, opened in 1858, looked. Before that the people knew about this drink and came here to enjoy its excellent taste every day. Even Tolstoy himself was among people who enjoyed not only the dairy product, but also this atmosphere away from civilization.

Rules of Use

Unfortunately, many doctors of our time do not know what is useful koumiss, and some even hear this word for the first time. But this did not make the drink worse. In order for him to help cope with the disease, you need to follow some rules:

- Use it preferably in the places of its preparation. As it was said before, it is not subject to storage. Therefore, the best option will be kumisolechebnitsa or sanatorium, where they practice such therapy. The sour milk product, which lies on the shelves of all supermarkets, is not koumiss. Useful properties in it are absent, even the taste is far from the true.

- Treatment should last at least a month, only then you will enjoy its effect all year round.

- You need to consume koumiss only on the instructions of a doctor. Only a specialist is able to develop an individual scheme for the prevention or treatment of diseases. The drink has an unusual property: after drinking 1 glass, a healthy person is filled with strength and feels a surge of energy, but it is worth to increase the amount of koumiss, as soon as it envelops the state of weakness and drowsiness.

More on the beneficial properties of the divine drink

To the note losing weight: this drink is considered a dietary product. If you drink a cup of koumiss before eating, it will create a feeling of overcrowding, which means that the reception of the main course will be reduced several times.

Here is another list of its advantages:

- due to the fact that he copes wonderfully with a feeling of hunger and thirst, it can be taken as a snack;

- helps to absorb heavy food;

- promotes complete recovery of the body after the disease;

- heals beriberi;

- has a sedative effect on the nervous system;

- facilitates toxicosis;

- along with brine, an excellent remedy for hangovers can become koumiss.

Useful properties of this sour milk drink can be enumerated to infinity, but, like others, it has its contra-indications. If you use koumiss in unbearable quantities, then it can cause diarrhea or gas formation. Also, they should not get involved in pregnant and lactating women - 1 tbsp. Per day will be enough.

Caloric value

In 100 gr. The product contains 50 kcal. In order to determine the number of calories in a serving, at home use the table below:

Cutlery Weight, g Caloric content, kcal.
tea spoon 5 2.5
tablespoon 18 9
Glass - 200 gr. 200 100
A faceted glass - 250 gr. 250 125

For beauty gourmets

On the basis of koumiss, wonderful and effective hair masks are prepared. For example, you can mix 1 cup of drink with one yolk. The resulting mixture is first rubbed into the roots, then spread over the entire length. The mask should be kept for about half an hour, then rinse the hair with a solution of koumiss and boiled water (ratio 1: 1). The only drawback of this mask is a "special smell," but if you wash your head with an ordinary shampoo, it will disappear.

Also, on the basis of a sour milk product, bleach facial masks are made. Take 1 cucumber, previously shredded in a blender, and mixed with koumiss. Apply for 20 minutes on the face and décolleté zone. We wash off with warm water and enjoy the effect, which is noticeable after the first time.

When oily skin is recommended twice a day to wipe the face with a cotton disc dipped in mare's milk.

Good to know

Many medical luminaries who know about this product assure that beverages from cow, camel or goat milk are also considered koumiss. Have never been in the steppe, and chatting! A drink made from camel's milk is called a shubat, a cow is a katik. Nobody argues about the usefulness of these fermented milk products, but they have very different useful properties.

Before you start koumissotherapy, be sure to go through the examination and find out about your illnesses. No matter how miraculous the koumiss is, for people with an allergy to dairy products, it is categorically contraindicated.

And finally, do not buy it from random and questionable people. Such producers often do not observe basic sanitary norms. The consequence of the acquisition and consumption of this drink may not be treatment, but an infectious disease.

To my great regret, many kumisolechebnitsy, not having received support from the states, ceased to function. But the nomadic peoples of Kazakhstan, Kalmykia, Yakutia and Buryatia still use this drink in the treatment of many infectious diseases, including tuberculosis.

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