Since ancient times, mustard oil is considered the most valuable nutritious product. The benefits and harms of this remedy were known to the healers of ancient Rome and Greece. Mustard oil was also popular in India. There it was used as a remedy for leprosy. In Russia, this product gained distribution in the nineteenth century. It was then that its production began on an industrial scale.
Nowadays, mustard oil is used as a prophylactic to avoid heart and vascular diseases. The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation recommends the inclusion of this product in the daily diet due to its high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids.
Useful properties of mustard oil allow its use in cosmetology. This product is also used to increase the effectiveness of rubdowns and massages. Mustard seed oil is popular in the treatment of folk methods.
The beneficial properties of mustard oil are explained by a wide range of its beneficial substances. The active components of this product are fatty acids (linolenic and erucic, lagnoceric and peanut, oleic and behenic, dioxistearic, palmitic and linoleic), essential oils (allyl mustard and crotonyl mustard), myrozine (enzyme), and carbon disulfide, syridine acid, sinibrin and synidin calcium, as well as vitamins that are classified as fat-soluble.
Useful properties of mustard oil make it possible to use it as a means to get rid of pathologies of the digestive system and diseases of blood vessels and the heart. This product is effective in the treatment of burns and external wounds. It is also used as an agent with bactericidal and antiseptic properties.
The beneficial properties of mustard oil are also manifested in connection with the content in it of all fat-soluble vitamins. These essential health elements are distinguished by the following:
- increase the body's resistance to various infections;
- ensure the normal functioning of the epithelium on the skin and mucous membranes;
- contribute to the development and growth of the body;
- normalize nitrogen metabolism and tissue respiration;
- have an expanding effect on blood vessels;
- increase the elasticity and strength of capillaries, as well as improve their permeability.
One of the active substances of mustard oil is beta-sitosterol. Thanks to him, the product is able to exhibit anti-atherosclerotic, estrogen-like, bacteriostatic and antifungal effects. The use of oil from mustard seeds helps to improve blood composition, as well as increase the number of leukocytes, hemoglobin and red blood cells. This is made possible thanks to the chlorophylls that make up the medicinal product.
The field of therapeutic use of mustard oil is quite extensive. It is used to get rid of gout and arthritis. Due to its disinfecting properties, the healing product is popular as a means of contributing to the immediate cessation of bleeding during cuts. Useful properties of mustard allow the use of oil squeezed from its seeds to strengthen the skin and their rejuvenation. The use of this valuable product prevents the appearance of gray hair and suspends the process of hair loss.
Has little mustard and a number of contraindications. It can cause quite serious harm to the state of human health in the event that there is personal intolerance to any of the components that are in its composition. The use of mustard oil is prohibited for exacerbations of a chronic digestive tract disease. When used as an external agent, the product can provoke the manifestation of allergic reactions.