In hot climatic conditions in Central Asia, Stavropol and Krasnodar Krai, in Ukraine and on the Crimean peninsula, an interesting deciduous tree grows with spreading twisted branches, with fruits that look like oranges. But with these citruses, children often play soccer. They are inedible: tasteless, and also cause vomiting. If you take with your hands the fruits covered with a sticky oily film, your palms will become sticky and dirty. They will have to be washed for a long time.
In different countries they call a tree differently: divine, inedible citrus, Chinese or Indian prickly orange, osiji tree, onion tree (in England), Adam's apple, maklura. Application still found this plant.
Native open spaces
Maclura is the name given to the tree by the natural scientist William Danbar, who traveled to the Mississippi Valley in 1804. His attention was drawn to the bizarre fruits, now called the Adam's apple (maklura). Homeland plants are Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas. In India and in China, wild maculars are also found. At the beginning of the 19th century, French seedlings brought tree seedlings from the American continent to Europe. In 1830, maklura got into the famous botanical garden of Yalta - Nikitsky.
It was not only useful where it was born
How is adam's apple, maclura used? The use of wood by the Indians (osijays and Comanches) was purely practical - for the manufacture of weapons, excellent bows. Valuable wood is harder than oak and in beauty, strength is not inferior to a weapon tree - yew. Aborigines are still called it "orange osijey". From the maklura and now continue to make bows. Wood is well polished, used for engraving.
In the development of the Wild West, or rather, the capture and division of free land, the Adam's apple plant (maclura) was used even more. Migrants fenced their territories in the territory of modern Texas, Oklahoma with trees of an "inedible orange". The borders of land tenure were reliably guarded by a barbed hedge (thorns under leaves up to 3 cm). Tightly planted with ribbons, fast-growing landings served as a barrier not only for pet car thieves or scattering herds of mustangs - even for a rabbit it was not easy to slip on the other side of the fence. Protected fences from dry winds. Leaves of a tree eat horses. Now maclura is used in the decorative landscaping of cities.
Maclura with the zutrus fruit has no affinity. She is from the mulberry family, whose leaves are food for silkworms. In the homeland of these domesticated caterpillars (in China and India) there are cultivated maclore plantations. The leaves of plants, which are quite large, feed these gluttonous insects, which draw the thinnest strands of natural silk from themselves.
The Benefits of Adam's Bitter Apples
Sliced fruits smell like fresh cucumbers. This smell, combined with caustic milky juice, is an excellent repellent that repels insects, cockroaches, for example. In ripe fruits are gray seeds - edible and tasty. After freeing from the pulp and frying, they will pass for sesame seed in cooking products.
Found Adam's apple (maklura) application not only where it can grow. Now his fruitfulness is in demand. They are used in alternative (folk) medicine. It is possible that this is the main purpose of the plant - to treat people. Official medicine has not yet been studied enough by the plant, but it has recognized it as a source of nutrients, and in some countries it is used in pharmacology. It often happens that traditional medicine goes to the fight against diseases first.
Briefly about the chemical composition of the fruit
In seeds up to 30% of fatty acids. In the leaves - citric acid up to 13%. In fruits - sugars, pectins - up to 10%, saponins, sterols. But the most useful are flavonoids (mostly kempferol) 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 fruit. Up to 6% comes the content of isoflavones - natural phytohormones that make up for the lack of estrogen in the aging female body, have anticarcinogenic effects, promote metabolism (metabolism), strengthen the walls of blood vessels and regulate cardiac function.
Adam's apple (maklura) - application. Recipes
Traditional medicine practices ointment, tincture and oil made from maclore to improve the body's health.
For general strengthening massage, with muscle tension, to relieve joint and osteochondrosis pains, an oil grind is prepared. Cut the fruit of the maclura into small pieces and fill the container halfway with them. Pour olive oil to the brim. Under a tight lid in the dark, insist 2 months. Drain the finished oil.
To prepare the ointment, you will need coconut oil and maklura (Adam's apple) - tincture. External use. Salt nodules of the heel spurs are softened, the spinal column and joints are freed from stiffness. Intensively need to rub the sore spots with rheumatism, gout, arthritis. Drink a water infusion of sabelnik (for 1 cup boiling water 1 tbsp. Of crushed stems, insist an hour, drink throughout the day). Carefully rub into the spinal column with intervertebral hernias. Drink alcohol comfrey tincture (15 drops, diluting with water, 3 times a day). Cleanses skin ointment from boils, boils, rashes, festering wounds.
Adam's apple (maclura) is taken into service by desperate cancer patients.
The use of tincture in oncology for long courses gives hope for recovery: access of the body's nutrient juices to the neoplasm gradually stops, around it a capsule of healthy cells is impervious to metastasis. An application of ointment is superimposed on the compressed lymph nodes, inflamed places - this helps to soften, absorb, or release suppuration to the surface.
Tincture is prepared from fully ripened fruits collected in an environmentally safe place (away from cities and roads), cut into pieces and laid in a glass jar to the neck. Immediately pour alcohol with 50% strength and close tightly with a lid. You can drink after 8 weeks (without draining, continuing to insist). But the tincture of annual exposure is considered the best. Dosage: the first week of 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 spending 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 tincture). Melt the butter (suitable for coconut, palm, avocado) in a water bath and stir in tincture. Store in the refrigerator for no more than six months.
Do not apply ointment or oil to the breasts of nursing mothers. Adam's apple (maclura) is contraindicated in diabetes mellitus. Application (reviews of these funds on the Internet are positive) must be agreed with the doctor.