Flax is said to be the first plant used by humans as a cultivated crop. The ancients carried out flax seed treatment in a variety of cases. They have almost no contraindications, and those that are are insignificant. For example, with radiculitis, steamed seeds were once applied.
Consider how in folk medicine today is treated with flax seeds.
Flax Composition and Use
Official science began the study of this plant in terms 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 additional fiber. However, it was recently discovered that plant seeds have a large number of proteins, phytoestrogens, omega acids and lignans, as well as many vitamins, micro and macro elements.
The most common treatment with flax seeds, but there are recipes for 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 as 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, to calmly and gently normalize the stool, without causing addiction;
- with pain and against worms;
- with metabolic disorders;
- with high 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 bowel obstruction, muscular dystrophy and myopathy. In Germany, they were treated for dry cough, bronchitis and asthma.
But there is still no consensus on contraindications. Some consider acute diarrhea to be the only obstacle to the use of seeds.
Contraindications
However, like any medicinal plant, a plant can do harm instead of good. To avoid this, one should take into account the features of its action, as well as its body.
Due to the large number of phytoestrogens and bioactivity in women during pregnancy and lactation, it should be used with caution.
It is forbidden to take it with cholelithiasis and acute cholecystitis.
In addition, poor blood coagulation is also a contraindication for the use of seeds as a medicine.
Brewing Methods
The seeds are ground or applied whole. You can cook a decoction, mucus or infusion. To improve the taste, the drug is drunk, dissolving a couple of spoons of honey in it, adding lemon juice or a decoction of rose hips and aronia.
To get the infusion, the seeds must be ground. After that, take a tablespoon of the powder, pour a glass of boiling water and leave it for an hour.
Whole seeds are used for mucus. A teaspoon is filled with half a glass of boiling water and insisted for 15 minutes, shaking. Before drinking, 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 is cooked on the slowest fire, then they insist an hour. Before use, in this case, it is not necessary to filter it.
How to prepare a remedy for gastrointestinal diseases
Like no other, alternative treatment with flax seeds is useful for the digestive tract. First of all, the pancreas is meant. In this case, a decoction of seeds is suitable. The recipe is prepared as follows.
Half a liter of boiling water is poured 30 grams of seeds. 30 minutes it is languished, then it is cooled, poured and taken in several sips. To restore the pancreas, flax seed treatment is carried out for a long time. But this is a simple and very cheap way to improve not only this organ, but the whole organism as a whole.
The use of seeds for gastritis is quite common. The treatment helps thanks to 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 there is an increased or decreased acidity in the stomach, the treatment of gastritis with flax seeds will be successful.
The recipe for 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 for a half hour before eating a quarter cup. Such a tool will also help in the treatment of stomach ulcers.
But with this disease, a decoction prepared in a different way will be even more effective. To do this, a tablespoon of seeds is boiled in boiling water until the water becomes thick. Then filter through cheesecloth in several layers and drink a spoon thirty minutes before eating.
Treatment of the stomach with flax seeds
As already mentioned, seeds have an enveloping effect. Therefore, they are effective for inflammation of the digestive system. Successful in treatment will be decoctions and infusions. The main thing is to cook as much as you can drink every day, that is, the product should always be fresh. To add a pleasant taste to the medicine, honey is dissolved in it or rosehip syrup is diluted .
For infusion, pour a tablespoon of seeds in a thermos, fill in half a liter of boiling water and leave to infuse for several hours. On the day, the dose is distributed in several doses in half a glass.
For the broth, they also take a tablespoon, pour a glass of boiling water and boil over low heat for thirty minutes. The finished product is drunk before a meal in half a glass.
The destructive effect of gastric juice weakens, pain and inflammation are alleviated. This is the treatment of pancreatic flax seeds. With increased acidity of the stomach, it is better to use mucus, which will remain on the walls for the longest time and protect the esophagus from hydrochloric acid.
They prepare it this way: take one tablespoon of whole seeds, pour 200 milliliters of water, boil and filter. Drink the drug one tablespoon 4 times a day thirty minutes before meals.
For heartburn and pancreatitis
From these painful conditions, there are a huge number 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 with a glass of boiling water, insist 2 hours, occasionally shaking. Then press the cake and drink the infusion before meals, 50 milliliters. The course is one month.
As a prophylactic, ground seeds are used, simply adding them to food, for example, in cottage cheese, porridge, and pastries. It is important not to forget that flax has a laxative effect and a lot of calories.
Both bowel treatment with flax seeds and the removal of inflammation in pancreatitis will go well.
Excellent results can be achieved if you use the collection of herbs with flax seeds. The following combinations will be most successful:
- flax seeds with leaves of plantain and dandelion, as well as burdock root;
- flax seeds with wheat grass and drake;
- flax seeds with knotweed, buckthorn, serrate and sage;
- flax seeds with blueberry leaves and hypericum.
In a thermos from the evening, one spoon of the mixture is brewed and taken, starting in the morning, every six hours. The course should last at least two months.
In chronic pancreatitis, a collection of 4 plants is taken: flax seeds, blueberries, bean leaves and oat straw.
The ingredients are taken in equal proportions and mixed. Take a tablespoon of the mixture, pour a glass of boiling water and leave it on a steam bath for 15 minutes. Then another half hour insist means. Take half a glass before meals.
For constipation
Modern medicine suggests treating various health troubles with 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 contrary, help to comprehensively approach the disposal of the disease.
The composition of flax seeds includes a large amount of fiber of plant origin. It stimulates intestinal motility, and constipation is mild and natural. At the same time, the body as a whole is being healed.
Flax seed treatment recipes include different ones. But there is a simple and very effective way to fix this problem.
For two hours, flax seeds are soaked in water. Then put on fire and remove the broth, not bringing to a boil. Letting 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 seed application
As for taking seeds for lactation during breast-feeding, today there are completely conflicting opinions. Animal experiments have shown a negative effect. And mothers, who nevertheless tried flax seeds, speak about it extremely contradictory. Therefore, to drink or not to drink broth, each woman must decide for herself.
It is known that there are excellent alternative recipes for both increasing and decreasing milk production. But with stagnation of milk, flax seeds will be indispensable.
In addition, they are widely used in gynecology, with endometriosis and diabetes.
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 is infected by these "guests." Flax seeds will easily contribute to their removal from the body. And for prevention purposes, you can use ground seeds as a food supplement.