Who did not try in childhood nuts brought by dad, mom or grandparents from the forest. In the harvest year they were recruited in baskets, for the future, for several years to come. After all, the harvests of hazelnuts - the fruits of hazel, are far from every year in the European part of Russia, especially north of Moscow. Hazel blossoms very early, in March, when there is still snow, and its tender ovaries can kill suddenly returning frosts.
Or, for example, nuts are poured in July and August, and here is a rare occurrence in these places - drought. And they burn nuts without water, dry out and turn black. And again they are not there. Although hazelnuts, or hazel, do not belong to nuts at all, but to
the birch family (as indicated by the shape of the leaves and male flowers - earrings), its fruits are true nuts. These are the jokes of nature. You will not meet them on sale. But very often hazelnuts are sold, the southern relative of our hazel. Its fruits are larger and slightly less sugary, but they are identical in their nutritional and medicinal properties. Healing hazelnuts are fantastically high in calories and contain many essential nutrients for humans (60% are fats, 12% are proteins, 16% are carbohydrates). In addition, vitamins B, C, D and E. Of the minerals they contain iron, potassium, calcium, zinc. The main medicinal properties of nuts are well known. They will help with atherosclerosis, anemia, prostate enlargement, varicose veins, strengthen potency, remove toxins from the liver, strengthen the immune system. Medicinal hazelnuts can be eaten even by diabetics. Women know the property of hazel to increase the amount of milk in nursing mothers. A substance was isolated from nuts, which is the main component of the well-known anti-cancer drug “Taxol”.
The healing properties of walnuts known to many since childhood. Moms, knowing about them, often forcibly force sick children to eat them. And not in vain! After all, they are natural multivitamin complexes containing iron, cobalt, zinc, potassium, magnesium, calcium, iodine and phosphorus, as well as vitamins A, B, E, PP, C. And all this wealth is combined with a large amount polyunsaturated fatty acids, so essential for brain function. The latter property has been known since the days of Ancient Babylon. There, commoners were forbidden to eat this product, since they should not be smart.
In addition to the general strengthening effect, these gifts of nature have a beneficial effect on the state of health in case of hypertension and anemia, ulcerative colitis, atherosclerosis and many other diseases.
In addition to hazel and walnut, which, incidentally, grows wild in the forests in the Caucasus and also can rightfully be called forest, there are other medicinal hazelnuts.
Rare guests on the table of Russians and the fruits of Siberian cedar are pine nuts that have extraordinary properties and have a beneficial effect on the human body. These medicinal hazelnuts contain polyunsaturated fatty acids, a complex of B vitamins and a large number of amino acids, which makes them indispensable for feeding pregnant women and children of any age. And, of course, they are good for the nutrition of every person.