What are the beneficial properties of almonds?

Everyone loves nuts! and no one will convince me otherwise. Moreover, there are so many types of nuts that everyone will find those nuts that will become their favorite. For example, I love almond. The unusually pleasant taste and some enchanting aroma of almonds captivated me forever. My children love to chew almond nuts covered in sugar or chocolate, and I try to decorate homemade baked goods with almond flakes. But besides your favorite taste, what else are beneficial properties of almonds? It turns out that there are not so few of them.

At the almond tree medicinal raw materials Not only nuts are used, but also leaves and fruits. Almonds, in particular, are saturated with fatty oils, carbohydrates, vitamin B2, as well as cyanogenic compounds, which give almond nuts such a bewitching, slightly tart aroma. IN leaves almond tree contains caffeic, firulic and coumaric acids, flavonoids. IN fruits - glucose, maltose, sucrose, galactose, vitamin B1, organic acids and fatty oils. And just like nuts, almond leaves and fruits contain cyanogenic compounds.

Drugsprepared from the leaves, fruits or nuts of almonds, have anti-inflammatory, hemostatic, anticonvulsant, sedative, analgesic, antiputrefactive, enveloping and laxative effect.

Almonds are prepared from almond water, which is used for heart and nervous disorders. Almond oil prescribed for use for problems in the gastrointestinal tract, dermatitis, baldness, and stomatitis. This oil is actively used in the treatment of inflammatory diseases of the upper respiratory tract, ears, as well as for severe coughs with difficult to clear phlegm.

Eat almonds for pleasure and health!