Black Walnut:Juglans nigra and Walnut Extracts Benefits.
Article Content:
- .Basic Botanical Data of Walnut.
- .Countries of origin:Walnut.
- .Naming the Walnut.
- .Walnuts Background.
- .Walnut Habitat.
- .Parts and Uses of Black Walnut:Juglans nigra.
- .Parts Used Medicinally.
- .Characteristics of Walnut.
- .Phytochemical and nutritional composition of Walnut.
- .Qualities of Walnut.
- .Common Health Benefits of Walnut.
- .Medicinal Benefits,Action and Uses of Walnut Part.
- .Benefit of Walnut Oil.
- .Nutritional Benefits of Walnut:Brain Nourishing Effect and Pharmacological Mechanism.
- .Walnuts and your health:Nutritional Profile of Walnut.
- .Walnut Varieties and Grading.
- .Some of the common walnut species.
- .Walnut Applications,Combinations,Contradications,and Safety.
- .Walnut and Human Civilization:History and Archeology,World Cuisines,Folklore.
- .Walnut In Pandit Heritage:Rituals and Recipes.
- .Research Update:Walnut.
Medicinal Benefits,Action and Uses of Walnut Part.
In one region of southern France known as Perigord the long-standing traditional diet is very high in fried foods, rich meats, and fatty pates. Yet, the people suffer fewer heart attacks than Americans. At first medical experts explained this phenomenon by attributing this miracle to the red wine they drink. Red wine is known for its superior antioxidants to protect the heart. Yet, the residents of this region didn't drink any more red wine than those in other parts of Europe. Closer examination revealed that their daily green salads were dressed with walnut oil and chopped walnuts, helping to lower their levels of LDL and overall cholesterol in the bloodstream.
A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, May 1994, showed that those whose diets included nuts, either walnuts or almonds, were able to lower their LDL cholesterol by 9 to 10%.
Another study that appeared in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association, July 1995, found that walnuts could also diminish the extent of heart damage after a heart attack.
From ancient times through the nineteenth century herbalists prescribed the walnut, the bark, the roots, and the leaves as an astringent, a laxative, a purgative to induce vomiting, a styptic to stop bleeding, a vermifuge to expel worms or parasites, and a hepatic to tone the liver. The walnut served to induce sweating, cure diarrhea, soothe sore gums and skin diseases, cure herpes, and relieve inflamed tonsils.
The nut itself was used to prevent weight gain, calm hysteria, eliminate morning sickness, and to strengthen one's constitution. The hulls were boiled and used to treat head and body lice, herpes, intestinal parasites and worms, skin diseases, and liver ailments. The leaf was decocted to cure boils, eczema, hives, ulcers, and sores.
Walnuts are a high-energy food, rich in oil, vitamins and minerals.
Walnut kernels are good for heart, blood system and improve health. Benefits of walnut eating have been observed in the form of lowering cholesterol.
Walnuts used in a variety of sweet and savoury recipes including cakes and breads and are especially good with cheeses.
Walnuts used in Cuba as an herb decoction in bath water to treat various skin diseases of children.
Walnut use as a cancer therapy drug, in addition to having many other biological effects.
Black Walnuts were used as a kidney tonic, which makes sense as they consider the brain to be governed by the kidneys.
Walnut contains rich in Vitamin A, Vitamin E and fatty acids, Walnut Oil is a most often used in cosmetic formulations as an active principal or carrier oil.
The bark and leaves have alterative, laxative, astringent and detergent properties, and are used in the treatment of skin troubles. They are of the highest value for curing scrofulous diseases, herpes, eczema, etc., and for healing indolent ulcers; an infusion of 1 OZ. of dried bark or leaves (slightly more of the fresh leaves) to the pint of boiling water, allowed to stand for six hours, and strained off is taken in wineglassful doses, three times a day, the same infusion being also employed at the same time for outward application. Obstinate ulcers may also be cured with sugar, well saturated with a strong decoction of Walnut leaves.
The bark, dried and powdered, and made into a strong infusion, is a useful purgative.
The husk, shell and peel are sudorific, especially if used when the Walnuts are green. Whilst unripe, the nut has wormdestroying virtues.
The fruit, when young and unripe, makes a wholesome, anti-scorbutic pickle, the vinegar in which the green fruit has been pickled proving a capital gargle for sore and slightly ulcerated throats. Walnut catsup embodies the medicinal virtues of the unripe nuts.
The leaves have a very strong, characteristic smell, aromatic and not unpleasant, but said to be injurious to sensitive people. They have three, sometimes four pairs of leaflets and a terminal one, the leaflets varying in size on the same leaf, being 2 1/4 to 4 inches in length and 1 to 1 1/2 inch wide, entire, smooth, shining, and paler below.
The flowers begin to open about the middle of April and are in full bloom by the middle of May, before which time the tree is in full leaf.
Even in the south of France, this tree is frequently injured by spring frosts.
The wood has been much used, not only for furniture and wainscoting, but for the wheels and bodies of coaches, for making gun-stocks, and by the cabinet-maker for inlaying. It is unfit for use as beams because of its brittleness.
The green husks of the fruit, boiled, make a good yellow dye.
No insects will touch the leaves of the Walnut, which yield a brown dye, which gypsies use to stain their skin. It is said to contain iodine.
The husks and leaves, macerated in warm water impart to it an intense bitterness, which will destroy all worms (if the liquid be poured on to lawns and grass walks) without injuring the grass itself.
Benefits of walnut leaf for specific health conditions include the following:
Acne, eczema, and ringworm. Walnut leaves contain astringent tannins. These tannins cross-link skin cells, making them impermeable to allergens and infectious microorganisms. Walnut leaves contain two antibacterial agents, walnut essential oil and juglone, which act directly on infectious microorganisms. Walnut leaves also contain relatively large concentrations of vitamin C, which helps to fight infection.
Excessive sweating. Walnut leaf washes "shrink" the sweat glands, reducing perspiration. The herb's tannins cause proteins in the cells lining the sweat glands to crosslink, effectively forming a barrier to the excretion of sweat.
Walnut leaf teas can be made into baths, compresses, and skin washes. This herb product is more likely to be obtained from herb shops and other herb suppliers. There are many products that are made with walnut hulls combined with other herbs in tinctures for use as a harsh laxative. You should not use walnut hulls instead of walnut leaf for the conditions discussed above.
Medicinal virtues:The bark is binding and drying and the young leaves are similar. Older leaves are heating and drying and harder of digestion. Taken with sweet wine, they move the belly downwards, but if they are old they grieve the stomach. They kill the worms in the stomach or belly. Taken with Onions, salt and honey they help the bites of mad dogs, or poisonous bites. The juice of the green husks boiled with honey is an excellent gargle for sore mouths or heat and inflammations in the throat or stomach. When the kernels grow old, they are more oily and unfit to be eaten, but are used to heal wounds of the sinews, gangrenes and carbuncles. If burned, the kernels are astringent and will stay laxes and women's courses.
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