Despite the fact that today we mainly use spices only in cooking, our ancestors placed much higher hopes on spices. Thus, in the writings of ancient Roman physicians, records were found that, with diseases of the uterus, women should take baths with cumin, and Arab seducers used a mixture of caraway and honey as aphrodisiacs.
In any case, the caraway, of course, should be useful properties, and contraindications, as well as any other spice.
Composition
The spicy aroma, pronounced, a little bit of a harsh taste, tells us about the rich composition of cumin. This is what determines the useful properties of cumin seeds:
- essential oils carvone, dihydrocarvone, carvacrol, limonene;
- tannins;
- proteins;
- fixed oils;
- flavonoid quercetin.
Benefit
First of all, you need to know about the beneficial properties of cumin seeds, for those who are prone to gastrointestinal ailments. So, broths, infusions and medicines based on cumin remove spasms from the stomach, intestines, gall bladder, and also reduce the pathogenic activity of enzymes, which leads to the termination of putrefactive processes and fermentation in the gastrointestinal tract.
In addition, the consumption of cumin seeds activates the outflow of bile, the secretion of gastric juice, pancreatic enzymes, cumin improves appetite and has a mild diuretic effect.
Cumin treated for respiratory diseases. This spice contributes to expectoration and has a bactericidal effect. Cumin is useful for lactating women, as it promotes lactation.
And for weight loss cumin is suitable, primarily because it is phytoestrogen. It helps to maintain the level of female hormones in the norm (which helps not to lose courage and not to break), while you are starving and drinking a laxative with a diuretic.
Recipes from cumin
To prepare an expectorant infusion of cumin, you need to pour a glass of boiling water 2 tablespoons. seeds and insist under the lid in a water bath for 15 minutes. Switch off and wait for the infusion to cool to room temperature. Then it is necessary to squeeze out the seeds, the resulting infusion diluted with water so that the resulting volume was equal to 200 ml. Take it should be after eating at 1/3 of st. 3 times a day.
Butter Oil
Cumin oil - this is just the best source of phytoestrogens for weight loss.
In addition, cumin oil is useful for weight loss due to a rich vitamin-mineral composition:
- vitamins A, E, C, B5;
- zinc, copper, magnesium, phosphorus, iron ;
- oleic and linoleic acids.
You can use oil both inside and outside. Internally, it is taken in the framework of the so-called "cumin diet", as well as with increased sugar in the blood, externally for skin regeneration.
The rules for taking butter black cumin for weight loss are simple:
1. It is necessary to exclude all simple carbohydrates for several months, at least while the diet lasts.
2. You also need to abandon animal fats, and vegetable should be represented exclusively by caraway oil.
3. Oil should be drunk in the morning on an empty stomach, washed down with water.
4. During the first month:
- 1 week - every day 1 tsp. oil and 1 tbsp. water;
- 2 week - every day for 1 tsp. oil and 1 tbsp. water before breakfast and before dinner;
- 3 week - every day in the morning to 2 tsp. oil and 2 tbsp. water;
- 4 weeks - 1 tsp. oil and 1 tbsp. water.
5. During the second month:
- 1 week - 1 tablespoon. fasting oil without water;
- 2 weeks - 2 tablespoons fasting oil without water;
- 3 weeks - 2 tsp. oil for 20 minutes before meals before breakfast, lunch, dinner;
- 4 weeks - 1 tsp. oil and 1 tbsp. water before breakfast and lunch.
6. And after the expiration of two months, it is necessary to add one month butter cumin oil in food 3 times a week. From other fats and consumption of light carbohydrates you need to abstain for another 1-2 months.