Useful properties of mustard oil and its use in folk medicine

The most valuable nutritious product for a long time is mustard oil. The benefits and harms of this remedy were known to healers of ancient Rome and Greece. Mustard oil also enjoyed popularity in India. There it was used as a remedy for leprosy. In Russia, this product became widespread in the nineteenth century. It was then that its production was started on an industrial scale.

Now, mustard oil is used as a prophylactic to avoid heart and vascular diseases. The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation recommends the inclusion of this product in the daily diet due to the high content of polyunsaturated fatty acids in it.

Useful properties of mustard oil allow you to use it in cosmetology. This product is also used to increase the effectiveness of rubbing and massage. Popularity is the use of mustard seed oil when treated with folk methods.

Useful properties of mustard oil due to a wide range of its constituent nutrients. The active components of this product are fatty acids (linolenic and erucic, lignoceric and peanut, oleic and behenic, dihydroxystearic, palmitic and linoleic), essential oils (allylorthothyranic and crotonylcholine), myrosin (enzyme) and carbon disulphide, sinigrin glycoside and iron, ascorbic acid and Calcium, and vitamins that are classified as fat-soluble.

Useful properties of mustard oil can be used as a means to get rid of pathologies of the digestive system and diseases of blood vessels and heart. This product is effective in the treatment of burns and external wounds. It is also used as a tool with bactericidal and antiseptic properties.

Useful properties of mustard oil are also manifested in connection with the content in it of all fat-soluble vitamins. These elements necessary for health differ as follows:

- increase the body's resistance to various infections;

- ensure the normal functioning of the epithelium on the skin and mucous membranes;

- contribute to the development and growth of the body;

- normalize the nitrogen exchange and respiration of tissues;

- have an expanding effect on the vessels;

- increase the elasticity and strength of capillaries, as well as improve their permeability.

One of the active substances of mustard oil is beta-sitosterol. Thanks to him, the product is able to show anti-atherosclerotic, estrogen-like, bacteriostatic and antifungal effects. The use of oil from mustard seeds helps to improve blood composition, as well as increase the number of leukocytes, hemoglobin and erythrocytes. This is made possible by chlorophyll, which is part of the medicinal product.

The area of therapeutic use of mustard oil is quite extensive. It is used to get rid of gout and arthritis. Due to the disinfecting properties, the curative product is popular as a means of immediately stopping bleeding in cuts. Useful properties of mustard allow the use of oil, squeezed out of its seeds, to strengthen the skin and rejuvenate them. Using this valuable product can prevent the appearance of gray hair and stop the process of hair loss.

Has mustard little and a number of contraindications. It can cause quite serious damage to human health in the case when there is a personal intolerance to any of the components that are in its composition. The use of mustard oil is prohibited in cases of exacerbation of diseases of the digestive tract that are chronic. When used as an external agent, the product may provoke the appearance of allergic reactions.