Pine nuts in shell

Since ancient times, pine nuts have been widely used in folk medicine, and recommendations for their therapeutic use are similar to the recommendations for the use of nuts of European and Italian pine pines, given by Avicenna, Amasiatsi, Biruni. Traditional medicine recommends the use of crushed nuts with honey in diseases of the gastrointestinal tract: gastritis, bulbitis, chronic pancreatitis, gastric and duodenal ulcers, with the same problems, cedar oil obtained by pressing is also used.
Pine nuts are recommended for improving immunity and recuperation, with beriberi and weight loss. In Siberia, cedar seeds are used for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular diseases, and also as a source of iodine (a prophylactic agent for endemic goiter)
The pine nut kernel contains: fats, lecithin, nitrogenous substances, including proteins, carbohydrates, ash, moisture, glucose, fructose, sucrose, starch, dextrins, pentosans, fiber.
Pine nuts also contain such macronutrients as phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, sodium and calcium, microelements - iron, manganese, copper, zinc, molybdenum, silicon, aluminum, iodine, boron, nickel, cobalt, lead, strontium, silver.
100 g of cedar seed kernels contain such an amount of deficient microelements that can provide the daily human need for manganese, copper, zinc and cobalt.
There are 14 amino acids identified in the protein of cedar seed kernels, 70 % are indispensable, one of which is arginine (about 20 %) plays an irreplaceable role in the development of a growing organism.
Pine nuts contain almost all essential amino acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins: A, B, C, D, E, P. The biological value of pine nut kernels is due to the high content of vitamin B1 and vitamin E.
Eating pine nuts allows you to compensate for the "protein hunger" for those who have switched to a vegetarian diet. Pine nut vegetable protein is ideally balanced and close in composition to human tissue proteins and is absorbed by the body at 99%. Another factor that determines the high nutritional value of pine nuts is that pine nuts contain almost all essential amino acids, polyunsaturated fatty acids, vitamins, and mineral elements.
Being a natural food product, pine nuts have no contraindications for use both for food and for therapeutic and prophylactic purposes. Pine nuts are especially useful in immunodeficiency states, allergic diseases, atherosclerosis, coronary heart disease, diseases of the gastrointestinal tract, including peptic ulcer and cholelithiasis.
Pine nut oil has high nutritional and healing properties, is easily absorbed by the body. Pine nut oil contains a huge amount of vitamins (C, B1, B2, A, E, P, F), essential fatty acids, including polyunsaturated (Omega-3) acids, helps regulate the functioning of the liver and gastrointestinal tract, normalizes cholesterol levels in blood, promotes the removal of toxic substances from the body, improves cellular metabolism, blood composition, has a beneficial effect on the nervous system, has a general strengthening effect, stimulates the function of the gonads, increases physical and mental performance, is effective in dysbacteriosis and beriberi, useful for the growth and development of the child's body .
Valuable dietary and medicinal properties of pine nuts help with high blood pressure and atherosclerosis, give a positive effect on increased acidity of gastric juice, gastric and duodenal ulcers, against belching and heartburn.
Pine nuts should always be in the diet of children and adolescents. They have a beneficial effect on the physical and mental development of the child. Very useful and necessary during the period of change of milk teeth.
The use of pine nuts increases the body's defenses, strengthens the immune system. Pine nuts increase potency in men.