Useful properties and calorie content of hazelnut

The healing qualities of nuts hazelnut( hazel) can not be overestimated. They have long been included in the list of highly effective medicinal plants.

Caloric content and chemical composition

In its composition, hazelnut contains all the biologically active substances necessary for a full-blooded life: up to 79% fat, 22% protein, 4% carbohydrates, 2.6% total nitrogen, mineral salts 2.3%, vitaminsB 1 , B2, C, PP, carotene, fiber, tannins, flavonoids and a set of essential amino acids. Fatty oils are represented by unsaturated acids, including oleic, linoleic, myristicinic, palmitic and stearic acids. There are also iron, proteins, and corellin.

Below is the content of nutrients( calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals) per 100 g of edible part.

Caloric value 651 kcal
Proteins 15 g
Fats 61.5 g
Carbohydrates 9.4 g
Dietary Fibers 5.9 g
Water 4.8 g
Starch 5.8 g
Ash 3.4 g
Saturated fatty acids 4, 4 g
Mono and disaccharides 3.6 g

Vitamins
Vitamin PP 2 mg

Beta-carotene 0.01 mg
Vitamin A( RE) 2 μg
Vitamin B1( thiamine) 0.3 mg
Vitamin B2( riboflavin) 0.1 mg
Vitamin B5( pantothenic) 1.1 mg
Vitamin B6( pyridoxine) 0.7 mg
Vitamin B9( folic) 68 μg
Vitamin C 1.4 mg
Vitamin E( TE) 20.4 mg
Vitamin K( phylloquinone) 14.2 mkg
Vitamin PP( Niacin equivalent) 5.2 mg
Choline 45.6 mg

Calcium 170 mg
Magnesium 172 mg
Sodium 3 mg
Potassium 717 mg
Phosphorus 299 mg
Chlorine 22 mg
Sulfur 190 mg

Trace elements
Iron 3 mg
Zinc 2.44 mg
Iodine 0.2 μg
Copper 1125 μg
Manganese 4.2 mg
Selenium 2.4 μg
Fluoride 17 μg
Cobalt 12.3 μg

The energy value of the hazelnut is 651 kcal.

Glass 250 ml = 165 gr( 1074.2 kCal)
Glass 200 ml = 130 g( 846.3 kcal)

Application in folk medicine

Since ancient times, the hazel is known in folk medicine as a restorative and antipyretic. Use hazelnut fruits with honey for anemia, beriberi, rickets and as a lactogenic agent of nursing mothers, as well as nuts with honey used for rheumatism, anemia, sexual weakness, ascaridosis, with tumors.

Recommended nuts for bronchitis, fever, hemoptysis, choleretic disease, flatulence. They are used to prevent and treat atherosclerosis.

Nuts regulate the metabolism, help reduce cholesterol, improve the condition of patients suffering from coronary heart disease, sclerosis of the cerebral vessels, help strengthen the heart muscle and improve blood circulation.

They are useful for anemia, various chronic, debilitating diseases. In the diet of athletes, the fruits of hazel are an effective tool for relieving fatigue. With urolithiasis, rheumatism, with burns, hair loss, it is necessary to include hazelnuts or hazelnuts in the diet.

For children, junior schoolchildren, as well as intellectual workers, it is very useful to use both nuts and peanut butter. Here are two recipes for its preparation.

1. 60 grams of nuts roast, grind in a mortar and mix with 0.5 liters of hot milk with vanillin, while adding 2 tablespoons of sugar or honey. Infuse for 15 minutes and drink several times a day.

2. Cut the kernels and soak them overnight, and grind in the mortar in the morning. The received weight to insist 3-4 hours, then boil, cool and strain. You can insist 10-12 hours without subsequent boiling, and then drain. Add the cream, honey and some salt. The obtained drink is effective in overfatigue, sexual weakness, nervousness, as well as bronchitis, urolithiasis and lactation in nursing mothers.

The drug "L-2 forest" is prescribed for eczema, psoriasis, neurodermatitis, epidermophilia.

The systematic use of hazelnut nuts prevents the progress of atherosclerosis.

With impotence struggling as follows: goat milk along with 1 tablespoon hazelnut nuts - 2-3 meals per day.

In folk medicine, peanut butter is used for fever, cystitis and as a means of reducing pain and spasms.

Emulsion, made from raw nuts, is used as an emollient and enveloping agent for gastritis, enterocolitis, cholecystitis.

Butter from hazel nuts is used for urolithiasis, rheumatism, anemia, diathesis, cholecystitis. When atherosclerosis is taken for 15-20 grams at night. To prevent goiter with insufficient thyroid function, walnut oil is taken on an empty stomach for 10-15 grams. A mixture of peanut butter and egg yolk is an excellent effective remedy for burns. When rubbed into the scalp, hair growth improves.

Nuts are used in phytocosmetics, they have antimicrobial, antiseptic and disinfectant effect. Decoction of the shell of nuts is recommended for colitis.

Fried and pounded kernels, mixed with honey, are used for sexual weakness. Halva from nuts is an excellent fortifying agent.

Children's skin diathesis can not be excluded from eating nuts.

At the slightest suspicion of allergic reactions, nuts are immediately excluded from the diet.

In folk medicine, internal plusses and hard shells of nuts in the form of water decoction are used for hypotension, dizziness, as well as for the treatment of hemorrhoids and for diarrhea - in the form of powder.

Medicinal properties are possessed by hazel leaves, which contain: vitamin C up to 200 mg per 100 grams, carotene, essential oil( 0.42%), tannins up to( 10%), alkaloids and anthocyanins and other biologically active substances.

Tea from the leaves of the hazel has a stimulating, anti-inflammatory and restorative means.

In folk medicine for diseases of the liver, stomach, intestines, paralysis of the facial nerve, migraine, melancholy, asthma as a hemostatic and diuretic drink decoction of leaves, bark or wrappers.

Hazelnut leaves - 1 tablespoon dried leaves per 1 cup boiling water - wrap and insist the contents for 30-40 minutes, drain. Take with adenoma of the prostate and with uterine fibroids. For the treatment of the above diseases, the following recipe can help: crush hazelnut shell or hazel and place 1 handful of shell in 1 liter of water, boil for half an hour, insist, wrapped for 1 hour, and strain the product. Take 40-50 drops 3 times daily before meals. The course of treatment is 2-3 months.

Infusion of leaves used for lack of vitamin C in the body.

For liver diseases, 1 tablespoon chopped leaves of hazelwood, pour 1 cups of water, bring to a boil and remove from heat. Insist for 1 hour, strain. All the infusion to drink during the day sips.

When inflammation of the prostate gland is very useful, such tea: harvested during flowering leaves hazel brew in a glass of boiling water and insist for half an hour.

Decoction of the leaves of hazel: 1 tablespoon pour 1 glass of water, boil for 20-30 minutes and cool to room temperature. Take 1/3 cup of broth 3 times a day for 20-30 minutes before meals with prostatitis.

With increasing blood pressure, scales of hazelnut will help: 1 tablespoon of scales to pour a glass of boiling milk, to insist for half an hour, then strain and add 2 tablespoons of honey. Drink half a glass a day in small sips.

With varicose veins, the following infusion is useful: 1 tablespoon of chopped leaves and bark hazel brew 1 cup of boiling water, insist to room temperature and strain. Take 1/3 cup infusion 3-4 times a day before meals.

In Bulgaria, decoction of the leaves of hazel is used for prostatic hypertrophy.

When hyperplasia of the prostate gland is useful decoction of mashed walnut, bark and leaves of hazel, which is used as a microclyster of 60 ml per night. The recipe is as follows:

1 tablespoon pour a glass of boiling water, boil for half an hour on low heat, cool and drain.

Various medicinal components of the cortex, including essential oil, have an antiseptic, vasoconstrictive, anti-inflammatory effect, and therefore its decoction is used for varicose veins, shin ulcers and capillary hemorrhages. Decoctions of the cortex in the past used in the people with malaria.

In scientific medicine with enlarged veins, periphlebitis, capillary hemorrhages, bark is recommended. Decoctions of bark and roots, harvested in the spring, have astringent and antipyretic effect.

1 tablespoon chopped dry bark pour 200 ml of water, boil for 5-6 minutes, insist 4 hours, drain. Take half a cup before meals 3 times a day with varicose veins, ulcers of the lower leg, as a strengthening agent.

Infusion of the cortex is used as a lotion for varicose veins, periflebitis, varicose ulcers, capillary hemorrhages, as protivodisenteria and vasoconstrictor.

Grind corn grind, sift and mix with 2 parts of pork fat. Apply the resulting mixture to ulcers and places affected by thrombophlebitis.

If urine retention , you can use the following recipes:

1. 3 pieces of young bark of hazel( length of dove slice - with index finger) and 3 roots of parsley to grind, this raw material is mixed and boiled in 1 liter of water for 20 minutes. Drink the contents during the day for a few tricks.

2. 2 tablespoons of hazelnut leaves boil in 0.5 liters of water for 10 minutes. To drink a decoction during the day.

dry pollen of hazel flower has medicinal properties: it has a restorative effect and is recommended for the same diseases as leaves, as well as for pulmonary diseases accompanied by hemoptysis. In combination with honey and St. John's wort, it is recommended for incontinence. A mixture of pollen and honey treat the wounds.

With rheumatism

With diarrhea

At high temperature

Decoction from the bark of hazelnut is also used as an antipyretic agent, and decoction from leaves is used for prostatic hypertrophy.

With prostatic adenoma

For rickets in children

Give infusion of leaves of hazel.

With varicose veins and thrombophlebitis

Effective decoction from bark and leaves of hazelnut

With epilepsy, worms( ascarids)

People use hazelnut oil.

For anemia

It is recommended to use a mixture of honey and kernels of nuts, peeled from a thin brown husk.

Hazelnut in cosmetics

Harm

Harm of hazelnut for humans is minimal and possible in case of overeating.

Harmful hazelnut due to its astringent qualities, it can cause constipation. Doctors note the case of an allergic reaction to the fruit and flowers of the bush. Irritation is characterized by itching around the mouth, tongue and throat.

Hazardous hazelnut is noted in severe forms of liver disease and diabetes, in case of overeating, migraine from cerebral vasospasm is possible. When stored without a shell, it quickly loses its healing and nutritional properties.
Do not eat long-stored or spoiled kernels of nuts. It is not recommended to exceed the permissible norm of hazelnut consumption - 30-50 g per day.