The Great Siberian stone pine - a mighty tree height from 30 to 40 meters, trunk diameter from 1,5 to 2,5 meters. It grows slowly, lives long - from 300 to 500 years, and some even up to 700-800 years. In good year a single large tree can yield up to 1500 cones. Pine nut kernels contain oil (60%), starch (12%), protein (17%), carbohydrates (20%), fiber (4%), pentosans, vitamins D, E and B group as well as organic and fatty acids, tannins, micro-and macro - copper, manganese, iron, magnesium, iodine, etc. The cedar pine needles a lot of ascorbic acid (350 mg /%) and carotene. In addition, the needles in the kidney and young shoots contain essential oils and trace elements. Pine needles has a strong antimicrobial, expectorant, and antiscorbutic action; and pine nuts - tonic, antiscorbutic, blood-purifying properties; resin - wound-healing and disinfecting effect. Application Infusions: - Take 1 tablespoon pine nuts shell and pour 200 ml boiling water, infuse 1 hour and drain. Take 2 tablespoons 3-5 times per day with hemorrhoids, and varicose veins, and vasculitis. - Take 1 tablespoon chopped fresh pine nuts and pour 250 ml boiling water, infuse for 30 minutes, drain. Take a quarter cup (50 ml) 3-5 times a day with asthenic-neurotic states, with tuberculous lesions of lungs and other organs and systems, renal diseases and urinary bladder. Tincture: Take 100 g of crushed pine nuts (with shells) and pour 500 ml of vodka, insist at least 14 days; strain. Take 18-20 drops 3-4 times a day for stomach and liver, rheumatism, rheumatoid arthritis, gout, arthritis and arthrosis. Milk, pressed from cedar nuts, effective in pulmonary tuberculosis. Essential oil from the young shoots of Siberian cedar eat inside with the stones in the kidney and liver; externally - with festering abscesses and rheumatism. Pine nuts - a valuable dietary product. On nutritional properties of pine nuts and cake peeled significantly exceed meat, bread and vegetables. Pine nuts have long been considered useful for hypertension, atherosclerosis, and gastritis with acidity of gastric juice, gastric ulcer and 12 duodenal ulcer, for heartburn, and anemia (anemia), and a means cleaning the blood and improves its structure. From the needles of Siberian stone since ancient times been and are doing antiscorbutic vitamin drink. Pine bath of cedar needles - very helpful in rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatism. Source: Journal of Planet HEALTH "№ 55, September 21, 2005 on the site http://www.ph.ru/get_news.asp?nid=74&arch=1
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