Useful properties of mustard

Mustard seeds contain 25-35% fatty oil, which is obtained by pressing, and also contains an essential oil, which consists of allyl-mustard (40%), crotonyl mustard oils and carbon disulphide residues.

After pressing the edible oil from the seeds, mustard powder remains, it is a material for making mustard plasters and mustard antirheumatic plasters.

Mustard not only stimulates the appetite, increasing the production of saliva eight times (!), But also contributes to the digestion of food, is an anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and slightly laxative. In small amounts, this spice neutralizes toxins and helps with stomach upset, but overdose can lead to irritation of the mucosa of the esophagus.

Scientists have proven that mustard refers to the most health-improving spices. It excellently promotes digestion, helps to assimilate fatty food, which does not lie in the stomach "like lead," but is processed by it very quickly and further in the intestine is finally digested. In elderly people, mustard, stimulating digestion, significantly improves metabolism. It is used for various cardiovascular diseases (atherosclerosis, hypertension), liver and gallbladder diseases, digestive disorders, flatulence, rheumatism.

When little children have no appetite, they often grab the mustard, instinctively choosing what will help them. Preparations from mustard have a local irritating, enveloping action. The volatile mustard pairs have antibacterial, phytoncidal action: on this basis, it is widely used now in the food industry to store spoiling products.

Mustard dissolves hot tumors, it is applied to a sore spot with sulfur if a person has got "mumps". If the mustard is pounded and drunk with honey-sweetened water, it removes the persistent feeling of perspiration in the throat. Mustard opens the blockages in the latticed bones, helps with impotence and is useful in "strangling the uterus." There is an opinion that if you drink mustard on an empty stomach, it increases agility. Mustard brightens the eyesight.

Mustard oil
Mustard oil contains beta-sitosterol, choline, chlorophylls, nicotinic acid, vitamin A, E, D, B6, PP, K and P, as well as a natural antibiotic.

Mustard oil has an original pleasant taste and a wonderful aroma. The oil contains beta-sitosterol (shows estrogen-like, anti-atherosclerotic, antifungal, bacteriostatic activity), chlorophylls (improve blood count increase the number of leukocytes, erythrocytes, hemoglobin). Mustard oil is rich in natural antibiotics (isothiocyanates, synegrin, essential mustard oil), therefore it has bactericidal and anthelmintic activity.

It improves appetite, stimulates digestion. It weakly and slowly oxidizes, when added to other oils, contributes to their conservation.