Everyone has heard of the multitude of healing effects from the application of walnut fruit and even its peel. However, not only this part of the tree is used in conservative and folk medicine as a pharmacological raw material. In the course are walnut leaves - useful properties and contraindications in them are comparable with highly effective antibiotics and antifungal agents, but the use of leaves is much safer than synthetic drugs.
Benefits and harm of walnut leaves
Before talking about the beneficial properties of the plant material in question, the chemical composition of the leaves should be determined. They contain:
- essential oil;
- vitamins (D, PP, C);
- aldehydes;
- carotene;
- alkaloids;
- southlon;
- phenolic carboxylic acids;
- coumarins;
- tannins;
- quinones;
- juglandin;
- high aromatic hydrocarbons;
- anthocyanins;
- flavonoids.
Thanks to such constituents of the walnut leaves, the following actions on the human body:
- wound healing;
- bactericidal;
- anthelmintic;
- antiseptic;
- antiviral;
- immunostimulating;
- anti-inflammatory;
- restorative.
In addition, preparations from the described raw materials control and normalize the concentration of glucose in the blood, increase the blood's ability to coagulate, improve metabolic processes, and when applied locally help cope with skin inflammations.
The danger of medicines from walnut leaves is that they contain alkaloids (poisons), which, if exceeding the recommended therapeutic dosages, can harm the health.
Useful properties of fresh and dried walnut leaves in medicine
The previously listed effects of the product in question are widely used to treat such diseases:
- diabetes;
- gout ;
- hemorrhoids;
- rheumatism;
- menstrual cycle disorders;
- hormonal imbalance;
- inflammation of the kidneys and urinary system;
- helminthic invasions;
- dermatitis;
- eczema;
- Acne vulgaris;
- scrofula;
- rickets in children;
- parodontosis;
- tonsillitis ;
- stomatitis;
- decreased functions of the immune system;
- fungal lesions of the skin and mucous membranes;
- mastitis;
- inadequate production of breast milk from lactating women;
- myoma;
- furunculosis.
Contraindications to the use of walnut leaves
Do not treat drugs based on walnut leaves in the presence of the following pathologies:
- increased coagulability of blood;
- thrombophlebitis;
- neurodermatitis;
- pancreatitis;
- chronic colitis, enterocolitis;
- acute intestinal diseases;
- individual intolerance of the constituents of the medicine.