Capers

Beneficial properties and use of capers

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Useful properties of capers

The whole plant presents steroidal saponins, alkaloids, carbohydrates and ascorbic acid and fatty oil. In folk medicine medicinally used bark, roots, buds and fresh fruit. The roots are dug in autumn, remove them from the bark and dried. Kidneys harvested in may-June, fruits in July – August, they are sorted and slightly dry. Store raw materials should be in a carton, sealed package. The fruits are eaten pickled.

The use of capers

Fresh the plant has a diuretic, antiseptic and analgesic properties. Paralysis, diseases of the spleen, catarrhal and rheumatic aches and pains use broth from the bark of the roots. The fresh bark applied to ulcers or chew it with dental pain. Buds of plants are good for cardiovascular diseases and improve appetite. Juice of flowers and a decoction of them is prescribed for diathesis. The fruits of caper have a positive effect in diseases of the gums and thyroid.

Broth: 2 teaspoons of dried roots pour 250 ml of water and boil on a small fire, and even better on a water bath for about 10-15 minutes, to insist half an hour and filtered. Dosage – 1 tablespoon 3 times a day.

Infusion: 20 g of dry bark of the plant pour 0.5 liters of boiling water and insist for about two hours. After straining the resulting drug drink 100-125 grams 3 times a day before meals.

Broth: 10 g of finely chopped dried leaves and twigs of the caper must pour 200 ml of water, boil for 6-7 minutes, infuse for at least two hours, drain. Broth take 3 times daily before meals for 2 tablespoons Stolovichi.

What capers taste like?

Exquisite flavours of capers has been known since Ancient Greece, but fresh don't eat it. Pickled fruits are one of the ingredients when cooking larger quantities of food. To capers has not lost its original taste, they are not subjected to heat treatment. The fruits of the plants are sour-salty, spicy, slightly tart. Have a pickled product – the taste of vinegar. If the fruit is too salty, you can rinse or a bit to take in water.

Seeds capers

The plant reproduces reniform, grayish-brown seeds that are dispersed by birds and many small animals at long distances. Theycontains up to 30 % fatty oil bright red color, has excellent nutritional qualities. In folk medicine, the seeds of the plant to treat headache, for that they should only eat. From the seeds oil is produced, which found their application in massage treatments. Seeds of capers to decorate holiday meals and is widely used in cooking.

Contraindications to the use of capers

Due to the fact that the composition of the plant includes a large number of bioactive substances that affect the human body, and also due to the high content in fruits sodium, their use should not be excessive. Application of preparations from the plant are contraindicated in hypertension, constipation and increased sexual excitability. Them it is categorically forbidden to use for pregnant women and people with individual intolerance, in these cases it is possible poisoning.