Oak has long been considered a sacred tree, not only because of its enormous size and longevity. Its fruits were also held in high esteem - acorns, from which in the old days they made effective medicines for many diseases. Acorns have an extremely rich composition, which includes a large amount of fatty oils, tannins, tannins and starches. For the preparation of traditional medicine, already fallen acorns are collected, young unripe fruits are also used, but for other indications.

The collected acorns are dried depending on the weather conditions - in a dry ventilated place, or in an oven. They need to be fried until a slightly reddish color appears; blackened specimens are considered burnt. Acorns contain a certain amount of the flavonol quercetin, a substance useful for animals, but negatively affecting humans. This substance is destroyed only during heat treatment and soaking, therefore, raw acorns cannot be consumed.

Acorns and Cooking

Many people remember acorn coffee, widely available during the Soviet era. You can make it yourself by chopping the acorns after frying. The result is a raw material for a tasty and healthy drink, to which you can add milk, sugar or honey to taste. Acorn flour was also popular and can be added to baked goods to enhance their nutritional value. The preparation of such flour is divided into the following stages:

• Peel the acorns and cover with water.
• Water is replaced 4 times a day, soaking lasts 2 days.
• Fruits are poured with water twice the volume of acorns.
• Bring the acorns to a boil, drain the water and grind the fruits in a meat grinder.
• The resulting mass is laid out on paper and dried first in air, and then in a slightly heated oven.
• The dried mass is ground in a coffee grinder to give it the consistency of flour.

On the basis of such flour, you can cook bread, tortillas, cereals, puddings and much more. Acorn dishes have a pleasant nutty flavor and some sweetness, so you don't need to add sugar to them.

Acorn soup with milk is very tasty. To prepare it, boil water, add acorn groats in small portions with constant stirring. Bring the groats to readiness, pour in milk, add sugar and salt to taste. Boil for five minutes and serve with a piece of butter. This soup is suitable as a dietary food for disorders. gastrointestinal tract.

Fighting diabetes

Acorns are effective in normalizing blood sugar levels, which will be beneficial for any type of diabetes. They will help enhance the effect of traditional medicines, while traditional medicines have a mild effect. There are several options for taking acorns:

1. Oven-dried reddish acorns are ground with a coffee grinder or blender. You should eat one teaspoon of the resulting flour twice a day, one hour before meals.
2. Acorns are crushed into small pieces, and take 1 tsp. on empty stomach. They need to be eaten twice a day, washed down with water, at least an hour after a meal. Treatment is carried out for 7 days, alternating with a week of rest, while regular blood sugar measurements are taken. Significant results are achieved approximately at the 3rd week of admission, the duration of the course is 4 weeks.
3. Dried and peeled acorns are ground in a meat grinder. A glass of the resulting mass is poured with one and a half liters of water and boiled for half an hour over low heat, after which it is insisted for 24 hours. Then they boil again and insist for a day, repeat the procedure again. Filter the broth, add a glass of vodka to it and drink three sips seven times a day for two weeks. Store the broth in the refrigerator, drink twice a week to keep sugar low.
4. Acorn coffee is effective on initial stages diseases, a tablespoon of ground fruit is steamed with 400 ml of water. To get the result, it is enough to drink it every 7 days.

Disorders of the gastrointestinal tract

Indigestion symptoms and food poisoning extremely unpleasant. Acorns can help eliminate discomfort and speed up recovery. For this you need:

• 1 teaspoon of chopped acorns
• 1 glass of hot water.

Pour boiling water over the acorns, leave for 15 minutes and then strain. Take the infusion 0.5 cups three times a day until the symptoms disappear completely.

Pancreatitis

To alleviate the symptoms of pancreatitis, not whole fruits are used, but only their caps. The medicinal infusion is prepared in this way:

• Take a tablespoon of acorn caps, dry them in the shade.
• Pour a glass of boiling water over the caps and keep in a warm place for 3 hours.

The resulting infusion is taken, gradually increasing the dose from one teaspoon to 70 ml per day. You need to consume it three times a day, half an hour before meals.

The benefits of acorn coffee

Crushed coffee acorns can be stored for quite a long time, the main thing is to provide them with a dry, tightly closing jar in a dark place. This coffee drink not only tastes good, but also helps to fight many diseases. Just one cup a week will significantly reduce the risk of developing cardiovascular pathologies.

In addition, a coffee drink made from acorns helps with such diseases:

• Asthma.
• Bronchitis.
• Prolonged cough.
• Scrofula.
• Children's rickets.
• Stomach colic.

This coffee has a pleasant taste, reminiscent of cocoa with milk. To prepare it, you need to put the acorns in a thin layer on deco and fry for five minutes in a preheated oven so that the peel of the fruit bursts. Then you should open the oven door and dry the fruit for another hour. Grind the cooled acorns and boil with boiling water at the rate of 1 tsp. in a glass of water.

Heart drink

In addition to the usual coffee made from acorns, a drink made from the following ingredients is used to treat heart disease:

• chicory;
• barley;
• acorns;
• rye;
• wheat;
• oats.

All components are taken in equal proportions, ground in a coffee grinder and poured into a dry jar. The drink is steamed at the rate of 1 teaspoon per glass of water, you need to take it three times a day.

The benefits of unripe acorns

Unripe oak fruits also have many beneficial properties, slightly different from those described above. To obtain juice, green acorns are plucked from a tree, peeled and ground in a meat grinder. The resulting mass is wrapped in gauze folded in several layers and squeezed out of juice. The liquid obtained in this way helps in the fight against such ailments:

• Anemia.
• Nervous system disorders.
• Excessive menstruation.
• Scrofula.

To obtain a healing effect, 2 tbsp. l. juice of green acorns is mixed with a similar amount of honey and taken four times a day, 5 minutes before meals. Thus, inflammatory processes in the female reproductive system and the bladder pass.

Video: Acorns in folk medicine

Conclusion

Acorns can be called one of the most useful gifts of nature in the middle climatic zone. They are widely used in traditional medicine and have a wide spectrum of benefits to heal and relieve the symptoms of many diseases. At the same time, acorns have practically no contraindications, except perhaps for an allergy to this plant.

At the same time, it must be remembered that acorns that have not been heat treated or soaked contain a certain amount of the flavonol querzatin, which has a toxic effect on the body. This substance is rendered harmless with proper preparation, therefore, when preparing tinctures and dishes from acorns, you must strictly adhere to the recipe.

The most suitable time to start treatment with acorns is autumn, when there is an opportunity to collect freshly fallen fruits. They can be harvested in parks, woodlands and plantations. This time is perfect for collecting a supply of acorns, which will last for a year.

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Autumn is generous with a variety of gifts, these are bountiful harvests, and the last sunny days, and elegant colorful trees. And there are also not quite ordinary autumn gifts, for example, a variety of natural materials for creativity: the last flowers that can be dried, bright leaves, chestnut or oak fruits. Who among us in childhood did not make various crafts from oak acorns, did not string beads and necklaces from their hats, did not compete with friends, who would collect more of these pot-bellied brown seeds? This is probably the first association that we have with the word "acorn". The properties of this oak fruit are still unknown to many people, and yet, a lot of interesting things can be told about them.

The power of the oak

Oak is one of the most magnificent trees in Russian forests. These are real long-livers, because the age of the oldest trees can be measured in centuries and even millennia. Such giants rise up to fifty meters, and in girth they can be more than 2 meters. The most frequent inhabitant of Russian forests is the crank oak, but in general, science knows almost 20 species of this representative of the tree flora. Oak forests begin to turn green in spring in April and only in May do they finally bloom.

The oak occupies an honorable and rather extensive place in Slavic mythology. First of all, because of its representative appearance, it was revered as a tree of the supreme god Perun. It was believed that on the top of the tallest oak in the world is the residence of this deity - the lord of thunder and lightning. For this reason, people believed that lightning strikes the oak most often. In addition, important military meetings were held under the crowns of these trees, courts were assembled, temples of ancient deities were set up here and sacrifices were performed. And the idols themselves - the images of the gods - were also often carved from oak wood. Loved to depict this tree in their works and Russian poets and writers.

Interestingly, there are male and female oak flowers. But both those and others are located on the branches of the same tree. It is easy to distinguish between them: inflorescences with a "masculine character" are more noticeable and larger, similar to earrings of yellow-green color, they can be easily confused with young leaves. "Ladies" inflorescences can be easily overlooked - they are very small in size and outward appearance resemble rounded pale green grains or buds, 2-3 pieces on the thinnest branches.

Acorns are tied just from the female inflorescences and ripen in mid-autumn. The formation time of acorns can vary from one to two years, ripe fruits simply fall to the ground, where they can be freely picked. These are very capricious fruits - they can die from a lack of moisture, and from its excess. They are afraid of direct sunlight, but they do not tolerate frost well. It is also very difficult to save them - acorns either dry out or rot, and besides, they are food for some species of insects. They are also enjoyed by wild boars and other animals. Until next spring, in order to give new shoots, acorns are stored in a thick layer of fallen leaves - this natural environment perfectly preserves them from rain, snow, and frost.

Amazing acorn

Modern man, due to his remoteness from nature, knows little about the acorn. The properties of this amazing fruit for a city dweller are exhausted by its decorative effect, and for a rural dweller - by its fodder value for pets. But after all, oak acorns among our ancestors were in high esteem, not only because they were considered fruits sacred tree god Perun.

For example, our great-grandfathers knew firsthand about nutritional value acorns: they made flour and baked various bread products, or mixed with ordinary flour and also baked bread. An unusual porridge was also cooked from acorn groats, although now it is impossible to even imagine what it could taste like. The technology for making flour from acorns was almost the same as from grain. First, they were thoroughly dried under a roof, then in a warm oven, after which they were cleaned of the hard shell, and the core was ground in millstones. Scientists made the assumption that people baked the very first bread from acorn flour, and only then, with the development of a sedentary lifestyle and agriculture, they began to do the same from grain flour.

In the hungry war years, acorns were used to make excellent coffee, which was not inferior in taste to a drink made from chicory. And such a coffee substitute later became a panacea for people who could not drink natural coffee because of various diseases... In general, many pages can be written about how many people during the war acorns saved from starvation. Probably, many inhabitants of the occupied territories, without exaggeration, owed their lives to acorns.

The healing properties of acorns

As the finds of archaeologists show, the fruit of the oak tree has accompanied the development of human civilization since ancient times. Among the amazing finds during excavations in Japan, scientists managed to find a fossil acorn, which has lain in the ground for almost four millennia! However, the researchers decided to conduct an experiment and planted it in the soil, the result amazed everyone - the acorn not only sprouted, but also gave life to a young strong tree. This convincingly proves that the oak has tremendous vitality, which the acorn also inherited. The properties of this fruit are probably precisely determined by this circumstance.

Later, traces of acorns, which could have been about five thousand years old, were also found - during excavations in Mediterranean ruins, corresponding depressions were found in hardened clay. All this proved once again that the acorns of our ancestors were in high esteem.

Modern research convincingly demonstrates the reasons for this respect: acorns are a veritable storehouse of valuable biological substances. In addition to the protein-fat-carbohydrate triad, it contains: tannin, fatty oil, starch, sugar, tanning enzymes. They are very nutritious, therefore they are included in the diet of many forest inhabitants: wild boars, deer, bears, hares, pheasants, wild pigeons, field mice and many others.

However, the nutritional value of oak fruits is not exhausted by the nutritional value alone. People have widely used and medicinal properties acorns, which are due to the presence in them of a huge amount of valuable substances.

For example, in the composition of acorn raw materials, flavonol quercetin can be found - an amazing substance that, as the main component, is included in the set of ingredients of many modern medicinal products from edema, inflammation, spasms, diuretics, bioadditives, antioxidants. In its pure form, quercetin is quite toxic and even dangerous to humans, but it can be destroyed by prolonged heating.

Therefore, before eating acorns, they were fried until slightly reddish in color. Such raw materials can be used quite safely to make a coffee drink. An Indian tribe once lived in the forests of the North American continent, whose members ate almost exclusively on acorns, for which the Europeans called them "acorn Indians". The natives for a long time boiled the fruits of the oak, getting rid of harmful substances, and then ground the dried acorns into flour and baked something like flat cakes from it, which they then ate for a whole year.

The list of diseases that can heal acorns is unusually wide:

• enuresis, diseases of the genitourinary system, male and female reproductive dysfunction;
• acute and chronic colitis;
• toothache and gum disease;
• gastric disorders (the duration of the treatment course is usually one month, if necessary, it can be repeated after a while; a tincture is prepared from the oak fruit - the chopped acorns are poured with boiling water, insisted, filtered and drunk three times a day, one third of a glass);
• the medicinal properties of acorns are also used to help patients with asthma, chronic cough, and bronchial diseases;
• “Cores” are recommended to replace regular coffee with acorn coffee;
• tincture of acorns and red wine helps with hernias well - it is applied in the form of a compress to sore spots;
• green unripe acorns are excellent for diseases urinary tract(juice is squeezed out of them, diluted with honey and taken several times a day before meals), as well as inflammatory processes in the female reproductive system, the monthly cycle is normalized;
• acorn caps are also suitable for use - for the treatment of pancreatitis (they are dried, poured with boiling water, insisted, filtered and then drunk).

It is worth noting that all the above traditional medicine recipes should be used only after agreement with the attending physician and in no case should self-medicate. Any mistake here can be fraught with serious consequences.

The healing properties of acorns help to successfully cope with diabetes. The simplest recipe: take one teaspoon of ground acorns in the morning before meals and in the evening before bedtime.

You can also prepare a full-fledged therapeutic and nutritional remedy from acorns. To do this, take a glass of dried oak fruits, which are crushed in a blender or in a meat grinder, then poured with one and a half glasses of water and heated over low heat for 30 minutes. The broth should boil slightly. Then the finished product is insisted for 24 hours. The boiling procedure is repeated and the broth is left again for another day. Then the concentrate is filtered off and diluted with vodka. This tincture should be stored in the refrigerator, and it is recommended to take it 2 teaspoons 6 times a day for a half month. The drug perfectly normalizes blood sugar levels, which is easy to see if you take an appropriate blood test. For prevention purposes, you should drink the tincture once a day twice a week.

From dried acorns, you can make crumbs, which in their taste will not be inferior to roasted peanuts, but will be much less saturated with fats. From such cereal raw materials, you can cook an unusual acorn porridge, which is very nutritious, but at the same time low-calorie. It is better to cook in a saucepan, the technology is not particularly difficult. The groats are poured with water or milk, heated to a boil, stirring constantly, then the heat is reduced and cooked until tender. After that, the porridge is put into the oven to "reach". Salt, sugar or butter are added to the finished product according to personal preference.

Unusual-tasting cakes can also be made from acorn flour, they come out rich, fluffy and fragrant. Pour flour into boiling sour cream, drive an egg into the cooled mixture, rub cheese, sugar and knead everything well. Then small cakes are made from the mass and fried in a pan. You can treat your gourmet guests to such an unusual dish, they certainly will not be able to guess what kind of amazing dish they were served.

You can also make acorn flour yourself from ordinary oak fruits collected in the forest. The most important thing here is the exact adherence to the technology, otherwise the product will turn out to be inedible. First, the acorns are husked, then they are soaked for several days in a large amount of water, it is changed several times a day, and after that the acorns are also boiled. After that, the wet fruits are crushed and only then dried in the oven. The final stage - the resulting semi-finished product is ground on a coffee grinder.

Another original culinary delight is acorn bread. It not only has an unusual peculiar taste, but can also be used in health food people with stomach diseases. It perfectly cleanses the gastrointestinal tract and does not irritate it. For its preparation, oak flour is used, as well as ordinary wheat flour, yeast, margarine, salt and sugar. From the ingredients, knead the dough in the usual way, wait until it comes up, and then use it for baking.

A very healthy and delicious oak coffee drink can also be prepared at home. Its ingredients include grilled acorns, barley grains, rye, oats, dandelion root, wheat grain, and chicory root. This mixture should be stored in a glass sealed container, and coffee is brewed from it in the same way as usual. Drink with milk or honey for greater benefit.

Thus, it can be noted that the spectrum of the therapeutic effect of oak fruits is unusually wide: they can be used as a bactericidal, anti-inflammatory, astringent and enveloping agent, help to relieve toothache, stop bleeding, normalize the activity of the gastrointestinal tract and the genitourinary system. Acorns are used for cosmetic purposes, for example, to dye hair a pleasant brownish color.

It should be noted that in medicinal purposes only soaked and dried acorns are used, since raw fruits contain harmful substances... And in any case, you should not engage in treatment with their help on your own without first consulting a doctor.

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Oak in great honor was and remains in high esteem forRus ... From time immemorial, this powerful tree was dedicated to the God of lightning and thunder - Perun.
Under the powerful crowns of oak, courts were held, military councils were held, all important issues were resolved. The beloved and revered plant is surrounded by legends and myths, sung in songs and poems, endowed with high epithets.

... Excavations on the territory of the Kirovograd region have confirmed that more than five thousand years ago people here baked bread from acorns ground into flour.
... During excavations in Japan, an acorn was found, the age of which, as determined by scientists, was 3800 years old. This acorn was planted - and it sprouted! Now it is already a solid tree ...
... Its leaves are also useful, especially when salting vegetables for future use. Only 20 g of them for a three-liter jar of cucumbers is enough to ensure good taste and preservation of pickles.
For a long time in Russia, they used ink that does not fade over time - they were also made from oak, more precisely, from dried and ground galls - nuts that are formed on oak leaves. Mixed with ferrous sulfate, these nuts give a strong black paint - ink, thanks to which the most ancient chronicles of our distant ancestors, the first handwritten books, have come down to us.
One of the reasons that acorns have gradually lost their nutritional value lies, apparently, in the fact that they contain the glycoside quercitrin and tannins, which give acorns a certain bitterness. But this bitterness is easily removed by heating ... "

Medicinal use

With a curative purpose they use bark, leaves and fruits of oak... Tannins were isolated from the bark of oak, solutions of which are used for inflammatory processes in the oral cavity, nose, larynx, for the treatment of ulcers and burns. The bark is used as a strong astringent and strengthening blood vessels and also as an antihelminthic agent.
Oak bark is effective as an anti-inflammatory agent for diseases of the oral cavity (gingivitis, stomatitis, amphodontosis), pharynx, larynx, pharynx. In addition, it is used to treat burns, skin diseases, wounds, frostbite. Oak bark is used for mushroom poisoning and in the treatment of diarrhea.

For rinsing the mouth and compresses, a decoction is prepared at the rate of 10-20 g of oak bark per 200 ml of water. Boil for 15-20 minutes, filter.
... Oak bark infusion is prescribed for inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract, diarrhea, dysentery. To do this, 1 teaspoon of chopped bark is poured with 400 ml of cold boiled water... Insist 8 hours and filter. Drink in sips throughout the day. Children cannot be prescribed!
... A coffee drink made from acorns is very beneficial for heart disease.
... With strong sweating of the feet, make baths with a decoction of oak bark (50-100 g per 1 liter of water). They wash the hair with a decoction of the bark for dandruff and to strengthen the hair.

Terms and methods of procurement. Acorns are harvested in September-October, when they are fully ripe. Acorns deteriorate very quickly, therefore, immediately after harvesting, they are peeled, the cotyledons are separated and dried. The moisture content of dry acorns should be no more than 11%.
The bark is harvested in the spring during sap flow (April-May), from branches with a diameter of 10-20 cm without cracks and lichens. To remove the bark with a knife, annular cuts are made at a distance of 30 cm from each other, which are connected with a longitudinal cut. After that, the bark is easily removed. They dry it under a canopy with good ventilation, as well as in the sun. Shelf life is 5 years. The leaves are harvested in the spring while they are young and sticky.

The use of acorns for diabetes

1. At diabetes mellitus grind dried oak acorns in a coffee grinder and take this powder inside, 1 tsp. an hour before meals in the morning and at night.

2. Grate the acorns on a fine grater. 1 teaspoon of acorns should be eaten half an hour - an hour before meals on an empty stomach, and in the evening, an hour after meals. You can drink water and eat nothing else.

Treatment is carried out according to the scheme: use acorns for a week, then rest for a week. Get a blood test this week. Then again a week of acorns - a week of rest and a blood test. Do this 2-3 times, but you can do it up to 4 times. After 3 sessions, blood sugar returns to normal.

3. Pour 1.5 liters of water over one glass of dry acorns without a peel passed through a meat grinder, boil for 30 minutes over low heat, insist for 1 day, boil again for 30 minutes and insist again for 1 day. Strain, add 1 glass of vodka to the broth, mix and drink 3 small sips 5-7 times a day, regardless of food intake. The course of treatment is 2 weeks. Check blood sugar and then act depending on the condition. The medicine must be kept in the refrigerator. In the future, so that the sugar level does not rise, drink this medicine 2 times a week.

4. One tablespoon of acorn coffee per 400 ml boiling water, add sugar to taste. Take once a week. Drink 3-4 times a day in the early stages of diabetes.

Folk recipes from acorns

Acorns have a bactericidal, enveloping, antitumor effect. They are often used in the treatment of the genitourinary system: they stop profuse periods, are used for female diseases, increase potency, treat enuresis. Acorns are good for treating gums and toothaches, and are useful for all kinds of poisoning. In addition, oak fruits have a beneficial effect on the digestive system: their decoction is used for indigestion, acute and chronic colitis.

Ripe oak fruits are harvested and dried in a dark place for 3-4 weeks (you can use a dryer - at a temperature of 50 degrees for 2-3 days). Then the fruits are crushed and stored in a dry place. Harvesting too many fruits is not recommended - the raw material quickly deteriorates.

For stomach upsets traditional medicine recommends infusion of acorns: pour 1 teaspoon of chopped fruits with a glass of boiling water, cool, strain. Take half a cup orally 3 times a day. The duration of the course is a month, after another month it is recommended to repeat it.

With heart disease good coffee from acorns. Fruits should be lightly roasted until reddened, chopped and brewed like coffee. Add milk, sugar. Such coffee is often recommended for children, both as a regular drink and for coughs, bronchitis, asthma.

For healing hernia warm 25% acorn tincture with red wine is used as compresses.

For problems related to genitourinary system, apply juice from acorns. It is squeezed out of green fruits, take 2-3 tablespoons with honey (in a 1: 1 ratio) on an empty stomach 3-4 times a day.

Pancreatitis: collect ripe acorns, but not dried out on the trees, but fresh ones, dry them in the shade, separate the “caps” from the acorns, pour 1 tablespoon of these “caps” with 200 ml of boiling water for 2 - 3 hours, strain.

You need to start taking with one teaspoon and gradually bring to 60 - 70 ml per day. If the taste is unpleasant, soak the bread with infusion and take it 3 times a day 30 minutes before meals. It is also recommended to eat the fruits of acorns - until the work of the pancreas is normalized.

Acorn coffee

You need to collect ripe acorns, green in color, hard to the touch, if pressed with a finger, it means wormy.
You need to dry this way: spread out on a baking sheet in one layer and put in a preheated oven for five minutes. During this time, most acorns will burst and take on a dark brown color. Then open the oven and dry for another hour. Take care not to burn the acorns.
Then take them out and cool. When cool, peel and place in a jar with a tight lid.
In order to prepare a coffee drink, you need to grind acorns in a coffee grinder, brew like coffee, at the rate of one teaspoon of powder per cup of water. Add sugar to taste.
It turns out a rather tasty drink, somewhat reminiscent of cocoa with milk, very tones.

Ripe acorns are peeled, cut into 3-4 pieces and dried in the oven. Then the acorns are fried, making sure that they do not burn, but turn into a brittle mass that can be easily turned into a brown powder on a coffee grinder.
Brewed and drunk like regular coffee, with milk or sugar.
Acorn coffee is especially useful for children suffering from scrofula and rickets (coffee strengthens the abdominal organs and eliminates hardening of the mesenteric glands), as well as for coughs, bronchitis, asthma ... Children are given twice a day: in the morning and in the afternoon.

A coffee drink made from acorns is very beneficial for heart disease.

Acorn coffee jelly

Stir coffee with sugar, dissolve in a little hot water, then add 180 ml of water and strain. Pour potato starch diluted in 20 ml into boiling coffee cold water, pour into a glass and sprinkle icing sugar or granulated sugar to prevent skin formation.
For 7 g of acorn coffee - 10 g of potato starch, 15 g of sugar, 200 ml of water.

Acorn bread

It is better to collect acorns after the first frost. They are peeled, cut into four parts, filled with water and soaked for two days, changing the water daily at least three times. After that, the acorns are heated in water until boiling (2 parts of water to 1 part of acorns) and passed through a meat grinder. The resulting mass is dried - first in a thin layer in air, then in an oven or oven until it begins to crunch like crackers. Dried acorns are pounded or grinded in any way. With coarse grinding, cereal is obtained, from which you can cook porridge, from flour - to bake flat cakes. True, acorn dough does not have stickiness and viscosity, so the cakes break when turned over. To avoid this, it is advised to cover the frying pan with a flatbread with a second similar frying pan and turn them both over - the flatbread simply falls from one pan to another, in which it is fried. If the cakes are greased with jam, jam or cream and stacked on top of each other, you get a delicious cake. Soaked and lightly toasted pieces of acorns can be used as a substitute for peanut cake.

Acorn porridge

Acorns contain tannins, which give them an astringent, bitter taste. And you can remove these substances by soaking. Peel the acorns, cut into four pieces and cover with water. Soaking lasts two days, and every day the water is changed three times. Then they transfer the acorns to a saucepan, pour in water and heat to a boil. Then the acorns are passed through a meat grinder and the resulting mass is dried by sprinkling it in a thin layer on plywood. After preliminary air drying, the acorns are dried in the oven until they begin to crunch like crackers. The dried acorns are ground or ground in a coffee mill. With coarse grinding, cereal is obtained, from which you can cook porridge, from flour - to bake flat cakes.

Acorn milk soup

Pour the acorn grits in a thin stream into boiling water, stirring all the time, cook until the grits are ready, then add milk, sugar, salt and bring the soup to a boil.
When serving, put a piece of butter in a bowl of soup.
For 30 g of acorn groats - 250 ml of milk, 5 g of sugar, 5 g of butter, 2 g of salt.

Yeastless cakes made from acorn flour

Boil sour cream, add acorn flour into it, boil slightly, remove from the stove and cool. Add grated cheese, sugar to the resulting mass, mix well, cut the cakes and brown in a pan.
For 15 g of acorn flour - 10 g of cheese, 25 g of sour cream, ½ an egg, 5 g of sugar, fat.

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The magical properties of Oak

Oak in Russia has always been considered a holy tree, a tree associated with male energy and power. Oak is a tree of God Perun, the patron saint of knights. Sacred oak groves with millennial oak trees were scattered throughout Kievan Rus. Science has proven that the grove, in which more than 300 oak trees grow, is a kind of receiver of cosmic force, which has a very positive effect on activity. human brain, returns youth, strength, evokes good thoughts.

In oak groves there have always been temples and sanctuaries, where people were treated. Oak is an energy donor. With direct contact with him, a person receives the maximum possible amount of vital energy. Oak is a tree-conductor that connects a person with the world and the Universe.

Oak always gives preference to warriors, fighters, strong and healthy people... He heals wounds received in battle, heals the souls of warriors, shares a piece of his longevity. Veterans, former warriors, for older people, contact with him is of great benefit.

Remember the somewhat rude expression about the dead, so common among us: "I gave an oak." Do you know where it came from? From the old legend that souls of the dead it is along the trunk of an oak tree, like a heavenly staircase, that they climb upward - into the light kingdom of the immortals.

In Russia, there have always been many magical practices that made it possible, with the help of the energy of this tree, to turn to the dead for help and get additional strength and good luck.

But even without using any special magical and psychic methods, any person can get a part of its strength and health from an oak tree. To do this, you need to walk more often in oak groves; if possible, use oak objects in your everyday life (especially great power is transmitted to a person through oak floors or through the walls of a house built of oak logs); you should never break or chop an oak for fun.

Oak is a clear night owl. He wakes up in the morning, slowly, by noon he unfolds the foliage and branches to recharge his energy, and clearly does not seek to part with it. After having lunch and breakfast at the same time, he falls asleep,remembering, probably, that after a hearty dinner one should sleep. "And he sleeps from about 15 to 17 hours. By the evening, having had enough and rested, he begins to take an interest in the world around him. Oak willingly communicates with those who listen to him, from 18 hours, nourishing energy creativity and giving inspiration to others.But a real burst of energy comes to him after nine in the evening, when he willingly heals and helps people to correct their fate.Having generously distributed his strength to the world, after 3 in the morning he falls fast asleep to wake up again around noon.

Oak as a talisman

Oak is a strong and powerful tree. Loves ambitious and energetic people. Can't stand those who constantly whine. His masculine energy is strong and tough, domineering and hot. For women, it is not very indicated, since it can, with constant communication, give completeness and excessive self-sufficiency, which will interfere with meetings with the opposite sex.

It is useful for women born under the sign of Sagittarius at least once a year - before their birthday or on this day itself - to stand under an oak tree and mentally communicate with him, discussing their life plans. Such a meeting canhelp the fastest realization of what you want in life.

An ordinary oak plank, processed on Thursday at sunrise, on which a security sign is carved, nailed to a home altar, can protect a family from many troubles.

With pleasure, they planted oak trees in Russia near the house itself - they helped to maintain health and strength for many years, had a beneficial effect on the fate of his children and grandchildren - sometimes up to the fifth generation.

Oak takes a long time to get used to humans. Sometimes it takes six months - a year before he really starts to consider you his. But if he takes you into his heart, he will not let you go and will never forget! A particle of its power will be with you wherever you are, because we have already said that the oak has the ability to transmit its energy over great distances. If he accepted you, his leaves will imperceptibly reach out to you when you come, and young branches cling to your clothes, not wanting to let you go. If a double acorn falls from your favorite tree onto your hand, save it! By itself, he is a talisman of good luck in business, but in this case his strength will be greater, since it is supported by the wish of the oak itself.

Oak in construction and interior

In practical magic, they use more of its ability to open the way to the Cosmos and the information of the near-earth space for a person. Therefore, in Russia, where there is little sun and there is a strong lack of energy, they were very fond of using oak wood for buildings, thus compensating for the lack of warm fiery energy for human body... Moreover, bog oak has always been the most popular. The wood of bog oak is slightly reddish, not grayish; like natural oak. This enhances the warmth of the wood and slightly lifts the mood. Plain oak is undoubtedly soothing nervous system and fills the body with strength, but not fun. In a completely oak unpainted house, you feel like in a church - nice, good, light in your soul, but stormy fun seems to be something indecent.

Usually in the old days the walls wooden house made oak, oak were the floors and floors. This arrangement of wood contributed to the best protection of a person from the influences of negative energy from the outside and made it possible to restore spent forces in the shortest possible time, since the oak easily transfers its energy to a person in direct contact, and its strength allows us to balance the work of our entire body. No wonder the people said: "Strong as an oak!"

And in a modern city house, oak trees would not be superfluous.floors and oak chairs that would allow you to quickly restore the energy spent during the day! Oak wood is not very susceptible to decay, since it stores huge reserves of light energy, which it gives off for centuries. Oak buildings and furniture can warm the soul and raise the strength and health of more than one generation.

Oak is a symbol of power and stability. Oak items strengthen the position of their owner. The interior trimmed with oak is somehow mysteriously associated with the growing authority of the institution located there. Oak protects the house as such from various financial and business shocks and crises, promotes professional growth. If you want to properly receive a significant person, it is good to decorate the room with oak branches.

Oak is completely incompatible with spruce. Never place a Christmas tree on an oak table, and do not mix the two plants in one composition. Even oak and spruce boards in the same house will have a bad effect on the moral atmosphere, stimulating intrigue and conspiracies.

Oak has always been considered a magic tree - because of its power, strength, fertility and longevity. No wonder that some of its parts are respected. Since antiquity, amulets have been made from oak bark, as well as from its leaves and fruits, used to give strength, prolong youth, and protect from infertility.

It is also believed that oak enhances intellectual ability. So, you can maintain brain activity and excellent concentration for a long time by constantly carrying oak bark with you.

The fruit of the oak,, was worn as a talisman against drunkenness. In ancient Rome, the acorn was believed to help with aging, and wheat bread with crushed acorns was popular among the elderly there. The acorn amulet is credited with the properties of helping in achieving goals, attracting good luck, and also providing youth and longevity.

Acorns are hung on windows as a protective amulet against evil forces.

Well, if in a dream you see an oak tree hung with acorns, wait for the nearest prosperity and career growth.

Composition of acorns

Acorns contain protein substances, up to 5% fatty oil, sugar, tannins, quercetin glycoside and up to 40% starch.

Judging by the composition of acorns, scientists came to the conclusion that the first plant from which they began to make bread were not cereals at all, but the fruits of an oak. After all, people baked bread from acorns pounded into flour more than five thousand years ago.

The benefits of acorns

The nutritional properties of the acorn are very high. No wonder it is fed to domestic animals, and wild boars willingly feed on acorns. For some reason, such a condescending attitude has been established towards acorns as towards the "food of the poor." Yes, in difficult times of famine, acorns have saved people from hunger more than once. But this is another indisputable plus of these fruits!

In terms of their benefits, acorns may well compete with natural coffee, cocoa beans, and even olives, and more!

The oak fruit contains a lot of starch and other easily digestible carbohydrates, as well as tannins that affect the taste of acorns (bitter and astringent), tannins and quercetin.

Bitterness is easily removed, and then acorns can be used for food - to make cakes, porridge, and even a surrogate coffee with a nutty taste from them.

The bitterness is removed by soaking and heating. Moreover, it is impossible to eat acorns without heat treatment, since quercetin is poisonous to people. It is necessary to peel the acorns, cut each into four parts and fill with water. Soaking lasts two days, and the water must be changed three times a day.

After two days, the acorns are filled with fresh water (for one part of the acorns, two parts of water), put on gas and heated to a boil of water. Then the acorns need to be crushed, the resulting mass is scattered on a tray or spread towel in a thin layer and dried in the air. Then you need to dry it a little in the oven. Dried acorns should be ground or crushed to produce either flour (for tortillas) or cereal (for porridge). For making pancakes, bread, etc. from acorn flour, you need to add 1/10 of wheat flour to it.

Acorn coffee is prepared in a slightly different way. In this case, acorns do not need to be soaked. They are simply peeled, fried and crushed.

The healing properties of acorns

Acorns contain many useful substances necessary for a living organism.

Acorns have antitumor, bactericidal and enveloping effects.

Acorns are often used in the treatment of problems of the genitourinary system, enuresis, heavy menstruation and others female diseases, to increase potency.

Acorns are also useful for digestive system, with various poisoning, colitis and just indigestion, as well as varicose veins veins and thrombosis.

Acorn treatment

In case of genitourinary problems, juice is squeezed out of the green fruits of acorns, and it is taken on an empty stomach 3-4 times a day, 2-3 tablespoons, mixed with an equal amount of honey.

For diseases of the digestive system, indigestion, various poisonings, acute and chronic colitis, they drink an infusion of oak fruit (acorn coffee). One teaspoon of chopped acorns is poured into a glass of boiling water. After it cools down, it is filtered. You need to take half a glass 3 times a day, with a course of one month. After a month break, it is recommended to repeat the course of admission.

At cardiovascular diseases it is advisable to replace natural coffee with acorn coffee. You can add both sugar and milk to it, if desired.

For asthma, bronchitis, coughs, drink acorn coffee - for both adults and children. Also, coffee made from acorns is good for nervous diseases, and children - with scrofula and rickets.

Harvesting acorns

Acorns are harvested in mid-August - early October, when the fruits become dark brown in color (except for those cases when immature green fruits are needed). Acorns are harvested from the ground, and the same place can be harvested again in 3-5 days.

By the way, acorns damaged by pests fall off at an earlier date. For example, the acorn weevil. Therefore, acorns of later dates have better qualities. It is important that the acorns are not germinated.

If you only need acorns for making acorn coffee, then place them in a dry, dark place for 3-4 weeks, and then grind and store them in a dry place as well.

Do not harvest too many acorns, as raw materials deteriorate rather quickly - you will not stock it up for a whole year.

For fishing enthusiasts, the acorn can also be very interesting because the acorn weevil, a beetle whose larva is often found in acorns, as it feeds on them, is an excellent bait for fish. It is found in whole acorns, without a hole. The hole means that the larva has already left this house.

Among the many perennial trees known to us, the oak is special, since after flowering, its flowers form acorns, which have medicinal properties and are often used in cooking.

Acorns have been known as a food product for a long time. Even in the years of famine, people used them for food, thereby saving themselves from starvation. Scientists concluded that for the first time bread began to be baked from flour obtained from acorns and only then from cereals. It was common to make coffee from acorns. Today acorn coffee is also used as a remedy. Due to its high nutritional value, the acorn is an excellent livestock feed. Ripe acorns, collected under an oak tree, can be dried in the oven, after which they are cleaned, peeled, peeled and used for their intended purpose. When frying an acorn, it is necessary to monitor its color, namely to achieve a reddish color, but by no means black. Acorns contain many vitamins, minerals, trace elements, proteins, carbohydrates, amino acids and starch, which are necessary for the body to function properly. There are many recipes for traditional medicine for the preparation of various decoctions, tinctures, ointments from acorns. It is also used in pharmacology in the manufacture of medicines.

Useful properties of an acorn:

Helps relieve swelling, spasms, inflammation;

Has antioxidant properties;

Has an antitumor effect;

It is a bactericidal agent;

Has an enveloping property;

It is used for gastrointestinal diseases, including poisoning, disorders;

Helps to improve the functioning of the entire digestive system;

Used for varicose veins and thrombosis;

Help relieve toothache and soothe gum pain;

Helps in the treatment of hypertension, osteochondrosis;

Used for coughs, bronchitis, tuberculosis treatment;

Lowers blood sugar levels.

There are no contraindications to the use of acorns, but they contain quercetin, which is dangerous to humans. If acorns are fried or soaked, then this component is destroyed, and the acorn can no longer harm the body.

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