Siberian cedar is a symbol of power, health andlongevity. It is the main asset of the taiga. The most valuable thing that cedar gives people is the nuts and the oil squeezed out of them. By the amount of vitamin A it exceeds the fish oil by 3 times, and by vitamin E it is almost 5 times the olive oil. Nuts themselves, obviously, are familiar to everyone. But not everyone knows that they are, in fact, a real storehouse of useful substances. They contain vitamins, carbohydrates, micro- and macro elements, and the composition of the pine nut protein includes 19 essential amino acids. For the good of their cause, of course, you can gnaw, but this is a difficult exercise - the shell they have is pretty solid. Purchased in the store, cleaned, they may not always be edible, as the cedar oil contained in them quickly ransoms. The simplest and most acceptable means for a wide range of people who can be used for health improvement is tincture on pine nuts. The recipe for making such a tincture is quite simple, and it can be made by everyone. At home, tincture can be prepared with alcohol or with good vodka. And it's better to use fresh nuts.

Tincture on pine nuts. Recipe (basic) reads as follows.

Before cooking tinctures cedarNuts should be filled with water. Float empty and defective merge with rubbish. Separate good material in another bowl. For at least 5 minutes, pour the nuts with boiling water. Repeat this procedure twice, so that the resin present on the shell is dissolved and removed with hot water. This will avoid the negative effect of cedar tar on the digestive organs and eliminate the bitter taste of the tincture.

For cooking we take 1 glass of pine nuts,washed and sorted, and fill them with a liter of good vodka or 70 degrees of alcohol. In addition, you can add 0,5-1 st. sugar, better honey. Infuse in a warm place in the dark for at least 3 weeks, periodically shaking.

This recipe tincture, as a basic, can be easily modified. If desired, you can adjust the number of nuts or honey.

In the literature there is a tincture on cedarNuts, the recipe of which prescribes the use of peeled nuts. The technology of its production is as follows: 30 grams of peeled nuts are poured into 500 ml of alcohol or vodka and insisted for 40 days. Drink it according to the scheme: starting with 5 drops, increasing by 5 every time. Further, reaching 25 drops, drink from 5 g to 25 g, every day increasing by 5 g. The course of treatment tincture in this case 1 month.

Alcohol tincture on pine nuts iseffective agent in the treatment of gastrointestinal tract, decreased immunity, salt deposits, problems with hearing and vision. Being a real storehouse of all known micro and macro elements, a huge amount of polyunsaturated fatty acids, protein, sugar and vitamins, the cedar nut tincture, the recipe of which is given above, is a universal tool. It can be used, except for the cases listed above, with beriberi, anemia, muscle cramps, various respiratory diseases, problems with potency. Tincture on pine nuts, if it is not abused, is useful for restoring and maintaining healthy body forces for everyone. It can be contraindicated only to children and pregnant women, as well as to persons prone to alcoholism.

A good cedar tincture may well beworthy "culinary" masterpiece on the table during the festival and compete with the most exquisite brands of cognac or brandy. The longer the infusion of cedar nuts is maintained, the more noble it becomes, acquiring both color and smell. Well, "noble" drinks are not subject to abuse.

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