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Today horse fat, rich in vitamins and useful elements, is widely used in various areas of life. True, the substance also has negative properties. What are the benefits and harms of horse fat?
Composition and useful properties of horse fat
The properties of a substance that are beneficial (sometimes harmful) to the body are due to its rich chemical composition.
The properties are primarily formed by amino acids, which help lower cholesterol levels. For instance, arginine promotes the natural breakdown of harmful cholesterol, which is easily excreted from the body.
Equine internal fat contains polyunsaturated beneficial acids that have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the cardiovascular system, improving its properties (for example, blood circulation through the veins).
It is an effective remedy for stimulating and treating the liver, as it has beneficial choleretic properties.
It is important to note the high content of useful keratin in certain doses, which helps to improve the condition of the hair.
The use of horse fat for medicinal purposes
By adding horse lard to various mixtures, you can cure many diseases and alleviate the patient's condition, while minimizing harm to the body.
For the treatment of intervertebral hernia
Horse fat is often used for spinal hernia.
Compresses with healing properties should be made.
- Horse lard is cut into thin slices.
- Placed on a diseased area that is harmful to health.
- Cover with polyethylene and then insulate with a cloth.
A useful compress is secured with an elastic bandage. The bandage is able to reduce pain and alleviate the general condition due to its medicinal properties.
The pain may decrease within half an hour, but a useful compress should not be removed for several hours. So it will be more useful.
Before the procedure, it is better to check for the contraindications described below, the neglect of which will harm your health.
For colds and coughs
Treatment of ailments that, if not harmful, then uncomfortable sensations using a healthy fat product is carried out in several stages.
- Rub the body with melted fat at night, tie it with a handkerchief to increase the beneficial properties of the procedure.
- Before breakfast, drink the composition daily: processed lard, juice of healthy onions. A single dose is 2–3 tsp.
- If you have a severe cold with a cough, add 25-30 g of alcohol or vodka to the prepared fatty liquid.
It is important to rub the body thoroughly and wrap it up. Then the benefits from the use of fat will be maximum, and the properties will fully manifest themselves. To speed up the process of treating colds, doctors recommend using beneficial rubbing 3 times a day in order to increase the healing properties of the course of treatment.
Fat can be used to treat pneumonia.
- Melted horse fat (350 g) and pounded healthy garlic (150 g) are mixed.
- Spread out on a thin oilcloth.
- Apply to the back and chest.
The body should be insulated with a woolen shawl and the compress should be left overnight.
With tuberculosis
Everyone knows about the harm that tuberculosis causes to the body. The recovery process after treatment is especially difficult. During the rehabilitation period after tuberculosis, a tincture based on horse fat can help.
Mix:
- 2 tbsp. l. healthy horse fat;
- 2 tbsp. l. chopped aloe;
- 2 tsp cocoa;
- 2 tsp strong cognac or alcohol.
Take 1 tbsp daily. l. to get the maximum benefit from the application and give the healing properties to better manifest themselves.
The use of horse fat in cosmetology
Today, in cosmetology, horse fat is used with benefit in the production of balms, shampoos, masks due to the presence of fatty acids, which, due to certain properties, contribute to:
- rapid growth;
- strengthening;
- moisturizing hair.
Various cosmetic preparations for aging and aging skin have a fat base in order to give it as many medicinal properties and benefits of horse fat as possible.
Horse Oil Mask Recipes
It is not difficult to make a cream with horse fat or medical hair masks on your own.
The most common masks to help improve the condition and structure of the hair.
- If the hair is very susceptible to hair loss, you can use a tincture: a glass of fat is heated in a water bath, squeezed onion juice, 1 tsp, is added to it. honey and healthy burdock oil. The resulting substance is rubbed into the scalp and covered with hair for several hours.
- Use a healthy cream to strengthen fine split ends. For cooking, use a glass of horse lard, heated in a water bath, and several separated yolks. The substance is evenly applied to the hair as it grows and is left for several hours to be absorbed and show beneficial properties. Then the mask is washed off.
How horse fat is used in cooking
Horse meat not only brings health benefits, it is also delicious. In many countries, horse meat is used in national cuisine, including fat. Each nation has recipes and tricks for its use in cooking.
For the Mongols, horse lard is a delicious delicacy, but the peoples of Central Asia consider the product to be common, everyday, but also beneficial to health.
Since ancient times, fat from the belly and the back of the neck was considered the most useful and nutritious (it has a large number of useful properties and brings minimum harm to health if consumed in a certain amount; the benefits of horse fat are undeniable). Most often it is eaten along with fermented milk products.
Horse fat harm and contraindications
Despite the clear benefits of horse fat, it should be used very carefully because of its harmful properties.
First of all, they include a low content of carbohydrates in the composition, therefore bacteria and parasites develop very quickly in meat, which leads to spoilage of the product.
Often, it is horse meat, due to the presence of parasites, that carries dangerous diseases that cause significant harm to the body. If you use a stale or untested product, then the harm can be much stronger than the benefit.
You need to consume a fatty product in a certain amount, since excess can lead to an imbalance in the fat balance and the appearance of excess weight. Lard can be harmful and beneficial, its properties depend on the literacy of the application.
Horse fat has a number of contraindications, neglecting which one should expect harm, not benefit to the body:
- pregnancy and lactation;
- age up to 3 years;
- individual intolerance;
- pathology of the biliary tract;
- cholelithiasis.
Conclusion
The benefits and harms of horse fat are important information that can be useful in the treatment of many ailments. The harm from the product can be obtained as significant as the benefit. The dose is important. When using a remedy, do not forget about the permission of the attending physician.
