- Country of manufactureMoldova
In kernels of a walnut there is a protein (18%), sugar, the drying fat oil (to 75%), pro-vitamin A, vitamins C, E, P, K, gruppyv, mineral substances (iron, phosphorus, magnesium, • potassium, calcium, cobalt, iodine, copper), tannins. Fat oil consists of glycerides, lemon, stearin, olein, linoleic, palmitic, linolenovy acids. It vitaminassoderzhitsya most of all in a cover of unripe fruits, and by its quantity it does not concede to a citrus, blackcurrant and a dogrose. Therefore from covers of unripe fruits of a walnut prepare vitamin concentrates. In an okoloplodnik there are also many tannins, organic acids, benzopyrones, quinones, pro-vitamin, and dye yuglon, possessing bactericidal action. From a cover vydelenbetasitosterol. The shell contains fenolkarbonovy acids, tannins and benzopyrones, in the pelikul (the thin brown skin covering a fruit) — steroids, phenol - carbonic acids, tannins and benzopyrones. Nut leaves contain tannins (3 — 4%), glycosides, flavonoids, essential oil, yuglon, the inositol, carotinoids, vitamins C, B1 and Rhee is a lot of (to 30%) pro-vitamin A. May leaves of a walnut on the content of vitamin C and pro-vitamin A do not concede to a dogrose...
In the ancient time the walnut was considered as very strong antidote helping from poisoning with the strongest poisons. For this purpose it was on an empty stomach necessary to eat two walnuts with two figs, with leaves and salt in the morning.
Walnuts at treatment of various diseases were used also by the Russian doctors. In Xviiveke medical officers treated wounds nut leaves.
In the medicinal purposes use all parts of a walnut: leaves, branches, bark, green okoloplodnik, mature and unripe fruits.