Food
Nuts
Category: Food
Type
Voluntary
Introduction and description
A nut is a fruit composed of a hard shell and a seed, where in order to eat the seed it has to be released from its shell. Nuts are generally eaten raw although they can be roasted and this releases their flavours. Nuts are thus botanically seeds, but I want to treat them separately from the seeds entry, as research has tended to concentrate on them as a group, particularly as many of them also yield cooking and salad oils.
There is also another very loose difference in that many nuts are found on trees, for example walnuts, or underground, for example peanuts [which is botanicaly a legume, but behaves like a nut], whereas seeds are the above ground byproduct of smaller plants.
As there are some properties and some PubMed papers that refer to nuts in general, we have this more general section so that you can see what nuts are used for and what they help with medicinally in general. The very specific phytochemical content of each nut, however, is to be found in the sections for each nut. Thus you will need in this case to follow the links below:
- Almonds
- Beech
- Brazil nut
- Candlenut
- Cashews
- Chestnuts, that is the Sweet Chestnut
- Coconut
- Filberts
- Pecan
- Hickory
- Hazelnut and hazelnut oil used in salad dressings
- Macadamia
- Peanuts – I have added a separate entry for peanut butter as some research papers concentrated on this product alone
- Pine nuts
- Pistacho
- Walnut and walnut oil used in salad dressings
And nuts have healing properties.
Method
Roast them or eat them raw, add them to salads or cooked vegetables, have them as a snack or part of a main meal.
How it works
see the observationsRelated observations
Healing observations
- A multicentric, placebo-controlled, double-blind clinical trial of beta-sitosterol (phytosterol) for the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia. German BPH-Phyto Study group 016967
- Alice B Toklas Cookbook - Hashish fudge 010490
- Almonds, cholesterol and obesity 005653
- Arginine, the immune system, babies and sperm 005428
- Bach, Dr Edward - The healing power of food 011144
- Bees – Lectures by Rudolf Steiner - Honey, infertility and rickety babies 020917
- Cancer and various foods 006256
- Culpepper's Complete Herbal on Burdock 017009
- Dr Duke's list of antiparasitic plants 010310
- Dr Duke's list of cystine containing plants to boost the immune system 012486
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Anti-aggregate activity 017520
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antianxiety activity 018342
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with AntiLyme activity 018380
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Antiosteoporotic activity 018449
- Dr Duke's list of plants with hemopoietic effects - 2 All plants with activity 012485
- Dr Duke's list of Plants with Metal chelating ability from FERULIC ACID - PART 1 018253
- Fruit, vegetables and potassium 005569
- Healing by AVOIDING processed foods, artificial flavours and colours, and emulsifiers 026331
- HRT cake 006912
- Lipids, low cholesterol, depression and suicide 011997
- Medicinal jam 006773
- Mediterranean style diet and erectile dysfunction 005744
- Nuts and berries for health 005536
- Nuts and health 005535
- Omega-3 and omega-6 content of medicinal foods for depressed patients: implications from the Iranian Traditional Medicine 017018
- Peanuts, peanut butter and obesity 005655
- Pellagra causes and cures 005528
- Plants to help resist disease 005576
- Polyphenols and heart disease 005617
- Resveratrol and health 005427
- Snacking almonds, cholesterol and diabetes 005652
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 02 017839
- Traditional Iranian medicinal foods for depressed patients 011994
- Walnuts, almonds, olive oil and cholesterol 005662
- Walnuts, nuts and polyphenols 005661
- Zinc, iron and the elderly 005527
Hallucination
Wisdom, Inspiration, Divine love & Bliss
- Alice B Toklas Cookbook - Hashish fudge 010490
- The Manuals of Taoist Sexual Practise – Ten Questions 02 017839