Black mustard Rai is a kind of spice Queen. Its seeds have a nutty smell and a sharper and tart taste than yellow mustard. It is used not only as a spice, but also as a natural circulatory stimulant, as well as to facilitate breathing and purify the bronchi. It has strong antiseptic and anti-inflammatory properties.
In folk medicine, mustard is used very widely. Even doctors of the time of Hippocrates wrote that it promotes the work of the intestines and the separation of urine. At the same time, they warned that mustard is harmful to the stomach due to its sharpness. In combination with honey, it was given inside for chest diseases as an expectorant, against chronic cough, as well as for the treatment of animal bites and poisoning with poisonous mushrooms. It was also used for pulmonary bleeding, epilepsy, fever, chronic tonsillitis and pleurisy.
In the Russian herbalist of the XVIII century. it is written: Seasonings for dishes with their spice not only increase the appetite, but also, by stimulating the stomach fibers, promote digestion and breed thick sputum.”
Mustard powder is used for General and foot baths as a means of stimulating blood circulation, deepening breathing, facilitating the separation of sputum. There is an antiseptic, anti-inflammatory effect of mustard, useful in the defeat of tuberculosis of the lymph glands.
Mustard also has antimicrobial and antifungal properties, which was the reason to use a solution of mustard powder for the treatment of foot mycoses. Mustard ointment is used to treat psoriasis and neurodermatitis.
Mustard is widely used in phytocosmetics for skin and hair care.
