Is it true that olives and olives are useful with a bone?

It is common that the fruits of the oil tree should be eaten along with bones, since they have a beneficial effect on a number of organs and systems of the body. We decided to check if this is so.

Bones from olives and olives attributed many Healing properties: supposedly they Dissolve Stones in the kidneys, eliminate tooth stone, remove breath attacks and back pain, facilitate symptoms of asthma and pulmonary failure, Display toxins and toxins from the body (the myth of whether in principle there are toxins and toxins and whether it is necessary to remove them, we already Disassembled previously). Reportthat "olive bones are recommended to use people with osteochondrosis pinched nerve, damage to the ligaments and muscles." Reportedly users, bones from olives can even prevent oncological diseases. Question usefulness These Bones Discuss on numerous forums.

Olives and olives are fruit olive tree (it is also cultivated olives), subtropical evergreen plant. The birthplace of an olive tree is a southeastern Mediterranean. And the cultivated form, in addition to the original area, grows on the Black Sea coast, including in Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East - in Turkmenistan, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, in part of China and Indonesia, North Africa, Central, South America and individual regions of North America. In the Russian language, it is customary to call black fruits with olives, and green - olives. However, in English there is no such division, both types of fruits called olives, while indicated Their color is black olives and green olives.

Olive Contain Significant quantity Vitaminov: A, B3 and B6, C, E and K - as well as iron, calcium, potassium and copper. Olives are part of the so -called Mediterranean diet, which has scientifically proven health benefits. In particular:

- reduces the risk of developing certain types of cancer (uterus, breast, intestines, stomach);

- Improves tolerance of immunotherapy and forecast survival with melanoma; 

- By 17% reduces stroke risk;

- reduces The risk of developing diabetes of type II.

At the same time, as part of the Mediterranean diet, olives are consumed as fruits, and also use olive oil. Separately, swallowing the bones in its descriptions is usually not mentioned. At the same time, bones from olives are common as a folk remedy in many countries - in Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. From these countries, medical reports about such practice are regularly received. True, these reports relate to diseases that are not cured with the help of bones, but, on the contrary, acquired.

In 2010, Turkish doctors Described The case of a perforative ulcer of the duodenum and a significant volume of phytobesoar (a foreign body in the stomach, a calculus from undigested plant fibers) from olive bones. The patient, a 43-year-old housewife,, as the doctors wrote, “low socio-economic status”, learned such a recipe for treatment from TV shows with the participation of “Endoedician charlatans”. Having complained about abdominal pain, she was hospitalized. X-ray diagnostics did not show the clusters of the bones, but only free air under the diaphragm, since the bones of olive of the radios are prolapsed. It was decided to perform diagnostic laparotomy - a cavity operation, which consists in opening the abdominal cavity. The stomach was greatly increased in size, turned out and filled with intorained seeds, and a perforation, that is, a hole, was discovered in the gatekeeper (the place of transition of the stomach to the duodenum). The patient was saved, unarmed was removed and a perforation was closed. After the operation, she said that on her advice, her husband also swallowed the bones of olives. Doctors examined the man, but he was more fortunate and the operation was not required. Doctors strongly recommended both to refrain from swallowing the bones of olives in the future.

Earlier, in 1996, a 40-year-old man from Bulgaria also I got it On the operating table, deciding to cure an ulcerative disease according to the old folk recipe. As a result of the “treatment”, almost complete pylorostenosis developed - a blockage of the hole leading from the stomach to the duodenum, and severe bleeding. The only chance of salvation was gastroctomy, that is, amputation of the stomach. Doctors removed the ⅔ organ, the man survived. 

Olive swallowed with a bone I became The reason for going to the hospital and a 24-year-old man from Belgium. He was lucky much more than patients from Turkey and Bulgaria, and the operation was not required. The doctors found out that the indigested olive, along with the bone, attached a wall of the small intestine, hospitalized the man, prescribed steroids to reduce inflammation in the intestines, and the olive with the bone soon came out with feces. At the same time, the olive “helped” the doctors find a serious disease in a man - non -specific ulcerative colitis, or Crohn's disease. Characteristic for her changes were found during diagnostic procedures. 

As we see from the described cases, the use of olives along with the bones in itself is dangerous and can lead to extremely negative consequences. At the same time, the people's councils are not groundless. In 2018, Turkish scientists investigated, as substances contained in the bones, provided that gastric juice affects the body. Conducting in vitro experiments, that is, in a test tube, without the participation of people, they found out that the substances contained in bones have anti -inflammatory, antioxidant and light painkillers, that is, they have further potential for studying their use in the pharmacological industry. In their work, the authors noted that these substances have a prospect, but popular treatment by swallowing entire bones is extremely dangerous.

Thus, the bones of olives actually contain beneficial substances that can be used in medicine in the future - primarily to reduce inflammation. However, the popular method of use, namely, swallowing bones or eating olives and olives with them, is quite dangerous, as it can lead to problems with the intestines and stomach up to amputation of the vital organ.

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