Koumiss: mare's milk, properties, kumysotherapy of tuberculosis patients

Koumiss is a foaming beverage of a pleasant sour smell and taste, prepared at home by fermentation from mare's milk, which includes a lot of useful medicinal properties.

Here we will talk about how to cook, make koumiss( a recipe for cooking), how it can be drunk in cases of tuberculosis. Kummy treatment of gives good results not only in the treatment of initial and slow forms of tuberculosis. It enables the body to increase protective forces and cure many incurable diseases.

Composition of koumiss: useful medicinal properties, use of

Mare milk has long been used for making a lactic acid drink. Peoples who roamed in the southeastern part of Europe and in Central Asia, fed mainly livestock products, the main of which was the mare's milk. As the mare's milk quickly sours and spoils, the nomads have found a way to process it into koumiss, which lasts longer.

According to the chemical composition, kumys is closer to for female milk than for cow's milk.

It contains:

1. proteins,
2. carbohydrates,
3. milk sugar,
4. alcohol( 1%),
5. has a lot of useful digestible substances and microelements.

A good result is kumysothekie, if it is carried out in the steppe spaces of Kyrgyzstan and Bashkortostan. Kumys is also an effective remedy for bronchiectasis and chronic bronchitis.

Kumys is based on lactic acid and alcohol fermentation.

Both types of fermentation should proceed simultaneously, so that their products( lactic acid, alcohol, carbon dioxide) are in koumiss at certain concentrations. To prepare koumiss, a leaven is required. Bashkirs and Kirghizians usually have a leaven prepared from the fall of strong old koumiss, well washed and dried in the sun. The yeast is prepared by adding milk of a culture of lactic acid rods and yeast to the steam or heated mare.

For kumys fortresses are divided into:

1. weak,
2. medium,
3. sturdy.

Kinds of koumiss differ mainly in alcohol content and acidity.

Under the influence of drinking koumiss, appetite, secretion of gastric juice and absorption of food are improved. Kumys has an exciting effect on gastrointestinal secretion, in some respects is able to replace hydrochloric acid with a lack of it in gastric juice, more easily digested and absorbed better than milk. In addition, when drinking koumiss, digestibility of fats and food proteins increases. Weak koumiss acts on the intestines indulgently, strong - delays its activity. After two months of consumption of koumiss in the sanatoriums, the weight of patients usually increases from 3 to 7 kg.

Kumys: contraindications, harm

Contraindications to the use of koumiss: individual intolerance to mare's milk, harm can be caused only in cases of allergy to this product. In practice, it is relatively rare.

Kumy treatment of tuberculosis patients in a sanatorium: how you can drink

In a patient with tuberculosis, sensitive to any irritants, a large amount of koumiss can cause a strong reaction, contribute to the deterioration of the process.

Therefore, the dosage of kumysotherapy must be strictly individual.

In the first two days koumiss is given six times a day for 100 ml.

If the patient tolerates koumiss well, on the third day he is given 250 ml six times a day, observing the body's response to this dose.

To a weak patient, to give an exacerbation, give 50 ml six times a day. With good tolerability every two days, add 50 ml per reception, bringing the dose to 250 ml.

Indications for kumysotherapy at home

1. fresh forms of pulmonary tuberculosis( fresh focal, infiltrative and disseminated forms, primary tuberculosis complex, tumor-like or infiltrative bronchoadenitis) without decay and with decay in a state of compensation or incomplete subcompensation;
2. ( normal or low-grade fever not above 37.2 ° C, slight weakness, slight dyspnea), no pronounced inclination to progression;
3. chronic subcompensated forms of tuberculosis with manifestations of exacerbation or progression of the process;
4. exudative pleurisy of tuberculous etiology;
5. is a fresh and chronic form of tuberculosis of the lymph nodes.

In countries of the East and North Africa koumiss is considered to be a drink of the elderly. He gives cheerfulness, both to the body and to the spirit, regulates the work of the intestines and the cardiovascular system. In Bashkiria and Kalmykia, koumiss is an indispensable product in every home.

In Russia kumisolechnitsy are located in the Voronezh region( sanatorium Khrenovoye), in Kazakhstan( Borovoe resort), in Bashkiria( station Shafranovo), in Stavropol on the Volga( resort Manych).

In some regions of Russia, is made with cow mare. Make it from fat-free cow milk( reverse), adding to it 25 percent water and 5 percent sugar. Cowberry koumiss, like all lactic acid drinks from cow milk, is a useful dietary food and can contribute to weight gain and appetite improvement in some patients.

In terms of the chemical composition and the therapeutic effect, the cow's koumiss is much inferior to the natural mare kumys.

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Source: Iligov GN Official and folk medicine. The most detailed encyclopedia.- Moscow: Izd-vo Eksmo, 2012.