The badger fat is useful, and if you need it

Badger fat - very inhumane thing: to get it, the animal is killed. In addition, he has a very dubious utility.

Layfhaker found out details about a popular ingredient of the old folk recipes.

As used badger fat

Actually, Spangenberg told properties that are attributed to badger fat people of Siberia and the Far East.

In winter, hunters smeared their skin of the hands and face to protect against chapping and frostbite. Later, people noticed that under a layer of fat quickly heal scratches, and began to use it for the treatment of wounds and skin diseases. They rubbed his nose and chest colds. Whole body - for pain and swelling in the joints.

We should also mention the use of badger fat in phthisis - tuberculosis. It is not without reason: before the invention of antibiotics tuberculous lesion in the lungs are indeed more or less successfully suppressed fat reception. Acted following mechanism: fatty acids brought by the blood to the lungs, oxidized and substitute are similar to these amino acids that make up the cell wall tuberculosis bacteria - rods Koch. Damaged walls of bacteria, microbes lose activity ailment retreated.

However, modern drugs are much more active. Therefore, treatment of badger fat - a relic of the past. This is a key point.

Badger fat was indispensable in the absence of pharmacies and adequate medical care. But to use it today - is to ignore all the achievements of civilization.

How useful badger fat and who needs it (spoiler: not exactly you)

Nutrients do have to badger fat. Here they are (for information only).

• Polyunsaturated fatty acidsCharacterization of fatty acid composition in Eurasian badger (Meles meles) omega-3, omega-6 and omega-9. They are indispensable: a person can get them only with food.
• Antioxidant substancesThe prospect of using badger and bear fat in the prevention and treatment of thrombus complications. They fight free radicals, molecules that damage tissues and organs.
• vitamins A, Group B, E.

Overall looks poleznenko: at least from the outside, at least inside. But the concentration of these utilities are not so great that the cost for them to take the life of 20-pound badger. Moreover, the fatty acids and antioxidants, and vitamins can be obtained from food or dietary supplements, which if necessary will gladly prescribe you a therapist.

Actually, therefore, there is no internationally recognized studies that analyzed the benefit of badger fat and its effect on the human body.

Verdict: If you have access to a pharmacy and medical service, it is better to leave the badger badgers.

This rational and humane.