Originally published February 9 2006
Walnuts boost the immune system and battle skin warts
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
The Manila Times talks about the benefits walnuts provide to people suffering with human papillomavirus (HPV), including treatment of skin warts.
Roast stuffed turkey with walnut sage dressing.
The nutrients in walnuts garnered them a niche in herbal medicine books, as well as science books of early physicians.
Check out the latest cookbooks, Discovery Channel's mouth-watering cooking demos and even family recipes dating back from when Lola had teeth---and there's no mistaking the versatility of the walnut.
But besides providing texture and flavor to a limitless number of entrees, soups, salads and desserts, the walnut has also been found to treat, not the palate, but the human skin.
Besides drying frescos made by Renaissance painters and adding the extra kick to an ice cream sundae, walnuts are known for their nutritional content and medicinal properties.
Since they provide many of the elements that the body requires but cannot manufacture, walnuts are deemed one of the most essential foods to put in a diet.
Because the black walnut contains juglone, which also fights dermatomycosis (skin fungi), as discovered by the Greeks and Romans.
Warts, those bumpy growths on the skin that are generally painless, are common but not necessarily normal.
There are flat warts (found on the face and back of the hands), genital warts (found on the external genitalia, pubis and in between the thighs but can appear inside the vagina and in the anal canal), plantar warts (found on the soles of the feet) and the common warts that can appear anywhere.
Some warts disappear without treatment, although it can take as long as six months to two years.
This includes eliminating caffeine, alcohol, refined foods, sugar, saturated fats (animal protein and dairy); and eating more whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, legumes and essential fatty acids (nuts, seeds and cold-water fish) to strengthen the immune system.
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