Grape Seed Oil
Grape Seed Oil is a natural antioxidant that helps your body fight oxidative stress. Grape Seed Oil also contains essential fatty acids, which promote health and vitality.
History
Grape seed from the University of Maryland Medical Center
The medicinal and nutritional value of grapes (Vitis vinifera) has been heralded for thousands of years. Egyptians consumed this fruit at least 6,000 years ago, and several ancient Greek philosophers praised the healing power of grapes -- usually in the form of wine. European folk healers developed an ointment from the sap of grapevines to cure skin and eye diseases. Grape leaves were used to stop bleeding, inflammation, and pain, such as the kind brought on by hemorrhoids. Unripe grapes were used to treat sore throats and dried grapes (raisins) were used to heal consumption, constipation, and thirst. The round, ripe, sweet grapes, were used to treat a range of health problems including cancer, cholera, smallpox, nausea, eye infections, and skin, kidney, and liver diseases.
Health Benefits
- Grape Seed Oil helps to keep the heart healthy by lowering cholesterol and elevating "good" cholesterol, keeping vital arteries free of plaque.
- Grape Seed Oil may help shrink some of the swelling from non-cancerous breast cysts.
- Grape Seed Oil may shrink varicose veins and improve the skin colour and skin texture of people who suffer from circulatory problems in two ways: it acts as a catalyst for Vitamin C, which promotes softer, smoother skin and it increases the flow of nutrient-rich blood to all areas of the body, including the extremities.
- Grape Seed Oil may prevent arthritis because it maintains healthy collagen which is the fibrous part of connective joint tissue. When arthritis strikes, collagen wears away, causing aches and pains that affect milions of North Americans. If you already suffer from arthritis, the chemical compounds in grape seed extracts reduce the inflammation that cause pain. Some patients even get relief overnight, researchers report.
- Grape Seed Oil may improve eyesight, by causing the small blood vessels in the eyes to function more efficiently.
- Grape Seed Oil may bring relief to millions of allergy sufferers because they help to block the release of enzymes that produce histamines, natural substances in the body that trigger allergic reactions.
- Grape Seed Oil may help to prevent strokes, heart attacks, allergies, varicose veins, arthritis, hemorrhoids, night blindness, declining brain function, cancer, diabetes and hardening of the arteries
