Kazakh doctors praise health benefits of national drinks
Kazakh national dairy drinks saumal (freshly milked horse milk), kymyz (horse milk), and shubat (camel’s milk) support immunity and have healing properties, said Bakytzhan Bimbetov, gastroenterologist and professor at the Medical Center Hospital of President’s Affairs Administration, according to Astana Times.
Kazakh doctors praise health benefits of national drinks
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Kazakh doctors praise health benefits of national drinks

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Eurasia 27/04/2023 06:00

Kazakh national dairy drinks saumal (freshly milked horse milk), kymyz (horse milk), and shubat (camel’s milk) support immunity and have healing properties, said Bakytzhan Bimbetov, gastroenterologist and professor at the Medical Center Hospital of President’s Affairs Administration, according to Astana Times.

Saumal is a newly milked mare’s milk that begins to sour and loses its therapeutic properties within an hour or two. It is a functional nutrition that significantly impacts health. Saumal, by composition, is equivalent to a mother’s milk. Unlike kymyz, it has a sweet flavour, the newspaper writes.

“We have done a lot of research on the medicinal and nutritional qualities of mare’s milk in steatohepatitis, an inflammatory liver condition accompanied by fatty degeneration. We achieved great outcomes. The results were even better in comparison to the use of medications,” the professor said.

“Saumal and kymyz are our national drinks. We must popularize them. It is a universal product for all illnesses. If we use it for specific treatments, the results will be one and a half to two times better than without it,” he said.

Camel milk is popular in Africa too (Photo: AFP/N'Djamena)

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