What is Desert Truffle?

Desert truffles, is a family of truffles, endemic to arid and semi-arid areas of the Mediterranean Region, North Africa, and the Middle East, They are a few centimetres across and weigh from 30 to 300 grams (1-10 oz).
Desert truffles are often used as a culinary ingredient, It is considered one of the finest and most valuable desert fungi.

It grows after the occurrence of thunderstorms so called thunderstorms and the reason is that this plant needs to increase the proportion of nitrogen in the soil to grow, and get the soil on the nitrogen in fertile quantities through lightning, which works on the formation of nitrogen during the acquisition and falling with Rain when combined with thunderstorms, which increases the proportion of nitrogen in the soil, which greatly helps the growth and appearance.

What are it's benifits?

• Protects against atherosclerosis, which causes high blood pressure and coronary heart disease, such as angina and heart attacks.
• to treat the cracking of the lips.
• Used For the treatment of vision disorders, and strengthens the eyelid and works as an eye drop water.
• Used to strengthen the sexual relationship.
• It prevents the occurrence of fibrosis in the disease of trachoma by interfering to a large extent in the formation of cells composed of fibers and so truffle is widely used in the treatment of trachoma in various stages.

Contraindications of Truffle

• It is not recommended for people with stomach diseases or their intestines to eat truffles, and should not be eaten by people with allergies and skin diseases.
• You should not eat raw truffles and do not drink cold water after they are cooked because of it does damage to the stomach.

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