Walnut, formerly known as walnut and peach, is native to southeastern Europe and western and southern Asia. Walnut kernel is rich in nutrition, which is not only an ideal nourishing product, but also a "healthy friend" of dietotherapy. Walnut is mainly rich in fat, which contains linoleic acid glyceride, linolenic acid glyceride and oleic acid glyceride, which is beneficial to reduce the increase of cholesterol in blood and has a health care effect on patients with arteriosclerosis and cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
Chinese medicine has called walnuts "longevity fruit" since ancient times, and holds that walnuts can tonify the kidney and brain, tonify the middle energizer, and nourish the skin and blacken the hair. Walnuts are most suitable for mental workers, especially white-collar women, because these people often use their brains too much and consume sad blood. Eating walnuts regularly can replenish the brain, improve brain circulation and enhance brain power. At the same time, it also has the effect of blackening hair and moistening skin. Because "the hair is bleeding" and the blood is black, walnuts are rich in vitamins, which can improve the physiological activity of the skin, so they are the best beauty products for women.
According to the research of modern nutrition, clean walnut kernel, after removing about 50% waste such as shell, contains 63% linoleic acid and 16.4% linolenic acid, and is rich in protein, phosphorus, calcium, vitamins and a lot of unsaturated fatty acids, which can enhance the elasticity of cerebral vessels, promote the vitality of nerve cells and improve the physiological function of the brain.
Function and edible method of walnut
If you want to replenish your brain, you can pound the walnut kernel into "walnut paste" with rock sugar and put it in a porcelain jar. Take two spoonfuls at a time and rinse with boiling water. When you make it, there is a layer of white liquid floating in the cup. This is "walnut milk", delicious and delicious.
If you eat the "walnut porridge" boiled with walnut kernel powder for a long time, it can nourish the skin and make people white and tender, especially suitable for the elderly.
Vitamin E contained in anti-aging walnut kernel can protect cells from oxidative damage by free radicals, which is recognized as an anti-aging substance in the medical field. Therefore, walnuts are called "Long live the son" and "longevity fruit".
Yixin walnut has a variety of unsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, which can reduce cholesterol content. Therefore, eating stone walnuts is good for people's hearts.
Treating insomnia Regular consumption of walnut kernel has therapeutic effect on insomnia caused by kidney deficiency. The administration method is to mash 5 walnuts and 30g sugar, add 50ml yellow wine into the pot, and decoct with slow fire for 30min, once a day 1 dose, and take it twice.
Anti-constipation method: 1. Stir-fry and grind walnut kernels, and take 20g every night before going to bed. 2. Divide walnut kernels, pine nuts and arborvitae kernels equally, and make pills (namely, Sanren pills) with honey. Each capsule weighs 9 grams, 2-3 capsules each time, twice a day. 3. 6 grams of walnut kernels, mashed into mud, mixed with appropriate amount of honey to make a paste, and served in warm water three times a day.
Juglans regia with antitussive and antiasthmatic effects can resist histamine-induced bronchial smooth muscle spasm and relieve cough. "Compendium of Materia Medica" records: "Hong Maiyun: Wheat has phlegm disease. Take three walnuts and three slices of ginger, chew them when lying flat, sip the soup two or three times, and then chew the peach kernel and ginger before, that is, lie flat until phlegm stops coughing. "
Foreign nutritionists who treat arthritis have found that it is beneficial for arthritis patients to take walnuts, which is consistent with the Chinese medicine saying that walnuts are good for treating low back and leg pain and aching bones and muscles. Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the mechanism of walnut in treating arthritis is due to its function of tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, which is related to its rich vitamin B6.
Playing with walnuts is also healthy.
The "four famous walnuts" played by Beijingers: lion head, chicken heart, prince hat and official hat, are basically named according to the shape of walnuts. Playing with walnuts can not only promote blood circulation, but also stimulate many acupoints on palms and fingers with its wrinkles and corners, thus dredging meridians, eliminating diseases, prolonging life and making it less prone to cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and cerebral thrombosis. Drummers and guitarists in pear orchards also like to pinch pecans to keep their fingers flexible.
There are also skills in pinching walnuts. The best kneading method is to use walnut as a plaything and knead it gently back and forth between the five fingers to activate the blood vessels of the fingers. Walnuts must be played by themselves to pinch jade. In terms of color, the darker the walnut, the better. The more you rub it, the more you feel, and you can slowly penetrate the sense of qi and blood on your hand into its "body". Squeezing walnuts can make you take your time, play while playing, and change your color unconsciously. After a long time, you may be able to figure out the natural patterns hidden in the walnut grain. A pair of walnuts in my father's hand are playing with the pattern of lion's head and dragon.
At present, the society is quietly rising to play with walnuts, which is no longer the patent of the elderly. Many working girl also take pinching a pair of Kun walnuts by hand as a fashion, and some rich people also play with walnuts. They think that having a pair of good walnuts in their hands is much more tasteful than wearing a big diamond ring. Not only from China, but also from abroad, including Japan and South Korea, there are more and more people playing walnuts.
After all, hickory is a wild plant, with fewer and fewer rare varieties, but more and more people are playing with walnuts, and the price increase is the general trend, so its collection value is self-evident. Wen Bingtu/Gao Chen
Tips for eating walnuts
Although the fat contained in walnut kernel is unsaturated fatty acid, which is beneficial to remove cholesterol, the fat itself is high in calories. If you eat too much and can't make full use of it, it will be stored as cholesterol by the human body, and the result is counterproductive. Generally speaking, the daily weight of walnuts should be about 40 grams, which is equivalent to about four or five walnuts. At the same time, we should appropriately reduce the intake of other fats to avoid excessive calorie intake.
In Chinese medicine, walnuts are very angry and contain a lot of oil. Eating too much will make people get angry and get sick. People who get angry and have diarrhea should not eat it.
Walnut kernel has the function of relaxing bowels, but boiled water in walnut shell can treat diarrhea. Walnut kernel contains tannic acid, which can be combined with iron and calcium to reduce the drug effect. Drink less strong tea when eating walnuts.
Some people like to peel off the thin brown skin on the surface of walnut kernel, which will lose some nutrients, so don't peel off this skin.
1. Walnut is rich in nutrition, protein, fat, minerals and vitamins. Every 100g contains protein 15.4g, fat 63g, carbohydrate 10.7g, calcium 108mg, phosphorus 329mg, iron 3.2mg, thiamine 0.32mg and riboflavin 0.1kloc. Fat is rich in linoleic acid and has high nutritional value. In addition, it is also rich in vitamins B and E.
2. Walnut is rich in vitamins B and E, which can prevent cell aging, strengthen brain, enhance memory and delay aging. Walnut also contains special vitamins, which will not only increase cholesterol, but also reduce the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine. It is suitable for people with arteriosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease.
3. Walnut kernel contains linseed oleic acid, calcium, phosphorus and iron, which is an ideal skin care agent for human body. Regular consumption can moisturize and blacken hair, and prevent premature whitening and shedding of hair.
4. Walnut kernel also contains a variety of trace elements needed by human body, which is an important auxiliary material of Chinese patent medicine, and has the functions of nourishing qi and blood, relieving cough and resolving phlegm, moistening lung and tonifying kidney. When you feel tired, chew some walnuts to relieve fatigue and stress.
Efficacy of walnut
Walnut has high medicinal value and is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that walnuts are warm, sweet and non-toxic, and have the effects of invigorating the stomach, enriching the blood, moistening the lungs and nourishing the mind. "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" lists walnuts as the top grade for long-term service, benefiting qi and prolonging life. In Tang Dynasty, Meng E wrote Herbal Medicine for Dietotherapy, and eating walnut kernel can "dredge meridians, moisten blood vessels, and make the flesh and blood smooth". In the Song Dynasty, Liu Han and others recorded in Kaibao Materia Medica that walnut kernel "makes it fat and healthy, moistens muscles, has black beard and black hair, eats more diuretics and removes five hemorrhoids." According to the Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, walnut kernel has the effects of "benefiting qi and nourishing blood, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, treating triple energizer, warming lung and moistening intestine, treating deficiency cold, asthma and cough, severe pain in waist and feet, hernia in the heart, blood dysentery and intestinal wind".
Modern medical research believes that phospholipids in walnuts have a good health care effect on brain nerves. Walnut oil contains unsaturated fatty acids, which can prevent and treat arteriosclerosis. Walnut kernel contains zinc, manganese, chromium and other indispensable trace elements. The contents of zinc and manganese are decreasing in the process of aging, and chromium can promote glucose utilization, cholesterol metabolism and protect cardiovascular system. The effect of walnut kernel on relieving cough and asthma is also very obvious. Winter has excellent curative effect on patients with chronic bronchitis and asthma. It can be seen that eating walnuts regularly can not only strengthen the body, but also resist aging. Therefore, there is a folk saying that "people often eat walnuts to rejuvenate", and there is also a local proverb that "people who eat walnut oil for a long time play with yaks".
Walnuts are a good diet. Whether it is used for dispensing medicine, raw, boiled, dipped in sugar or cooked, it has good effects of enriching blood and benefiting qi, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence, relieving cough and asthma, moistening dryness and relaxing bowels. There are many ways to eat walnuts. Boiling walnuts with proper salt water and eating dregs can cure lumbago due to kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission, impotence, forgetfulness, tinnitus and frequent urination. Cooking porridge with walnuts, coix seed and chestnuts can cure frequent urination, nocturnal emission, loose stool and diarrhea. Eating walnuts, sesame seeds and lotus seeds dipped in sugar can nourish the heart and brain and cure night sweats. Eating raw walnuts, longan pulp and hawthorn can improve heart function. Walnut is also widely used to treat neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, emphysema and stomachache.
Walnut ranks first among the four largest nuts in the world, and its rich nutritional value and health care function are highly respected by the world.
Walnut, the nutritional component of walnut, is one of the heart-strengthening foods recommended by Dr. Morrison, a contemporary natural therapist. According to the determination, every 100g of walnut contains 20-64g of fat, 7 1% of the fat in walnut is linoleic acid, 12% is linolenic acid, protein is 15-20g, and protein is also a high-quality protein. The fat and protein in walnuts are the best nutrients for the brain. Sugar is 10g, and contains calcium, phosphorus, iron, carotene, riboflavin, vitamin B6, vitamin E, juglone, phospholipid, tannin and other nutrients.
● The health care function of walnuts.
Linoleic acid and linolenic acid glyceride in walnut can reduce the absorption of intestinal cholesterol, promote the degradation of cholesterol into bile acid in the liver, and excrete it with bile, which is beneficial to people with arteriosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease. Vitamin B6 in walnuts can help the damaged heart regenerate. Folic acid in walnuts also helps to maintain myocardial metabolism; The bone-nourishing acetic acid in walnut can dilate coronary artery, excite heart, enhance myocardial function, and treat insomnia and neurasthenia. Walnut is rich in phospholipids, which is one of the main components of cell structure. Adequate phospholipids can enhance cell vitality and play an important role in hematopoiesis, promoting skin fineness, wound healing and hair growth. Walnut contains indispensable trace elements such as zinc, manganese and chromium. Zinc and manganese are the key components of endocrine glands in human body, such as pituitary gland, pancreas and gonad. More importantly, walnuts can delay the aging of brain nerves, which is a good product for improving intelligence, strengthening the brain and strengthening the body. As early as the Sui and Tang Dynasties, in order to get good results in the imperial examinations, people had to eat a lot of walnuts before taking the examinations. At that time, they only knew its function, not its principle. In fact, it is because walnuts contain lecithin, vitamins and trace elements. Some people call walnuts "the God of Brain".
● Medicinal value of walnut
Walnut is warm, sweet and non-toxic. It has the effects of invigorating stomach, enriching blood, moistening lung and nourishing spirit, and is a good fruit of dietotherapy. Walnut contains a lot of fat and protein, which are easily absorbed by human body. 1 kg walnut kernel is equivalent to the nutritional value of 5 kg eggs or 9 kg milk. Protein contained in it contains lysine, which is extremely important to human body, and is extremely beneficial to the nutrition of cranial nerves. Whether you are healthy or not, eating walnuts regularly can not only strengthen your body, but also drive away the troubles of diseases.
● The beauty effect of walnuts.
The efficacy of walnut whitening and moisturizing has existed since ancient times. In addition, walnuts enhance the strength of feet and waist, which is especially suitable for postpartum women to recover their physical strength and refresh their minds.
● Practical use of walnuts
(1) tonify deficiency, strengthen body and provide nutrition. Walnut is a rare high-fat substance supplement.
(2) Anti-inflammation, sterilization and skin care. According to clinical reports, the walnut tar zinc oxide paste made by mashing walnut kernel can treat dermatitis and eczema, and the effective rate is 100%.
(3) Anti-cancer. Walnut has a good inhibitory effect on many tumors, such as esophageal cancer, gastric cancer, nasopharyngeal cancer, lung cancer, thyroid cancer, lymphosarcoma and so on. In addition, walnuts also have analgesic, leukocytosis and liver protection effects on cancer patients. (4) strengthening the brain and preventing aging. Walnut kernel contains more protein and unsaturated fatty acids necessary for human nutrition. These components are important substances in brain tissue cell metabolism, which can nourish brain cells and enhance brain function.
(5) Purify blood and lower cholesterol. Walnut kernel can reduce the absorption of cholesterol in intestine, dissolve cholesterol, remove dirt and impurities on blood vessel wall and purify blood, thus providing better fresh blood for human body.