What health care function does the woman who often eats walnuts have?
Hello. 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. The American Dietetic Association advises people to eat walnuts two or three times a week, especially middle-aged and elderly people and menopausal women, because the arginine, oleic acid and antioxidants contained in walnuts are quite beneficial to protect the cardiovascular system and prevent coronary heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer's disease. Don't eat too much at a time, otherwise it will affect digestion. 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. 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, stomachache and other diseases.