Performance peanut seeds are sweet and flat, and enter the spleen, stomach and lung meridians. Peanut contains protein, fat, amino acids, lecithin, purine, alkaloids, vitamins (A, B 1, B2, C, H), pantothenic acid, triterpenoid saponins, calcium, phosphorus and iron. Under the same weight, the content of protein in peanuts is 2-3 times that of protein in ordinary pork, beef and fish. Peanut skin contains lipids, sterols, tannins, colorless delphinidin and peanut glycosides.
The function of peanuts: ① tonify the spleen and stomach. Compendium of Materia Medica says: "Sweet and fragrant, it can strengthen the spleen and stomach, and is suitable for people with hard diet." Stir-fried peanuts nourish the spleen and stomach and treat nausea and leucorrhea. ② Enriching blood to stop bleeding. Peanut skin can replenish blood and cure anemia. Its hemostatic mechanism may be related to many factors such as increasing the number of platelets, improving the quality of platelets and improving the defect of coagulation factors. Can be used for hemorrhagic diseases, such as aplastic anemia, hemophilia, hemophilia-like, congenital hereditary telangiectasia, and thrombocytopenic hemorrhage. 3 Runfei Huatan, peanuts cooked with salt water can moisten the lungs. Eating raw leads to excessive phlegm. Used for cough with little phlegm. (4) enriching blood and increasing milk, which is used for postpartum milk deficiency.
Precautions and taboos ① 1 time should not eat too much. If you eat too much, your stomach will swell and you will have more phlegm when you are hot. ② People with cold and dampness stagnation and diarrhea should not eat it. Moldy peanuts, containing aflatoxin, can easily cause liver cancer, so they can't be eaten.
Formulas and usage
(1) Peanut coat: 12 ~ 18g, taken twice, can be taken regularly, and has the effect of enriching blood. Suitable for anemia.
(2) Peanut jujube paste: 6 ~ 10 coated peanuts and 6 ~ 10 jujube (peeled). Cook jujube, mash it with raw and clothed peanuts, 1 dose per day, three times, and take it with jujube soup. Or add 12 ~ 15g longan pulp. Tonify qi and blood, and treat blood deficiency, allergic purpura and aplastic anemia. In the prescription, peanut coat, jujube strengthen the spleen and nourish blood, longan nourish the heart and spleen. Spleen is the source of blood, and heart governs blood, so it can replenish blood and treat blood deficiency. In addition, coated peanuts can improve the coagulation mechanism, so it can treat a variety of hemorrhagic diseases.
(3) Peanut and mushroom trotter soup: 50g peanuts, 20g mushrooms, trotters 1 paw. Wash peanuts and mushrooms, remove nails from trotters, scorch them, put them in a pot, add water and a little salt, and cook them until the trotters are cooked. Eating hoof meat, mushrooms, peanuts and soup can be used several times, which is suitable for postpartum hypogalactia. Peanuts in recipes nourish blood, moisten dryness and increase milk; Mushrooms can replenish qi and blood and milk; Pig trotters nourish yin and increase milk. Several flavors * * * use nourishing yin and nourishing blood, benefiting qi and increasing milk, so it is quite effective for postpartum milk with insufficient qi and blood.