The composition of ginseng is extremely complex, and its effective components are all over the whole plant. The magical effect of ginseng comes from its rich ginsenoside, ginseng polysaccharide, amino acids, peptides, flavonoids, volatile oil and various trace elements, among which more than 50 kinds of ginsenoside contained in ginseng are medically proved to be the key substances that play a role in human body. A large number of modern scientific experiments have proved that ginseng has almost no toxicity and chronic toxicity, and there is no side effect after long-term use. The key to the use of ginseng is to grasp the quantity. As long as the dosage is appropriate, there will be no discomfort. Ginseng has obvious anti-fatigue effect on human body, anti-tumor, improving immunity, relieving depression and anxiety, and has anti-cancer and anti-cancer effects. It can be used as an adjuvant drug for the treatment of cancer, and can also improve the symptoms of female climacteric disorder, protect the liver and relieve alcoholism.
American Ginseng
Total saponins (5% ~ 10%) are the main pharmacological components of American ginseng, similar to ginseng, but in different proportions. The pharmacological effects of their total saponins are basically the same, but the total saponins of Panax ginseng focus on antidiuretic and anti-fatigue, while the total saponins of Panax quinquefolium focus on sedation. American ginseng has many pharmacological activities.
1. For cardiovascular system: (1) improve myocardial function, resist ischemia, (2) resist arrhythmia, (3) resist shock and (4) resist arteriosclerosis.
2. Enhance physical fitness: (1) anti-hypoxia, (2) anti-fatigue, (3) high temperature, (4) cold and (5) hunger and thirst.
3. Promote hematopoiesis.
Calm down.
5. lower blood sugar.
6. Enhance immunity.
It is worth noting that Chinese medical workers have made a comparative study on the pharmacological activities of American ginseng imported from western countries, which proves that China American ginseng has very significant and the same pharmacological activities in anti-fatigue, anti-hypoxia, anti-convulsion, anti-diuretic, protein synthesis and so on, and there is no significant difference.
Taurus
Taurine is a sulfur-containing amino acid, which exists in animals and has many pharmacological activities.
This function is as follows:
The effect of 1 on strengthening liver and benefiting gallbladder: guinea pig experiments show that taurine can relieve bile obstruction and has the effect of benefiting gallbladder.
2 antipyretic and anti-inflammatory effects: this product may reduce the body temperature by acting on the central 5-ht system or catecholamine system.
3 hypotensive effect
4 cardiotonic and antiarrhythmic effects
5 hypoglycemic effect
6 iodate can relax skeletal muscle and antagonize myotonia.
Swim bladder glue (gelatin)
Fish glue is actually a dried product of swim bladder, which is rich in gum, so it is called fish glue, and some people call it flower glue. The history of China people eating fish belly can be traced back to before the Han Dynasty. The so-called fish belly was recorded in Yao Min's Book more than 600 years ago.
Fish glue is as famous as bird's nest and shark's fin. It is one of the eight treasures and is known as marine ginseng. Its main components are advanced collagen, vitamins and trace elements such as calcium, zinc, iron and selenium. Its protein content is as high as 84.2%, and its fat is only 0.2%. It is an ideal food with high protein and low fat.
Cut the bought dried swim bladder into small pieces with scissors (it is enough to use half swim bladder at a time), put it in an aluminum bowl, add appropriate amount of hot water and soak it for one day. Then put the bowl in a pot of the right size, steam it for a while, and then take it out. Hold the aluminum bowl with one hand and tap the colloid in the bowl with the other hand. This is a tedious job, which needs to be carried out repeatedly, and the water quantity is adjusted until the colloid is completely dissolved and turned into glue. Then you can use it. After each use, leave a little more for next time. It was already dry when it was reused. At this time, add a little more water and steam.
The efficacy of fish glue:
Traditional Chinese medicine believes that swim bladder is sweet and flat in nature, nourishing blood to stop bleeding, tonifying kidney and arresting sperm, and is often used in combination with traditional Chinese medicine to treat peptic ulcer, tuberculosis, rheumatic heart disease, aplastic anemia and vasculitis. Taking swim bladder gel beads directly has obvious curative effect on neurasthenia, children's chronic spleen wind, women's menstrual insufficiency, leukorrhagia, metrorrhagia and so on. Swim bladder can improve appetite, prevent and treat anorexia, dyspepsia, abdominal distension, constipation and other diseases, enhance brain and nerve functions, improve thinking and intelligence, maintain normal secretion of glands, and prevent mental retardation, nerve conduction block, slow response, senile amnesia and other diseases. Fish glue can help the human body to quickly eliminate fatigue and help the recovery of surgical patients' wounds. Some food experts said that in the past, the elderly would leave some old fish glue for their daughters or daughters-in-law to eat before and after pregnancy. Generally speaking, you can eat it after 4 to 5 months of pregnancy, and eat it several times before delivery, so that it will be more comfortable after delivery. In addition, 4 to 5 days after operation, you can also eat fish glue, and the wound will heal better. It is said that there is a man who is nearly eighty years old and can still live after eating. Because of its rich colloid, it has the effects of nourishing, nourishing and prolonging life.
root of kudzu vine
Pueraria lobata, a leguminous plant, is a common vegetable in some provinces in southern China. Its taste is sweet and delicious, and it is often used to make soup.
Li Shizhen, a famous medical scientist in Ming Dynasty, made a systematic study on Pueraria lobata, and thought that its stems, leaves, flowers, fruits and roots can be used as medicine. He recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Pueraria lobata is sweet, pungent, flat and non-toxic, and its main indications are: quenching thirst, body heat, vomiting, activating yin, and removing toxic substances".
Effect:
1. Improve the regeneration ability of hepatocytes, restore normal liver function, promote bile secretion and prevent fat accumulation in the liver.
2. Promote metabolism, strengthen liver detoxification function, and prevent alcohol from damaging the liver.
3. For coronary atherosclerosis caused by hyperlipidemia, cardiovascular diseases such as coronary heart disease, angina pectoris and myocardial infarction can be prevented and treated by improving myocardial ischemia.
4. For cerebral arteriosclerosis caused by hyperlipidemia, cerebrovascular diseases such as cerebral infarction, hemiplegia and vascular dementia can be prevented and treated by improving cerebral ischemia.
5. Enhance the autoimmune function of hepatobiliary cells and resist virus invasion.
black-boned chicken
Anti-aging and anti-cancer
? Black-bone chicken contains a lot of vitamin A, trace elements selenium and melanin, and has the functions of scavenging free radicals, inhibiting the formation of lipid peroxide, resisting aging and inhibiting the growth of cancer cells.
? Regulate gynecological diseases
? Black-bone chicken contains a lot of iron, which has the functions of nourishing yin and enriching blood, strengthening spleen and strengthening chong, and can effectively treat irregular menstruation and iron deficiency anemia in women. Compendium of Materia Medica holds that "(black-bone chicken) is beneficial to parturient and can cure women's abortion."
? Keep fit and prevent diseases.
? Black-bone chicken contains a lot of protein, vitamins and trace elements such as selenium, iron, copper and manganese, but its cholesterol content is extremely low, so it is a nourishing good product with high protein and low fat. Recent studies have also proved that DHA and EPA contained in black-bone chicken can also improve children's intelligence, prevent Alzheimer's disease, prevent cerebral thrombosis and myocardial infarction.
? improve immunity
? Black-bone chicken contains many vitamins, lysine, methionine and histidine which are indispensable to human body. Regular consumption can effectively regulate physiological functions and improve human immunity.
? Chinese medicine theory:
? Chinese medicine believes that black-bone chicken has the effects of nourishing yin and clearing away heat, nourishing liver and kidney, etc. Taking medicine can treat all deficiency diseases, such as dizziness, weakness after illness, emaciation, hot flashes due to bone steaming, lumbago and leg pain, diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, irregular menstruation and nocturnal emission.
Velvet antler (of young deer)
Efficacy of velvet antler
Yang, qi and blood, essence and bones. Treat fatigue, dizziness, deafness, waist and knee pain, impotence and nocturnal emission; Uterine deficiency cold, metrorrhagia, leukorrhagia.
① Classic: the main body leaks evil blood, cold and heat shock epilepsy, invigorating qi and strengthening will.
(2) Carapax Trionycis: it can cure malaria, emaciation, soreness of limbs, lumbocrural pain, urination, ejaculation, blood drowning, intra-abdominal bleeding, loose stone stranguria, carbuncle swelling, bone fever, gangrene and itching (according to the cursive script,' itching' should be selected).
③ Theory of medicinal properties: it mainly supplements soreness and weakness of men's waist and knees, kidney deficiency and coldness, soreness and weakness of feet and knees, sexual intercourse in wet dream, spontaneous emission of nocturnal emission, collapse and blood leakage of women, and taking a square dagger with hollow warm wine at the end of baking. And the main red and white belt, into a scattered use.
4 "Rihuazi Materia Medica": tonify deficiency, strengthen bones and muscles, break blood stasis, prevent miscarriage and reduce qi, and use it crisply.
⑤ Outline: Nourish essence and marrow, nourish blood and strengthen bones and muscles. Treat all physical weakness, deafness, dark eyes, dizziness and dysentery.
How to use traditional Chinese medicine prescription
① Treatment of exhaustion of essence and blood, dull complexion, deafness, dizziness, dry mouth, backache, soft feet and turbid urine, upper dryness and lower cold, without heavy supplement: velvet antler (soaked in wine) and angelica sinensis (soaked in wine). For fine, boiled ebony paste into pills, as big as a buttonwood tree. Report one for every fifty, and send the hollow one with the meal. ("Fang Jisheng" black pill)
② Deficiency of essence and blood, failure of nutrition and health, spontaneous sweating due to hot flashes, fright, weakness of limbs, and various deficiencies: velvet antler (steamed with wine). One or two aconites (cannons) each. Chop, divide into four parts, two cups of water, ten slices of ginger, fry until it is half cooked, and remove the residue to eat. (Fu Rong Soup, A Good Prescription for Famous Doctors in the World)
3 If you don't do anything to treat weakness and yang, your complexion is unclear, you urinate frequently, and you don't want to eat: velvet antler costs five yuan, use one or two more (peeled and sliced) and one or two dried yam (as the end). Wrap it in raw silk, soak it in wine for seven days, and drink three cups a day. After drinking the wine, dry the velvet antler and leave it for nourishing. "Pujifang" velvet wine)
(4) The treatment of vertigo is very severe. If you look up, your eyes will turn, and they are often black. If you see something flying, or you see something as two: velvet antler, take half a cup at a time, fry it with three glasses of ashless wine to one cup, and add a little musk except me. Key points of syndrome differentiation and treatment)
⑤ If you don't heal for a long time, you will have less yin, white tongue and painful body, and swollen feet: pilose antler, aconite San Qian, tsaoko, dodder San Qian, Poria, five cups of water, two cups of water, and then take it every day, and then cook the residue. (Lufu Decoction in Syndrome Differentiation of Epidemic Febrile Diseases)
⑥ Treatment of deficiency-cold of small intestine and frequent urination: pilose antler (crispy and yellowish), white keel (burnt), ootheca mantidis (slightly fried), red pepper (slightly fried), aconite root (fried) and dogwood fruit. The medicine is pounded into powder, and honey is pounded into one or two hundred tablets, and the pills are as big as buttonwood. Take 20 capsules each time with salt soup, hollow, and take before eating at night. ("Sheng Huifang" pilose antler pill)
jujube
Small red dates are very effective It is often seen in the prescriptions of traditional Chinese medicine, because red dates have the effect of relieving medicinal properties; Jujube can invigorate qi and nourish blood, which is a good nutrition.
According to the classic of Chinese materia medica, red dates are sweet and warm, and have the medicinal properties of tonifying the middle energizer, nourishing blood, calming the nerves, relaxing muscles and activating collaterals. Modern pharmacological research shows that jujube can enhance the oxygen content in blood and nourish the whole body cells, so it is a mild tonic.
In traditional Chinese medicine, the efficacy and function of red dates can be divided into the following categories:
1. Spleen and stomach: People with weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, fatigue and weakness can eat seven red dates a day, or use them together with Dangshen and Atractylodes macrocephala * *, which can replenish middle energizer, strengthen spleen and stomach, and achieve the effect of appetizing and stopping diarrhea; Jujube, ginger and Pinellia can be used together to treat gastritis such as bloating and vomiting caused by careless diet.
2. Enhancing human immunity Jujube contains a lot of saccharides, mainly glucose, fructose and sucrose, and oligosaccharides, arabinans and galactomannans composed of glucose and fructose; It also contains a lot of vitamins such as vitamin C, riboflavin, thiamine, carotene and nicotinic acid. , has a strong nourishing effect, can improve human immune function and enhance disease resistance.
3. Supplementing qi and nourishing blood: Jujube is a good tonic, and it is often added to the diet to nourish the body and nourish the blood. Dr Andy Sun, an immunologist at National Taiwan University, strongly advocates that eating more red dates, astragalus and medlar in peacetime can enhance the vitality of the body.
4. Enhance muscle strength and gain weight. The weight of the experimental mice was significantly increased compared with that of the control group after being fed with jujube soup for 3 weeks every day. In the swimming test, their swimming time is obviously longer than that of the control group, which shows that jujube can enhance muscle strength and gain weight.
5. Relieve the medicinal properties: Jujube is often used in prescriptions with strong medicinal properties to reduce the side effects of strong drugs and protect healthy qi. For example, in Ten Jujube Soup, jujube is used to reduce the toxicity of laxatives such as Gansui, Euphorbia Euphorbia and Wuhua, and to protect the spleen and stomach from harm. Jujube is a sacred product for invigorating qi and nourishing blood, and it is also cheap. People don't need to buy expensive supplements in the market, and they can achieve the health care effect by making good use of red dates.
6. The flavone-disaccharide A contained in tranquilizing jujube has sedative, hypnotic and hypotensive effects, and the isolated grapefruit aglycone C glycoside has central inhibitory effect, that is, it reduces spontaneous movement, stimulates reflex and rigidity, so jujube has sedative and tranquilizing effects.
7. Nourishing blood and calming the nerves: women have bipolar disorder, crying and anxiety, and are uneasy. Jujube, licorice and wheat can nourish blood and soothe the nerves, soothe the liver and relieve depression.
8. The ethanol extract of anti-allergic jujube can inhibit the production of antibodies against specific allergic diseases and the reactive antibodies in mice, suggesting that jujube has anti-allergic effect.
9. Anti-cancer and anti-mutation jujube contains three kinds of compounds, among which folic acid and phytic acid have been found to have anti-cancer activity and inhibit sarcoma S- 180. Nutrients contained in jujube can enhance human immune function, and play a certain role in preventing cancer and maintaining human organ function.
10. Protecting the liver It has been proved by experiments that jujube soup is given to rabbits with carbon tetrachloride liver injury every day for *** 1 week. The results show that the serum total protein and albumin are significantly higher than those of the control group, indicating that jujube has a protective effect on the liver.