The fruit of jujube in rhamnaceae.
China's cursive book "Ben Jing" records that red dates are sweet in taste and warm in nature, belonging to the spleen and stomach meridian, and have the functions of nourishing the middle energizer, nourishing the blood and calming the nerves, and relaxing the medicinal properties; However, modern pharmacology has found that jujube is rich in protein, fat, sugar, organic acids, vitamin A, vitamin C, trace calcium, amino acids and other nutrients.
Modern pharmacology also found that jujube can improve the phagocytic function of mononuclear phagocyte system in the body, protect the liver and enhance physical strength. This discovery coincides with the method of nourishing liver and detoxifying in traditional Chinese medicine.
Dr. Zhuang, a medical star consultant of Medical Planet, strongly recommends that women who have caesarean section drink Gan Yang soup before delivery. She thinks that caesarean section can not only reduce the toxicity of anesthetic, protect the liver and relieve postoperative pain. The method of Gan Yang decoction is as follows: wash seven red dates, draw a straight line with a knife to help the nutrition overflow, then cover the lid with 280 cc boiling water, soak for eight hours, and then cover the lid and steam for one hour. Jujube has such wonderful effects and is cheap at the same time, so people should make more use of it.
"Jujube" tonifies qi and nourishes blood
What's the function of a small red date? O strong. 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 application 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 caused by careless diet, such as abdominal distension and vomiting.
2. Yiqi Yangxue: Jujube is a good tonic. Jujube is often added to the diet to nourish the body and nourish blood. Dr Andy Sun, an immunologist at National Taiwan University, strongly advocates that eating more red dates, astragalus and medlar at ordinary times can enhance the vitality of the body and enhance immunity.
3. Nourishing blood and calming the nerves: female bipolar disorder, crying and restless, uneasy and so on. Using red dates together with licorice and wheat can nourish blood, soothe the nerves, soothe the liver and relieve depression.
4. Relieve the medicinal properties: Red dates are often used in prescriptions with strong medicinal properties to reduce the side effects of drugs with strong medicinal properties 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 at the same time, it is 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.
Longan, also known as longan, is warm and sweet, benefiting the heart and spleen, and replenishing qi and blood; Has good nourishing and nourishing effects, and can be used for treating insomnia, amnesia, fright, dizziness and other symptoms caused by deficiency of both heart and spleen and deficiency of qi and blood.
It can also be used to treat weakness or mental decline after illness. It is also suitable for women's postpartum makeup. Li Shizhen recorded in Compendium of Materia Medica: "Litchi is the most expensive food, and longan is the best resource". I admire longan more.
Pharmacological research shows that longan contains many nutrients such as glucose, sucrose, vitamins A and B, among which protein, fat and various minerals are more.
These nutrients are very necessary for the human body. Especially for hard-working people, it is more effective to consume sad temper and blood.
lotus seed
This product is a dried and mature seed of lotus. Nymphaeaceae. When the fruit is ripe in autumn, cut the lotus, take out the fruit, peel it and dry it.
Properties This product is slightly oval or spherical, with a length of 1.2 ~ 1.8 cm and a diameter of 0.8 ~ 1.4 cm. The surface is yellowish brown to reddish brown, with thin longitudinal stripes and wide veins. The center of one end is papillary, dark brown, with many cracks and slightly concave periphery. It's hard. The seed coat is thin and not easy to peel. Cotyledons 2, yellow and white, plump, with gaps in the middle, with green germs. Odorless, sweet and slightly astringent.
Sexual taste, sweet meridian tropism, astringent and flat. Spleen, kidney and heart meridian.
Indications: strengthening the spleen to stop diarrhea, nourishing the kidney and astringent essence, nourishing the heart and calming the nerves. Used for diarrhea due to spleen deficiency, nocturnal emission, palpitation and insomnia.
Ficus is a berry tree species, with edible rate as high as 92%, thin seedless skin, soft and sweet meat, and high nutritional value and medicinal value. Planting banyan trees has high economic, ecological and social benefits. First of all, fig has high nutritional value, and its fruit is rich in sugar, protein, amino acids, vitamins and mineral elements. According to the determination of Shandong Forestry Department, the soluble solid content of mature figs is as high as 24%, and the sugar content of most varieties is between 15%-22%, which is more than double that of many first-and second-generation fruit varieties. Fruit contains 18 amino acids, 8 of which are essential for human body. Secondly, figs have extremely high medicinal value. Its fruit contains a lot of pectin and vitamins, which can absorb a variety of chemicals after water absorption and expansion. Therefore, after eating fig, all kinds of harmful substances in the intestine can be absorbed and excreted, which has the functions of purifying the intestine, promoting the proliferation of beneficial bacteria, inhibiting the increase of blood sugar, maintaining normal cholesterol content and quickly discharging toxic substances. Fig is rich in protein-decomposing enzymes, lipases, amylases and oxidases, which can promote the decomposition of protein. Therefore, when people eat more meat rich in protein, fruits cooked with figs have a good effect on digestion. The fruit, leaves, branches and even the whole grass of fig can be used as medicine. In addition to appetizing and helping digestion, fruit can also stop diarrhea and cure sore throat. Putting dried fig leaves in the bathtub has the functions of warming the body, preventing and treating neuralgia, hemorrhoids, swelling and pain, and beautifying the skin. Therefore, the packaging of fig products in Japan is printed with the propaganda words of "healthy food" and "beauty". The most important medicinal function of Ficus carica is its remarkable inhibitory effect on cancer, and its anticancer effect is also recognized by all countries in the world, and it is known as "the patron saint of human health in 2 1 century". Ficus carica contains a variety of anticancer substances and is an important raw material for the study of anticancer drugs. Japanese scientists have extracted benzodiazepines, bergamot lactone, osteoprotegerin and other anticancer substances from flower-free juice, which have obvious inhibitory effects on cancer cells, especially on gastric cancer. Experts in the former Soviet Union experimented with mice, and the cancer inhibition rate was 43% ~ 64%. According to the experiments of Nanjing Agricultural University and Jiangsu Institute of Cancer Prevention, the inhibition rates of Ficus carica on EAC, S 180, Lewis and HAC were 53.8%, 4 1.82%, 48.85% and 44.4% respectively. After taking Ficus carica extract, patients with gastric cancer have obviously improved their condition, and the analgesic effect is also very obvious, which is expected to become the first health care fruit in China and even the world.
Medicinal value:
Picking immature cyan flowers and fruits in summer and autumn, scalding them with boiling water, picking them immediately, and drying them in the sun or in the sun.
Features: the flower of Juhua is conical or spherical, about 2 cm long and 1.5 ~ 2.5 cm in diameter. The surface is yellow-brown or brown-black, with wavy and curved longitudinal ridges, slightly flat upper end, circular protrusion in the center, narrow base, pedicels and residual bracts. Hard and sweet.
The chemical components include citric acid, fumaric acid, succinic acid, malonic acid, proline, oxalic acid, malic acid, shikimic acid, quinic acid, alkaloids, glycosides, sugars, fig elements, etc.
Sex and taste are plain and sweet.
The function is to strengthen the spleen and stop diarrhea. Can be used for anorexia, diarrhea and hypogalactia.
Alias: Impatient Fruit, Milk Berry, Tree Potato, Yingri Fruit, Mingmu Fruit and Dense Fruit.
The source is fig, a Ficus plant of Moraceae, whose roots and leaves are also used as medicine. Roots can be harvested all year round; Fruits and leaves are harvested in summer and autumn, dried or rarely used.
Sexual taste: sweet and flat. Roots and leaves: light, astringent and flat.
Indications: moistening lung and relieving cough, clearing heat and moistening intestine. Used for cough and asthma, sore throat, constipation and hemorrhoids. Roots and leaves: enteritis and diarrhea; External use to treat carbuncle and swelling.
Usage and dosage: 0.5 ~1; Apply appropriate amount of root and leaf externally, and fumigate and wash the affected part with decoction.
Excerpted from the National Collection of Chinese Herbal Medicine
Ficus belongs to Moraceae, because the flowers are small and hidden in the receptacle, also known as hidden flowers and hidden fruits. Ficus carica originated in West Asia and was introduced to China around the Tang Dynasty. It is called "Ayi" in history books and "Angel" in Uighur. Ficus carica contains high fructose, fruit acid, protein, vitamins and other ingredients, and has the functions of nourishing, moistening intestines, stimulating appetite and promoting lactation.
Widely cultivated in Tarim Basin, Atushi is the most widely planted, with an annual output of more than 200 mu of fruit. At that time, the fruit was sweet, juicy and fragrant. Bananas in Lingnan are more beautiful than shredded coconut with cream. Besides fresh fruit, it can also be used as dried fruit and jam. Fig, a kind of fruit tree with dioecious flowers, is named because the flowers are hidden in the capsule receptacle, and the appearance is only fruit without flowers. The fruit is flat and round, with yellow skin, soft pulp, rich nutrition and sweet fruit as honey.
In addition to eating, fruit can also strengthen the stomach and clear the intestines, reduce swelling and detoxify. The fruit of fig is very fresh and tender, and it is not easy to store and transport. Most locals use it to dry dried fruits and transport them to other places.