Peanut is rich in nutrition, and its oil content is as high as 40%. Peanut contains protein, second only to soybean, twice as much as wheat and 2.5 times as much as corn.
Peanut is of great edible value. Peanut protein contains more than ten kinds of amino acids needed by human body, among which lysine can improve children's intelligence and prevent premature aging. Glutamate and aspartic acid can promote the development of brain cells and enhance memory ability; Catechins in peanuts have a very strong anti-aging effect; Vitamin e can prevent arteriosclerosis and delay the aging of human cells; Vitamin F can lower blood cholesterol and prevent skin aging, arteriosclerosis and coronary heart disease. The cerebroside and lecithin in peanut oil can enhance the development of brain cells and prevent arteriosclerosis. Choline in lecithin can also prevent the decline of brain function and improve memory.
People often use peanuts (red clothes) to soak in vinegar for a while, and then add brown sugar, garlic and soy sauce to take it in the morning and evening, which has special effects on lowering blood pressure. Peanut contains many ingredients to lower blood pressure and prevent it from rising. At the same time, peanuts have won the reputation of "longevity fruit" because of their functions of improving memory and delaying the aging of human cells, and are regarded as health products.
Experts pointed out that the nutritional components of peanuts are protein 27g, fat 40g, carbohydrate 22g, calcium 7 1mg, iron 2mg and phosphorus 400mg per 100g, and they are also rich in carotene, B vitamins, vitamin E and choline. Sugar is a complex carbohydrate, which can promote intestinal peristalsis and help cholesterol excretion; Moreover, containing vegetable fat will not lead to an increase in blood pressure. At the same time, peanuts contain a variety of fatty acids, of which more than 80% are unsaturated fatty acids and nearly half are linoleic acid, which can oxidize cholesterol, reduce plasma cholesterol, prolong blood pressure platelet aggregation, inhibit thrombosis, prevent stroke, increase microvascular elasticity, prevent vascular rupture, prevent atherosclerosis and lower blood pressure, and can effectively prevent and treat patients with coronary heart disease, hypertension and cerebral arteriosclerosis. Clinically, it is found that soaking peanuts in vinegar for more than 1 week and taking 7 ~ 10 earthwork every night can obviously reduce the blood pressure of patients with hypertension, and some of them can even approach the normal level. In addition, peanut shells also have the effect of lowering blood pressure. Usually, peanut shells can be washed and taken with hot water instead of tea, which has a special therapeutic effect on preventing and treating hypertension.
It should be noted that peanuts are high-fat and high-calorie foods, which should be eaten frequently, but not in excess. The oil contained in peanuts has a laxative effect and needs more bile to digest. Therefore, patients with hypertension such as loose stool with spleen deficiency, patients with acute enteritis and dysentery, and patients with cholecystectomy should not eat peanuts frequently.
Peanuts also have certain medicinal functions. Peanut has the functions of appetizing, moistening lung, promoting lactation and stopping bleeding. The red coat, peanut shell and peanut leaves on the outside of peanuts can be used as medicine. "Xue Ning 1" extracted from peanut red coat can be used to treat various bleeding patients, such as gastrointestinal bleeding, pulmonary tuberculosis hemoptysis, tracheitis hemoptysis, urinary tract bleeding, gingival bleeding, epistaxis, aplastic anemia bleeding and traumatic bleeding, and also has certain curative effect on hemophilia and thrombocytopenic purpura. In addition, peanut kernels and red clothes can also prevent and treat beriberi, neuritis, cheilitis, blurred vision and other patients. So when eating peanuts, it is best to eat them with red clothes. Peanut shell extract has obvious curative effect on hypertension and hyperlipidemia, because luteolin in peanut shell can lower blood pressure; Decocting peanut leaves with water can not only lower blood pressure, but also treat dizziness, headache and insomnia caused by hypertension.
You can try the following prescriptions:
1, patients with chronic nephritis can try to take 60 grams of safflower and 60 grams of red dates, decoct them in water to make tea once a day, drink soup and eat peanuts and red dates for seven days. Or put safflower raw 120 g and raw broad bean 240 g, and add brown sugar appropriately, put them together in a casserole, add three bowls of boiling water, and cook on a steady fire. When the broad beans are broken and the water is reddish brown, you can take them. Take114 once every morning and evening for seven days.
2. If you have high blood pressure, you can soak peanuts in vinegar and eat them after seven days. Take 20 capsules once a day on an empty stomach in the morning.
3, weakness, anemia and other symptoms, 25 grams of safflower raw, 25 grams of red dates, longan meat 10 grams, cooked and eaten twice, once every morning and evening, for seven days.
4, cough, spitting and other symptoms, you can take 30 grams of safflower, 30 grams of jujube, 30 grams of honey with water. Eat soup, dates and peanuts twice, once every morning and evening, for five consecutive days.
5, malnutrition, edema and other symptoms, you can choose 60 grams of safflower raw, 200 grams of crucian carp (one), cook together, add a small amount of wine to eat, edema and other symptoms can be 90 grams of safflower raw, 60 grams of red beans, 30 grams of garlic, 60 grams of red dates, water decoction for seven days.
6, hoarseness can try to put 80 grams of peanuts in red, cook with water, eat peanuts and drink soup. Once a day, 80 grams each time. Or choose 30 grams of raw safflower, fry it in water until it is 80% cooked, add 30 grams of honey, fry it until it is cooked, eat peanuts and drink soup, take half a pill each time, twice a day.