1, pharmacological action of clove
1. Anti-ulcer
Lilac flower has a strong aroma, mainly because it contains a lot of volatile clove essential oil and eugenol, which will have an elegant and fragrant taste. At the same time, these two substances are also the main effective components of clove medicine, which can alleviate the formation of gastric ulcer after eating clove in rats. The main mechanism is that these two components can promote the secretion of gastric mucus from gastric mucosa, but they will not increase the acidity of gastric acid and have anti-ulcer effect.
2. Anesthesia effect
Eugenol has anesthetic effect on young shrimp and carp. Eugenol can inhibit the compound action potential of A, B and C fibers in rat vagus nerve, which may be one of the mechanisms of clove stopping teeth. Eugenol can block the transmission of sciatic nerve in bullfrog, but it does not affect the postsynaptic membrane reaction of muscle, showing a selective anesthetic effect on nerve fibers.
3. antipyretic and analgesic
Antipyretic: Eugenol has antipyretic effect, which is stronger than acetaminophen. Its mechanism of action is to produce antipyretic effect through PG synthesis in brain.
Analgesia: eugenol has a certain anesthetic effect. Taking clove bud decoction can anesthetize nerves and has obvious analgesic effect.
4. Anticoagulation and anti-aggregation.
Anti-aggregation: Eugenol and acetoeugenol can inhibit platelet aggregation and whole blood aggregation induced by arachidonic acid in rabbits and humans, and inhibit ATP release. Its anti-aggregation mechanism is to inhibit the synthesis of TXB in platelets.
Anticoagulation: Oral administration of its water extract can prolong plasma prothrombin time, thrombin time and coagulation factor VIII time, and shorten prothrombin consumption time and coagulation factor V time.
5. Anti-pathogen
Antibacterial and antiviral: clove oil and eugenol have broad-spectrum antibacterial effects. The ellagitannin in clove has anti-herpes simplex virus effect.
Antifungal: Its decoction or ethanol extract has broad-spectrum antifungal effect or killing effect. Eugenol has a significant killing effect on Candida albicans and Cryptococcus neoformans.
Parasite killing: Its water extract can kill roundworms in dogs and pigs. Clove oil is stronger than decoction.
Killing trichomonas: clove oil, eugenol and acetoeugenol have a strong killing effect on trichomonas.
sober up from drunkenness
Lilac flowers are fragrant and have the effect of sobering up. Compendium of Materia Medica contains: "Cloves kill alcoholism". Zou Shengheng, a poet in the Qing Dynasty, also said in Lilac Rhyme: "It is difficult to break the eaves, but it is easy to wake up when you are drunk." It is said that the lilac tree is tall and dense, and the soft branches are intertwined, making it difficult to split; The rich aroma wafted by, making people who drank too much wake up.
Refreshing thinking
Lilacs are elegant in color, but rich in fragrance. When asked about lilacs, they are always particularly awake. Cloves have a good refreshing effect.
8. Anti-early pregnancy
Eugenol, eugenol, acetoeugenol and eugenol aqueous solution can inhibit the contraction of vascular smooth muscle, intestinal smooth muscle, guinea pig tracheal smooth muscle and isolated uterine smooth muscle, and can slow down implantation or cause abortion by promoting uterine activity.
9. Warming kidney and strengthening yang
As a traditional Chinese medicine, clove is warm in nature and enters the kidney meridian. "Rihuazi Materia Medica" contains: "Treating kidney qi, strengthening yang and warming waist and knees." Therefore, it has the effect of warming kidney and strengthening yang, and is often used for impotence, chills, running dolphins and cold pain in waist and legs.
2. Edible value of cloves.
(1) clove tea
Ingredients: lilac, water.
Exercise:
1.5~ 10 put the dried clove bud at the bottom of the cup.
2. Add half a cup of boiling water to brew lilacs, soak for 3 minutes, then turn around and make tea.
3. Fill it with boiling water and soak the clove bud for about 10 minutes before drinking.
Efficacy: clearing lung-heat, resolving phlegm, relieving cough and asthma.
(2) Lilac flower seasoning
Lilac peanuts are hot and fragrant. When cooking fish, chicken, duck and other foods that need soup, lilacs can be added appropriately to increase the flavor of the food, which is also slightly spicy and tastes excellent.
(3) beautification and greening
In many parts of our country, people grow lilacs to beautify them. Lilacs are planted in the yard, which has the fragrance of the garden in the flowering season, and because there are more lilacs, it gives people a visual feeling. Lilacs are covered with green leaves for a long time, which also contributes to the greening of the environment.
3. How to prevent kidney deficiency
1. Sit up straight, legs are naturally separated, shoulder width apart, hands are bent, elbows are raised sideways, fingers are extended upward, and they are flush with ears. Then, raise your hands to feel the two ribs affected, and then recover. You can do it three to five times in a row or three to five times a day as appropriate. Relax your whole body before you do the action. Inhale when you raise your hands, and exhale when you recover, not too hard or too strong. This action can activate muscles and bones, unblock meridians, and return qi to Tian Dan, which can relieve the elderly, the weak and the short of breath.
2. Sit up straight, bend your left arm on your leg, bend your right arm with your palm up, and do parabolic movements for 3 to 5 times. When doing parabolic action, throw your hand into the air, the action can be a little faster, inhale when throwing your hand, and exhale when recovering. This operation has the same effect as the first operation.
3. Sit up and let your legs droop naturally. First, slowly turn your body left and right for 3 to 5 times. Then swing your feet forward for more than 10 times, which can be increased or decreased according to your physical strength. When doing movements, the whole body should be relaxed, and the movements should be natural and gentle. When you turn your body, your torso should be upright and you can't pitch. This action can move the waist and knees, benefit the kidney and strengthen the waist. If you practice this action often, you can exercise your waist and knees, which is good for your kidneys.
4. Sit up, loosen your belt, take off your coat, put your hands on your waist and rub them up and down until your waist feels hot. This method can warm the kidney and strengthen the waist. There are Mingmen points of Du meridian at the waist, Shenshu, Qihai Shu, Dachang Shu, and the bladder meridian of the foot sun. After rubbing, the whole body feels fever, which has the functions of warming kidney, strengthening waist, relaxing muscles and activating blood.
5. Put your feet together, raise your head with your hands crossed, then bend down, touch the ground with your hands, then squat down, tuck your knees with your hands, and say "Blow" silently without making a sound. This can be done for more than 10 times.