Angelica dahurica root
Nature and taste: warm, pungent, fragrant and slightly bitter. The root is conical, with a length of 10 ~ 20 cm and a diameter of 2 ~ 2.5 cm. The surface is gray-brown, with laterally protruding lenticels and sunken stem marks at the top. Hard, white in cross section, full of powder, and the skin is covered with brown oil spots.
Indications: expelling wind and removing dampness, promoting blood circulation and expelling pus, promoting granulation and relieving pain. Can be used for treating headache, toothache, sinusitis, intestinal wind, hemorrhoid leakage, leucorrhea with reddish discharge, carbuncle swelling and ulceration, and skin itching.
Angelica dahurica also has the effect of beauty. Select large, pure white angelica dahurica without mildew spots, take its roots, grind them into very fine powder, mix them into small bottles of ordinary skin care products, and use them fully and evenly, which has a certain whitening effect.
The efficacy of relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold is 1. Baizhixin Sanwentong has a mild effect of expelling wind, relieving exterior syndrome and dispelling cold, and has a good analgesic effect, so it is often used to treat symptoms such as exogenous wind-cold, head and body pain, stuffy nose and runny nose.
Expelling wind and relieving pain
Angelica dahurica is good at relieving pain, because its owner has Yangming stomach meridian, so Angelica dahurica is often used for forehead pain and gum swelling and pain in Yangming meridian, which can cure Yangming headache, eyebrow bone pain, head wind pain and other symptoms.
Xuan Tong Bikou
Angelica dahurica is good at relieving pain, because its owner has Yangming stomach meridian, so Angelica dahurica is often used for forehead pain and gum swelling and pain in Yangming meridian, which can cure Yangming headache, eyebrow bone pain, head wind pain and other symptoms.
Moisture barrier zone
Angelica dahurica is pungent, warm and fragrant in nature, and is good at eliminating dampness in Yangming meridian. Through compatibility of drugs for warming yang and dispelling cold, invigorating spleen and removing dampness, it can treat leukorrhagia and excessive leukorrhagia caused by cold and dampness. It can be used together with heat-clearing and diuretic drugs, and can also be used to treat damp-heat downward flow and leukorrhagia, such as Huang Chi.
Detumescence and pus discharge
Angelica dahurica Xin San Wen Tong has the function of detumescence and pus discharge, and can play a role in detumescence and pain relief for patients with initial sores. If the abscess has developed, it can be used together with drugs that can relieve pain, replenish qi and replenish blood, so as to achieve the effect of supporting poison and expelling pus.
dispel wind and arrest itching
Angelica dahurica can dispel wind and dry dampness, but Chinese medicine believes that skin itching is mainly caused by rheumatism, so Angelica dahurica can be used to treat skin rheumatic itching.
Pharmacological effects of angelica dahurica
Angelica dahurica mainly contains coumarins: imperatorin, isoimperatorin, imperatorin, imperatorin, oxidized imperatorin and hydroxyl imperatorin. At the same time, it also contains volatile oil and other ingredients. 1, detoxification: Angelica dahurica can resist the central nervous system caused by snake venom. 2. Antibacterial effect: Radix Angelicae Dahuricae decoction has certain inhibitory effect on Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, Salmonella typhi, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Proteus; 3. It has antipyretic, anti-inflammatory, analgesic, spasmolytic and anticancer effects. 4. Isoduxiang and other components have antihypertensive effects. 5. Furcoumarin is a "photoactive substance", which can be used to treat vitiligo and psoriasis. The decoction has certain inhibitory effect on pathogenic fungi such as Microsporum.
Side effects of angelica dahurica
A small amount of angelica dahurica toxin can excite the central nervous system, raise blood pressure and cause salivation and vomiting. A large amount can cause forced spasm, which in turn leads to general paralysis.
Contraindications in the use of angelica dahurica
Angelica dahurica is pungent, scattered and warm, so it is not suitable for people with yin deficiency and blood heat to eat, so as not to damage human vaginal fluid, aggravate symptoms such as yin deficiency and blood heat, and bring discomfort to the body.
longan
Sweet, warm and flat. Tonify heart and spleen, qi and blood, spleen and stomach, and muscles. Treat spleen injury, dizziness, insomnia, palpitation, fatigue, physical weakness after illness or postpartum, and hypoxemia caused by spleen deficiency.
Tonifying qi and blood, enhancing memory: longan (dried longan) is rich in glucose, sucrose and protein, and the iron content is also high. It can improve heat energy, supplement nutrition, and promote hemoglobin regeneration and blood supplement. Experimental research shows that longan pulp (dried longan) is beneficial to the whole body, especially to brain cells, which can enhance memory and eliminate fatigue.
Sedation: longan (dried longan) contains a lot of elements such as iron and potassium, which can promote the regeneration of hemoglobin to treat palpitation, palpitation, insomnia and amnesia caused by anemia. Longan (dried longan) contains nicotinic acid as high as 2.5 mg (100 g), which can be used to treat dermatitis, diarrhea, dementia and even mental disorders caused by nicotinic acid deficiency.
Nourishing blood and preventing miscarriage: Longan (dried longan) contains more iron and vitamins, which can reduce the feeling of uterine contraction and sagging, help pregnant women and fetuses to accelerate the development of metabolism and prevent miscarriage.
Antibacterial and cancer cell inhibition: Animal experiments show that longan (dried longan) has a tumor inhibition rate of more than 90% on JTC-26, and has a certain inhibitory effect on cancer cells. Oral longan extract can improve symptoms by 90% and prolong life by about 80% for cancer patients. In addition, longan (dried longan) aqueous solution (1∶2) has inhibitory effect on Microsporum longan cultured in vitro.
Lowering blood lipid, protecting the heart and delaying aging: longan pulp (dried longan) can lower blood lipid and increase coronary blood flow. It has a strong inhibitory effect on flavoprotein-brain monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) closely related to the aging process.
People with phlegm-fire in spleen and stomach, dampness stagnation, dyspepsia, nausea and vomiting should not take it. Pregnant women, especially in the early pregnancy, should not eat longan meat to prevent fetal movement and premature delivery. In addition, because of its high glucose content, diabetic patients should not take more. Because longan is made of dried longan, there are basically no side effects, but many people know that eating a lot of longan is easy to get angry, so it is not advisable to eat more longan meat.
Arillus longan has the effects of calming the nerves, invigorating qi, inducing diuresis to reduce swelling, invigorating spleen and nourishing blood, and preventing forgetfulness and insomnia. The general population can eat it. But more attention should be paid to the taboo of longan meat, such as indigestion, pregnant women, diabetic patients and other patients should not eat longan meat.
Nutritional value of longan
1. Longan is rich in glucose, sucrose, protein, vitamins and minerals, among which nicotinic acid and vitamin K are rare in other fruits.
2. The nutritional value of longan ranks among the best among fruits and has been regarded as an excellent tonic since ancient times.
Chinese wolfberry
Lycium barbarum is sweet and flat. Enter the liver and kidney meridians. Nourishing kidney, moistening lung, nourishing liver and improving eyesight. Treat yin deficiency of liver and kidney, soreness of waist and knees, dizziness, watery eyes, cough, thirst and nocturnal emission.
1. Protecting liver and preventing fatty liver
Lycium barbarum L. has the functions of protecting liver and tonifying kidney, inhibiting fatty deposition of liver cells and promoting liver cell regeneration.
Improve eyesight
Lycium barbarum is rich in carotene, vitamins A 1, B 1, B2, C and other nutrients necessary for healthy eyes, so it is good at improving eyesight, so it is commonly called "improving eyesight". Chinese wolfberry is often used by doctors in past dynasties to treat blurred vision and night blindness caused by liver blood deficiency and kidney yin deficiency.
Fight cancer
Lycium barbarum has obvious inhibitory effect on the formation and spread of cancer cells. The results of contemporary experiments and clinical application show that Lycium barbarum leaves can significantly improve and improve the immune function and physiological function of the elderly, the infirm and the tumor patients, and have the functions of strengthening the body and delaying aging. Combined with chemotherapy for cancer patients, it has the functions of reducing toxic and side effects, preventing leukopenia and regulating immune function.
4. Anti-fatigue
Lycium barbarum can significantly increase the storage of muscle glycogen and liver glycogen, improve human vitality and have anti-fatigue effect.
5. Anti-aging
Lycium barbarum is the treasure of the whole body. Lycium barbarum is rich in Lycium barbarum proteoglycan, vitamin C, phosphorus, iron and other nutrients, which can replenish deficiency and produce sperm. It can be used as medicine, tea, wine and stew. If you can drink it regularly, you can keep fit. The leaves, flowers and roots of Lycium barbarum are also excellent food supplements. Lycium barbarum polysaccharide (LBP) is one of the rich effective components in Lycium barbarum peel, which can obviously enhance the hematopoietic function of bone marrow and various cellular immune indexes, obviously increase the active content of superoxide dismutase (SOD) in blood, liver and muscle tissues, and is beneficial to scavenging active oxygen, delaying aging and resisting fatigue.
6. Improve immunity
Eating Lycium barbarum can strengthen the body resistance, strengthen the body resistance and eliminate evil spirits. It can not only enhance the body function and promote health recovery, but also improve the body's disease resistance and resist the invasion of evil spirits. Enhance the body's adaptability to various harmful stimuli.
reduce the blood sugar
Because Lycium barbarum contains guanidine derivatives, which can lower blood sugar, Lycium barbarum can be used as a health care product for diabetics.
8. Skin care
Many people don't know that eating Lycium barbarum often can help beauty beauty. This is because Lycium barbarum can improve the ability of skin to absorb oxygen, in addition, it can also play a whitening role. Lycium barbarum has obvious curative effect on psoriasis, and also has different degrees of curative effect on other skin diseases.
9. tonify kidney
Lycium barbarum is the best choice for health preservation in ancient and modern times, and it has the function of prolonging life. Physicians of past dynasties paid attention to nourishing liver and kidney with Lycium barbarum. In modern times, people have a further understanding of the chemical composition and pharmacological effects of Lycium barbarum and expanded its clinical application.
10. Lowering blood pressure
The use of Lycium barbarum can significantly reduce the contents of serum cholesterol and triacylglycerol, relieve and prevent arteriosclerosis and treat hypertension. It is a good health product for patients with coronary heart disease.
Nutritional value of Lycium barbarum.
Lycium barbarum is rich in carotene, vitamin A, B 1, B2, C, calcium, iron and other essential nutrients for eye health care.
Betaine in Lycium barbarum can inhibit the deposition of fat in liver cells and promote the regeneration of liver cells, thus protecting the liver.
Eating taboos of Lycium barbarum L.
1. People with exogenous heat, spleen deficiency and dampness, and diarrhea should not take it.
2. People with deficiency and cold will have the disadvantage of sliding and diarrhea, and those with unclear internal heat should use it with caution.
3. Because Lycium barbarum has a strong effect of warming the body, people with high blood pressure and impatience, or people who eat more meat on weekdays and cause their faces to turn red, it is best not to eat it.
4. After all, it's medicine, and medicine treats diseases with partiality, which is what we often say. Yin-tonifying drugs are also designed for deficiency syndrome. It is not suitable for those who are healthy and have no deficiency syndrome. Those who are evil and healthy are not empty, so tonics should not be used indiscriminately to prevent "behind closed doors".
It is more appropriate for healthy adults to eat about 20 grams of medlar every day; If you consider the effect of treatment, it is best to eat about 30 grams a day. Lycium barbarum has good nourishing and therapeutic effects. Don't overdo any tonic, and Lycium barbarum is no exception.