Chemical composition contains protein 5.7%, fat 2%, carbohydrate 62%, ash 1.3%, starch 25%, vitamin b, lipase, etc.
Sweet and moist in nature; Enter kidney, spleen and stomach meridians.
Functions: nourishing stomach, invigorating spleen, tonifying kidney, strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Can be used for nausea, diarrhea, weakness of waist and legs, vomiting, dysentery, bloody stool, golden sore, swelling and pain, lymphoid tuberculosis, family diseases, jaundice and dysentery.
Usage and dosage: raw, cooked and fried; External tamping agent.
Compatibility and application of Yuejia disease: chestnut flower 10g, decoction. (Ping Huang, Guizhou)
Jiuziyang: Chestnut flowers are appropriate and decocted in water. (Songtao, Bijie, Guizhou)
Red and white dysentery: chestnut 10g, purslane 10g, bordeaux 10g, decocted in water. (Bijie, Guizhou)
South and North Chestnut Edible
1) fried chestnuts have smaller fruit shape, higher sugar content than protein, less starch and are waxy. Excellent varieties are represented by chestnuts produced in Yanshan Mountains of Hebei Province.
2) Vegetable chestnut, with large fruit shape, low sugar content, high moisture content and high starch content, is suitable for making dishes, cakes, canned food, etc. The representative varieties are chestnuts from Jiangsu, Hubei and other places. [8]
Medicinal value
Chestnut has the effects of strengthening spleen and stomach, invigorating qi and kidney, strengthening waist, strengthening tendons, stopping bleeding, reducing swelling and strengthening heart, and is suitable for chronic diarrhea, bone swelling and pain caused by weakness of waist and knees, unfavorable waist and legs, increased urination, spleen and stomach deficiency and cold, fracture and trauma.
Chestnut also has high medicinal value, mainly used for nausea, vomiting blood, bloody stool and other diseases, suitable for all ages. Chestnut contains soft dietary fiber and its glycemic index is lower than that of rice. As long as sugar is not added in processing and cooking, diabetics can also supplement it appropriately.
Chestnut is rich in unsaturated fatty acids and vitamins, which can prevent and treat diseases such as hypertension, coronary heart disease and arteriosclerosis. There are also extremely high sugar, fat, protein, calcium, phosphorus, iron, potassium and other minerals, as well as vitamins C, B 1, B2 and so on. It is very useful for keeping fit.
Pregnant women eat chestnut to strengthen their bodies and bones.
Chestnuts are also called chestnuts. Together with red dates and persimmons, they are called "three major woody crops". Chestnut is rich in nutrients such as protein, fat, carbohydrate, calcium, phosphorus, iron, zinc, vitamins, etc. It has the functions of invigorating spleen and stomach, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. Pregnant women often eat chestnuts, which can not only strengthen the body and bones, but also help the pelvis to mature and eliminate fatigue. Moreover, the fried chestnuts are sweet and delicious, and they are very good food.
Health preservation value
① Its main functions are nourishing stomach and strengthening spleen, tonifying kidney and strengthening tendons, promoting blood circulation and stopping bleeding. It can treat nausea, hematemesis, weakness of waist and feet, bloody stool, etc., and can be compared with ginseng, astragalus and angelica.
② It has good curative effect on kidney deficiency. In the Tang Dynasty, Sun Simiao thought that chestnut was "the fruit of kidney, and kidney disease should be eaten."
③ Unsaturated fatty acids and multivitamins contained in it have the effects of resisting hypertension, coronary heart disease, osteoporosis and arteriosclerosis, and are nourishing products for resisting aging and prolonging life.
(4) It contains vitamin B2, and eating chestnut often is beneficial to children's oral ulcers and adults' oral ulcers.
Applicable components
Once 10 is appropriate. Chinese medicine believes that chestnut can tonify spleen and stomach, tonify kidney and strengthen tendons, and promote blood circulation to stop bleeding. It has a good curative effect on kidney deficiency, so it is also called "the fruit of kidney". But chestnuts are hard to digest when eaten raw, and cooked food is easy to lag behind. Eating too much at a time will hurt the spleen and stomach, and eat at most 10 a day.
Eating after meals is easy to get fat.
Chestnut is best eaten as a snack between meals, or as a meal, rather than in large quantities after meals. Because chestnut contains a lot of starch, it is easy to consume too many calories after meals, which is not conducive to maintaining weight.
nutritive value
Walnut is rich in nutritional value, and has the reputation of "Long live the son", "longevity fruit" and "treasure of health preservation". 86% of the fat in walnuts is unsaturated fatty acid. Walnut is rich in copper, magnesium, potassium, vitamin B6, folic acid and vitamin B 1, and also contains fiber, phosphorus, nicotinic acid, iron, vitamin B2 and pantothenic acid. Every 50g walnut contains 3.6% water, 7.2g protein, 3 1g fat and 9.2g carbohydrate.
Walnut contains 22. 18% crude protein, of which glutamic acid is the main soluble protein, followed by arginine and walnut aspartic acid. The crude fat content is 64.23%, of which the neutral fat content is 93.05%. Among neutral lipids, triacylglycerol accounts for 82.05%, sterol lipid accounts for 3.86% and free fatty acid accounts for 4.80%. The fatty acids in total fat and neutral fat are mainly sulfinic acid 64.48%-69.95%, oleic acid 13.89%- 15.36%. The fatty acid in triacylglycerol is mainly linolenic acid 69.98; The unsaponifiable part of sterol ester is mainly β-sitosterol, and a small amount of rapeseed sterol, stigmasterol, oat sterol -5- enol and stigmasterol -7- dilute alcohol; Sugar13%; A variety of free essential amino acids; Isoleucine, leucine, tryptophan, phenylalanine, valine, threonine and lysine. Its content accounts for 47.50% of the total amino acids.
The fruit contains 1, 4- naphthoquinone, juglone, 4- hydroxy-1- naphthyl -β-D- glucopyranoside, 4,8-dihydroxy-1- naphthyl -β-D- glucopyranoside, potassium, calcium, iron and manganese. The pericarp contains salicylic acid, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, vanillic acid, gentisic acid, p-hydroxybenzoic acid, gallic acid, p-coumaric acid, ferulic acid, caffeic acid, erucic acid, protocatechuic acid, syringic acid and chlorogenic acid.
The exocarp of immature fruit contains α-ammoniated juglone, β-hydrogenated juglone, α-hydrogenated juglone -4-β-d- glucopyranoside, 1, 4- naphthoquinone, 2- methyl-1, 4- naphthoquinone, juglone and 5- hydroxy -2. 2.3- dimethyl -5- hydroxy-1.4- naphthoquinone and 2.3- dihydro -5- hydroxy-1.4- naphthoquinone and 2.3- dihydro -5- hydroxy -2- methyl-1.4- naphthoquinone.
Medicinal value
Sweet, slightly warm, nontoxic, slightly bitter and slightly astringent.
Walnut is sweet and warm, and enters the kidney, lung and large intestine. It can tonify kidney, strengthen waist, warm lung, relieve asthma, moisten intestine and relieve constipation.
Indications: cough, asthma and lumbago due to kidney deficiency; (wood sandwich in the core) tastes bitter and warm; Tonifying kidney and astringing essence.
1. Removing blood stasis: used for blood stasis amenorrhea, blood stasis abdominal pain, blood stasis mania, traumatic injury and blood stasis block.
2. Runchang laxative: it is difficult to solve the stool used for constipation. This product can relieve bitterness, disperse blood stasis, enter the liver meridian and divide blood, and has strong effects of promoting blood circulation, regulating menstruation, removing blood stasis and promoting tissue regeneration, and is suitable for patients with severe blood stasis. In addition, it also has the function of moistening intestines and relieving cough.