First, dried lemon slices
Function and efficacy of lemon slices: Lemon contains sugar, calcium, phosphorus, iron and vitamins B 1, B2, C and other nutrients. In addition, it is rich in citric acid, flavonoids, volatile oil and hesperidin. Citric acid can prevent and eliminate skin pigmentation. Chinese medicine believes that lemon is warm, bitter and nontoxic, and has the functions of quenching thirst, promoting fluid production, relieving summer heat, preventing miscarriage, relieving depression, invigorating stomach and relieving pain, and regulating vascular permeability, and is suitable for mm with edema and puffiness. Smokers should eat more lemons because they need twice as much vitamin C as non-smokers. Lemon has low calorie and strong contractility, which is beneficial to reducing fat and is a good medicine for losing weight. Lemon can prevent cardiovascular arteriosclerosis and reduce blood viscosity.
Action efficacy
1. Hot lemon juice and honey are very effective in treating bronchitis and nasopharyngitis.
Gandhi moistened lung, quenched thirst with acid, stimulated appetite, detoxified alcohol, whitened skin, moistened skin and lowered cholesterol. The rest of the brewing can be suitable for facial treatment of facial spots and acupuncture. Lemon contains a lot of vitamin C, which is easily oxidized. The vitamin C content of dried lemon slices is definitely lower than that of fresh ones. The taste of water will be slightly worse, but the difference is not very big. If you soak in water, there is little difference in efficacy.
2. Soaking dried lemon slices in water can also whiten the skin.
Drying lemon slices will only evaporate water and a few ingredients, and most of the ingredients will remain. Why else would dried lemon slices be soaked in water? However, the whitening effect of dried lemon slices soaked in water is not as good as that of fresh lemon slices. The nutritional components of dried lemon slices are still slightly worse than fresh ones, and the absorption is not as good as fresh ones.
3. The most direct effect of soaking lemon slices in water is beauty.
The habit of drinking a cup of hot lemonade every morning is that the amount of lemon juice should be half a lemon. This will make your eyes more radiant and your skin more rosy. If you add more lemon juice to the water, it will also play a role in removing garbage from the body. Drinking lemon tea often: moistening the throat and nourishing the face. In fact, in addition to beauty, lemon can also prevent diseases! Drinking it for a long time is definitely a healthy little beauty! ?
4。 Soaking lemon slices in water can help memory.
Drop a few drops of lemon juice on your handkerchief and smell it when you remember. When you remember what you have already remembered, smell the lemon juice-your brain will associate this pleasant smell with the information you want to remember.
Second, red dates
Jujube, also known as jujube, dried jujube and jujube, originated in China and has been planted in China for more than 4,000 years. It has been listed as one of the five fruits (peach, plum, plum, apricot and jujube) since ancient times, and contains substances that inhibit cancer cells and even transform cancer cells into normal cells.
Sexual taste: slightly warm, sweet and slightly sweet.
Functions: invigorating spleen and qi, nourishing blood and calming nerves.
People who often eat fresh dates rarely suffer from gallstones, because the rich vitamin C in fresh dates converts excess cholesterol into bile acids. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in ancient China, said: "In spring, it is advisable to keep acid and sweeten it to nourish your temper." It means to eat less sour and eat more sweet in spring. Chinese medicine believes that when the liver qi is strong in spring, eating more sour food will make the liver qi excessive and damage the spleen and stomach, so eat less sour food. In spring, people have more outdoor activities than in winter, so they consume more energy and need more calories. But at this time, the spleen and stomach are weak and the digestive ability of gastrointestinal tract is poor, which is not suitable for eating greasy meat. Therefore, heat can be properly supplied by sweets. Jujube is such a good way to replenish spleen in spring.
Nutritional analysis:
1. Jujube can improve human immunity and inhibit cancer cells: Pharmacological studies have found that jujube can promote leukocyte production, reduce serum cholesterol, increase serum albumin and protect the liver. Jujube also contains substances that inhibit cancer cells and even transform cancer cells into normal cells.
People who often eat fresh dates seldom suffer from gallstones. This is because the rich vitamin C in fresh dates converts excess cholesterol into bile acids. With less cholesterol, the probability of stone formation is reduced.
3. Jujube is rich in calcium and iron, which plays an important role in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and postpartum anemia. Middle-aged and elderly people often suffer from osteoporosis during menopause, and teenagers and women at the peak of growth and development are prone to anemia. Jujube will have an ideal therapeutic effect on them, and its effect is usually incomparable to drugs.
4. It also has a good nourishing effect on people who are weak after illness.
5. Rutin contained in red dates is a substance that softens blood vessels, thus lowering blood pressure, and has preventive and therapeutic effects on hypertension.
6. Red dates can also resist allergies, remove odors, soothe the nerves, improve intelligence and brain, and stimulate appetite.
Fresh jujube 23.2g carbohydrate 430.54k calories 1.2g protein 0.2g fat 14mg calcium 23mg phosphorus 0.5mg iron.
Dried jujube 50.3-86.9g carbohydrate 129 1.62k calorie 3.3g protein 0.4g fat 6 1mg calcium 55mg phosphorus1.6mg.
side effect
Although jujube is good, it will flatulence if you eat too much, so you should pay attention to controlling your food intake. People with heavy damp heat and yellow tongue coating are not suitable for eating.
You should also pay attention to its taboos when eating red dates.
During menstruation, some women will have swollen eyes or feet. In fact, this is a sign of wet weight. These people are not fit to eat red dates. Because red dates are sweet, eating too much is easy to produce phlegm, and water is wet in the body. Edema is more serious. If you have abdominal distension, it is not suitable to drink jujube water to avoid dampness and stagnation. The more you drink, the less you can improve flatulence. People with hot and dry constitution are also not suitable for drinking jujube water during menstruation, which may cause excessive menstrual blood.
Eating too much is harmful to digestive function: red dates can be eaten often, but not too much, otherwise it will be harmful to digestive function and cause constipation. In addition, jujube is rich in sugar, especially jujube is made into snacks, which is not suitable for diabetics to eat, so as to avoid the increase of blood sugar and aggravate the condition. If you eat too many red dates and don't drink enough water, you are prone to tooth decay. In addition, the fiber content of jujube peel is very high and it is not easy to digest. Eating too much will cause flatulence, especially for people with bad stomach.