Walnut has high medicinal value and is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that walnuts are warm, sweet and non-toxic, and have the effects of invigorating the stomach, enriching the blood, moistening the lungs and nourishing the mind. "Shen Nong Ben Cao Jing" lists walnuts as the top grade for long-term service, benefiting qi and prolonging life. In the Herbal Medicine of Dietotherapy written by Meng E in Tang Dynasty, it is recorded that eating walnut kernel can increase appetite, moisten blood vessels and make flesh and blood delicate. In the Song Dynasty, Liu Han and others recorded in Kaibao Materia Medica that walnut kernel "makes it fat and healthy, moistens muscles, has black beard and black hair, eats more diuretics and removes five hemorrhoids." According to the Compendium of Materia Medica written by Li Shizhen in the Ming Dynasty, walnut kernel has the effects of "benefiting qi and nourishing blood, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm, benefiting qi and promoting fluid production, treating triple energizer, warming lung and moistening intestine, treating deficiency cold, asthma and cough, severe pain in waist and feet, hernia in the heart, blood dysentery and intestinal wind".
Modern medical research believes that phospholipids in walnuts have a good health care effect on brain nerves. Walnut oil contains unsaturated fatty acids, which can prevent and treat arteriosclerosis. Walnut kernel contains zinc, manganese, chromium and other indispensable trace elements. The contents of zinc and manganese are decreasing in the process of aging, and chromium can promote glucose utilization, cholesterol metabolism and protect cardiovascular system. The effect of walnut kernel on relieving cough and asthma is also very obvious. Winter has excellent curative effect on patients with chronic bronchitis and asthma. It can be seen that eating walnuts regularly can not only strengthen the body, but also resist aging. Some people often take tonics. In fact, it is really good to eat a few walnuts every morning and evening, which is often better than taking tonic. Walnuts are a good diet. Whether it is used for dispensing medicine, raw, boiled, dipped in sugar or cooked, it has good effects of enriching blood and benefiting qi, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence, relieving cough and asthma, moistening dryness and relaxing bowels. There are many ways to eat walnuts. Boiling walnuts with proper salt water and eating dregs can cure lumbago due to kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission, impotence, forgetfulness, tinnitus and frequent urination. Cooking porridge with walnuts, coix seed and chestnuts can cure frequent urination, nocturnal emission, loose stool and diarrhea. Eating walnuts, sesame seeds and lotus seeds dipped in sugar can nourish the heart and brain and cure night sweats. Eating raw walnuts, longan pulp and hawthorn can improve heart function. Walnut is also widely used to treat neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, emphysema and stomachache.
Walnut can be called the "king" of oxidation resistance.
The American Dietetic Association advises people to eat walnuts two or three times a week, especially middle-aged and elderly people and menopausal women, because the arginine, oleic acid and antioxidants contained in walnuts are quite beneficial to protect the cardiovascular system and prevent coronary heart disease, stroke and Alzheimer's disease. Don't eat too much at a time, otherwise it will affect digestion. Some people like to peel off the thin brown skin on the surface of walnut kernel, which will lose some nutrients, so don't peel off this skin.
Modern medical research believes that phospholipids in walnuts have a good health care effect on brain nerves. Walnut oil contains unsaturated fatty acids, which can prevent and treat arteriosclerosis. Walnut kernel contains zinc, manganese, chromium and other indispensable trace elements. The contents of zinc and manganese are decreasing in the process of aging, and chromium can promote glucose utilization, cholesterol metabolism and protect cardiovascular system. The effect of walnut kernel on relieving cough and asthma is also very obvious. Winter has excellent curative effect on patients with chronic bronchitis and asthma. It can be seen that eating walnuts regularly can not only strengthen the body, but also resist aging. Some people often take tonics. In fact, it is really good to eat a few walnuts every morning and evening, which is often better than taking tonic.
Walnuts are a good diet. Whether it is used for dispensing medicine, raw, boiled, dipped in sugar or cooked, it has good effects of enriching blood and benefiting qi, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence, relieving cough and asthma, moistening dryness and relaxing bowels. There are many ways to eat walnuts. Boiling walnuts with proper salt water and eating dregs can cure lumbago due to kidney deficiency, nocturnal emission, impotence, forgetfulness, tinnitus and frequent urination. Cooking porridge with walnuts, coix seed and chestnuts can cure frequent urination, nocturnal emission, loose stool and diarrhea. Eating walnuts, sesame seeds and lotus seeds dipped in sugar can nourish the heart and brain and cure night sweats. Eating raw walnuts, longan pulp and hawthorn can improve heart function. Walnut is also widely used to treat neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, emphysema and stomachache.
Eat walnuts to nourish the brain.
Walnut kernels can be pounded into "walnut paste" with rock sugar and hidden in porcelain jars. Take two spoonfuls at a time and rinse with boiling water. When washing, there is a layer of white liquid floating in the cup. This is "walnut milk", which is delicious.
The beauty effect of walnuts is extraordinary.
Zhu beauty
If you eat the "walnut porridge" boiled with walnut kernel powder for a long time, it can nourish the skin and make people white and tender, especially suitable for the elderly.
Walnuts can also resist aging.
Vitamin E contained in walnut kernel can protect cells from oxidative damage by free radicals, which is recognized as an anti-aging substance in the medical field, so walnut is called "Long live my son" and "longevity fruit".
Eating walnuts is also good for the heart.
Good for the heart
Walnut contains a variety of unsaturated and monounsaturated fatty acids, which can reduce cholesterol content. Therefore, eating stone walnuts is good for people's hearts.
Insomnia can also try eating walnuts.
Treat insomnia
Regular consumption of walnut kernel has therapeutic effect on insomnia caused by kidney deficiency. The administration method is to mash 5 walnuts and 30g sugar, add 50ml yellow wine into the pot, and decoct with slow fire for 30min, once a day 1 dose, and take it twice.
Tip: In Chinese medicine, walnuts are very angry and contain a lot of oil. Eating too much will make people get angry and get sick. People who get angry and have diarrhea should not eat it. Walnut kernel has the function of relaxing bowels, but boiled water in walnut shell can treat diarrhea. Walnut kernel contains tannic acid, which can be combined with iron and calcium to reduce the drug effect. Drink less strong tea when eating walnuts; Some people like to peel off the thin brown skin on the surface of walnut kernel, which will lose some nutrients, so don't peel off this skin.
Raw walnuts are rich in nutrition.
The nutritional loss of raw walnuts is the least, and the fresh walnuts that have not been dried in harvest season are more delicious. At present, eating fresh walnuts is very common in developed countries. Related science and technology development centers are overcoming the processing and preservation technology of fresh walnuts. I believe that in the near future, consumers all over the country can eat nutritious and delicious fresh walnuts anytime and anywhere. Regarding the consumption of walnut kernels, it is generally believed that it is appropriate to eat 5 ~ 6 walnuts a day, about 20 ~ 30 grams of walnut kernels; Eating too much will lead to more nausea in phlegm. In addition, those who suffer from yin deficiency and excessive fire, loose stool, vomiting blood and nosebleeds should eat less walnuts or fast.
Scientists found that each100g of walnut kernel contains 20.97 units of antioxidant substances, which is 20 times higher than that of citrus. The antioxidant content of spinach is 0.98 unit, carrot is 0.04 unit and tomato is 0.3 1 unit.
Scientists believe that people can protect themselves from many diseases by absorbing antioxidants from walnuts. So far, people have known that eating walnuts regularly can reduce the cholesterol content in blood and reduce the possibility of cardiovascular disease.
Emilio Ross, director of the Dietary Nutrition Department of Barcelona Teaching Hospital, said that in this sense, adding a small amount of walnut powder to the diet every day can reduce the LDL (bad cholesterol) content in the blood by 15%, because walnuts contain ω 3 and ω 6 fatty acids.
Nutritional analysis
1. Walnut kernel contains more protein and unsaturated fatty acids necessary for human nutrition. These components are important substances in brain tissue cell metabolism, which can nourish brain cells and enhance brain function;
2. Walnut kernel can prevent arteriosclerosis and lower cholesterol; In addition, walnuts can also be used to treat non-insulin-dependent diabetes; Walnuts can also relieve pain, increase white blood cells and protect the liver of cancer patients.
3. Walnut kernel contains a lot of vitamin E, which can moisturize and blacken hair if eaten regularly, making skin moist, smooth and elastic;
Chewing some walnuts when you feel tired can relieve fatigue and stress.
Related population
The general population can eat it.
1. Patients with kidney deficiency, lung deficiency, neurasthenia, qi and blood deficiency and cancer should eat more; Especially suitable for mental workers and teenagers;
2. Yin deficiency diarrhea, fire flourishing; Cough due to phlegm-heat, diarrhea in loose stool, excessive internal heat and severe phlegm-dampness should not be taken.
Grams of food stage
Walnuts can't be eaten with pheasants, and patients with pneumonia and bronchiectasis are not easy to eat.
Walnut should not be eaten with wine. According to the record of Kaibao Materia Medica, "Eating walnuts makes people hemoptysis". It may be because walnuts are hot, eating too much produces phlegm fire, and white wine is also sweet and spicy, so eating together is easy to cause blood heat. Especially people with chronic hemoptysis should avoid eating. For example, patients with bronchiectasis and tuberculosis will have hemoptysis if they drink white wine, but they will also get sick if they don't eat it with walnuts.
manufacture order
1. Walnuts can be eaten raw or cooked, and can also be made into medicinal porridge and decoction.
2. The mixture of walnut kernel and black sesame can increase sebum secretion, improve skin elasticity, keep skin delicate, delay aging and quickly replenish physical strength.
Some people like to peel off the thin brown skin on the surface of walnut kernel, which will lose some nutrition, so don't peel off this thin skin.
food therapy
Walnut is sweet and warm, and enters the kidney, lung and large intestine;
Can tonify kidney, strengthen waist, warm lung, relieve asthma, moisten intestine and relieve constipation;
Indications: cough due to kidney deficiency, soreness of waist and knees, impotence and nocturnal emission, frequent urination, stranguria and dry stool.
Chopping wood (wood sandwich in the core) tastes bitter and warm; Tonifying kidney and astringing essence.
1. Can be used for treating amenorrhea due to blood stasis, abdominal pain due to blood stasis, hematocele, traumatic injury, and blood stasis.
2. Runchang laxative. It is difficult to solve constipation caused by intestinal dryness. 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.
Other related
Walnut originated in Iran, spread to West Asia, Mediterranean countries and India in 10 century BC, and gradually became one of the dried fruits commonly eaten in China. Later, the use of walnuts gradually integrated into folk customs, as a symbol of wedding and love, known as "a hundred years of harmony." Walnut is known as the "century-old crop", because once cultivated, it will be harvested in a hundred years.
Don Li Bai. "White Walnut": "The red sleeves are obvious, but not in the white jade plate. It is suspected that the old monk stopped chanting and pushed the crystal bead to his wrist. "
Historical legend: Walnuts come from Hu Qiang. This species was acquired by Zhang Qian during his mission to the Western Regions in the Han Dynasty, and was brought back to China and planted in the Central Plains. Therefore, the fruit is wrapped in green pulp and looks like a peach, so it is called walnut. The flesh of this fruit is oily and fragrant, which is very rare and precious. It was only used as a tribute for the emperor to eat, so it was called "Long live the son" in ancient times.
Walnut is called "Hercules food", "nutritious nut" and "educational fruit" abroad. In China, it enjoys the reputation of "Long live the child", "longevity fruit" and "treasure for nurturing people".