There is a folk saying that “you can eat three dates on a day and don’t grow old forever.†You can see the benefits of jujube on the human body. It also shows that jujube as a medicine and food homogenous food needs to be eaten daily, because it is sweet and flat, and it is relatively mild. , so it is suitable for any season. The jujube is attributed to qi medicines, which are said to be sweet and pungent. It has the effects of moistening the heart and lungs, coughing, making up the five internal organs, and treating debilitating damage. When the motility of the gastrointestinal tract is not good, and the function of digestion and absorption is poor, it is suitable. Eat red dates to improve poor gastrointestinal function and gain strength. Only for those who are more prone to fullness in the gastrointestinal tract, some ginger should be added to cook. It will not contribute to flatulence.
The effect and function of jujube
1, nourishing the nerves: female bipolar disorder, cry, restless, etc., with red dates and licorice, wheat with the <Gammai Dazao soup>, can play the role of nourishing the nerves, Shugan Jieyu effect,
2, mitigating drug properties: red dates are often used in drug-drug prescription, to reduce the side effects of strong drugs, and protect the righteousness, such as: "Ten Zao Tang", use jujube to ease Ganzi, Daxuan, Shaohua and other laxatives Toxicity, protecting the stomach from harm,
3, spleen and stomach: weak spleen and stomach, diarrhea, burnout people, eat seven red dates each day, or with Codonopsis, Atractylodes common, can fill in Qi, spleen and stomach, to increase appetite, antidiarrheal effect; red dates Used with ginger and Pinellia, it can treat gastritis caused by careless eating, such as bloating, vomiting and other symptoms.
4, qi and blood: red dates for nourishing good products, diet medicated diet often add red dates to nourish the body, nourishing blood, NTU immunology Dr. Sun Andy vigorously advocated to eat more red dates, jaundice, wolfberry, can enhance the body's vitality, enhance immunity ,
Medicinal efficacy of jujube
1, prevention and treatment of cerebral insufficiency
The flavonoids in jujube can prevent and treat cerebral ischemia and protect the ultrastructure of brain tissue from cerebral ischemia.
2, anti-allergy
Edible jujube can treat allergic purpura. This is mainly because the amount of cAMP in immune cells is increased after the human body has taken in sufficient amounts of cAMP, which suppresses the immune response and achieves anti-allergic effects; the pair of ethyl-D-glucoside derivatives in jujube Serotonin and histamine have antagonistic effects and are therefore anti-allergic.
3, prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease
Jujube is rich in vitamin C and vitamin P. It is good for perfecting capillaries, maintaining the elasticity of blood vessel walls, and anti-atherosclerosis; jujube contains cAMP, whose pharmacological effects are manifested in improving the human microcirculation and dilating coronary arteries. Increase blood supply to the brain and heart, slow down heart rate, reduce myocardial oxygen consumption and improve the metabolism of ischemic myocardium, it can prevent cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases.
4, anti-tumor
The cAMP in jujube is involved in a variety of physiological and biochemical processes such as cell division and differentiation, morphogenesis, glycogen and lipolysis, steroidogenesis, etc., and can act on gene transcription and affect protein synthesis. More importantly, cAMP has a significant effect on the treatment of various types of tumors, which can effectively prevent the formation of nitrites in the body, thereby inhibiting the formation and proliferation of cancer cells, and even allowing the transformation of cancer cells into normal cells. The triterpenoids rich in jujube have the effect of inhibiting cancer cells, especially maslinic acid, and even exceed the commonly used anti-cancer drug fluorouracil.
5, liver protection liver
Jujube fructose, glucose, oligosaccharides, acidic polysaccharides involved in liver protection. Jujube can significantly increase serum total albumin and albumin in rabbits with carbon tetrachloride-induced liver injury. At the same time jujube can increase the phagocytic function of monocytes in the body, protect the liver and enhance the role of physical strength; jujube vitamin C and cAMP, etc., can reduce the liver damage caused by chemical drugs, and promote protein synthesis, increase serum total The role of protein content.
6, improve immunity
Jujube polysaccharide is an important active substance in jujube, it has obvious complement activity and promote lymphocyte proliferation, can improve the body immunity.
7, antioxidant
Jujube rich in vitamin C has a strong antioxidant activity and promote collagen synthesis, can participate in the redox reaction of tissue cells, and the metabolism of many substances in the body, sufficient vitamin C can promote growth and development, enhanced Physical strength, reduce fatigue.
8, lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol
Vitamin P content in jujube is the highest of all fruits and vegetables. It maintains capillary permeability, improves microcirculation and prevents arteriosclerosis, and promotes the accumulation of vitamin C in the human body. In addition, the soap contained in jujube has the functions of regulating body metabolism, enhancing immunity, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic, lowering blood sugar and cholesterol content, and contains rutin to protect capillary patency and prevent brittleness of blood vessel wall. The increased function is effective for hypertension, atherosclerosis and other diseases; the contained flavonoids can be used for the treatment and prevention of hypertension and arteriosclerosis.
9, prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and anemia
Middle-aged and elderly people often have osteoporosis, and adolescents and women at the peak of growth and development are prone to anemia. Jujube is rich in calcium and iron and has a very good therapeutic effect on them. The effect is usually unmatched by drugs. Jujube also has a good nourishing effect on people who are physically weak after illness.