As the saying goes, "This winter is the best time to replenish the tiger, and next year you can fight tigers." Winter is the most suitable season for nourishing and nourishing the yang. Winter controls the kidneys. Whether the yang energy is sufficient, the regulation and replenishment of kidney yang is very important. Today I will introduce to you a nut that can not only warm the kidney yang, but also moisten the dryness and nourish the lungs. It is very suitable for diet therapy in winter. It can be used to make vegetables and porridge in daily life, and it can also be used as snacks. It is very convenient. It is walnut.
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"Health Treasure" walnut
walnuts are also called walnuts and Qiang Tao . They are known as the world-famous "four dried fruits" together with almond kernels, cashew , and hazelnut . The hometown of walnut is in Iran, Middle East, , and Zhang Qian brought it back to China after he went on a mission to the Western Regions. Today, China is the world's largest walnut producer. Walnuts also enjoy the reputation of "longevity fruit" and "health treasure" .
Every autumn and winter, walnuts become the star among nuts. Walnuts are indispensable when making soup, cooking, and snacking. Chew raw walnut kernels, crispy and sweet, suitable for all ages. The most familiar thing for the edible value of walnuts is to nourish the kidneys and strengthen the brain. Therefore, walnuts have become a must-have for parents to supplement their children's nutrition, and are also the best choice for the elderly to nourish their kidneys.
So, can walnuts really nourish the kidneys and brains?
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medicinal value of walnuts
walnut kernels are warm in nature and sweet in taste. They enter the lungs, kidneys, and large intestine meridians, can nourish the kidneys, warm the lungs, moisten the intestines, and have high medicinal value.
Tang Dynasty Health care Meng Xian In "Recipe for nourishing the body", walnuts have the function of "eating makes people eat, moisten blood vessels, and delicate bones and flesh." "Kaibao Bencao" records that walnut kernels "eat it makes people fat and healthy, moisturize their skin, black beard and hair, eat more to promote small water, and remove five hemorrhoids." Li Shizhen 's understanding of the effects of walnuts is: "Replenish qi and nourish blood, moisten dryness and phlegm, benefit the life gate, benefit Sanjiao , warm the lungs and moisten the intestines, treat deficiency, cold, asthma and cough, heavy pain in the waist and feet, heart and abdomen hernia, bloody dysentery and intestinal wind, disperse swelling and poisoning, acne sores, and produce copper poisoning."
0 In summary, walnuts have three most important effects: nourish the kidney, warm the lungs, and moisten the intestines.
■ Kidney-tonifying
Walnuts have always been known as "Longevity Fruit" . Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney is the foundation of the innate nature. The kidney stores essence , and essence turns into qi. kidney qi is the source of vitality and the driving force for vitality activities, promoting human body growth and development, promoting human reproductive functions, and defending against invasion of external evil. Walnut belongs to kidney meridian , which has the effect of nourishing the kidney and nourishing the kidney. It has good treatment and tonic effects on kidney deficiency low back pain, waist and knee weakness, frequent urination, sperm and impotence.
Winter is responsible for the kidneys, and cold is the yin evil, which can easily damage the kidney yang. In the winter when walnuts are in the meantime, you might as well eat more walnuts, which will be beneficial to nourish the kidneys and store essence and strengthen the body.
In addition, many people believe that walnuts have the effect of nourishing the brain, mainly because they think that walnuts are in line with the concept of " to supplement shape with shape" in traditional Chinese medicine. In fact, the effect of walnuts to strengthen the brain is also closely related to the effect of kidney nourishing . Traditional Chinese medicine believes that the kidney controls bones, bones produce marrow, and the brain is marrow sea . Tonifying the kidneys will definitely help strengthen the brain. Therefore, those who often engage in mental labor or students can achieve the purpose of strengthening the brain by nourishing the kidneys.
Modern medical research believes that lecithin walnuts have a good health care effect on the brain nerves. When you feel tired at work and overtime, you can appropriately chew some walnut kernels to relieve fatigue and stress. The unsaturated fatty acids contained in walnuts can promote the vitality of brain cells and enhance the human memory and thinking ability. They are very suitable for the growth and development of brain workers and children.
■ Warm the lung
walnuts are also belong to the lung meridian and have a good effect on warming the lungs. They have good effects on treating deficiency, cold, asthma, cough, shortness of breath, etc. caused by weak lung qi or deficiency of lung and kidney.
The lungs are "sweet organs", and the lungs are most likely to be damaged by dry evil in autumn and winter. lungs are the main skin and fur guards. The lungs are responsible for the human body's skin and hair, and are the most external protective net for the human body to resist external evil. Therefore, autumn and winter are often the peak season for respiratory diseases such as colds and coughs. Eating walnuts helps to remove the cold air in the lungs and resists cold evil.
■ Moisturize the intestine
When eating walnuts, the sweetness it will be, and even the more you chew it, the more fragrant it becomes, which is mainly related to the rich oils in walnuts. 100 grams of walnuts contain nearly 60 grams of fat. The main ingredients are linoleic acid, oleic acid , and linolenic acid . These are not only good for the human body's blood vessels , but also can moisten the intestines and laxatives , and have a good effect on treating intestinal dryness and constipation.
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Precautions for eating walnuts
✘ It is not advisable to overdose
Although eating walnuts has many benefits, you should not eat too much, otherwise it will affect digestion and cause inflammation. Generally speaking, children a day and 4-6 adults.
✘ Do not talk or laugh during eating
walnut kernels are relatively small and hard. The elderly and children should pay special attention when eating to avoid causing tracheal blockage.
✘ If you have symptoms of "ignition", eat less
walnuts are warm, and patients with phlegm, fire, asthma, cough, Yin deficiency, excessive fire, , loose stools and diarrhea eat less.
✘ It is not advisable to eat
white wine sweet and spicy, hot and hot. Eating both can easily cause blood heat . In severe cases, hemoptysis can lead to hemoptysis, especially for patients with hemoptysis patients such as bronchodilation and tuberculosis . It should be taboos.
✘ Do not eat moldy walnuts, beware of aflatoxin
flatoxin is designated as a Class 1 carcinogen by World Health Organization , and its toxicity is 68 times greater than arsenic, second only to botulinum, and is currently the most poisonous fungus known to be. If walnuts are left for too long, they will produce aflatoxin once mold occurs, so beware.
Tips
0 There is a layer of Brown thin skin , which is a bit bitter, many people will peel it off. In fact, this layer of thin skin contains tannic acid , bitter almond acid, and zinc and other trace elements , which has high nutritional value.
In addition, the membrane between the walnuts after they are cracked open is called Distraction wood . It is a very good Chinese medicinal material. It enters the spleen and kidney meridians and has a strong effect of nourishing the kidney and strengthening the spleen, strengthening astringent and astringent. It is suitable for those with spleen and kidney deficiency, frequent urination at night, frequent urination, and male sperm glucose.
When eating walnuts, distraction wood is easily ignored and thrown away. You can collect it. When cooking porridge and soup, add a few slices, but be careful that the taste is a bit bitter and you can't put too much.
distraction wood
diet therapy recipe recommended
southern apricot walnut lean meat porridge
ingredients: southern almond 10 grams, walnuts 30 grams, lean meat 50 grams, and rice 50 grams.(Serve 1 person)
Method:
. Fry walnut kernels and southern almonds over low heat and mash them for later use;
2. Add rice and appropriate amount of water to a pot and bring to a boil over high heat;
3. Add walnut kernels and southern almonds and continue to cook for 30 minutes;
4. Add lean meat and cook until cooked thoroughly;
5. Turn off the heat, add appropriate amount of salt to taste, and then leave the pot.
Efficacy: Replenish the lungs and kidneys, moisten the intestines and relieve bowel movements.
Suitable for people: People with lung and kidney qi deficiency are often asthma, cough, shortness of breath, spontaneous sweating, fear of cold, cold limbs, dry and dull stools, weak defecation, etc.
almonds are divided into southern apricot and northern apricot . The southern apricot is mild in nature and sweet in taste. It belongs to the lungs and large intestine meridians, and has the effects of moistening the lungs and relieving asthma; walnuts are warm in nature and sweet in taste, and enter the kidneys, lungs and large intestine meridians, and have the effects of nourishing the kidneys, warming the lungs and moistening the intestines. Use the two together to make porridge with lean meat and rice, which can nourish the lungs and kidneys, moisten the intestines and relieve bowel movements, and is very suitable for people with lung and kidney deficiency, shortness of breath and constipation.
Source: Huang Suiping talks about spleen and stomach, medical guidance: Huang Suiping Famous Traditional Chinese Medicine in Guangdong Province Director of the Department of Spleen and Stomach of Guangdong Provincial Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine
