Red jujube is also called jujube, among the 42 kinds of fruits discussed in the "Qi Min Yao Shu", jujube ranks first, together with peach, plum, apricot and chestnut, it is called "Five Fruits of China", and the pharmaceutical monograph "Shennong Materia Medica" lists it as "Shangpin".
Red jujube taste sweet, temperament, into the spleen, stomach meridian, the main into the blood, can replenish the qi, nourish the blood and calm the spirit, tonify the spleen and stomach, yi qi shengjin, adjust the camp guard, antidote poison (kill the appendage, tianxiong poison), calm stomach qi, through the nine tips, replenish less qi, ann in the spleen, help the twelve sutras.
A doctor in the UK once conducted a trial on 163 frail patients. The trial showed that patients who insisted on eating dates every day recovered more than 3 times faster than those who did not eat dates. As the saying goes, "Eat jujube every day, never see the old" "five grains plus small dates, better than ganoderma lucidum grass", fully illustrate the value of red dates.
In recent years, medical research has found that hawthorn acid in jujube has obvious anti-cancer effects. Therefore, regular consumption of jujube can help prevent and treat tumors.
However, there are contraindications to red dates as traditional Chinese medicine, and people with these conditions are not suitable for eating red dates.
◆ People with phlegm wet constitution. Red jujube sweet can promote moisture, more food is prone to bloating, where phlegm is full, abdominal distension and other symptoms should be used with caution.
◆ Female comrades who have edema (swollen eyes or swollen feet) during menstruation. This kind of female comrades are actually heavy humidity, and heavy humidity is not suitable for taking red dates, because red dates are sweet, and eating more sweet is easy to produce phlegm and get wet, resulting in aggravation of water wetness, and eventually aggravates the symptoms of edema.
◆ People with caries. Red jujube flavor sweet can supplement the spleen, Chinese medicine believes that the spleen belongs to the soil, the kidney belongs to the water, the soil can be water. Eat more sweet food, supplement the spleen too much, there will be soil in water, damage to the function of the kidney, kidney main bone teeth, so damage to the bone teeth.
◆ Diabetics. The jujube sugar content is high, so it is not suitable for diabetics to eat, avoid increasing blood sugar, and make snack dates.
◆ Bloating and diarrhea. Medicinal dates are processed, warm, and raw dates are cool, "raw food damage to the spleen for diarrhea", that is, too much to eat raw red dates, easy to produce diarrhea and hurt the "spleen", so avoid eating raw red dates, even if there is no discomfort symptoms to eat less.
◆Those who have a cold or fever caused by external wind and heat. During the external feeling period to dissolve the evil, generally use divergent drugs, the evil qi is dispersed, the red jujube is adducted, it is easy to put the evil qi away, so you can not eat red dates during the cold.
Eating red dates raw is actually not easy to digest, especially the jujube skin is difficult to digest, so it is wise to boil or steam the dates, so that it will not change the medicinal effect of red dates, but also avoid diarrhea caused by raw food, reduce the burden on the spleen and stomach.
Finally, let's share with you the classic combination of red dates.
The first is ginger jujube soup, dried ginger, red dates each 25g, fried in water, can be added brown sugar when eating, tonic and beneficial qi, blood nourishment, warm menstrual pain relief.
The second is red dates with angelica, qi and blood double supplement, live blood and dispel stasis, but also to alleviate constipation. Take three or four red dates, 20g of angelica, and boil it instead of tea.
Do not like the medicinal taste can be directly made red date porridge, convenient and convenient, with six or seven red dates, 400g of rice, put into the pot together, add water, to be cooked after eating.