Author: Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Gao Shanshan
There are many kinds of dates on the market, and "jujube" knows can help us to pick more targeted when buying dates.
1. Dates/dates
Jujube is the dried ripe fruit of the jujube of the family P. sylvestris. Jujube, also known as red jujube, dried jujube, jujube, originated in China and has been cultivated in China for more than 4,000 years. The Inner Classics record that jujubes and plums, apricots, chestnuts, and peaches are collectively called the Five Fruits. Jujube is rich in a variety of organic ingredients, inorganic components and trace elements, trace elements in the vitamin C content in the "five fruits" ranked first, known as the beauty of vitamin king.
This product is warm and sweet, has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach, improving qi and sperm, and reconciling various medicines, and also has the effect of tonifying qi, alleviating medicinal properties, nourishing blood and calming the spirit, mainly used for spleen deficiency and lack of food, fatigue and loose stool, and women's dirty and manic disease. A number of modern clinical medical studies have confirmed that jujube has anti-allergic reactions, central nervous system inhibition, liver protection, improvement of muscle strength, delay fatigue and inhibition of the proliferation of cancer cells, etc., and has special effects on the treatment of hepatitis, lowering blood pressure, blood replenishment, brain health, anti-tumor and enhancing immunity.
●Rock sugar silver ear red date soup
Efficacy: Treat anemia, improve the body's immunity, replenish the qi, nourish the blood and calm the spirit, calm and calm the spirit.
Ingredients: dried white fungus, dates, rock sugar.
method:
1． Soak the white fungus in warm water and wash off the sediment and remove the hard part.
2． Tear the white fungus into small flowers, wash it repeatedly, drain the water, wash the dates and set aside.
3． Add enough water to the pot at one time and add the white fungus.
4． After bringing to a boil over high heat, cook over low heat for 1 hour.
5． Add the dates and cook for about 30 minutes.
6． Add rock sugar to taste, stir until melted and serve over high heat (also refrigerate in summer).
● Party ginseng astragalus red date chicken soup
Effect: Strengthen the spleen and stomach, replenish qi and blood, improve human immunity, strengthen the body.
Not suitable for people: pregnant women should not be used, and should not be taken during colds.
Ingredients: 10 grams of astragalus, 10 grams of ginseng, 10 red dates, 1 local chicken.
Accessories: ginger, green onion, cooking wine, salt each appropriate amount.
1． Wash the chickens.
2． Then place in a cold sand pot and add cooking wine, green onion and ginger.
3． After boiling, skim off the floating powder, add the herbs (astragalus, ginseng, red dates) and simmer over low heat.
4． Simmer for 1.5 hours and add salt.
2. Black dates (processed dates)
Black jujube is a dried and ripe fruit of the sycamore family of plant jujubes after steaming, which is a commonly used Chinese medicinal material in Guangdong, also known as smoked jujube, amethyst jujube, horse tooth jujube, dog head jujube, also known as black jujube.
Black jujube is warm and sweet, has the effect of tonifying the spleen and stomach, reconciling various medicines, and is used for spleen and spleen to eat less, fatigue and fatigue, purpura, and is known as "nutritional warehouse". Contains amino acids, protein, dietary fiber, total sugar, flavonoids, carotene and other elements needed by the human body, more importantly, black dates contain tannins and yellow pigments and other biologically active substances, which have a strong effect on enhancing immunity in the body, and have obvious curative effects on cardia cancer, lung cancer and vomiting. In addition, black dates also contain organic acids, vitamins and phosphorus, calcium, iron and other nutrients.
3. Dates (processed dates)
Dates belong to the dried fruit category, with a date cutting machine, the jujube is cut once, making it easy to absorb sugar, and then put into the pot with white sugar to cook, sun-dried, it becomes the usual eating dates.
There are three major dates in China: Beijing-style dates (17% - moisture and do northern dates), Hui-style dates (13% - moisture or southern dates) and Gui-style dates (7%- moisture), it can be seen that the taste of the three is getting harder and harder. The common golden silk dates and ejiao crystal dates all belong to the Beijing-style dates and their variants. These are soft dates. The latter two categories are hard dates. In Guangdong, hard dates are often used to cook soup to taste.
4. Jujube
Jujube is a Mongolian medicinal herb derived from the dried ripe fruit of the sumac family plant Jujube. This product is sweet, acidic, flat. It has the effect of invigorating blood, nourishing the heart and calming the spirit. It is used for stagnant blood stasis, chest palsy and pain, palpitations, shortness of breath, and restlessness.
5. Sand dates
It is the dried ripe fruit of the jujube of the family P. This product is cool, sour and slightly sweet. It has a healthy spleen and antidiarrheal, strong, calming, menstrual adjustment effect. For stomach pain, diarrhea, weakness, insomnia, lung fever cough, indigestion. Modern research has made colloidal and tannin concentrates from jujube fruit to have anti-inflammatory effects; for animals that artificially cause diarrhea, they have the effect of inhibiting their small intestinal peristalsis, so they can be used to treat enteritis.
6. Sour dates
It is a jujube plant of the family P. sylvestris, also known as wild jujube, mountain jujube and five-eyed fruit, which is one of the oldest wild fruit trees in China, with wide distribution and rich resources. Sour dates are treasures all over the body and have high economic value [8]. According to the "Compendium of Materia Medica", sour dates are mainly used to treat cold and heat in the heart and abdomen, evil knots and qi gathering, wet paralysis, insomnia, pain up and down the umbilicus, blood turning for a long time, sweating and thirst, long-term service to calm the gods and prolong life, tonify the liver qi, strengthen the bones, help the yin qi, and make people healthy.
◆ Jujube meat is rich in nutrients, containing 4.5g of protein, 2.6g of fat, 870~1170 mg of carbohydrates per 100 grams, and contains a variety of vitamins, amino acids and trace elements necessary for the human body. In particular, vitamin C, fresh fruit content more than kiwi fruit, known as the king of vitamin C. The flesh of the fruit is sour, which can be appetizing and removing accumulation, and quenching thirst.
◆ Jujube kernel is the dried mature seed of sour jujube, sweet, sour, flat, can calm the mind, blind health, antihypertensive and detoxification, especially in recent years, it has been found to contain CAMP (cyclic adenosine phosphate), which has the function of inhibiting the growth and reproduction of cancer cells, and its medicinal value is more prominent.
◆ Jujube flowers are a source of high-quality honey.
◆ Jujube leaves have anesthetic effect, can treat boils, and have a good effect on coronary heart disease.
◆ Sour jujube acupuncture has the effect of reducing swelling and relieving pain, and can treat blood in urine and laryngeal paralysis.
◆ Bark can stop bleeding, remove dampness, treat knife wounds bleeding, diarrhea, etc., can prevent skin burns, burns.
◆ Root bark can treat menstrual irregularities, blood in the stool, sperm and other diseases.
Tips
There are many types of jujubes, the efficacy and use of jujubes of different families are also different, in the process of eating and medicinal use, the choice of people with different physiques is also different, it is recommended that you consult professionals before purchasing, determine the genus category and then buy.
Notes:
1, jujube sweet and warm, helps to damp heat, food has the disadvantage of fullness, easy to block the gas machine, so the abdomen is often full of people do not eat; food accumulation, insect accumulation, caries pain and phlegm hot cough people do not eat.
2, should not be eaten with seafood, otherwise it is easy to make people waist and abdomen pain.
3. For the jujube that is complete and unbroken, it must be broken open when entering the decoction, otherwise the jujube juice is difficult to dissolve, and it also has a certain impact on the efficacy.
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Reviewed by: Guangdong Pharmaceutical Association, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Guangzhou Medical University, Cao Lihui
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