Walnut kernel, also known as walnut kernel and walnut meat, is the kernel of the walnut fruit of the deciduous tree Juglandaceae. It is widely cultivated in all parts of my country, especially in North China, Northwest China, and Northeast China. Walnut kernels are sweet and warm in nature and flavor. It has the effects of nourishing the kidneys and strengthening yang, astringing the lungs and calming asthma, and moisturizing the intestines and laxatives. It is often used for symptoms such as kidney deficiency, cold pain in the waist and knees, frequent urination, tinnitus, impotence and spermatorrhea, and premature graying of hair and beard. Regular consumption can make people fat, healthy, moisturized, and blackened beards and hair. Walnut meat also has the functions of strengthening the kidneys and nourishing the brain, moistening the lungs, condensing lung qi, warming the kidneys and absorbing qi. It is often used for asthma caused by insufficient lungs and kidneys and chronic cough and qi inversion due to lung deficiency. Because of its moisturizing and oily properties, it can also cure constipation in the elderly. Walnuts are one of the four major dried fruits in the world. They are rich in nutrients and contain various nutrients and minerals such as sodium, magnesium, manganese, copper, and selenium. They are good for people’s brain, intelligence, and longevity. They are high-end tonics. . Walnut oil is rich in polyunsaturated fatty acids, lecithin and vitamin E that are beneficial to the human body, so it is suitable for patients with hyperlipidemia, hypertension, arteriosclerosis, and coronary heart disease. Healthy elderly people often consume small amounts of this product to prevent the occurrence of the above-mentioned diseases. However, it should be noted that it is not advisable to eat too much of this product. Eating more of this product can promote dampness and phlegm, or cause bloating due to poor qi movement.
Walnut kernels are also known as walnuts, walnuts, walnut meat, and long live seeds. Sweet in taste and warm in nature. It has the effects of nourishing the kidneys and yang, strengthening the waist and knees, warming the lungs and calming asthma, moistening the intestines and laxative. "Kaibao Materia Medica" says that "eating it makes people fat and healthy, and moisturizes the muscles and blackens the hair." "Compendium of Materia Medica" says that it "tonifies qi and nourishes blood, moistens dryness and resolves phlegm, benefits the vitality gate, regulates the triple burner, warms the lungs and moistens the intestines, and treats deficiency, cold, asthma and cough, and severe waist pain." There are many folk medicines, some of which are introduced below:
1. Frequent urination due to kidney deficiency: simmer 2 to 3 walnuts in ashes, take the kernels, and chew them carefully before going to bed. Take an appropriate amount of rice wine once a day for 5 to 7 days.
2. Neurasthenia: 30 grams each of walnut kernels and black sesame seeds, 60 grams of mulberry leaves, crushed into mud into pills (each pill weighs 3 grams), 3 pills each time, twice a day.
3． Kidney deficiency, tinnitus, spermatorrhea, low back pain: 2 walnut kernels, 7 Schisandra chinensis seeds, 20 rickets berry, chew carefully before going to bed, take with honey water, once a night, for 5 to 7 days.
4. Urinary tract stones: equal amounts of walnut kernels, rock sugar, and sesame oil. Boil the sesame oil first, add walnut kernels, fry until brown, remove and grind into powder and put back again, then add powdered rock sugar and boil until it becomes a paste. Take 2 tablespoons 3 times a day. Take continuously.
5. Habitual constipation: 60 grams of walnut kernels, 30 grams of black sesame seeds, grind into powder. Take 1 spoonful in the morning and evening with warm water. For those who have been constipated for many years, continuous use is effective.
6. Spleen and kidney deficiency, asthma and cough: 10 grams of walnut kernels, 10 grams of Codonopsis pilosula, and 5 grams of Wuwei. Take it as decoction. 2 times a day.
7. Chronic cough and asthma due to deficiency of both waist and kidneys: 250 grams each of walnut kernels and fried sweet almonds. First fry the almonds in water for 1 hour, then add walnut kernels. When the juice is almost dry, add 500 grams of honey and mix well until it boils. Take 10 grams once a day.
8. Impotence: 50 grams of walnut kernels, fried in sesame oil until browned, then add washed and cut leeks and stir-fry, season with salt, and eat as needed. 1 to 2 times a day.
9． Bronchial asthma: 1 to 2 walnut kernels and 1 to 2 slices of ginger. Put them in your mouth and chew them carefully, once in the morning and once in the evening.
10. Chronic bronchitis: walnut kernels 25%, grind into powder and add sugar before taking. It is effective for a long time.
11． Excessive leucorrhea: 10 walnut leaves, 2 eggs, add water to boil, drink soup and eat eggs.
12． Hair loss: 6 walnut kernels, 100 grams of fresh Platycladus orientalis leaves, 9 torreya seeds. Mash the 3 herbs into powder, use 1500 ml of well water, soak for 3 days and then wash your hair, 12 times a day for 3 days.
13. Otitis media: First wash the pus in the ear with hydrogen peroxide, then add 2 to 3 drops of walnut oil, 2 to 3 times a day.
14. Boils: Crush walnut kernels and apply to the affected area, changing the dressing twice a day.
15． Lymph node tuberculosis: 30 grams of fresh walnut twigs, 30 grams of fresh thistle. Decoction in water instead of tea, 3 times a day.
16. Vomiting: burn 1 walnut on charcoal and grind into fine powder. For those with cold stomach, take ginger soup; for those with hot stomach, take 12 grams of Scutellaria baicalensis in decoction.
2 times a day.
17. Cervical cancer: 30 grams of walnut branches, 4 eggs. Wash and chop the branches, add water and boil the eggs together, remove the shells after the eggs are cooked, and boil for another 4 hours. Eat 2 eggs each time, 2 times a day, continuously.
Note: People with yin deficiency and excessive fire, phlegm-heat, cough and loose stools should not take this product.