Jujube
1. Jujube can improve human immunity and inhibit cancer cells: pharmacological studies have found that jujube can promote the production of white blood cells, lower serum cholesterol, increase serum albumin and protect the liver. Jujube also contains substances that inhibit cancer cells and even make cancer cells transform into normal cells;
2. People who often eat fresh dates seldom suffer from gallstones. This is because the rich vitamin C in fresh dates turns excess cholesterol into bile acid, and the less cholesterol, the less the probability of stone formation.
3. Jujube is rich in calcium and iron, which play an important role in preventing osteoporosis and anemia. Middle-aged and elderly people often suffer from osteoporosis during menopause, and teenagers and women who are at the peak of growth and development are prone to anemia. Jujube will have an ideal dietotherapy effect for them, and its effect is usually incomparable with drugs.
4. It also has a good nourishing effect on people with physical weakness after illness;
5. Rutin contained in jujube is a substance that softens blood vessels, thus lowering blood pressure, and has preventive and therapeutic effects on hypertension;
6. Jujube can also resist allergy, remove fishy smell, soothe the nerves, improve intelligence and brain, and stimulate appetite.
Walnut
Walnut has high medicinal value and is widely used in traditional Chinese medicine. Chinese medicine believes that walnuts are warm, sweet and non-toxic, and have the effects of invigorating stomach, enriching blood, moistening lung and nourishing spirit. "Shennong Materia Medica Classic" lists walnuts as the top grade for long-term service, benefiting qi and prolonging life. In the Tang Dynasty, Meng E wrote "Herbal Medicine for Dietotherapy", which stated that eating walnut kernel can stimulate appetite, moisten blood vessels and make flesh and blood delicate. In the Song Dynasty, Liu Han and others recorded in Kaibao Materia Medica that walnut kernel "makes it fat and healthy, moistens muscles, has black beard and hair, eats more to promote urination, and removes five hemorrhoids." In the Ming Dynasty, Li Shizhen wrote Compendium of Materia Medica, which recorded that walnut kernel has the effects of "invigorating qi and nourishing blood, moistening dryness and resolving phlegm, benefiting vital energy, treating triple energizer, warming lung and moistening intestine, treating deficiency cold, asthma and cough, severe pain in waist and feet, hernia in heart, blood dysentery and intestinal wind".
Modern medical research believes that phospholipids in walnuts have a good health care effect on brain nerves. Walnut oil contains unsaturated fatty acids, which has the effect of preventing and treating arteriosclerosis. Walnut kernel contains zinc, manganese, chromium and other indispensable trace elements. The contents of zinc and manganese are decreasing in the process of aging, and chromium has the functions of promoting glucose utilization, cholesterol metabolism and protecting cardiovascular system. The effect of walnut kernel on relieving cough and asthma is also very obvious. In winter, it has excellent curative effect on patients with chronic tracheitis and asthma. It can be seen that eating walnuts regularly can not only strengthen the body, but also resist aging. Some people often take tonics. In fact, it is really beneficial to eat a few walnuts every morning and evening, which is often better than taking tonics. Walnut is a good food therapy. Whether it is used for dispensing, or eaten raw, boiled, dipped in sugar or cooked, it has good effects of enriching blood and nourishing qi, tonifying kidney and replenishing essence, relieving cough and asthma, moistening dryness and relaxing bowels. There are many ways to eat walnuts. Boiling walnuts with proper amount of salt water and eating dregs can cure kidney deficiency, low back pain, nocturnal emission, impotence, forgetfulness, tinnitus and frequent urination. Walnut, coix seed and chestnut are cooked as porridge, which can cure frequent urination, nocturnal emission, loose stool and diarrhea. Walnut, sesame seeds and lotus seeds are dipped in sugar, which can nourish the heart and brain and cure night sweats. Eating walnuts, longan meat and hawthorn raw can improve heart function. Walnut is also widely used to treat neurasthenia, hypertension, coronary heart disease, emphysema and stomachache.
Morning and evening are the best time to drink milk. Drinking milk at breakfast provides sufficient nutritional guarantee for the vitality of the day.