Species name: aralia araliae Alias: aralia aralia, aralia aralia, aralia aralia, aralia aralia, aralia aralia, aralia aralia, aralia aralia Scientific name: Aralia elata(Miq.) seem
Family: Araliaceae
Family: Congaliaceae
Family: Araliaceae, araliaceae, araliaceae Congmunia
Distributed in Beijing, Hebei, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Guangdong, etc., born in forest margins, thickets, and forest clearings.
The prickly shoots contain protein, fat, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, vitamin B2, vitamin B1, niacin, vitamin C, sodium, calcium, magnesium, iron, manganese, zinc, barium, lead, copper, phosphorus, cobalt, chromium, nickel, boron, strontium and peptides.
Tender buds and leaves are harvested in the spring and used fresh, salted, and canned for freshness. Blanch the spiny shoots in boiling water, soak in fresh water for 2 hours, stir-fry, chill, dip in sauce, and deep-fry in batter.
Morphological features:
Small tree, 1.5~3.5 m. Branches densely spiny, 2~3 odd-pinnately compound leaves, large, often clustered at the end of the branches; petiole, leaf rachis, and leaflet rachis are spiny; leaf blade ovate or elliptic-ovate, base rounded, broadly cuneate or slightly cordate, apex acuminate, sparsely serrate margin. Umbels clustered into terminal corymbose panicles; calyx cup-shaped, calyx teeth 5; petals 5, yellowish; stamens 5; ovary inferior, 5-loculed, styles 5, free or united at base. Berry-like drupe, black ripe, globose-pentagonal, 0.4 cm in diam. flowering from June to August, fruiting from September to October.
Applications
The shoots of this plant are edible and have some food value as well as considerable medicinal value, with a wide range of uses for the stem, bark, shoots and seeds. Its stem bark is used as medicine, which has the effect of tonifying qi and tranquilizing the mind, strengthening the tendons and nourishing the kidneys, dispelling wind and activating blood circulation. The seeds of the old shoots can be pressed for oil, with an oil content of 35%, for industrial soap making.
Nutritional value
Because of the prickly old shoots have a very rich nutrient content, and the amount of natural wild is very small, so from the current point of view, the international market price of l million yuan per ton or more. In the domestic market, every year, the price per kilogram can reach 70_80 yuan. It is rich in 16 kinds of amino acids and 22 kinds of trace elements, of which the human body essential calcium, manganese, iron, titanium, nickel, copper, germanium and so on, the content is higher than ginseng, therefore, is known as "the world's first mountain treasures," and become one of the main varieties of the northeastern export of wild vegetables.
Medicinal value
The root bark is used as medicine, which can tonify the qi, promote blood circulation, dispel wind, diuresis, pain relief, treatment of qi deficiency and weakness, neurasthenia, renal deficiency and impotence, rheumatism, pain in the joints, gastric or duodenal ulcers, chronic gastritis, stomach cramps, hepatitis, diabetes, nephritis, oedema [4]?
It has been determined that both leaves and roots contain saponins, and roots contain triterpenoid saponins. Congmunoside A, B, C (AralosideA, B, C), glycosides are oleanolic acid. In addition, the root contains aldehydes, alkaloids and volatile oil. Each time to take 50mg of total saponin tablets 2~3 times a day, the best efficacy for weakness ----- depression caused by excessive fatigue. It also has a significant effect on weakness after neurasthenia and infection.
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