Peanuts (arachis hypogaca l) Leguminosae Alias: peanuts, everlasting fruit, nuts Originally from Brazil, Peru, so also known as fandango. Introduced to China in the Ming Dynasty, Fujian. Taste and flavor: sweet, flat, into the spleen, lung. Functions:Strengthening the spleen and stomach, kidneys to remove water, regulating qi and lactation, the treatment of all blood disorders.
Four, efficacy and main treatment.
Wake up the spleen and stomach, moisturize the lungs and resolve phlegm, nourish and regulate qi, clear the throat and stop
cough. Mainly used in treating malnutrition, weak food, dry cough with little phlegm, hemoptysis, epistaxis, epistaxis, skin purple spots, foot fungus, maternal breast milk and other diseases.
V. Nutritional composition.
Each 100 grams of water 7.3 grams, 24.6 grams of protein,
48.7 grams of fat, 15.3 grams of carbohydrates, 2.1 grams of crude fiber, ash 2
g, 36 milligrams of calcium, phosphorus 383 milligrams of iron 2 milligrams of iron, and the other peanut kernel contains
Carotene 0.04 milligrams of thiamine 1.07 milligrams. riboflavin 0.11 mg,
nickelic acid 9.5 mg.
Six, therapeutic effect
1. Promote human growth and development Peanuts in the calcium content is very high, calcium is the structure
into the human body bones of the main components, so eat more peanuts, can promote human growth
development.
2. Promote cell development, improve intelligence Peanut protein contains more than ten kinds of amino acids needed by the
body, including lysine can make children to improve intelligence, glutamic acid and
aspartic acid can promote the development of cells and enhance the brain's ability to remember.
3. Anti-aging, prevent premature aging The catechins contained in peanuts have
a strong anti-aging effect on the human body, lysine is also an important component to prevent premature aging
. Eating peanuts, beneficial to the human body to slow down the aging process, so peanuts and "longevity
fruit" known.
4. moisturize the lungs cough peanuts are rich in fatty oils, can play a moisturizing
lungs cough role, commonly used in chronic coughing asthma, sputum with blood and other diseases.
5. Coagulation and hemostasis peanut coating contains oil and a variety of vitamins, and contains
there is a shortening of the coagulation time of substances that can fight against the dissolution of fibrin, and promote
the bone marrow production of platelets, a variety of bleeding disorders, not only has a hemostatic
effect, but also has a certain therapeutic effect on the original cause of the disease, on the human body hematopoietic function,
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6. Prevent coronary heart disease peanut oil contains a large amount of linoleic acid, this substance
can make the human body cholesterol decomposition for bile acids discharged from the body. Avoid cholesterol deposition in the body
to reduce the chances of high cholesterol, can prevent coronary heart disease and arterial sclerosis
.
7. Nourish the blood through the milk peanuts are rich in fat oil and protein, the
post-milk deficiency, there is a nourishing qi and blood, nourishing the role of breast milk.
8. Prevention of intestinal cancer peanut fiber tissue in the soluble fiber by the human body to eliminate
chemical absorption, will be like a sponge to absorb liquids and other substances, and then swollen into
tape body with the feces out of the body. When these objects pass through the intestinal tract, they come into contact with many harmful substances and absorb certain toxins, thus reducing the accumulation of harmful substances in the body
and the toxic effects produced, and reducing the chances of intestinal cancer.1
VII.Health Care Recipes
1. Peanut and Small Bean Carp Soup Peanuts: 200 grams of uncooked rice, 120 grams of red small beans,
Carp 1. Peanuts, red beans were washed, drained of water; crucian carp 1
1 disemboweled scales and intestines; peanuts, red beans and clean crucian carp with a
large bowl; add people wine, a little salt, stewed in water with a high fire, to be boiled, and then
stewed with a low fire until the peanuts are cooked. This soup has the spleen and stomach, diuresis and swelling
effect. Suitable for malnutrition caused by the weakness of the body swelling, urination and other chronic diseases
.
2. peanut porridge 50 grams of peanut rice, mulberry leaves, rock sugar 15 grams each. Take full
full peanut rice washed, drained of water, mulberry leaves picked impurities; peanut rice with water to boil
boil, people mulberry leaves and rock sugar, change the fire with cooking until cooked, go to mulberry leaves, the rest of the service
eating. This porridge has a cough and asthma, laxative effect. Is the lung dry cough, croup
wheezing attack, whooping cough, large to facilitate the knot and other diseases good auxiliary treatment food.
3. jujube peanut soup jujube 50 grams, 100 grams of peanut rice, brown sugar
amount. Wash the jujube, soaked in warm water, remove the core; peanut rice slightly boiled, cold
peeling; red dates and peanut clothes in a pot, add people boiled peanut rice water, and then
add the right amount of water, with a strong fire after boiling, changed to a small fire jing cooking about half an hour;
fishing out the peanut clothes, add brown sugar to dissolve, the juice can be collected. This soup has the effect of strengthening the body and benefiting the qi,
To replenish blood and stop bleeding. It is suitable for the stomach fruit food due to deficiency of gas and blood, shortness of breath and
power and all kinds of bleeding disorders.
4. peanut round-grained porridge 50 grams of peanuts, round-grained 100 grams of rice, rock sugar appropriate
amount. Peanuts and round-grained rice cleaned with water to cook, after boiling to the fire, to be porridge will become. Put people rock sugar can be slightly boiled. This porridge has the spleen and stomach, blood lactation effect, suitable for out of the weak poor, anemia, postpartum milk deficiency and other diseases. The regular food has the effect of tonic.
[Precautions] peanuts are rich in fat, cold and damp and intestinal slippery discharge is not suitable to eat; avoid eating moldy peanuts.
Eight, peanuts can protect the heart, the role of health is re-recognized.
Peanuts are loved again, mainly because researchers have confirmed: peanuts are a healthy food. On the one hand, the U.S. federal government published dietary guidelines to inform the people, peanuts contain the vast majority of fat are unsaturated fatty acids, and does not contain cholesterol. This fatty acid not only will not be like saturated fat clogging arteries, but has the reputation of "artery scavenger", can significantly reduce the total cholesterol and harmful cholesterol content, on cardiovascular disease has a very good preventive effect.
In addition, peanuts are rich in folic acid, dietary fiber, arginine, etc., can also play a protective role on the heart. The University of Pennsylvania's famous nutrition professor Dr. Piney after experiments proved that: consumption of olive oil can make the probability of cardiovascular disease by 25%, consumption of peanut oil and peanut products can be reduced by 21%, and the two are not too far away from each other. Therefore, the American Heart Association strongly advocate the consumption of peanut oil, relative to the price of olive oil, the former is more popular with consumers. In addition, Harvard research has shown that if you eat a half-spoon of peanut butter or a spoonful of peanuts a day, you can reduce your risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 21 percent to 27 percent.
Nine, peanuts and weight loss.
For many people are concerned about "eating peanuts will not get fat" problem, experts explained: peanuts on the threat of obesity is not big, if eaten in moderation, but also to play the effect of weight loss. Because it belongs to the high-calorie, high-protein, high-fiber foods, can increase the sense of satiety, which is often referred to as "more anti-hunger". According to research, peanuts caused by satiety is other high-carbohydrate food 5 times, eat peanuts can relatively reduce the need for other foods, reduce the body's total calorie draw, so as to achieve the effect of weight loss
Ten, peanuts and gastric treatment.
One of the recipes (treatment of gastric disease preparation method); first of all, 0.5kg of honey into a bowl with a pot of 125-150g of peanut oil or soybean oil boil to foam away until, and then poured by the bowl of honey, mixing well, 20-30 minutes before meals to take a tablespoon. The first time in the morning and evening, avoid alcohol and spicy.
The benefits of eating peanuts
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1. fitness and longevity Peanuts contain more aspartic acid, and thus have the effect of lifting fatigue; peanut rice fructose for the levulose, more hydroxyl than other sugar, not only can be stored by the liver, but also can be quickly utilized by the body, and will not form a fat accumulation; peanut fat is rich in vitamin E, which prevents the oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids, eliminate "free radicals", with anti-aging effect.
2. Delay the decline of brain function, improve intelligence Peanuts contain more glutamic acid. Glutamic acid is the most abundant amino acid base in the brain, nerve cell excitatory and inhibitory substances mainly from glutamic acid; peanuts also contain a certain amount of lecithin, which can be converted into choline by the role of intestinal enzymes, into the brain and the combination of acetic acid, to become acetylcholine, which is to promote thinking, strengthen the memory of the important brain substances.
3. Lower blood pressure, stop bleeding, lower cholesterol Unsaturated fatty acids and sterols in peanut oil, as well as peanut shells in the lignocellulosic (commonly known as cinnamon) grass, have the effect of lowering cholesterol. Folk also use peanut shells to treat high blood pressure prescription: dry peanut shells cleaned, water decoction, each service decoction 50 grams ~ 100 grams. In addition, peanuts also have the function of inhibiting platelet adhesion, preventing thrombosis, and protecting blood vessel walls.
4. Prevention and treatment of various bleeding disorders Peanut red coat has anti-fibrinolysis, promote bone marrow manufacturing platelets, strengthen the capillary contraction, adjust the coagulation factor defects and so on. It not only has hemostatic efficacy, but also has a certain therapeutic effect on the primary cause of bleeding.
5. Have a certain beauty effect The unsaturated fatty acids and sterols in peanut fat can make the skin moisturized and delicate, and make the hair plump and shiny.
Peanuts are indeed a kind of inexpensive, nutritious and comprehensive health food. But it is worth noting that: peanuts are easy to deteriorate, deterioration is prone to produce carcinogenic aflatoxin, it should be properly stored. If the peanuts have mold, it is not edible.
What are the health benefits of eating peanuts?
Peanuts are a high-protein food, young and old, with a unique flavor and rich nutrition. Containing a large amount of protein, fat, starch, crude fiber, as well as calcium, phosphorus, iron, thiamin, palmitic acid, vitamins a, b, c, e, k and other nutrients, peanut protein and soy protein, as well as extremely easy to be digested by the human body and absorbed. The absorption rate is as high as about 90%. Peanut protein contains more than a dozen kinds of amino acids needed by the human body, especially lysine content is the highest. There are also glutamic acid, aspartic acid and so on. The results of scientific research show that these amino acids can promote the development of brain cells, improve children's intelligence, increase memory, and can prevent premature aging. The catechins in peanuts also have strong anti-aging properties. Therefore, peanuts are a rare health care product. Long-term consumption, the body is very good.
Peanuts are not only a highly nutritious food, but also a high medicinal value of health care medicine. Peanut seeds, seed coat, seed shells and peanut oil, etc., can be used as medicine. Chinese medicine believes that peanuts have the effect of pleasing the spleen and stomach, moistening the lungs and removing phlegm, nourishing and regulating gas, clearing the throat and stopping malaria. For good, chronic nephritis, ascites, lack of milk and other diseases have a certain effect. Peanut shell contains lignan, can reduce cholesterol. High cholesterol, coronary heart disease, arteriosclerosis and other conditions have a good therapeutic effect. Especially the red coat outside the peanut kernel, because of its ability to fight against the dissolution of fibrin, promote bone marrow hematopoietic function, shorten the bleeding time, so it is a good medicine can be both blood and can stop bleeding. Has been successfully developed by scientific research units to stop bleeding in the treatment of gastrointestinal tract, tuberculosis, urinary system, reproductive bleeding, aplastic anemia, as well as a variety of causes of traumatic hemorrhage, etc., have a better therapeutic effect.
The red coat of peanut rice can also prevent neuritis, beriberi, dry eye, lipitis and other vitamin b1b2 deficiency, so eat peanut rice is best eaten with the coat. Thrombocytopenic purpura patients, eat a few peanuts a day, long-term consumption can have a certain effect.
Postpartum lack of milk, available peanut rice 60 grams, 60 grams of soybeans, pig's feet, together with stewed food.
The treatment of hypertension, available peanut rice immersed in vinegar, five days after taking, daily morning fasting 10.
Treatment of hyperlipidemia, coronary heart disease, can be used to dry peanut shells washed and decocted, each serving 50 to 100 grams.